Right click deny is enabled Denying is when you attack friendly units once they are under 50%,10%

% and 25% hp for creeps, towers

and heroes(heroes only denyable under the effects of the damage over time of Doom, Venomous Gale venomancer, Shadowstrike
Queen of Pain). Right click deny means that you do not have to a click to deny which is awesome. By default right clicking on
friendly units makes you follow that unit. This command disables that so you will have to Move command (M) and click to follow
(works on all types of units)

In-game Control Set up (1)

Shift Queueing: Holding down shift enables you to issue a chain of commands. For example if your playing naga siren you can select
your illusions and then a click one neutral camp and then hold shift and a click another neutral camp or creep wave. This works with
items and abilities as well, use it when needed!
Attack Move (A): attacks every enemy/neutral unit in your path until you get to the point you clicked to.
Stop (s): This is SOOOOO IMPORTANT. If you play with auto attack on you can use the stop key to help you last hit. By pressing
stop you will cancel any previously issued movement or attack or ability commands and begin attacking the nearest enemy unit. The
autoattack always targets the CLOSEST ENEMY UNIT, so if you position yourself closest to the creep that is going to die next and
then hit s you can last hit without having to even right click the creep.
Stop (s) can also be used to cancel attack animations. This can spammed to prevent auto attacks from going off. This is useful against
certain abilities such as blademail or nyx assasins spiked carapace.
Thirdly Stop can be used to cancel spell casting spells that have a cast time (that arent channeled). Most spells have cast times, but
this is not explicitly stated by the tooltips, if there is a delay during which your character starts animating after you use a spell before it
actually happens it is cancellable with stop. This is really good for throwing off your opponent to bait defensive moves. The cooldown
wont trigger if you cancel a spell before it finishes casting and the mana cost will not incur.
Control groups:
1 selects your hero. Double tap to centre the camera back to your hero.
or ~, the button to the left of 1 is what I bind my courier to. Its extremely close to your hero keybind so it makes switching between
the two and microing it easy.
I use 2-5 for control groups. You might say that these binds should be for items, but seriously these binds are much more comfortable
to play with once you have an illusion rune and or play multi unit heros such as chen, naga lycan invoker etc. I set 2 to select all other
units and 3-5 are customizable control groups.
So for example when playing meepo with blink I just have to press 2, tab spam poof onto my main hero and then press 1 and use my
blink hotkey. When playing luna, gyro or any other helm of the dominator builder you can easily stack ancients using 2. Once you
have a manta style or pick up an illusion rune however if you still want to stack ancients Id recommend setting the control group for
your dominated creep to 4 and set your manta illusions to 3 to prevent you from accidently selecting both your illusions and your
dominated creep when selecting all other units. When playing Chen, or Meepo you can have more than one type of unit when you
select all other units with usable spells. To rotate between the units while staying in the same control group use tab.
Hold (Caps Lock). If you decide that you want to play with auto attack off you probably dont need this bind. If you do play with
autoattack on it is quite important. The Hold position command tells your hero to stay in one spot and attack anything that comes
within your attack range. It does the same thing as the stop command except using the stop command while in range of enemy units
will cause you to move towards the unit to attack it. This is really important when trying to hide in trees or play a support because auto
attack forces you to move towards creeps even if they are outside your attack range, thus revealing and losing your position. If you
instead spam hold you will stay in one spot without attacking allowing you to set up your perfect gank or escape.

Courier speed burst: Once you have a flying courier (220g upgrade) you can use use the courier speed boost keybind to increase the
movement speed of the courier by 50% every 40 seconds. The cooldown for the speedboost is shown on the bottom right of your
screen. This bind is good when you dont want to have to select your courier when boosting.
Courier deliver items (Z): you bought some items at the shop and want it to be delivered without having to click the deliver icon?
Then use this keybind. Please dont be selfish however, always check where the courier is and what items are on it. If it isnt empty is
is likely that it is mid delivery to another player. You should nearly always wait for their item to be delivered before using this hotkey,
or they may rage at you since this hotkey overrides previously issued commands with the courier.
Further control with the courier: When you have games where your courier is going to have to go through risky pathing select the
courier and shift queue its movement pathing to a safer one and then shift queue courier deliver items or go to secret shop (w) or
return to base (q). You really dont want to feed your courier, you feed 750g(ground) 875g(flying) in total to your enemy team
whenever it dies, as well as lose access to any items it was carrying for 3 minutes.
In-Game Control Set-up (2)

Autocast ability (Alt + ability keybind): This is for abilities like drow rangers Q, huskars searing arrows, lichs w. If you use this
your hero will automatically use the auto attack modifier without you having to spam the ability hotkey.
Quickcast ability 1-ultimate: For most heroes I leave this off. What this does is allow you to cast a spell using your mouse cursor to
determine the location of where you cast point targetted spells and the unit you use unit targetted spells. This means that you dont
have to click again. You should change quick cast ability to qwedfr to the needed quickcast ability. There are certain heroes were you
must put on quick cast for certain spells, such as meepo. If you bind w to quick cast ability 2 when playing meepo you can tab poof so
fast. You may want to experiement with quickcast on abilities like pudges meat hook once you are used to its cast ranges.
Leveling your abilities using keybinds. Ive seen way too many streams were people click on the spells they want to level. Please
dont be a clicker, use keybinds. If you want to level stats press alt a and then alt s. If you want to level qwerdf use control and the
keybind for the ability you want to level.

Item binds: G, X, C, V, T, Space

If you buy an item that you are going to be using a lot move it to slot 6, where the bind is space. Your left hand thumb does all
ususally so give it something to do. This is an awesome bind for armlet toggling or for blink daggers, and shadowblades.
Mouse binds: I use a 5 button mouse. If you dont have a mouse with atleast 5 buttons you should think about investing in one. A
three button mouse in a game where scroll is unbindable is really not comparable to a 5 button mouse where your right thumb can do
some work. I have my mouse button 5 as shop and alt-5 as take items.
Puchase sticky (7) : This buys you a tp. If you are in range of the side shop and you have inventory space itll automatically go into
your inventory. If away from sideshop itll go into your stash and you just have to deliver it or go there and take from stash (Alt+
Mouse 5).

Purchase quickbuy (6): When you are using the shop if you SHIFT + Click on an item it will put it into your quickbuy. Once you
have the gold for the item or any of its components you can hit the keybind and you will be able to buy it without having to open the
shop again. This is awesome for buying before you lose gold on death, it also means you dont unnecessarily miss things do to
excessive time focusing on shopping.
In-Game Control Set-Up (3)

You can bind your console here:

Please use pause. You can pause in Dota 2 and it is bound to F9 by default. We all live actual lives and sometimes theres that
has to be done. Ask politely for a pause, and go sort it out. That being said, dont queue if you know you have to afk for more than 5
minutes within the next hour. If you suddenly have to leave for more than 5 minutes always abandon(click on options on the top left
and hit disconnect then leave game), this way your passive gold and any gold you earn will be instantly usable by your team, and they
have the option of selling your items or leaving the game safely.
Often people will disconnect due to connection issues. If the disconnecter is on your team and you feel that it isnt a rage quit then
please pause. Most of the time its not their fault that they disconnected, and you are ruining the game experience for them and
everyone else in the game by not pausing. If the disconnecter is on the opposing team pause here as well and wait for a couple
minutes, if there are no signs of a return you can discuss continuing with the other players. Dont be a win , this is what creates
a toxic community. If you dont want to pause you belong with bots. Im sure everyone knows how to alt tab, just do something else till
you hear the unpause sound ticking.
In-game Control Set-up - Chat phrases, Chat wheel and Voice Chat

Dota 2 is a team game, and communication can be very important. The chat phrases can be used even while muted.
Calling missing: When someone in your lane has dissapeared from your lane for more than 5-10 seconds while at decent hp and mana
it means that they are, 1. Checking/securing a rune, 2. Warding, 3. Ganking, 4. Stacking neutral camps, 5. Standing under tower to stay
safe from a gank. Whenever this happens you should say missing in chat to tell your team mates that there is potential gank threat, or
wards going up. You should ideally never have to rely on missings yourself, you should use the minimap and your own situational
awareness to know when people are trying to gank you or are setting up wards, but you shouldnt expect everyone to do the same so
you should say missing or your likely to get flamed. If you forget to do so saying sorry is polite. Instead of hitting enter and typing
missing and hitting enter again and missing 1 last hit in the process you should use the keybinds F5, F6, and F7 to notify when
someone is missing in the repsective lane.

The only other keybind that I have space to bind here is Get Back(F4) which will save your team on many from unnecessary
deaths.
PINGING. If you hold alt and left click on the minimap or on your screen you will ping. This causes a sound and visual flashing icon
on the minimap and the location of your ping. Use pings to direct team movement and alert allies of incoming enemies or enemy
positioning as well as alert allies about which hero to kill first and when to push towers. If you hold ctrl + alt + left click you will do a
"danger ping" which signals your team to be careful/defensive.
If you use alt and click on an ability it will tell your allies that it is available, on cooldown or you have insufficient mana to cast it.
This can also be used on items (6.81) and for items with area of effects on use such as mekanism or arcane boots (6.81).
I use alt + Mouse 4 to Show recent event. What this does is centre your camera on the last ping issued. If your playing treant
protector, just ask your team to ping when they need a heal and you can heal much faster. Whats even better is that pings only visually
last on the screen for a few seconds, with this bind if you miss a ping you can locate it.
Specific Hero Missing: If you hold alt and click on an enemy heroes icon on the top of the screen it will say that specific hero is
missing. If you then press alt + ctrl and click on the hero icon itll say that specific hero has returned.
Please consider investing in a headset. Dota 2 allows in-game voice chat and unlike many other games, people actually use this.
Please use push to talk if you dont have a quiet background. I bind this to my mouse button 4 as it is really important and this allows
me to be able to still have full control of everything else while holding it.
The chat wheel (Y). This is my chat wheel set up (below), Ive considered all the options and these chat phrases and positions are the
best in my opinion. Theres too many keybinds in Dota 2 for you to be able to bind every single chat function and be able to use them
efficiently so the chat wheel is quite awesome. You hold down the keybind (Y) and move your mouse in the direction of the chat
phrase needed. Please avoid spamming them, some people get really cheesed.
General Game Settings

Double tap to self cast: If you double tap items or abilities that can be used on yourself it will cast it on yourself.
Unified unit orders: When playing lone druid or controlling illusions or meepos you might find it easier to use unified unit orders. If
you hold control and move or attack move every unit will move to that location. Unfortunately unified unit orders cannot be used to
cast spells as control + qwerdf is used to level abilities (sad meepo).
Share match history: By default this is off. If you want to be able to analyse your performance on dotabuff turn this on. It does mean
that other players can also view your dota 2 profile and check your scores, builds and last hits in previous games however.
Profile Privacy: Turn this off if you want your friends to be able to see how you are doing.

Minimap draws on right: If youre too used to LoLs default map location you may want to put the minimap on the right hand side.
Personally Im too used to having the minimap of the left hand side from SC2. Its actually better to have it on the right as you wont
misclick the top right of the minimap when running back to your base in clutch situations as radiant, or as dire when on the offensive
you might accidently walk back by misclicking on the top right of the minimap when you want to head closer to the radiant.
Minimap icons instead of names: with the increased minimap icon size, this option becomes even better, by holding alt the minimap
icons change from colours to hero icons. Also the names are pretty useless when they overlap when compared to icons.