Talk:Xerath/@comment-92.41.251.247-20130219145045/@comment-77.8.189.201-20130228180540

In his old state after release (shorter delay on ulti etc) maxing E 2nd was quite a good choice for some heavy burst dmg, basically letting you 100-0 your lane oponent whenever you got back into lane with ulti up. The % penetration was also worse for midgame before S3 (obviously).

So back in the day you pretty much had the choice: more stuns and solo burst --> E, more poke, thus better tower sieging etc --> W. I'd say for team games W was always the better choice, but putting a few points in E early was sometimes really strong in soloQ (not anymore!)