Why the hate when I Ezreal Support?

I Yuke I·8/1/2018, 10:10:08 PM·2 votes·3,570 views

I think's he's one of the best champs to counter the opponent's harass support like Brand, Raka, Sona, so your adc can farm. I'm in low elo so this might be different in Master but it always works for me. It's particularly effective against a Karma or Blitcrank who have to clear the wave to harass.

Just wondering?

23 Comments

MrFawknSunshine8/1/2018, 10:36:56 PM4 votes

Ez support offers nothing , no burst, no cc, no tankyness, no engage, no shields or heals. its a complete troll pick

Christopher RPh8/1/2018, 10:20:12 PM2 votes

Maybe because you bought zero control wards the one match I saw you play Ez support.

Baron Barian8/1/2018, 10:27:20 PM1 votes

He offers no peel, support, sustain, cc, protection, engage, or anything to help your actual ADC to get fed. In fact, it appears you even stole farm, and kills.

If you wanna play ADC, play ADC. But if you get filled to support, play a support. But more importantly, take the time to learn how to play the game properly, or you'll be stuck in bronze forever.

Krully8/1/2018, 10:41:58 PM1 votes

48% win rate, it does not always work

Vlada Cut8/1/2018, 11:03:23 PM1 votes

People are trying to reason with you and you still refuse to listen to criticizm.

Schenix8/1/2018, 11:05:34 PM1 votes

Lower elo gets away with anything if played to a certain degree. Ezreal can only offer some counter lane pressure as a support, but generally not enough to snowball hard. This means leading into mid game, your adc isn't marginally more fed usually; and you out of virtue of being a carry, have nothing to offer except lower damage in comparison to even either behind ADC until you find more gold -- leaving the team at a deficit.

Honestly, if you want to support like that, at least take Miss Fortune [ http://prntscr.com/kdkw21 / http://prntscr.com/kdkxdp ]

JoeAnarchy8/1/2018, 11:20:16 PM1 votes

as an ADC main (admittedly bronze, but still able to grasp the needs of my role, vision importance, etc.) i typically need a support that can/will heal me when needed, allow me to get more farm than my opposing laner, having some CC is nice but not absolutely required, and is able to get vision down in important spots (river bush, tri bush, and the bot lane bushes) to prevent ganking and stuns coming in without me seeing it. Ez can poke, and probably keep the enemy ADC from getting as much farm, but he has very little to help his laning ADC get ahead. maybe late game you could sell all your support items and buy damage to help siege lanes, but that's only if your laners managed to get ahead enough to compensate your lack of productivity bot lane.. overall you're going to get harassed by the enemy bot laners more, because of your squishiness as a Marksman, and jungle will definitly camp your lane, because they'll have 2 tasty little marksmen targets to eat up and get nice and fed off of.

BLACK REALM GOD8/1/2018, 11:33:32 PM1 votes

the issue with ezreal support is that you have skills shots that provide damage only in your kit.

for example your Q is physical and counts as a basic attack. this can be easily countered with tabi.

your E is magical and is your only escape tool. it requires you to sit on it so you dont die.

your W is a champion only close range skill shot that can only slightly boost the attack speed of allies. it doesnt heal or shield so you cant combine it with any items like you could by using censor or redemption. and the range puts you in proximity of enemies that are likely to 1-3 shot you.

and your R is a wave clearing wide shot global that's only purpose is to last hit fleeing enemies.

since you're not going to be building damage it wont be able to do the job it's meant to do.

not to mention your kit will in general be weaker overall.

and then you have to think about an income item. the only income item that would be beneficial to ezreal is edge since you could use w to harass champs from behind the minion wave. however that puts you in range of most marksmen and mage champs. not to mention your mana costs are high and the cooldown of your spells relies on your auto attacking.

Alex h87218/1/2018, 11:52:09 PM1 votes

B/c ez is a super selfish champ, his kit is damage w/ one mobility spell and nothing else. 0 CC not even a slow. Plus he is a scaler, so he needs gold to do damage, which he wont get as a support unless he steals cs or kills.

I think that about covers it, no utility for the team, no peel, needs gold.

Basically ez support literally just pokes nothing else, so i can't blame people for wanting a champ that can actually, you know, support the adc. Hell even teemo is a better support w/ blind and shrooms.

CaptainAntiHeroz8/2/2018, 1:29:50 AM1 votes

Because ez is annoying to hear and laning with someone like ez who only MIGHT land his attack speed steroid on you and might miss the enemy team all game

Just go nidalee, at least you will provide healing and harass in the ap variety while having a point and click attack speed steroid that also at least heals them....

Sirsir8/2/2018, 1:44:23 AM1 votes

Other damaging supps just do everything better, from the start of the game to the end.

Chevali3r2/2/2019, 9:35:02 AM1 votes

Honestly, unlike all the others here, I have to agree with you a tiny bit. He can be good in support if you know how to leverage your damage potential to zone the enemy. I've won a few games as Ez support, mostly by pushing the enemy adc off of their farm. But it's low elo, most adcs don't know how to deal with something that far out of the ordinary.

Just don't expect it to carry you very far. He doesn't get nearly as strong, so it becomes more important to build utility/soft cc items like Rylai's... things that any champ could realistically build.

TheDarkDardion11/15/2019, 10:32:31 AM1 votes

Ezreal support underrated. Someone who plays him well can burst - poke - push lane - ward safe https://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/the-guide-to-minigame-ezreal-support-minigame-build-543720

Most important its hella fun

Cloud2738/1/2018, 10:23:48 PM1 votes

Because Ezreal needs a lot of gold to be effective (like most other adc's), and as a support Ezreal doesn't get that. He's not the best support honestly.