Talk:Ezreal/@comment-5494818-20140514132015/@comment-5955640-20140514154351

I've been having that problem with him too. His damage falling off. I tried just having a mage rune page but a hybrid mastery build. The part that bothered me the most was that I didn't do decent damage despite having mostly hybrid ratios. Like I'll have Hybrid Pen on Corki and Lucian and i'll still do damage because the armor pen is usually around 11 to 12.6%. Ezreal just has magic damage output on everything but the Q so you have to cast spells to get his attack speed up and your not doing any damage because you are building AD and you run out of mana and your spells go on cooldown even though you are trying to pump it out. And then the jukes (can't do nothing about the jukes, you just sort of have to rush people to win a fight you can't win straight up against someone like Vayne).

So I just went with CDR rune page with magic pen and scaling and flat AP with some mana regen for good measure. The mastery page brought some more stuff to supplement the complete lack of AD and AS.

Turned out fine. My data was a bit skewed as I was facing a Nautilus support and a ADC Thresh. I had a Thresh for a support. Still weak in early game but once I get a scepter and some greaves it comes around. Had to buy a cleaver for the CDR and armor pen and a Sheen but it felt nice to deal decent damage to enemy champs with my ult (which has a magic output despite scaling better with AD!).

The game didn't go really late because the enemy team was just falling apart. I harassed them out of lane most of the time and they only won an engage where they managed to get me and my support. I was usually too far away to grab, exploiting my Q distance. If they weren't so tanky early I probably could have killed them as I chained my spells dealing more than half their health.

I should probably go into Team Builder and do more work looking at how effective this is but I feel pretty confident on the grounds that I've done all AD but had no AS or casting damage. Went Full AS and had no damage or casting damage. Went hybrid and had fully balanced ratios but no damage.

I remember when it was harder to play Sivir than Ezreal...