Dota 2
How do I disable casting abilities on creeps?
This is a game breaking problem, in many teamfights there are large amounts of creeps jumbled up all over the place. I use quick casting, so even though I feel that my mouse is over my target, its just not always the case. I need a way around this, is there a shortcut to hold while pressing a key to disable "Creep casting?".

On a side note I am very disappointed in the lack of a feature to disable a certain hotkey for creep killing purposes. "R" for instance, would usually be set to not hit creeps... unless you are clinkz or something.
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A Street Sweeper Mar 4, 2015 @ 7:30pm 
You can't disable this, I think it is intended that this game holds your hand as little as possible, and allows you to make mistakes. I agree it's much more noticeable with quick casting which is pretty frustrating, but there is nothing you can do about it.
Novogrod Mar 4, 2015 @ 7:31pm 
Do you need the game to play itself for you? Stop clicking on creeps. That's the only way.
EmKay Mar 4, 2015 @ 7:31pm 
well, just train and get better, casting spells on creep are common if you are beginner, train yourself.

Just have a match yesterday where axe accidentally cast culling blade on a neutral creep just beside the enemy, the whole team laugh like mad, even that person admit his mistake is ridiculous
Last edited by EmKay; Mar 4, 2015 @ 7:32pm
Jehenoch Mar 4, 2015 @ 7:35pm 
sometimes it's useful
it's not rare for me to omnislash a creep just to allow myself to jump inside a chronosphere
Myst?c Mar 4, 2015 @ 7:47pm 
Originally posted by Super Jesus:
Do you need the game to play itself for you? Stop clicking on creeps. That's the only way.
quick casting, when active, you dont click, the ability or item is used where your mouse is hovering, so i just need to push the button for blink and not click, i blink where my mouse is, or when poofing as meepo, i will poof to the closest meepo to my mouse
iPunkBuster Mar 4, 2015 @ 7:50pm 
Happen to me a lot of time, my solution is when things get too crowded, i just use my mouse wheel to move my camera a bit closer so i could see things closer lulz
ColonelSanders Mar 4, 2015 @ 8:52pm 
Anyone can do this, regardless of the skill the player has. When the game is a clusterf-ck of creeps, summons, and jungle creeps, its just hit and miss. This is an inconvenience.
corbet (Banned) Mar 4, 2015 @ 9:03pm 
if my oponent is not good enough to click the right target he should be punished, lets not dumb down dota2 pls. git gud.
corbet (Banned) Mar 4, 2015 @ 9:04pm 
go back to lol forums, i seen you there alot, colonel j. if you want a less advanced game go play your lol.
For that you have AOE Nukers . .

Clears The Path Damaging The Opponent . .

Then you never go to hit a Creep.
ColonelSanders Mar 4, 2015 @ 9:08pm 
Originally posted by melton:
go back to lol forums, i seen you there alot, colonel j. if you want a less advanced game go play your lol.

You must be a pretty bad player. Considering that you even bring up League of Legends, and consider a feature to allow greater control to be "dumbing down" the game, I would think that you are a toxic ally, likely a "carry only" player, who sees less fault in his own actions (Judging by you are obviously doing something wrong since I have never heard of you being a particularly good player whether its on youtube, or a well known dota master).

Now that I have assumed as much about you as you have of me, we can continue being productive and see if we can find a way to fix this little problem. I'm trying to figure out if I can modify a cfg file of some sort, and help would be appreciated.
ColonelSanders Mar 4, 2015 @ 9:35pm 
Originally posted by melton:
it's offensive to make a thread like this. as a person who is satisfied with dota2 how it is, i mean if you don't like dota2 don't play it, whining is offensive to us people who do enjoy it.

Do not play the victim card here, this forum is open to questions, and constructive feedback. You are being ridiculous.
Crash Bandicoom Mar 4, 2015 @ 9:56pm 
Part of the game is that you can screw up like that if you aren't careful. It shouldn't be really easy to just shoot off your abilities with 100% accuracy in a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of creeps/summons.
Last edited by Crash Bandicoom; Mar 4, 2015 @ 9:59pm
Phantom Assassin Mar 4, 2015 @ 10:02pm 
Originally posted by ColonelJayce:
Originally posted by melton:
go back to lol forums, i seen you there alot, colonel j. if you want a less advanced game go play your lol.

You must be a pretty bad player. Considering that you even bring up League of Legends, and consider a feature to allow greater control to be "dumbing down" the game, I would think that you are a toxic ally, likely a "carry only" player, who sees less fault in his own actions (Judging by you are obviously doing something wrong since I have never heard of you being a particularly good player whether its on youtube, or a well known dota master).

Now that I have assumed as much about you as you have of me, we can continue being productive and see if we can find a way to fix this little problem. I'm trying to figure out if I can modify a cfg file of some sort, and help would be appreciated.

But in LoL most skills/ulties aren't even usable on minions (creeps)
Deadbubble Mar 4, 2015 @ 10:04pm 
Its just part of the game. You need to work on your accuracy, only thing you can do.
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Date Posted: Mar 4, 2015 @ 7:26pm
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