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Toggle "Target Champions Only"

Yikés··42 votes·59,369 views

Hello!

I wanted to propose a way to toggle the hotkey "Target Champions Only".

              A long time ago, Riot added "locked camera", and many players enjoyed not having to hold the space bar for an extended period of time during a fight.  This change was not for everyone, and many stuck to holding space bar/freely moving the camera.  In my opinion, this change was fantastic because it offered the choice between how you controlled the camera. 

               Any way, back to the "holding X button for an extended period of time during a fight".  One of my friends was talking to me and was annoyed when unable to hit a champion that was standing behind a tower. I told him about the "Target Champions Only" hotkey, and he began using it. Later he told me that it was annoying to hold the key, and that he was considering buying a new mouse that had additional buttons to make the hotkey more easily accessible. So I thought, why not make the key a toggle so that you can switch between them without holding down the button for a whole team fight? So, I want a checkbox that allows you to make the "Target Champions Only" hotkey able to be a toggle button.

Current Hotkey: https://i.imgur.com/9c7PmPH.png

Toggle Box Proposed (Example): https://i.imgur.com/b2priIO.png

Hope you all like this idea! Will be answering questions in the comments whenever possible. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs] Thanks for reading, Yikés P.S. wasn't sure if this would go in Story, Art, & Sound or Gameplay, since it fits in both in a way. c:

(Edit: Maybe I should've put this in concepts? Whoops! I've only used the boards a couple of times, sorry!!)

26 Comments

Mafia LeBlanc8 votes

Agreed.

THE RlVER KlNG5 votes

I feel a disturbance in the river

As if a thousand Tahm Kench mains suddenly cried out in joy at once

korg0234 votes

This is so good,i hate when i dive and hit tower by accident cause enemy is hiding behind it.

Daddy Ants2 votes

{quoted}

This is so good,i hate when i dive and hit tower by accident cause enemy is hiding behind it.

The amount of times that has cost me a kill is insane.

It's extremely tilting to auto a tower/minion and lose a fight.

zepdrix3 votes

This has been suggested many many times over the years. They never seemed to seriously consider it before... not sure why they would now. :(

Pls Riot.

P.S. please make "Target Champion Only" work with "Attack Move".

Jos Kosmos3 votes

This is implemented now btw.

Yikés1 votes

Yeah, I had some Riot contacts that I spoke to about it. Got to move through a bit of the process with them. :)

RalshaDenmoon2 votes

Tried finding the target only champions thing. Can't find it. Can you help?

Giddyy2 votes

Can only be done in game, scroll to the bottom of the Game tab.

Hópe2 votes

Can you explain how the key works? When im playing ADC and i use the target champions only, do you just hold down the key X while autoing or attack moving?

Yikés1 votes

The hotkey in its current state is a key you hold down and it won't target anything except champions. Say there was a teamfight happening in the middle of a wave, and you were autoing without the key held down. You might accidentally auto a minion, making your damage output against the enemy champions lower. If you hold down the key, your auto attacks would consistently only hit the enemy champions.

My proposal is to make this key an optional toggle so you don't have to hold down the key, but could just turn it on before the fight, and back off after it. Let me know if you have any more questions. :)

gud jangler1 votes

missing a champ between minions is what noobs fail at, but when he hides perfectly behind tower or runs around it, or dragon/baron, that's where the problem happens

Wimbledofy1 votes

This also works with attack move + target champion button?

Kyrrion2 votes

Tell me why people shouldn't just rebind "Champs only" to the T key and use their left index finger for this.

By using the T key this way; you keep your fingers in practically the same position with no noticeable strain, your finger's reach is unaffected (could argue improved since your index would be able to hit 6 easier), and since nearly every targeted ult in the game can't target minions anyway (only exception is Cho'Gath) it's irrelevant that you can't use R+T together.

(Not trying to come off snarky, trying to understand why adding what would look like clumsy toggle mechanism that would require some UI element to track would be a better solution than the one I've been using for years without any issue at all that's so simple to use)

NaturesMayhem1 votes

Because it would give people the option. No other reason than appeasing to those who want it. There might be,"better", ways of doing it, but that's the way they want to do it. I don't see any issue with Riot doing that to give player's a full range of options so that they can customize their gaming style instead of forcing them to fit into the already set method.

Yikés1 votes

I came back to this post to find a question already answered for me! This is really well put, thank-you NaturesMayhem! As NM said, simply for the option of being able to toggle it is what I'm looking for. Much like locked camera, yes you could just learn how to play with it unlocked. However, I personally find it weird to have it unlocked as someone who had never played a MOBA before League. I find the act of holding a key down for the entirety of a fight to be a bit awkward, so I would like to have the option to toggle it. :)

Lùmen2 votes

because it's very uncomfortable

Elohaven2 votes

Support. I hope this gets noticed by a Rioter and replied. This should definitely go through.

Mokuto Bunshi2 votes

PLEASE this. I used to use this button as ADC/support but ever since taking a LIFE break from the game I really would have found it useful to be a toggle and to concentrate on KITING.

Daddy Ants2 votes

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/developer-corner/aG96Psz9-featureqol-changeidea-generator-for-2018-and-beyond?show=flat&page=5

Posted it here for more visibility.

Yikés1 votes

{quoted}

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/developer-corner/aG96Psz9-featureqol-changeidea-generator-for-2018-and-beyond?show=flat&page=5

Posted it here for more visibility.

Wow, thanks!

I'm glad you liked my idea enough to write it up there. (Especially considering I didn't know about that post and never would have found it!)

Appreciate the gesture a lot! :)

Daddy Ants1 votes

PLEASE RIOT!

I would love that to be a thing.

It's extremely uncomfortable to have to hold a button, press attack move, move my character plus press Q W E R

Darkeus1 votes

Damnit. I need to pay attention to hotkeys more. I did not know this existed... I... FeelsBadMan...

[zombie-brand-mindblown]

The Soopa Troopa1 votes

Since I found out about the Target Champions Only, I swapped TAB and in the hotkeys menu. So when I want to view the scores / items I raise my left pinkie and hold `, it makes pressing my pinkie down on TAB while in combat a breeze as it lets my fingers stay where they always have been on QWER.

XˆAˆNˆA1 votes

There is more things Riot can do to improve the game settings/experience and TOGGLE TARGET CHAMPION ONLY is one of them. Heres some other ideas.

  1. Binding attack move to left click makes the champion move when using the mini map, unless you hold down the left shift, it interferes with other things too like when you click on the shop or leveling abilities. Its annoying to hold left shift to get pass these interferences.

  2. Custom smart/quick cast for champions, like the item the sets. I use smart cast on almost everything unless I play something with a very long range abilities like: Luxs R, Nocturns R, Galios R, Sions R, Ryzes R. Manny rs XD but you get the idea, having to hover over does abilities to see the range or turning of the quick cast every time you play certain champions is rather annoying.

SAD Gekyume1 votes

Oh well seems like I'm gonna attack minions with my Q on Kai'Sa cuz im definetly not buying a new mouse

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