Manamune Ezreal?

Perfect Summoner·1/7/2015, 11:36:59 AM·2 votes·4,190 views

Before you comment about how manamune is a bad item on Ezreal, please hear me out.

Ezreal is an AD caster. He is extremely reliant on his abilities, but his auto attacks are also an integral part of his damage. I believe using the following build makes Ezreal strongest (generally) throughout all stages of the game: item 3057 , item 3070 , item 3078 , item 3153 , item 3158 , item 3042 , item 3035 , item 3072 OR item 3026

This build is obviously not set in stone (especially towards the end), but there are a few reasons why I think this build is superior to the standard "Tri-Force" Ezreal:

  1. Buying an early tear solves mana issues throughout the game. This allows Ezreal to stay in lane/not in base for longer while still allowing him to deal optimal damage.
  2. Getting an early Sheen helps his early game damage output, so buying the early tear doesn't affect his early/mid game power too much.
  3. Finishing the manamune ONLY after you have tear fully stacked gives you extremely gold efficient stats, and the toggle active on Muramana greatly increases Ezreal's poke from his Q and auto attack DPS.
  4. The most likely alternative to getting Muramana in your build is IE, which is not very cost effective on Ezreal. While his auto attacks have the chance to crit, he builds no crit chance other than Tri-Force, so it does not maximize the potential from IE's passive. Also, Ezreal's Q cannot crit, but it does apply the extra damage from Muramana.

*Note: At full build, Ezreal will gain about 75 AD from Muramana.

So I've been wondering what makes the traditional "Tri-Force" Ezreal better than manamune Ezreal, but I haven't seen a well-reasoned argument about why Tri-Force is better. If you have any knowledge about Ezreal's build, please leave a comment. Thanks for reading!

14 Comments

Angry Monster1/7/2015, 11:57:26 AM2 votes

your like 6 months late on that build.

I love how you probably saw this build some where and then post it.

jv21blU7oD1/7/2015, 1:03:30 PM2 votes

Literally every Ezreal I see, whether it's in my own games or on streams (and I see him a lot) builds Manamune. The real question is between Iceborn Gauntlet or Trinity Force now.

Deep Terror Nami1/7/2015, 11:44:03 AM1 votes

Isn't Manamune already part of his legitimate "blue" build? it includes something like item 3004 item 3025 item 3153 item 3035 item 3158 item 3508 Don't take my word for it, but I think that's the full damage blue build that many already swear by.

support5life1/7/2015, 12:25:38 PM1 votes

In all my time in playing Ezreal, I've always succeeded the most with the following build: item 3277 item 3025 item 3004 item 3071 item 3035 item 3151

A few notes:

  • Black Cleaver used to be the jungle item, even after it got nerfed to hell and back. I know a lot of people disagree with this, but to this day I have never dealt the kind of damage I put out on Ezreal last season (and haven't seen anyone do it since). I was averaging 90k damage to champions a game, ~40 minute games.

  • I run "blue" runes and masteries - that is, a mix of armor and magic pen coupled with ad, ap, etc.

  • I usually replace boots with item 3172 or item 3031 once I run out of random things to buy. I also switch out gauntlet for one of these two once kiting/poking stop being relevant (which is almost never).

Civil Dawn1/7/2015, 1:03:49 PM1 votes

When I play ez adc I always get manamune after trinity/boots.. lol my first time with him with that build I got super fed... item 3004 4 life