Talk:Ezreal/@comment-3238314-20110729142143/@comment-2124153-20110801164435

@Rapacious: No, people usually come up with much better metaphors than you just did.

@Shrekbob: scaling MP/5 runes are only "spam" if your definition of "spam" is pretty loose. Glyphs and Seals combined will provide 1.08 MP/5 per champion level. This is about 13 MP per minute, per level. For comparison, Ezreal's mana regen that you get for free just by existing, is 84/minute with an extra 7.8/minute every level-up. At level 3, the runes are only one extra Mystic Shot per minute. At level 5, it's one and a half. At level 7, it's two extra per minute. I don't know about the rest of you, but when I am "spamming" Mystic Shot I can fire off anywhere between 12-20+ per minute, easy, so a couple extra doesn't matter a fart in a windstorm.

Meanwhile, flat Armor and/or CDR/MR are pretty powerful. If you are up against a melee or ranged DPS in the lane, and show up with flat Seals and Cloth + 5 pots, you have 43+ Armor and 1000 backup health on top of it, and should win the lane as long as you have a pulse. Especially if they went lolDoran's.

And yes flat AD quints are worth it. So are flat AD Marks. Armor pen is nice, but doesn't shine until lategame. AD does more damage during the laning phase because of Mystic Shot, and the laning phase is what runepages are meant for. It also makes it considerably easier to last-hit minions, for what that's worth.