Talk:Master Yi/@comment-6281755-20130717210938/@comment-7619298-20130718142434

Q only gains 140 damage and only 4 seconds of cooldown upon leveling it up.

If you max E first, you will do at least 20 more true damage on auto attacks. Double strike procs the full true damage, so you would need 6 auto attacks with E active to break even with Q.

That's without accounting for the fact that maxing E also increases its ad ratio. In a real game, you'll pull ahead with 4 auto attacks already, just because Q is reduced by armor and E is not.

I'd max Q second, because the extra damage is very nice during team fights.

W scales more with your health than its level, so get a Giant's Belt and max it last.