Prove to me Ezreal isn't one of the hardest champions to be effective.

Shocking·Apr 21, 2018·1 votes·3,540 views

Seriously, what am I doing wrong? I find him extremely hard to play at a good level to be **effective **, he's easy to play sure but to actually carry games, unlike other ADC's, staying at the back is useless, I have to go in almost like an assassin to put damage and I need the mechanics of some god. I always get mixed feelings when I play this champion, not only do I have to consistently land skill shots, but if I want to be effective I have to be straight up ruthlessly aggressive with him, which can pull off insane plays BUT his mechanics are so hard when being aggressive.

Everyone says Ezreal is so easy to play and I want to be good with him, I have seen some skill clips that he can pull off (players like Deft are so good with him) yet I find Vayne so much easier to be effective with, and she's suppose to be HARDER. I've carried so many games as Vayne, I have pretty decent knowledge of her mechanics and how to use them, and I'll say my mechanics are just above average yet ezreal makes me look like I'm braindead in lane, especially in teamfights. He feels and plays so much different than other ADC's.

So someone prove to me Ezreal isn't hard (or do you think he is? and why?), because everyone is constantly always saying to me he is so easy.

9 Comments

greekvandaLApr 21, 20182 votes

3 second skillshot that halves it's cooldown on any enemy unit hit while also reducing his escape/engage cooldown with extremenly low mana costs high base dmg AND scaling applying on hit and a global ulti that nukes the first target hit. Dunno bro the only hard adc in the game is probably Jhin and Draven.

ShockingApr 21, 20181 votes

It must be my play style then, I honestly struggle with him so much just knowing what to do in a team fight with the kit he has, yet when I play Vayne I have no problems being aggressive and actually doing damage. For Ez it's the opposite, when a team fight happens everyone's doing all this massive damage and theirs blasts and shit, and If I sit behind my team and just Q it feels like I'm just shooting wet toilet paper at them, It's useless and I don't feel like I'm hard carrying or actually making a big effort for my team the way I can with Vayne/Jhin/Kai'sa etc.

Unless, I'm very aggressive with him and straight up just dual champions or something lol, but there is a cost to that, it's his mechanics when playing him aggressively.

greekvandaLApr 21, 20183 votes

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It must be my play style then, I honestly struggle with him so much just knowing what to do in a team fight with the kit he has, yet when I play Vayne I have no problems being aggressive and actually doing damage. For Ez it's the opposite, when a team fight happens everyone's doing all this massive damage and theirs blasts and shit, and If I sit behind my team and just Q it feels like I'm just shooting wet toilet paper at them, It's useless and I don't feel like I'm hard carrying or actually making a big effort for my team the way I can with Vayne/Jhin/Kai'sa etc.

Unless, I'm very aggressive with him and straight up just dual champions or something lol, but there is a cost to that, it's his mechanics when playing him aggressively.

He is not an aggresive champion. He just melts you from afar with Q's and when you drop to 50% he all ins you. if you are an extremenly aggresive player like myself try lucian/Draven/Tristana they might fit your style. If you wanna expand your champion pool and gameplay patterns just practice more.

WzqdQsZwQAApr 21, 20181 votes

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ShockingApr 21, 20181 votes

I honestly don't have a problem landing Q's that's for sure, It's more so positioning and trying to be safe but actually be effective at the same time, and in order to be effective I feel like Ezreal needs to put himself into more dangerous situations against good players but in order to do well with that you need to have even better mechanics than Vayne to compete. Having to kite, dodge, predict and land all his skillshots to a high degree. It's just the fact that people say Vayne/Draven is one of the most mechanically difficult champions to play yet I'm so much more braindead when I play Ezreal, who should be super easy for me if I can play Vayne efficiently enough, no?

So I don't know if he really is easy like people say he is and I'm just apparently stupid, or he actually is very difficult to play to be efficient.

Dead flag bluesApr 21, 20181 votes

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LSmaster16Apr 21, 20181 votes

I'm not exactly an expert on this but here's my thoughts: Ezreal needs to poke before fights meaning that you need your team to be on board with that strategy since in a straight up fight you'll get outdamaged heavily by any meta adc abusing crit or on-hit itemization.

Dokueki KenshinApr 21, 20181 votes

Ezreal is considered to be one of the hardest, if not the hardest, ADC to play due to his lack of DPS, entirely skill-oriented kit, and how easily he can be punished for mistakes in positioning. You need to play him in a poke/kite heavy playstyle. Learn to lead your Q shots, learn accuracy with your ultimate, and start paying attention to your positioning before and during team fights.