Posted by Skill

ad ez is way better than AP.

I go Triforce->lucidity boots->BotRK->LW->IE->GA

Obviously it varies depending on what the enemy picks and plays.

Posted by Talon

IE -> TForce -> Zerk -> Essence/BT -> Shiv/PD -> LW/GA/Zhonya's/BV

You read that and you thought, "lol shiv and essence, build unviable"

Traditional honestly the way to go, even if the meta sheep of GD and Bronze-Plat Elo dont think so. This way, he's actually an ADC who deals damage and stays relevant in the lategame. Don't like BotRK or Lucid at all, he doesn't need any more help with kiting than he already does, or you're positioning terribly. Essence Reaver gives you the CDR you need, but everyone's surrounded it with stigma because it used to be a **** item when it was released. BotRK is extremely situational, I'd only build it against comps like Jax/Darius/Mundo/Nasus/etc. Ezreal always appears to fall off because of people building stuff like Tear/Iceborn/CDR on him, basically making him an AD caster. Stuff like that promotes a more passive "only use Q from backline" mentality which sucks. ADCs only scale so well because of crit, and when you take that PD/Shiv away in favor for anything else, you might as well play AP mid where your Q's do more than 150 damage endgame.

Though I'm sure everyone writes this build off without trying it once because pretty much everyone in this game is sheep. But whatever, Ezreal is by far the most diverse champ in terms of build paths, but I've just found traditional ADC to be the most superior. Lucian and Corki do the AD caster-style ADC so much better, and while you can say that Trist pulls off traditional ADC the best, Ezreal is a lot more fun than right clicking and has a lot more utility. He's already got the 100% uptime on 50% AS if you have any clue how to play the champion, so just take advantage of that and actually play ADC.