Why is Ezreal's winrates so poor across almost every factor now?

Astôlfo·Aug 17, 2016·2 votes·403 views

Across almost every winrate and such League site, Ezreal's winrates are fairly mediocre if not downright terrible.

Is he just weak in general or is the current ADC meta (Ashe/Jhin in particular) crowding him out?

I was just wondering, as Riot was giving him some buffs to go along with his skin presumably.

9 Comments

awdafAug 17, 20161 votes

As an Ezreal main, I disagree, Ezreal is really strong right now, people just don't know how to play him to his full extent.

AstôlfoAug 17, 20162 votes

Ah, alright. But I mean couldn't you apply the logic any professional X main can do well with their champion? It seems outside of those mains, most people trying to play him aren't doing that well.

Could you offer any tips perhaps?

Livin like RivenAug 18, 20161 votes

Keep your passive up by poking enemies with Q(or farming if you're not particularly good at positioning yourself to q them and not take harass, honestly just throw it wherever as long as it hits to get the lower CD to keep your passive up) here and there then look for a trade if there's kill potential, which you kinda just learn from the matchups and it'll depend on your support. If there's no kill potential, just go get tear ASAP, the sooner it turns into Muramana, the better it is. I prefer Triforce 9 times out of 10 to IBG, but IBG's still decent if you want to go that route, and Bork is like, your best friend. Make sure you use W to get the free fervor stack and passive stack when you're going in, and hit as many people with it as you can. IE: Leona E-Q's ADC, W Leona and the ADC for 20% atk speed right off the bat, Leo attacks faster, and if you hit their supp, too, coolio. Once your Muramana is stacked, keep in mind it applies to autoattacks AND single target spells, meaning actually landing E on an enemy champion in a 1v1 situation or where you're catching someone out of position will give you a lot of damage. Also, against stealth champs like Vayne or Twitch when you know their general location, you can E and then Q wherever your E's bolt goes (since it'll go to them), which can really help in those two matchups as far as keeping DPS and passive up in a fight against them goes.

But as far as just playing him goes, it's mostly about how to play him against the different matchups in laning phase(farming, trading, or all-inning) and how to play him with your specific team comp(engage, siege, etc), and once you know that you can pick him into just about any matchup and/or teamcomp and do pretty well.

adidasAug 17, 20161 votes

you cant buff ezreal. Having a 3-4 second CD blink lategame as an adc is pretty fuckin busted. All while having nice armor from iceborn

archerno1Aug 17, 20161 votes

Actually he is weak. And he IS getting buffs next patch. Along with Draven, Vayne, Jinx, Diana and like 14 more champs.

CyromoAug 17, 20161 votes

I think that he is strong in lane but weak late game actually. It might be my opinion but I've never been a fun of artillery style adc's like ezreal. I feel that he blink helps him but might have a hard time trying to find a place to fit in while jhin and ashe have a playstyle where they want to be throwing there abilities into the fight. It also might be that his w is only ap scaling and is weak as a adc.

CalabokAug 17, 20161 votes

Crappy players

Rain NTAug 18, 20161 votes

I feel that he has a mediocre laning phase with a terrible first item buy compare to other adcs like Cait luc ashe jhin. He also get outscaled by Cait Jinx, and does less damage than Jhin mid game.