Forum talk:Neekerivittu/@comment-11370625-20130820224702/@comment-6334772-20130822221826

Q gives better poke. It's more powerful and you don't need to waste your escape tool to poke with it as opposed to E. Q, now that you can't get 2 Shadow Slashes off in one ult without a fair bit of CDR, is just an overall better thing to max Q first, especially because you can overlap two or even three Qs if you're really good.