Talk:Battle Trance/@comment-26274286-20170216040310/@comment-30608940-20170216220618

Now that I read better and paying more attention, I think you are right:

It says it gives you "up to" (cap) 5% bonus damage over 5 seconds when in combat, so as long as you stay enough time (5 seconds) fighting you will get this bonus but you will start little by little. Besides the image show 5 silhouettes the original champion and 4 more which I think it represents the 5 stages (one by second) you need to go through until you reach the cap which is the maximum 5%). Still it's an opinion, Riot should explain better this masteries (I try to read it in different languages to have an idea of what they meant but sometimes there are misunderstood through translations).