Talk:Pyke/@comment-24971427-20180806030812/@comment-29964258-20180908150222

q tap does more damage bacause they wanted a way to deal damage in his kit that wasn't attached to his ult or hard CC. attaching more damage to his charged Q would just make it so noone ever taps because charging it for minimum duration would be enough to disrupt and do damage, unless they had the damage charge as well, which would cause people to overcharge his Q trying to squeeze out all the damage they can, but ending up missing because the foe is faster.

I would have to play pyke to know, but there's a possibility sterak's shield will scale for 75% of the bonus health he would have had, rather than the bonus health he has (which is 0, and 75% of 0 is still a 0 HP shield). If the shield has value, I could see it, but if the shield has no value, I would not build it