Talk:Ezreal/@comment-46.50.126.184-20121004001706

Why I don't max W in lane first:

1. First levels of laning phase aren't about dueling, they are about harrassing: Never you will see a lvl3 carry duel other in lane. Usually it goes like this - Poke, counter poke, more poke, support uses CC, takes a bit of health, repeat - or - farm, poke, farm, farm, poke, wait for gank, use everything - a carry rarely responds directly to a poke, because a good support would use this chance to CC the carry, allowing for more damage to ensure. Not only that, but even if they don't CC, a smart carry will simply draw back until he has a chance of having a upper hand. The debuff is wasted.

2.It doesn't really scale with anything: Unless you rush Trinity on Ezreal (and that's only if you are so ahead of your enemies in terms of kills even a Nashor's Tooth could win you the game), you won't have more damage than the base. That means 250 versus 115 (+ 1.0 AD). At level 8-9, this means AD wise you'll have 100/120, meaning 235 vs 250. So Essence Flux wins, right? Wrong. All enemies start with 30 magic resistance, while armor they start low (9-13). They only really start to catch up at level 7-8, meaning Mystic Shot has the advantage. Also, it can stay ahead damage wise much longer because it actually benefits from ArPen runes.

3. W is very expensive, while Q is cheap: A spammable AD damage which refreshes my escape tool and my sniping/farming ulti that allows me to have global presence and actually scales, OR an expensive, unscaling tool in which half of it goes to waste if maxed early?

4. Q falls of late game: Q's advantage is being that early level damaging tool, being Ezreal's main source of damage in a duel. It barely interrupts AA's, it deals a good portion of damage, and it allows him to farm from afar while low on health. Yet the fact it doesn't scale with critical strike means it will fall off once you get IE + Zeal. It will only serve as a pre-teamfight scraping shot, while W will actually be useful.

My point being: Ezreal shouldn't max his mid-late game tool earlier and his early game dominance spell later.