Since we aim to assemble a high amount of CDR for this build these boots are our first choice. Recommended.

The standard boots for all ADC's. Provides some attackspeed which will never hurt to have. Recommended

Very effective against mostly AD-based enemy teams. Usually for tanks & bruisers since ADC's shouldn't be directly in the middle of action if positioned correctly. Not recommended.

Having some extra movement speed is never bad, but for the price of discarding bonuses like CDR or attackspeed just not worth it. Not recommended.

Not completely useless since 3 of 4 spells deal magic dmg. Not recommended for ADC Ezreal Recommended for AP Ezreal

Some extra magic resist and tenacity. Usefull against teams with a lot of AP-based damage and crowd control. Should only be bought when REALLY needed, else Not recommended.

This is Ezreal's MOST IMPORTANT item. Must not be missing in any of his builds (except for AP). The passive "spellblade" provides us with some neat damage when casting Mystic Shot since it's an on-hit effect and will be triggered by it. Recommended.

+40 AD and 35% armor penetration. Very useful against teams with a lot of armor. Essential for this build. Recommended.

+55 AD, 10 armor penetration, 5% armor penetration for every source of physical damage we deal to an enemy up to a maximum of 5 stacks (25%), 200 health and 10% CDR. As you can see this item provides us with everything we need. Its helps to build up our CDR, makes us a bit more resilient since Ezreal is naturally very squishy and furthermore helps us to shred the enemies armor. Recommended.

Great item because it gives us 100 extra damage (when fully stacked) and some sustain because of the life steal. Since our Mystic Shot scales well with AD this item is the S.HIT! Recommended.

Good when the enemy team has a lot of crowd control and/or mostly AP-based damage. Helps you to get out of tight situations since it will remove all debuffs (i.e. stuns and slows) from your champion. You can even make Zed's ultimate useless since a well timed active will prevent the incoming damage. Recommended.

Awesome item for any ADC. Provides one with a neat amount of damage and critical strike chance, but the most important aspect of this item is its passive which increases critical strike damage from 200% to 250%. Usually a very good item, but there are more useful items than this for our build. (Recommended).

A killer-item for many ADC's (i.e. Vayne). But since Ezreal usually relies on a high AD value not a considerable item. Not recommended.

Also a great item for any ADC if you need some extra critical strike chance, attackspeed and movement speed. But since we don't aim for a lot of direct exchanges and considering the fact we need a high AD value on Ezreal, not recommended. Rising Spell Force provides us with a good amount of attackspeed anway. Not recommended.

Unlike Phantom Dancer this item is more useful for Ezreal because of its on-hit effect which is being triggered by Mystic Shot. Great to poke enemies with, but doesn't provide any AD, which we aim for here. Not recommended.

Boosts AD, Mana and an on-hit effect when fully charged. In general a great item for Ezreal, but there are other items which are more important in this build. Not recommended.

Great attackspeed boost and a neat passive coming with it, but definetely not an option for Ezreal. Not recommended.

Being part of the popular "Blue Build" in the past. Not worth getting as ADC in my opinion. Not recommended.

Very good item when you get your a.ss handed to you by a mostly AD based team. Provides a s.hitload of armor and comes with a passive comparable to Rammus's Defensive Ball Curl. Not really cut out for ADC's in my opinion though. Not recommended.

Except the armor and health it provides, it's a great item for pushing lanes because of its passive. Not cut out for ranged champions and especially not Ezreal Not recommended.

Very good defensive item against magic damage. Boosts health, CDR and even increases heal and regeneration effects. Very neat item, indeed. Can be good to get depending on the situation since it boosts health and increases the effect of lifesteal. Recommended.

Boosts health by a laaaaarge amount! Not too bad to get to boost health when needed, lacks armor/magic resist though. Since this item costs a lot and lacks armor/magic resist you should only get this item when really needed and the game went very well so far. Not recommended.

Very awesome item against AD since it provides an extra effect of slowing enemies movement and attack speed when attacking you. Can be useful in specific matchups. Recommended.

Additionally to boosting health and some AD it gives us an incredible slowing effect with each autoattack, including Mystic Shot. Makes it pretty easy to kite enemies around or to chase them down. Especially good on Ezreal. Recommended.

Possibly the best defense item for ADC's. Not only does it boost armor and magic resist, but bringing you back to life after getting bursted down makes this item just OP! Only downside of this item is that it lacks any health and has a relatively long CD of 5 minutes in its passive. Recommended.

Since it's been nerfed, while Trinity Force has been buffed, this item ain't all that viable anymore. I advice you to let your hands off this item, no matter what kind of build you aim for. It's great for kiting in general and provides armor, but you will sacrifice a lot of damage for it. Not recommended.

A very good item when going up against AP-damage. Not only does it boost damage and magic resist, but also gives you a protecting shield which absorbs a set amount of incoming magic damage when getting low hp. Pretty useful when having trouble against APC's. Due to it lacking health there may be other items possibly being more viable. Gotta get this item with caution. Recommended.

Item of choice to avoid getting caught or bursted down by magic damage. Very useful in many ways, but lacks AD. Depending on the situation it might pay off to get, but in my opinion there are better ways for Ezreal to fend off magic damage. Plus, the enemy shouldn't be able to focus you easily if your positioning is right. Not recommended.

Should always be carried around any time of the game when item slots are available. Use it during a fight, as soon as possible in order to heal some health during the fight. This can make the difference between you winning the fight or losing it by a low margin. From experience I can tell you that is saved my a*** many times and had a pretty big impact on the game, since it sometimes alles you to snowball after a won fight. Recommended.

Probably the most important item in the game, but sadly almost always underrated by people in game, which makes many games a horror to play. If empty item slots and gold are available always get some. Recommended.

Unlike Stealth Ward's these can reveal invisible units, traps and wards. Very useful to clear enemy wards, but since the recent patch pretty hard to effectively use since it's not invisible anymore and can be taken down by passing enemies. Get one when you are in base and expect do get dragon in the near future. Recommended.

Boosts health and damage dependent on champion level. Strong item, but costs a lot and only lasts for 3 minutes. When not having finished your build or you are swimming in gold only get when necessary. Recommended.

Boosts AP dependent on champion level and gives 10% CDR. Should only be bought after Elixir of Fortitude and when having full build or very much gold available. Recommended.

The trinket you usually go with. Can be exchanged against any other trinkets since all are useful in their own ways, but in my opinion this is the most useful one for Ezreal and ADC's in general. Recommended.

In the beginning of the game you should be shopping very fast and get to position in order to cover the jungle entrances to avoid your team getting ganked. If the enemy team has a Blitzcrank you should also watch your positioning, so you won't be pulled (i.e. tribush dragon pit). When you have covered successfully you should head to blue/red buff (when needed) to help your jungler. Because of the new jungle it's more efficient to smite, so you only deal damage up to 50% health and then head to your base. I advice you to always take the safest route to your lane since enemies might be waiting to ambush you. We'd like to avoid that, no?

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Now, we are finally on lane and want to start farming! There are a few aspects you should always keep in mind:


1) Usually, we DO NOT want to push our lane!

Why is that? A lane not being pushed (especially early game) will make it hard for the enemy jungler to gank you. Furthermore, if you should get into a tight situation against the opposing botlane you can easily escape under your turret and possibly avoid getting killed. If they do follow you under turret (dive) and you die, there will always be the possibilty to at least get a kill out of it, too.
Now, how do we manage to avoid our lane getting pushed? First of all, your support should only autoattack minions when absolutely necessary! If your support should be having Relic Shield they should kill the minion when it has VERY low health. Second, since the same goes for you, you should only aim to last hit minions if possible. This will help you getting some gold by properly attacking the minions and avoid pushing too much.
BUT! Pretty often there are enemies who strongly push their lanes. The reasons for that can be quite a few. The most common though should be that they are confident in winning a possible fight against you and also want to pressure you under your turret, in order for you to mess up your last hitting by getting your turret to attack and kill the minions. We'd like to avoid that as much as possible, so when noticing that your enemy is autoattacking, thus pushing a lot, you have to counter him by doing the same. Ideally we'd like to let our lane get pushed close to our turret, but only so far that it won't harass us in farming.
If you manage to do that you will also make it easy for your jungler to gank your lane in order to secure some kills.



2) We want to WIN our lane!

Seems quite logical, but how do we achieve that? Farming minions alone won't do the job, so we gotta do some more. Here, Ezreal's poking capabilites and your skill will come into play. Since we have a low cooldown as well as a low mana cost on Mystic Shot which has a great range we will use this to our advantage by poking enemies. Ideally they will be low health after some time and you will be able to engage into a fight to finish him off.
You should favourably aim at the opposing ADC. There are quite a few reasons for that. If he gets poked to low health and you are still somewhat full health, he most likely won't put up too great of a fight and start retreating. Unless the enemy jungler is coming you should have no problem chasing him down while taking his supports damage.
You should only aim for the support if the ADC makes it very hard to poke him (i.e. always standing behind minions) or the enemies support is very squishy and can be taken down quite fast.
Additionally we can use our Mystic Shot to mess up their last hitting. In order to do that you will have to keep an eye on your own minions health and attack him with both, autoattack and Mystic Shot, when he comes in for the last hit.

For more detailed information on how to poke read the "Positioning" section.



3) We want to play it SAFE!

This plainly means that we want to avoid feeding, thus decreasing our chances of victory. That's why it is very important to farm properly. Only harass the enemy when you yourself don't lose any farm for doing that. Otherwise this will not have been worth it! This way you will secure yourself the much needed gold since kills should only be seen as bonus income.
When engaging into fights make sure you will have the advantage in the fight and there will be a high chance of you coming out victorious of it. To get to these advantages you will usually have to poke your enemies beforehand or wait for a gank from your jungler and/or possibly midlaner. If your laning phase went well so far you might also have an advantage in damage output after shopping.

Zoning desscribes the act of you (and your support) pushing/threatening the enemies so far away from minions that they are unable to last hit minions and/or receive experience. This can usually be best done when your support has an agressive skillset. If you manage to poke the enemy ADC and support without receiving damage they will be scared to stay close to you, since they have to fear getting finished off.

If you should manage to zone them, the most important thing is to possibly stand between minions and opposing botlane. This way you are able to keep the enemies out of reach for exprience/farm and can possibly land a few Mystic Shot's on them. When zoning you should keep last hitting and under no circumstances push! This way your minions will be killed by the enemy minions and the enemy ADC won't be able to farm them under his turret when you eventually reach that far. If the enemies should decide to teleport back into base in order to heal up/shop you should push your lane hard, so that their turret will kill your minions before they come back. This helps to prevent them from getting farm/experience from these minions. When pushed it's usually good to teleport back yourself and heal up and shop in order not to get a possible disadvantage.

While zoning you should always be careful of incoming ganks from their jungler and/or midlaner!

As it is with any other role, positiong is essential in LoL. Right positioning and choice of the terrain where to fight/engage can be favourable for your team if you know how to make the best out of your team composition.





To give you an idea about how to position yourself in a proper way i will take Vayne as an example. As most of you probably know Vayne will become very dangerous from one moment to the other when she gets her autoattacks going.


Example 1:

You are new to this game and have only played a few champs so far, Vayne not included. So we lack detailed information about our enemies skillset. Vayne on the other hand has more experience than you and knows how things go. Vayne will usually look out for an opportunity to hit you against a wall with Condemn. She manages to do that with a well done Tumble immediately followed by Condemn since you were standing close to a wall. You will receive damage and be stunned. While you are stunned she will keep autoattacking you and deal tons of damage thanks to her passive skill Silver Bolts, which mostly leaves you no other choice but to retreat and hope you will survive.


Example 2:

You are an experienced player and know what vayne is trying to do since you have played her yourself a few times or have read somewhere about it. Since we got this info and want to use it to our advantage as much as possible we will keep this in mind and carefully pay attention to not position ourself close to a wall! This way Vayne won't recklessy try to engage into a fight and will be forced to play more passive. She may be unable to engage into her prefered way of fighting, but this doesn't apply to us. We can keep poking her (while standing far away from walls) and slowly aim for a kill.


If you see Vayne is going to last hit a minion get yourself into position to land an autoattack and when possible a Mystic Shot on her. Doing this repeatedly will mess up her last hitting and get her low HP.


When playing against Vayne you should also try not to push your lane too much since thanks to her passive Night Hunter you will have trouble escaping from her if you should happen to get caught off-guard.


In short, we have to positions ourself according to the skillset our enemy has while simultaneously chosing the best positioning for our own strong points.





If you are farming, never stand still! Always keep moving! This way it will be harder for enemies to hit their spells (i.e. Nidalee throws spear out of fog of war) and also makes it harder to anticipate your next move. This way you can also pretend to go for a skillshot (bluff), while you in reality aren't and land a skill shot next time, when they think it will be a bluff again. Maybe they will even waste mana using an escape skill. As long as you don't take damage from doing that, keep the enemy busy thinking about what you are planning/doing.


Another possibilty to poke enemies is by taking them by surprise. Hit them with a Mystic Shot they think can't possibly come! "How do I do that?" you ask. The answer is simple. If you are going to last hit a minion you just have to get yourself into position to shoot a Mystic Shot very quickly through that arising gap straight at your enemy. So you first get into position first, autoattack and AS SOON AS your autoattack went flying you shoot a Mystic Shot after it. This way you will most likely land a surprise attack which will annoy your enemy. You can't do this too often though since your enemy will most likely learn to avoid this, but it may possibly worsen his last hitting since he has to pay more attention to your poke.


Another way they usually don't expect to receive damage is from our Essence Flux since we won't be using it too much because of its high mana cost. A well timed and used Essence Flux will not only allow you to deal some damage, but will also make your enemy more catious about you and possibly make him back off instead getting the desired minion.


Positioning right in teamfights will be playing the most important part if you aim to win a game since a won lane alone won't automatically let you win the game (even if all lanes + jungle should happen to win).
First of all, you should always keep a sufficient amount of distance from your enemies. Standing behind your tank(s) should usually be sufficient. If you happen to be fed the enemy team will naturally specifically aim for you. Keeping this and their skillset (i.e. Depth Charge, Unstoppable Force, Death Mark, Onslaught of Shadows) in mind you should always keep the appropriate distance to your enemies. Your tank(s) will be able to take a surprise attack, but you most likely won't. Since we as ADC usually provide the the most damage out of our team we ALWAYS have to be conscious about this. Sometimes it's also necessary to let your team fight alone for a while and keep your distance, since some enemies will just wait for you to enter the fight and burst you down the moment you are in range for their spells. When you notice they are specifically aiming for this keep in mind to stay away from these guys and go in after they've used these spells on someone else. Since we are Ezreal, the king of poking, we will just throw a well aimed Trueshot Barrage and some Mystic Shots at them until we can fully go in.


As previously stated, keeping the enemies skillset in mind, you should avoid any positioning that would give them an advantage (i.e. standing close to walls, standing alone, standing together).
If they happen to get you try to escape with Arcane Shift, preferably over a wall.


Always be at maximum attack-range. Never get any closer to any champion if possible. Keep your distance. This will make life for you a lot easier!

Who do we focus first? There is usually a lot of argueing about how and who to focus in a team. Following these guidelines should make you able to know what to do in which situation.



The absolute basic rule which you should always keep in mind is to attack the least tanky enemy in reach. As it often happens there will be standing the tanks in front which we don't really want to focus first since they have a lot of armor/mr and health. But if it isn't possible to go for any of their carries we will have to do just that. Shouldn't be too hard since we have a lot of armor penetration with this build.


WHEN POSSIBLE always focus the ADC or APC first, prioritizing by which one will be more dangerous if kept alive.


When firing your Trueshot Barrage make sure to hit as many enemies as possible, but always make sure to hit the ADC and/or APC with it! They will be taken down faster and are maybe scared to instantly enter the fight.


While attacking a target with autoattacks you can focus another target with your Mystic Shot (preferable ADC/APC).


Sometimes there will be (usually) 1-2 tanky champs on you trying to take you down. In this case you have to somehow survive their onslaught and try to take them down while doing so (with the help of support for example). If the terrain allows it you can jump over a wall and deal damage to other targets. They will either follow you (which will take some time) or change their targets.


If you see that one of your teams carries (the APC for example) is in trouble you should try to help. If he survives he can deal more damage during the fight. If the enemy should happen to focus your tank(s) which is pretty nice for us, go for their carries and take them down as fast as possible. Punish them for their wrong focus!