Talk:Ezreal/@comment-4030326-20110809014437/@comment-2124153-20110810151536

^ So what's the alternative? Instead of sometimes having a poor match-up and/or having to lane swap with someone, you'd prefer to always bring a mediocre starter? You don't even want to *try* to force an advantage in your lane? Do you even want to win?

To your example, while Cloth + 5 pots isn't ideal vs. Annie, I'd rather have that than Doran's against her. Armor doesn't help against her spells, but it does help mitigate the advantage that mages have over R-DPS champions in the lane (spells don't draw aggro but MS does, so you'll be taking minion hits). You have 5 potions, which, unless Annie took Cloth + 5 herself, gives you a sustain edge. You are only 700g away from Razors, which gives you the option of pushing harder than Annie and forcing her to burn cooldowns on minion waves, etc. Or you could pivot to anti-mage on your first B, after harassing as much as possible, before she gets to Stun + Tibbers, it's not like Cloth Armor prevents this.

By the way, in a game I played last night, an Irelia on the other team did just this, deliberately counter-iteming our Annie by going Null-Magic Mantle + 2 pots and rushing a Wit's End. I ended up having to take over the lane myself, because she couldn't deal with it.