You know there's something wrong with Ezreal when people can only find success jungling him

Cloud273·Sep 29, 2017·2 votes·209 views

Apparently the only way Ezreal can ever find success is if he has both buffs 24/7. Without all the stats they give he's completely useless.

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Linna ExcelSep 29, 20173 votes

I'm guessing it's that Ardent Censor or Coin being dominate nullifies his poke and helps ADC win trades against him.

GrievousFetusSep 29, 20172 votes

That's funny, because none of Ezreal's items or masteries were nerfed and Ezreal himself wasn't nerfed, in fact he was buffed, and Ezreal has been a viable ADC multiple times this season. So you're going to have to come up with a causal explanation for why suddenly Ezreal only just now needs both jungle buffs to function. You're also going to have to explain how Ezreal can jungle when ADCs are notoriously weak early game, so weak that they are played exclusively in a duo lane, but Ezreal is comfortable jungling.

What's more likely happening is that Ezreal is strong, not weak. So strong that he can jungle rather than having to be shackled to bot lane where an additional carry can go, and a team having 2 ADCs is a huge benefit in a meta where teams commonly run 2-3 tanks.

Cloud273Sep 29, 20171 votes

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That's funny, because none of Ezreal's items or masteries were nerfed and Ezreal himself wasn't nerfed, in fact he was buffed, and Ezreal has been a viable ADC multiple times this season. So you're going to have to come up with a causal explanation for why suddenly Ezreal only just now needs both jungle buffs to function. You're also going to have to explain how Ezreal can jungle when ADCs are notoriously weak early game, so weak that they are played exclusively in a duo lane, but Ezreal is comfortable jungling.

What's more likely happening is that Ezreal is strong, not weak. So strong that he can jungle rather than having to be shackled to bot lane where an additional carry can go, and a team having 2 ADCs is a huge benefit in a meta where teams commonly run 2-3 tanks.

Ezreal jungle has 50% win rate. Clearly WAY too strong lol. And the buff was barely anything btw.

VoraciousXSep 29, 20171 votes

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That's funny, because none of Ezreal's items or masteries were nerfed and Ezreal himself wasn't nerfed, in fact he was buffed, and Ezreal has been a viable ADC multiple times this season. So you're going to have to come up with a causal explanation for why suddenly Ezreal only just now needs both jungle buffs to function. You're also going to have to explain how Ezreal can jungle when ADCs are notoriously weak early game, so weak that they are played exclusively in a duo lane, but Ezreal is comfortable jungling.

What's more likely happening is that Ezreal is strong, not weak. So strong that he can jungle rather than having to be shackled to bot lane where an additional carry can go, and a team having 2 ADCs is a huge benefit in a meta where teams commonly run 2-3 tanks.

He's not strong as a bot lane ADC because crit's early game was buffed making crit ADCs able to come online earlier. Ezreal buys tear, a late game stacking item, so he's not able to compete. They buffed his Q damage a tiny bit, but that's not his issue, so it failed and koreans love Ezreal so much they had to find some way to play him, so jungle Ezreal became a thing(Ezreal can also kite camps to not take as much damage from them). In the jungle he hasn't been buying tear, he's been focusing on early damage, I'm assuming because of blue buff.

Cloud273Sep 29, 20171 votes

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He's not strong as a bot lane ADC because crit's early game was buffed making crit ADCs able to come online earlier. Ezreal buys tear, a late game stacking item, so he's not able to compete. They buffed his Q damage a tiny bit, but that's not his issue, so it failed and koreans love Ezreal so much they had to find some way to play him, so jungle Ezreal became a thing(Ezreal can also kite camps to not take as much damage from them). In the jungle he hasn't been buying tear, he's been focusing on early damage, I'm assuming because of blue buff.

Funny how Ezreal is actually a half decent champ when he isn't forced to rush tear every game.

VoraciousXSep 29, 20171 votes

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Funny how Ezreal is actually a half decent champ when he isn't forced to rush tear every game.

Well honestly his jungle win rate is nearly the same as his ADC win rate so it's still not amazing. Of course our NA players may not be playing him the right way like the Koreans are causing the win rate to dip. It's like a .20 win rate increase in jungle on NA, lol.

Hayaishi2Sep 29, 20171 votes

Ez just doesn't scale with crit which has been the ADC meta since they were reworked except for the period where lethality was op.so its not surprising to me that he is deemed as unworthy of being taken bot.

This just shows how irrelevant the adc itemization rework was.