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Runes:

Inspiration

Kleptomancy

Magical Footwear

Biscuit Delivery

Cosmic Insight

Sorcery

Manaflow Band

Celerity

Items

starting

early

essential

situational - buy one

buy

consumables

example end-game build

Ability Order

Ezreal Passive Ability

Changelog & Credits

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5/31/2018 - Initial Guide Content Released

Tips

Playing as Ezreal

Use Arcane Shift to help line up your other skill shots.
You can play Ezreal either as Attack Damage carry or Ability Power carry depending on how you build him.
You can line up Trueshot Barrage to hit multiple minion waves or even Monsters.

Playing against Ezreal

Ezreal is a very fragile champion so take the fight to him.
Ezreal is completely skill shot based, so make sure to keep minions in between you.
Mystic Shot applies on-hit effects including the Crest of Cinders.

Tricks

Ability Usage

To farm or take objectives faster, use your Essence Flux and then Arcane Shift right into it for an attack speed buff.
- It will be extra beneficial to hit allies with Essence Flux as well in the process, as it will not only grant them bonus attack speed as well but also boost your own even more due to Rising Spell Force.
Use your Mystic Shot to acquire hard to reach farm or to harass your lane opponent. Due to its versatility, it is usually taken first for both AP and AD Ezreal and then maxed first for AD Ezreal.
Hold on to your Arcane Shift to dodge crucial enemy skillshots.
- Although Arcane Shift deals decent damage, it shouldn't be used to do so as it is Ezreal's only form of mobility. The projectile from the ability is also rather unreliable since it does not prioritize enemy champions.
Use Trueshot Barrage to push waves in your favor. It can also be used similar to Ashe's Hawkshot for scouting, especially when you have high CDR.
Do not forget to auto attack in between Mystic Shots. This significantly increases your DPS, especially with a fully stacked Manamune ( Muramana).
Landing Mystic Shot is extremely crucial as it reduces all of Ezreal's cooldowns thus allowing him to kite with Arcane Shift and clear waves faster or snipe targets with Trueshot Barrage along with just generally increasing his DPS.
For AD Ezreal, Essence Flux is rather weak since it does not scale with AD. However, it can still be used for an extra Sheen proc or simply to give your team, and by extension yourself, extra attack speed.
- For AP Ezreal, Essence Flux is your main source of damage due to its high AP scaling and added bonus passing through all units that it hits.

Rune Usage

Ezreal utilizes Kleptomancy better than any other champion in the game except for Gangplank.
- Mystic Shot immediately procs Kleptomancy because it applies on-hit.
  - Use your long range poke to poke out enemy champions, and gain free Kleptomancy consumables.
    - Sell unwanted Kleptomancy consumables in the shop for a bit of extra gold.
Take Future's Market because Ezreal is item-reliant. It allows you to get into debt (negative gold) to purchase items quicker than usual.
- Future's Market combined with Kleptomancy allows you to purchase your core items much quicker than usual.
Cosmic Insight gives free CDR and increases the CDR cap to 45%. It also reduces summoner spell and item active cooldowns by 5%.
You can also swap out Cosmic Insight for Time Warp Tonic.
- Time Warp Tonic increases the duration of your potions and Kleptomancy consumables by 20% and grants 5% movement speed throughout the duration.
You almost always want to take Sorcery secondary because it offers two great runes that benefit Ezreal well.
- Manaflow Band increases your permanent mana pool up to 250 mana.
  - The mana increase also synergizes with Manamune/ Muramana passive as these two items grant bonus AD equal to 2% of your maximum mana pool.
- Transcendence gives free 10% CDR at level 10. You gain either 2 Ability Power or 1.2 bonus Attack Damage (Adaptive) for every 1% CDR in excess of the cap.
  - This rune works perfectly with the other CDR you get from items and/or runes.
- If you feel like the game will go long, you can always consider Gathering Storm as it gives extra AD or AP every 10 minutes throughout the entire game.
- Another viable rune you can take is The Ultimate Hat, if your team is lacking waveclear and you need a shorter cooldown ultimate.
  - The Ultimate Hat that is fully stacked combined with Cosmic Insight can give up to 53.25% CDR on your ultimate.
- Another rune even though it's not great nowadays is Scorch. It gives added burn damage to your poke.
  - It is not that great because most players are taking defensive rune setups and defensive items, thus lowering Scorch damage output.

Item Usage

You always want to get Tear of the Goddess as quick as possible and start stacking the item. The more you delay buying this item, the longer it takes for you to come online and start dealing damage.
Ezreal has one of the best two item powerspike in the entire game. That consists of building a Manamune transformed into a Muramana and Trinity Force.
- These two items provide everything that Ezreal needs.
  - Manamune/ Muramana gives all the mana he needs to constantly output damage.
    - These two items grant bonus AD equal to 2% of his maximum mana pool.
  - All the Trinity Force components give a mix of great stats that benefit Ezreal. Trinity Force will amplify the stats that the individual components provide.
    - Phage gives AD and Health. The Rage passive from this item works with Mystic Shot for bonus movement speed even though the bonuses are halved for ranged champions.
    - Sheen bonus damage works with your Mystic Shot automatically. It also gives you extra valuable mana.
    - Stinger gives excellent attack speed which combined with Rising Spell Force + Arcane Shift into the Essence Flux projectile gives you another source of DPS. Stinger also gives CDR.
After you've built either of these two item combinations you should look for some damage items like Blade of the Ruined King, Death's Dance or Lord Dominik's Regards depending on the situation.

Countering

Arcane Shift has a moderately long cooldown, use this period to your advantage.
Due to Mystic Shot and Arcane Shift being single target and Essence Flux being able to only hit champions, Ezreal has very poor waveclear.
Avoid Mystic Shot if he builds Trinity Force and Duskblade of Draktharr, as a single shot from Ezreal with the above items can deal massive damage if you do not have sufficient armor.