Best LoL hotkeys and keybindings

One of the easiest ways to improve at League of Legends is by using the best keybinding and hotkeys. Setting up your controls correctly seems like a no-brainer, but there are so many features players may not utilize or even know about yet.

Here are some of the best and most effective League hotkeys players should be using to hit the highest levels of competitive play.

Hotkeys and keybinds every League player must know

1) Quick casting

While quick casting is something most League players know about, this feature can be optimized further to provide the most benefit to the player. Quick casting allows the player to use their abilities instantly at the press of a key without indicators appearing on the screen. While this is fantastic for veteran players who know the exact damage radius of abilities, for newer players or people trying out a new champion it can sometimes make things difficult.

Using hotkeys, the player is able to ensure they are aware of the abilities’ indicators while having the option to show them on screen or not at the press of a key. To do this, press Escape and navigate to the Hotkeys tab. In the Abilities and Summoner Spells dropdown, you will need to bind all your abilities to Shift plus the corresponding key.

This will allow you to see the damage indicators by holding the Shift key, while still allowing you to quickly cast if you chose to by just pressing the key separately.

2) Self cast

Often times when a player is involved in a teamfight they are going to need to cast spells on themselves. In the heat of the moment, it can be difficult for users to find an opportunity to click on their champion in the battle.

Luckily for players, there is an easy way to counter this. By holding the Alt key and then clicking the key that corresponds to the ability to use on themselves, players won’t need to move the cursor away from the action.

3) Portrait casting

Another way of casting an ability on allies is through using the portraits displayed on the screen. If a teammate finds themselves in trouble and needs a quick heal, sometimes the fastest way to help them out is through portrait casting. To do this, click an ally’s portrait and then press the key corresponding to the ability you wish to cast on them.

4) Target champions only

One of the most important hotkeys for playing League at a high level is Target Champions Only. Often when farming minions and looking for poke on enemy champions, players will find themselves misclicking, which can cause them to miss creep farm or the enemy champion they are targeting. This option can be bound in the hotkeys settings tab.

Another benefit of using this hotkey is allows you to navigate through minions and jungle camps being able to position yourself without drawing aggro.

5) Attack moving

Attack moving is a strategy you will often utilize when kiting an enemy. While it seems quite straightforward, there are a few options that must be enabled to do it most effectively.

You are going to want to bind player attack move in the player movement dropdown of the hotkey settings. Once you have done this, navigate to the League interface settings and enable the settings to show attack range. Finally, you are going to want to go to the game settings and enable the option attack move on cursor.

Enabling this option makes sure you will target the closest enemy to your cursor and not the closest enemy to your champion—it should get you a few more kills.

6) Stop key

The Stop key is often overlooked by players. Automatically bound to S, the stop key is perfect to get in close and minimize the attack travel time when farming as a ranged champion or for quickly canceling your move once an enemy appears. This key is something you will begin to utilize more as you progress in the rankings.

7) Leveling up abilities

Sometimes during combat, you are going to level-up in a situation where you are unable to navigate your cursor to the HUD and pick the skill you need to increase.

Thankfully, the game comes default with an option to address this exact situation and you should most definitely turn it on before playing any high-stakes matches. Leveling abilities can be achieved by holding Ctrl while selecting the key of the ability you want to level up.

8) Right-click on the shop

This isn’t something you can rebind, but League has a hidden feature for the shop that lets you right-click on any item you’re buying to add it to your inventory instantly. This is much clicker than the standard double-click.

9) Camera control

Sometimes you will need to rapidly spectate teammates to see engagements they have found themselves in or organize potential lane ventures as a jungle. While you can do this by clicking the teammate’s location on the mini-map, with hotkeys you are able to move your camera directly to your teammates with the press of a button.

To set this up, navigate to the Hotkeys tab in settings (yep, we’re heading here a lot), then camera control, and remap the Select Ally options to the F1 to F4 keys. Select Self is not necessary as you can do this by pressing space bar.

Most used League (and default) keybinds

Sometimes keeping it simple is best, including when it comes to learning all the League keybinds and what they do. Below are all the most-used binds, with most of them being the default settings any untouched League profile will have.

Whether you eventually rebind them to something else or stick to the classics it’s truly up to you, but it’s best to start by learning these.

Having all these crucial League hotkeys and keybindings ready as you venture into your next competitive grind is going to help you rank up far quicker this season!