Hex



Hex (also referred to as Sheep or Polymorph) is a status effect which turns the affected unit into a harmless critter, disabling many of its fighting capabilities.

Mechanics
All sources of hex have an instant (0 second) cast time and instantly destroy illusions except strong illusions. Hexed heroes are still treated as heroes by spells.

Hex applies multiple disables on the target – silence, mute and disarm, rendering it unable to attack, cast spells and use active item abilities. Since it applies a regular silence, toggled abilities are not turned off and already ongoing spells are not stopped, except for channeling spells. It does not dispel any status effect either.

However, it does not apply break, thus all its passive abilities still work. It neither affects the target's armor, nor its magic resistance or any other passive effects it currently has.

Though hexes transform the target into critters, this has only a visual aspect. The unit keeps all its properties, including collision size. However, its hit box and selection box changes.

Hex state can be removed by strong dispels.

Movement speed
Besides disabling, hex also directly manipulates the target's base movement speed, setting to a usually low value. The target still fully benefits from any flat movement speed bonuses, like that from any boots. This means it technically does not slow the target. Every movement speed increase and slow change the target's movement speed based on what the hex set it to + any flat bonuses it has, instead of its actual base speed + flat bonuses.

Example:
 * has a base movement speed of . With, he has . A 20% slow would reduce it to , a 20% bonus would increase it to movement speed. 's  sets Sand King's base speed to . The boots increase this to . A 20% slow would now reduce it to , and a 20% bonus would increase it to  movement speed. This also means that hastes can still provide maximum movement speed to hexed units.

Cosmetics modifying hex models

 * The cosmetic item Fin King's Charm and Fin King's Charm of Eminent Revival changes Lion's Hex model into a fish.


 * The cosmetic items Lamb to the Slaughter and Golden Lamb to the Slaughter change Shadow Shaman's Hex model into a sheep.

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