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why would you drop 4k into an item that makes your laning stronger but falls off once the game actually starts? this post has convinced me that there is no reason to build a TF. UNLESS you build an IE immediately afterwards like you should on corki. that would actually make sense, because then you are boosting the damage of the TF by alot with the IE crits, and then relying on passive for some atk spd, while still have the advantage of phage in lane. Id have to look at his base atk speed to actually know if this would be optimal, but on corki it is optimal from the mouth of chaox. ill have to test on Ez bc no one good plays him really at all.

I think this article is a bit misleading since early game the only source of crit chance you would have would be from the Infinity Edge itself, meaning that only the left side of the graph is relevant since it's highly unlikely you'll be criting more than 2 out of 5 auto attacks. If we only look at the 1 crit column, the most realistic one, we can see that the damage increase is marginal at best (~150 damage). The calculations also disregard the attack speed gained from Trinity Force, which makes the difference even more marginal if even existent. 

Weigh this marginal damage increase against:

+250 health, making you less squishy and helping you live through fights.

+250 mana, which is really useful on Ezreal early game. More spells = more damage.

+12% movement speed, letting you escape, chase, and dodge skillshots more easily.

On hit slow which works on your Q, letting you chase and kite.

Composed of cheaper items that work well individuality meaning that you get the biggest bang for your buck each time you B.

I'd much rather have all this than the marginal damage increase I would get from rushing Infinity Edge. Instead, I'd build Infinity Edge later since late game is where it really shines since it scales with bonus AD and crit chance.

That's just my take on it, though.

I'm interested in knowning whether or not you took into account the fact that Ezreal's Q procs Sheen/TF and then immediately applies the damage.  Its more important for AP Ez with a Lich Bane as every 3 seconds you get to hit someone with a Q that applies 100% AD and 120% AP.  For AD Ez with a TF it means that most Qs hit for 250% AD and 20% AP.

I know you were just testing raw damage in a straight up fight, but Ez's main usefulness as a carry comes from the ability to move around a lot and continue doing damage with Q and high attack speed.

Also you didn't seem to take attack speed into account.  Ez's passive increase his attack speed makes crit damage and chance important, and TF gives 30% attack speed.  I think you are better off looking at how many autoattacks you can get off in 5 seconds with both items to see if there is a difference.

Actually I really prefer getting TriForce before Inf. Edge cause of the little but impressiv constant Sheen boost + the lane dominating Phage slow. This Phage is securing or even enabling me soooooo much kills on lane and it allows me so much constant harrass if its combined with Sheen so that I still would rate TriForce much much much higher on Ezreal then the Edge. Hitting someone with your Q - getting this Phage prog. - will nearly guarantee a Sheen proc AA on the target and this Poke really hurts! E+SheenAA+Q+AA+W+SheenAA = really huge burst with MS+AS slow its just amazing to see how scared your opponents are after this. And dont forget that Ezreal gets Bonus AS after using a ability which also synergizes quite comfortable with the % amount of AS increase through TriForce.

For me Triforce is just THE Item for Ezreal, or metioned in the comments Corki. There is nearly no way to avoid building it, or at least parts of it in the early stage of the game.

Pure mathematical DPS doesn't mean, that he really do more damage cause of the TriForce utility I would bet he can get more AA on his targets then with an Edge. And don't forget that the TriForce makes you atleast a little bit "tanky" which IE definitly doesn't.

TriForce can be built from more smaller pieces than Inf Edge, and being able to pick up _something_ each time you go back will help you out a lot more than waiting it out for the big stuff. Yes, in the ideal world you'd come back with 1650+ gold, but that doesn't always happen, especially if you are not dominating your lane.

Also, who is going to let you get 5 auto attacks on them before mid-late game teamfights? Early game is all about poking, especially as Ezreal. With two AAs + Q/W + 1 sheen proc (a quick lane exchange), I bet TF outdoes IE. Not to mention the phage slow and TF move speed allows you to actually kill people, where with IE they can just run away. As well, that extra health is great on squishy Ez. And where's attack speed in this calculation? You should be comparing times instead of simply the number of hits.

Anyway, I do get IE first if I'm dominating my lane, and there's no doubt that IE is a great item for outputting damage. However, if I am not doing so great, I'll pick up pieces of TF and combine them later for the cheap cheap cost of 300 gold.

TLDR: TF is more than just AD/crit chance; of course ignoring 60% of what it does will make it seem like a terrible item compared to IE.

Yeeeeeeeeeey. This makes me wonder if Trinity Force rushing is good on Corki and for how long.

No its not. Because the Sheen proc does not benefit from his passive or armor shred. As a support I want to kill any AD carry of mine who tries and rush Triforce.

Sheen (as well as Lich Bane and Triforce) does physical damage, it does benefit from the armor shred.

Sheen proc benefits from both his passive and armor shred. Corki has the greatest synergy with Trinity Force of any champion in the game.  He requires mana to exchange, doesn't need to stack Doran's for health instead of a Phage because he doesn't need the life steal as he doesn't autoattack quite as much, he has low cooldown spells that time well with procs, he has great autoattack animation, he has armor penetration, he has hybrid damage.

That said, Trinity Force doesn't have to be core every game, but it's amazing depending on playstyle.

The entire strength of Trinity Force isn't damage per second, it's burst and poke in trades.  It's not used to make you autoattack like a monster, it's there so you can time attacks with spells to trade and essentially make every trade a guaranteed crit.  However, that's just the Sheen part, the rest of the Trinity Force is largely useless for trading, as Phage+Zeal's goal is to allow you to chase down people after out-trading them.  The AD carries that focus on trading and can use the stats of the Trinity Force are Ezreal and Corki, and Corki benefits from the entire Trinity Force while Ezreal does not (built-in AS steroid instead of ArPen steroid stacks this difference even farther).

Armor shred yes, passive no, try it yourself if you don't believe me.

Both Tri-force Corki and IE Corki are both pretty good. Although nowadays I see more pros going IE (then again, pros also farm close to twice as fast as an average player... so they can get the items needed to make the IE build more damaging faster).

That said I'd say Ezreal synergies even better with sheen/triforce than Corki. Corki still needs to get within 550 range to auto attack for the proc while Ezreal's mystic shot applies the proc.

Excuse me good sir, but allow me to retort your findings with a few graphs of science. 

http://imgur.com/GYsSb

http://imgur.com/JE94L

I think Triforce on Ez will always be the best option, not only for the mana/MS/slow utility you get, but the fact that you're not going to be an all out auto attack mode with Ez... Q is the foundation of his kit and I think Triforce is the perfect item to compliment it.

I never get tri force on carries. Only ever on bruisers. Didn't even have to do the math to know the large diff of damage between the two items on ez. 

"It is widely known that Ezreal (along with Corki/Urgot) is one of the best users of Trinity Force" *record scratch* uhhh tri force is a common item on urgot? Haha but seriously, this article broke my heart. </3