Leash

“

▶️ Stay and amuse me! — Puck

”

Leash is a status effect that prevents affected units from casting some mobility spells, sharing the same list as root.

Mechanics

Attempting to blink while leashed.

Leash does not disable a unit in any way. It merely disables casting several mobility spells, sharing interactions with the root mechanic. Several blink, pseudo-blink and teleport spells are disabled while leashed, to prevent an easy escape. However, although it prevents casting those spells, it does not cancel them when getting leashed while the spell is already cast. Furthermore, leashes do not interrupt channeling spells, but always cancel the teleports of Town Portal Scroll and Boots of Travel. A list of disabled spells can be found below.

Leashing abilities

The following abilities leash enemy units:

• Grimstroke - Soulbind
  
  Duration: 6/7/8
  
• Puck - Dream Coil
  
  Duration: 6 ( 8)
  
• Slark - Pounce
  
  Duration: 2.5/2.75/3/3.25 ( 3.3/3.55/3.8/4.05)
  

Disabled by leashes

The following abilities are disabled by leash:

• Anti-Mage – Blink
• Arcane Blink – Arcane Blink
• Blink Dagger – Blink
• Chaos Knight – Reality Rift
• Earth Spirit – Rolling Boulder
• Earthshaker – Enchant Totem
• Ember Spirit – Activate Fire Remnant
• Ember Spirit – Sleight of Fist
• Faceless Void – Reverse Time Walk
• Faceless Void – Time Walk
• Fallen Sky – Fallen Sky
• Flicker – Flicker
• Magnus – Skewer
• Meepo – Dig
• Meepo – Poof
• Mirana – Leap
• Monkey King – Primal Spring
• Monkey King – Tree Dance
• Morphling – Waveform
• Nature's Prophet – Teleportation
• Overwhelming Blink – Overwhelming Blink
• Pangolier – Rolling Thunder
• Pangolier – Shield Crash
• Pangolier – Swashbuckle
• Phantom Assassin – Phantom Strike
• Phantom Lancer – Doppelganger
• Phoenix – Icarus Dive
• Phoenix – Toggle Movement
• Puck – Ethereal Jaunt
• Puck – Waning Rift
• Queen of Pain – Blink
• Riki – Blink Strike
• Riki – Tricks of the Trade
• Sand King – Burrowstrike
• Slark – Pounce
• Spirit Bear – Return
• Spirit Breaker – Charge of Darkness
• Spirit Breaker – Nether Strike
• Storm Spirit – Ball Lightning
• Swift Blink – Swift Blink
• Timbersaw – Timber Chain
• Town Portal Scroll – Teleport
• Tusk – Snowball
• Ursa – Earthshock
• Void Spirit – Astral Step
• Void Spirit – Dissimilate

Version history

Version

Description

7.20

• Added the Leash mechanic.
• The following spells now leash enemies: Soulbind, Dream Coil, and Pounce

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