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A small change to buff AP Ezreal

Not Arcane Ezrea·3/15/2014, 5:55:22 PM·7 votes·1,441 views

Hello, it's Arcane Ezreal -- as many of you know that AP Ezreal has a lot of problems. I was thinking about one that can be fixed really easily. As many of you know, Ezreal's Q ratio is being buffed to .4 of his AP instead of .2 of his AP. Now there will be a lot more AP going towards his Q. Let's do some math on that:

@100AP: 40 damage

@200AP: 80 damage

@300AP: 120 damage

@400AP: 160 damage

@500AP: 200 damage

Now you might be like, why did we do the math? Well you see, all of that damage is in physical damage and not magic damage, which makes it extremely weaker for AP Ezreal because he doesn't get Armor Pen and tanks usually get Armor for the Marksman's damage.

Now how could we change this actual nerf to a buff? Make the AP Ratio damage deal in Magic Damage and make everything else deal in Physical damage. With this it'll be a huge buff to AP Ezreal.

NOTICE: That Fizz's Q does this exist thing that I want.

Thanks for reading.

Original post: http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=4363500

19 Comments

My Anime Waifu3/15/2014, 5:54:06 PM3 votes

I'd got to agree. I think if AP Ezreal is to be viable, then they need to add some power to his Q, especially with the upcoming lich bane nerfs. AP Ezreal needs more than W and E. He needs some sort of constant damage source. Besides, I think of Ezreal more of a caster than an ADC.

ModCaptainMårvelous3/16/2014, 8:07:18 AM2 votes

IMO, the problem isn't with Ezreal's Q. It's with his passive and W.

His passive is utterly useless unless you're going a sub-par on-hit AP build. Except with AP Ezreal, you're rarely going to be auto-attacking. More so spell machine gun of QWE as much as possible and then R.

W is basically so bad only AP Ezreal -does- get it now. It's a projectile that flies a short distance, doesn't hit minions and is basically only good for buffing AS on tower destruction.

If W could hit minions but not have it apply a stack (And maybe have his passive do something beneficial for AP Ezreal. Maybe AS if AD > AP or Spell Pen if AP > AD?) we would see a lot more AP Ezreal. As it stands however, he lacks the farming tools for that nasty amount of AP he needs to gib entire teams.

Fear Not3/15/2014, 7:03:32 PM1 votes

This does have the benefit of the hybrid damage being harder to itemize against, but it is still a nerf late in the game when everyone has armor, anyway.

JhinsaneMidlane3/16/2014, 3:01:20 AM1 votes

Great idea.

Also, I think you have a typo here that may be confusing to some people: "NOTICE: That Fizz's Q does this exist thing that I want."

*Exact instead of Exist

Meatybag3/17/2014, 1:42:31 AM1 votes

This looks like a veiled qq for someone who plays ezreal and is sad that the one champion that they can actually play is getting toned down.

I cant possibly fathom why they would implement this change. This would make for a situation that would be similar in a sense to AP tryndamere. Just something that is not supposed to happen, but did. They already took away the slow from his arcane burst, and he is still very powerful imho. Possibly because he can flash all the time. To add something to ezreal, I think something else should be taken away and the most glaring part of his kit that is exploitable would be the infinite flashes that he has available to him. In all fairness though, ap ezreal is not how I think riot envisioned him so I would doubt that this change even gets considered.

WFLMOpon5A3/18/2014, 6:49:22 PM1 votes

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