Hey Ezreal i was randomly thinking about ap ez since i miss being able to play him, but with the new style of farming mages that just clear waves quickly and then go farm wraiths or wolves or stuff, how do we get ezreal up to being able to compete with this new style of ap mid.

what if you were able to put a toggle on his w, sort of like jayces skillset, one side of the toggle lets him hit enemy champions and allied champions and have the current functionality, but then have an opposite toggle where it does nothing to champions but then affects minions. might be a bit broken to give attack speed to allied minions, especially for pushing large waves or taking down towers, but the ability to choose whether to hit minions or champions i think will give ezreal more decision points, to choose between harass or farming, while also giving him increased ability to solo his own buffs if necessary, because right now ez has a hell of a time trying to take down blue buff on his own when most other ap's can safely take it if necessary or if the jungler is busy with other tasks. ezreal needs help almost until lategame because having his biggest nuke do no damage to minions really hurts him in that regard.

just a thought, im not sure if you've tested it or not, but i believe it would allow ap ez to immediately be viable in the current meta, because most mages can just push the wave out and go gank while hes forced to stay and farm under turret because he cant clear except with his ult

He's Tempus now, and he's on hold indefinitely.

so jayce zyra and draven has no unique features...

and a undead jungler... i suppose hecarim is not undead nor a jungler

Hey Riot,
Here's an idea, and those of you who played Ogre Battle on the SNES might remember, but there was a boss battle called the Gemini Twins. You can look look up the battle on YouTube. Basically instead of one boss to battle you'd fight against two individual characters that acted as a single unit for some of their attacks. For example, one of their attacks would be one twin would throwing the other at you for massive damage. I forget some of their other attacks, but I do remember they were very powerful and a very cool boss to fight against.

Maybe put this "Twins Fighting as One" concept into a champion somehow?

To be clear, they'd have one life total. Hit one champion, you hit them both. Kinda like the Ice Climbers in Super Smash Brothers Brawl if I'm not mistaken.

He is getting his W nerfed in the PBE patch notes.

@edit: Ezreal you don't need to answer the old question
a rioter said he is going to get a 0.2 buff and its great

Also the new question: would be great to know what do you think about the current situation of Ezreal.
I always liked him and endured people calling me noob when i played as him. now that he is fotm I'm afraid of nerfs

old question
Ezreal what do you think about the PBE patch notes (the AP Ezreal "nerf" specifically)?
I really hope its not just 0.1 ap buff. its not a fair trade for ap Ezreal. I understand his AD side needed a little change but it hurts ap more

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We just implemented a system that allows you to control pets by using the key that summoned them (ala Viktor's Ultimate).

Though to be honest, I still use the old pet controls because I have gotten used to them. Can anyone out there give me some feedback on how the new ones feel?

Well, we still haven't found the perfect champion to be Kassadin's Daughter (though I have a solid idea for the future). That being said, we will not release a 'lore' champion unless we believe they add to the game more than just a nice tie in from a bio.

I put a fair amount of work into figuring out how to do the personality to a Hydra and simply could not find a way to make him non feral / beastial. Think back to all the hydra's you see in games and media (except for Takhisis though she is more of a Tiamat/Dragon than a Hydra), they are all beastial characters that the hero fights against. Hydra's are not known as anything more than mindless beasts...though as I say this...I just had a thought for how this might work...ummmmm....I'll get back to you...

1) I personally like it, though there are a number of reasons to avoid items like this. For example, we want them to be used on AD Casters...though they are just as good if not better on Fighters. We opted to go down the 'lets make it and test it for awhile' route for this item.
2) Perhaps, but only when we find that perfect fit. And only if the players demand it loud enough!
3) I believe she has gotten a suite of feel improvements and buffs since this was originally asked.
4) The character Ezreal is based off of a number of different sources, as are all of our champions.
5) Absolutely =-D, though I bet you can't guess what type of pet it will be...

I think we can make an AP who primarily uses auto attacks, though I question why you would want to place traps on the kit. That just sounds like either a trapmaster (which feels like a jungler), or Caitlyn.

Well, in Ryze's original kit he had a toggle that swapped his auto attack to magic damage. Unfortunately we didn't have great itemization for that type of character, we also didn't really know how to make a mage who focused on auto attacks. This is a problem that I am sure we could solve with our current level of knowledge.

We have also tried the 'ricochet off of terrain' ability, albeit only internally. It ran into a number of problems... First off, it was really difficult to make it understandable to the player (i.e. where the shot is going to go). It also had the problem requiring an extended range after bouncing off of terrain, lest it bounce off a piece of terrain, travel 200 units and putter out. We also found a cooler way to do an ability like this, we just haven't found a character that it would fit on well yet.

Nope =-P.

There are a number of goals we keep in mind from the inception of a character. For example, a ranged carry that requires 0 CS is simply a no no. After we get past those simple requirements we tend to let the designer go crazy for a long time. Then, as we start finalizing the kit we do a serious balance dive into the character to ensure that they are viable to some portion of the playerbase. That being said, new champions are not 'required' to be competitively viable, though we would like them to be.

Absolutely, we want to go back and improve all of the champions that we feel have not hit their full potential. Yorick and Sejuani in particular require a good once over.

1) League of Legends has the tendency to go through phases. Heck, even individual champions go through phases. After Pulsefire Ezreal came out we found that Ezreal was actually one of the most powerful AD Carries in the game! This was after everyone said that he was dramatically underpowered. So my hope is that someone will find the perfect hybrid build that will bring characters like Hybrid Ezreal back into competitive play.

2) This is a known bug (and a difficult one at that) that we are looking into.

Haha yea, I wanted the level 1 variant since you could see his face better.

You stole my 300th post...no response for you =-P.

We have tried that out internally and it ran into the problem of removing more gameplay than it added. For example, a tank's job is to get in the way of the fighter or assassin who wants to get to the back line and kill their squishies. Positioning and bodyblocking is a large part of this, and quite frankly permanent ghosting removes this play.

It is an unfortunate visual bug taht we are looking into.

I'll pass the Nidalee bug on.

And woo for the stealth rework!!!

We always want to improve the overall artwork of league of legends. Put yourself in our shoes. We don't have enough time to go back and improve the splashes of all of our old characters, and skins. And we have these amazing pieces of art that we are basically sitting on for those characters (calling them generic anime pics is just silly, imo they are superior to a lot of our own work from over the years). So we can either sit on a free improvement and keep the old janky artwork, or we can make our game look better. Perhaps the better question is whether we should go back and make new splashes when we do have the time.

Unfortunately I don't have a good answer for the individual pieces of 'good' artwork.

Haha, Rob Blackblade is probably the single worst character we have ever made a model for. I for one am super stoked that we looked at him and decided he was not league of legends quality.

As for the league of legends rogue...that would be Talon.

No plans currently.

Also, just to give you a history lesson on LoL, we actually started out as a 6v6 map in pre alpha. It sounded like a cool idea, every lane could have 2 champions (no jungler at the time) so no one complained about getting the solo lane. Unfortunately we encountered a major problem...teamfights were FUBAR. There were too many particles going on, too many moving characters, and most of all...too much damage. Players simply died before being able to do anything. Imagine adding one more AoE ultimate to that AoE Ult meta, it was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Well, we already have a pretty quintessential monk champion, Blind Monk. Perhaps if we went down a different route, like a Chi Master, or an evil monk villain (think Cobra Style).

:'(

Yo Ezreal,

My friend and I have noticed a bug with the Pulsefire Ezreal skin. Occasionally, when you get a last hit on a minion, it will not register as getting the kill and it will just sort of die without any recognition of a gold gain. (We've tried this where it's the only minion around with nothing else to steal the last hit and it still bugged out) Is this being looked into?

Hey, thanks for doing this!


1. Would you guys ever implement a "Paragon Level" type of system where you gain experience after level 30? The levels would provide no gameplay power.

It would provide ways to implement more customizations, and reduce the frustration of losing a game, as there are additional rewards for finsihing a game, so players always feel like they are progressing. The Tribunal could even be used to reward experience which could improve the community!


2. If there isn't a strong choice for an AD Caster item, why not switch the AD casters into scaling with Ability Power, as there are more itemization paths/options.

Renekton would become the Lizard Wizard!