Evasion with Cooldown

[Kith]

I'm trying to create a guaranteed Evasion passive that has a cooldown - for example, a unit is guaranteed to evade an attack, but can only do so once every 5 seconds. I thought that I could do so by adding a value to the "Stats - Cooldown" field for an Evasion ability, but apparently not! Does anyone know how to achieve such a thing?

Thank you!

 

[shinzaku]

I don't think Evasion is natively coded for that. You might have to create a triggered passive ability, and just capture when a unit is attacked, nullify the damage, and then set a timer to be allowed again.

 

[Devalut]

A damage detection system would make this easy, I'd recommend Bribe's

1. Detect hit on units with the evasion ability but no "cooldown" debuff
2. cast a debuff "cooldown" like cripple with no stat and duration for 5 seconds
3. set the damage to zero.
   
4. repeat

 

[Pyrogasm]

Instead of a debuff you can make the passive itself have a cooldown indicator: Passive ability with cooldown - Best method!

You can check the cooldown remaining (on cooldown if > 0) using BlzGetUnitAbilityCooldownRemaining.

 

[Devalut]

@Pyrogasm, sweet, How do you present a Jass condition is gui?

 

[Pyrogasm]

You can either evaluate it in JASS and set a boolean variable equal to it that you then compare to true, or (in this case) just assign a real variable to the output of that function and compare it as normal:

• Custom script: set udg_BoolVar = BlzGetUnitAbilityCooldownRemaining(...) <= 0.00
• If (All conditions are true) then do (Then actions) else do (Else actions)
  • If - Conditions
    • BoolVar equal to True
  • Then - Actions
    • -------- ... --------
  • Else - Actions

• Custom script: set udg_RealVar = BlzGetUnitAbilityCooldownRemaining(...)
• If (All conditions are true) then do (Then actions) else do (Else actions)
  • If - Conditions
    • RealVar less than or equal to 0.00
  • Then - Actions
    • -------- ... --------
  • Else - Actions