Talk:Ezreal/@comment-188.6.78.151-20120722212635/@comment-3238314-20120723144014

It was stupid because at those times Ezreal was not common as a botlane carry, and he had the items necessary for him to skip IE (the pre-nerf gunblade). Following that old build, you simply won't dish out enough dps to carry, and you're required to build infinity edge and phantom dancer if you don't want to be a burden on the team. Items change, champs change, metas change. You need to adapt or be left behind, like old twitch and eve players who still try to play them the old way.

My stance on trinity is that it's still really good on him, but again, it's a huge gold sink, and will not improve dps as hard as an infinity edge+zeal, so in most cases it's good to save it for the 4th or 5th item to finish. However, if your team has enough sustained damage, or you got really ahead in the laning phase, trinity first is still legit. What you get first really depends on the situation.

And then there's the fact that everyone learns and gets better as they play, and i am better than i was a year ago.