Talk:Ezreal/@comment-216.55.112.130-20120321163216/@comment-2124153-20120323183441

First off, anyone who says that Ezreal lacks utility, needs to educate themselves on how attack speed reduction works. Reduction of AS stacks multiplicatively (such as in the case where your team is also running a Frozen Heart), and happens after bonus AS is factored in, so it has a huge effect on DPS. If Ezreal was a shoot a level 18 Tristana with nothing but Rapid Fire going, not only does he completely negate her 90% AS steroid for five seconds, but absent bonus AS she's actually attacking more slowly than she would at naked level 18. Essence Flux is completely devastating to AS-based DPS champions.

Also, Trueshot Barrage is a team-wrecking ability. The range is what makes it so deadly: he can hit people who are safely behind their beefies, while remaining safe himself. Sure, it doesn't do much against the tank that stacked MR, but that's what autoattacks with Last Whisper are for. The point of his ult is that it does extremely good team damage, and he can chunk the health bars of the enemy carry/mage/support without putting himself in any danger whatsoever. Ezreal is going to be running a lot of AD just from his normal build, and there's still plenty of pepper left in TB even after multiple target hit-scaling and MR reduction. A well-placed TB makes the job of the assassins and tanky DPS much easier.

And of course, the big elephant in the room here is that while Mystic Shot falls off due to want of crit scaling, the fact of the matter is that Ezreal is a hell of a lot better poker than Vayne is.

You really need to think of the team that's around Ezreal when you evaluate his kit. Sure, he won't shine if you throw him into the R-DPS slot of some randomly put-together team, but the same can be said of other carries as well. There's a reason why Kog'maw likes being on a team with Nunu + people who can protect him, just like there's a reason that Ezreal wants to be on a team that can use his poking power, mobility, teamfight damage, AS debuff, etc.