Why is ezreal at a 45% winrate?

Skillshots and weak early laning phase.

Its a tank meta? Ezreal does shit against tanks. Not only that but Ezreal is an extremely popular ADC(like 15% play rate consistently) in part because I think he's the ADC people default to when they play ADC and don't know how.

Because only Lich bane Ezreal does any decent damage lol

OtterlyLost highlighted a good point: the current meta is not favorable for Ezreal, as opposed to other champions like Vayne who deals percentage true damage or can build items which provide penetration/shredding. However, regarding their second point, a higher play rate says nothing about win rate and there is no data to support that Ezreal is a "default ADC".

Here are a few other points:

• You will find that carries generally fall under casters or auto-based (persistent damage). Ezreal is in an awkward in-between position where he doesn't burst harder than casters but also doesn't stand up in auto-based combat.
• Ezreal had his own CC a while ago. He lost this and with CC becoming more common in kits across all roles, Ezreal is simply falling behind in design.
• If you analyze his kit, in general it just doesn't stand up to others with all 3 of the "offensive" abilities being skill shots which also interrupt his auto-attacking while not necessarily compensating for it in damage or otherwise (this point is kind of a tie-in to the first one).

Win rate : 45.33% Play rate : 16.49%

Becaue the higher the playrate the lower the winrate should be ?

He cant build the new and improved

Because people take ferver on him instead of thunderlords

https://youtu.be/QY7s-wPjPUo

He's a popular champion. Popular champions with higher skill floors should have low win rates

Others just got decently buffed with the recent itemchanges. Not him, so he suffers twice. Thats why his winrate is so low

Because Ezreals wins games neither in early nor in lategame.

Ezreal usually wins games in Mid-Game, but due to all the changs to Items, Gamelength... The 'midgame' is about 3 minutes long! xD

Before that mark Eze gets destroyed by Lucian, after that by Tripple-Crit builds!

High skill cap champ that also needs the right team composition to work most effectively. His sustained damage is horrible compared to most other ADC's and sustained damage is a necessity if your team comp is lacking in damage overall.

Whoever kills the tanks the fastest in 5v5 brawls is usually the winner. Ezreal is one of the slowest at killing tanks at every stage of the game.

I've played a fair number of Ezreal games but I just don't get that champ; can't seem to win the game with him even when I do win the lane.

He doesn't fit the usual ADC paradigm of having a super strong armor-shredding late game and its SUPER stressful to have to keep aiming Qs just to maintain ACCEPTABLE (not even exceptional damage) damage. Since my ADC playstyle is to make safe conservative plays until I get 3 to 4 damage items to carry, he just doesn't work for me.

I actually think Ashe is way easier to play and do well with.

I feel useless whenever I pick Ezreal. He pays TOO MUCH of a price for his free "flash" E. Damage seems to suck unless you are a god who never/rarely misses Qs.

His late game is so bad/unreliable. Its called "I better hit EVERY Q on the right targets AND remember to auto too to match the damage of the other ADC who just has to right click and kite."

Your E is hardly worth anything when the rest of your team is dead because you couldn't shred the enemy team.

People think ezreal is just Hit Q champion.To actually be good at ezreal,you need to combine and time your Qs and Auto attacks.Dont make him confuse you.He can do A LOT of dmg with Q+AA+E+Q+AA.Also since he is considered a safe pick,usually people who get autofilled ADC pick him,which lowers his win ratio even more.

He lost power relative to other ADC because of crit item buffs

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The necro god.