Talk:Illaoi/@comment-4372473-20160504062926/@comment-27083427-20160510160924

Maxing E does not ever exceed Q max damage. All of your damage (Excluding actual autos, which will hit the champion), both from passive tentacle hits and her actual Tentacle Smash is all geared from it. Furthermore, while you reduce the cooldown on E more than you reduce it on Q, Q is the mainstay of your laning phase. The difference is incredibly slight but, at level 9, assuming +15 AD from runes, and having a Doran's Blade and a Phage (Giving 142 AD), the total damage by landing E and Q'ing both spirit and vessel for Q max is 448 before resistances. For E max, it's 430. Irrespective of how many tentacles you add after this (Because of the aforementioned point that, the only situation where E max will deal more damage than Q max is when you specifically hunt down the spirit. It's also considerably less forgiving, has somewhat reduced waveclear, and also reduces the effectiveness of your W, due to reduced damage on the W.  Maxing E also has the negative side effect that your opponent has a bigger retaliation window between you landing the first and second Q after her E, as you both lack the damage from your tentacles to kill the spirit quickly, and have the increased cooldown on your Q, which means there's a 9 second window instead of a 6 second window where you can double Q them.