Talk:Ezreal/@comment-151.166.15.114-20110805175306/@comment-2124153-20110808180301

What point was there to miss? Not only did you say "alot", which is not even "aword" to begin with, but you said the damage falls off "fast" without specifying what you were even talking about in terms of magnitude. I asked a legitimate question.

Annie at level 4 and no runes/masteries/items has 20.5 Armor. Ezreal with a typical Offensive setup will deal true damage with penetration marks and masteries, or about 83% with only penetration from masteries. The AD Marks would break-even at about 53 AD or so, which is Ezreal obviously already has with room to spare, so penetration is technically better in this scenario. Is it a lot? Not yet.

But that's not the end of the story, is it? No, because AD is better earlygame when the penetration is overkill (penetration cannot push Armor negative), against both opposing champions as well as minions. As a special bonus, it also adds a bit more damage to Trueshot Barrage, which is not altered by armor pen in the least.

Ezreal's selling point is his commanding earlygame power, so I'd tend to support builds that leverage that. Nothing wrong with armor pen Marks, they obviously help Ezreal especially in lategame, but losing the AD in the laning phase hurts, and makes you prone to picking dumb items like Doran's to make up the difference.