You can ping an ai teammate and they will follow you until you die this works both for ai players and ai controlled by dropped players.
There is an option to let you issue commands through the minimap turn that on and you won’t accidentally click the minimap anymore.
I’m not sure what this box you need to lock in even is most abilities are either click directly on the target and it will hit them no matter what, or a skill shot that will either make something happen at a target point or launch a projectile from yourself, or lastly instantaneous upon pressing the button.
Also you aren’t allowed to vote for yourself because when we could do that everyone just voted for themselves no matter what. So now you are encouraged to consider other people for their stellar performance.