How to disarm a single unit (not aoe)

[makai]

as the title said.. the unit doesn't have the attack option.. for a short period.. can anyone tell me how?

 

[Tal'Rarity]

add cargo hold orc burrow to the unit.

 

[Dr Super Good]

You could also try casting silence on it with a very small AoE, however the above suggesting would be better (if it works).

People also mentioned things like removing the attack ability but I forget if this stops them attacking or just hides the attack command card button.

 

[WaterKnight]

Removing the attack ability is permanent. Silence is for spells. Cargo works if the unit is no transporter.

 

[edo494]

well chances are you are not disarming transport ships, you know they have no arms. Even tho with that logic, all disarms should be permanent, cause if I cut your hands, how will you hold your sword then?

 

[Nichilus]

The ability Drunken Haze has fields for disabling spell/ranged/melee/special attacks. It requires unit target. Just change its AoE to 0.00 so it doesn't affect any other unit except the target.
The disadvantage: Such "disarmed" unit will burn when hit by Breath of Fire.

 

[Razer!X]

The disadvantage: Such "disarmed" unit will burn when hit by Breath of Fire.

Actually you can change the values in breath of fire or drunken haze so that it will not deal more damage. And use 10 AoE instead of 0.00.

 

[Nichilus]

The AoE determines only the range for units around the target, not the actual target itself.

 

[Razer!X]

Yes I know. Have you seen the untouched values of a single target drunken haze? The area of effect is 10.

Edit: I think I saw a disarm system or spell once in the spells section. Go check it out.

 

[Lender]

Have you seen the untouched values of a single target drunken haze? The area of effect is 10.

even a single target spell can be an aoe spell, these two aren't exclusive. there is no need for that 10 aoe.
for example
if the unit with disabled pathing(like WW) is targeted there is a chance an other unit will get cought in the fire. Rare situation but could occur

 

[Nichilus]

Yes I know. Have you seen the untouched values of a single target drunken haze? The area of effect is 10.

There is no such Drunken Haze ability. There is only the one used by Pandaren Brewmaster and also Chen's version which has 4 levels and slightly different values in some fields. However both have 200.00 AoE range by default.
There is no other Drunken Haze ability nor is there any such ability with 10.00 AoE.

Also, even the 10.00 range is problematic. Drunken Haze affects both ground and air units which are within range of the target. So if air unit happens to be nearby the target, which for 10.00 range is about right above it, both units get affected.
With 0.00 range, only the target is affected.

 

[Razer!X]

I think it was silence or something. Well if 0.00 is good then go for 0.00. But I think using the disarm in the spells section is also a good idea.

 

[makai]

drunken haze is the answer.. thanks guys ! it is working..

 

[DarkePacific]

Wanted offer an alternative solution, since silence can technically be dispelled, so instead by making the unit's spells cost tons of mana you can effectively silence them without it being able to be dispelled. Here I've set the additional mana costs to be 20000, which is more than any unit can have on most maps.

//Helper function to add the mana

   function SpellAddTonsOfMana takes integer spell, unit u returns nothing
        local integer i
        set i = BlzGetAbilityIntegerField(BlzGetUnitAbility(u, spell), ABILITY_IF_LEVELS)
        loop
            exitwhen i == - 1
            call BlzSetUnitAbilityManaCost(u, spell, i, BlzGetUnitAbilityManaCost(u, spell, i) + 20000)
            set i = i - 1
        endloop
    endfunction
 

//Helper function to remove the added mana

    function SpellRemoveTonsOfMana takes integer spell, unit u returns nothing
        local integer i
        set i = BlzGetAbilityIntegerField(BlzGetUnitAbility(u, spell), ABILITY_IF_LEVELS)
        loop
            exitwhen i == - 1
            call BlzSetUnitAbilityManaCost(u, spell, i, BlzGetUnitAbilityManaCost(u, spell, i) - 20000)
            set i = i - 1
        endloop
    endfunction


//Silence requires explicitly adding all the abilities that may need to be silence per unit
// but since this function only applies to one unit you can make a comprehensive list of all abilities here for all the units you want
// to silence as adding mana to abilities they don't have will have no effect on them

function SilenceUnit takes unit u returns nothing
    local integer abl
    abl = 'A001'    //Death Coil
    call SpellAddTonsOfMana(abl, u)
    abl = 'A0F4'    //Carrion Swarm
    call SpellAddTonsOfMana(abl, u)
    abl = 'A03M'    //DeathPact
    call SpellAddTonsOfMana(abl, u)
    abl = 'AUan'    //Animate Dead
    call SpellAddTonsOfMana(abl, u)
endfunction


//Un-Silence requires explicitly adding all the abilities that may need to be silence

function RemoveSilenceUnit takes unit u returns nothing
    local integer abl
    abl = 'A001'    //Death Coil
    call SpellRemoveTonsOfMana(abl, u)
    abl = 'A0F4'    //Carrion Swarm
    call SpellRemoveTonsOfMana(abl, u)
    abl = 'A03M'    //DeathPact
    call SpellRemoveTonsOfMana(abl, u)
    abl = 'AUan'    //Animate Dead
    call SpellRemoveTonsOfMana(abl, u)
endfunction

Then simply call in the silencing spell's or silence on region enter/leave trigger

SilenceUnit(GetTriggerUnit())  //  GetEnteringUnit(), GetLeavingUnit()  ect...
//put a wait here or another coded delay
RemoveSilenceUnit(GetTriggerUnit())

and voila you have another version of silence!

 

[Dr Super Good]

and voila you have another version of silence!

This thread is 8 years old... You are using trigger functions that did not even exist back when it was created!

Probably should start a new thread for this kind of thing. Possibly a JASS resource.

 

[DarkePacific]

This thread is 8 years old... You are using trigger functions that did not even exist back when it was created!

Probably should start a new thread for this kind of thing. Possibly a JASS resource.

True it's a necro, but when I did a google search for this exact problem this was the first thread to come up. Figured it was better to just drop the answer here than try and create a competing thread for future searches.

 

[Uncle]

True it's a necro, but when I did a google search for this exact problem this was the first thread to come up. Figured it was better to just drop the answer here than try and create a competing thread for future searches.

We can Disable/Enable specific abilities now, I don't think there's a need to mess with Mana Costs.

For Disarm, you can add the Cargo Hold ability to a unit.

 

[WaterKnight]

For Disarm, you can add the Cargo Hold ability to a unit.

For clarification: The "Cargo Hold (Orc Burrow)" (Abun) ability is meant here, which is different from other Cargo Hold abilities.
But you do not need this anymore, either. You can directly disable the "Attack" (Aatk) ability with BlzUnitDisableAbility.

BlzUnitDisableAbility(unit, 'Aatk', true, false)

or

BlzUnitDisableAbility(unit, 'Aatk', true, true)

if you also want to hide the button(s).