Talk:Varus/@comment-25956640-20150217060407/@comment-25544937-20150305024052

Just going to leave my 2 cents here.

I believe that there are very few reasons for one to max Q first over E. The E is strictly better in so many regards; for example:

The Q requires a very specific set of situations to deal only 30 more base damage than E. The Q has to first be charged for a full 2 seconds, reducing Varus's DPS in a fight significantly, and also hit your intended target before any other unit. Whereas, the E hits all targets in it's radius for only 30 less damage than a max charged Q hitting it's initial target.

The E has a scaling per level slow attached to it.

The E has a flat mana cost across all levels.

The cooldowns of the Q and E reduce by very similar percentages per level compared to each other.

Finally, this was previously touched on but just to reitterate, Varus' E has a much lower cast time than his Q, granting him much higer dps in fights.

I hope this cleared up any confusion.