The Please stop playing Jungle Ezreal thread

ZXPrototype·9/15/2017, 5:22:01 PM·6 votes·1,067 views

It's total garbage. Ezreal has 0 sustain making full clears very dangerous and leads to him getting collapsed on or invaded on extremely easy. He only has two real ways to farm the camps themselves, one is auto attack and the other is q. W and E do almost negligible damage vs monsters. His base armor is pretty low as a marksman on top of that, only partially fixed by runes. Not only is his farming phase terrible, he has 0 gank presence or gank support with absolutely 0 crowd control, not even a slow let alone a stun. He has not enough aoe damage to clear raptors to adequately pick up catch-up XP fast enough, which is something he sorely needs as he is always 2-3 levels behind the enemy jungler.

Melee carries like master yi can actually clear camps and skirmish out of the jungler and there are already two viable adc junglers in graves (who does aoe, good burst with thunderlord's) or kindred who has snowball mechanics built out of the monsters naturally.

And if you really decide this mathematically atrocious jungle champion, don't pick stormraider's surge as your keystone as when you do get enough flat bonus AD to proc 30% health depletion for movement speed, the game has been won at that point anyways since you are up 4000 gold on the enemy jungler anyways. Warrior enchantment into tri force is good sustain damage, NOT burst. AP champions with ~100 bonus ap and a lichbane can reliably proc stormraider's on more of the opposing mixed team than only relying on catching out a squishy support with low resistances.

tl:dr it's hilariously bad don't embarrass yourself.

8 Comments

Rins Thigh Socks9/18/2017, 3:33:44 PM2 votes

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It's total garbage.

No it's not, lol. It's one of the scariest picks in the game right now.

Ezreal has 0 sustain making full clears very dangerous and leads to him getting collapsed on or invaded on extremely easy.

Does Graves need sustain? Does Ezreal? Same basic concept.

He only has two real ways to farm the camps themselves, one is auto attack and the other is q. W and E do almost negligible damage vs monsters. His base armor is pretty low as a marksman on top of that, only partially fixed by runes.

He doesn't need much armor because again, he should be kiting the camps much like a Graves. The one downside to Ez jg is you can't take raptors for a long time.

Not only is his farming phase terrible, he has 0 gank presence or gank support with absolutely 0 crowd control, not even a slow let alone a stun.

lmao

He has not enough aoe damage to clear raptors to adequately pick up catch-up XP fast enough, which is something he sorely needs as he is always 2-3 levels behind the enemy jungler.

You don't take the raptors. For everything else though you're on par or ahead with clear speed.

Melee carries like master yi can actually clear camps and skirmish out of the jungler and there are already two viable adc junglers in graves (who does aoe, good burst with thunderlord's) or kindred who has snowball mechanics built out of the monsters naturally.

Master Yi is fucking useless unless you're doing that Chinese Kayle/Yi strat, and Kindred doesn't start out the game nearly as strong as Ezreal.

And if you really decide this mathematically atrocious jungle champion, don't pick stormraider's surge as your keystone as when you do get enough flat bonus AD to proc 30% health depletion for movement speed, the game has been won at that point anyways since you are up 4000 gold on the enemy jungler anyways. Warrior enchantment into tri force is good sustain damage, NOT burst. AP champions with ~100 bonus ap and a lichbane can reliably proc stormraider's on more of the opposing mixed team than only relying on catching out a squishy support with low resistances.

Always pick Stormraider's Surge. You should be ahead and a single Q on a squishy will proc it if you're playing Ezreal right.

The champion is super selfish because he always needs both blues and reds but it's so fucking good right now.

The Blue Man9/15/2017, 8:05:43 PM2 votes

I don't have a problem with the pick, I have a problem with people who pick it when they have never played it.

It's just FotM right now, it will die down hopefully to the point where only the people who know how to play it pick it.

Death by Glamour9/15/2017, 5:51:04 PM1 votes

Red smite and red buff make him a surprisingly good ganker

Blue means no tear so can build damage from the get go

Baron Barian9/15/2017, 8:25:36 PM1 votes

Graves Shot guns are the best tools for hunting. Kindred We were literally made for jungling. Ezreal HOLD MY BEER!

Always angry tbh9/18/2017, 3:02:48 PM1 votes

It can work. It is not good. It is too risky to pick in Ranked and I am tired of Ezreal Jungle not applying pressure early and us lacking a proper 5th member near mid game as we now have a 0/1/0 Ezreal jungle and they have some 5/0 Warwick.

AbiwonKenabi9/15/2017, 5:24:10 PM1 votes

It's so annoying actually. It's mainly because once he has red buff, it's pretty easy for him to apply it with his Q. He's better in the jungle than in bot lane right now. I agree that it's got plenty of weaknesses though.

Salron9/18/2017, 4:31:57 PM1 votes

Yeah I guess the gold 4 random knows better than all high elo players and pros XD

Tormentula9/15/2017, 5:27:34 PM1 votes

His sustain is surprisingly really good.

He makes full use of machete with his Q and he kites camps really well.

Its actually hard to believe, but his 2 ability clear is one of the best out of all the junglers right now just because of how much he constantly applies machete and his kiting.

He out duels most junglers with kiting, red buff, and Q thanks to red buff and his blink, and his ganks are pretty good as they at least force a flash once you tag them with red buff.