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Champion Spotlight[]
Recommended Items[]
Tips[]
- Playing As
- Use to help line up your other skill shots.
- You can play Ezreal either as Attack Damage carry or Ability Power carry depending on how you build him.
- You can line up to hit multiple minion waves or even Monsters.
- Playing Against
- Ezreal is a very fragile champion so take the fight to him.
- Ezreal is completely skill shot based, so make sure to keep minions in between you.
- applies on-hit effects including the .
Tricks[]
- Ability Usage
- To farm or take objectives faster, use your
- (Note: this no longer applies since the rework changed to instead detonate for extra damage if attacked again by ) It will be extra beneficial to hit allies with as well in the process, as it will not only grant them bonus attack speed as well but also boost your own even more due to .
and then right into it for an attack speed buff.
- Use your to acquire hard to reach farm or to harass your lane opponent. Due to its versatility, it is usually taken first for both AP and AD and then maxed first for AD .
- Hold on to your
- Although deals decent damage, it shouldn't be used to do so as it is only form of mobility. The projectile from the ability is also rather unreliable since it does not prioritise enemy champions.
to dodge crucial enemy skillshots.
- Use to push waves in your favor. It can also be used similar to for scouting, especially when you have high CDR.
- Do not forget to auto attack in between . This significantly increases your DPS, especially with a fully stacked ( ).
- Landing is extremely crucial as it reduces all of cooldowns thus allowing him to kite with and clear waves faster or snipe targets with along with just generally increasing his DPS.
- For AD
- For AP , is your main source of damage due to its high AP scaling and added bonus passing through all units that it hits.
, is rather weak since it does not scale with AD. However, it can still be used for an extra proc or simply to give your team, and by extension yourself, extra attack speed.
- Rune Usage
- Use your long range poke to poke out enemy champions, and gain free
- Sell unwanted consumables in the shop for a bit of extra gold.
consumables.
immediately procs because it applies on-hit.
- Use your long range poke to poke out enemy champions, and gain free
utilizes better than any other champion in the game except for .
- Take
- combined with allows you to purchase your core items much quicker than usual.
because is item-reliant. It allows you to get into debt (negative gold) to purchase items quicker than usual.
- gives free CDR and increases the CDR cap to 45%. It also reduces summoner spell and item active cooldowns by 5%.
- You can also swap out
- increases the duration of your potions and consumables by 20% and grants 5% movement speed throughout the duration.
for .
- You almost always want to take Sorcery secondary because it offers two great runes that benefit well.
- The mana increase also synergizes with / passive as these two items grant bonus AD equal to 2% of your maximum mana pool.
increases your permanent mana pool up to 250 mana.
- This rune works perfectly with the other CDR you get from items and/or runes.
gives free 10% CDR at level 10. You gain either 2 Ability Power or 1.2 bonus Attack Damage (Adaptive) for every 1% CDR in excess of the cap.
- If you feel like the game will go long, you can always consider as it gives extra AD or AP every 10 minutes throughout the entire game.
- Another rune even though it's not great nowadays is
- It is not that great because most players are taking defensive rune setups and defensive items, thus lowering damage output.
. It gives added burn damage to your poke.
- Item Usage
- You always want to get as quick as possible and start stacking the item. The more you delay buying this item, the longer it takes for you to come online and start dealing damage.
- Ezreal has one of the best two item powerspike in the entire game. That consists of building a
- These two items provide everything that
- These two items grant bonus AD equal to 2% of his maximum mana pool.
/ gives all the mana he needs to constantly output damage.
- All the
- gives AD and Health. The Rage passive from this item works with for bonus movement speed even though the bonuses are halved for ranged champions.
- bonus damage works with your automatically. It also gives you extra valuable mana.
- gives excellent attack speed which combined with + into the projectile gives you another source of DPS. also gives CDR.
components give a mix of great stats that benefit . will amplify the stats that the individual components provide.
needs.
transformed into a and .
- These two items provide everything that
- The item active helps to slow down enemies in order to land his skillshots more easily.
is a good DPS item as it grants bonus attack damage, attack speed and bonus on-hit damage with a scale of enemy’s current health that helps take out units with high maximum health more quickly.
- and provide with lifesteal that allows him to survives better and regains health after skirmishes and fights.
- This item also gives CDR, which is one of preferred stats.
- Essence Flare is useful for to refreshes and more quickly.
dramatically increases damage output with bonus attack damage and bonus mana that scales with on-hit damage.
- Buying
- More importantly, since Awe from and does stack with each other, this is an unexpectedly good combo for a hybrid build.
after completing three or four items and later upgrading it into is considered a good idea because it gives a huge amount of mana and ability power, which all of abilities scale with.
- Countering
- has a moderately long cooldown, use this period to your advantage.
- Due to and being single target and being able to only hit champions, has very poor waveclear.
- Avoid if he builds and , as a single shot from with the above items can deal massive damage if you do not have sufficient armor.