How accurately can you REALLY land your skill shots?

Sakura Daiki·1/9/2017, 8:16:09 PM·4 votes·967 views

Can you land all of your skill shots? Do you have what it takes to be the ultimate blaster-master? Well I don't :/ How easy is it to predict your enemies movements? Is it really that hard, or are we just unskilled players :/ Thresh Blitzcrank Boi

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nm10101/9/2017, 8:19:11 PM4 votes

According to Krepo it goes

<Gold = shoot it right at them

Gold-Diamond = predict the juke

Master+ = shoot it right at them

rtbf2216514121/9/2017, 8:23:38 PM3 votes

Fizz

Risk of Fate1/9/2017, 8:47:54 PM1 votes

Given I play Ahri I would say I land about 3/4ths of them that I want to hit, the other 100 times I throw a Q or E tends to just be a zoning. However, the secret to me almost always landing my charm tends to be either I'm right on top of them so I can't miss, they're walking right at me, or they don't really pay attention and let me get one off.

The few times I did a prediction Charm was either because I know the matchup really well or got lucky. If I put my mind to it, I probably could get decent at it, but for now I don't really care. If I can predict, sweet. Otherwise I'll just play safe and wait for a better opportunity to nail one.

GULAG 4 U1/9/2017, 11:38:45 PM1 votes

Just going to point this out, according to stats, if you land 50% of your punches in boxing, you're a fucking god.

Sexy Fish Nami1/10/2017, 1:26:09 AM1 votes

Practice.

I land a lot of bubble when i play nami, but it wasn't always that way. Knowing the delay of the skillshot you're throwing at is also very important to know.

Lets take thresh for example. Before throwing his hook, thresh has an animation to warn that hes going to throw the hook. While I don't have the exact time of his animation, it last about 0.5 sec. Then there's the projectile speed of the hook that last, to go at full range, another 0.5 sec. Combing those two will make about 1 sec delay before the hook reaches the preferred destination.

So what do you do with such long delay? well, you have to know your enemy and how he moves. How do you do that? Experience will make you land skillshot better as you will have fought many players, know the delay of your skills and will have new strategies, but it's also important that you get as much information of the enemy movements. By knowing their movements, you can predict where they will be going and get some easy skillshots on them. Lastly, it's important that you know when the enemy is under pressure. During a teamfight, it's easy to land skillshots. Why? because people are under pressure and are worrying about other stuff and thus, they don't think about the skillshots from the other peoples that threaten him.

In the end, it takes time and one thing I do to help aspiring nami mains is go do a little 1v1 vs them. By doing that, I show them how my bubble skills are way more advanced and during the fight, I explain my thoughts and the reason why I can land them easily. So if yoou have a friend and you both have nothing to do, doing 1v1 with each other by just landing skillshots can help.

CerealBoxOfDoom1/9/2017, 8:26:48 PM1 votes

Depends

Am I just throwing a skillshot at random or did I force an opponent into a position where they either eat my skillshot or suffer?

dakota saturn1/9/2017, 8:19:01 PM1 votes

It's all about the mind games. If you only use it when you -know- it is going to hit them, it is going to make the enemy demoralized, and make your subsequent shots easier to land too.

It's like when people know they are out of position and are about to die, so they just spam emotes or don't do anything, rather than trying to get a few auto's off or maybe even try to escape.

As blitz, for example, what you want to do is charge at them (when you can), and make them panic a good 5 seconds before Q'ing. Once you fire it and miss, you just lost all presence in the lane until it's back up.