Hey Bronzelords, improve your summoning with this one easy trick

I play vi a lot so q is always a weird thing to get used to with her, but if you hold the button it actually feels like you are charging the ability or holding it longer and making it stronger (I'm weird like that don't judge me xD)

Damnit, I missed that bush with the smart cast ward. Now the enemy team is going to mock me.

Oh well. It was just a ward. XD

I just checked, and the checkbox is at the very bottom of the Hotkeys screen.

I used to play a lot of Starcraft before League. The term "smartcast" has a different meaning in that game ("When multiple units are given the same spell order, only one of them will comply") and wasn't introduced until SC2.

However the league definition of smartcast was basically just the use of Hotkeys. I feel Starcraft and RTS's in general had you grow accustomed to using hotkeys for spells in order to stay quick and efficient. Luckily this also helped me in IRL when using hotkeys in Adobe products and such.

Smartcast was bit hard for me to learn. The major online game I played before League was a game called Ragnarok Online, it's an MMORPG that is nothing like League obviously, but every spell in that game is used like a spell in this game without smart cast. So it took me quite a bit to get into the hang of Smartcast.

That's a good question.

I've discussed it with some fellow design enthusiasts at length. I know that when I started playing league. I played with a trackpad on my laptop. When I moved to a mouse and keyboard, my skill SKYROCKETED.

But what I found was although my strategy wasn't 100% solid, small little pieces of my skillset were better than my peers. Like dodging a Blitz pull with a trackpad. You have to react like .2 seconds faster because it required an extra button press and actual thumb movement.

So when I had an extra .2 seconds on my hands I was not only able to dodge, but retaliate faster than my peers. It didn't make me a world class champion, but it made noticeable differences in my strengths vs. the strengths of others.

What I find with smartcasting. Is people who start smartcasting early, have a worse sense of distance. And they miss more at long-range, they also have a worse sense of positioning. But they excel and fast rapid fire exchanges. While players who switched to smartcasting later in their gameplay, are far better at landing long-range skillshots but are a bit less skilled at short-range skirmishing. They tend to get spaghetti fingers when they're caught off guard but have a better sense of positioning in team fights which I think comes from the extra time they spent lining up skillshots pre-smartcasting.

I actually have a bit to say on this, coming from a lagging East Coaster with a crumb-filled toaster of a computer.

I've been playing since Ziggs/Sejuani after watching the S1 Worlds. While I truly don't believe LoL is a great game (it's good, not great. This community is so many negative points it's laughably sad), I've still embraced it because for better or worse, it's not only absurdly widespread across the world, but a benchmark for e-sports now and in years to come.

Be that as it may, my computer barely plays the game (56kb video RAM EXTRAVAGANZA). Over the years, even though my skill, map awareness, and playmaking puts me at the top in my group of friends, I've almost exclusively played Support for my entire time here because there are so many visual things that could crash me out of the game that it's easier to list off things and events that DON'T bugsplat me. However during the OFAs I found I wrecked face and carried on a team or game of Katarina's, even when grouped with people who mained her (or for that matter, owned her). Kat is the only thing in this game that gives me ZERO lag.

Kat really needs quickcasting to play her right though, so I started with her E - Shunpo. It's the kind of power you need to go off directly when you want it to, not a half second later cause you had to tap a button then click your mouse. I started playing her in TB. I beat Yasuos (he crashes me because he buys Shiv and that crashes me). I started quickcasting Q, and now even my 1 key is set to it. I played an ARAM the other night as Nidalee and chucking her spears were the easiest it's ever been.

Because I aimed for years, I know how far they can travel.

Because I quickcast I barely have to think about setting them up.

But the biggest thing about switching is I DON'T CRASH ANYMORE. I still lag, cause, hey, you know, East Coast, and Rito doesn't particularly care about us enough to actually level the playing field. But I haven't crashed. I've can buy Shivs now. My friends can play LB and Velkozby and actually get back-up from me in a fight without me getting in range and getting booted to the desktop while I curse in skype.

The thing I'm trying to say is that, if you use a sub par rig to play, and your game is unbearably laggy during big fights, try swapping to the quickcast. I have a ~85% win rate as Rammus jungle in TB, and around 60% for Kat. I actually get to be the captain for my friends, and not the blind shotcaller asking what's happening while I load back in.

and anything that is self only/active abilities like teemo's W and a few other self buffs or AoE buffs (karma's shield, janna shield etc will only cast when over a valid target) self buffs like teemo's w activate normally. WW w activates normally. it will greatly improve your proficiency as a summoner.