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Why is Ezreal getting nerfed?

Dedrius··2 votes·952 views

I'll admit, a lot of people had their fun with runeglaive Ezreal mid (me included) but with the changes in how it works with Luden's most people have given up on AP Ez and gone back to the more traditional picks (Viktor, Cass, Jayce, Ect.). So why is it that Ezreal is on PBE for another AP Ez nerf?

Ezreal (On PBE) Mystic Shot (Q) AP ratio increased to .5 from .4 Trueshot Barrage ( R) AP ratio lowered to .6 from .9

AP Ez has clear weaknesses that are no longer addressed without runeglaive which are his waveclear and the fact that his Q does physical damage so why is it that his ult is getting hit that hard? Yes, lategame his ult is very strong against squishies but with a banshees he is easily countered. Why is Riot trying to make every champ have to be built the same way every game rather than giving people a chance to try different builds (AP Xin, AP Ez).

Source: http://www.surrenderat20.net/2015/07/79-pbe-update.html

8 Comments

Laraso2 votes

Why does everyone act like Luden's Echo is the reason that everyone was going runeglaive EZ

It's simply not true

Dedrius1 votes

It definitely was not, the fact that it made his Q magic damage and the waveclear was also very helpful for him. But in the same patch the runeglaive changes no longer convert physical damage to magic damage and the AOE only applies to jungle monsters so there is no reason for the Ezreal nerf.

LemurKick1 votes

Because Riot would rather nerf a champion than fix their stupid runeglaive.

Dedrius1 votes

They are already changing it as well:

"UNIQUE Passive - Spellblade: After using an ability, the next basic attack deals 100% Base Attack Damage (+30% Ability Power) bonus magic damage on hit (1.5 second cooldown).

When directly attacking a monster, the bonus damage is reapplied in an AoE around the target, and 8% of your missing Mana is restored."

SH Azykan1 votes

Runeglaive solved AP Ezreal's waveclear issue. Did not change the fact that his ult already did insane damage (played AP Ez before runeglaive...the damage is the same I just don't have to use it for wave clear)

That is honestly a super hard hit to AP Ez team fight, well guess it is back to M.Pen glyphs instead of S.AP =\

Dedrius1 votes

Exactly, and he will no longer be able to use runeglaive for waveclear in lane so there is no need for a nerf to AP Ez,

Only Play Darius1 votes

Because, while hilarious, a 0.9 AP ratio on a global passthrough skillshot was kind of unfair and could 80% max HP nuke people from across the map.

I'm still against the change though. Gimmicky as it is, it's pretty fun.

I don't want balance in league to get so hardline that the only people with ratios above .6 are nuke mages Annie Veigar Syndra sometimes I just want to have fun.

Dedrius1 votes

It only does that much damage when it hits a squishy target without hitting anything else first, and that target can easily get a banshees so they don't get randomly sniped from across the map.

I just think it is silly to nerf a champion when he has basically been in the same spot for a long time, not including the runeglaive Ezreal of course, just because he had some time where he was very strong.

You said it best when you said as gimmicky as it is, its fun because thats the major reason I liked playing AP Ez.

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