When the riot champion creation/ rework team work on a champion, how do they decide what basic abilities are q, w, and e? Is it in ascending cool downs? Is it in the order that the abilities were first imagined? Or is it just random? Meaning why is yasuo's dash e instead of q? Or why is Zed's razor shrunken q and not e?
Would be cool if someone from the riot champion creation team answered this.
Aatrox Herself2 votesUsually its dash on E and damage on Q and that kind of thing there are exceptions though.
Vanic9981 votesDoes that mean that blinks go on w like zed and leblanc? And vayne's dash is on her q.
RiotRiot Bearly Leah2 votesIn Vayne's particular case though, Q is her main activate-able damage source.
Vanic9981 votesThat sounds reasonable. Does that mean that the abilities are placed in ascending cool down?
RiotRiot Bearly Leah2 votesNot that I know of, though I could be wrong.
I believe they just try to find a general trend to match it along. If you think about it though, the highest damaging/most used spells are (usually) on Q/E, and more passive/less used abilites are on W. I'm assuming it has something to do with how easy it is to press the buttons? Depends on how you lay your hand on the keyboard, but I find it a lot easier to quickly tap my Q/E keys, as opposed to my W so it would make sense less used abilities (passive, high CD, less damaging) abilities would be there.
This is all just speculation.