Talk:Ezreal/@comment-129.113.43.187-20120507193054/@comment-2124153-20120507230234

I think that you underestimate how cautious that people are about feeding an Ezreal player "gimmie" kills in the lane. Top players are just as cognizant of his earlygame power as anyone else. They don't try to duel him when he has W, they don't give him free shots with Q, they know that he can commit with E over a wave, etc. Given the chance, they'll counter-pick Ezreal with Graves.

It's more or less the same phenomenon that makes Shaco a pubstomper at low elo, but a non-factor at high elo. Good players know 1) how to counter him, and 2) that he falls off without kills. The only difference is that #2 doesn't really apply to Ezreal, since he is in the lane getting CS farm regardless of what you do.