New Ezreal Build, Try it

WinBoat··1 votes·893 views

Alright, I don't main ADC really, but I think i found the best Ezreal build you can possibly make. Before passing judgement on me, please try it a few games if you main Ezreal and tell me what you think.

  1. item 3078 2. item 3072 3. item 3022 4. item 3053 and 5........ either item 3071 if they got tanks, or...... item 3156.

As for boots... item 3111. Honestly, his cooldowns are low enough.

I've played against enough Ezreals who do the normal, tear, iceborn and BORK combo, and this build I use seems to surpass that, and do better, but what do I know? I'm in bronze right? Although I was once playing with high end plats, and low diamonds at one point, but nevermind that.

Anyhow, check out this build guys, let me know.

EDIT section. I want to explain my thought process on this build. So the Triforce over Iceborn is much better. Triforce in itself is one of the best items on the game, and you get a lot of good stats. Usually when you rush Triforce, it's such a good item spike, it can allow you to pick up a few more kills which makes getting the blood thirster second. Only downside to the build is the items are expensive, although you can rearrange the build order if you want to save time.

I find Ezreal's mana pool good enough, especially after Triforce. I don't have those problems, no need for tear and all that. Frozen Mallet gives me the whole basic attack slow, and a ton of HP. I can see Frozen mallet becoming the thing to get now with how much HP it offers. Honestly, I like this build, it gives a lot of health, and you combine that with the steraks gage, or the MAW proc when low on HP. It's just gold. You can opt for bork still instead of black cleaver if you want, but I would get the black cleaver cause again, HP. I think focusing squishies, and stuff is the main objective anyways in a team fight. If you got enough attack speed runes like 25%, you will be good for attack speed.

19 Comments

Depárt1 votes

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WinBoat1 votes

Thank you for trying it less than a minute after I posted the thread.

Superman.

Depárt1 votes

Don't need to try it because it's actually terrible.

Slythion1 votes

nice explanation on why...oh wait

you'd rather just freely rip on someone instead of making this a learning experience

Depárt1 votes

Explanation below for anyone that wants to learn why I call it a terrible build.

Gary B Enkelis1 votes

Can you discuss why?

Depárt2 votes

You really want an explanation?

Alright then, let me explain to everyone here why this would be terrible and how I can tell without even trying it.

His recommended build is item 3078 item 3072item 3053 item 3022 item 3156 item 3071 item 3111 With black cleaver being interchangeable with maw.

Right away you can see this build is based more on being tanky based on all the recommended items having defensive stats in some way.

The first problem with this build is that its overall dps is dramatically lower than the standard Ezreal builds right now, especially against the bruiser/tanky dps builds being rampant in this meta.

Another big problem is it recommends item 3156 and item 3053 in the same build. The two items don't stack anymore and you lose massive gold value from one of the two due to the passive shield not working on whichever one you bought second.

The third quickly noticeable problem is it exchanges item 3025 utility for item 3022 utility while also counting in that tri-force would be good in every situation, which it wouldn't. Both items give a slow on hit and some defensive stats, however item 3022 is more expensive than item 3025 and offers nothing outside of its bruiser(y) stats and small utility.

When you build for item 3043 both item 3078 and item 3025 provide extra damage to it through their mana, while also making it hard to run out of mana at crucial moments, which Ezreal can do pretty quickly if he doesn't have any items outside of item 3078 to increase/sustain his mana.

The next problem is it recommends item 3072 in every situation, which against squishy team comps can be better but only offers upfront stats. Even in item 3153 poor state of balance, it's still much more useful than item 3072 against high HP targets by offering a % of the targets current health in bonus damage on hit, which applies to his Q. It then offers an active, which helps for you to self-peel by slowing the target and speeding you up and also does 10% of the targets max health and heals you for the damage done.

It does this all while being slightly cheaper, so item 3072 is much more situational than item 3153 in an Ezreal build.

The only problem with building item 3111 is that you lose too much in cdr on a "meta" Ezreal build.

Otherwise they could be interchangeable based on team comp, but you would never build this type of build so don't intend to build them.

The last problem is it recommends to not build a last whisper based item, which will only ever work against completely squishy teams and is highly unlikely to be worth not building in the current meta.

Source - 2 accounts in master tier, 1 in diamond, 2 in plat playing adc only and having Hundreds of Ezreal games. Throughout those hundreds of Ezreal games across plat-master/challenger I have experimented with quite a few different builds and understood why they are ineffective, including builds relatively close to this one.

TL;DR - The build is too situational and generally less effective than the meta builds that are currently built. The items are more expensive, while also being less effective in almost all cases. Meta builds are meta for a reason, that reason being they are generally the most effective way to build that champion.

Gary B Enkelis1 votes

Thanks!

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Akenero3 votes

There are a couple of problems I see with it though, for one, you're doubling down on the Rage passive from item 3044, wasting gold, secondly, it's got very slight CC on it, and less options, which is something the Blue build grants him:item 3153=Slow and % hp damage, plus the bonus damage on hit it grants,item 3025= Mana, slowing field, and Sheen Proc,item 3042=bonus on-hit damage, mana refund on spell casts,item 3508= crit, mana refund, and cdr,item 3158 10% crd, and summoner spell CD reduction, you're also lacking a good armor pen item, yes, you have the 30% armor shred from item 3071 after 6 hits, or the flat 10 pen from item 3156, but having a item 3036 or item 3033 grant 45% at all times, meaning you're doing more damage in one hit than a item 3071 will do after 6 hits.

Overall, your build, from an initial glance, lacks the synergy of the blue build, and puts too much of a strain on his mana pool with only a trinity to increase his mana, and offers less-than-optimal ways of dealing with tanks. It's decent, but the truth of the matter is this: Ezreal is to korea as Vayne is to NA, super popular, even when unviable, and, as such, he has an insane amount of theory crafting and testing put into him. Some builds cannot be improved upon, and, until a new item emerges, the blue build is nearly perfect for ezreal. If you're into theory crafting builds, try out these champions:Akali Evelynn Kayle Mordekaiser Shaco Vladimir

WinBoat1 votes

I respect your comment, you should still test the build sometime, and I don't play any of those champions you got listed.

Currently leveling my poppy and ezreal to 5, they are both level 4, almost 5, and I got like over 36+ level 5 champions out of the 40 that I own or so.

I do have a level 5 Eve tho and I love her. I haven't tried playing with her builds tho. I see some insist on going AD, but have never tried it before.

Akenero1 votes

I do plan on trying it out, I'm just pointing out a few flaws I see from the start, who knows, it may be easier than the blue build, I'm not sure! A fun eve build of mine is this: Burst HybridEvelynn summoner 11 summoner 4 item 3153 item 3146 item 1402item 3071item 3158 item 3116

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WinBoat1 votes

That looks like an awesome Eve build. I will have to try that. I actually like her, although I think I would replace the black cleaver tho for a Zhonya's since Eve is kinda a all in champion, and squishy, even if she builds tankier items.

I was watching Pink Ward on youtube who is a Shaco main, he recently did a full tank Shaco build and went like 17 kills, and he's in diamond and only plays Shaco. Although he was full tank, Shaco still died so fast, some champs just aren't tanky, even when tank. Like Eve, Ekko, Shaco etc.....

But the Zhonya's is a good item or at least a guardian angel. I also like Zhonya's on Twisted Fates cause some jump to that all in, and try to get a kill before dying, Zhonya's is a good item.

Akenero1 votes

The black cleaver is for her E, which does physical damage, as does the BOtRK active, it also gives her her 40% cdr cap. Er, wait... item 3153 item 3071 item 3100 item 1402 item 3146 item 3158 I forgot about how they removed spellblade from the ap jungle item XD I miss Runeglaive ;-;

Slythion1 votes

You wouldn't be able to do much damage to their front line imo, sure you have some pen from cleaver/maw but you simply don't have any raw ad stats outside of BT which isn't really worth in the first place because it's passive is wasted on you prioritizing tanky stats over damage

Basically, if they have 3+ heavy assassins this would be a decent build, but in general it just isn't worth it

BLACK REALM GOD1 votes

ezreal does best when you go full damage/cooldown and you grab magic penetration for your R. you dont even need to buy magic items just put some penetration runes in your build and get sorcery boots.

item 3020 item 3508 item 3031 item 3142 item 3091 item 3153

a lot of people will disagree with me on my build and that's okay too.

WinBoat1 votes

Nah, it's a good build bro.

I'm just trying other builds for Ez, and to me, the build I came up with works best for me for some reason. I guess cause the surivability is much better and you can't just be 1 shotted that easily.

The penetration boots are a good idea tho, I should implement that into my build.

BLACK REALM GOD1 votes

ezreal is inherently weak when it comes to survivability, but there's a reason for that. when you buy cooldown you can E every 3 successful Q's. you can use your R every 25 Q's. ezreal isnt the best lifestealer or the best at dealing constant damage because if he could he'd just sit on top of you constantly landing his Q to lower his cooldowns and dealing massive damage all while healing. if you're having trouble with trades in lane consider putting armor runes in your seals or buying ninja tabi.

because im ballsy i usually run this build

item 3009 item 3046 item 3004 item 3078 item 3022 item 3033 however i would never recommend it to anyone.

MunchCrunchLunch1 votes

thats god awful. there are only 3 viable ez builds imo

the standard blue build

the trinity force instead of ibg (same as blue build rest of items).

Essence reaver crit ezreal with trinity force.

Elite4Runner1 votes

While I appreciate the fact that you are trying different things, and I encourage you to keep at it if it works for you, I must agree with those who are less than impressed.

Ezreal is often referred to as one of the safest ADCs because of his range from his Q and his ability to poke from behind minions with W, ability to escape with his E, and his global pass through ultimate.

He really does not need to be built defensively if he has mana sustain, high CDR, a decent front line, and a player with good situational awareness and mechanical skill.

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