Just a few minutes ago, TSM won a game with Ruinglaive Ezreal who did immense damage

FireNuke·7/4/2015, 9:07:43 PM·61 votes·7,158 views

One Trueshot Barrage cut 2/3 health from full HP . One Q cut 2/3 HP from and don't get me started on what damage his W did.

And I feel so sorry for all players now. As of the next patch,or maybe couple of patches, Ez will receive a crapton of unnecessary guts because Runeglaive makes his damage sick.

But the real problem is in the Runeglaive, not Ezreal himself. Until it is too late, please DO NOT change Ezreal. Do something with Runeglaive but leave Ez alone. Just asking this for the sake of all Ez mains. I don't want to see another champion go through an unnecessary nerf cycle. Not after I saw what Riot did to .

109 Comments

Reaper Review7/4/2015, 9:20:27 PM46 votes

Why do people feel the need to mention Essence Flux and Trueshot Barrage when talking about Runeglaive Ez, as if Runeglaive is suddenly making those skills broken?

Renaille7/4/2015, 9:23:18 PM15 votes

Most damaging ults will take 66% of a squishy champions hp when the user is ahead and built full damage and the target is behind with no defenses.

PBnJelly7/4/2015, 11:02:28 PM11 votes

Except Runeglaive as an item isn't the only problem. AP Ezreal has always done that kind of damage with his W, E, and R (actually more because Runeglaive has abysmal AP). Let's take a look at some of old AP Ezreal's weaknesses.

Extremely weak early due to Tear
Needs like 3 items to actually be strong
Still go OOM easily without Blue
Extremely low waveclear outside of R
Your E was generally required to kill someone if you didn't land your ult on them, since Q was pretty much useless

Then Runeglaive Ezreal.

Still bad early, but not nearly as bad because of the Tear alternative
Needs 2 items to be really strong, one of which is extremely cheap (2250g)
Infinite mana as long as you proc Spellblade
Good waveclear with AOE Q's and Trailblazer
Runeglaive Q allows you to kill people without offensively using E

Runeglaive is honestly pretty bad. It's just that it covers up pretty much all of AP Ez's weaknesses. There is actually a Runeglaive buff on the PBE, which is most likely going live next patch, meaning that if they don't nerf Ezreal, then he's just gonna become even stronger. I'm sure Riot doesn't have a problem with Runeglaive on Ezreal, but everyone has a problem with playing against it in its current state. I think that this would be solved with tweaks to both Ez's AP scalings, and Runeglaive itself.

Sir Yamazuki7/4/2015, 9:35:06 PM11 votes

Uh, Ezreals W/E/R has always been OP when built AP. Just E+W is enough to pretty much nearly kill people. All runeglaive is doing when it comes to damage to champions is having his Q deal magic damage, people usually have lower MR than Armor after a point, even tanks, and it means his Q now benefits with penetration too.

Xrusa7/4/2015, 9:29:00 PM10 votes

The only problem is that AP Ezreal can abuse runeglaive on his Q to pop Luden's at the same time. The ONLY problem is the functionality of runeglaive. Once you complete those two items, his Q has not only solid base damage, but an extra 40% ratio from items on-hit, PLUS the already 40% AP ratio on his Q to begin with. So it doubles his AP ratio on Q while dealing mixed damage and hitting about half of that damage in an AoE. When they fix the stupid Luden-proc-on-runeglaive, it will be solved. It's really just riot screwing up item functionality.

ilt7/4/2015, 9:10:37 PM6 votes

now everyone is gonna go ap ezreal. FUCK

Brahmsauce7/4/2015, 9:10:54 PM6 votes

They'll gut Ez instead of fixing the item. Just seems like the easier/lazy route.

Slamurai Jack7/5/2015, 1:00:35 AM5 votes

Why do people keep hyping up Runeglaives mana sustain? It only works on monsters, which means Ezreal can maybe shoot his Q at raptors to get some mana back when he's low. That's it.

LaceUp237/4/2015, 9:21:18 PM5 votes

The only thing it did for him was help his mana cost. He was always strong as fuck AP, just had high mana cost to pay for it.

BakedLotion7/5/2015, 1:15:10 AM5 votes

What does runeglaive have to do with his ult w and e? It only gives 40 ap lmfao It's a weaker version of lich bane after next patch cause it's not gonna proc ludens anymore.

His ult cause one shot people before runeglaive lmfao. Sheeps are gonna be sheeps.

Earl Eulrich7/4/2015, 10:57:56 PM4 votes

yea, the 50ap from runeglaive really boost that ult. And the q hit´s for soo much less with lichbane. Certainly not Ez fault...

The Bíg Ticket7/5/2015, 10:24:23 AM2 votes

Ezreal has always had the third highest combined AP ratio on his spells. 2.85 on Q W E and R....only Malzahar has more with 2.9 on just Q E R (W does percent max hp damage) and LB with 3.6 (if you mimic Q or E and proc it aswell as procing the inital Q and E).

This does not include champs like Fiddle, Kata or Nunu who have higher ratios if you manage to completely channel their abilities. But compare Ezreal to a high burst mage ike Annie or Syndra for example: Annie has a 2.45 AP ratio on her 3 damaging spells (Q W and R)..E does some damage if you attack her and Tibbers does AoE damage but the burst is lower compared to Ezreals 2.85 ratio. Same goes for Syndra, she would have to ult you with 6 spheres to have a higher AP ratio on her combo than Ezreal. With 5 spheres (which is possible) the ratio is 2.7 "only". Even Veigar only has 2.6 AP scaling on his skills so on a target with little or no AP Ezreal will do more damage (if they have the same amount of AP). Clearly Runeglaive is not making AP Ezreal broken...he always did ridiculous damage lategame, it just helps him get there easier.

Gunslinger7447/4/2015, 9:08:40 PM2 votes

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SlampieceHawke7/5/2015, 6:08:17 AM2 votes

Forget Runeglaive ez. I just had to put up with a Runeglaive Gangplank .

Keitron7/4/2015, 9:40:40 PM1 votes

Why can't riot exclude runeglaive from ezreal and him only, problem solved no nerfs or guts needed.