Talk:Ezreal/@comment-71.57.122.150-20130313043516/@comment-174.89.161.207-20130314024202

@Lazmen

Mystic shot has a 4 sec CD and most AD Ezreals won't be gearing for CDR. Arcane shift can only have its CD reduced by mystic shot when you actually use arcane shift and thereby actually have it on CD. So you can either jump into or reposition during a teamfight using arcane shift (11 sec CD starts) then fire off one mystic shot (and wait 4 seconds), fire another mystic shot (and wait 4 seconds) at which point your arcane shift will be off CD before your next mystic shot. That's 2 mystic shots or 2 seconds of CDR making Arcane Shift 9 second CD. The only way you can get Arcane Shift to 6 seconds is with CDR items/runes at which point you're sacrificing late game damage.

Again, the main point being is that other champs have pseudo "flashes" and gap closers too (Cait's net, Jax's 6 sec leap, Corki's escape, etc). Ezreal's is slightly better than most (doesn't need a target, CD can be lowered, can jump small walls) but it was never the game breaker.

It was the attack speed DEBUFF that made Ezreal the best. Having one of the slowest attack speeds, lowest health, lowest movement speeds, and least AoE with his skills out of all the other ADCs the one thing he did have potential to duel and kite but now it's just kiting which a lot of other ADCs can also excel at.