How to deal with Ezreal?

Heko The Man·May 18, 2019·3 votes·2,823 views

He can escape no matter what and if u chase him he'll just poke the shit out of you and take half of your hp

19 Comments

Daddy AntsMay 18, 20192 votes

Pick things that outscale him at 2+ items

Ashe Caitlyn Jinx Kaisa Twitch Vayne Sivir Tristana Xayah Varus Jhin KogMaw

Heko The ManMay 18, 20191 votes

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Pick things that outscale him at 2+ items

item 3078 Ezreal excuse me?

Daddy AntsMay 18, 20191 votes

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excuse me?

And?

All of the champions I listed HARD outscale Ezreal.

Jinx Kaisa Vayne Twitch are the ones who outscale him the hardest.

Good luck having an impact vs these as Ezreal in the mid-late game.

Vayne and Kai'Sa will just run your frontline down and then your entire team... before you even get through their frontline.

Jinx and Twitch will just run your entire team down from a screen away.

Pandemic PunchMay 18, 20191 votes

[{quoted}](name=Heko The Man,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=TKXdWMPx,comment-id=00050000,timestamp=2019-05-18T17:14:24.867+0000)

excuse me?

Almost all of those champions they listed will out scale Ezreal no matter what item you build on him. That is an objective fact. You are very wrong to suggest otherwise. In a terrible uncoordinated solo queue team fight where both teams have bruisers or tanks, it comes down to which ADC can kill the tanks the fastest OR which ADC can delete the enemy team with AoE damage the fastest. Ezreal is one of the weakest ADC's in the game when it comes to this. You have no argument in this regard.

If you want to counter argue that post, you should just reiterate your original point that most of those champions can not chase him. They can not reliably or practically fight him due to how easily he can escape and keep poking from a safe distance.

Now on to your original post....

If you play Support, the best way to counter Ezreal is to just simply play a Healing Support. His damage becomes pretty much useless. If you play ADC, you can play a champion like Sivir or Draven. Sivir can soak some of his poke early with spell shield and she can just straight up run him down in the late game with her ult while also hyper out scaling him at the same time. Draven can obliterate him early while also being able to build Bloodthirster as a first item if needed. Draven has amazing synergy with lifesteal and he can kill Ezreal in about 3-4 auto attacks at pretty much every stage of the game. It is best to be able to win early as Draven though.

Ezreal is extremely reliant on other damage sources on his team since his DPS sucks. He is mostly an AD burst mage. Most other ADC's just need reliable utility while they just delete the enemy team in seconds. Ezreal's biggest weakness is not being able to deal enough DPS in all-out 5v5 fights. He thrives in random skirmishes and uncoordinated fights that last a long time.

DuskDaUmbreonMay 18, 20191 votes

Out-poking him or just being sticky as fuck works. CC is a very nice thing to use against him.

LordGeovanniMay 18, 20191 votes

im on youtube with a very similar discussion for the past 2 days the only champs that can deal with him are those that one shot you or have mobility and can close to one shot you. Otherwise ezreal is dealt with by being aggressive forcing him to e away then zoning him from farm. this will cause you to take damage eating his q's its not that significant if he isnt auto attacking too and if he is autoing he is in a range to punish. same with towers. Go up take them ignore him he doesnt do much if he only sits back and q fishes like most ezreal's do. If you fight one that auto's and q's there isnt much you can do about it ezreal is balanced for the bad people who only q spam

Pika FoxMay 18, 20191 votes

Need a good frontline with multiple consistent engages, or someone like olaf that can go hard and not care about anything he does or hia team does to stop him through CC immunity and movement speed to brute force it.

Ezreal also has good damage, but its primarily skillshot based. He has to choose between safety and damage if he wants to get in range to auto, and missing Qs early really kills his early poke/damage potential, given it lowers the CD of itself and all his abilities.

MakarakarnMay 18, 20191 votes

See the thing is, a lot of Ezreal's are very trigger happy. If you can bait out his W, his trade potential becomes kinda meh, and minions block his Q. As far as fights go, the same thing usually applies to the E. If you can make him panic waste it, he's a sitting duck.

Towboat421May 18, 20191 votes

Ive found that as he's gotten more and more popular worse and worse players have been picking him up. Try to capitalize on his weak early if your jungle and the fact that most ez players cant hit the broad side of a planet.

MavëríckMay 18, 20191 votes

Ezreal is entirely skill shots. Just keep moving and out farm him if nothing else.

He might be able to farm safely, but it's fucking sloooowwwww and only gets slower the stronger minions get. He hits power spikes at the 15 min mark usually, and it's almost never as big of a spike as any other adc that gets BF sword. He has glaring offsets to his safe farming and mobility.

plus, double Tear Ezreal is dead. He has no way to out scale anyone anymore.

Its All SkillzzMay 18, 20191 votes

you play stuff that can ambush him or just stick to him. Evelynn Rengar Kayn Jax Fizz Amumu All champions i hate as ezreal.

Daddy AntsMay 18, 20191 votes

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you play stuff that can ambush him or just stick to him. All champions i hate as ezreal.

MasterYi is another good one that can stick to Ezreal.

Also his Iceborn Gauntlet doesn't slow an ulting Yi.

Its All SkillzzMay 18, 20191 votes

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is another good one that can stick to Ezreal.

Also his Iceborn Gauntlet doesn't slow an ulting Yi.

i go triforce or lichbane into yi cause kiting is not gonna happen, its either 1 shot or die lol.

Anu3isIIMay 18, 20191 votes

You can always go for item 3157 imo. Makes him vulnerable to your allies (considering you didn't split as Ez vs an Yi)

Heko The ManMay 18, 20191 votes

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is another good one that can stick to Ezreal.

Also his Iceborn Gauntlet doesn't slow an ulting Yi.

only yi can work. fizz no way, ez can dodge his ult and poke the shit outta fizz... rengar can work too.

Anu3isIIMay 18, 20191 votes

Unless Ezreal builds MR, Fizz can murder him with his basic abilities or R with Q-W. Ezreal can dodge only one ability with his E, so both combos are safe if used correctly. Lastly, Ezreal's poke isn't even that bad. You can and should dodge it. There are worse champions that can poke you reliably to death.

iPooUnicornsMay 18, 20191 votes

Camille

Its All SkillzzMay 18, 20191 votes

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i forgot about this champ, but ya she is like the ultimate ezreal counter. that ult pretty much means he is going nowhere and she can pretty much murder you with truedamage kick.