Talk:Graves/@comment-89.204.137.220-20130223052817/@comment-146.52.49.77-20130319121938

^this

His Q works differently from Ashe's W, where you can only hit each enemy once with the whole skill.

Buckshot is supposed to deal more damage at close range, because it's an "in your face" nuke. If you were to take full damage by only one stray bullet, it wouldn't fulfill the design goal and that's why Riot decided to design it that way. It would be stupid if you were to take 3 times the normal damage if all bullets hit as well, so it has diminished damage for each additional hit with a rather high base damage.