Talk:Swain/@comment-212.117.1.33-20120206075830/@comment-202.156.11.11-20120208144148

Maxing E first in laning is ideal since it's a single-cast DoT that unlike Q, the guy can't run out of. And hey, it increases his autoattack damage (technically) during that time. Ping them to death!

Personally though I kinda like maxing W second, if only because you WILL feel the reduced cooldown. It's got the longest range too, so I feel safer using it to harass/zone and even pushing the lane (it has a decent damage component for a hard CC to be honest).

It still gotta depend on the enemy champion though. Like, say versus a Riven, W is a waste since even using Q to slow her into W isn't going to help with the way she's so mobile. Q at least can tick on her a while, but more than likely she's just going to dodge the W the moment she sees it on the ground.