Talk:Ezreal/@comment-80.15.143.26-20120815152336/@comment-75.70.74.215-20120816093819

At lvl 1, before calculating runes, it is 85 base damage at rank 1. It's on a 6 second cd at base rank, and 4 seconds at max rank, vs a static 9 second cd on his w. Its longer ranged and a faster move speed than w, and thus harder to dodge when you soften the target. It actually scales as you purchase the items an AD would get. Frequent use of it increases the availabilty of your other skills, most importantly your ult. This is sort of a big deal since it allows you to become super aggressive more frequently, or not needing it for your own lane, use it to score kills and assists in other lanes to compliment your farm and build on your teams overall advantage. Having that 4 second cooldown as soon as you get triforce is also a pretty big deal... and because that 4 second cooldown scales on AD, vs W's 9 seconds that scales off AP, which AD Ez will have none of, Q makes up for its low base damage pretty fast.