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Suggested Change to Ezreal's Arcane Shift

ynOnmkb3gc·4/9/2015, 5:26:06 PM·2 votes·1,232 views

Ezreal

We all know and love Ez as the "skillful" skillshot champ, and I think that's an awesomely swaggy archetype for a champ that enables you to show off.

But he's thematically inconsistent thanks to Arcane Shift.

Arcane Shift, if you don't already know, is Ezreal's E. It's a blink ability that also fires a homing bolt at the nearest target. This means that you don't actually fire it like the rest of his linear skillshots; all you do is make sure you land near the target you want to hit.

Now, I don't know about you, but for a true display of skill, jumping near someone with a targeted homing ability doesn't sound that hard. How about this:

[E] Arcane Shift

Cost: 90 Mana Range: 475

Ezreal teleports to a target nearby location and enhances his next basic attack within 5 seconds, dealing an additional 75/125/175/225/275 (+75% Ability Power) magic damage on-hit.

See, this way you would at least need to autoattack a target to deal the damage, or enhance your next Mystic Shot by tipping it with some sexy magic damage.

Come on guys - let's make it more of "a true display of skill" to play Ezreal to his full potential...

:)

-Fyzzx

13 Comments

67chrome4/9/2015, 5:48:09 PM3 votes

Applying the damage in a homing auto-attack with a target of your choice after blinking wherever you want doesn't strike me as taking any skill at all to use optimally, and there's no reward for using it aggressively with such a change.

With it's current setup, at least the damage on Arcane Shift only comes from angling the skill in a certain way, offering a decent reward for utilizing it aggressively or sacrificing some level of positioning for the damage. The nearest target also places it in a bit of an Alistar Pulverize combo zone for landing the damage of the skill. Rather than just a Kalista lol nope kiting pattern.

More control, optimization in a variety of uses, and ease of use on an ability doesn't mean it allows for a better display of skill.

Auryiel4/9/2015, 8:06:14 PM1 votes

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance