League of Legends Ezreal Champion Guide by exorchids

7/28/2019 League of Legends Ezreal Champion Guide by exorchids

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Ezreal

[About Me]

My name is Victor and my ingame name is Orchids. I am a gold division I playerand I play with platinum and diamond players, meaning I have a goodunderstanding of how this game works and how the meta functions. I alsotheorycraft a lot and spend a lot of time teaching summoners in the/r/summmonerschool subreddit.

I have been playing Ezreal since season 2 when he was considered trash. Now,he is considered one of the top picks in the game, and though his popularityhas fallen due to recent nerfs, he remains a strong champion for solo-queuewhere his ability to snowball unbelievably out of control makes him a greatchampion for soloqueue.

This guide is written for Level 30s with Tier 1 runes and a full mastery page.I assume you already have a basic understanding of how this game works.

[Champion overview]

Ezreal used to be considered weak because of his late game power and shortautoattack range meant that he was easily outscaled. However, there areseveral caveats to this.

First, the League of Legends meta has shifted towards early game dominance andtaking towers. Winning your lane hard and getting kills, then pushing downtowers as fast as possible has become a new, popular, strategy as favored bythe Koreans and relies on a strong early game. Ezreals early and midgame iswhere he shines allowing him to snowball and take these towers early makes hima good choice. His free escape mechanism forgives many mistakes and heextremely fun to play. Finally, season 3 also gave Ezreal several buffs toitemization with many items that proc on-hit effects.

Play Ezreal if you like-mobile AD carries with high amounts of skillshots-an ultimate that can snipe people off the map

-a snowballing champion that can rack up kills with an aggressive support-slowing your enemies every 3 seconds with phage or frozen gauntlet

[Skills]

Passive: Rising Spell Force

INNATE: Hitting a target with any of Ezreal's abilities increases his ownattack speed by 10%. This effect lasts for 5 seconds and stacks up to 5 times.

Explanation: This is why Ezreal can get by without building berserker greavesfor a little bit. Its also why you need to practice landing skillshots withEzreal. Every time you hit someone with a skillshot, your attack speed

increases, until it hits a 50% atk speed increase with 5 stacks. You can alsouse your ultimate to proc all 5 stacks at the beginning of a teamfight, makingthis a highly important passive to master.

Q: Mystic ShotRANGE: 1100COOLDOWN: 6 / 5.5 / 5 / 4.5 / 4COST: 28 / 31 / 34 / 37 / 40 mana

This skill NEEDS to be smartcasted. Smartcasting is where you press q and it


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moves in the direction of your cursor without having to click. It takes a bitof practice, but youll see your damage improve significantly, as that onesecond it takes to not click or click can save your life or get that kill.

This is an amazing skill for laning. Landing a few of these can instantlyforce your opponent out of the lane. It has a long range and high damage its difficult for your opponent to respond and you can slowly whittle downtheir HP over time. You can also use it to reduce the cooldown on your E. Byspamming it, youll have arcane shift up earlier. Just be careful, because itcosts a bit of mana, so make every shot count.

W: Essence FluxRANGE: 900COOLDOWN: 9COST: 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 mana

ACTIVE: Ezreal fires a wave of energy in a line. Any enemy champions it passesthrough are dealt magic damage, while any allied champions it travels throughhave their attack speed increased for 5 seconds.MAGIC DAMAGE: 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250 (+ 80% AP)ATTACK SPEED BONUS: 20% / 25% / 30% / 35% / 40%

I put one point in this at level 4 just to have it, but its really not thatuseful until teamfights. In team fights, you want to hit as many teammates aspossible with this skill to give yourself the atkspeed buff from your passive

as well as boosting your teammates attack speeds. This skill used to be prettyOP because itd reduce your opponents atkspeed but it doesnt do that anymore

Arcane ShiftCOOLDOWN: 19 / 17 / 15 / 13 / 11COST: 90 manaACTIVE: Ezreal instantly teleports to a nearby target location and fires ahoming arrow at the nearest enemy unit, dealing magic damage to it.MAGIC DAMAGE: 75 / 125 / 175 / 225 / 275 (+ 75% AP)TELEPORT RANGE: 475ARROW RANGE: 750

This is Ezreals free flash. Combined with summoner flash, it means you have

potentially two escapes that you can use per fight. Its pretty short, with an11 second CD, but that seems forever in fights. As an AD Carry, you have to becareful when using it. If you use it too aggressively, you can easily getcaught and die. Ezreal is very squishy. In general, I tend to use it to escapefrom bruisers who try to jump and burst me down.

Trueshot BarrageRANGE: GlobalCOOLDOWN: 80COST: 100 mana

ACTIVE: Ezreal charges for 1 second to fire a powerful broad energy missilethat travels in a line across the whole map, dealing magic damage to eachenemy unit it passes through. It will deal 10% less damage for each subsequent

target hit, down to a minimum of 30% damage dealt.MAGIC DAMAGE: 350 / 500 / 650 (+ 100% Bonus AD) (+ 90% AP)MINIMUM MAGIC DAMAGE: 105 / 150 / 195 (+ 30% Bonus AD) (+ 27% AP)PROJECTILE SPEED: 2000

Its a strong ult that you should use in two situations. The first is when youstart a team fight. You should immediately ult in order to get five stacks onEzreals passive. The second is to snipe low hp enemies. Try to aim behindenemy towers because people usually arent paying attention when they recalland you can pick up some easy kills that way.


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Skill Order

Q, E, Q, W, Q, R, Q, E, Q, E, R, E, E, W, W, R, W, W

The justification for taking W at level 4 is if you can hit your jungler andsupport with W, youll get a 20% atk speed buff to start off ganks, making itpretty useful. Or, you can hold off taking the W until later. Its completelyup to you. Maxing Q is important for the poke in lane and we max E next to getthe cooldown lower. Maxing R is obvious, because your ultimate is extremelystrong.

[Runes, masteries, summoners]

Summoner Spells:

FLASH

Flash is OP. Enough said. Having two flashes lets you play highly aggressively( flash twice to get in range to kill low hp enemies), or defensive (escapefrom the Irelia jumping on you, dodge skillshots, etc)

IGNITE:

Ignite is good for highly burst lanes and for countering healers like Soraka.Get it if youre going to be highly aggressive or if you dont need cleanse orbarrier.

CLEANSE:

Always pick up cleanse if they have two stuns or more. The free CC cleanse isOP and helps you escape from really bad situations. I will always pick upcleanse if bot lane is a taric or someone with a targeted stun. It is greatfor escaping from ganks.

EXHAUST:

Exhaust is great if they have multiple divers like Vi or Jarvan. If youreworried about assassins like Akali or Khasix bursting you down, grab exhaustand drop it on them and laugh. Then kill them.

BARRIER:

My new favorite spell, barrier creates a small shield that can easily baityour enemies into diving you or staying too long to fight. Make sure not toactivate it too late because the duration is short and if you dont use itearly enough, you might die. Its great against burst comps or lanes likegraves that do a high amount of damage in a short time.

ALL OTHER SUMMONER SPELLS ARE BAD AND SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN

[Runes]

QuintsFor Quintessences, youre going to want one of two things. Attack damageQuints foe easier last hitting or Life-steal quints for more sustain in lane.Life steal quints are personally, what I prefer, since you can trade with theopponent AD carry then heal right back up.

Marks


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AD marks, flat AD. Ezreal scales so much off flat AD, that there is really nreason not to use these.

Yellows

Armor Seals these are not an option. When trading with an enemy AD, you needto reduce the damage they do through armor seals. Otherwise youll lose everytrade. Ezreal doesnt need mana regen yellows or anything else because if youplay correctly, you wont run out of mana.

Blues

Two options scaling magic resist or flat magic. Id take flat magic if youanticipate a bot lane with a high amount of burst magic damage such as lulu ortheir mid likes to roam. If they have a late game AP carry, I would takescaling magic resist instead.

MASTERIES:

Masteries really arent that important. Theyre really up to summonerpreference. However, on Ezreal, I tend to go 21/0/9. The 9 points in utilitygo to-improved summoner flash: flash on a lower cd is good

-3 in meditation Ezreal has mana issues, this fixes them-3 in mastermind more cd on flash good-1 in improved recall need it for the last point-1 in runic affinity having longer red and buff times is good

For the offense tree, just pick the AD masteries and the ones that sound goodto you. I tend to put-4 in Fury for attack speed-4 deadliness atk damage is good-1 in weapon expertise armor pen is amazing-3 in havoc incrases your damage-2 in lethality crit strike damage good-1 in frenzy atk speed is good

-3 in armor sunder armor penetration is one of the best stats in the game-1 in executioner the damage it gives is amazing

[Items]

NOTE! For itemization, dont treat my word as set in stone. If youre ahead,feel free to build all offensive items. However if youre behind, think aboutwhat kind of damage they have that is owning you. AP carry getting fed? Thinkabout getting that MR defensive item early. Bruiser killing your team? Maybe achain vest is good. Dont forget that you dont have to build everything intosomething at once. You can buy the negatron cloak and just sit on it untillater, if you need the magic resistance immediately. Better that you do lessdamage because you bought some resists, than zero damage at all because youre

dead.

STARTING ITEMS:

Boots, x3 HP potion

Its ok if you need sustain or are facing another Ezreal in a mirror match.Its not that great anymore because you cant win trades against other ADcarries and its a really safe build, but Ezreal is an aggressive champion. Iwouldnt recommend it.


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Cloth Armor, x5 HP potions.

Start this way if you hate playing against Caitlyn. It helps heal back some ofthe ridiculous harass that she has and the cloth armor means that you take alot less damage from her, since shes all AD.

Longsword, x2 HP potions

A more popular start these days. Its a quick rush into a lifesteal scepter,which also gives a pretty big damage bonus at level 1 with 2 hp for healing upharass.

Dorans bladeMy favorite start, I use this on almost every AD carry. It requires you toknow the limits of your champion though, because if you take too much damage,youll automatically lose lane, since you dont have potions. If you run thisstart with life steal quints you should be fine.

[CORE]Berserker Greaves-best option for Ezreal. He needs attack speed especially after all his attackspeed nerfs

Bloodthirster-No doubt about it, this is THE best item for AD Ezreal. All your skills scaleoff attack damage and bloodthirster give you a HUGE amount of lifesteal. Iusually don't recall from lane until I can get my BF sword. BT is the firstbig item I usually get on Ezreal.

Statik Shiv-This item is amazing because it boosts your crit chance, procs with your q,and shoots lightning bolts. Every time it gets a hundred stacks (it getsstacks when you move or attack or use a skill) it shoots out a bolt oflightning THAT CAN CRIT. The reason that this item is so amazing on Ezreal isthat when your q lands, it also hits them with the lightning. You should buythe avarice blade part first, since its a GP/5 item, then finish the zeal and

buy Shiv.

Iceborne Gauntlet OR Trinity Force-Trinity force used to be the must have item on Ezreal because of its slow,but continually nerfs mean that its not as popular. However, its still goodand it has its place, but I dont like it as much anymore. Ezreal benefitsfrom every stat, so if youre ahead, feel free to pick it up. If you getTforce, get the phage component first.

-Iceborne Gauntlet is the new Tforce. What is does is slow every time you casta skill, and that slow is an onhit effect, meaning hitting someone with a Qwill slow them and people in a small area around them. This is THE best kitingitem for AD ezreal and will let you run circles around people.

-Last WhisperNo choice, you have to buy this item if you want to kill tanks. If they have alot of armor, this is the only way you can do damage to them.

[Optional]Merc Treads-get these if they have way too many stuns on their team and you need thetenacity. Shouldnt buy these in general though and never for just the magicresistance.


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-Black cleaverA rather selfish buy, its OK if you want to pick up an early brutalizer tosnowball your lane, but I much prefer last whisper

-Blade of the ruined kingGet this item if theyre stacking HP. If they dont have any armor but a lotof HP, this item will SHRED them. It does a ton of damage and has a greatactive that can peel bruisers off you since it does percent damage whileslowing them.

-Infinity Edge:Probably your last offensive item. Its pretty good, but requires goodpositioning. Get it if you arent dying much/are murdering everything.

[Defensive Items]Warmogs Warmogs is really popular after the Koreans bought it on EVERYONE.Its good because it gives you a lot of HP to survive burst and allows you tostay in fights longer lifestealing. The only problem is that you dont haveany resistances, meaning mages pretty much one shot you.

Banshees Veil A good item to buy if they have Blitzcrank or Karthus.Otherwise, I wouldnt really recommend it.

Quicksilver sash my favorite defensive item. When activated, its a freecleanse. You should get it if they have stuns or suppresses like Amumu orMalzahar.

Guardians Angel its ok after nerfs. Get it in conjunction with anotherdefensive item like warmogs and youll be unkillable, but your damage outputwill suffer. If its reaching late game, as soon as the passive is down, Idsell the GA for something like Warmogs since the passive is really the onlyreason to even have this item.

Zhonyas HUEHUHEUHEUEHUH. No, but seriously, you can get this item if youhave a retarded team/they dont peel for you. They have a malphite that divesyou and bursts you down every fight? Just use zhonyas and negate all their

burst. They might laugh at you for building AP, but its the active thatsimportant. It also gives a nice amount of armor.

[Lanes][Tips against AD carries]

Varus Pretty easy matchup. Its easy to dodge his arrow. Just dont let himget three hits on you and proc his passive. Think of him as a Vayne with astrong early game but weak late game.

Caitlyn good caitlyns will make your life hell. She has the longest rangeAD carry in the game and good caitlyns will autoattack you at max rangewithout giving you the ability to respond. Call for ganks and try to poke at

max range with Q.

Miss Fortune never fight a miss fortune, her w stacks up quickly and allowsher to do a ton of damage early. Her ult is aoe and can catch you offguard sokeep that in mind when dueling. Poke her at maximum range with you q andyoull be fine, since her attack range is pretty short.

Graves 525 attack range and he has to be up close and personal to do damage.Our favorite type of ad carry to fight as Ezreal. Abuse your q and just pokehim out of lane. Hell have a hard time responding.


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Tristana win early and win hard. Tristana can put out a ton of early gamedamage so its a contest of skill. Make sure to dodge her W, or youll getslowed. She has a surprising amount of burst so dont get caught off guard.Dont let this monster carry get to late game or youll lose.

Vayne Surprisingly, Vayne is extremely hard for Ezreal to kill. Shell beatyou in trades with her passive W and proc for true damage. If you getcondemned against a wall, youre probably dead. Be careful and whittle herhealth down.

Ashe one of the easiest matchups, spam a few Qs, and Ashe will be poked outof lane. She has no mobility so ganking her is really easy too.

Sivir Pretty easy to kite and harass. Shes really fast, so be careful, andshe has a spellshield that can block one of your qs. Otherwise, shes nothingspecial.

Corki high mana costs, force him to Valkyrie once or twice and youve wonlane. You can abuse Corki horribly, especially after his nerfs.

Quinn Quinns a real lane bully. Dont let her proc her passive when its up,and dont get blinded. Otherwise, youll probably be able to win trades withher pretty easily.

[Tips for support]Taric 90% of people in solo queue only know how to play taric. Knowing howto deal with him is important. Take cleanse, and bait him into using stun. Ingeneral, dont bother cleansing if he stuns you too far away for their adcarry to follow up. One way to separate good tarics from bad is when he stuns.If he wastes his mana stunning you far away from his ad carry or under tower,just let him waste mana. When fighting a taric and his carry, ignore the taricbecause of his ridiculous armor and focus on killing their carry.

Zyra/Lux Highly aggressive supports. They are great to have on your team andhard to play against. You have to dodge their snares or theyll follow up with

a full combo and since Ezreal is really squishy, it hurts. Theyre pretty easyto kill though, so if you hit them a few times, theyll be forced to go back.

Nunu Dont get hit by snowball, it really hurts because Ez has low attackspeed to begin with. Spam Qs and hell be forced to leave lane or consume aminion. He has no response to ranged harass. Ezreal doesnt really work wellwith Nunu since Nunu is a rather poor support after nerfs.

Nami most important thing is to dodge her Q. It stuns you for a ridiculoustime but its also really slow. When playing with a name, when she buffs you,be sure to harass. Her buff is really powerful.

Leona The snowballing support champion. She goes in balls deep and is great

to have when playing as Ezreal. She has so much CC, its really easy to killother champions, so follow up on her intiations. When playing against her, youneed to take barrier or cleanse. Barrier to shield her burst or cleanse ifyoure bad at dodging stuns. If she doesnt get kills in the laning phase,shes really easy to kill.

Soraka extremely boring lane. You actually might have a difficult time ifyou dont pick a bursty support like taric or Leona. The important thing is tokill her early before she can give her carry infinite mana and HP. Shut thislane down and shell be useless for the rest of laning phase. Sorakas love


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passive lanes. Dont give her one.

Janna Her AD shield is amazing and is great for poking. Her knockups cankeep aggressive supports like Leona off you and her W is great for slowing.When playing against Janna, you can poke her out of lane pretty easily. Justdodge the tornado and dont forget her ult is a huge knockback and heal. Dontget knocked into tower.

[Stages of the game]

Goals as Ezreal-Kill the opposing laner-Get farmed up so you can carry the game-Take the opposing tower as quickly as possible then push down towers aroundthe map-secure dragons

[Early Game]

Focus on farming. Theres no point in getting kills, if your CS is terrible,and they can still theoretically win lane if you focus too much on gettingkills. You should whittle down their HP through poking them with Q, thenfinish them off. CS should not come at the expense of harass. Be sure to watchyour minimap to make sure you know where their jungler is.

[Midgame]

Help your team take objectives. Push down all the inner and outer towers. Takedragons. BUY WARDS. Nows the time you start grouping up and winningteamfights, which will hopefully secure you your late game advantage.

[Lategame]

Buy a few wards. You are one of your teams primary sources of damage, if youget caught, the games probably over. Try to engage after your tanks go in,and stay close to them. Have them stun whoever is trying to kill you. Whetheryou picked Trinity Force or Iceborn Gauntlet, ABUSE IT. Use it to kite

endlessly whoever is trying to kill you. Spam it in fights and keep yourstacks up on your ultimate. Realise that sometimes its better to hit a tankand whittle down his hp, then suicide and try to kill their AD carry and justdie, which usually gets your team aced. Just try to do as much damage aspossible while staying alive. You cant do damage if youre dead.

[Conclusion]

Good luck wrecking people with Prodigal Explorer on the Fields of Justice! Ifyou liked this gudie, or want to drop an email, you can email me at orchids ATthearsmagna.com

[Credits]

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