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Recommended Items
Runes: ADC, Mid(AD), Top(AD), Sup(AD) (PTA)
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+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
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Champion Build Guide
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Ezreal build for all 5 lanes, enjoy.
AD Ezreal has essentially better DPS value, but I find AP also being viable and really enjoy one-shoting squishy targets.
AD Ezreal has essentially better DPS value, but I find AP also being viable and really enjoy one-shoting squishy targets.
Pros and cons of AP Ezreal
Pros and cons of AP Ezreal:
Pros:
- Strong Poke with Ultimate: AP scaling on R is high, making it deadly in mid-to-late teamfights.
- Magic Damage: Useful if your team is AD-heavy and you need magic damage to bypass armor stacking.
- High Burst Damage: W+E deals significant damage with AP, allowing for aggressive repositioning plays and one-shots.
Cons:
- Weaker Sustained DPS: Q (your main damage tool in AD builds) doesn't scale well with AP.
- High Cooldowns: Lacks consistent damage due to reliance on ability cooldowns.
- Skill-Check Build: Requires accurate spell weaving (especially W → E or W → R) to maximize damage. If you miss a skill - you miss a kill
- Less Objective Control: Poor at taking turrets or Baron/Dragon without strong teammates.
Pros:
- Strong Poke with Ultimate: AP scaling on R is high, making it deadly in mid-to-late teamfights.
- Magic Damage: Useful if your team is AD-heavy and you need magic damage to bypass armor stacking.
- High Burst Damage: W+E deals significant damage with AP, allowing for aggressive repositioning plays and one-shots.
Cons:
- Weaker Sustained DPS: Q (your main damage tool in AD builds) doesn't scale well with AP.
- High Cooldowns: Lacks consistent damage due to reliance on ability cooldowns.
- Skill-Check Build: Requires accurate spell weaving (especially W → E or W → R) to maximize damage. If you miss a skill - you miss a kill
- Less Objective Control: Poor at taking turrets or Baron/Dragon without strong teammates.
Pros and cons of AD Ezreal
Pros and cons of AD Ezreal:
Pros:
- Consistent DPS: Q (Mystic Shot) is spammable and applies on-hit effects, especially with Essence Reaver and Serylda's Grudge.
- Excellent Poke: Constant pressure in lane and teamfights through Q spam.
- Mobility: With items like Trinity Force and Manamune, he gets decent burst + mobility + survivability.
- Objective Pressure: Good at poking enemies off objectives and dealing damage to Baron/Dragon.
- Safe Scaling: Relatively safe pick with high uptime damage throughout the game.
Cons:
- Physical Damage: Easy to counter with armor stacking, W and Ult have good magic damage but usually not enough to kill a tank
- Item Reliant: Needs multiple items (Manamune, Trinity) to spike.
- No Burst: Can't quickly eliminate targets like AP Ezreal can.
- Low Impact with E: Arcane Shift is used mainly for mobility, not damage.
Pros:
- Consistent DPS: Q (Mystic Shot) is spammable and applies on-hit effects, especially with Essence Reaver and Serylda's Grudge.
- Excellent Poke: Constant pressure in lane and teamfights through Q spam.
- Mobility: With items like Trinity Force and Manamune, he gets decent burst + mobility + survivability.
- Objective Pressure: Good at poking enemies off objectives and dealing damage to Baron/Dragon.
- Safe Scaling: Relatively safe pick with high uptime damage throughout the game.
Cons:
- Physical Damage: Easy to counter with armor stacking, W and Ult have good magic damage but usually not enough to kill a tank
- Item Reliant: Needs multiple items (Manamune, Trinity) to spike.
- No Burst: Can't quickly eliminate targets like AP Ezreal can.
- Low Impact with E: Arcane Shift is used mainly for mobility, not damage.
Ending
While most players stick to the traditional AD Ezreal with Mystic Shot poke and Trinity Force power spikes, I’ve always gravitated toward the more unconventional and in my opinion, more exciting AP Ezreal build.
There’s just something incredibly satisfying about landing a perfectly timed W + E + R combo and instantly melting a squishy target. The burst potential with AP Ezreal is insane - high risk, high reward
There’s just something incredibly satisfying about landing a perfectly timed W + E + R combo and instantly melting a squishy target. The burst potential with AP Ezreal is insane - high risk, high reward
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