whats the most effective way to stay in combat without pushing your lane?

grasp is a giant pain in the ass to work with. if youre just going in for a trade on your lane opponent, then the 4 second counter is usually too long for the proc to get ready before one or both sides disengage.

hearing that sound of grasp popping up on your hotbar after the trade is done sucks.

so your best option is to try and get the proc ready before you go in for a trade. here is the problem though. grasp has a counter that increases from 1 to 4 every second in combat until its ready. from there the buff lasts for a couple seconds. but if you just dont attack something or take damage from something for one second while its counting up, youll immediately lose all stacks and the buff just falls off.

so the only way to get grasp ready before a trade is to either nonstop attack minions and push lane like an idiot, or to somehow fiddle around with minion aggro and get the attention of a single lane minion to take damage from for 4 seconds, which is difficult to do next to csing.

does anyone know of some easier way to be considered in combat to charge up grasp?

the only other way i know of is which passively damages minions and pushes lane just like auto attacking them directly.