Talk:Ezreal/@comment-92.250.91.235-20120621134141/@comment-2124153-20120621183120

Lich Bane is poison fruit.

It does physical damage, and AP Ezreal will never have any significant ArPen to make it hurt. Even the humblest of enemy targets is going to have 90-100+ Armor in lategame teamfights (aka, you deal half damage), to say nothing of legitimate hard targets like Fighters or Tanks.

You can build a Void Staff to help penetrate for W/E/R's magical damage, but those are a smaller proportion of Ezreal's overall damage than the kits of traditional mages, giving it a smaller net impact (but Ezreal still pays full price). Ezreal also can't abuse the Sorc/Guise/Abyssal trio of death to its fullest effect: again, because of the problem introduced by Lich Bane. You will never have the Binding/Singularity/DEMAAACIAAAAAAAA one-hit KO, because he doesn't have that kind of focus ability.