Confusion with Attack Move and kiting mechanics

aZ3R0n·Jul 22, 2017·1 votes·1,827 views

I watch a few high elo streamers on Twitch, anywhere from d4 to Challanger. I watch their clicking, and often see that they are clicking away from their target, making them move away from the target, but then they automatically attack the target when their auto-attack is refreshed without actually clicking on the target. When I use the Attack Move command I don't automatically kite, so I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong.

Is there an easier way to kite so that I can have better accuracy in clearing jungle monsters or kiting during a 1v1? Less misclicks, ftw.

3 Comments

Naga the godJul 22, 20172 votes

Kiting like that takes a lot of practice and skill. The only way is to practice;

right click = you move, a+ right click = you attack

You have to time this very well in order to kite.

There is also the possibility of clicking in a direction you want to go and also clicking on the enemy champion you want to attack just in case there are more targets around you and not just 1. However, it might be better to attack what is more available anyway.

If you understand all of this and know how to do it there is a possibility that one more thing might be holding you back: stutter stepping.

When you rotate from move to attack move TOO FAST instead of actually kiting you are making your champion stutter and in a lot of cases you are actually canceling attacks too early which pretty much makes you do LESS damage.

Create distance, attack, distance, attack, but keep in mind that you have to do it fast. Just find some balance that suits you well.

BTW unless you are playing in high diamond + I don't think you NEED to kite like that most of the time you can just position yourself well. It can be very helpful to play champions like jinx where you have more room to learn kiting.

One last tip I can give you about kiting is to forget attack move completely, play ezreal and instead of auto attacking just q them and run and you will see the difference between kiting and stutter stepping and eventually you will learn how to do it with AA.

It's hard but not THAT hard just practice and know what you're looking for. In case this advice here is outdated or I might not have good info double check with high elo players that can help you with this. It's a beautiful skill to develop in this game IMO>

The Leo CatJul 22, 20172 votes

The problem with attack move is you don't want to depend on it. Riot does not give you a way to specify that you only want to attack champions. Which means you could attack minions instead, or if the player is clever enough to do this... attack wards that they place down as they are chasing you.

BALDG1VEN BOOMERJul 23, 20171 votes

I think what you're describing is attack move click, basically this targets the closet target to you and attacks then as long as they're in range.

Open up your menu and go to Hotkeys> Player Movement > Player Attack Move Click and set the key to whatever you prefer, it might take a little while to get use to so I'd suggest going into practice tool and practice kiting a bit so you can get use to it first before going into a game.