ADC Ezreal build tips

Chaos Open·1/20/2015, 9:20:50 PM·1 votes·1,657 views

If you take a look at my match history I'm doing pretty well as Ezreal. I get kills and generally avoid taking damage because I have decent positioning and avoid them being able to attack me. Close enough to where I can attack them, but far enough away that they can't attack me. I don't mean to toot my own horn, but my mechanics aren't my problem. However, there is one piece I seem to be missing. My go-to build is 3 items: iceborn gauntlet, beserker greaves, and Essence Reaver. However, beyond that it seems to be a crap shoot as to which items to get. Iceborn due it it's AOE slow Beserker because AA should be part of your damage between spells, simply shooting Qs without any AA is severly cutting your damage and Essence Reaver for the mana regen, cooldown, and lifesteal. Let me start off by saying I'm not a fan of the blue build, it simply doesn't seem to have the burst damage that straight AD items have.

So, while I can get damage from far away while remaining out of range of any counter-attack, I'm not really putting down a lot of damage and it seems to be doing little in the way of truly deleting the tanks like many other ADCs have.

I'm not looking for a you should build A then B then C but some ideas on which items you believe benefit Ezreal the most and the original 3 items are non-negotiable unless there is a REALLY good reason. They have worked far too often to simply drop.

However, there are 3 other items to build and I know it's all relative to what the enemy team is and building, but I'd like a list of items that are good on Ez or some items that simply don't help him at all. Basically, I'm looking for items that would give me the most bang for my buck. And like I said, I don't take much damage, so building health and armor don't do me much good. I'm working towards a class cannon.

5 Comments

Sirin Gioro1/20/2015, 9:34:04 PM1 votes

Since Ezreal is so mana dependent, I stack tears first, even though that will significantly reduce your damage output early game. After that, I get a sheen and eventually build it into Iceborn, but I get Manamune first. Stacking tears = not much mana problem, so I'll go last whisper or bloodthirster depending on which one I need first. Go CDR boots, not greaves if you're blue Ezreal. Blue Ez is all about landing your Q since it's your bread and butter, so yea, Q passive and CDR = wow. If you're going Triforce Bork Ezreal, then you might wanna go Greaves. I don't rush essence reaver, though. For me, I don't really like it.

Blue: item 3042 item 3025 item 3072 item 3035 item 3508 [DEFENSIVE ITEM]

Chaos Open1/21/2015, 12:40:41 AM1 votes

Problem is he isn't telling me something I don't already know. I know about the blue build, I've played tons of times with the blue build. However, it's very much a late-game build and really lacks the punch you get from other builds.

ZeroAnarchy1/21/2015, 2:19:19 AM1 votes

item 3043 item 3025 item 3158 item 3035 item 3072 item 3153

item 3078 item 3043 item 3153 item 3006 item 3035 item 3031

item 3078 item 3153 item 3006 item 3035 item 3031 item 3139

These are just some common builds I've seen. Blue build IMO is the best and most fun to play.