Ezreal nerfs are not enough

Hibeki··10 votes·3,542 views

This is a really good time to bring this up. Ezreal will forever remain this way because of the toxic nature of his kit. Unless the meta reverts to a state where the GREEDIEST of ADC's are viable, he will always be viable.

These things cannot be denied by any pick, item, or meta:

-Abuses the fuck out of kleptomancy to get a lead even when behind -item 3057 Will always remain the biggest powerspike in the game, granting a MINIMUM of over 2000 gold of AD on his Q. -Scales insanely hard off mana -Q reduces an insane amount of cooldown (6 seconds total), meaning that 5 Q's is a total of a 30 second cooldown reduction in 4.5 s seconds, which is INSANE -Safe playstyle with item abusing means this guy will be safe no matter what meta he gets.

The problem with ezreal is he is TOO CONSISTENT. Q spamming onhits from 1150 range will never be healthy, and nerfing the on hits is not the problem.

Ezreal QUADRUPLE DIPS on mana. Q casts, Manamune damage, Seraph shield strength, and the boost to manamune and seraph's from eachother.

Im personally in favor of item 3057 getting more damage but a higher cooldown in return, so people like Nasus Ezreal Camille Irelia cant just purchase it as 200 extra damage on their main ability.

ezreal needs reworked, no amount of item changing or nerfs will get rid of this cockroach. Nerfing him into the ground isnt the answer, neither is nerfing the items he uses. Nerf the CAUSE, not the EFFECT.

18 Comments

D357R0Y3R9 votes

hey back off triforce should not be touched, sterak is already getting nerfed and ezreal deserves nerfs himself if not a rework

ValiantKiller1 votes

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hey back off triforce should not be touched, sterak is already getting nerfed and ezreal deserves nerfs himself if not a rework

Yorick poor guy will be rekt cause of all abusers just how Urgot got rekt when people abused item 3022

Hibeki1 votes

Yorick has ways to be good (ghoul damage is insane)

ZephyrDrake1 votes

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Yorick has ways to be good (ghoul damage is insane)

yeah, his ghouls that die in a single hit and barely do anything unless you land your really short range E... yeah he is able to be so good that he is barely even played at all

Hibeki1 votes

Its on the threshold, only because of the meta hes not played. IF you buff him hes just gonna be turbo cancer again.

ZephyrDrake1 votes

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Its on the threshold, only because of the meta hes not played. IF you buff him hes just gonna be turbo cancer again.

you can keep telling that to yourself, one day it'll actually be true

Darius Strada6 votes

You guys always complain ADCs can burst everybody with point-and-click auto attacks but also complain about a guy that at least has to land a skill shot. What the fuk is your idea of a healthy AD then?

ZephyrDrake3 votes

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You guys always complain ADCs can burst everybody with point-and-click auto attacks but also complain about a guy that at least has to land a skill shot. What the fuk is your idea of a healthy AD then?

their idea of an healty ADC is that ADCs need to be lvl 18 and full build for them to not be a walking bag of gold

Hibeki1 votes

No my idea is that a below average adc shouldnt be able to point and click or land one ability to do a third of my health

JungleFighter41 votes

At least remove the flash ability for fucks sake

Cloud2732 votes

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This is a really good time to bring this up. Ezreal will forever remain this way because of the toxic nature of his kit. Unless the meta reverts to a state where the GREEDIEST of ADC's are viable, he will always be viable.

These things cannot be denied by any pick, item, or meta:

-Abuses the fuck out of kleptomancy to get a lead even when behind -item 3057 Will always remain the biggest powerspike in the game, granting a MINIMUM of over 2000 gold of AD on his Q. -Scales insanely hard off mana -Q reduces an insane amount of cooldown (6 seconds total), meaning that 5 Q's is a total of a 30 second cooldown reduction in 4.5 s seconds, which is INSANE -Safe playstyle with item abusing means this guy will be safe no matter what meta he gets.

The problem with ezreal is he is TOO CONSISTENT. Q spamming onhits from 1150 range will never be healthy, and nerfing the on hits is not the problem.

Ezreal QUADRUPLE DIPS on mana. Q casts, Manamune damage, Seraph shield strength, and the boost to manamune and seraph's from eachother.

Im personally in favor of item 3057 getting more damage but a higher cooldown in return, so people like Nasus Ezreal Camille Irelia cant just purchase it as 200 extra damage on their main ability.

ezreal needs reworked, no amount of item changing or nerfs will get rid of this cockroach. Nerfing him into the ground isnt the answer, neither is nerfing the items he uses. Nerf the CAUSE, not the EFFECT.

I'm pretty sure a BF sword is a bigger power spike than sheen. Nice try though.

Hibeki2 votes

Sheen adds 2000g of AD at the very minimum to his Q, this only goes up as his cooldowns go down and his base ad increases, and trinity spike

andr0id1 votes

Keep in mind the double-tear Ezreal build is fairly new, and the reason he has to build that is because if he didn't he would get outscaled by any of the traditional auto-attacking ADCs. Ezreal's strength before the double tear build was strictly early to mid game, and if you got into a late game vs say a kogmaw or varus you'd better pray you can poke their team down. Not saying his damage isn't strong, but when the majority of his damage is strictly from his Q you can't really complain while other ADCs hit for the same on auto attacks.

DoktorKaiser1 votes

Ezreal is the only healthy ADC in the game so fuck off, he actually has to land skillshots to deal damage which means that you actually have to get hit, which means its your fault for not outplaying. When Vayne comes and starts autoattacking me from invisibility or when KaiSa ults me and presses Q that has ZERO counterplay and you can't outplay that. Stop trying to get the only ADC that doesn't give me cancer nerfed for no reason. Remove klepto if anything, that rune brought nothing but trouble to all its (ab)users.

Hibeki1 votes

Its not no reason. This guy abuses the fuck out of every single item he builds and its not healthy for the game. Theres a reason his pick rate is so massive, nerfing the items is not the answer.

Its All Skillzz1 votes

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Its not no reason. This guy abuses the fuck out of every single item he builds and its not healthy for the game. Theres a reason his pick rate is so massive, nerfing the items is not the answer.

his pick rate is due to his safety and ability to fit into any team comp, it has nothing to do with his damage and hm being overpowered. he brings safe harass in lane good with a healing support/nami as he can get in poke and avoid being all in with his E, he has mixed damage and a tool to pick up global kills like jinx so he can get a lead if an idiot enemy is backing low hp an dont look at ezreal. he can avoid jungle ganks due to his E preventing the enemy team from snowballing off him. he can also be played super agressive by using E to get into the action if playing in lane with agressive engage supports. he is just a generalist pick, jack of all trades master of none, he dont carry hard like a hyper carry does an he dont bring utility to make plays like varus or ashe, he cant duel like vayne or assassinate from stealth like twitch. he cant kill tanks or anyone slightly tanky and he is the easiest to burst adc in the game due to having his E being small channel ive died before i could even cast it if someone with huge burst like leblanc flashed in on me.

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