Talk:Ezreal/@comment-4262617-20141216095416/@comment-25754362-20150121214910

Even with those drawbacks, AP Ezreal is so much fun.

I tried a kind of weird idea by building AP Ezreal with a Statik Shiv along with Lich Bane and a Tear(to turn eventually into staff) in no particular order other than necessity just to solve that wave clear problem, figuring that because Shiv is just attackspeed/a bit of crit/the ability and no attack power it wouldn't really hurt an AP build much, and although I only tried it in some co-op matches and a funsie match recently it at least in concept seems pretty alright since his W applies Shiv's passive nice and safely.

Personally I think the fact his W Doesn't hit minions but just champions is actually pretty helpful. Maybe not as a bottom lane, but as a mid lane champ it seems to make him quite the lane bully on top of safe minion clear. You could even hypothetically put Runaan's on him with Shiv and everything else AP to get that neutral 100 magic AOE as quickly as possible with that insanely high AP burst and super low cooldown ult.

It is susceptible to assassins (though I tried this really funny Righteous Glory/Archangel/Rylai's thing and played as annoying max range as possible) but you know, a lot of things are susceptible to assassins if they can gap close successfully. lol All I know is by even the upper mid point of a match that assassin better kill you fast because AP Ez's burst is absurd.

He's still situational, but I do regret not trying AP Ez earlier it's so much more fun than his ADC form to me.