The invention discloses a virtual object control method, device and computer equipment and a storage medium, and belongs to the technical field of computers. According to the method, the selection operation on the target skill of a target virtual prop is detected in the virtual scene, the action effect of the target virtual prop is adjusted to the target action effect by the target skill, an attacked target virtual object is determined in the virtual scene, and when the target virtual object is in the action area of the target virtual prop, the target virtual prop is automatically triggered, so that a first virtual object controlled by a user applies the target virtual prop to automatically attack the target virtual object to generate a target action effect on the target virtual object. Byapplying the scheme, the user does not need to manually trigger the target virtual prop after completing skill selection, so that the operation steps of the user are simplified, the operation efficiency is improved, namely, the human-computer interaction efficiency is improved, and the user experience is greatly improved.