Riot, seriously, why don’t you just make Ezreal have to auto for Klepto?

It’s pretty obvious that Klepto keystone is a problem on Ezreal. Why is it a problem? Well, shooting a low cd long range skill shot with relatively low mana cost is giving Ez tons of gold.

Ez, who is a champion that desperately needs to hit their item spike ahead of the enemy.

Ez who hits a brick god damn wall once crit based ADCs match him in items.

So, Riot is taking away damage scaling on a champion that already scales badly vs his crit based counterparts. This will probably work just a bit. You’ll see his winrate curve move down and to the left, but it will still be too high before 30 mins.

Trouble is that Ez will absolutely have to take Klepto now to compete. Eventually when riot wises up and fixes the problem, this will put Ez back where he was before they buffed Q ratio: the dumpster. He won’t even be able to jungle anymore, most likely, since the Q buffs are what helped enable that.

Riot, please just do the right thing here:

Make Ezreal auto attack to proc Klepto. This forces him to have to actually trade to proc it like any other ADC.

Remember: Klepto isn’t even broken on Gangplank, which seemed like the obvious place it would be broken! Why? It’s a point and click spell with much lower range. He can’t blind shoot it into your dumb support or adc that doesn’t stand behind minions.

I realize this is harder than just lol nerfing a damage ratio due to the way Mystic Shot is coded, but it’s what has to be done if you don’t want to nerf Kleptomancy directly.