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Off-ticking

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Off-ticking

Off-ticking
Type Mechanic
Videos 4 (first 2022-07-22, latest 2025-12-12)
Main source I Completed Colosseum WITHOUT Pillars (OSRS)

Off-ticking is a mechanic topic that Gnomonkey covers in 4 videos between 2022-07-22 and 2025-12-12. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

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Methods

  • Off-ticking a ranger and mager around a corner: wait for the attack of the thing next to you, then run out to the other monster so it sees you right after, which two-tick off-ticks them by default.1
  • In Pillarless Colosseum the two-tile marker is where you stand so that, when reinforcements spawn with a default ranged manticore, the melee NPC (Minotaur or Jaguar) walks up and off-ticks perfectly with the manticore's melee orb.2
  • The three-tile marker is used when you need to step under a manticore to off-tick it, giving an extra tick while the reinforcement walks up so the melee orb lines up again.3
  • The grey-looking lines on the side of the arena are drag tiles for far spawns such as javelins and manticores; running to the right of the line with proper timing drags the NPC to off-tick it.4
  • There are two ways to off-tick in the run: stepping under mages, or dragging NPCs when you cannot step under them such as a distant javelin.5
  • Gnomonkey defaulted to off-ticking a spawn with a ranged manticore, and if the mage spawn turns out to be a different type you must manually off-tick it and then kill it.6

Tips

  • A melee is not automatically off-ticked by a mage when it digs; it depends on the mage's attack cycle, and if the mage attacks the same tick the melee digs they are the same tick.7
  • When flicking with a melee in the mix he stares at the melee's movement to see when it off-ticks, and says not to be afraid of doing this.8
  • You can easily off-tick monsters by rounding a corner of a pillar: wait for the attack (as you would when alternating), then round the corner to desynchronise the attackers.9
  • In a wave with a ranger, a mage and a melee, Gnomonkey stands where the ranger is gapped off the pillar, shoots the mage as the ranger pulls up, then turns the corner as the mage attacks to off-tick both.9
  • Speedrunners must be willing to do off ticks, since killing the mage first matters more than staying perfectly safe as in a first cape.10
  • Gnomonkey describes an off tick around a round pillar: look for the ranger animation round the corner, pray accordingly, let the mage attack, and push out.11
  • If the player messes up a risky off tick they could take 70 to 90 damage, so it is worth waiting a bit when it is super dangerous, but when not dangerous the off tick should be pushed.12
  • The corner of the pillar is the position to stand on before rounding it, and that rounding the corner then praying is a bread-and-butter safe trick in speedruns.13
  • Always stand on the corner of pillars before rounding them, because rounding them any other way would get the player hit by everything.13
  • On waves 50 and above players must get comfortable with forced off ticks and it is okay to tank a single melee hit to get them set up, because melees do not hit often.14
  • Gnomonkey demonstrates a splash off tick: splashing on the mage delays its next attack by two ticks, which helps in a messy start-of-wave clump.15
  • The splash off tick does not work if the mage has respawned something, and calls it easy and underused.16
  • The start tile is the best possible because it pushes a bunch of nearby spawns away.17
  • Walking an NPC does not stop it attacking, so you can walk a serpent shaman back in range without ruining your off-tick.18
  • Besides off-ticking and flicking prayers, the player must move occasionally to dodge javelin spear tosses, which makes the run more awkward.19
  • The two and three markers are lines rather than single tiles, so you can stand anywhere on the line to off-tick, and you can move if a javelin toss lands on your tile.20

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey says he does not care which tick things are off-ticked on, as long as it is off-tick and you can recognize it quickly or force it.21
  • Gnomonkey says some bad spawns require an off-tick no matter what, and he would not blame you for running to the other side or going into the mage as alternatives.22

Revision history

Date Video Change
2025-12-12 I Completed Colosseum WITHOUT Pillars (OSRS) Added: 9 statements (method, tip)
2025-07-13 EASY INFERNO: SUB 65 MINUTE GUIDE (OSRS) Added: 8 statements (tip)
2022-11-04 Inferno (BOFA) Guide OSRS Added: 3 statements (opinion, tip)
2022-07-22 Inferno (Twisted Bow) Teaching Stream OSRS Page created: 4 statements (method, opinion, tip)
## See also

References

  1. Inferno (Twisted Bow) Teaching Stream OSRS, 2022-07-22. ▶ 1:15:27 ↩

  2. I Completed Colosseum WITHOUT Pillars (OSRS), 2025-12-12. ▶ 0:59 ↩

  3. I Completed Colosseum WITHOUT Pillars (OSRS), 2025-12-12. ▶ 1:32 ↩

  4. I Completed Colosseum WITHOUT Pillars (OSRS), 2025-12-12. ▶ 2:31 ↩

  5. I Completed Colosseum WITHOUT Pillars (OSRS), 2025-12-12. ▶ 2:59 ↩

  6. I Completed Colosseum WITHOUT Pillars (OSRS), 2025-12-12. ▶ 4:05 ↩

  7. Inferno (Twisted Bow) Teaching Stream OSRS, 2022-07-22. ▶ 1:19:00 ↩

  8. Inferno (Twisted Bow) Teaching Stream OSRS, 2022-07-22. ▶ 1:19:38 ↩

  9. Inferno (BOFA) Guide OSRS, 2022-11-04. ▶ 1:28:10 ↩↩

  10. EASY INFERNO: SUB 65 MINUTE GUIDE (OSRS), 2025-07-13. ▶ 12:58 ↩

  11. EASY INFERNO: SUB 65 MINUTE GUIDE (OSRS), 2025-07-13. ▶ 13:28 ↩

  12. EASY INFERNO: SUB 65 MINUTE GUIDE (OSRS), 2025-07-13. ▶ 15:29 ↩

  13. EASY INFERNO: SUB 65 MINUTE GUIDE (OSRS), 2025-07-13. ▶ 1:02:01 ↩↩

  14. EASY INFERNO: SUB 65 MINUTE GUIDE (OSRS), 2025-07-13. ▶ 1:05:38 ↩

  15. EASY INFERNO: SUB 65 MINUTE GUIDE (OSRS), 2025-07-13. ▶ 1:11:00 ↩

  16. EASY INFERNO: SUB 65 MINUTE GUIDE (OSRS), 2025-07-13. ▶ 1:11:29 ↩

  17. I Completed Colosseum WITHOUT Pillars (OSRS), 2025-12-12. ▶ 2:05 ↩

  18. I Completed Colosseum WITHOUT Pillars (OSRS), 2025-12-12. ▶ 9:02 ↩

  19. I Completed Colosseum WITHOUT Pillars (OSRS), 2025-12-12. ▶ 14:03 ↩

  20. I Completed Colosseum WITHOUT Pillars (OSRS), 2025-12-12. ▶ 14:29 ↩

  21. Inferno (Twisted Bow) Teaching Stream OSRS, 2022-07-22. ▶ 1:22:38 ↩

  22. Inferno (BOFA) Guide OSRS, 2022-11-04. ▶ 1:19:54 ↩

Mechanics

Colosseum invocations • Yama contracts • Invocations (Tombs of Amascut) • Jal-ImKot • Inferno pillars • Jal-Ak • Alt account • Thralls • Nex gear setup • Tempoross • Turael • Inferno waves • Jal-Nib • Doom of Mokhaiotl: rock block method • Monkey Room • Fortis Colosseum pillars • Phantom barrage • Awakened bosses • Melee gear progression • Demonic Brutus • Jal-MejRah • Prayer flicking • Butterfly Tech • Fortis Colosseum setup • Doom of Mokhaiotl: melee punish • Sulliuscep • Botting • Off-ticking • Corner trapping • Doom of Mokhaiotl: car attack • Combat Achievements • Doom of Mokhaiotl: shield phase • Pest Control • Blood Barrage • Nylocas • Great Olm 4-1 method • Nex reset • Triple Jad • RuneScape 3 combat • Tightrope skip

Category: Mechanics