Talk:Ashe/@comment-24496127-20160629201834/@comment-26001789-20160705142424

Because if you pick Ashe for the sole reason of dealing damage, as in pure unadultered damage, then she really isn't the carry to pick on for that. Better pick any other Marksman.

Her utility is unmatched when it comes to Objective taking due to how much artificial damage she pumps out to structures and neutrals, her vision control with Hawkshot is good enough alongside Orb, so you will never really have a blind objective taking, her Catch with her slow makes it easy for Allies to chase stragglers in a Teamfight and she is one of the few Marksman who has an utility based Ultimate that can engage.

Her picking comes from those and those only. As far as damage is concerned, she scales way too slow for her to be relevant as a damage dealer and having no downtime on her Q doesn't make a difference when she is inmobile and slows don't really work on anything with a gapcloser or, in some cases, CC Inmmunity(Olaf and Yi are very well know Ashe counters).

With that said, however, her picking is purely as a glue towards teams. Since everyone is picking Bruisers who lack hard engage and most of the really good Carry Champions are MidLane, you can forgive not taking a Tank Jungler and just pick two Beefy frontliners who peel for Ashe, while she engages with longdistance ECA. As far as I'm concerned, she is the only other one besides Sivir and Kalista, in the Marksman role, who brings any form of engage. However, since Kalista was kinda gutted and Sivir doesn't synergize with the current top picks(unless it's Hecarim, Tahm Kench or any of the Juggernauts[even the Magenauts such as Vlad and Swain]), Ashe just comes to be the one who is mostly picked, even if her damage can't compare to those two(well, Kalista and Ashe have similar damage curves)