Yes, wind-up and wind-down animations are reduced by AS (how much a per-champ basis and i know a few times Riot has balanced around it - my understanding is that it is coded more for ... aesthetics and clarity than for balance since perfect wind-down cancelling only applies to Scipters and LCS matches with 0 ping).

This is why AS quints are so good on ADCs post-buff. Not only are AS quints BiS in terms of damage, it gives you """free""" MS in kiting/chasing situations when you are kiting since your wind-up is 0.1 seconds shorter. That benefit is doubled if you aren't Challenger and properly animation-cancelling.

On a random thought: it'd be hilarious if CDR reduced spell animation duration

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What were you thinking was different or could be done?

we have an application at work called NAR that I can't stop calling GNAR in email #lolruinedme

A lot of MF players don't take Attack Speed Quints since you can get three quick autos (if you count the Q as an AA) off from cancelling the animations. AA-Q-Move Command-AA.  At least it feels fast?  If you want to test it out today, we can see for sure.  We both play MF without Attack Speed Quints.  You orbwalk two attacks and I'll AA-Q-MC-AA.  I think my combo would go off faster than your two attacks but I'd like to know for sure.

I think Hedgie is right.  Riven and Leona are special cases that allow for completely uninterrupted combinations.  There always will be some delay with AA resetting on any other champ for the attack after the ability or empowered attack, but I think it's significantly mitigated.

If you don't issue the attack for Leona after her empowered AA, she doesn't immediately do the third attack.  There is a fast harass combo for MF where you Q an opponent then immediately click on him which almost instantly AA's him.  If you don't click right away, you don't cancel the Q animation and your follow up attack is a lot slower.  So to get the full effect you have to do something afterward when getting the most out of this sort of thing.

What's wrong with testing out AA-MC-AA against AA-Q-MC-AA?  Sounds like a great idea using 0 attack speed but getting the FH first might be a little overboard.

I'm looking to see how much more effective resets are on sending off the auto attack after, not proving to Pacov that Q is an auto attack reset.  After hearing him use the term 'skill cap' inaccurately for the millionth time, I've given up on arguing semantics with him.  Maybe he thinks only Riven and Leona have his definition of AA resets.  And that's fine.  What matters is what gives you more DPS, not definitions of game mechanics.

sounds like that's a free dragon, my friend.  Also, don't bother replying to me on this as I have no idea whatcha fellas are on about. 

Do let me know if you figure out anything cool once you putz around with her in game.  I was toying around yesterday and didn't really figure out much. 

Sorry you're in a slump.  Maybe you should get back into playing Ranked again?

Get's you accurate feedback which helps you improve because you're playing with people who are mostly at your skill level, give or take.

Let's you take games with friends less seriously, cause you can just say "Well, that's too bad my team has failed yet again.  No worries though cause it wasn't Ranked."  

Right now none of your games are Ranked, so you don't have a place to funnel all your competitiveness.

Played a few solo queue against my better judgement late last night. Went 3-1 thought I would check out the new and improved LP gain/loss that was advertised on this patch. Seems like my MMR is below where it should be so I am not getting really any different gains but the game I did lose wasn't -30 points which was encouraging. I might attempt getting diamond 4 again but idk if its worth the pain.

Anyways I won 2 and lost 1 with Bard. Squeeked out a win on Renekton versus a very scaled late game team (Nasus, varus, nidalee, vayne if I remember right). We had a super hero lucian who had like 17 kills but I definitely helped out with key CC's in team fights and I kept the dog down as much as I could in lane despite being ganked twice and killed twice during the early game where I recieved zero help from the jungler (starting to know what it feels like to be dyrus). I was 20-30 cs ahead of nasus a few times but he still scaled into the late game monster (even more evident since our team was full AD).

Bard games I felt like I carried both of the games we won. I made play after play with my stun and magical journy's. I saved several people and myself with my ulti a few times in team fights. My favorite was my mid was at like 1/10 hp and I ulted him + 3 bad guys. Malz was able to flash out as the rest of our team piled on CC and he lived. Felt real good.

Bard's ult really gives you a lot of control over situations. It has so many uses that its hard to explain.

You can stop flanks by ulting the flanker.

You can save your carry if he miss positions by ulting everyone including him with the hopes that he can reposition after the duration or flash away or be saved by teammates CC.

You can catch people and chain CC them after the ult comes up.

You can bait with yourself and ulti yourself (did this in one of the wins I had yesturday).

You can split enemy teams in half during team fights

You can use it to zone enemies into walking a certain way to avoid the ult (hopefully back into your team or get zhonya'd being there options.

You can ult a ganker and stop him from kill you and your ADC

You can ult towers/baron/dragon to give your team a little more time to get to the objective to contest

The situations go on and on. The problem that his ult has is that you can really turn good situations in to horrible ones. Lets say your vlad just ulted there enemy team and you ulted on top of it.... There goes all of vlads damage. This can happen with just about every AOE ultimate in the game and its aweful when it goes bad.

Other bad times to ult are on low health enemies. You just gave him the chance to escape via flash or movement skill. Good job bro. Prepare to be flamed for 2-3 minutes by your teammates.

Every bad Bard ult is rediculed by your teammates and every good one is pretty much ignored since you are a support and supports never get a pat on the back

Championify - stand alone program that imports the most commonly used items per champ, per patch along with commonly picked ability order.  Used it for awhile now and they just put out a new version recently. Check if out if you like

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/39z08p/championify_030_items_sets_from_championgg_in_game/

Yeah, I've been making a few new friends to play with as well from this 'goofy event' so I guess it's pretty cool.  Kinda interesting how much Riot seems to want people to make connections with other players and to play with the friends they do have.  Almost like... they feel it's good for the game and their business.  Huh.  

Well, on a totally unrelated note... did you ever figure out that mystery on why Riot never put in an Offline mode that would let you hide from your friends and not play with them?

looks like no pool party mundo