Talk:Ezreal/@comment-4114531-20110922052021/@comment-2124153-20110922162949

I am not really bothered by the AD ratio on Q into lategame when I am playing AD. You shouldn't really be relying on naked Mystic Shot for damage at that point. As AD Ezreal you should be using Q to apply on-hits from Triforce, Madred's, Black Cleaver, etc, as well as autoattacking as much as possible and lining up as many of the enemy champions as you can into a Trueshot Barrage. None of those things would be impacted by a change in the AD ratio of Q. If we made it a 1.2x AD ratio instead of 1.0x, that's only about an extra 50 damage with a wish build that stacks AD like a boss. Even crit-AD Ezreals don't rely on Mystic Shot, since MS doesn't crit. I think that AD Ezreal's lategame is fine.

You can try hybrid Ezreal for a change of pace. His overall AP scaling is good, and Rageblade is very cost-effective and synergizes well. It is not the most effective build (I think that title goes to AD), but it is still very good and allows you to put some AP behind W/E/R without changing your farming tactics too much. It's also handy to have the physical/magical split, nobody can really defend efficiently against your damage.

The trick to farming with AP Ezreal, is to not be afraid to use Trueshot Barrage to farm. Now that the cooldown on his ult is a mere 48 seconds once you have 40% CDR (easy to get on an AP build), and hitting things with Q reduces even that low number pretty quickly, you should consider throwing his R straight down a lane to obliterate waves of minions. This doesn't work as well on AD Ezreal because it's too hard to get enough AD for it, but on AP it's no problem at all even with the lesser ratio.