raww But with humans <| sep |> Tell him to eat a dick and pay his own shit <| sep |> Your Q is and will be the most effective spell . You Need those cooldowns as low as possible on Q , to fly around the battlefield , because it allows you to engage and disengage when it is up again . With longer CSs , you don ' t have anything to fall back . It is a good idea to max W , if you are going for a tank or off tank build and you will fight lots of tanks , because of % HP dmg . But , against squishies , E second is optimal . Secondly , there is this new CotC mastery , and you want always to have Q up , so that if you miss first Q , you can repeat it , activate CotC etc . So , I cannot see a reason to max W first , especially , in early game , there is not much armor stacked , and not much HP stacked on enemies , so .