Talk:Ezreal/@comment-92.250.91.235-20120621134141/@comment-5151680-20120623045359

''AP Ezreal is very very poor for most teams because he blooms later than most, if not all, mages due to his total dependency on very expensive items, starting with Lich Bane. ''

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''He isn't technically "useless", there exist good teams for him, but they are defintily the exception, not the rule. As a Mage wannabe, he is an awful choice in the current metagame. ''

Mostly true, except the part about being an awful choice in the metagame. He is a sub-par choice in the meta game, but not aweful by any means.

''Mages may buy expensive items, but most mages have alternate paths they can take through less expensive items that lets them adapt to what they need. They scale up better. AP Ezreal is very predictable and very easy to counter once you know that he's basically slaved to rushing Lich Bane pronto, or he risks losing out on his strong midgame. ''

Rushing lichbane on Ezreal is how you fail. He needs AP before he builds this. A sheen is enough for the early/early-mid game, and building a lichbane when you have 200+ AP on him secures his lategame damage.

Complicating matters, is that he shuts down around the same time as other Mages unless overfed so his window of peak effectiveness is more narrow than most mages''. ''

Completely incorrect. Once with a lichbane and some good AP, he is one of the best champions in the game at poking. Also, his R+W give him one of the best team fight damage outputs in the game as far as AP carries go, and his E allows him to position and shut down the enemy AD carry while staying out of harms way. On another note, an AP ezreal with red buff is among the best kiters in the game, although giving red buff to an AP ezreal is generally unwise unless he is fed.

Sure, massive late-game Lich Bane procs look impressive on paper, but you could say the same thing of Mordekaiser, who is in a similar position as AP Ezreal, only he has his shield of doom which greatly amplifies the number of teams he fits into, simply because he will be able to zone without needing some incredible skill with skillshots.

Mordekaiser is melee, has no innate blink and no abilities over 850 range. Ezreal has 3.