Daily reminder that Ezreal is garbage

Cloud273·Apr 10, 2017·4 votes·2,523 views

He has a 46% win rate. He is literally the worst adc in the game. Buff Ezreal please. Thank you.

http://champion.gg/statistics/#?sortBy=general.winPercent&order=descend

11 Comments

GeneralistApr 10, 20174 votes

Yet people still pick him knowing full well their going to make their support's life hell

ApexInTheCircleApr 10, 20172 votes

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Yet people still pick him knowing full well their going to make their support's life hell

Because he's super fun to play as. Sadly fun does not = a good champ.

PsykohApr 10, 20172 votes

Nooooooo he's fine

OtherworldzApr 10, 20172 votes

Ezreal is good what

OverpoweredSoapApr 10, 20172 votes

He also has a 30% playrate.

Everyone else with that highish playrate and high winrate is pretty fucking strong right now, like close to being or being OP strong.

He may need a slight buff but I don't think he's really trash.

Also, I'm pretty sure he's not the biggest fan of the items ADCs are picking up right now.

Kai GuyApr 10, 20171 votes

This is not a constructive post mate. Your link has corkie listed below EZ in win rate at 44.5% which disproves your point for Ez being "literally the worst." Also Urgot is not even on the list, Ziggs is however so cheers to fotm. Also if you look at the numbers provided on the adc breakdown page here You should try to note a few numbers besides win %. Ez is 2nd in pick %, 5th in damage to champions, 8th in damage avoided. The only things he is literally worst is his playerbase average game number, which probably contributes to his subpar win rate and the fact he has the least average deaths for adcs (last time I checked not dying was a good thing right?) If using the provided site as reference ez is ranked at 7th, behind Lucian Twitch KogMaw Ziggs Caitlyn MissFortune in that order. Edit, link not working the way I would like it to, just use the adc filter.

Cloud273Apr 10, 20171 votes

[{quoted}](name=Kai Guy,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=JfVtQI6z,comment-id=0004,timestamp=2017-04-10T07:10:03.217+0000)

This is not a constructive post mate. Your link has corkie listed below EZ in win rate at 44.5% which disproves your point for Ez being "literally the worst." Also is not even on the list, Ziggs is however so cheers to fotm. Also if you look at the numbers provided on the adc breakdown page here You should try to note a few numbers besides win %. Ez is 2nd in pick %, 5th in damage to champions, 8th in damage avoided. The only things he is literally worst is his playerbase average game number, which probably contributes to his subpar win rate and the fact he has the least average deaths for adcs (last time I checked not dying was a good thing right?) If using the provided site as reference ez is ranked at 7th, behind in that order. Edit, link not working the way I would like it to, just use the adc filter.

Mid corki has a higher win rate than Ezreal (if only slightly...). Just because adc Corki is doing worse than Ezreal it doesn't mean Ezreal doesn't need buffs.

Kai GuyApr 10, 20171 votes

I should have specified adc corkie, my bad. Overall I don't disagree about buffs, many of the adcs could use buffs in the meta right now. Ez does most his damage from Q, so even thou he puts out a solid damage number its largely from poke and unless he has a stacked muramana his autos are sub par to many adc. I feel that EZ has a pretty high skill requirement on the player (land qwrs and don't waste E, even his passive requires you to land ability's) and their teammates (don't go super ham until enemy has been softened up from poke.) I just found it unfair to label him as the worst when numbers don't back it up and would rather see folks adapt to how he works well then expect him to play like others, hence I would rather see some item changes for the class that fixed some of the bigger problems with nerfs to over the top strong champs to bring the scale closer then see a champ number changes, that would likely not fix the issues on ez given that most the time the problem is behind the keyboard. Adding better scaling or higher base damage makes 0 impact if his Q does not land, and if its related to just making his autos better then why not play a different ad who is all about their auto attacks?

Cloud273Apr 10, 20172 votes

[{quoted}](name=Kai Guy,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=JfVtQI6z,comment-id=000400000000,timestamp=2017-04-10T07:58:07.283+0000)

I should have specified adc corkie, my bad. Overall I don't disagree about buffs, many of the adcs could use buffs in the meta right now. Ez does most his damage from Q, so even thou he puts out a solid damage number its largely from poke and unless he has a stacked muramana his autos are sub par to many adc. I feel that EZ has a pretty high skill requirement on the player (land qwrs and don't waste E, even his passive requires you to land ability's) and their teammates (don't go super ham until enemy has been softened up from poke.) I just found it unfair to label him as the worst when numbers don't back it up and would rather see folks adapt to how he works well then expect him to play like others, hence I would rather see some item changes for the class that fixed some of the bigger problems with nerfs to over the top strong champs to bring the scale closer then see a champ number changes, that would likely not fix the issues on ez given that most the time the problem is behind the keyboard. Adding better scaling or higher base damage makes 0 impact if his Q does not land, and if its related to just making his autos better then why not play a different ad who is all about their auto attacks?

I agree that his 'q' is strong, and I guess technically he isn't the worst, but he's pretty darn close to the worst. Semantics aside, I don't think damage is the problem. I think it's Ezreal's high mana costs and cooldowns (how many other adc's do you know that build tear of the goddess almost every game?), low base hp, and poor waveclear. The waveclear in particular really hurts him. It's way too easy to shove Ezreal into his tower and roam. I understand if they don't want to give him more waveclear, but they could at least reduce his mana costs or something.

KasonaADCApr 10, 20171 votes

Pretty sure yasuo has a shitty winrate too. Nobody wants to buff him. Ezreal's just harder to play than your average adc. I think.

Although his waveclear is actually a joke. I will get pushed in every single game if I'm not CONSTANTLY attacking the wave, which I can't because of his short auto range. And that's assuming the enemy doesn't have some waveclear. A single caitlyn q is worth like 6 of my autos plus a couple qs in terms of pushing. IDK man, I always feel bad playing ezreal.