Talk:Ezreal/@comment-3471264-20110716215943/@comment-2124153-20110719165938

"I merely responded to this part"

... while ignoring the immediate follow-up, which was to point out the the end result was that of limiting W's potential. Clearly, too subtle of a point.

It's nice that I can hit Anivia with a W to make her incredibly powerful AP-fueled tower autoattack hit 30% faster at level 18, for five seconds. But really I just shot her with it because I hit way harder than she does, and I wanted a stack for Rising Spell Force. Don't tell her, though, her feelings are delicate.

Ashe loses damage to Ezreal flat-out, no matter how you slice it. It's a simple matter of math: while Ashe does slightly less base damage, and attacks slightly faster, she's blown away by the combination of his passive and skills. Rising Spell Force basically allows Ezreal to ignore an entire AS item in his build. ECA's damage is completely obliterated by Trueshot Barrage: base damage, ratios, AOE, everything. Volley is nice, but Hawkshot and Frost Shot do zero damage, and Ezreal's answer is all of the damage from Mystic Shot, Arcane Shift, and Essence Flux. Note that Essence Flux does more magical damage to one target than Volley does physical, even if Ashe had 190 bonus AD and Ezreal had zero AP, and Essence does pass-through that can't be body-blocked.

It's not even a contest. Note that this doesn't make Ashe bad: she gets picked for her utility, not her damage output. The fact that she plays second fiddle for damage to the likes of Ezreal or Corki or w/e, is the price for getting the best/safest initiation mode in the game, amongst other things. Oh, Ezreal is better at farming, too, so he might have better gear.

My point, is that Ezreal has a lot of damage, he's highly mobile, his earlygame is punishing to enemies when you compare him to some other carries, and he farms well to boot. This is what makes him a good pick: for when you need those things. I am fine with him as-is, and would rather not have him made overpowered.

By the way: if Ezreal is duo-laning with someone who takes farm, he's clearly not expected to carry, and if he is, your team is brain-damaged for not giving him a babysitter. Ezreal in a duo lane means that you have two solo lanes free. Let those people carry.