User blog comment:TheTobarMethod/Ezreal Mid Anyone?/@comment-128.230.201.184-20130119054200/@comment-128.230.240.65-20130125064538

I don't have to 1v1 him because its a team game, and champions aren't balanced for 1v1 scenarios.

You asked if any of us mid as Ezreal. I don't, and I explained why.

Hybrid building is expensive. That's why its not a very good build. Deathcap is 3600 gold, Bloodthirster is 3000, Trinity force is 4200, gunblade is 3400, etc. These end game items are all really expensive, and they're all part of your build. Or maybe they're not, but then you're not maximizing your hybrid damage. Maybe there's a manamune/aas in there, I dont know. The point is, its going to to a long time to farm up the gold to get these items, and with none of the items really synergizing with each other (in the sense of BT+IE/IE+PD or deathcap/AP items synergize), it may be difficult to stay relevant while you try to keep your damage up.

Additionally, when you build hybrid, you might get a slightly larger initial burst, but once you've shot your wad, AD builds are still applying damage, and are applying far more than you can. You've seen AD carrys melt tanks and bruisers; what makes you think that a hybrid ezreal is going to fare any better?

You don't seem to understand the fundamental purposes of taking midlane, and why having a significant lane prescence is important. You need to be able to rapidly clear out minion waves mid lane so that you can roam, or prevent the enemy mid laner from roaming. Ezreal can't do this. There's a reason that warding up and pushing to the tower ruins Ezreal; he simply can't clear fast enough to gain any lane control. Can you get a stattick shiv? Yes, absolutely, this will solve the pushing problem slightly. But now you've got to build a mediocre 2500 gold item before you can have any sort of lane control, which is a far from optimal situation.

I don't understand why you think I'm attacking you personally and feel the need to "1v1 [me] with [YOUR] personal hybrid build." And, given that ezreal is entirely skillshot reliant, Hybrid ezreal even moreso, this would basically boil down to your ability to hit me, and my ability to stand behind a minion wave. Other champions have low CD's by the way. Like Cassiopeia. Or Ryze. Or Karthus. I haven't had particularly more difficulty with those champs, so I don't think competing with an Ezreal CD's would be an issue.

I also have no idea why you think heimer is the crown jewel of lane dominance, seeing as he's an incredibly squishy champion that only a very small portion of the player base uses, and extremely dependent on his turrets and landing a very slow moving skillshot to survive.

"When a single target carry can beat a AoE based pusher in lane, that shows that people like you dont know what your talking about and need to be re-educated upon what the word SKILL means." So like Leblanc? Diana? Pantheon? Talon? Kha'zix? These are all single target assassin/carries that would eviscerate hiemer. Mordekaiser, galio, cassiopeia, karthus would all just ignore him and farm, farm, farm/zone/murder, and farm/zone/press R respectively.