Ezreal Rework: League of Legends’ Ezreal rework is officially revealed

"Time For a True Display of Skill"

The moment we've been waiting for, the most effective small rework of Ezreal is finally here. Like what just has been discuss in the forum, Ezreal changes are its following.

Ezreal’s rework should go live in patch 8.20 and will move to the Public Beta Environment cycle soon for testing.

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“We didn’t need a map to know that dramatically changing his abilities would be a disservice to one of League’s most iconic marksmen,” Riot said in its August roadmap. “That said, we also know that Ezreal players aren’t in love with his current W, Essence Flux, so we will be updating that ability to be more in-line with his theme of an ace spellslinger—lining up shots then knocking ’em down.”

In the video you can see his new model in action as well as what all his skins look like. The biggest kit change we see is to his W, Essence Flux, which now seems to add an on-hit effect to enemies that you target. Neat! Riot did note before that this was the only kit change they were looking to make for Ezreal, so this shouldn’t be surprising.

His new look also isn’t really a dramatic change to what he is on live servers now, but his model is definitely polished and now looks more modern. The neat wing-like effect from when he uses his ultimate also looks about as cool as you should feel when you fire that bad boy across the map.

His cheaper skins, like Frozen and Explorer, have definitely gotten an upgrade to make them look like more than just a chroma.

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KIT

The only thing really being changed with Ezreal is his W. Before it was a pretty simple skill shot that involved raising attack speed of allies and hurting enemies. It always fell a bit flat in his kit and felt like a weird and bad version of his powerful Q.

Riot gave us Ezreal’s new W via e-mail and now it’s much better.

W - Essence Flux

Ezreal fires an orb that sticks to the first champion, large monster, or objective hit.

Hitting the orb with an ability or attack detonates it, dealing magic damage that scales with ability power and bonus attack damage. Detonating the orb with an ability refunds the mana cost of that ability plus an additional 60 mana.

SKINS

We don’t have new splash art yet (if Ezreal is getting any), but here’s a peek at what his models look like. His base skin splash art has been updated with some more ... jacket fur, it seems.