Smartcasting

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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

• Siege tank transformation
• Viking transformation

The following abilities are smartcast:

• Force Field (Sentry)
• Guardian Shield (Sentry)
• Psionic storm (High templar)

• Zerg unit transformations
• Any production structure building a unit