Talk:Ezreal/@comment-84.60.107.53-20120828134544/@comment-69.106.136.69-20120830073435

Anyone can lane against ezreal it's just the matter of if you should be trying to kill him or should you be trying to farm against him. Sure ezreal has strong single burst target damage early and mid game, but his only source of utility is his attk speed slow which isn't gonna  help in teamfights. Kog has extreme range and damage mid to late, vayne is insane damage early and a knockback/stun, ashe has her slows and an aoe slow with a single target stun, etc etc. Most people have a tendency to be aggressive towards him during the laning phase and that is usually a mistake, playing passive and capitalizing on his mistakes or capitalizing on jungle ganks are much smarter decisions.

In lower elos this concept works well:

burst beats sustain, sustain beats poke, and poke beats burst

The reason being is that one side can be consistently aggressive against the other while staying in an advantageous position, but obviously this isn't completely true however since most people tend to emphasize the laning phase and try to be aggressive in it, this concept works on the majority of league players