Please Explain *auto reseting*

BeastUO·9/20/2016, 12:28:49 AM·3 votes·864 views

I am having some trouble in jungle with trying the animation reset on the auto attacks, I have seen on lots of videos how players will quickly click behind them and move while fighting the camps. For instance I watch a lot of diamond players start blue side and go all the way to top before backing with khazix, sometimes I can barely clear my 3rd camp before I have to back. Despite watching a lot of videos on it I cant find any explaining exactly what is going on in detail and im struggling to do it. Any advice/links would be great, thanks guys!

13 Comments

Deflum9/20/2016, 12:32:59 AM1 votes

Auto resetting is about using move + Attack move to stop the "down animation" of your auto attacks. you use your regular move to disengage then attack move to re-engage the monster. it allows you to get more attacks off. If you are having a hard time clearing, try tankier junglers, they have an easier clear.

Anonagon9/20/2016, 2:08:11 AM1 votes

On every champion's autoattacks, there is a windup animation, the hit (or projectile launch for ranged characters), and a cooldown or follow-up animation. The follow-up animation is entirely cosmetic and not required at all, so it does not stop you from doing other actions. Any other action taken, whether its movement or casting a spell, will cancel the follow-up animation. Cancelling your the follow-up animations doesn't decrease the time until your next attack, but by utilizing the time between your attacks you can optimize your damage output, by doing movement and spell casts between autos. If you take the time between attacks to move away from jungle camps, you can often briefly get out of range of melee monsters and cause them to start their attack animations over again, indirectly reducing the damage you take.

To practice this, simply auto a monster, then after your hit does its damage, input a movement command away from the camp, then attack it again. Get a feel for the timing between your attacks. Make sure you don't cancel your attacks before they do their damage.

Also note that on Kha'zix in particular I'm pretty sure all your spells can be cast within the time between two autoattacks without delaying the second one, so try to cast your spells after autoattacking so that you don't cancel an autoattack with a spell cast.

MunchCrunchLunch9/20/2016, 10:45:57 AM1 votes

basically. there is auto attack animation. which is longer the less attack speed you have. early in the game. if you attack. walk backwards. and then auto back again in a short window of time. means that this period that your auto is on delay. the jungle monsters aren't aggroing you. making most of your hp basically.