Talk:Cassiopeia/@comment-24082086-20160519083029/@comment-24055932-20160519191302

Maxing E early on not only highers its mana costs significantly, it also punishes way more severly for hitting a target that is not poisoned.

Especially since if you cast an instant Q & E, the E doesn't profit from the poison, even if you do hit the target, and once again, after 3 seconds the poison runs out, leaving you with a 0.7 second window (with cast time & without CDR) in which you got no poison. And this doesn't even cover missing her Q yet. If you start an all in, you might be forced to spam E even if you miss Q.

Add to this that Cassiopeia's all in potential is quite low anyway (is it only me, or are you guys for usual running oom as well?) and Q at least helps your waveclear, so technically Q is superior.

However, W feels useless to me on low levels, so I still max R>E>W>Q. Maybe I should for a laugh just leave all my skills at level 1 till I got a tear.