Talk:Ezreal/@comment-4530717-20121018155121/@comment-4929329-20121018222544

You're seriously calling Riot stupid? I think you Roget not only how hard it is to manage a game, but also that you overlook Ezreal's strengths in favor of his "inability to carry".

Ezreal never has to carry if his W hits your carry and his AoE/poke shreds your team's HP. A great example of not fitting in but functioning perfectly is Renekton. His CDs are massive, his cast times and animations are abnormally large, he must build up Fury to trade effectively (hard to do without pushing), is completely melee, and has neither a reliable steroid nor tankiness aside from the active on his ult, which is worse than 20 armor and magic resist during late game, where most bruisers have 3.5k HP. Yet we saw him get a pentakill and also beat Irelia in another instance. Bruisers usually don't shred entire teams, but Renekton CAN, so he is considered balanced even with his otherwise bad kit.

Ezreal doesn't hunt enemies down and own them like Vayne does, so you say he is balanced. That is like saying old Xin was balanced because he couldn't escape. In truth, Ezreal deals a whole lot of damage, but his kit forces him to stay back often, so you seem him playing safely and assume he is incapable of killing champions or something.