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A Complete Analysis of Positioning and Engagement Timing for Eternal Return AD Carries
This video details key strategies for effectively playing a ranged damage dealer (ADC) in Eternal Return, focusing on the concepts of engagement turns and positioning. It demonstrates how to gain an advantage in combat through skill usage, awareness of enemy positions, damage trading, and positioning.
1. ⚔️ Understanding Engagement Turns: Skills, HP, and Positioning
- ✅ Engagements proceed in turns, each consisting of attacks, retreats, or pressure.
- ✅ Turn decisions should consider factors like enemy skill usage, remaining health, and positioning outcomes.
- ✅ If an enemy uses a major skill like their ultimate, consider it a turn to retreat, followed by seizing an attack turn later.
- ✅ Always monitor enemy skills, health, and position to avoid missing favorable attack turns.
00:03 - 00:59
1. ⚔️ Understanding Engagement Turns: Skills, HP, and Positioning
- ✅ Engagements proceed in turns, each consisting of attacks, retreats, or pressure.
- ✅ Turn decisions should consider factors like enemy skill usage, remaining health, and positioning outcomes.
- ✅ If an enemy uses a major skill like their ultimate, consider it a turn to retreat, followed by seizing an attack turn later.
- ✅ Always monitor enemy skills, health, and position to avoid missing favorable attack turns.
01:02 - 02:27
2. 🔥 Practical Example 1: Winning Fights Using Turn Concepts
- ✅ After Hwa-gung initiates, prevent unnecessary skill wastage by capitalizing on the enemy's retreating turn.
- ✅ Recognize when Blair enters and uses skills, causing the enemy Nadine to retreat.
- ✅ After confirming that the enemy's major skills are down, safely push forward to secure victory.
- ✅ Maximize firepower by stacking Adrenaline and Passion.
- ✅ If the enemy's skills are down and your damage output is expected to be higher, attack aggressively.
02:29 - 04:25
3. 🎯 The Importance of Positioning: Maintaining Distance and Utilizing Poke
- ✅ Analyze the situation where Rio gives up too much distance.
- ✅ If Hysui uses False Oath, the enemy must retreat.
- ✅ Rio should continuously use basic attacks to stack.
- ✅ Use the Extended Barrel to cycle cooldowns and continuously deal damage.
- ✅ It's crucial to prevent melee damage dealers from closing the gap.
04:26 - 05:50
4. 🗺️ Practical Example 2: Effective Positioning Pressure Strategies
- ✅ Identify Luke's position, and Rio must pressure Luke to expand the area.
- ✅ ADCs can push the enemy out of position through poking.
- ✅ Keep Luke in check while also guarding against other enemies' approaches.
- ✅ The moment Luke creates an angle, Rio has to worry about more things, so it's important to pressure Luke.