Riven Animation Canceling: Using Q to cancel other abilities

Ahlas·7/10/2015, 4:45:24 PM·1 votes·1,627 views

There is a good amount of material about Riven Animation Canceling on the internet¹, but I don't think I saw any of them cover this mechanic. Therefore, a lot of people might not know this, so I decided to share.

It's possible to cancel any of Riven's abilities and Hydra only using her Q. It seems that what you have to do is press Q -> skill (press Q first and then press the skill button) very fast at the end of a Q animation/as soon as it ends (this might not be completely accurate). For example, if you press Q -> W at the right time at the end of a Q animation, the W animation will be completely canceled. Even though you press Q before the skill, they are used together and the skill animation is fully canceled by the Q animation. This is not very easy to do, it requires very good timing.

Some gifs to illustrate the mechanic (sorry for the bad quality, but I think you can see it just fine):

Q -> Q -> W:

http://giant.gfycat.com/TiredGroundedAphid.gif

Q -> Q -> Q -> W:

http://giant.gfycat.com/ShamefulDefensiveEkaltadeta.gif

Q -> Q -> E:

http://giant.gfycat.com/MiserlyIdioticIndianhare.gif

Q -> Q -> Q -> E:

http://giant.gfycat.com/SimplisticClumsyCoral.gif

Q -> Q -> Hydra:

http://giant.gfycat.com/CautiousFearlessGermanshepherd.gif

Q -> Q -> Q -> Hydra: