Talk:Pause

The introduction is bloody hard to understand
I'm trying to understand how Dota mechanics work as a beginner but I cannot understand what's the meaning of the introduction:

''Pause is a status effect that completely incapicates a unit without contest, including passives (such as evasion), except unique modifiers , and invisibility , overriding any spell effects , including those not blocked by magic immunity , although it still has no effect on invulnerable targets. Chronosphere will affect even towers.''

So what does it mean? I presume incapicates is a misspelling of incapacitates. But what does incapacitate means, in the sense how is it different of a stun?

What I understand of the introduction is: It's the same thing as a stun, except passive abilities (auras) and passive spells (evasion) will not function at all, with the exception of invisibility passives (like Riki or Broodmother?).

What I don't understand is:
 * without contest: I don't understand that, if something is contestable, what would it mean? Would it mean the Black King Bar can deflect the spell?
 * Pause is a status effect that completely incapacitates a unit, overriding any spell effects, including those not blocked by magic immunity: If I rephrase the end of the sentence, it becomes: Pause even overrides spell effects that are not blocked by magic immunity. I've read this sentence numerous times without understanding.
 * although it still has no effect on invulnerable targets: Pause does not apply the pause status effect on invulnerable targets, or Pause does not make invulnerable targets vulnerable?

Maybe the whole introduction should be rephrased with less commas and be deterministic about what Pause actually is.--91.121.71.75 15:19, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Is this SLE? If not, let me explain:
 * Pausing is a unique status effect that applies in many cases to units that you'd not expect that it would have to (expecially in the case of the original dota) such as magimmune targets and in the cases of certain other effects (previously, cyclone). If you understand that "Pause even overrides spell effects that are not blocked by magic immunity" is an untrue statement, than yeah. Sorry about that. Pause still doesnt affect invuln units, which is a point I'm clarifying as I speak.
 * Also, if this is SLE, note that except in the case of towers, invulnerability does in fact immunise against all crowd control, including pause. And this kind of use of ips constitutes wikipedia:WP:SOC. I understand I made some mistakes, but do you still really have to try to illigitimately discredit every edit I do? Really?
 * You have legitimate concerns. Having had explained yourself previously would have saved you a lot of trouble.
 * A block is not a permanant ban, merely a note on your record as a user. Many users have come back from a block before and have had become sucessfully contributing users, many of them now administrators and such not (and you can always come back and contribute later often even if perma-banned). --Immanot 04:07, 6 March 2013 (UTC)


 * No. This is not me. But this is exactly what I was trying to convey in my previous edits which you reverted without cause. I'm not interested in discrediting you; I think you're doing a perfectly fine job of that by yourself. --Stupid Lemon Eater 18:14, 6 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Huh... I don't know what SLE is and what the two other paragraphs means (did you confuse me with someone else? I was only asking for clarification... thanks for giving a beginning of answer.
 * Regarding "Pause even overrides spell effects that are not blocked by magic immunity is an untrue statement", I'm not saying that it's true or not, I'm just saying I don't understand the core meaning of the sentence. Think of this way, currently the sentence is equivalent to "The mouse cursor can go over areas that are not trapped by the mouse trap boundaries", it just doesn't make any sense to me, that's why I'm asking what's the "core" meaning, not whether it's right or not.
 * Well whatever, I see the first paragraph of the article was completely rephrased so now I seem to understand it better.
 * If I need to confirm my identity (you seem to think I am some spammer or something?), here it is a proof http://ha3.eu/ai/dota2wiki_confirmation.txt ha3.eu is where my popular minecraft mods are hosted on ), but thanks for the explanation. My name is Hurricaaane (Ha3) ( http://steamcommunity.com/id/Hurricaaane ), I didn't register as an user in the Wiki because my English is not good enough to write encyclopedic content. --91.121.71.75 09:22, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
 * SLE, dont be stupid. Admins see your Ip and block your entire network; you posted on the same time window; and you didnt even much change your style of writing or attitude. >_> Enjoy your upcoming block/permaban, faggot.
 * In case of gross accident, I'd urge you, 91 american ip that posts exactly upon this incident occuring, to join if you ever contemplate making any edits as you clearly have the free time and basic knowledge of wiki mechanics. :D
 * Noone cares what your pasttimes are.--Immanot 03:12, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * What the hell? My name is Hurricaaane, I am a popular Minecraft modder. My only fault was to point out on a talk page some faults on an article so that someone else can fix it since I can't fix it myself due to my sloppy English (I passed the TOEIC test which is a Business English test, not Literature test), and in return I get randomly insulted and accused of spamming?! What other proof do I need to give, I gave you full proof by giving you by hosting my IP address on the same website as where I host my popular Minecraft mods.
 * I don't know why the hell I'm getting insulted for that. I just... You know what? I'm giving you even more proof by editing my 135-page Minecraft thread mod and pasted my IP address inside it ON TOP OF IT, and same thing with my Steam Profile. I don't know who you are, but if you still decline my proof I'm going to report your behavior to admins. I don't know what to do when I give full valid proof and arguments only to be rejected with. By the way, 91.121. is the prefix for an IP address range hosted in France, which is coincidentally where I (Hurricaaane) live. What else? (also, you can check that 91.121.71.75 is not a forged signature address by visiting the talk page history http://www.dota2wiki.com/index.php?title=Talk:Pause&action=history )--91.121.71.75 04:21, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Too late, I already reported it to the #dota2wiki IRC channel. A +v took care of it. If I am not banned by now it probably means I am not whoever you think I am. And as a note, I didn't see that StupidLemonEater posted above me when I wrote my answer, I guess that explains what SLE is, thanks for clarifying.--91.121.71.75 05:33, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Recent WC3-centric edits
Hi, I just made a number of edits as an IP. I hope I haven't made any mistakes, as DotA 2 is relatively new to me, but I tried to focus primarily on the WC3-side and on standardizing terminology.

There are a lot of misconcpeitons regarding pause, and I hope I clarified at least a few of them. If it matters, I am registered as EebstertheGreat on PlayDotA.com, and maybe I will make an account here if I edit more frequently. 24.165.183.131 05:46, 30 June 2013 (UTC)