Talk:Kog'Maw/@comment-4636093-20151118034842/@comment-4636093-20151118165319

The issue is that W is now pure utility. Until you actually get items it doesn't increase your damage at all, in fact it decreases it in many cases. And ranking it up only lowers the cooldown and increases your range. The cooldown isn't too much of an issue at all because it's no longer an "is this thing on? if not turn it on" spell, and there are many times when it's better to auto attack without it.

It is a possible second max, and even if you do max it third then it can also be good to put an extra point into it earlier in order to outrange Ashe and Caitlyn in lane (everyone else is outranged at rank 1).