User blog comment:Ozuar/The Importance of Skill Order in League of Legends/@comment-5907289-20130328180500

As Chua states in his chapter IV, every soldier has a specific role to perform in battle, but each soldier does this in his own way. It is common to use a spear when fighting cavalry, but if the soldier isn't skilled with it, it has little to no use. This soldier shouldn't be fighting horses in the first place, if this is the case.

All gbay99 jokes aside, I don't think the game really emphasises skill order, and nearly never game-breaking. You get all your skills at lv 3 (I do at least) and if you get killed more than once or twice because of it that's just bad on your part. Some champions just have obvious core skills (Mystic Shot, Hate Spike) or utility skills (Renekton's stun, Taric stun) and it makes sense to do that and sometimes it's just necessary, your jungle is a great example. If you wanna fight the cavalry get a spear; even all jungle builds are the same. But that's for jungle.

For example as Lux I max Q over E, because of insane mana costs for harass on E and if you can land Q you can follow up with E. Most other Luxes I see max E right away and that's their way to play Demacia. I do what I think works best for me.