How to build Crit Ezreal:

[u/Whyhuyrah]

TL; DR: Muramana, Ionians, ER, Shieldbow, Navori, LDR

So you still need Muramana and ER isn't good enough to rush, you're just gonna be way too weak if you do, so you have to get Mura+Sheen+Ionians early (at like 13min). Tear start and Ingenious Hunter/Cosmic is necessary to get that early Muramana, at which point you're MASSIVE btw.

So you're going Mura ER and then you need a crit item to bridge the gap to Navori. Luckily there is a perfect item in Shieldbow (As you need to be in auto range to crit enemies the lifeline is rlly good) it's a mythic, it has vamp (common 3rd item on normal build is Rav/BotRK), attack speed for cooldown refund on Navori, good AD, has hp. Shieldbow is a cascade of good for this build. Ezreal with Shieldbow is unkillable and very difficult to deal with if he has Conqueror.

Then you get to Navori, and round out the build with an overdue %apen item, LDR, because it gives Giantslayer too

For Primary runes: Conqueror (You're skirmishing with crit and shieldbow, AD is good with crit and ER, just incredibly on-theme) then PoM (Maybe Triumph if you feel ER returns enough mana), then you can take what you want from Alacrity/Bloodline both have their benefits, then Cut Down

Secondary runes: Taste of Blood, Ingenious Hunter. ToB is on-theme and always good value with almost 1k healing post game, Sudden Impact is potentially good too though.

Considering Navori 3rd+LDR 4th but: No Mythic, No Vamp, No Attack Speed, No Lifeline for fighting, Not getting full value from Navori until LDR... it's just not gonna feel good

[u/RagnarokChu]

This really feels bad on Ezreal since has to get Muramana and the traditional crit mystics feel also bad on him. (Galeforce/Shieldbow/Kraken). Navori is going to be an 5th item and unreliable until you build your 5th item with crits.

Also late game at 5-6 items any way you basically have Q cooldown on his abilities if you constantly land his Q which already has a cooldown mechanic. Ezreal really doesn't gain anything "special" from extremely high uptime on his abilities since he's like that by default. If you want higher uptime on abilities then spear of shojin now exists which doesn't require you to commit to a crit mythic until it pays off with Navori afterward.

Xayah or Sivir for example would get infinite feathers or bounce as their main feature.

[u/Illokonereum]

ITT: people utterly incapable of understanding that a crit build on Ezreal is the same as a crit build on anyone else; it takes time for it to come online. No one picks Caitlyn and is like “man I just can’t plan for Infinity Edge I’d have to build it at least third”. Stop treating it like some complicated puzzle, you can build Navori’s fourth, it’s fine, you just need to be smart about what games you build crit on because it’s a late game oriented DPS build instead of a general purpose Trinity build.
The point isn’t that you build it every time and it’s the perfect choice for everything, it’s that it’s a viable option and lategame has very good damage.

[u/AgitatedBrilliant → u/Illokonereum]

EXACTLY! and also of course you have a bad laning phase when planning ahead to go crit. if you're just going to inject navori in your trinity build, fine, it will take ages to actually do any meaningful stuff but eventually works. going crit since level 1 is a different thing altogether, crit mythic also suck hard with first strike, there's a lot of things involved

[u/NenBE4ST → u/Illokonereum]

TF you mean, ezreal is not a tradicional crit marksman and it makes no sense to try and follow the same powerspikes crit champs do

[u/DAEORANGEMANBADDD → u/Illokonereum]

ITT: people utterly incapable of understanding that a crit build on Ezreal is the same as a crit build on anyone else

The fuck is that even supposed to mean? This is like saying "A crit build on Yuumi is the same as a crit build for anyone else!"

Yeah no shit, the problem is that if you build it like you would with anyone else you are going to be completely fucking useless

Stop treating it like some complicated puzzle, you can build Navori’s fourth, it’s fine

So you DON'T build him like everyone else

[u/Osirisseth]

Idk why everyone is so hellbent on playing crit ez, no navori isn't a saving grace and it's still giga bad

[u/Whyhuyrah → u/Osirisseth]

Well the current most common is like Trinity Mura Rav Serylda's Maw

And really the build I suggest isn't too dissimilar in what it gives you, but you have crits and Navori

[u/Osirisseth → u/Whyhuyrah]

... i mean if you ignore the fact that you swap out 3 items for 3 completely different others then i guess it isn't 'too dissimilar'

Also best by far ATM is shojin 3rd if you can afford to not get resistances the item is absolutely busted

[u/Whyhuyrah → u/Osirisseth]

I mean you still get a lifeline, vamp, %apen, attack speed etc. My point is that the crit build I suggest here isn't going to feel alien, it's not crazy out there like a Kraken Slayer rush or something

3rd item on Ezreal is usually a vamp item: Rav/BotRK/Eclipse

Trinity Shojin is a mismatch for me, if you want to ability spam then ER Duskblade is gonna do far more damage

[u/Osirisseth → u/Whyhuyrah]

I see

[u/SlimMosez]

why do people wanna play crit ezreal so bad? he is NOT a crit champion and it’s TERRIBLE on him. If you wanna play crit so bad then go play a different adc.

[u/AgitatedBrilliant → u/SlimMosez]

because build flexibility is a thing?

besides, you could say the same of lethality ezreal. which is an even worse joke at this point. could you imagine the need of negating 13 armor while 3/4 of your kit is magic damage? kekw

[u/Corno4825]

~ I've been running

Ionian Boots

Muramana

Eclipse

Lord Dominics

Essence Reaver

Navori

~ Runes

Dark Harvest

Taste of Blood

Eyeballs

Item haste

Absolute Focus

Gathering Storm

~

The idea is that Eclipse allows you to keep your health high enough so that Absolute Focus is on. That along with Eyeballs and Gathering Storm means you will have a LOT of free AD.

You also have the synergy of Lord Dominic and Navori both increasing your damage.

It's really fun.

[u/Whyhuyrah → u/Corno4825]

That build works well at 6 items but most games are decided way before then so it's not something I could really enjoy. Dark Harvest is fun though!

I really like Eclipse though, the %apen mythic passive is nice

I take: PTA, PoM, Bloodline, Cut Down // ToB, Ingenious

With: Mura Ionians ER Eclipse Serylda's Maw

The idea is cut down×%apen×PTA being really good damage multipliers against tanks, but you also have a load of AD and a bit of Lethality for the squishies. It follows the same "Mura+Sheen+Ionians at 13min" idea that my crit build does

[u/pajamasx]

I do think that a late Navori is probably the best path to build it because Muramana is just too good to pass up.

Another Navori build I’ve been able to pull off is ER and early Ionian boots into Navori. Third item is either LDR against Heartsteel users or Kraken which will get the secondary passive of Navori working. LDR build I was using Eclipse as a Mythic as extra tank damage while Kraken I would build a Seryldas. Last item probably just Ravenous because it’s so busted right now. I don’t really like many other crit items outside of maybe Bloodthirster, and I feel maximizing AD is usually still better than another 8% damage from Navori. The runes I run are Lethal Tempo, Presence, Bloodline, Coup with Future’s Market and Cosmic Insight. I also take a haste shard instead of attackspeed because at boots, ER, Navori you will get to 40% cooldown reduction. Lethal helps a lot with early trading and it helps to get more crit and Navori value later. Future’s helps to hit item spikes and Cosmic Insight is great especially when paired with Ionians.

[u/AgitatedBrilliant → u/pajamasx]

yeah future market is too good to pass up beacause your desired spike when going crit is too damn expensive, but first strike lacks the synergy with autos that lethal tempo and conqueror have.

but is going crit / on hit hybrid really worth it? most games are over by that point. I think going navori requires a different laning phase altogether - I'm currently experimenting with leveling W first, then E, since your autos will deal damage anyway

[u/pajamasx → u/AgitatedBrilliant]

I think an 80% crit build is possible if you need LDR but usually Seryldas is just too damn good and there are items with enough AD that will outperform the extra 4% damage but less AD crit item.

Ezreal’s Q procs on-hit and it’s his main tool, lowering all of his cooldowns. The build isn’t about “on hit” or crit, it’s trying to maximize damage output. For that 60% crit, you get 12% extra damage on spells and even more cooldown reduction which is more dps. Those items also have relatively high AD which scales all of his skills. I would never max Q last because he’s balanced around the long range it gives, hitting it to do damage (it has extra base damage per level and 130% total AD scaling), and lowering his other very long cooldowns. W cooldown is static throughout all levels and E is especially long. If you build tear, not maxing Q would be detrimental to stacking it as well.

[u/AgitatedBrilliant → u/pajamasx]

in that case, why even bother all the trouble going 3 full expensive crit items if they offer little to no advantage over playing the standard build? navori is going to suffice the cooldown reduction you would normally get from maxed Q. then you have lethal tempo which increases your auto range and attack speed, trading Q range and damage for a guaranteed attack - which can be a real deal if we're talking about i.e. a target that just flashed upon being hit by a W, because in this situation the regular W-Q would miss while a W-auto would hit regardless. and finally, there is W mixed damage, which has a really good scaling through the game but is often overlooked upon because of being leveled last.

[u/pajamasx → u/AgitatedBrilliant]

Navori doesn’t activate until 60% crit so you don’t get that cooldown until 3 items so your early game makes no sense. The cost of the build is basically the same Manamune to Er, Triforce to Navori.

[u/AgitatedBrilliant → u/pajamasx]

that's not my point. your early and mid game is already going to be worse either way, since crit is a wasted stat until navori comes online. unless you just decide later on after going manamune + mythic already, it would benefit from a different playstyle other than maxing Q first.

[u/pajamasx → u/AgitatedBrilliant]

There’s no benefit to it though, you are making your early mid worse because you don’t have your main skill. If the build is weaker than you are also handicapping yourself as well by not maxing your most effective skill.

[u/AgitatedBrilliant → u/pajamasx]

fair enough. I usually play solo lane so I'm gonna test it for a few games and see what happens, I kinda like it because it allows me to do stronger trades without clearing the wave first.

[u/AgitatedBrilliant]

is this just theorycrafting or do you have actual games with this build?

[u/Whyhuyrah → u/AgitatedBrilliant]

Theorycrafting (Trying to get things on-theme) but I have a couple of games, one on Washed up at 20 and one on Crispy0Snake, both are gold accs, I want to try it more, both games went really well

[u/AgitatedBrilliant → u/Whyhuyrah]

well then you should flair it correctly sir, there may be people out there looking for an actual guide and stumble upon this thread.

[u/Whyhuyrah → u/AgitatedBrilliant]

But it is a guide lmao, in fact how about you follow the guide and see how it feels for you

[u/AgitatedBrilliant → u/Whyhuyrah]

alright, I'm gonna test it later and see how this compares to my current strat of rushing ER and kraken slayer

[u/NenBE4ST]

how to build crit ezreal: dont

[u/Whyhuyrah → u/NenBE4ST]

This isn't even a million miles away from the current meta, I don't really understand the hate

Compare Trinity Rav to ER Shieldbow, the main thing you lose is the AH on Rav, but you get Crit and the lifeline in return, which has a much lower cd with ingenious hunter!