Talk:Yasuo/@comment-15280970-20140702022301/@comment-9705522-20140703232625

Not really. Sure, you get more dash uptime, but the problem isnt the downtime, but the fixed distance. Leblanc and Lulu will still kick your ass if you max E. In fact, moreso. After all, you now have close to no kill potential, close to no trading potential and no harass potential. Early on, Q revolves around the fact that it has range. Crits only get relevant once you, well, buy them. At which point you probably finished maxing anyway.

Its not negligible. You can still use your e to get to them and get away, so that falls away. On top of that, the reduced base cooldown increases the usefulness of attack speed. Also, 20 damage per hit is more significant than at best 30 damage once every X seconds.

Not a clue who either are, but while Voyboy does max e, according to match history, Bischu maxes Q. Dade occasionally maxes it apparantly. But thats kinda 2 guys. And the rest seem to max Q. Maxing E always was suboptimal. Was it still possible? Yeah, but it required specific situations and even then was mediocre. Keyword being was. Now its just worthless to max first.