Talk:Ezreal/@comment-60.242.241.225-20110910133301/@comment-2124153-20110914162336

sigh.

Rapacious, your inflexibility with Ezreal is keeping you from seeing the big picture, here. It is true that Ezreal can't compete with a mage like Annie for instance, in terms of utility, as he has no CC, be it single target or AOE. But that's not the end of the story: Annie has nowhere near Ezreal's mobility in fights (Arcane Shift is incredible), cannot match his sustained DPS, and can be countered directly with only MR (AP Ezreal does a mix of physical/magical). AP Ezreal's place on a team is where the utiltiy is taken care of elsewhere, and you want his mobility and DPS strengths.

Q with Lich Bane is not AP Ezreal's sole source of damage output. Never mind that his Q has decent damage output just with a cheap Sheen. His Ultimate hits like a freight train when built AP: you cannot just sweep that fact under the rug... 650 base magic damagewith a 90% AP ratio, in a wide global line-AOE? That's crazy damage, even with the subsequent-hit decay. His W also has good range, and hits hard with AP behind it. If you don't use E for damage, you are using it for mobility, which gives AP Ezreal a sizable advantage over mages that have ZERO innate escape mechanisms.

I disagree with your implications of his early and midgame performance. He is not as dominating as AD Ezreal, to be sure, but AD Ezreal is already really good! The tradeoffs needed are not fatal, an early Sheen can be less efficient without being bad. Etc.