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somethingrelevant

Alternative control schemes

It seems that most players control the camera by moving their mouse to the edge of the screen and have QWER bound to their skills. When I first started playing I found this was causing all kinds of strain to my wrist - moving the mouse back and forth between the screen edges and things I wanted to hit was taking a long time.

So, instead, I went with this:

  • E S D F: camera controls. E is up, S is left, etc.
  • A W R G: skills. A, W, R, G correspond to Q, W, E, R.
  • Q T: Summoner skills.
  • 1 2 3 4 5 6: Items. Fun fact: you can click and drag items around to put the ones with actives in easier-to-hit locations.

Keeps everything nearby and reduces the amount of mouse movement I have to do. My question to you is: what control schemes are you using? Anything similar? Just the default? Something entirely absurd but secretly super effective?

Posted Jan 11, 2011, 1:38 PM UTC

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Alobis•

Not really a fan of moving the camera with the keys.

I'm a mouse man, I would say probably in all my games I remember one time that moving the camera with the mouse resulted in me dying where i shouldn't have.

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droberts1982•

Sounds interesting. Why don't you fraps yourself playing some games and posting for the world to see?

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Furrier•

What? How can it be interesting to see different keybinds? Basically everything is exactly as normal except you move the camera with the keys instead of the mouse.

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droberts1982•

If action's happening offscreen, I know about how fast I can respond using the "edge of screen" motion. I'd like to see how fast I could potentially respond and how centered on the action I would be.

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Rabidsheep•

I prefer having mouse moving my screen personally. The only key binding I have is I have an alternate key binding so that T and 1 both activate my first time slot. Works great for remembering to use Zhonya's or Ghosblade, I kind of treat it as a 5th skill, just past the ultimate.

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[deleted]•

I bound qwer/fd to their respective instant cast versions. It can be a little tricky with skill shots, but overall its tons faster, and helps getting spells off in clutch moments.

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JayceMJ•

Wait, there's instant cast versions for the keys? Here and I've been holding shift the whole game I almost end up typing in all caps when ever I decide to chat.

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[deleted]•

You can change the key bindings in the in game menu. Curiously, you can't re bind shift +key to the normal casting, so I just don't use normal cast at all.

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JayceMJ•

Could always just throw them onto unused keys like UIOP.

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kodemage•

yeah, but it's really slow to move your hand all the way across the keyboard for what is supposed to be a faster ability use.

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Robathome•

I'm kind of enjoying F2-F5 for snapping the camera to teammates, and then spacebar to get back to my character. Everything else is mouse control. Does anyone else use ~ to force champion targetting? It is any use? I haven't noticed a difference.

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kodemage•

I want to shift the keys down one spot so that f1-f4 are my allies and f5 is me. this makes so much more sense to me...

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[deleted]•

I love ESDF for movement in all games. I don't know what retard thought up WASD or why it's in such widespread use. I always comment in /gaming about how ESDF is the superior control scheme, but nobody seems to notice.

I'm going to have to give this control scheme a try. It's always such a pain trying to move the view screen and move your champion with the mouse. This seems to address the stiuation with logic, and ease of use.

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spaceous901•

Why is ESDF any different than WASD?

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[deleted]•

ESDF puts your fingers on the 'home row' keys that most people remember from a typing class. It also gives your pinky finger the 'q' and 'z' buttons while your index finger picks up 'tgb' column. In essence you're getting 3 more programmable keys, and don't have to rely on 'ctrl' or 'alt' or 'tab' or 'shift' which can be in different configurations on different keyboards.

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DrCoke•

The problem with that is that ctrl, atl, and shift are almost always used as key functions in so many games, especially FPS. This goes mostly for the shift key, since it's massive compared to any other key, so it's designed to be pressed often.

It comes down to your hand size and comfort, since using ESDF obviously makes the shift key farther away. For me, that little distance increase will probably annoy my pinkie more than anything.

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[deleted]•

Perhaps my pinky finger is an anomaly, or maybe I'm just used to it, but it still gets the shift, ctrl, and alt keys just fine. Also if it's a really often used key I'd remap it to one of the other keys that ESDF gives you access to.

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spaceous901•

That's actually a very good argument. I was about to reply "How do I press shift and stuff with my pinky?" but then I tried it and it still reaches fine. I will join your quest to spread ESDF. :p

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[deleted]•

I'm not going to stop until game devs see the light and make it the default.

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FuglyShmugly•

I'm gonna try this out now! Thanks for the idea!

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CarlinT•

I'm a fan of ASDF for my skills, ER for my summoners, and QW for my item actives. It works well, deal with it.

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amranu•

Personally as a leftie My setup is Q = K, W = L, E = ;, R =O and summoner spells bound on I and P.

Basically was getting annoyed hitting R when I didn't want to so put it on a different row. Works very well for me.

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HappyWulf[HappyWulf] (NA)•

If I was not 100% comfortable playing with Cam Lock (which everyone hates!) I'd do exactly this. But I find cam lock to work just fine for me. The only thing it limits really is use of KogMaw's artillery.

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Scrambies•

I always play with Cam Lock. I actually rebound space bar to toggle cam lock instead of the hold-to-lock it's set to by default.

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HappyWulf[HappyWulf] (NA)•

Ya know.. that might be better then Y.... I'll rebind that when I get home from work today. Thx for the idea. It might make my long range play a bit more dynamic.

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tehxeno[Xantumal] (NA)•

Just curious, what summoner level are you? I find that I can't use cam lock because I'm always look at my team-mate's lanes whenever I have off time.

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Furrier•

Must be low. Playing with cam lock is severely gimping yourself.

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HappyWulf[HappyWulf] (NA)•
  1. Been playing since late beta (just over a year). Have Bowser Ramus skin.

I have about 450-500 wins, with a win ratio of about 55-57%, which I think is proper for any modest player. I own all but 9 champs. I paid RP for 2, maybe 3 of them. the rest were all IP gained.

I use the mini map to it's full extent. when I want a more detailed view of action when I'm moving around, I click and hold LMB and my view goes to where i'm pointing on the minimap.

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eclipseyue•

controls are default, except for quick casts which are bind to my mouse differently depending on the champion; however I do play with a controller+mouse, which is how I play most games. ...I get mocked a lot :V

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JayceMJ•

What kind of controller do you use?

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eclipseyue•

dual shock 2 with a cheap ass adapter.

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JayceMJ•

Sounds like that would be pretty awkward. How exactly do you use that 1 handed and then use your mouse? I could have understood a Wiimote (really easy since all pcs and laptops come with bluetooth now-a-days) but a dual shock?

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eclipseyue•

http://i.imgur.com/uNhVU.png?8897 if that helps

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G_A[LiquidFlux] (EU-W)•

WASD for camera. Q23E for their respective abilities. 14 for summoner abilities. F1-4 for items. RFC for items. F9-12 for friendly champions.

Everything you need at your finger tips, revolving around the camera controls.

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somethingrelevantOP•

See, I tried doing this for a while, but in the end I was moving my fingers way too far up to activate skills.

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BradJLamb•

Basic except I have zxcv as the smartcast equivalents of qwer. Play enough RTS games and you become completely accustomed to using the mouse to move the screen around.

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Remdawg•

Kind of offtopic, but I can't play with having to move the screen around, so I play with it locked onto my champion. Is there a way to improve on this? Just practice with it? Any tips would be welcome.

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kodemage•

hit spacebar a lot instead, you're really gimping yourself playing locked in, don't some abilities have ranges past the edge of the screen?

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SquisherX•

The solution to your problem is a high resolution mouse. Even on my 2560x1440 monitor, I only have to move my mouse 1 inch to move the cursor from full left to full right on the monitor.

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somethingrelevantOP•

I have a pretty high DPI mouse. The downside to setting it really high is that it makes precise aiming in the centre of the screen quite difficult.

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