Talk:Rakan/@comment-25403955-20170428082017/@comment-7837708-20170429013938

From what I've seen most pros seems to be maxing E but a lot still maxes W. I personally prefer E since his early game is pretty weak unless you have an aggressive ADC or constant ganks from your jungler so the extra shields helps more than the extra damage from W. Since his W cooldown is so high you're not going to use it twice in early fights anyway so the reduced CD per rank doesn't do as much. The best would probably be to max W against weak lanes and E against strong lanes though.

Most of the times when you're up against poke you're only going to benefit from the first shield, so even if you can cast it again for 5 seconds it doesn't do much.