[2.3] EZREAL GUIDE
EZREAL GUIDE
Pros
- Ezreal right now is one of the most powerful ADCs and a very good blind pick if you don't know enemy ADC.
- His 3rd skill, Arcane Shift, is one of the most powerful blink abilities in the entire game, and thanks to that, Ezreal is able to reposition himself during fights, or to avoid enemy cc.
- He's one of the most oppressive ADCs in laning phase due to his infinite poke potential.
Cons
- Ezreal doesn't have much waveclear and suffers a lot from it, more than other ADCs, if enemy team has the Baron's Hand buff.
- He has to continuously manage his cooldowns in order to deal damage and staying in a good position to do that.
- He's particularly weak against "tanky" compositions.
Ezreal Build
Best Build Guide for Ezreal
Item Build Description
Additional information on the items
Thanks to the item change, Sapphire Crystal is now the best starting item for Ezreal , being capable now to stack mana from the very first seconds.
For the first recall, you can buy Tear of the Goddess and a Sheen to power up your autoattacks after you use Mystic Shot or any other ability. If you have against you Dr. Mundo or enchanters in your lane like Lulu , Soraka , Nami (and similar), you can buy Executioner's Calling instead. Doing that, you will slow down a bit your build but that item can give you that Grievous Wounds necessary to kill a target with your team.
Manamune (transformed in Muramana at 700 stacks) and Trinity Force are the core items for Ezreal, giving him a huge powerspike when these 2 items are bought. I personally suggest rushing Trinity Force after you bought Tear of the Goddess . Thanks to this, you can continue stacking your mana having your attacks powered up by Trinity Force.
As boots, I suggest Ionian Boots of Lucidity to further spam your skills and having back your summoner spells in less time, and you can evolve them in [stasis enchant] or Quicksilver Enchant depending on cases.
To enhance Ezreal 's survivability, you can buy Guardian Angel as your 3rd item. It'll permit you to revive if you get killed, gives you some armor and some AD.
Last two items are kinda situational, you can buy them in order of what you need. Mortal Reminder is useful if you have to negate sustain from enchanters, lifesteal or self-sustain (like Dr. Mundo or Gragas ). If you don't need Grievous Wounds, you can buy Maw of Malmortius if enemy composition has a lot of AP champions to deal with, [death dance] if you want sustain, ability haste and damage mitigation or perhaps a Blade of the Ruined King if you want to deal more easily with enemy tanks, thanks to item's passive.
Ezreal Runes
Best Runes for Ezreal
This is the rune set I personally use. Conqueror is right now the best main rune on Ezreal ; Champion rune can be risky but if you don't die, your damage will be really high even with only Muramana and Trinity Force ; considering that the support is always with you, Loyalty can be good to give both armor and MR to you and your support, and in teamfights, your closest ally. Sweet Tooth is useful to heal both in laning phase for the extra gold and the extra healing even in the late game.
Skill Order
How to distribute skill points
Summoner Spells
When to take which summoners
Combos
Learn how to maximize the champions potential
This is the basic combo that deals the maximum damage on Ezreal. Make sure to hit Essence Flux and Mystic Shot on enemy marksman or mage to do a lot of damage on them, and later make them recall or execute them with Trueshot Barrage . In both cases, they'll lose resources overall, and you'll gain advantage on that.
This is another basic combo you can do starting from level 3. This can be a very aggressive move to do but this combo has a 100% hit rate thanks to Arcane Shift 's passive. I don't suggest it if Ashe is against you.
That's a bit harder combo to do, but if you have a good aim, that's gonna work for sure in your favour. Basically after the Essence Flux - Arcane Shift combo, you try to land a Mystic Shot to further damage your opponent.
If you hit all this, it can be a 100-0 combo. Ezreal's skillshots deals a lot of damage, and at level 5 Trueshot Barrage is one of the most powerful ults in the game.
Ezreal Matchups & Counters
Detailed information on how to play matchups and counters
Having more range and burst potential than Jinx ,Ezreal is a very good choice against her, expecially in laning phase. Try to poke her with everything you got, and don't let her snowball or she'll oneshot you in late game, even without Get Excited! .
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