Thanks for your time on these 
really appreciate it.
I will be following the tutorial once i’m on my pc tomorrow some time.
I’ve also noticed what you’ve mentioned that I can place multiple state machines or animation related stuff inside the AnimBP which is really cool! The Echo animation BP also has that if I’m correct. One state machine controls the main movement, one controls states such as inair, onground, crouched, etc… one can cantrol aimoffsets and the system brings it all together.
It’s quite a powerful system but I need to understand how it works. As far as I can tell having states(like what gait you’re at e.g. running, walking, sprinting) is important as state change conditions can get messy with similar conditions in the state machine.
It is a bit of an advanced subject for me I knoe but I’ll get the hang of it soon to have a satisfactory result!
I will also do my research on quite a lot of info you’ve added here and get back to them once i can test and learn.
Have a good one!