Smartcasting

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