Talk:Ezreal/@comment-8121733-20160115205358/@comment-1920550-20160124203343

There is a crucial difference between having poke elements in a champion kit and having that kit be defined as a poke-based kit. In lane, yes Lucian is meant to use his Q as a poke tool through the minions. In teamfights that task is carried by his ultimate. Poke elements. However his major offensive power comes from his passive, which requires him to enter into 500 range of a target, which in teamfights in the lategame stages signifies certain death if not executed right. Lucian does have poke elements, but his major theme is being a high mobility hybrid (mixing spells and AA's) ADC.

Corki also has poke elements, perhaps even stronger than Lucian. However outside of the Big One, his Q-R burst isn't significant enough to chunk squishy targets out of a fight in one rotation, not to mention the delay of his Q, hence why you lace your spells with Trinity Force empowered autos. Especially now that his passive converts half his AA damage into magic damage and that he has The Package, which gives him insane range and damage as an engager in skirmishes and as a follow-up damage dealer to hard engage champions, but he still has to get into AA range to deal that damage.

Also, yes i am aware of Essence Flux's unique interaction. However blowing 2 spells, with one of them being your escape tool for a 40% attack speed buff is crap in every sense of the word. The set-up to pay off ratio is crap. Sure you can use it to give your allies some more attack speed, but that is a sub-optimal situation aswell. If you are playing Ezreal as an ADC, you are a poke/caster-based ADC, not an auto-attacker like say Jinx, Ashe, Vayne or Twitch, so the buff is wasted since your mid laner (or top if you have a carry toplaner) will also not be an auto-attack based champion. If you are playing Ezreal mid, you're going for a double ADC comp, which in theory would support your claim for Essence Flux's utility. Except Ezreal mid is always paired with another caster based ADC, typically Corki/Lucian because their powerspikes generally align at 1-2 items, especially this season with Essence Reaver being a core item on casters, meaning you have 2 damage threats online at the 20-25 minute mark and don't benefit all that much from raw attack speed, the way a hypercarry would (most casters build RFC, the lowest attack speed item on the game and CDR boots).

So in conclusion, with it's utility being very situational, it's offensive power being sub-par at best and offering no waveclear power to give Ezreal some fallback pattern in case he gets behind, Essence Flux is simply a crappy spell.