Talk:Ezreal/@comment-74.93.5.162-20110803025146/@comment-2124153-20110803210209

People in glass houses, should not throw stones. Playing the victim foreigner doesn't work, when you're the one who made a stink about the word choice in the first place. BV is "generic" in the sense that it is general, a broadly useful defense item, whatever the specific thing is that you need to protect against.

Regarding your pockets of endless money, 50 minions is a whole hell of a lot. Can you perfectly last-hit eight consecutive waves of minions, which would take four minutes for one lane to spawn? Can you kill Dragon seven times in a row for yourself? Would you maybe like to skip the whole "buying a Phage" part of putting together your Trinity Force? Maybe you'd like to have an Elixir of Fortitude buff for 20 minutes in a row? Because that's what 1300g is, and that's the edge that someone has over you when they go Negatron -> QSS instead of Negatron -> Catalyst -> Banshee's.

QSS isn't a "special case", unless you think that fighting a team with carry-melting crowd control is a weird event, in which case I'd like to trade accounts with you so that can win 90% of my games against crap teams. There are about a eleventy-bajillion negative status effects that will ruin Ezreal's day, and QSS gets rid of almost every effing one of them. Stuns, silences, binds, fears, taunts, suppress, hell it even cancels Destiny and Paranoia (pro-tip: Nocturne eats carries that built BV alive, since it will never protect them from the fear follow-up).

There are so many situations where QSS is useful, that it's almost criminal not to mention it in a discussion of useful defensive items. Especially because you get to pocket almost 1300g over a BV, to put towards something else. BV is pretty nice, sure, and it's also a dummy item that's a pretty safe pick even when it's not really ideal, but when Fiddles Crowstorms out of a bush and dumps fear/silence on me, I know which item I want in my inventory, thanks.