Talk:Twitch/@comment-5654809-20130612073032/@comment-1994689-20130615133535

To be honest, I don't understand why you would do such a thing. Venom Cask was made to be a "1-point wonder". Twitch's W only ever adds 2 stacks of poison which means by maxing it first, you are never increasing your damage output and decreasing your threat zone in comparrison to the enemy ADC. Instead you are only increasing the strength of the slow which, at only 5% per level, is negligible. Whether it's a 25% slow or a 35% slow, chances are you'll still only ever get off 2-3 autoattakcs as they run, and that's IF they are running, unless they've put themselves in an odd position, they won't need to run from you because their damage will be much higher.

Now if you had max'd your E first you would have stronger trades, and kill potential in your lane. In fact in terms of kill potential, Twitch is actually amongst the highest of all ADCs. By maxing Expunge first you are actually making your Venom Cask do more damage; every level you put into E means your W will deal 20 more damage when you expunge. Also Expunge gets progressively weaker as the game progresses, even though the max stack AD ratio is quite high, since you are an ADC you should be spending more money on Crit chance and Attack speed. You need to max your E first because the longer you leave it, the weaker it will be, and because it is well worth the opportunity cost (maxing W).

I'd even have to say that Q would be a better choice than W also. With a few points in Twitch's Q you can do a fully invisible recall, which you otherwise couldn't do until ~ lvl 12. There are also the added benefits of a massive atack speed steroid, which means that the first big ticket item you buy, like IE or BT will scale with much much more efficiently.