Blue Ezreal

Introduction

Who I Am

Hi, I am a LoL player who has been playing for about 1.5 years now. I have written one other guide on Mobafire, here. AD Carries are my main role, and Ezreal is one of my favourite champions, especially since the recent surge of the blue build.

What is Ezreal?

Ezreal used to be played as a traditional AD carry, but now the blue build has become more common and I feel more effective. Think of him as an AD carry but with a fun twist.

Pros
-Synergises well with many support champions.
-Counters enemy supports with hooks like or because of the ability to out of the hook
-Allowed to spam skills to farm, allowing for easy farm laning phase.
-Blue build allows massive-kiting power, including damage over time and slow
-Short cooldowns, with the total 25% CDR, and not to mention cooldown reduction.

Cons
-Requires practice, first time usually never works out
-Ulti () requires good aiming and timing, and sniping requires practice.
-Heavily skillshot based (3/4 skills)

This guide will show how I play Blue Ezreal, and hopefully help you out in succeeding with .

Runes

Precision

Press the Attack

Arcane Comet

Fleet Footwork

Phase Rush

This is the standard rune page for Blue Ezreal, and for many other AD Carries as well.

Quintessences

For Quints, flat provides with the well-needed sustain to allow him to have a smoother start and forgo the need for early on. This allows to stay in lane longer at the start and farm up to get his damage items first.

Marks

For Marks, you should go flat Attack Damage. My personal preference is to have 1 , as even though it seems weird, does proc sometimes when you least expect it and it has certainly helped me secure quite a fair bit of kills early game. Greater mark of Armor Penetration works too, but since we have Life Steal Quints the AD would scale better with the rune page overall.

Seals

For seals, go with the standard flat . In the bot lane, the enemy AD carry will be attacking you with physical damage and you need the armor to absorb it.

Glyphs

For glyphs, you should always go with Magic Resist. Whether you get MR per level glyphs or flat MR usually does not make much difference, but if you are afraid of the enemy support being too painful then just go with flat MR. It is the safest anyway.

Masteries

Offense (21)

These are pretty much standard offense runes for an AD carry, with damage increasing options taken. However, I want to touch on a certain mastery that I feel work only for Blue .
, which provides 1AP/level (18AP at level 18) is a good choice as all 4 of Ezreal's skills scale off AP. Despite and scaling off AD more, the AP/level masteries will give you a slight edge and a little bit of damage for and , which only scale off AP. simply amplifies the effect of .

Defense (9)

Defense runes provide with the durability required in lane. helps increase 's effectiveness, while the others like focus on making him tankier early game. Although you can't really see the effect of masteries lategame, these early game defense options really make a huge difference.

Summoner Spells

Standard Spells

is essential on almost all champions now, maybe except for some top laners. It is required to secure kills, to close up gaps, to bait/juke the enemy and most of the time, to escape.

has now become the more prominent choice over for AD carries. Not only giving you a shield, it allows you to make unexpected plays (eg. by baiting enemy with your low hp) or simply to survive a snipe-style ulti (eg. , or . Simply put, it WILL save your life and may help secure kills.

Alternatives

In Blind Pick, you cannot see what the enemy team is picking so you should just stick with and . However, in Draft Pick (eg. Ranked games), if you see the enemy team has truckloads of CC (eg. , , , ) etc, you may want to consider taking if you don't wish to build or just to be safe. However, if you are skilled enough, is not really necessary.

A less common spell, despite being able to secure kills and provide a +5AD/AP boost on CD, 's purpose is defeated by its range. AD Carries are almost always attacking from a range further than Ignite, and using requires you to get quite up close. is a better choice.

should be a replacement for below Level 12, since you do not have unlocked.

Abilities

Passive
Q
W
E
R

Ability Sequence

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At Level 1, I add . This allows access to easy farm/harass very early on. Following up with allows quick escapes if you get caught or to catch up and harass even more. Following that, is added at level 4 for that very slight amount of damage it provides to champions. is then prioritized, maxing it whenever you can except at levels 6, 11 and 16 where you add points into . Following , is maxed next because of the lower cooldowns after maxing it.

Passive

is Ezreal's passive. Hitting a target with any of Ezreal's abilities increases his Attack Speed by 10%. This effect lasts for 5 seconds and stacks up to 5 times (50%). This passive, can be used for quick pushing or to gain the upper hand in a fight. While pushing turrets or clearing objectives like , note that on an teammate not only gives the teammate extra Attack speed but it also adds to . Every teammate hit adds 1 stack.

Tips
Utilise early game to make farming an easier job. When clearing objectives, through as many of your teammates as possible.

Q

is Ezreal's Q skill. It is his main source of damage, with a 100% AD ratio and 20% Ap ratio. It fires a bolt of energy in a line, hitting the first enemy with physical damage and on hit effect. If hits a target, Ezreal's cooldowns will be reduced by 1 second.

Tips
is a very utilizable skill. Early game, use it to farm, and spam it whenever you can after you acquire . The -1 second cooldown when hits should be well-abused, so use this skill to farm creeps, to farm neutral monsters and to kill. With normal CDR and this, all your skills, including will be off cooldown very quickly. When running from a fight, and is exhausted, kite with your to slow them using and to lower the cooldown of to allow you to make your escape.

W

is Ezreal's W skill. It shoots a projectile that passes through all champions hit. If it strikes an enemy champion, it deals magic damage. If it strikes an allied champion, it provides (20-40)% attack speed for the ally.

Tips
should be used when pushing turrets or clearing objectives on your ally, as mentioned above. is not your primary damage tool, but you can still use it to get some decent damage on enemies. Typically the 1, 2, 3 punch involves landing your Q, E and W. Landing this combo really devastates the enemies.

E

is Ezreal's E, and it teleports to a nearby location (can be through a wall) and fires a bolt to the nearest enemy unit, dealing magic damage. It is not only a second, more reliable that can use, but it deals some damage and allows you to close up gaps, escape or make some jukes.

Tips
can be used as an escape. Generally, when during team-objectives like or , I always stand closer to the back so I can out should the need arise. Just use as you would use .

R

is Ezreal's ulti. It fires a wave of energy in a line, travelling through the whole map and dealing tons of damage to enemies it hits, but doing slightly less per target travelled through, down to 70% damage.

Tips
can be used to secure kills. See a fleeing enemy, try to predict his path and fire. Your top/mid laner got his enemy low, but he got away? Same thing. Snipe him. Although difficult, when pulled off your team will be happy and it is a free kill. In teamfights, remember to get down on as many of them as possible as free damage. Also, don't hesitate to use to get some farm due to its low cooldown.

Items

Starters

is an excellent starting item for . Coupled with and , it provides massive sustain, HP and 10AD. Also can be stacked if you are losing your lane.

and 4 s give you the movement speed increase and sustainability. I would recommend building this if you do not have or you really require the sustain against your matchup. Also, some tend to prefer going for this start when against chmapions with high movement speed (eg. ).

and 2 s is a risky start for Ezreal. With only 10AD and 300HP to recover, it is better to buy for the same effects as but with 80HP and Life steal. However, it does put you closer to your items later, and since you do not rush going this route is pretty redundant.

Early recall

should be an insta-rush for . It allows him to work towards stacking his early, and allows him to use his skills for farming and harassing way more. Definitely the most important item in this build.

Getting the 2 portion of the helps give you the extra AD needed to survive in lane as opposed to building , where you would have no damage agaisnt the enemy carry.

Getting at this point is viable, as it is cheap and you should not have anything else to buy. The movement speed will help with chasing too.

Now that we are done with the starters, we will focus on our first core item. This is just bought because it builds into it, but if you have enough just go straight to .

Optional (If struggling/losing)

If you are struggling or losing your lane, a 2nd or a will give you the extra damage and sustain needed to come back.

Core Items

gives some AD, alot of health and mana regen, faster jungle farm clear, and most importantly, the true damage over a second that is essentially some free damage. A very good first item for blue , providing him with all he needs to survive, spam skills and secure kills.

(/) gives the mana and extra AD needed to spam skills and have painful attacks. Getting early means you should be able to stack your Manamune up to 750 () latest by the 30 minute mark. When it is a , not only does it give you massive mana and AD but has an active that does tons of damage. Usually by the end of the game, I have 50 AD passively from and 150 magic damage from its active.

gives more AP and mana to back himself up, along with some CDR and armor to become tankier and be able to spam more skills. However, the main reason we get this item is for its passive; causing the next attack after an ability is used to deal 125% of your base AD to surrounding enemies, creating a field that slows them. This allows to have both massive damage and have insane kiting power. Blue will really start to shine once you are at this item.

Late Game Anti Tank

is your next "blue" item in the build. However, by this late in the game an enemy would certainly have started having lots of armour. At this stage, not only gives more AD but the 35% armor ignore really helps, even if you do not notice it.

, while not technically a blue item is your last step in demolishing your enemies. Providing free damage from its passive, and generous attack speed, lifesteal and AD from its stats, it also allows you to chase/follow up with its active. Definitely a very useful item, especially against high-hp targets.

Enchantments

is a good enchantment for if her team's base isn't getting ripped apart. When winning the game, Furor allows for extra chasing power and to secure objectives faster.

is the enchantment to go with if needs to desperately defend his base, or if the enemy has pushed further than you.

Viable

NOTE: all of these items replace .

With the slight -10AD nerf on , more have switched over to for tons of damage and early lifesteal. However, I feel that the Damage over time effect on is better as will be poking constantly with his skills and autoattacks, constantly and refreshing the duration often.

Take as a semi-defense, semi-offense option with a free . Take this if you need some Magic Resist, or if you aren't using and the enemy team's cc is shutting you down.

is used as basically a second revive, while also providing armor and magic resist. As a replacement last item, you should just proc 's passive and get another item while its on cooldown.

provides durability in the form of magic resist and 400hp, along with an epic shield. Use this if the enemy AP champion is ridiculously fed or they are AP-heavy. Also, some free mana can't hurt.

Consumables

gives you a nice AD boost late game, when you have some extra gold to waste and gives you a small amount of health. The effects are very insignificant, but there is nothing else better to buy.

provides even more AP for , and more CDR, giving a 2s cooldown.

to clear wards.

Supports

is one of the best supports for blue . While it is nice to have bonus MR from Consecration, and the healing from and , the most important thing that makes viable is , which allows to virtaully spam his skills in lane, even before getting . Good synergy.

is another popular choice with . Once she lands her + or , can very easily follow up with a or simply just start hitting away.

also works well with . With tanking you up and healing you, a very painful poke ( and , allowing for a little bit of chasing power and most importantly, , allowing you to not only own fights in lane but later in the game.

is a support that works well with many AD carries, and is one of them. provides you with so much armor that you will be able to tank up more hits from the enemy than just having HP. also can heal you, making someone who keeps you alive easily. is basically like Leona's , temporarily stunning an enemy. Take the chance when an enemy is dazzled to fire off some AA's or a .

is another very viable support for . He can always hook people in, allowing to strategically for maximum damage output. He also has a better set of skills that work better late game, eg. ( and ).

is just like , except with less utilizable skills but compensated with a faster, more effective and bigger hook (). He also has Knockup, comparable to Thresh's and silence.

synergises quite well with . allows to land on a target, and can be used to aid an escape or a fight, or even to begin one.

Gameplay: Arcane Shift

Gameplay: Trueshot Barrage

Lane Matchups

Ezreal has no CC, and no escape once is burned. A good counter against him would be champions with high range or high poke which allows a tough early laning phase, or high CC bot lanes which can prevent from utilizing well and to stop his skillshots.

Easy Matchups

, besides and her AAs, have no other damaging abilities. You should be able to counter her in lane very easily.

has very short range, which allows her to get close to harass you. This usually allows you to land a on her. Since your will be using your skills more than your auto-attacks for damage, Quinn's will not have as much of a bad effect as it would against other ADCs.

is easy to counter for . With , it is very easy to escape from as she lacks any form of real CC.

Medium Matchups

would be considered a not-easy, but definitely not impossible fight against. With her superior range, she can easily poke you down before you are even able to land in range. Her traps also are easy targets for you to into, and note that does NOT cancel CC.

would be in the hard tier, but ever since the nerf to his passive now I would say he is a medium matchup. has more damage than Ezreal's skillshots, and can be caught back by which means it essentially has no cooldown. His may allow him to continue chasing with the aid of the slight slow and 'knock-aside' from even after you away, and Draven's is essentially a that comes back to him, dealing 2-way damage.

is also in medium, due to the fact that she has slow from , high poke power allowing her to trade with comfortably, and her passive, , allowing her movement speed which may aid her in dodging your skillshots. Definitely not an easy matchup, but not too difficult either.

is medium to counter for . With , he can just escape Varus's or even if timed/used correctly. This means Varus's skills will just go to waste anyway. However, he has more range with and , however small it is, still is a form of CC that can hinder your escape progress. His ulti, is also a more potent skill in the late-game phase.

Hard Matchups

There is almost no need to explain why is a hard matchup for . is heavily-reliant on his skills, not his autoattacks, and 's pretty much just shreds that down. Your ends up being free instant mana pots for , and your goes to waste, not quite hitting due to her spellshield. These are all why against is insanely tough.

can deal more burst damage in a short time with the same amt of gold/items because of his early build and scaling. hurts more than , hurts more than , can help him catch up to your , giving him %AS and clouds your vision, preventing you from landing skillshots.

Ezreal Patch History

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Guide Patch History

13/7/2013 - Guide Published

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Blue Ezreal

Blue Ezreal

Spells:

Flash

Barrier

Items

Ability Order

Rising Spell Force (PASSIVE)

Mystic Shot (Q)

Essence Flux (W)

Arcane Shift (E)

Trueshot Barrage (R)

Introduction

Runes

Runes

Masteries

Summoner Spells

Abilities

Items

Supports

Gameplay: Arcane Shift

Gameplay: Trueshot Barrage

Lane Matchups

Ezreal Patch History

Guide Patch History

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