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Improve your last hitting

RiotStayAwhileNlistn·7/3/2015, 6:34:46 PM·175 votes·243,543 views

Last hitting minions is massively important to gaining an advantage over your lane opponent -- being up by just 30 cs is nearly equivalent gold-wise to being up two kills. This kind of advantage directly translates to your ability to snowball the lane, and ultimately the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfmm40Ow-T8

In this video, Jeremy GamingCurios demonstrates a last hitting practice regimen originally developed by Diamond ADC Elyndar and turned into an infographic by bruzabrocka. As he notes in the video, this regimen helped him increase his last hitting accuracy from 60% to 80% -- an improvement that results in an extra 21 cs (~420 gold) at the 10 minute mark of a match.

Jeremy is a Platinum support main on NA, and is the creator of the Jeremy "Gaming Curios" - Guides and Top 10's channel on YouTube.

Here are some of the highlights:

[1:25] Drill #1: General last hitting
[1:52] Drill #2: Movement and map awareness
[2:21] Drill #3: Wave management
[3:01] Drill #4: Simulating pressure
[3:39] Drill #5: Challenge mode
[4:25] Results and observations

Have you ever attempted a training regimen to level up your League mechanics? Let us know in the comments below, and please recommend your favorite community guides or videos!

Jeremy has been playing LoL since Season 1, reaching Platinum in Season 4. He began making League videos as a high schooler in August 2012, amassing over 26 million views across his 350+ videos since.

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588 Comments

Shilotica7/3/2015, 7:13:02 PM199 votes

See, most of us read this and go "pshhh, nobody has time for that." and then proceed to play league and steam for the mext 16 hours. item 3070

Tokai7/3/2015, 7:17:42 PM104 votes

I'm happy because I watched the video before it appeared here :D

Bedardo7/3/2015, 8:56:23 PM93 votes

In our next video: how to CS with >110 ping #NAEastProblems

5OShades0fTrey7/3/2015, 10:50:04 PM47 votes

Jungle mains be like... Rammus "ok"

zG Edge7/3/2015, 9:37:03 PM40 votes

cs means champion score right?, cuz thats what im usually farming

Crungus7/3/2015, 7:08:22 PM37 votes

FIRST HAHA LOOK IM FUNNY.

Promiscuous Poro7/3/2015, 7:17:34 PM31 votes

I was LITERALLY just looking for last hitting tips right before seeing this on the homepage. Timing of this post was perfect.

Magemasterbuu7/3/2015, 7:24:13 PM29 votes

bronze is too busy feeding to get cs rito plz.

420 kushmaster7/4/2015, 1:25:06 AM25 votes

Extra 420 gold...blaze it

TheGodPhoenix7/3/2015, 7:12:50 PM24 votes

Well this is such an interesting way to learn to cs.... although i dont know if 10 hours straight would be worth it to me xD that just sounds painfully boring

Drukyul7/3/2015, 8:23:13 PM19 votes

Drill 1: play DotA 2 for a week

done

Paravoid Genesis7/4/2015, 1:31:52 AM17 votes

Oh how I've tried to improve my cs but there's only so much I can do when my ping is usually 300+ and once upon a time; between 188 and 300. I'm from Guyana. Although some of you may not know of my country, it's in South America. What's unusual about it is that we speak English unlike all the other countries in the region so I can't play on the region's servers since I won't understand a thing anyone is saying so I play on NA with lag. It sucks but I've learned to live with what I have and I tend to get about 80% of the cs I should up to 10 minutes in a good game. I hope this wasn't too much of a sob story, I just needed to vent a little about my lag. :/

Nightmare Crest7/4/2015, 12:35:37 AM15 votes

Another good drill for csing would be to allow a wave to push up to your tower, and cs under tower. One thing that I see so many adc's miss out on is those yummy minions under tower because of how time-intensive it is.

BAsically: Melee: 2 hits on a melee minion from a tower will allow most ad champs to kill it. For you ap champs, try to get an auto off within the first shot of the tower, so you have time for your animation to start up again after the second shot.

Caster: For just about everyone, auto a caster before the tower hits it, and it'll be low enough for you to enjoy that sweet, sweet 17g payout.

Cannon: For a Caddy minion, usually around 3-5 shots'll do it, it depends on the amount of hp remaining when they reach your turret. I'd personally recommend expending a little mana for these guys, as 35g is pretty worth.

Also keep in mind: With the exception of another minion type entering first, or an enemy champion is actively attacking a friendly champion, turrets have a specific type of minion they focus first, before moving to the rest. They'll take Cannons first, then Melees, then Casters.

Have fun with your minion genocide! item 1039

Sky RUSHER7/3/2015, 7:15:45 PM13 votes

Back when i had problem with CSing I practiced it in vs bots while learning new champ at the same time. TIME OPTIMISATION Zilean

SpiderTeo7/3/2015, 11:29:31 PM8 votes

This is a pretty nice video, which illustrates the attention to detail necessary to last hit and to rack up the cs. There are two things, however, that I would like to add when doing those drills.

Each champion has its own animation time for auto-attacking. The differences are subtle, but it is enough to affect last hitting as you play one champion to the next. Lucian, for example, has a pretty quick animation, from key input to when damage is registered. Tristana's animation is slightly longer, so when I started using her, I had to start over from scratch and get her timing down. Nautilus' animation is much slower, so you got to input the command sooner than later (though on the flip side, his passive adds a chunk of bonus damage to the first hit, which compensates for the slower animation and provides a bigger margin of error).
Pay attention to the minion attack particles. They help determine exactly when would be the time to attack so you can get that last hit.

Cha0t1czz7/4/2015, 10:22:33 AM7 votes

that awkward moment when the videos ad is the heroes of the storm trailer