Also prevents the occasional fail of canceling your spells One again basically shift queuing without commitment. For example on Sand King you wann to shift your blink during ulti then sometimes situation changes after you’ve done it and you are screwed since you can’t change it anymore. It basically lets you shift-queue your action while tping without actually shift queuing (which would mean you cannot cancel the action without canceling the tp). This one is one of the best options in my opinion. Pretty much only useful for when you panic and forget your control groups (or in fact for Beastmaster hawk as its not included in the Control All Units option.) Wasn’t this already in the other page? Please, Valve.ĭoesn’t hurt but personally I don’t find it useful. With this your hero doesn’t autoattack but will attack after you’ve cast a spell or killed a unit with an attack. Think this is the optimal setting unless you are playing heroes that turning after casting abilities (due to autoattacking) is an issue for them such as Tinker and Earth Spirit (can’t think of any other hero I’d turn autoattack off completely for).

Smart Double Tap is a useful option but for me it’s useless since I’m already using Alt for most hotkeys. Not much to be said about hotkey options, only ones I have enabled are “ Quickcast On Key Down“, “ Double Tap Ability to Self Cast” and “ Enable Advanced Quickcast/Autocast Hotkeys” which are pretty self-explanatory. The Alt groups are mainly a relic from my times as a meepo player Having all units and all other units on Alt+1-2 allows me to have 2-5 as control groups which I think is very useful for micro intensive heroes ( Lycan, Beast, Visage etc.). I’ll skip the default ones here (Stop, Atttack etc). Unit Actions+Shop Options (Basic+Advanced)+Control Groups: Space, G, `, Z, X and last slot is empty for quickcast.Īlt+Space, Alt+G, (Empty), Alt+Z, Alt+X and Alt+C for regular cast. I use that key mainly for boots so regular cast is pretty much never needed. Same story for quickcast and regular cast here except that I have one dedicated hotkey for regular cast only for either tp or Forcestaff and one (`) for quickcast only since the game doesn’t allow alt+` to be bound (or at least it didn’t when I first set it up). However, having regular cast is very useful in some situations (targeting when heroes are stacked, casting aoe abilities you aren’t comfortable with etc.) so I like to have an option for both. I think quickcast is superior to regular cast in almost every way since as the name goes it’s just simply quicker. In this blog, I’ll share my settings with you and some notes regarding my Dota 2 config.Īlt+Q, Alt+W, Alt+E, Alt+D, Alt+F and Alt+R for regular cast.

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