Now my tip for you is, when you want to say something to your allies you just press ctrl + enter, and you will open the allied chat box, no matter if you were using whisper or party chat right before. I saw you on another video having a hard time while talking to your friend on the other party, so just wanted to share this useful command I learned quite late in the game as well.

also alt+telekinesis is really useful on Alarak, as it quickly pushes yourself to the direction you are currently facing

It amazes me that this type of video hasn't been made before. It offers tons of useful advice for the game, not just a character, and it's all in one place, rather than spreading it to several different videos. Great content!

You said the only downside of attack moving is inaccuracy, but in game settings, there is a setting that will make it attack closest to your cursor instead of your character. I think this is the optimal setup

This is a really good video man, thanks for making it - Darrian

alt+zombie wall and alt+lunar flare is also nice since it's ideally timed to let you get out and trap/stun whoever is chasing you

Still helping people in 2020 :)

On the tip of stutter stepping, you can also set it so that you will target what is closest to your character or what is closest to your mouse click. This makes targeting heroes a bit easierand may help some people.

Learn this and learn map awareness and you're better than >90% of players

I knew most of these from previous moba games, but that queuing commands tip is one of the best pieces of advice anyone has ever given me in a game. THANK YOU

I am a mediocre player at this game, and I love how huge the overwatch community has taken up coaching and improving the player base through youtube. I have been looking since overwatch came out for something similar for heroes as I love heroes more than any other game. And then I found you. Thank you so much for being an actually good player of heroes who really knows what they're doing and can explain to the rest of us your playstyles, tips and tricks. This is exactly what I needed.

Thank you for the video! You are the only youtuber that has explained exactly what you are inputting. Everyone else just assumed the viewer has played a MOBA before. I really appreciate the knowledge. Now if I could only get my hands to move faster.

12:46 omg this is the single greatest thing I have learned from your videos ever, that I am capable of performing - I always dismounted every time before - thank you

ALT self-cast is also very good with Nazeebo's Zombie Wall when running away, the timing is perfect so that the chasing enemy hero will run inside of it

I've just started using quick cast in conjunction with learning how to Zeratul in QM and it has made a huge difference to my play in just 2 days. It was rough at first, but feels like I'm playing a completely different game. Thanks for the tips!

1) there is one more way to stutter step : right click to move + 's' to stop, then right click again to move 2) casting at yuor feet area denial abilities is very useful to escape (e.g. casting Chromie's time trap right at your feet as you move away from chasing enemy) 3) don't grab biscuits from the toilet, that's very bad advice!

Thanks this was really helpful Nub! the only thing I knew of was stutter step (which i'm still practising), Silver 2 played for 2 years on and off if anyone is wondering. Also bit blown away how none of this is taught in game.

SO THATS HOW YOU DO THE CONSECUTIVE COMMANDS. Now my pro mount/fountain timings will never be used again lol

Hey Nubkeks...thank you so very much for this! I had the default click settings on, and I'll admit I thought it would be too difficult to switch to quick cast. Because of your insistence in this video, though, I gave it a try with "on release" as a baby step. I found it so much easier than the default click setting and even turned off "on release" within a few games. It made me a much better Kerrigan and Li Ming (my two fav characters to play). You also gave the best explanation for stutter stepping I've seen. Thanks again!

I wish they would make the attack command prioritize heroes or at least make a setting for it.

There's a small inaccuracy in the video when you talk about attack move: if you attack move with your cursor directly on a target you will shoot at that target specifically, just like you would with a right click. It's not necessary to use right click if you want to specifically target a hero as far as I know.

Pro tip: since the only thing you use left click for on the map is casting abilities if you don't have quick cast (which should at least be on release if not full quick cast), bind mouse1 to the attack move and right click to "force move": this means right clicking on someone DOES NOT make you attack them. Left click for attack, right click for movement. Once you get used to it, it becomes a lot easier. Then, if you turn on the proximity-based attack command setting, your intended target just needs to be the closest enemy to your mouse when you left click. These all combine into making mistakes much less, especially when stutter-stepping.

Azmo is my fav character and i always tell people about alt+R if i see them manually self cast (which obviously you covered). my only other tip would be quick cast Tracer's blink and when you play her or lucio click a hero you want to focus fire on and then right click the floor where you want to go and hold it down. the character will fluidly follow your mouse cursor without having to rapidly click and/or accidentally clicking a new target.

About Stutter Stepping - To hit the target you want (as a ranged hero, for example) you can also "A" click (attack move) and have your mouse on the target - similar to right-clicking on the target. Not only right clicking allows you to select a specific target.

I've been waiting for a video like this since the game release. Great job!

bind Amove to left click and use quick cast for efficient stutter stepping. just right click then left lick to attack once then right click again

My mind was blown with the shift-mount-move thing. I knew this was made in the SC2 engine, but I never made that connection or thought to use it that way. Thanks!

Another good use of Shift to queue actions is to take the "safe" path across the map. For example, say you want to go from top shrine to bottom shrine on Dragon Shire. If you just right-click the bottom shrine, you'll take the shortest path through the middle of the map, and you might get ganked in the bushes. To take a longer, safer path, you could Shift-right-click on your team's side of the map, first near your top fort, then your bottom fort, then the bottom shrine.

This got recommended to me for some reason. It's the first nub's video I have seen years ago, and I remember how much it helped me :D Pity he abandoned hots...

I've been playing this for near 2 years and I JUST learned about that Shift-Click now?! OMG... thanks for sharing this vid!

for future use you should add which tip you are talking about and what key, saying it helps but also having the button shown on screen will help people, for example tip 1:alt + right click on the left hand side whiel you are talking, i had to re watch this just to remember what buttons you were talking about

If you're a beginner to MOBA style games, default casting or quick-cast on release is better for learning and developing muscle memory because it actually shows you the AOE/range of many abilities after clicking, and gives you a visual indicator. This is important for skill shots in particular that requires you to be much more accurate and precise.

I already knew all of this and I'm still shit... #FeelsBadMan

Although I already use these, I found it very entertaining to watch and listen, good job 😄👍

Really rad video! I have over 6K games played and learned a lot!

Also can be good to know that Spacebar will center the camera on your hero from anywhere, and as long as you're holding it, it will follow you and illuminate your position with a column of light.

New player here. Loved the video man super helpful for a newb! I'm loving this game!

What are your favorite hero specific uses for Shift? Also favorite self cast? My favorite Shift usage is with Chen Q+R to isolate someone with barrel and with Diablo any combination of Q and E. My favorite self cast is Alarak's self telekinesis. I guess this is essential for Alaraks but not obvious for new Alarak players.

good overall tips. what I like to do with quick cast is leaving on release for global and putting quick cast on for escapes and combos. for example Alarak and Kerrigan skills are always QC on, while Falstad has on release for Q and on for E.

@5:45 HoTs 2.0 has a command to make it so you can target the closest enemy to your cursor with Attack Move, rather than the closest enemy to your hero. Settings>Options>Gameplay>Check Attack Move TargetPoint. Just a heads up @nubkeks

Another great video! Would love to see a tips video on how to analyze your own replays! I feel like replay analysis is one of those things where you can learn THE MOST if you know how to pick apart what you're looking at!

I'm pretty sure you can click on your target with A to target specific enemies with stutter-stepping. Then, even if you miss them, you'll either attack them from a distance or attack the nearest enemy without moving toward them.

Looks like I gotta try to use those quick cast option more often. It's bad to be lazy ^^ Thx for awesome video mate very helpful !

I can't stress the usefulness of the shift queue command's importance. It seems minimal, but the amount of time you save by mounting INSTANTLY after channeling an objective or collecting a well makes a large impact on a game. Sometimes it means you're into a fight one auto-attack sooner which could ultimately decide if a teammate lives or dies. There's nothing worse than watching a player attempt to mount or go to collect a well and end up cancelling the command just BARELY too early only to watch them waste 4 seconds doing it yet again. It's also nice to queue movement commands on the map, so instead of clicking next to your character, you can queue a couple of movement commands in the jungle to make your way back WITHOUT accidentally walking behind enemy towers while you're distracted. ALSO...Shift+Hearth is another nice example. Sometimes you want to hearth right away after an objective, or if you shift+hearth while doing a camp your player will hearth instantly as the camp is collected. You would also be surprised how much time is wasted when players aren't taking the fastest path to a location because they spam click in front of them. Outside of dodging skillshots, a perfectly straight line is the fastest escape. It's also the fastest route to a healing fountain or objective. Being able to queue these as you mount or perform other actions is part of what separates good players from great ones.

This right here. Is the exact video I've been looking for. Thanks!!

another really good use for shift click is for teleporting over wall, especially like liming. click to move right next to the wall and shift E click the other side. never miss the timing again

Assign "Attack-Move" to the left mouse button. It's gonna improve your stutterstep-game so much! Just change between left and right click periodically :)

You can check in option to attack the closest enemy to your cursor when you execute an attack move, quite useful

Greatest 15 min of my life 😁, one of the best hots vids i have ever seen! thanks dude keep up the good work

ive used shift to queue up healing fountain then running back to lane, didnt realise you could use it for channeling/mounting etc! thanks :) great vid

I've been using G to ping, my whole life is a lie.

thank you so much, it really showed up some nice shortcuts and controls I've never seen! keep up the great job :D

Diablo's E + Q can be queued. Falstad Z + R (Gust), Kerrigan (W + E, rarely useful, you should manually do this), Artanis (W + Q, same as Kerrigan). Using shift is super necessary on Diablo, the others here are pretty useful, but not mandatory.

I like the video. It was a bit messy with Malfurion and Arthas at the beginning: you could've explained everything with the target dummy, but I think it's ok. A couple of suggestions for upcoming videos, in case you are running short of ideas: (1) explain how to choose the right talents during the game according to the situation at hand. I get so frustrated when my random teammates are using cookie-cutter builds and forget about what the team and map requires (would I ever see some support other than me taking cleanse in QM? And don't get me started with Triple Shot...). (2) do in-depth explanations on strategies for each particular map: relevance of the objectives, the pushing, the timings of the camps, and so on; which heroes are favored and which ones aren't and why; how could a team make a comeback and how can the other team prevent that from happening; etc.

Tnx man, I've played over 3k games without these... 'bout time I started using them. Hitting alot more Q's on liming but I brainfarted a couple of orbs in the wrong direction too :') takes some getting used to

You can also use attack-move and click on the enemy. So you don't get punished for missclickimg and nearly every autoattack will hit the enemy you want. I don't know why nobody uses this and why all the videos about stutterstepping doesn't explain this way of doing it...

Very good tips idd. Gonna be tricky to get used to, for sure, after almost 6500 games into the game, but may just gonna have to give it a go.

Really helpful! I learned some things I had been wondering how to do. 10/10 on video!

Nowadays there *ARE* 2 options for attack button. You can choose between attacking what is closest to your hero or what is closest to the cursor. The second option most of time if you don't click too far away can work as the first option as well plus you have the benefit of choosing what to attack when needed without the need to be 100% precise on hitbox.

Incredibly helpful video. Thank you. I didn't know most of these control functions existed.

If I could add anything to the tip about attack-move / stutter-step it's that Valla is an excellent choice of hero for practicing it.

I believe in Heroes 2.0 there will be a setting in the Attack move options where you can make your hero attack the target closest to your cursor, rather than your hero

Self casting your root as malf is often super useful, because it allows you to easily run away and poop out a root without having to bring your mouse back to you character and potentially misclick a move command. Soemtimes when I'm in a tense teamfight I stop cspamming move commands, and just hold right click to path to avoid clicking on a minion wall or whatever, when the battleground is busy. ALT + E on malf is great with this. This isn't always the best placement though so don't use it as a crutch, but vs illidan or chen or a number of dive heroes it's just to easy, and effective not to do.

great vid! filled the gaps of a couple of things I wasn't aware of! Especially this explains that green dotted line showing out of no where! lol /no1 :3

Great video about things that come quite late into the game for most people.

I got to from low Gold to Diamond with only stutter step (only from these tips i mean), so I would say that's the most important. The others are optional. Although if you know the hero you main 100%, then quick cast would be useful like 20% of the time i.e. Artanis Q+E combo would definitely be faster without the two mouse clicks BUT it would rarely leap any major benefits.

I actually didn't know about the self cast.

I put quick cast since i first started playing the game when it came out. Helps a lot

I've been wondering for a while how to ping the skill bars and stuff. I knew you could ping other stuff with G already but kept putting off looking up the other. Didn't know about the quick cast skills thing either. Knew about the rest. Cool video.

Awesome video. I learned a few things. Any more video ideas you have on how we can train to be better players would be great.

Queuing up moves with shift is critical for playing the vikings I find. Tell erik to run in for a globe then return to your tower give you lots of time to babysit the other 2.

Theres an option I'm having a very hard time finding but I used to have it. I'm not sure what it's called either, but it is when you target an aoe ability (say Jaina's blizzard) outside of its max range circle. It used to be that if I clicked outside of the max range, Jaina will immediately cast Blizzard at max range, but now she'll run toward the area I clicked till she's in range and then cast Blizzard. This is a big deal for me because I just want clicking outside the range bubble to mean that I want a max range blizzard immediately in that direction.

Thank you for this video super helpful, this reminded me that these commands from Warcraft 3 which I used almost all the time back then are implemented here as well which I did not know.

very good video. i use nearly all of them (exapt Attackmove with some heroes ^^) btw did you know that there are camerapositionbuttons like in warcraft and starcraft? using ctrl+F5-F8 and ctrl+shift+F5-F8 you can save the actuall camera position and with F5-F8 or shift F5-F8 you can switch to that position (so there are 8 camera poition you can save) have fun with it

7:54 this is the only thing i didn't already know prior to watching this video.I am SO doing this all the time now.such a pain the ass to have to use the mouse to pick talents everytime

Ive found this video incredibly useful, helpful and humorous. Thank you! Thinking outloud about my experience with it so far, not sure whats optimal for me as a constant left click right clicker to keep moving around and selecting when I need? I had used these for a time then ran into issues with selection and saw some remarks about having to make a hero quick cast, not sure what I was missing so I'm going back to trying to keybind auto attack, quick cast, select, and move all on my mouse but I only have 3 buttons on my mouse, until i get a gaming mouse. maybe select could be spacebar? I have been trying to find someone who's posted visual quick cast settings for hero and attack movement management and currently this is one of the best being a video. Anyone have more visuals to point me to? granted I think the point of you illustrating using ctrl+# of talent would bypass my need to select those in game...but Iknow there was some other reason I needed to go back to normal settings.

I use quick cast on my movement abilities (valla vault, falstad barrel roll, tracer q, etc) and point and click abilities (healing abilities, etc) but use normal setting on all my skill shots abilities.

Tip1. I feel like default casting is best for me, I aim better, lucky for me I got monster apm thanks to SC II, so I don't feel like I am at a disadvantage. Tip2. Stutter stepping in extremely useful, I don't even loose accuracy unless I'm fighting a summoner like Naz, Zag slag, or whoever. This is a huge advantage. However sometimes I find defensive situations where just standing still and auto attacking works better, granted you will need a self sustain, an escape , or cc to pull it off, and this trick only really works in very specific times tho. Tip3. Explain it better please, you should have said the control 1 is starting from the top to the bottom, Took me a lil bit to figure it out. This is awesome, I didn't even know you could do that. This like Tip 2, this is very useful. Tip4. The alt pings, are very useful, Before they had indicators at the top showing your teams ult cooldown timers, and voice chat, this was what good teams used to communicate. Tip5. The shift command, never helped me on HoTs... but in SC II, this is something you should get down. On the checking talents, there is another way, manually get to the fountain, tap tab, instantly see all talent, and continue game... the only way to do this, is to know EVERY single talent, and to have a photogenic memory, but learning all talents even for people you dont like or play, is useful for countering in your talent tier if possible. for example, if uther is using the talent that gives him 200% faster cool downs every time hes stunned, it helps to avoid stunning him. This however was very informative, great video.

Great video. You didn't mention the new addition with 2.0, that lets you hover targets to stutter step. I'd love for you to cover this topic in-depth. Pros and cons of using hover vs click, etc. Maybe with some examples.

i got a litltle tip for the studderstepping. if u press S (stop) ur hero will stop whatever its doing. If u have auto attack enabled (i believe it is enabled by default) ur hero will start auto attacking. Then instead of having to click(move) A+click(attack-move) u can just click(move) S (stop up and attack) and repeat. i find this much easier and this will hopefully also help u guys.

You forgot that there is an option for changing attack move to target the target nearest your attack move target instead of nearest your hero. That allows you to use attack move to more reliably attack a specific target (still not 100% ofc) as a ranged character. Sadly I knew all these, or happily I suppose? ^^

There is a setting that lets you attack the closest target to your cursor when you press the A button. And also a setting that puts that command on quick cast

OMG this video is so helpful! Thanks a lot!

Ugh I have watched so many tutorials on stutter stepping and for some reason, even with all the practice, I still cant get it down. It really frustrates me because I get so many other mechanics, but this one is holding me back. Also quickcast is annoying but I have not practiced it either and with it off, your explanation really helps me understand why I miss seemingly easy skill shots more often then I should. Great video as always I would love to see more videos like this! In fact, it would be great to see role tutorials from you. I am decent with assassins pretty good with support but really good woth certain specialists. I suck with warrior and I just started hero league, and while Im lower level still doing placements, I dont want to screw up myself and my team from shitty warrior play. So if possible I would love to see tutorials or tips and tricks for the different roles I think your analysis on that would definitely help players such as I. Thanks!

I knew some of these, but wow a lot of them are new to me as well. Thank you so much for this! That said is there a reason to use attack move instead of Stop (S) to stutter step? That also makes your hero attack the nearest target and requires one less input since you don't need to click the mouse again for an attack move command. Am I missing something?

Lots of good stuff here, thanks!

Nice helpful tips! Thx for the video

easy to learn quick cast list.. zarya grenade, guldan fel flame, jaina Q, zagara banelings, abbathur mines, sonya slam, alarak E, lunara wisp, GENJI SHURIKENS!

i also recommend to make the cursor smaller, then you can click on a specific target easier

Very usefull things to know. Thank u nubkeks!!

I'm diamond and I'm using everyone of those except talents picking. also in my opinion best use 10:30 of self cast is Alarak W (he casts it on maximum range to push himself direction he is facing) also I got negative habit overusing self cast, I almost don't use Auriel heal correctly coz almost every time I use it is with selfcast.

Shift has some weird and inconsistent behavior though. Just made a video to demonstrate it and put it on the forums. But maybe any of you guys have something to say about this. So the thing is that when you queue up commands and your character automatically starts attacking something before you finish the queue, the autoattacking becomes a part of that queue and doesn't proceed to the next command before your automatically acquired target is dead. I think the automatic actions should be skipped when you are holding Shift and giving commands. For example this may mess up your Diablo Q+E+Q combo if if Diablo starts attacking something befor you finish the queue. There is an other weird behavior. Queuing up the same ability back to back, fails most of the time. But if you put some filler ability/command between it always works out. That seems like an arbitrary restriction and I feel like it shouldn't be like that. I made a video where I demonstrate it with Kerrigan's Q. On rare occasions it works when you just do Shift: Q+Q+Q...

Quick cast(or smart cast) is life, I can't even think playing without it.

These helped me a bunch! I'm surprised some of these aren't in the tutorial!

wow nice video!!! It will definitely help me! Thanks!

In 2.0 you have a option to enable A attack to heroes closer to you, or closer to your cursor, meaning that you wont hit anymore things beside heroes...

I have PTSD from shift queuing, I did it accidentally in a few games and ended up walking in circles and into enemy forts, and had no idea what was happening 😅

YAY! nice info, and great video.

I use the S key to stutter step, you just hit S to stop and your character will automatically attack nearest, no need to left click at all.

Thanks for the tips. I just subbed