Why AP Ezreal Getting Nerfed?

AP Ez's damage is all about using W correctly if anything.

I try to tell people that but they don't want to listen

Ah.

Luidens never used to proc off his Q but now it does? Unsure when that change was made.

this comment in other words :

" i suck at ezreal so he must be bad"

And yet he's one of the most picked ADs in the LCS.

He's a high skill cap character on paper. The advent of just W-Q hybrid burst has taken a lot of expression out of that. His pro play pick is because of safety and being able to scale because your teammates aren't usually mongoloids that allow the enemy to get things for free and speed up the game state. Once he reaches the point with items, he will almost always be useful. It's not as hard a carry as Kai'sa or Vayne, but in the hands of experienced players and teams, he is consistent. Pro play however, is not reflective of solo queue.

Caitlyn and Sivir being popular make most other ADC's undesirable (it's a dull adc meta when this is the case and happens like once a year), so Ezreal is picked just not to instantly lose the lane or get caught by the damage supports running around. It also is picked because you don't need to pay for your supports sins, or even some of your own. It doesn't mean he will win the game, because he can't contest the tools Sivir and Caitlyn have, and isn't as hard a carry as other ADC's unless paired with the right team.

An analogous example is Fiora, where she is absolutely strong and many people play her, but she can't easily win the game, just the lane in most cases. That can translate if teams don't know how to deal with her though, however there is too much holding her back in terms of win conditions that other top laners have which she does worse, moving into a half-assed split pusher or a half-assed teamfighter.

Ezreal is usually just a pick that screams "I'm scared!" in the hands of most players, and so has a lower win rate in any case that isn't straight abuse to the high pick rate he retains for that instinct, but has the safety net with itemization and playing back. Although of course, Ezreal is good if you play forward, just isn't nearly as often as you would expect.

It's solo queue, not coordinated comms. That he is able to spike with hybrid is being nerfed mainly for higher end play and to remove the lack of actual expression in other elos just the same. It's a toxic gamestyle when you can perform in both areas like he is from such a range. It also lets them see if he can have a solo queue buff afterwards which isn't so linear as burst damage on a sustained carry unless he's building only full AP.

tl;dr He was never meant to burst with an AD/AP hybrid, and it is being nerfed because the effort it takes for the burst on a carry that can be safe and have both sustain and burst damage, is not healthy, even if his win and pick rate have other factors attributed to them.