Talk:Vi/@comment-121.97.142.101-20130127192338/@comment-217.92.235.191-20130128083936

Q does deal more burst damage if you can hit a fully charged one. You would need 4 E's to break even. However 2 E's are sufficient to compete with the damage of an uncharged Q.

Also, if you are giving away blue buff, you will notice, that you don't always have two stacks of E available for a gank when you don't max it first.

Furthermore if you are maxing Q first, you won't be able to one-shot the small creeps in a camp after one E. If you used Q+E on each camp you'd have problems with mana sustain and you wouldn't be able to escape, if you were to get jumped on either.

You should always max E first. One could argue to max W second for better dueling, but that's about it.