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Choose Champion Build:
Spells:
Flash
Ignite
Ability Order
Rising Spell Force (PASSIVE)
Ezreal Passive Ability
Introduction





When built AD,
Ezreal can go to any lane and is nigh impossible to counter except when he goes top. His laning presence is terrifying, and his level 1 damage output trumps that of any other AD Carry. AD
Ezreal should be played aggressively in lane, because
Essence Flux makes it so few AD carries can't effectively retaliate, and his damage output is so high at low levels. If you can get off a few
Mystic Shots while the opponents are still level one or two you can easily win the lane.
AD Ezreal cannot carry as hard as carries like
Vayne and
Kog'Maw, but he does not fall off so long as you do not build him poorly.
Good Supports:
Alistar,
Taric,
Leona,
Blitzcrank,
Lulu.




AD Ezreal cannot carry as hard as carries like


Good Supports:





Pros
+ Strong Laning Phase+ Counters most carries in lane + Extremely Versatile + Lots of Skillshots + Very satisfying when you hit your skillshots |
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Cons
- Outclassed by other carries late game- Squishier than most - Lots of Skillshots - Can't spam his skills as much as some characters - Very stressful when you miss basic skillshots |
Ezreal begins the game more of an AD caster, he bursts people down with
Mystic Shot and autoattacks. The typical build is to grab a
Bloodthirster and a
Trinity Force in order to maximize the damage on his Mystic Shot. The problem is that the purpose of an AD carry is to bring their team through the late game, and the
Infinity Edge -->
Phantom Dancer -->
Last Whisper combination gives you much more damage output then what others usually build.
If you build for maximizing the damage of
Mystic Shot it will still inevitably fall off due to not being able to get critical hits. Even AP Ezreal can potentially do more damage than you with it. Mystic shot is going to be overpowered in laning phase regardless of what you build. My build still takes advantage of
Ezreal's OP earlygame while maximizing damage output late game.
Practice last hitting, you need farm as an AD carry to afford all of your expensive items. You can use
Mystic Shot to kill minions that you might otherwise miss, but don't do that just to do it, because you're going to run out of mana pretty fast.
Double
Doran's Blades and a
Vampiric Scepter give you a lot of sustain and killing power in lane. I would only skip the dorans if you get extremely fed and can grab a B.F. Sword right away.
In order to AD Carry properly you need to stand in the back and attack whoever is safe to attack without overextending. You have
Arcane Shift to save you, but it doesn't go that far. Keep in mind the consequences of your actions. If you chase after the low-life
Shyvana in the middle of the teamfight and get too close to a
Veigar, you're going to die and the teamfight could potentially be lost. The AD carry is the enemy team's #1 priority when looking for who to focus (unless your ap carry is extremely fed or something).






If you build for maximizing the damage of


Practice last hitting, you need farm as an AD carry to afford all of your expensive items. You can use

Double


In order to AD Carry properly you need to stand in the back and attack whoever is safe to attack without overextending. You have



Runes




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Alternatively, you can take armor penetration for your marks. Flat AD makes it much easier for you to last hit however and makes your

Offensive
Summoner's Wrath
5 AD after using ignite, also good.
Alacrity
to get to
Weapon Expertise
Weapon Expertise
Makes you do a lot more damage
Deadliness
More overall damage than havoc by itself.
Lethality A lot more damage than havoc. If you actually do the math on it, Havoc equates to about 5 extra damage for all 3 points. If I'm critting for about 1000, lethality is adding an extra 40 damage to my crits, and I crit 93% of the time with full build.
Vampirism
Extra sustain for 19% lifesteal with your early core.
Sunder
A flat reduction of 6 armor, helps last hitting & damage.
Executioner
AD Carry needs to get kills, this helps in doing that. Apart from that it's okay.
Defensive
Hardiness
Armor helps reduce the enemy carry's auto attacks, take MR instead if you go mid lane.
Resistance
Because there was nothing better to take.
Durability
An extra 108 hit points is a lot when you consider how low Ezreal's base is.
Veteran's Scars
30 extra hit points at level one, can really help turn the tide in those level one skirmishes.
I prefer to take 9 points into utility when playing with my friends to grab
Runic Affinity
because I will often get red buff. 9 points in defense is the superior route when you can't rely on your teammates to realize that it helps you more in teamfights.









Defensive




I prefer to take 9 points into utility when playing with my friends to grab

Openings




Boot 3 pot for short, is probably the best opening for most situations. The early boots help you escape early jungle ganks, and they allow you to more easily chase down your enemy. The potions provide an enormous amount of sustain early on that allows you to play aggressively then step back for a few seconds to regain all of your health.






Cloth 5 pot is what you're doing if you're going to try to jungle. I've also seen many top laners run it, but I imagine Ezreal would need the boots to kite. You could grab cloth 5 pot if you blind pick top lane and you're up against a


This is the weakest opening for most scenarios, but also the most common in lower levels of play. I really don't recommend grabbing a Doran's as your first item. It's doable if you go bottom lane with a support that offers a lot of sustain such as





This is your laning phase core, regardless of what you start you should try to work toward this. I'd grab the vamp scepter early if you're dealing with a lot of poke and you need the extra sustain. Grab your Doran's blades if you're having trouble last hitting under a tower or you want more killing power. Boots 2 should come after you get both doran's blades and the vamp scepter, but you can rush it early if you feel like you need the extra movement speed.
Main Build

You need this item to carry, you cannot keep up in DPS without it. So many Ezreal builds grab this item as late as possible which is the worst thing you could do. The extra 20 damage you would get on your


Synergizes well with the above more than a triforce would due to more attack speed and more crit chance. This is fairly cookie-cutter if you're playing carries like





Always get this before your bloodthirster. If you need the extra sustain from



Gives a lot of damage, that's the #1 reason to take it.

This is a bad item choice if your team is composed of goldfish. What is supposed to happen is in the event that you die, five seconds later you hop back into action and lifesteal all your hit points back.

Late game you have the option of selling your






If you don't have inventory space, you automatically drink these. Always take them when you are full build.
Other item choices

This is still an okay item on Ezreal, it makes your midgame strong but your lategame suffers for it. If you do grab a triforce take it after your




Get this if you're having problems with burst mages like


A great pick for players with the reaction timing to make it useful, wouldn't recommend it to newbies.

Also good for reducing crowd control if you really need the extra survivability.

A highly situational item that I rage whenever I see as the first item in someone's build. The only time a black cleaver is really useful on an ad carry is if you're playing against people who are bad and don't build armor for some reason. In this scenario, you swap your







- Damage falls off late game due to not being able to crit.
- It automatically applies on-hit effects such as Sheen proc and red buff.
- Fire this off into a bush before you walk into said bush, you will both be able to see the skillshot hit something and you will gain 1 stack of your passive.


- Late game,
Essence Flux will probably not be used on the enemy carry because your positioning is hopefully not terrible enough that you will be within range to use it on the enemy carry. It can still be used at the bruisers who charge after you though. It is also possible that the enemy carry has extremely bad positioning and you are within 900 range of them, but they should be dead relatively quickly.
- For the most part, only try to use this in lane if you are trading auto attacks with the enemy carry. You have
Mystic Shot for poking, and essence flux drains you mana really fast. Learning how to manage your resources, in this case mana, is one of the most important aspects of any strategy game.
- The attack speed reduction is multiplicative, whereas the buff is additive. This means that you reduce their total attack speed, so if they have 2.00 you reduce that to 1.20.

- NEVER USE YOUR E OFFENSIVELY IN TEAMFIGHTS, IF ANYBODY DIVES AFTER YOU AND YOUR E IS ON COOLDOWN YOU ARE A DEAD EZREAL!
Arcane Shift can be used to dodge
Blitzcrank's pulls with good reaction speed and careful timing, even if you are hit by the pull you will go where you jumped to and only be stunned.
- Mana costs are high, don't spam this in lane except when using it to pick up kills or dodge skillshots that might otherwise be hazardous to your health.
- When going midlane, you can use this to juke skillshots from casters like
Xerath. You should also check if the enemy jungler is a skillshot dependent champion like
Amumu, so that you can save your arcane shift to dodge his
Bandage Toss.

This skill is so sick it deserved its own chapter. You can steal baron with it, pick up kills from across the map, steal buff camps and kill the enemy jungler, and punish the enemy team for bad positioning by hitting them all with your thousand damage banana. Phreak uses Ezreal's ultimate to clear minion waves. This should only be done if you're feeling particularly trollish.
It's on like a 60 second cooldown if you factor in your

Main




Also Good





Probably not.















No





AD Ezreal is a hard character to master, he takes a lot of practice and has a difficult play style. Even if you land all his skillshots, you still have to leverage his powerful early game over enemy carries to keep up. To do this you have to play aggressive.
In general, Only attack a minion if that attack will result in the minions death. Standing still using your autoattack on minions makes you easy to hit with skillshots like Blitzcrank's
Rocket Grab, and pushes the lane so that the enemy can safely farm without fear of a jungle gank. It also may make csing more difficult then it has to be, because the minions could easily kill the monster in the delay between your auto attacks.
If you win your lane early, try zoning the enemy. Every time they get within range of the creeps shoot them in the face with a
Mystic Shot.
Your support should always be warding for you assuming you go bottom, there is never an excuse to not have a ward on dragon & tribush (bush above blue team's 1st tower at bottom lane). If you go top or mid lane, it is up to you to purchase wards for your lane, and it's highly recommended at that because it helps everyone on your team.
If you are mid lane, poke your enemy with
Mystic Shot as much as you can early on. Things get more difficult as mages start to scale with levels, so you have to shut them down while you are both low.
Top lane I don't know about, I haven't played very much
Ezreal top lane and I feel like other characters can do it much better than he can. That being said, Ezreal works incredible against bruisers with suboptimal gap closers like
Singed, just auto attack him every time he tries to get minion kills and kite him if he chases after you. Always ward top lane, one death from a gank can easily shut you down. Top is the most snowbally lane in the game presently.
If you're going up against a really hard lane or your support doesn't bring any sustain, by all means buy potions. the hundred or so gold you "waste" on a potion could potentially win your lane.
Practice, you're probably going to fail for a lot of your early games if you're unfamiliar to the role or game, but you have to keep up the effort.
Ezreal is one of the most fun and rewarding champions to those who get good with him, and hes versatile enough that you're almost always able to play him.
In general, Only attack a minion if that attack will result in the minions death. Standing still using your autoattack on minions makes you easy to hit with skillshots like Blitzcrank's

If you win your lane early, try zoning the enemy. Every time they get within range of the creeps shoot them in the face with a

Your support should always be warding for you assuming you go bottom, there is never an excuse to not have a ward on dragon & tribush (bush above blue team's 1st tower at bottom lane). If you go top or mid lane, it is up to you to purchase wards for your lane, and it's highly recommended at that because it helps everyone on your team.
If you are mid lane, poke your enemy with

Top lane I don't know about, I haven't played very much


If you're going up against a really hard lane or your support doesn't bring any sustain, by all means buy potions. the hundred or so gold you "waste" on a potion could potentially win your lane.
Practice, you're probably going to fail for a lot of your early games if you're unfamiliar to the role or game, but you have to keep up the effort.

Explanation
There are a fair amount of support champions in League of Legends and if you play bottom lane you need to learn to work with one. There are four types of supports you could have: poke, sustain, burst(kill lane), and troll. Poke lanes usually work well against burst lanes, sustain lanes beat poke lanes, and burst lanes beat sustain lanes.
Troll lanes are when nobody on your team wanted to play support, so the last pick was forced to do the job. The result is a no-ward support

Burst(Kill) lane

A good Alistar is overpowered in my opinion. Flash into somebody and headbutt pulverise them towards your carry while being invincible even without items and providing a decent amount of sustain. When laning with alistar know that his headbutt could potentially move your target out of the way of your


Taric is a great beginners support, he's not too difficult to play and he bursts extremely hard. When he stuns somebody you try to follow it up by jumping on the person he stuns. Keep in mind though that not every taric stun is worth following up, he's just wasting his mana if he stuns somebody that I can't hit with my Q due to minions being in the way.

He increases your attack & movement speed and does the opposite to the enemy carry. Incredible support with Kog'maw and other right-click to win carries. Ezreal is more of an AD caster in laning phase so they dont synergize that well. That being said, nunu's slow does make it easy to land skillshots, and blood boil helps with chasing people or running away.

This guy is annoying to play against, he packs a lot of damage and pubstomps super hard. Alistar is better though. Bad blitzcranks can lose games all by themselves. You'll know what I mean when you see a blitzcrank pull a



Most Ezreal players I know prefer Leona over any other support. She has a bunch of crowd control and ridiculous kill potential. Her spells apply sunlight, by which you can auto attack to deal additional damage to your target. She's incredible paired with


He's a lot like


She bursts pretty hard with her Q, and


I hate lux support, it works fairly well but shes just such a good laner that it makes me cringe.

See above only worse. Morgana support is turning one of the strongest laners into a mediocre support. That being said, support Morgana isn't bad, but if you're looking up a mobafire guide you're probably not good enough to take full advantage of her kit.

Sustain Lane

Her heals have a low base and scale pretty bad. Another problem is they auto-target whoever has the lowest life, which could be problematic in teamfights because you need to stay alive more than anyone else in the team.


She's like the second squishiest hero in the game (first is Anivia I think). She's also probably the easiest support in the game to learn and play. Her kit is incredibly strong however, two great heals a silence and magic penetration. Infuse allows you to spam your skills more often without worrying about running out of mana. Soraka is a weak support for Ezreal though, who needs an aggressive support to fully abuse his strength early.

A lot of people consider her to be the strongest late game support. Her shield gives you AD which is pretty nice for your



His heal is garbage, it costs a lot of mana and has a really long cooldown. You pick Taric for the killing power not the sustain.
Poke Lane

He's somewhat of an overpowered top laner, but he also makes an excellent support. He has a bit of crowd control and a ton of burst/self sustain with his ghouls. Also



Everyone says shes an OP support, idk about that. She's really good though with a kit consisting of tons of crowd control and tons of damage mitigation. She works great with Ezreal because its hard to dodge skillshots when you can't move, and you can't retaliate if you're a squirrel. Her poke is also really strong and combined with Ezreal will easily force your opponents out of lane if not kill them.

She's a really versatile support, what can I say?

Her






Tornadoes are pretty easy to dodge, but you can still hit people with them.
No Idea

Nobody plays her. I've heard she's really overpowered with


Well, I've heard it works, someone did it in a tournament apparently, I've never had a fiddle support though. He has a lot of crowd control and his base damage is pretty high, so I imagine he'd make a pretty good kill lane.
Disclaimer: My section on AP Ezreal is still relatively unfinished, I still need to do a lot to it.
AP Ezreal is fun, his damage output is really good in the later part of the game. The main issue is his early game is so bad that you don't get him to late game. The only thing he brings that other AP carries can't do better is a global skillshot ultimate. You have no crowd control, no ability to push the lane, and little damage output until you get a
Lich Bane.
On the plus, you have great range, great poke, great burst, and a lot of AoE damage.
Rylai's Crystal Scepter helps make up for the lack of crowd control and
Zhonya's Hourglass is just an excellent item if you're getting focused.
AP Ezreal is fun, his damage output is really good in the later part of the game. The main issue is his early game is so bad that you don't get him to late game. The only thing he brings that other AP carries can't do better is a global skillshot ultimate. You have no crowd control, no ability to push the lane, and little damage output until you get a

On the plus, you have great range, great poke, great burst, and a lot of AoE damage.


I would only pick AP Ezreal if I was up against a weaker AP carry that can't push the lane very well. Characters like
Morgana will have you permanently pushed up to your tower so that it becomes really hard to get minion kills.
Or you could just play
Twisted Fate instead, he's like the exact same thing as AP Ezreal but you have a strong laning phase.
If Riot ever released a buff to make
Essence Flux damage minions like
Wild Cards or
Orb of Deception, maybe AP Ezreal would be viable. His inability to push the lane is what makes him such an inferior character. If I were playing against an AP Ezreal I'd just stack gold per 10 and keep him farming under his turret.

Or you could just play

If Riot ever released a buff to make



Runes




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TEEMO | Flat MR runes to help mitigate damage from the enemy AP Carry/assassin. A lot of people also like to run AP per level glyphs, but I think that's a bit reckless. | TEEMO |
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TEEMO | Helps you spam dem skills in lane, and evens out with flat mp5 runes at about level 7. | TEEMO |
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TEEMO | There's not much else to take in my opinion, flat AP quints give you a fair amount of extra damage in your spells. | TEEMO |
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Offensive
Summoner's Wrath
If you do use your ignite early(when you have kill potential), the extra ad and ap help slightly both in last hitting and against the enemy carry.
Brute Force
You have decent AD scaling ratios anyway, 4 AP will do nothing for you but AD helps to last hit.
Butcher
Help last hit.
Alacrity
Prerequisite
Weapon Expertise
Lich Bane and
Mystic Shot both hit for physical damage, meaning they don't benefit from magic penetration at all. Late game this helps your mystic shots hit a bit harder.
Sorcery 4% CDR, which combined with a few other things late game helps me push my CDR to 39%.
Arcane Knowledge
What's not to like? increases your damage at every stage of the game.
Blast
Needed to put the points somewhere, you can put them anywhere you want so long as it's in the offensive tree.
Archmage
Moar AP, do want.
Executioner
Helps with bursting people down when they have lower life.
Utility
Summoner's Insight
Having
Flash up more often is a very good thing.
Expanded Mind
Increases your mana pool, which can make a huge difference since late game Ezreal may expend a good portion of his mana pool poking with
Mystic Shot
Meditation
Along with your mana regen seals, you get to spam your skills a lot more often.
Swiftness
Nothing else to take.
Runic Affinity
Most junglers should offer you blue buff, granted that they know you're not just going to go die with it. Especially useful in premades where you can rely on your jungler to get 2nd blue and every blue after that.












Utility







Opening Build
You get two of these early on for the extra hit points, sustain, and killing power in lane. Don't skip these unless the enemy for whatever reason tries a mass tower dive on you at level one and you get a pentakill.
You get sorc shoes to make your poke hit harder.
Void Staff makes this item less efficient however. On a target with about 100 MR you're only reducing that by about 10.8.
Consider grabbing these as a late game replacement to
Sorcerer's Shoes for 39% CDR with blue buff & masteries. Protip: CDR cannot go higher than 40%.
Core Build
Most cost effective item when it comes to raw Ability Power. Core on every mage ever.
Gives your
Mystic Shot a 1.2 AP ratio, you need it to do good damage mid and late game. You get this after the
Rabadon's Deathcap because you need AP to make it cost effective. I've done some math on Ezreal's combos involving triple doran then a lichbane as your opening, and the only one Lich bane comes out on top of is
Essence Flux-->
Mystic Shot. Triple Dorans Lich bane is only good if you are maximizing your long ranged poke and saving Arcane Shift for the escape. You would do this against characters like
Annie or
Veigar who can easily kill you if you don't abuse your range advantage. The damage scales slightly better with the Lich Bane, but my calculations ignored that there was a 600 gold imbalance in Lich Bane's favor, so Death Cap is probably more cost efficient.
Need magic penetration to do damage to people who start stacking MR.
Amazing for Ezreal
Gives you CC, 15% of 400 is 60 move speed from your
Essence Flux or
Trueshot Barrage.
Life saving active, also gives you a lot of armor and AP.
6th pick of an item, really great for Ezreal. Lifesteal works with
Mystic Shot and spell vamp works for everything else.
Situational
Gives a lot of MR and a little bit of magic penetration, you can go for something like this early if you're against a
LeBlanc or a derpy team full of AP carries.
It's a great item, you mostly get it if you're having mana problems. If your jungler for whatever reason refuses to give you blue buff, this may be a viable item.
Adds a lot more burst, it's a great item for when the enemy team is stacking hit points and you can't damage anyone.
Only get for grievous wound if you're up against a
Sion or
Warwick and your team for some reason lacks
Ignite. The other stats on it are okay, but nothing you absolutely have to have.
Don't Bother
Great item, but a
Hextech Gunblade is much better because
Mystic Shot benefits from lifesteal, not spell vamp.
Becomes cost effective at 6 stacks of kills, but even if you get it all stacked up it's really dangerous to build snowball items. If you die it takes a long time to stack it back up. This might be viable if you're playing with people too dumb to focus the guy with the Mejai's, but otherwise its an inferior item.
Do I even need to explain? This is an item that you get for pure early game benefit, AP Ezreal suffers in the midgame. Getting this only delays the items you need to start doing damage again.
Takes too long to stack up to be effective, and even then it only really gives you AP. You could grab a
Tear of the Goddess early to stack up the mana, but it seriously delays your core build which means a lot longer until you start doing damage again, and that's a big deal.
This is an item you build early so that you can get it stacked up late. Ezreal needs to rush his
Rabadon's Deathcap and
Lich Bane to do well in teamfights. You also don't really need the stats it gives you. [Rylai's Crystal Scepter]] already gives you life, and a slow to go with it. [Zhonya's hourglass]] gives you a panic button for when
Nocturne uses his
Paranoia on you.
Yuck, you don't need most of the stats this gives you. The CDR is wasted with CDR boots and blue buff, and you aren't autoattacking so what would you do with attack speed?
Philosopher's stone
Kage's lucky Pick
Gp10 stacking in mid-lane is for AP Carries that can push super hard and safely farm like
Malzahar and
Karthus. Wouldn't recommend it on Ezreal. Don't buy a gp10 item past about the 20 minute mark, because it takes about 20 minutes for them to pay themselves off and it's no longer a good investment.





Core Build









Amazing for Ezreal






Situational








Don't Bother













Philosopher's stone




I've already explained the use of all of





One thing you need to keep in mind is that the damage of




No, it's just bad. Your auto attack cannot keep up in damage with AD and all of your skills do less damage than lategame AP. With a
Lich Bane, AP Ezreal's
Mystic Shot has a 1.2 AP Ratio. Overall, you just lack damage at every stage of the game except early (Which AD still beats you at).



Pay attention to how Stonewall fired a


You can use arcane shift to hop over walls, which leads to plenty of surprises for the people you're ganking.
August 9, 2012
- Maxing
Essence Flux first when you go bottom lane is ridiculous, skill order on the cheat sheet and skill sequence both modified.
- Added a bit and changed a bit of the stuff I had written for
Essence Flux.
- Cleaned up certain parts of the guide that I felt were messy or redundant.
- Redid the chapter where I explained my AD runepage.
- Added a Credits section, because stealing peoples ideas without acknowledging that you stole them is totally uncool.
- Added more information on AD Ezreal's possible item openings.
- Added dividers everywhere, inb4 complaints to get rid of them. I think they look nice in some spots, but I'm still messing around with them and I was extremely tired when I added them.
- Support Fiddle
- revamped the entirety of AD Ezreal.
- Changelog Added
- Entry added on Yorick Support
- Introduction updated
- Elaborated on a lot of items for the "Don't Bother" section for AP Ezreal, and suggested a possible alternative build involving grabbing your lich bane before a death cap(Which is almost always a terrible idea on other carries, would only work on Ezreal due to having **** ratios to start with).
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