EPTBest way to play Ezreal? - Page 2
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checo
Mexico1364 Posts
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HeavOnEarth
United States7087 Posts
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UniversalSnip
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Navi
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his E is an escape, and does decent damage even without AP scaling his ult can be used to snipe, does very decent damage early on, and can build 5stacks instantly his Q reduces the cds on other skills (including itself) and thus can be used to make his other skills even more spammy So you could use the w as a support / stack builder, r as a sniping skill and initiation if you need stacks quick, and e as an escape if you want to go AD Or you could use wer as main lategame damage and use q to reduce cds as well as proc lich if you're going AP I think his design is solid, just a little niche | ||
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petered
United States1817 Posts
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Tooplark
United States3977 Posts
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petered
United States1817 Posts
I suspect that on certain team comps locket ez could be pretty useful. He is pretty useless in big team fights but if you have a poke team it works. I actually did a really weird locket-> guinsoo's->lichbane build since it is really easy to keep up the ap stacks and you get some nice procs on your q. The hard part is getting those items up since you do no damage. Basically kill steal with your r, that is my current solution. | ||
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Virtue
United States318 Posts
Its an odd sounding build, but I start with a Vampiric Scepter and rush Lantern for the life steal, easy minion kills, and the free wards. After that I get boots (Usually Mobility so I can land shots) and then Phage so I can rush up to Trinity followed up by the Rageblade or Infinity Edge. I think the Rageblade works well for Ezreal because it stacks up like his passive and makes him attack really fast, especially in team fights. With the Lantern Early, I have had quite a bit of success soloing mid by doing as much harassment as possible with Q and making their mid spend either more money buying pots or recalling and losing farming time. The life steal and constant instant minion kills makes it so your life steal is actually pretty reliable for staying in lane. And with the Lantern's wards you can mark the river and make sure no one is trying to gank and during the late game you can continually ward baron's cove to make sure no one on their team is trying to get him. Does this build sound like it can work against higher level players at all or is Ezreal really not good enough to use past random normal games? | ||
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GnaR
United States73 Posts
However I will say I see a lot of people build lantern and then never get the buffs. Latern's passive lets you farm buffs so easy so much earlier that if you're not abusing those buffs, I might go another route. | ||
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Mogwai
United States13274 Posts
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Virtue
United States318 Posts
And why is Trinity Force a poor follow up. I guess I can see IE being better because Ezreal needs high AD, but Trinity Force gives you the benefit of Sheen which can be really effective with Mystic Shot. I've only played LoL for a week or two, so I am really clueless on most of the item combo's. I just steal builds of Mobafire. >.< | ||
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Mogwai
United States13274 Posts
I'll let someone else explain why trinity is a poor follow up as I'm at work and don't really have the time to explain it. | ||
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GnaR
United States73 Posts
On December 03 2010 04:39 Virtue wrote: I just steal builds of Mobafire. >.< I'm sorry to hear that.  Use this forum's builds along with the wiki, or ask LiquidParty. Mobafire and Leaguecraft are bad. | ||
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ArC_man
United States2798 Posts
I don't like Lantern on him either... with that money you could already have a Brutalizer + ward(s) (if you're really getting Lantern for the wards) or more Dorans (and red pot if you need that early game boost). AD Ezreal is about dominating early/mid game with ganks and snowballing that advantage into lategame. With that type of playstyle in mind, I think Ez should focus on getting cost-effective items like Doran's blades and strong but cheap mid tier items like Brutalizer so he can begin ganking with red buff as early as he can (unless your farm is ridiculous and you can grab a BF sword your first trip back). Trinity isn't a good item because it's very very expensive, gives a lot of spread out stats that doesn't make Ezreal a whole lot stronger overall, and only adds base damage with the proc. Ezreal's base damage and growth is one of the lowest in the game. I think Ez's base damage is currently the lowest in the game at level 18. His base damage is 45 +2.6 per level, which is significantly lower than all the ranged carries and even lower than support/casters heros like Janna/Sona/Soraka/Heimer/Karthas/etc. To really get the most out of Q, you need to stack pure damage (eg. Bloodthirsters) and whore the red buff. This is just my playstyle though, a lot of people like building Sheen for the mana boost early on (which obviously builds into Trinity later) but I almost never build Sheen. Edit: I looked it up in game and Ez's base damage is actually 48, so maybe he's not the absolute lowest base damage. | ||
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Virtue
United States318 Posts
Thanks for the detailed post. Maybe I just wasn't playing Ez well when I started, but I did try a build that sounds very similar to what you said. At least, I remember it was Brutalizer into GB + another Brutalizer. I've been mostly relying on attack speed late game, using the Rageblade, as I said before, while trying to pick up AD items along the way. And when I got the lantern I actually just used the wards as an added bonus to getting the instant minion killing, life stealing item. Do you think it is beneficial to get multiple Doran's early on so you can go gank to get enough money for a Bloodthirster after gaining a few levels. And when can you grab red buff as Ezreal normally? | ||
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cascades
Singapore6122 Posts
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Mogwai
United States13274 Posts
On December 03 2010 06:02 Virtue wrote: That all makes sense! Thanks for the detailed post. Maybe I just wasn't playing Ez well when I started, but I did try a build that sounds very similar to what you said. At least, I remember it was Brutalizer into GB + another Brutalizer. I've been mostly relying on attack speed late game, using the Rageblade, as I said before, while trying to pick up AD items along the way. And when I got the lantern I actually just used the wards as an added bonus to getting the instant minion killing, life stealing item. Do you think it is beneficial to get multiple Doran's early on so you can go gank to get enough money for a Bloodthirster after gaining a few levels. And when can you grab red buff as Ezreal normally? eh, no need for Ghostblade into second Bruta IMO. The whole point of the bruta + Sheen opening was to give you really fast burst capability for ganking with red-buff to rush a bloodthirster. There's still a lot to be said for this, but I wouldn't go ghostblade until I ran out of item slots on Ez tbh. the EZ-mode way to play ranged carries right now is 2-3 doran's blades + boots -> zerker's greaves -> IE -> Last Whisper, and I would just stick to that unless you're deadset on the earlier ganking, in which case I'd use the old sheen + bruta build as a starting point and adjust it as necessary from your experiences (the build was d-blade -> boots -> brutalizer -> sheen -> boots of swiftness -> BF Sword -> Bloodthirster and you focused on ganking with either the 2nd or 3rd red buff depending on how well your jungler could do with it (for instance, you'd take 2nd red buff from an amumu, but let a WW get the 2nd before you started hogging it at the 3rd spawn). | ||
NeoIllusions
United States37500 Posts
Regardless of the nerf, Ez is still best played as a DPS ranged carry. He isn't like Ashe or Trist where you auto too much. You still Q the most and E around for mobility. Barring your limited amount of auto attacks, cause let's face it, Ez is still a poker, getting purely AD is best. Brutalizer and Sheen are just gimmicky. I don't like Brutalizer or GB on ranged carries. It's ok but there are better items for your DPS carry. | ||
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Mogwai
United States13274 Posts
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NeoIllusions
United States37500 Posts
I'm not a fan of IE on Ez, especially not on MF. The more ghey kite play style you have, the less you really need that Crit dmg/Crit chance. Put everything into AD for your Q pokes. | ||
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