User blog:Rapacious/Giveaway contest entry.

My first meeting with Ezreal
While the title is cheezy, I like cheeze. I guess you could call Ezreal my favourite champ in all of the game.

Why is that?

I first found out about Ezreal while trying hard to determine who my first champ would be. Most of you might not remember this moment, especially really old players, but it feels clear as daylight for me. When I read his lore for the first time, I felt like I found a small piece of myself. Born with great potential, but choosing to waste it to follow a silly passion, and in the end finding with that passion something that drew out that potential. Also, at that point the fact that all his skills did damage was incredibly alluring. Basically, all his skills screamed "OMG COOL!".

The plot thickens!
I think that readers so far might have thought that taking those facts into consideration, I instantly built up to him and bought him.

Well, you're not really far off, but no... I unlocked Vladimir. He came out the weekend I had enough points, and i was drew in by the blood manipulation theme. Cheap. I know.

The life and Death of Ezreal
I still wanted to play Ezreal badly, but watching him get nerfed each week in patch notes got me more and more discouraged about unlocking him. At that point I was really n00by when considering things, and considering the fact that I had to be picky about who I unlocked, I pretty much gave up on unlocking him for a while.

Ok, I've gotten the Lazorz, how do I use it?
After unlocking about 14 champs, I finally unlocked Ezreal. And we had fun times. The end.

NOT YET! It would have been a pretty horrible ending. I simply couldn't play Ezreal AT ALL. I wasn't sure wether to get AP, AD, to play as a caster, or to play as a caster (yeah, I pretty much played casters only at that point, or meele DPS. I really couldn't do anything but feed in normals. But i didn't give up, because I really liked the champion, his lore, and everything!

Rising to Glory. And staying there!
At one point, I actually found a guide written by Bushidoo on MOBAfire, on AD Ezreal. It focused on my current playstyle of AD mid-game jungling Ezreal, which I integrated and improved upon. It basically recommender Wriggle's as a first item, so i took him on a test drive. It was the first game where I actually started to carry with Ezreal.

Why Ezreal?
Because every match that I manage to carry feels like a true accomplishment. Ezreal has a pretty incredible skill cap to play effective, and every shot that you manage to land makes you feel like the king of the world. Matches where I play him are always action packed, and he pulls my reflexes to their limits.

Right now, he's had his share of buffs, but the fact that I could carry teams with scores of 1x-x-1x even before them, the effort that I put in learning him, and the fun he brings me when I play him, and appraise from other players that I've earned make him the best champ for me.

If you're planning to grab Ezreal
Prepare to be exposed to a whole new level of requirements. Ezreal is all about hitting your skills, and knowing where to be nearly to perfection. You always need to be at the right spot, at the right time, and launching skills in the right spot, at the right time. Learning to play this guy will increase your prowess at playing league of legends thousandfold, because he needs the best of everything to be effective, and not only a ks artist.

If you're looking for any other reason, I'll have to tell you that nothing compares with a well places mystic shot into the FoW which kills a running target, or Shifting after an opponent and ending his life with the Arrow, or changing team fights from accros the map, while killing the enemy team in the process. He simply is SO REWARDING.

But don't take my word for it. Try him out yourself ^ ^!

Rapacious OUT!