All unit-target abilities deal damage

[Raven0]

Solved.

 

[Maker]

How much damage? Just 0 or more?

 

[Raven0]

About 50 every time

EDIT - I did a few debugs and the damage being dealt is hero damage

EDIT2 - After further tests, apparently unit-target abilities are triggering [unit takes damage] events. Which is odd b/c the abilities are based off of channel which doesn't deal damage.

EDIT3 - first question solved. Apparently the channel ability triggers the [unit takes damage] event even though it doesn't deal any damage. I have confirmed this in a seperate map. Does anybody know how to make channel abilities not do this?

 

[WaterKnight]

It only triggers the EVENT_UNIT_DAMAGED in case the targeted unit is not allied. GetEventDamage is zero there and you can also set a flag on Spell Effect to ignore the next incoming damage.

 

[watermelon_1234]

Also, does anybody know how to make a unit-target channel apply a buff for a duration?

I don't think you can do this without using dummy abilities.