I feel like Jhin is the new Ezreal

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Yea, I guess nobody remembers the "pick tank rush and proced to do the job of a tank and a bruiser at the same time"

And Runeglave until its nerf was legit forcing a mage jungle meta except fiddlesticks who couldn't use it

You know why at that time Ezreal built runeglave and ap items instead of AD sheen+AD items? why did he do that, just for fun? No because it was busted

There is a difference between something being busted, something being busted on a champ, and something being even more busted than it already is on a champ.

Ezreal is a big deal because he constantly does either of the latter 2.

Iceborn had other itterations befor that, where it was basically an Ezreal only item. There was that short period after some changes to iceborn, and it wasn't just iceborn, there also was grsp beeing very strong at the time, sunfire beeing definitly very strong at the time, and the few that abused the items were pretty strong on their own(fizz and ekko got heavy nerfs to their tank playstyle after that and poppy also got nerfed alot since then, and all of them have a naturall high synergie with iceborn so it beeing used on them should be totally fine)

And ever since the iceborn nerfs after that, i hardly ever see it on anyone but ez and malph, and even malph often goes trinity instead...

Runglaive wasn't that strong, and ap junglers didn't dominate the meta, where was still plenty of grags, seju, lee and co, and the only two ap-junglers that were top tier were elise and Nida, which both stayed top tier after that because it wasn't becuase runglaive was so strong, but becuase litterally ANYTHING was better than the previous ap jungle item qhich those two as the basically only pure jungle APs were balance around. And the reason why Ez abused it was because it allowed him to go AP, which is way stronger mid-late than ad-ez, but sucks till he gets there since he lacks waveclear and just gets shoved in and has a hard time farming up his core items. Runeglaive gave him a really cheap core item that gave aoe for better waveclear, the ap-scaleing sheenproc he so desperatly wants aswell as enough mana sustain. It allowed AP ez to come online way fater than befor, and his ap built is not balance for that. Befor, he'd get a mana item+lichbane befor he really was any usefull, and he still had no waveclear. With runeglaive, he had a cheap option that was mana+lichbane and even added some waveclear... Also, if the item was that strong, other midlaners would have used it aswell, but it was only EZ because of how huge his Q synergiesed with it. And they didn't just nerf it, they removed 3 mechanics that all were mostly abused by ez. If they just nerfed the numbers, Ez woiuld either have used it regardless, or it would have been so weak that ap-jungler were dead for good.

And again, after runglaive got nerfed for EZ, it was in such a bad spot that it got removed and replaced...

Then there was that biggining of blue ez with spirit of the elder lizard in S3(combined with iceborn which at the time wasn't used by anyone else...)

EZ breaks one-time onhits since forever and always has been somewhat problematic, with high presence in pro every season and basically a conistent 25%+ pickrate in solo.

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you're right about spirit of the elder lizard but at that time jungle items could have been built by anyone

and EVERYONE in EVERY ROLE built jungle items

also nasus had 53% win rate when klepto was broken btw klepto was a problem on more than one champ

and it was broken on Sona which forced riot to nerf Sona

nasus had a 53% wr because second wind meant no one could ever force him out of lane, that was the time i literally played every tank mid because it was hilarious af that they could outsustain every other mid, also it was nerfed much harder for ranged charachters

but i mean yea he didnt get many items literally by himself (most champs havent gotten any items nerfed only because of them), but look at what groups of champions got items nerfed because of them:

runic echoes:AP junglers... and ezreal iceborne:tanks,bulky assasins... and ezreal duskblade:AD assasins... and ezreal bork:ADCs... including ezreal seraphs:mages... and ezreal(gogo double tear)

so to sum up he was able to be a part of the problem about items meant for AP junglers,AD assasins,tanks,ADCs and mages. is there any champ that has been in so many groups that got items nerfed, and by group i mean ezreal was just kinda there with all the other champs that have no similarities to him

also imagine if they buffed muramana so it wouldnt suck on everyone else. how good would it be on ez?