Talk:Ezreal/@comment-3238314-20110909141444/@comment-2124153-20110909203318

"Except" nothing. Never mind that Sona can't use Diminuendo at level 1 unless she starts with W (dubious), and that it's mutually exclusive with her other power chords, and that she needs to get within 550 autoattack range to do it (good luck with that in mid-lategame, squishy support champ), the point is that your proposed upgrade to W is so ridiculously powerful from a support standpoint that Sona would probably trade you her Q for it, straight-up. When you have an R-DPS putting their finger on the scale like that, you have yourself a problem.

I DID attack the concept, you ninny. Not only did I say that Ezreal has no business buffing his allies like that (heal was removed for a reason! the AS buff/debuff was make additive for a reason!), but also that debuffing burst mage damage output goes completely against the idea of countering ranged carries in the first place. Essence Flux outranges almost everything that mages can throw at him, and even a 3-second duration is hilariously good because of mage CDs. This has nothing to do with your chosen base values. If they are insigificant, there is no problem, because there is no buff either.

Here's an example of an idea for W that's not insane: as I said above, make it interact with minions while keeping the pass-through effect. Now, Ezreal has a reason to take it early, because it gives him pushing power and an easy way to get max stacks of Rising Spell Force for himself. It also makes AP Ezreals more viable, because now they have an excellent skill for farming. See: Boomerang Blade.

Maybe it's not a great idea, but at least it's not patently ludicrous on its face.