How does the V-22 Osprey overcome the gyroscopic effect when tilting its rotors?

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Pretty much the title. Was having a conversation with my dad about this as he was very curious about it. At RIAT one year he even asked a V-22 pilot there but couldn’t get an answer. That has made me curious as well, and apart from very scientific journals (not in the spirit of ELI5) I couldn’t find anything explaining it in layman’s terms.

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The rotors rotate in opposite directions, so the angular momentum of one rotor is canceled out by the other. Basically, if one of the rotors is trying to make the plane yaw left, the other is trying to make it yaw right.