AD Carry

Ezreal Build 26.21

Off-meta at 47.3% and climbing this patch, Ezreal asks more of the pilot than almost any marksman. His damage is not in his auto-attacks but in landing the Q skillshot, which pokes, applies his on-hit effects, and shaves the cooldown off every one of his abilities when it connects. String those hits together and his blink keeps him untouchable while he chips the enemy down. Miss them and he does nothing, which is exactly why his floor is low and his ceiling is sky-high.

#80 of 91 ad carry this patch · 19.6k games

Win rate47.3%+0.9Games19.6kPick rate13.5%Ban rate4.9%Last 8 patches−0.2 since 26.14Damage profilei

AP 29%AD 69%True 2%DifficultyiHighPunishes misplays

The 10-second answer standard · 47.3% WR

Spells

Flash + Barrier Start

Ionian Boots of Lucidity SkillsQ›E›W Runes

Shards

ClassicModernARAM Counter

173 champions

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LoL ClassicSee how Ezreal was built in the classic eraEzreal Classic Build

When Is Ezreal Strongest?

The peak lands in the mid-game once the core items come together, and games at this rank average around 28 minutes. Ezreal's win condition is safe scaling, so ride the power window by poking objectives and fights from range, stacking his attack speed passive, and never spending his blink until the moment he truly needs to survive.

Game timeline · Ezreal drag or hover to scrub · space plays · ←/→ step

your power minute by minute · gold = item spikes · small = components · dashed = objectives

Camps1:30Drake / Grubs5:00Herald14:00Baron20:00Avg end28:14

Ambush zone5:30–7:00 Power spike 12:14

~5:07

12:14

24:48

27:31

0:00 10:00 20:00 30:00 40:00

At 12:00

Power 54/100 · Even

Core 0/3 items

Gold ~5.7k

Phase Lvl-6 window

Next spike Trinity Force · 12:14

Ezreal Item Build

Ezreal is a skillshot marksman who reduces his own cooldowns every time his main bolt connects, so the build leans into ability haste and steady damage to keep his poke and his blink always available. The items reward accuracy, turning a laner who lands his shots into a safe, scaling threat that snowballs its own uptime.

Standard loadout · Ezreal The consensus path — reliable spikes, no dead time.

Starting items 500g

Doran's Bow×1

Health Potion×2

Stealth Ward×1 Core path · click an item for its recipe ›› Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity82% · 47.7%

Gluttonous Greaves18% · 52.2%

Situational items pick an opponent in the bar above — the right swaps light up

vs AP threatsTheir damage is mostly magic — stack magic resist before their second item.M

Maw of Malmortius86153.4%

vs AD threatsPhysical threats spike with lethality — armor answers buy the mid game back.G

Guardian Angel43656.4%F

Frozen Heart1.5k50.8%

vs stacked resistsWhen resists stack, penetration beats raw stats — swap a damage slot.L

Lord Dominik's Regards44550.6%M

Muramana16.9k48.6%M

Mortal Reminder43944.6%

vision controlFights are decided a minute earlier by the team that sees first.F

Farsight Alteration15.6k49.2%O

Oracle Lens18945.5%S

Stealth Ward3.8k39.6%

Best Ezreal Runes

Lethal Tempo is the usual setup. Whatever the page, the engine underneath is identical, landing Q consistently is what powers the keystone, his passive attack speed, and his cooldown resets all at once. The rune choice just follows the same rule the rest of his kit does, hit your skillshots and everything snowballs from there.

The pre-game page Lethal Tempo · Precision + Inspiration · keystone + 5 runes + 3 shards

Precision Primary

Lethal TempoAttacking an enemy champion grants you Attack Speed, up to 6 stacks. At max stacks, deal bonus adaptive damage On-Attack.

Presence of Mind97% · 47.3%

Legend: Bloodline68% · 47.1%

Coup de Grace58% · 46.8%

Keystone plus three minors from Precision, two from Inspiration, then three shards — no runebook, no masteries.

Inspiration Secondary

Biscuit Delivery47% · 46.3%

Magical Footwear49% · 46.4%

Stat shards Offense

Attack Speed+10% Attack Speed

Flex

Adaptive Force+9 Adaptive Force

Defense

Health Scaling+10–180 Health (by level)

Shards give +10%Attack Speed+9Adaptive Force+10–180 Health (by level)

Build toward Trinity Force into Spear of Shojin and lean on Ezreal's poke until it all comes together. You want an early lead here, so punish your winning matchups fast. Once Spear of Shojin is finished around 25 minutes, every Q chunks for real damage and refunds enough cooldown to keep the barrage almost constant. Play the early game safe and attritional, poking from max range until that item turns your chip damage into a genuine threat.

Ezreal Skill Order

Points 1, 4 and 5 all go to Mystic Shot, which is why the poke bites so much harder after level 5 than it did at level 2. Arcane Shift sits at rank one until level 8, so early trades lean on the bolt more than the blink.

Skill order · Ezreal R at 6 / 11 / 16 — always

PriorityR

R›Q

Q›E

E›W

WMax Q first; E at level 2.

Lv 123456789101112131415161718

Q14579max 9

W31415max 15

E28101213max 13

R611max 11

Ezreal Abilities

Almost none of that mentions the passive: Rising Spell Force stacks attack speed every time a spell connects, up to five, so his autos ramp the more he hits. Essence Flux plants an orb that detonates on his next hit, and Arcane Shift's bolt homes onto whatever it stuck.

Abilities · Ezrealpatch 26.22 base numbers · click an ability · all ranks shown

Rising Spell ForcePassiveP

Mystic ShotMax 1stQ

Essence FluxMax lastW

Arcane ShiftMax 2ndE

Trueshot BarrageUltRRank-up levels here match the skill order below.

Mystic ShotPhysical damageMax 1stStatLV 1rank 1LV 4rank 2LV 5rank 3LV 7rank 4LV 9MAXDamage+25 per rank+130% AD+40% APlv 120lv 445lv 570lv 795lv 9120Cost+3 per ranklv 128lv 431lv 534lv 737lv 940Cooldown-0.25 per ranklv 15.5slv 45.25slv 55slv 74.75slv 94.5s

Ezreal Base Stats

Base stats · EzrealPatch 26.22

Base statslevel 1 · +per levelAD60+3.75AS0.625+2.5%MS325Range550HP600+102HP54+0.65Armor24+4.2MR33+1.1MP375+70MP58.5+1

Ezreal Matchups

Ezreal is squishy and relies on his blink to stay safe, so hard engage that burns his escape and lockdown that catches him mid-animation are the threats that punish him. Immobile poke lanes and slow-moving frontlines that cannot pin him down let him whittle everything from a safe range.

Lane matchups · Ezreal click any opponent to retune the console

Hardest lanes · click to tune

Best hunting

How to lane vs AP mages 01Dodge their skillshots by sidestepping, then punish cooldowns with Mystic Shot.02Push with Mystic Shot then roam for picks while they clear.03Build magic resist; poke from range and save Arcane Shift for escape. Win rate by game lengthEzreal overall · all matchupsUnder 20 min46.5%20–28 min49.9%28–35 min46.1%Over 35 min44.5%

Respect Mel, Yone, and Yasuo in the early game, all-in and dive threats who can close the gap before his blink is back up and punish his lack of steroids. He has one escape and a long cooldown on it. Into Swain, Seraphine, and Veigar, his poke wins the war of attrition outright, so sit at range, poke safely, and whittle them down until they cannot contest an objective. Patience into those matchups is how he takes the game over.

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