Hide

“

▶️ 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. Soul Catcher). 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

• Shadow Demon – Soul Catcher³
• Shadow Demon – Shadow Poison³
• Shadow Demon – Demonic Cleanse³
• Shadow Demon – Demonic Purge³
• Outworld Destroyer – Sanity's Eclipse⁴

¹ Requires a Talent.

^2a Requires Aghanim's Scepter.

^2b Requires Aghanim's Shard.

³ Most of Shadow Demon's abilities only affects the target under the effect of the most recent Disruption cast.

⁴ Only affects the unit under Astral Imprisonment.

Sources

Hide Sources

• Brewmaster – Primal Split
• Chaos Knight – Phantasm
• Earth Spirit – Enchant Remnant
• Fallen Sky – Fallen Sky
• Lifestealer – Infest
• Manta Style – Mirror Image
• Naga Siren – Mirror Image
• Outworld Destroyer – Astral Imprisonment
• Phantom Lancer – Doppelganger
• Phoenix – Supernova
• Puck – Phase Shift
• Pudge – Dismember^2b
• Riki – Tricks of the Trade
• Shadow Demon – Disruption
• 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

08 Nov 2017

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

05 Feb 2014

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

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