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How did you learn how to kite, and how should I?

Dark Dronnam·7/18/2015, 5:20:24 AM·1 votes·2,210 views

I've recently tried to pick up adc, as it's one of my worst roles, and I've successfully been able to play Vayne and getting her to mastery 5 in 3 days all thanks to binge premade games.

As fun as she is, and knowing that I'm not too decent with her, she seems fun to pick up, knowing that there's much more to her.

I've figured that she's a mechanically challenging Champion, and that's why I love her, but a lot of her kit revolves around kiting, and it's something I'm really not good at.

I've watched a lot of videos, and they've taught me a lot of things, but a lot of them are outdated or in a language I can't understand, so it's difficult for me to apply it in-game.

I've learned that while being chased, you must make distance from you opponent before attack, rather than attacking when you can, by myself, but it still requires a lot of practice and it gets even more difficult.

I've also learned to cancel animations when chasing, but it's too simple and not applicable to being chased.

I've seen that the easiest way to kite is with attack move, as basic right clicking may lead to misclicks and other sticky situations, but it's hard to use it in a game with minions, considering the closest to cursor option of attack move.

Though it may seem like I've got the basics of kiting, I would really appreciate a guide on how to kite, maybe how you learned, as the title suggests, or how you kite and feel is easiest, and how I could be able to learn, and pretending I didn't know how to kite.

I'm yet unranked, and have never played a game of ranked.

Thank you all!

EDIT: What are some preferable settings that make attack move or kiting easier overall?

8 Comments

Summonerrr 17/18/2015, 6:58:53 AM2 votes

I learned to kite when playing against an enemy Blitzcrank s , because you see him a lot at lower ELO's, and he can be a real menace if you don't know how to kite properly. It's also helpful to learn on champions with large baseline attack range advantages like Caitlyn or Tristana . Playing ranged tops can help too because it allows you to learn how to farm and still stay in a position where you can disengage if needed.

Kiting is just as much about terrain advantage as it is distance, speed, and reflexes. More often than not I'd win trades I normally would've lost against people with gapclosers or displacement skills ( Alistar and Blitzcrank are the two that normally come to mind) by using the map and minions to my advantage. If you have slows in your kit it becomes even simpler because you can pick choke points they have to pass through to throw them in. They HAVE to travel through the slow, you do not, so more free distance for you. Careful though, because At the same time, enemies can also have slows and gapclosers, so be mindful of where on the map and kite path they're most likely to cast them at. A Bard bard ult comes to mind here, as his ultimate is a very powerful initation/engage/disengage tool.

Since Kiting is all about distance, one of the first things is to always stay at max range whenever you can. The less close you are to your opponent, the less risk you are at, and since kiting is about running away, you don't need to stay well within range for a chase unless it turns into that. Use your range!

Going back to what I said about disruptive tanks/supports like Blitzcrank and Alistar , unless they have activated items, boots or quints that give them a movement speed edge on you, the only real chance they have of catching up to you as a melee attacker is their abilities and travel path. I often find myself juking to the inside of lane (until they try zoning it then I switch to outside to head them off) because you'll usually be closer to safety traveling the inside of lane than the outside, excluding ganks, but more on that later.

Using minions to block pursuers is important as well, as an incoming minion wave can often save you from an Ahri charm or dreaded Thresh hook that' would normally be a death sentence for you (See what I did there? Okay...I'll stop.)

The last tip I have is to keep your eyes moving around the whole screen, as most of my kiting that's been stopped cold has been due to a jungler ganking that I wasn't paying attention to, an enemy champion proxying minions to help the chaser close, et cetera. Although it's important to keep your eyes on your pursuer for possible movement cues and channeled ability telegraphs, it's equally important to be situationally aware.

That's it for the tips, I hope it helps!

Janamana7/18/2015, 8:36:03 PM1 votes

I learned to kite as Kalista because she's quite easy to kite enemy champions with because of her passive. When kiting, you should always keep your distance but still staying in range.

Zyorhist7/18/2015, 8:43:53 PM1 votes

There were a bunch of practice regimens that I found on youtube. Some were by foxdrop some by ciderhelm. I cant find any of the videos right now but basically the best practice I found was to have someone chase you down river and see how many attacks you can get on them and not get caught. You need slightly more move speed than them (which is fine because adc's usually build higher movespeed than other champs). Then chase them up river and see how many times you can hit them. Keep doing this and trying to get that one extra hit in.

This teaches animation canceling as well as attack move.

Blue Collar Bear7/18/2015, 11:25:53 PM1 votes

Kiting? What's kiting? Do I get to fly a kite?

I learned it animation cancelling with champions like Rengar and Garen. Their modified auto attacks make it so that attack moving is almost a necessity.

Dark Dronnam7/19/2015, 2:34:29 AM1 votes

I've used all of the tips given, and they've been a really big help.

I'd like to know what some preferable settings are for attack moving and kiting so it isn't that hard.

Spicy Rice7/19/2015, 4:01:42 AM1 votes

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I've recently tried to pick up adc, as it's one of my worst roles, and I've successfully been able to play Vayne and getting her to mastery 5 in 3 days all thanks to binge premade games.

As fun as she is, and knowing that I'm not too decent with her, she seems fun to pick up, knowing that there's much more to her.

I've figured that she's a mechanically challenging Champion, and that's why I love her, but a lot of her kit revolves around kiting, and it's something I'm really not good at.

I've watched a lot of videos, and they've taught me a lot of things, but a lot of them are outdated or in a language I can't understand, so it's difficult for me to apply it in-game.

I've learned that while being chased, you must make distance from you opponent before attack, rather than attacking when you can, by myself, but it still requires a lot of practice and it gets even more difficult.

I've also learned to cancel animations when chasing, but it's too simple and not applicable to being chased.

I've seen that the easiest way to kite is with attack move, as basic right clicking may lead to misclicks and other sticky situations, but it's hard to use it in a game with minions, considering the closest to cursor option of attack move.

Though it may seem like I've got the basics of kiting, I would really appreciate a guide on how to kite, maybe how you learned, as the title suggests, or how you kite and feel is easiest, and how I could be able to learn, and pretending I didn't know how to kite.

I'm yet unranked, and have never played a game of ranked.

Thank you all!

EDIT: What are some preferable settings that make attack move or kiting easier overall?

If you want to learn how to kite, I suggest playing twitch. His whole kit is reliant on kiting people in the perfect range to get stacks, yet not get hit.

As for making kiting/orbwalking easier, trying learning using locked camera first. It takes away at least 1 thing that would distract you from orbwalking

Sulghunter7/18/2015, 5:27:24 AM1 votes

I learned to kite on Ashe . Her slowing AA may help you to learn. The trick is to always keep the attacker out of his range, but stay within your range. Although, this may be very difficult with all the gap closers in league now.

Dark Dronnam7/20/2015, 3:10:13 AM1 votes

Bump ;-;