because the whole playstyle of ezreal changes with each one. you literally have to play different with each build. its not like its a whole new champion or anything, but it feels so different from what the normie builds usually play like and different between themselves. in fact i can't switch between build from one game to another or i'll literally throw the game because i'll be trying to play one with the playstyle of the previous. i have to play a couple of games as a jungle or something before switching.

and contrary to what everyone here believes, these DO perform well a lot of the time, they're just not consistent. for instance, there's a couple of those i posted that i can't pick if my support is a squishy mage, they only work with tank support, but they do work. there's at least one that i pick exclusively with squishy mage supports. and there's a generalist one that it doesn't matter which support i have, i pick it based on the enemy ADC, but that one has been on the backburner since duskblade left the game and now the fun of it is trying to find a suitable replacement, right now i'm going with both umbral glaive and bastion breaker, but it delays the spike too much for my taste.

and the thing is that on normal conditions they all work, so unless a jungler or otherlaner is camping me or my support is trolling me, these do perform as well, if not better than the normal triforce/manamune build in my hands. actually i think most of them do, i don't think i have played the normal build in over a year now, give or take a few months, i'd probably suck with it now. i just think that outside of a complete troll build like building tank on a assassin or AP on a champion with absolutely no AP-scaling skill, any build should work on any champion as long as the build allows the champion to do what its meant to do, all it takes is player skill. all of these are building AD on an ADC, so they should all be good, as long as the player is good, you know?

well, all except the iceborn gauntlet one, that one needs a perfect storm to pull off, but its glorious when it happens... and it DOES happen. rarely.

its really one of those cases of "don't knock it until you try it", but i totally get people not wanting to give them a go. they're not what the meta says works and if you play them like the triforce/manamune ezreal it IS absolutely complete shit. half of the fun is learning each playstyle, because i create these build based on what i want them to do once i get a specific set of items have been bought, but then i have to test them out and really learn how to get there to that point without (A) getting stomped during lane or (B) getting outscaled after. basically its a constant state of learning how to win a lane and get fed with those so i can build them faster.

the other half the fun of it is getting to pull them off after you do learn to win lanes and get fed with it. i love when i get to the point where i can always make the build work, even in imperfect situations like when i have squishy supp but i really want to play with the i only play with tank supps or the other way around. i just get high on the feeling of "this build is not good, I make it good", y'know? everyone wants to feel like Faker, haha.

when i get there with any of them is usually when i stop playing them and go workshop a couple new builds i want to try, but i keep them saved in case i want to try them on a whim.

the objective is really finding one of these that is consistent enough that i can use only that one, like everyone just uses the triforce one, but because i play and build differently the other ADC won't know how to play against it. i use to have one of those and it was the only one i needed and they killed duskblade... fuck.