Talk:Iceborn Gauntlet/@comment-4652200-20121211211204/@comment-74.120.190.101-20121219115834

^^^ Are you kidding? ^^^

"gives almost no damage" Only in the sense that it gives no AD is this true. All you have to do is think a little and it's clear this item gives lots of damage to Ezreal.

First, the passive makes your Mystic Shot an AoE! This alone effectively doubles / triples / quadruples / quintuples the damage of your Mystic Shot depending on the situation. That is hardly "almost no damage."

Furthermore, 15% cooldown reduction is nothing to sneeze at, since it makes the Mystic Shot all the more spammable, effectively increasing the DPS of your Mystic Shot.

And besides an increase in DPS, 15% CDR aids every one of Ezreals abilities which are all CDR-based. And as if building CDR on Ezreal was ever a concern with the subsequent increase in mana usage, not a problem! Iceborn Gauntlet gives 500 mana to make up for the extra ability-spamming!

"little survivability" Surely you troll. 1) 15% CDR adds to Ezreals survivability in decreasing his Arcane Shift cooldown. 2) 60 armor obviously adds to survivability, being the 4th highest armor of any item in the game, and the absolute highest on an item with any obvious offensive stats / passives. 3) A passive which makes Ezreal's Mystic Shot an AoE slow obviously adds survivability. And not only to himself but to his entire team. Kiting is survivability.

Not to mention, the 15% CDR alone brings Ezreal's Mystic Shot to 3.6 cooldown, or 2.6 cooldown after landing your Mystic Shot. Iceborn Gauntlet's slow duration? 3 seconds. So yeah, provided you land your Mystic Shots successively, that's a perma-slow.

As for Frozen Mallet, you're right that its 30 AD would scale with AS and Crit, but those aren't even Ezreals primary stats. Ezreals primary stat is simply AD, and Iceborn Gauntlet's passive will massively scale with AD, even though it itself does not offer any AD. Frozen Mallet is not only a single-target slow, but it is half the duration (1.5 sec VS 3 sec) and 5% less effective (30% VS 35%). Iceborn is better than Frozen Mallet. Don't bring that crap in here.

Trinity Force vs Iceborn Gauntlet? That's a more reasonable debate. I think there is no absolute answer for this one, but that the needs of a particular game should dictate this decision.

Either trolling or didn't think this one out.