Talk:Janna/@comment-74.192.5.95-20130227194846/@comment-75.138.41.103-20130305213140

Re: Smartcasting and F1

Hi there! Smartcasting of abilities means that you can use your abilities with a few less clicks, and the target or direction is directly where your cursor is. For example, take Janna's shield. With smartcasting, you press E while your cursor hovers over your ADC, and automatically it shields them without you having to click the ADC. Saves you an extra second for clutch shields. You can also smaratcast her tornado, though I don't recommend it for new-to-Janna players. Basically, you hover your cursor in the direction you want the tornado to go and, without having to set the directional path, Janna drops the charging tornado immediately. I suggest heals and shields to be smartcasted, as every blink can mean the difference between life and death of a teammate. Champions with target nukes like Ryze or Leblanc can greatly benefit by smartcasting their single target spells.

You can also set up your teammates to be bound be the keys F1-F4 (and of course, set one for yourself.). Sometimes in the middle of a teamfight when everyone's humping each other, it may get a little difficult to shield the right teammate. Instead, you can press the corresponding button to shield that specific teammate (or use the portraits on the left, though that might take too long to find the person you need before they die!).

You can set up these bindings by hitting escape during a game and go to the option Key Mapping. You'll have to scroll down a bit to get to the smartcasting, and please be sure you bind to the smartcasting and not SELF-smartcasting. Of course, you can do fancy stuff like alt+E to be a self-smartcast shield :P

Hope this helped, and good luck playing with smartcasting <3