Ezreal is a highly mechanically demanding bot lane ADC. Despite being very challenging to master, Ezreal is a highly rewarding pick. Those who get skilled at playing Ezreal can impact every game to a high degree.
To set our foundations for playing this champion, today we are gonna focus on his greatest runes and their respective perks!
Best Ezreal Runes
Press the Attack
The best keystone rune for Ezreal is Press the Attack. The powers of this rune are activated when we manage to strike 3 consecutive auto-attack strikes on an enemy champion. Activating this rune on Ezreal is slightly easier relative to other champions since Ezreal’s Q counts as an auto-attack.
Once the passive is enabled it will deal anywhere from 40 to 160 damage to our enemies, additionally, it will mark the enemies and cause them to receive 8% more damage from all sources of damage. The damage mark will expire only after we have left the combat. The duration of debuffs applied by this rune is quite significant, and it will allow us to deal much more damage than we would picking some other rune.
Presence of Mind
A great followup rune for Press the Attack is Presence of Mind. Presence will be activated each time we hit an enemy, and it will restore 6-50 mana (depending on the level). The mana gain from this rune is quite significant, and it will increase our mana sustain throughout the game, enabling us to cast abilities more consistently. With Presence of mind equipped, we will also receive 15% of our total mana on each takedown.
Legend: Haste
Legend: Haste will increase our ability haste for each unique takedown we score. The rune works quite well on Ezreal since the champion benefits greatly from having low cooldowns. The rune can be swapped out for Legend: Bloodline. Bloodline is a viable choice offering lifesteal, but it is somewhat inferior to Legend: Haste.
Cut Down
Cut Down is a rune that will increase our damage by 8% when fighting enemies who have more than 60% HP. It’s a great rune to accelerate our damage against fully healed enemies. It’s especially useful against tanks.
Biscuit Delivery
Biscuit Delivery will grant us a biscuit every 2 minutes, capping out at the 6th minute of game time. The biscuits will restore our mana and HP, and they are essential for surviving the early stage of the game.
Magical Footwear
Magical Footwear would be a pretty good choice as our last pick. This rune will grant us free boots, and the boots will come with a nice bonus on movement speed. Getting boots with our rune selection will allow us to save more gold for our items, and enable us to reach power spikes much faster.
Mini Runes
For our mini runes, we will want to take 1 attack speed shard, 1 flex shard, and 1 defense shard. This combination will grant us a nice enhancement in attack speed, AD, and some flat HP.
Final Thoughts
Ezreal is a champion that demands a lot of effort. To make our journey of playing this champion easier, it’s really beneficial to start our path with the right runes. The key runes from this guide would be Press the Attack, and Presence of Mind, all other runes are generally good, but they could be subject to change given various game circumstances.