A minor gripe about Target Champions Only

Metal Janna··1 votes·2,188 views

So i'm tired of accidentally clicking a minion while trying to flee an enemy or when executing a dive, or clicking the blast cone and screwing my own teammates over during jungler maneuvers. So i'm going to learn to use Target Champions Only. I decide since my thumb is the only digit on my left hand that's free to move about (I rarely use it, and that's for emergency recentering my camera) that i'll just use Alt for it. Problem is, Alt+MB2 is "Pet move". "No problem" I say to myself. "I'll just rebind it to my mouse wheel and use Alt as 'Target Champions Only'". Only I can't. The game absolutely refuses to use Alt by itself for any keybind. I even tried editing the inputs.cfg to force it to, with no luck. Apparently if the game detects an "invalid" input setting it just defaults to something else (once to the previous keybind, and once to the default... wierd).

Why? What possible design concern could justify outright forbidding certain input configurations? Is there some keybind that could give an unfair advantage? Sure I can make it a toggle and just set it to some other key, but for a couple of reasons I don't want to do that. I want Alt!

Can't you make Alt an allowable keybind? Or at least make a whole separate input for "Move/Attack That Only Targets Champions"? At least in that case I could bind it to Alt+MB2, which would create the same effect as I want to create by binding "Target Champions Only" to Alt.

3 Comments

Rester1 votes

As far as I know Alt is reserved for pinging various things, I just set my toggle to tilde ~/` and dont really run into issues. I get you just said you don't want toggle but you kinda have to pick your poison here.

Arisen Valkyrie1 votes

IIRC Alt as well as the shift key are reserved for key combinations. Like you cannot set a command to be activated through "A" and "S" but Alt+S is fine.

Metal Janna1 votes

Well I discovered why it's not a valid keybind. Apparently binding something to Alt, even unsuccessfully, causes your ability to ping things with Alt to break. I don't know why Alt can't be the trigger for more than one thing, but assuming this can't be changed then how about my second idea?

Make a move/attack keybind that only targets champions. Then I can set it to Alt+MB2. This won't conflict with my ability to ping things with Alt because i'm not right clicking things to ping them.

I guess i'll try and get used to toggling it with a mouse button instead for now, since it would take a while to code it even if Riot wanted to.

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