[Solved] Best way to disable hidden invulnerable unit?

[DracoL1ch]

Storm Bolt doesn't apply stun debuff onto invulnerable units, not to say about hidden's unit targetability.
How can I effectively disable a unit without using pause then? What is the best way?

 

[Chaosy]

Make unit owned by player passive, give the unit locust. That will make it do absolutely nothing.

 

[DracoL1ch]

Not an option, it's a hero and player shouldn't lose hero's icon. Locust cannot be removed properly as well

 

[WereElf]

Chaosy discovered something interesting here.
You will still need to pause the unit, but it will look stunned:
Make an item ability, with a buff "stunned", and when you want to stun the unit - pause it, and give it that item ability. This way it will look stunned.

When you want the stun to end - remove the ability, and unpause the unit.
(I still haven't tested this way myself tho)

 

[Bribe]

A permanent-cast time channel-based ability will disable a unit who is not already silenced/paused/stunned.

 

[DracoL1ch]

Chaosy discovered something interesting here.
You will still need to pause the unit, but it will look stunned:
Make an item ability, with a buff "stunned", and when you want to stun the unit - pause it, and give it that item ability. This way it will look stunned.

When you want the stun to end - remove the ability, and unpause the unit.
(I still haven't tested this way myself tho)

it doesnt work this way. stuns are flag-based buffs which cannot be emulated anyhow. buffs cannot be applied as well, they aren't exists as a skill and auto-generated when ability with buff first time applied.

A permanent-cast time channel-based ability will disable a unit who is not already silenced/paused/stunned.

Just what I though, and for some reason this system didn't work out well. I'm yet to discover why

 

[WereElf]

I just tested it and it works!

• asd
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) skips a cinematic sequence
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Level of test for Footman 0000 <gen>) Equal to 0
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Add test to Footman 0000 <gen>
      • Else - Actions
        • Unit - Remove test from Footman 0000 <gen>

the "test" is an item ability with a buff "Stunned (Pause)"
The only problem is that it begins giving an ability button to the "stunned" unit, but you wouldn't be able to see it if you pause it.
It doesn't work after disabling the ability xP
(still haven't tried with the X -blablablabla, and Y -blablaal, cuz I don't remember what were blablabla supposed to be.
EDIT: Actually I googled it and it said "-2147483648", But WE only allows me to do it as low as "-1000000000" and then it crashed. Worked with "0; -11", but that wouldn't be good for macs.

 

[DracoL1ch]

which item ability?

 

[leandrotp]

I just tested it and it works!

the "test" is an item ability with a buff "Stunned (Pause)"
The only problem is that it begins giving an ability button to the "stunned" unit, but you wouldn't be able to see it if you pause it.
It doesn't work after disabling the ability xP
(still haven't tried with the X -blablablabla, and Y -blablaal, cuz I don't remember what were blablabla supposed to be.
EDIT: Actually I googled it and it said "-2147483648", But WE only allows me to do it as low as "-1000000000" and then it crashed. Worked with "0; -11", but that wouldn't be good for macs.

[post=2696338]Here[/post] you can find the correct X,Y values to hide a button. And don't forget that you can always use a disabled spellbook to avoid this hassle.
And btw, your method doesn't really disable the unit, although it displays a "Stunned" buff, the unit can still do everything normally.

@Draco, just use Sleep instead of stun, Storm Bolt is not instant but Sleep is. Just add "vuln, invu" to the allowed targets, so that it can target invulnerable, and set reqlevel to 6 to bypass magic immunity (many sources of invulnerability, like Divine Shield and Elemental Fury, also provide magic immunity behind the scenes). Then you can just unhide, cast Sleep, and then hide again.

 

[DracoL1ch]

nice to see you, Leandro. I'll try it, forgot about sleep somehow

 

[Wietlol]

But wont sleep be interrupted when hit by attacks?
For example, when the invulnerability times out and someone decides to attack the hero?

Mass Teleport is overpowered again

 

[Meatmuffin]

I think he meant use sleep as in only for the stun duration.

 

[ck5524209]

I remenber that set unit Invulnerable then spell bolt works,but bolt unit and set unit Invulnerable will remove 'BPSE'.

 

[DracoL1ch]

sleep breaks on any damage received and bolt has cast time delay. either way lesser evil is fine