Let's talk about Ezreal.
So with the meta all ringing on Lethality ADC's & assassins being terrifyingly strong, enchanting and healing supports being put aside for AP "supports" like Malzahar, Zyra, Brand and Ziggs replacing the ADC role at bot because standard ADC's are bad. I wanna talk about one of my mains, Ezreal, the explorer's strengths and weaknesses and his current state in this assassin meta.
For me, Ezreal was never considered a bad pick. He's not considered a standard ADC's since he's very skillshot-reliant, he doesn't utilize crit and uses CDR instead and often loses a lot of match ups if goes too head-on so basically, he's an artillery-DPS kind of ADC. On the other side however, he is much more mobile than most of the other ADC's because his E is very reliable in escaping bad situations and repositioning if you ever screw up. Coupled up with the fact that you can either go
for the extra burst and DPS or
if you wanna kite like a god and counter any AD divers like Zed or even Vi, this makes him a really versatile ADC if you don't know who to pick. Also since his kit contains a lot of mixed damage and relatively high scalings, he's very hard to itemize against later in the game if the Ezreal player knows what he's doing. Ezreal is also one of the few ADC's that can work with any support whether it be a tank support (Braum, Alistar and Leona), enchanting ones (Lulu and Janna), healers/poke supports (Soraka, Sona and Nami) and other AP supports (Lux, Malzahar, Morgana and Zyra)
I can't understand though why that in most of my games, he isn't picked that often despite his kit offering a lot of safety, range, reliability and good damage (guaranteed you can consistently hit Q at the enemy team). It seems that he is overshadowed by other lethality ADC's like Varus, MF and Jhin.
To anyone that reads this, I wanna know on what are your opinions on Ezreal and his current state in this Lethality and AP bot lane meta.
If anyone asks why I main Ezreal, it's because I like his character, his kit is relatively similar to my first main, Yasuo and that I have his Pulsefire skin ######God I wish Riot would address the issue that this skin is really old and that it needs an update.
and
. They bully harder in lane and in games where you come out of laning behind, you can crutch play your way back to victory if you are good with their OP abilities.
when your team is behind. He can't really burst down a target 100-0 very well and he offers on AOE Ultimate blast on the scale of MF or long range pick potential like Jhin.
, its much easier to kill several of them at once due to the heavy damage.
and
sets his power spike far behind other champions who can get a
or a
on their first back. With shorter game times getting ahead early is pretty big
. Like if you KNEW you could hit almost all Qs, know you can X% to 0% someone by going all in, and you KNEW/can sense at any time when your next E is (ex make mental calculations super fast... "Oh I hit a Q, I know my E is going to be up in X seconds so I can go in and out"). Like your playing him at THAT LEVEL, then he can be good.