Changes: Smartcasting

Revision as of 18:16, 26 November 2010

Smartcasting is a micromanagement tool in StarCraft II. When multiple units are given the same spell order, only one of them will comply, preventing a serious waste of spellcaster energy.

List of Smartcast Abilities

Not all unit abilities are subject to smartcasting.

For instance, the stalker's Blink ability does not use smartcasting. When a group of stalkers are ordered to Blink to an area, all the stalkers will blink.

The following abilities are not smartcast:

Baneling explosion
Burrow
Blink
Cloaking
Stimpacks
Siege tank transformation
Viking transformation

The following abilities are smartcast:

Psionic Lash
Nuke (Ghost and spectres)
Force Field (Sentry)
Guardian Shield (Sentry)
Psionic storm (High templar)
Snipe (Ghost)
Zerg unit transformations
Transfusion (Queen)
Any production structure building a unit
Terran Infestation (Infestor)
Scanner sweep, Calldown: MULE, and Calldown: Supplies (Orbital command)
Yamato cannon (Battlecruiser)
Chrono Boost (Nexus)
Defensive Matrix (Battlecruiser)
250mm Cannons (thor)
Irradiate

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 *[[Burrow]]
 *[[Blink]]
+*Cloaking
+*Stimpacks
 *{{link|Siege tank|SC2}} transformation
 *[[Viking]] transformation
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 The following abilities are smartcast:
+*Psionic Lash
+*Nuke (Ghost and spectres)
 *[[Force Field]] ([[Sentry]])
 *Guardian Shield (Sentry)
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 *[[Yamato cannon]] ([[Battlecruiser]])
 *[[Nexus#Abilities|Chrono Boost]] ([[Nexus]])
+*Defensive Matrix (Battlecruiser)
+*250mm Cannons (thor)
+*Irradiate
 [[Category: StarCraft II gameplay]]