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How to play ezreal without kelpto next season?

Its All Skillzz·11/11/2019, 3:38:35 PM·4 votes·5,702 views

Ive tried to play electrocute, comet, dark harvest and everything feels really bad to play with, the moment you get ganked or camped or fall behind thats it you are useless for the entire game untill you get 3+ items. your damage is very low and you dont scale as hard as crit adcs or mage mid lanes, ive tried maxing W as ap and you just cant kill anyone the burst is not there an you have to waste E to proc it reliably and E having such a massive cooldown now you cant kite for sht with it early because your base move speed is so low that pretty much anyone can run you down just with basic movespeed abilities. so how are you gonna play ezreal with all his nerfs and no klepto to actually scale.

Every single ability ratio has been hit and cooldowns massively increased without any compensation so all hes had is item scaling and now without klepto lol you are just gonna get abused so hard an go to 30% win rate.

54 Comments

Nekorus11/11/2019, 3:52:45 PM13 votes

yea your gonna have to learn to play laning phase now instead of just getting 500 gold from klepto.

CaptainAntiHeroz11/11/2019, 5:17:59 PM12 votes

Like a fair champion

FOR JUSTICE11/11/2019, 6:23:30 PM8 votes

With actual skill/risk

iLLp11/11/2019, 5:23:04 PM5 votes

simple solution, they revert all those dumbass nerfs they gave him because of klepto when they should have removed klepto / reworked it. Don't understand how nearly every person in the world tried to tell me that ezreal was broken instead of the dumbass rune that gives free gold and stats just for landing an ability and auto attacking.

Darkstar Annie11/11/2019, 3:40:18 PM4 votes

you are useless for the entire game until you get 3+ items

That's like every low-tier and medium-tier champion. Welcome to the club, lol

D357R0Y3R11/11/2019, 4:12:04 PM4 votes

new conqueror

= old fervor but better

Smyrage11/11/2019, 5:38:16 PM3 votes

Since he is ability reliant champion, he will go for the new Conqueror. Electrocute Ezreal is also a thing, but that needs a lot of skill to pull off.

And no, Ezzy wasn't nerfed because of Klepto. He was nerfed due to how extremely safe his early game is and how good he scales into lategame.

ModJikker11/11/2019, 5:03:52 PM3 votes

I've played him with electrocute before and dark harvest, but neither seem to work that great. Honestly, he's going to need buffs to compensate. AP has been nerfed into the ground because Riot didn't like an ADC being able to go something else (or so it felt). What I'd love to see is a bit of a buff to his AP ratios, a slight cooldown buff to his E, and morph him into a mid lane hybrid mage.

Then again, I've always been a diehard fan of AP Ez so this may be wishful thinking on my part.

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yea your gonna have to learn to play laning phase now instead of just getting 500 gold from klepto.

The issue is that Riot nerfed Ezreal repeatedly to compensate for the extra gold he was getting from Klepto instead of addressing Klepto itself. Ez is very item dependent, now moreso than ever due to nerfs, so once his reliable gold generation is gone and he has the same income as other ADCs, he's going to be extremely weak in comparison.

Caitlyn FTW11/11/2019, 6:30:51 PM3 votes

Dw, they'll buff him back to the top

ModWulf Helhammer11/11/2019, 3:40:17 PM2 votes

He'll likely use the updated Conqueror, which is similar to what Fervor of Battle was

Daddy Ants11/11/2019, 7:59:25 PM2 votes

How you play Ezreal in S10 is as follows

You actually farm minions for your gold now like every other ADC has to!

You don't get 2+ kills worth of a gold lead just from a keystone.

FlameHalbrdOkido11/11/2019, 6:36:52 PM2 votes

No burst huh? so u expect a marksmen who are supposed to be about consistent dmg to be bursting opponents, jeez Rito really messed with peeps expectations over the last few seasons

5050BS11/12/2019, 10:29:52 PM1 votes

How to play any champ that 90% use Klepto.

Illaoi has to pick up Conqueror or something...... Still not as good as Klepto

NaughtyWord11/11/2019, 4:03:16 PM1 votes

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Ive tried to play electrocute, comet, dark harvest and everything feels really bad to play with, the moment you get ganked or camped or fall behind thats it you are useless for the entire game untill you get 3+ items. your damage is very low and you dont scale as hard as crit adcs or mage mid lanes, ive tried maxing W as ap and you just cant kill anyone the burst is not there an you have to waste E to proc it reliably and E having such a massive cooldown now you cant kite for sht with it early because your base move speed is so low that pretty much anyone can run you down just with basic movespeed abilities. so how are you gonna play ezreal with all his nerfs and no klepto to actually scale.

Every single ability ratio has been hit and cooldowns massively increased without any compensation so all hes had is item scaling and now without klepto lol you are just gonna get abused so hard an go to 30% win rate.

I don't know, I'll probably just end up using Dark Harvest or Electrocute, hail of blades might be interesting with his passive. Ezreal's winrate is already shit, that'll get much worse after Klepto nerf.

Magnesium1411/11/2019, 6:30:45 PM1 votes

Here's whats a good option: Arcane Comet Manaflow Band Transcendence Gathering Storm Biscuit Delivery Cosmic Insight I've tried it and it works PTA is also nice Just play him like any poke champ build AD go: item 3158 item 3078 item 3042 item 3812 item 3153 and then end with item 3036 or item 3033 depending on the situation Death's Dance cause you'll be playing more safe, by Q poke, its better than bloodthirster but u can still blood thirster if u want to Don't invest in defensive stuff anymore at all You'll be spiking hard once really so you want to make the most of it

Sukishoo11/11/2019, 6:36:07 PM1 votes

I like playing him with aery or comet myself. He's not really that great in the current flow of meta as is, so It may be some time before something feels like a perfect fit for him.

LightswornLance11/11/2019, 6:43:49 PM1 votes

PTA isnt that bad if you actually autoattack with ezreal but me and many others prefer to play like we were building AP and just go for oneshot comboes.

NaughtyWord11/11/2019, 6:55:19 PM1 votes

Now I'll admit i'm not the best EZ player in the world, but DH/Lethality is massively underwhelming:

Build: https://imgur.com/a/p9BWW8n

Stats: https://imgur.com/a/7q0s2jm

Runes: https://imgur.com/a/K2TE3hl

Without buffs, Ezreal is useless without Klepto.

Terozu11/11/2019, 9:01:53 PM1 votes

I mean, you build a lich bane for AP ezreal. Add a ludens, a Rabadons, a Nashor's tooth, a Seraphs and boots and you have a pretty good build.

Q will do 80% of your AP on hit, you absolutely melt towers with Nashors + W with lich bane, autos are doing AP damage too. Over 2000 damage in a single auto to turrets late game(over 1000 to champions).

You do great DPS, and your burst on W and E is insane, it procs Electrocute reliably. Etc. The DPS isn't as good as AD ezreal, but the burst is really strong for popping targets. Not to mention your ult will be doing more damage since you can naturally get AP higher than AD.

823 ap, with trancendence, add on Gathering Storm and you scale really fucking hard with insane burst damage.

It plays A LOT differently than AD of course, let alone Klepto, but it doesn't not scale.

Comet sucks on him since no cc, and while Dark Harvest is good I def recommend Electrocute.

And of course, since you're gonna have 40% cdr here, you have a 7.3 second flash that does 900 some damage to the nearest target, about 2000 to a marked target.

If you wanna do something like, replace boots with spell binder, that brings you to over 1000 ap late, which just makes all of that hit for almost 200 more damage. And again, gathering storm will be doing wonders for you there. Not to mention popping spell binder before ulting, and you have a 1500 global aoe ultimate. 3000 to a marked champ/monster.(smite can suck an essence flux XD)

Popping it before hitting a marked turret? 3000 damage. Ever one shot a turret? I have. It's amazing. And it's bs. And again, all this is before adding Gathering Storm. So have fun with that.

Zoeeee11/11/2019, 9:48:15 PM1 votes

Just use press the attack. I’m glad Klepto is gone, even though I never used it.

Nyarlathοtep11/11/2019, 8:03:18 PM

your damage is very low and you dont scale as hard as crit adcs or mage mid lanes

Thank goodness you mean. A champ with such safety SHOULDNT have strong late.

As for how you are going to play him. Dark harvest for late burst potential, electro for early burst potential and conq for in combat sustain.