When the item is not ready, it announces the remaining cooldown and/or how much more mana it needs to be cast.

Alt+ Left Click on an item in the main inventory tells your team whether the item is ready or not.

Ctrl+ Alt+ Left Click on the minimap will alert your team by Link ▶️ playing a different sound and showing an ✖ Ping (Danger) on their minimap, generally indicating danger.

On enemy heroes will play the same sound as on enemy buildings, typically to announce the desire to attack.

On buildings will play a different sound depending on the building's alliance, and generally mean a Link ▶️ defense or Link ▶️ attack of the building is desired.

On the minimap will alert your team about a location by Link ▶️ playing a sound and showing an ‼ Ping exclamation mark on their minimap.

Ground-targeted abilities, such as Wrath of Nature, can be cast by clicking on the minimap.Ī list of possible ways to send a ‼ Ping notification to your team mates.

Left Click on the minimap while using Town Portal Scroll or Boots of Travel will teleport the hero to the specified location's nearest allied building.

However, there is a delay of 0.2 seconds, where clicks will not be registered.

Right Click anywhere on the minimap will command the hero to move to that location.

It can be used to queue or to chain hero abilities and item usage with no lag time and efficiency.Ī green flag action queue indicator will appear on the map where the command is shift-queued indicating the next possible action. Shift-queue refers to the ability to assign several actions to the unit with ⇧ Shift, and it will complete one after another without needing any additional mouse clicks.

Esc while having units selected which do not belong to you, will deselect that unit and select the latest unit you selected which is under your control.

Ctrl+ Right Click sends the order to the highlighted unit when having multiple units selected.

It is also possible to ⇧ Shift+ Hotkey+ Left Click, if the Hotkey is bounded to an ability or item, it also causes the order for the unit to get queued.This means the units will execute the order once they finish with their current order. ⇧ Shift+ Right Click or ⇧ Shift+ Left Click causes the order for the unit to get queued.On an ally when having units selected orders the units to follow the target if possible.On an enemy when having units selected orders the units to attack the target if possible.On the ground when having units selected orders the units to move to the targeted point if possible.Clicking on an already selected unit removes the unit from the selection group instead. ⇧ Shift+ Left Click on an own unit adds the unit to your current selection group.Upon letting the mouse key go, all the player's units within the box get selected. Left Click+ ⇱⇲ Drag on the world creates a selection box.If the unit is selectable, it gains a green glow (blue glow in color blind mode) if it is an ally, a red glow if enemy when the cursor is on their hitbox. The allied green glow turns blue when having color blind mode on.

Some commands are because they have no default Hotkey bounded.Īllied units glow in green and enemy units in red when having the mouse cursor on them. The exceptions usually have a set purpose in the game and thus are unbindable. Almost every key on the keyboard can be bound to something, with a very few exceptions. Here, the player can customize many hotkeys, or select one of the many pre-set hotkey templates. The hotkeys settings can be accessed by clicking on the little gear icon in the most top left corner in the main menu.

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