Talk:Ezreal/@comment-10880231-20140711122837/@comment-5955640-20140711190426

The credentials for being a support is that you are either able to lend utility, Crowd control, or sustain.

Ezreal at best offers affordable harass with AS boosts. But it's pitiful on both accounts.

In it's favor Ezreal's Essence Flux has the shortest cooldown out of the other two AS buffers Nidalee and Nunu. They however have much stronger scalings. Nidalee's is the strongest giving 60% attack speed at max rank and healing the target as well.

Nunu however has the longest duration and the buff is shared and gives movement speed as well.

On non support champs Essence Flux isn't that great either. Warwick's Hunter's Call gives around the same AS but in an AOE to all allied champs.

It does beat Ardent Censer but any support that can apply Ardent Censer on a target beats Ezreal's utility anyways.

The poke is cheap but normal Ezreal has very little damage so how do you even build to make the Q and R relevant? It's single target and linear as well so a lot of people can see a Q coming and current popular support Braum would block it and initate on you.

Think about what makes Ashe a viable support. It's not just the easy Q's or the fact that staving off from hitting a target actually promotes a better poke damage or that she has the safest auto attack poke a support can have next to Annie. It's the vision and the global skillshot stun.

Getting a CDR build you suddenly start getting a lot of milage out of Hawkshot and you can see many areas that aren't warded and post laning phase you can make plays by hawkshotting key points of ambush or where the enemy is getting buffs for an upcoming duel or just split pushing a lane. Then there's the ult. Stun someone right in the face or hit them from across the map. If you can land Ez's ult you'd make a lot more plays with Ashe's ult.

Nothing is impossible. It's just not very useful or likely.