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Supports, AA on or off?

Kroleigh·4/5/2019, 10:01:37 PM·1 votes·1,429 views

The other day, I was doing my thing in the bot lane. We just had the jg in the lane and pushed the opponents out. The jg and I then took the dragon. I warded the enemy tri-bush and blue buff. Jg went down to clear his camps on my side.

The jg then came up for a new gank, we killed the adc, support and their jg (adc had a dbl and jg had a kill). We lost our jg in the process. Both laners were visible, we had priority to get some plates off our tower. Adc decided to back full health and mana. I cleared the wave and took a plate then backed.

The adc said to me on his walk back. I can't play with supports that have AA on. I looked at my cs, I was playing Leona, I had 7 cs.

It had never occurred to me to think about this. When I play zyra, it can be a problem as she will AA anything that moves. But I generally shy away from cs on any support I play. I do like to have my AA on just so I don't have to think about it.

The first question to you all is: Do you play support with AA on? If not, why? The next question is: If I should play with AA off, should it be something settable at champ select or a remembered profile option?

6 Comments

AHarmlessTaco4/5/2019, 10:10:56 PM2 votes

I personally think that playing with AA off is the better option because every action you take should be very deliberate, but at the same time I never stop moving with my champion so I rarely would find myself aa'ing due to proximity. AAing minions on accident can very much distract the ADC and cause them to mistime their attacks, whereas intentionally autoing the minions at specific times can be very beneficial and is actually expected/common as you climb higher in rank. The other thing to note is that if you have AA on and accidentally auto something, you lose the opportunity to auto your lane opponents briefly and it can add up.

y0r1ck4/5/2019, 10:17:01 PM2 votes

It's a remembered profile option.

I play with it turned off. I haven't used it in a long time, but IIRC it autos anything in range. That fucks up my adc's last hits, it reveals me if I'm in a bush, it pushes my lane.

Even if I need to push, I'd rather have control over my attacks so I don't screw up last hits. And it especially has to be turned off when I need to help my adc last hit.

Rester4/5/2019, 10:45:29 PM2 votes

It would be to your benefit to turn auto attack off and just manually attack things that are needed. If you REALLY need to auto attack anything in range with no interaction you can set auto attack to a keybind and just let it fly for a lane if it needs to be pushed.

This is of course, from a support perspective. Setting auto attack to a key for an adc will massively help your kiting potential.

AlienPrimate4/5/2019, 10:14:36 PM1 votes

I think it is good practice to just play with it off on every role except jungle. A note about AA is that you can unintentionally take tower aggro if you get snared under tower. Your actions stop so you automatically start auto attacking whatever is closest to you. If you are on a ranged champion and Morgana hits her Q on you under their tower you will automatically shoot her taking tower aggro and most likely will die.

Anivia Hentai4/5/2019, 11:30:23 PM1 votes

I play the game with AA off

Syrile4/6/2019, 2:23:59 AM1 votes

Honestly, it should be off by default and probably should not exist in the game. Or, if it does exist, it should give a warning before you turn it on. The number of flaws for auto-attacking is excessive while the benefits are... really close to nonexistent?