Can we have a hotkey to switch between controlled units?

KaOsDD·1/24/2017, 11:35:57 PM·1 votes·682 views

Recently got a new PC and decided to download DotA 2 after a year and a half break. I jumped into a bot game as Brewmaster, whose ultimate splits him into 3 units, that each have different abilities and can be controlled seperately. It got me thinking that it's so easy to switch between the units since I have the hotkey mapped to F, yet League doesn't have a hotkey for something that I consider kind of clunky. Granted there aren't many units to control (mainly Tibbers, Morde's ult ghost, and now Ivern's Daisy), but I feel it would make playing these champions feel a lot more intuitive and open a lot of design space for Riot down the line, especially if they wanted to give controlled units active abilities.

3 Comments

BladeSteel1/24/2017, 11:37:38 PM2 votes

That doesn't make sense for the pets there are in league. Currently if you have any skill you can press R+ rightclick to move your pet, and rightclick to move yourself. League doesn't need any form swapping controls because a champion like that will most likely not happen.

Deep Terror Nami1/24/2017, 11:50:21 PM2 votes

There are still sometimes non-Ultimate pets which can be controlled, and there is a hotkey you use for it (LeBlanc's old passive mirage, for instance) just check the Keybindings. It's not very intuitive though, non-ult pets are rare so it's a waste of a good hotkey spot 99.99% of the time, but it does exist.

KaOsDD1/25/2017, 2:14:19 AM1 votes

I guess I'm just biased because I have Summoner Spells on my mouse buttons, so I have these keys right under my fingers that aren't serving any purpose (I have D and F mapped to items, but there aren't very many active items in general) and I just felt as though they could be put to better use.