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moving inbetween autoattacks

Leti the Yeti·11/28/2014, 5:10:32 AM·1 votes·959 views

This has haunted me for months now

I've heard it mentioned alot in them league champion spot light vids where phreal says he auto attacks, gives the champion a command to move a direction and auto attack again repeat....

and nubby ol me is like.. well it appears my champion is automatically running toward the enemy champion after every auto arent I? Now people do the same thing when hitting minions attack/move/attack/move For that, I was told it was easier to dodge skillshots or make you auto attack faster or something

someone enlighten me as to why people do it

8 Comments

The Chin11/28/2014, 5:20:35 AM1 votes

Why do people move between auto's?

Because there's going to be a set period between your attacks anyways, it's better to move a bit than to just stand still. It's SO easy to hit someone who's just standing in one spot.

Once you get the hang of it you won't even realize you're doing it, it's just automatic.

And if you're running towards the champ it either means you clicked on the ground beside him, or he's out of range of your auto's.

Kitten Eater11/28/2014, 10:06:12 AM1 votes

if chasing... if you're faster you spend more time running in front of them unless you attack fast too then you can do both. is is predominate on drav, vayne, quinn and teemo(sorta) since they are good chasers. others is to mostly stay in range.

dodging, slow aa and kiting is another reason. but in essence its mainly for faster aa and for staying in range. takes some time to practice but once you get it... watch everyone miss their skillshots or fall behind because they let their AA complete its cycle

OhBoyItsaMegaman11/28/2014, 2:50:50 PM1 votes

If you search YouTube for "Ciderhelm attack move" you'll find a very good video that explains it all really well.

Basically the ranged autoattack cycle goes like this:

  1. Play pre-AA animation
  2. Fire projectile (the AA timer starts now)
  3. Play post-AA animation
  4. Wait for AA timer to finish.

If you only right-click your target, your champion will not move forward during step 4 unless the target leaves your AA range. Try this in a custom sometime. As Caitlyn, walk right up next to the Scuttler Crab and start attacking. Cait won't chase after it until it runs out of AA range. If you immediately click forwards the instant you've fired the bullet, you'll spend step 3 and step 4 moving instead of standing still.

Ideally you will click your target again as soon as your AA timer is up, but even if you don't, it's still worth it. You'll be moving forward when you could be autoing, but you're keeping up with your target while you do so.

It's even more important if you are not directly behind your opponent. Imagine that you're purple side and they're at the top edge of the (warded) bottom bush of bot lane. You're standing in the center of the lane. Your support engages and you know you win this fight, so you want to keep hitting them as they run southwest to their turret. You don't want your champion to run towards them; you want to run parallel to them down the length of the lane so that they remain in range for longer.