Talk:Ezreal/@comment-7846894-20130515214712/@comment-7006769-20130516144111

After the nerf his W is the worst skill to level. It has only okay base damage and enormous manacosts and doesnt do anything else but dealing damage. It also has a pretty long cooldown. If you max your Q first you have a decent steady damage source that also allows you to use your other skills more often. It also procs on-hit effects which is the reason of the (kinda weird) builds you see on him today.

So no, maxing W is not viable at all imo.