Talk:Essence Reaver/@comment-13372515-20140606134823/@comment-8468980-20140622074933

"The point to caster carries is that they scale better with a mixture of attack damage and cooldown reduction, rather than raw AD+AS+crit."

This is incorrect. If ADCs like Ezreal, Lucian, and Corki scaled better with CDR than attack speed or crit (or simple flat AD) then Brutalizer (which is an incredibly popular solo top) and by extension Black Cleaver would have been highly sought after items. But they weren't. The archtypical build for these guys was to buy BT and then Triforce to maximize their burst.

"That's why Blue Ezreal was designed around +40% CDR and tons of mana, but very little raw AD."

Blue Ezreal took advantage of Ez's ability to deliver on-hit effects including sheen proc and Gauntlet aoe slows as well as his higher number of AP ratios and his ability to reduce the CD of the rest of his skills with Q procs. Blue Ezreal worked because he was a kiting monster. It's a build that doesn't work as well as his ap or AD builds anymore due to specific nerfs to IBG.