Hide

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▶️ Off with you! — Shadow Demon

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Hiding (also referred to as banishing) a unit causes it to temporarily disappear from the game.

Mechanics

Hide renders the unit unable to move, attack, cast abilities and items. All Hide sources also turn the affected unit invulnerable. Hidden units still gain Experience_XP and Gold . While hidden, a unit cannot be affected by any abilities, with very few exceptions (e.g. Shadow Poison). For example, a Meat Hook would just fly through and possibly hit a unit behind the hidden unit.

Affecting Hidden Units

Abilities Affecting Hidden Units

• Clockwerk – Overclocking¹
• Shadow Demon – Shadow Poison²
• Shadow Demon – Demonic Cleanse²
• Shadow Demon – Demonic Purge²
• Outworld Destroyer – Sanity's Eclipse³

¹ Self stun is applied even while hidden.

² Most of Shadow Demon's abilities only affect the target under the effect of the most recent Disruption cast.

³ Only affects the unit under Astral Imprisonment.

Sources

Hide Sources

• Brewmaster – Primal Split
• Chaos Knight – Phantasm
• Dawnbreaker – Solar Guardian
• Earth Spirit – Enchant Remnant
• Fallen Sky – Fallen Sky
• Lifestealer – Infest
• Manta Style – Mirror Image
• Meepo – Dig
• Meepo – MegaMeepo
• Monkey King – Wukong's Command
• Naga Siren – Mirror Image
• Necrophos – Death Seeker
• Outworld Destroyer – Astral Imprisonment
• Phantom Lancer – Doppelganger
• Phoenix – Supernova
• Puck – Phase Shift
• Pudge – Dismember^2b
• Riki – Tricks of the Trade
• Shadow Demon – Disruption
• Snapfire – Gobble Up
• Snapfire – Spit Out
• Sven – Storm Hammer^2a
• Terrorblade – Reflection
• Tusk – Snowball
• Void Spirit – Dissimilate
• Witch Doctor – Voodoo Switcheroo

¹ Requires a Talent.

^2a Requires Aghanim's Scepter.

^2b Requires Aghanim's Shard.

Patch History

Patch

Description

22 Dec 2022

• Fixed Avatar being castable with ⇧ Shift-queue while being Doomed after returning from being hidden (e.g. Disruption).

08 Nov 2017

• Created new healthbar status called BANISHED.
• Added status duration indicator for the following abilities:
  • Astral Imprisonment
  • Disruption

22 Jan 2016

• Fixed a selection issue with non-hero units when they became temporarily hidden (i.e. during Astral Imprisonment).

05 Feb 2014

• Fixed kill assist gold not being given to heroes that are hidden (i.e. Phase Shift).

Mechanics Main Heroes Unit Type (Heroes / Clones / Illusions) Complexity Attributes Table Buyback Level Roles Gold Experience Animations Stats Armor Attributes ( Strength / Agility / Intelligence) / Universal) Health & Mana (HP Regen & MP Regen) Magic Resistance Movement Speed / Slow Resistance Status Resistance Turn Rate Misc Creep Controling Death / Denying Vision Unit Size (Collision Size / Bound Radius / Selection Box / Model Size) Gib Type / Shades Adjectives Buildings Towers / Barracks / Ancient / Fountain Effigy Neutral Buildings (Outposts / Watchers / Twin Gates / Lotus Pools) Abilities Type Active / Passive / Autocast Aura Accuracy / Evasion Channeling Damage Barrier Damage Block Damage Manipulation Damage Over Time Talents Teleport Targeting Area No Target Point Unit Vector Combinations Casting Cast Range / Motion Buffer Cast Animation (Cast Point + Backswing) Cooldown Reduction (Flat / Current Flat / Percentage) Reset Charge-based Runes Bounty Rune Water Rune Wisdom Rune Power Runes ( Amplify Damage Rune / Arcane Rune / Haste Rune / Illusion Rune / Invisibility Rune / Regeneration Rune / Shield Rune) Misc Random Distribution Transformation Attack Damage Attack Damage Instant Attack Heroes Attack Classes Attack Range (Acquisition Range) Attack Speed (BAT / Interval) Damage Types (Physical / Magical / Pure / Instant Kill) Flags (HP Removal / No-reflection / No-Spell-Lifesteal / No-Spell-Amplification) Projectile Speed Spell Damage (Outgoing / Incoming) Modifiers Bash Cleave / Splash Corruption Critical Strike Lifesteal / Spell Lifesteal Mana Break On-hit Effects Misc Damage Instance Animation / Orb Walking Status Effects Disables Cyclone Disabling Orders Forced Movement (Knockback) / Upward Movement Fear (Hypnosis) Hide Hex Root Leash Stun Sleep Taunt Movement Move Speed Slow Flying Movement Phased / Tree Walk / Unobstructed Movement Other Attack Immune / Non-targetable Attack Speed Slow Debuff Immunity Spell Immunity Invulnerability Invisibility Blind Break Disarm Ethereal Silence Mute Trap Dispels Basic Strong Death Items Mechanics Courier Sharing / Selling Disassemble Recipes Neutral Item Drop