Cast animation: Cast backswing

The part of the animation which occurs after cast point has been reached is called backswing animation, and during it the unit is unable to attack or use abilities. This part of the animation is purely a liability; it has no effects besides temporarily impeding the unit, and as such it is beneficial to cancel a long backswing animation, which will allow the unit to execute other commands sooner. The player can cancel the backswing by ordering the unit to stop, move or simply by using an item or casting another spell during the backswing. Disables, including silence, will cancel it as well. Be that as it may, queued orders do not cancel it. If orders are queued, the next order will be executed after the backswing finishes.

Backswing is individual to units and their abilities, and is not necessarily the same length even for spells with the same total animation time. For example if the entire animation of a spell takes 1 second, and the spell`s cast point is at 0.3, the backswing will take 0.7 seconds. Be that as it may, a spell animation of the same length with a 0.6 cast point would only have 0.4 backswing. Some units (and/or specific abilities) have long backswing animations, and it is on these units that cancellation of backswing will be most beneficial. Cancelling a short backswing is difficult, and generally achieves minimal difference in outcome, so it is not generally done.

As mentioned earlier, animations are bound to a unit`s ability slots, whereas cast points are bound to the specific spells. As an example, Doom   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs     Doom 26 + 3.5 11 + 0.9 13 + 2.1 Level Base uses the same visual animation (which has a length of 1.1 seconds) for all spells he gains through Devour, meaning that irrespective of the brevity of the devoured unit`s animation, when Doom performs the ability the animation will take 1.1 seconds - his animation time for that slot. This means if he were to use the Chain Lightning ability (which has a cast point of 0.5) from the Harpy Stormcrafter Harpy Stormcrafter Jungle Creep Level 3 Health 550 Health regeneration 0.5 Mana 400 Mana regeneration 1 Armor 2 Magic resistance 0% Attack damage 30‒37 Acquisition range 300 Attack range 450 Base attack time 1.6 Attack , the cast backswing necessarily takes 0.6 seconds, to conform to Doom`s 1.1 second total animation, even though when performed by the Harpy itself the ability has a different backswing time. If Rubick   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Spell Steal Interactions   Old Abilities   Changelogs   Known Bugs     Rubick 19 + 1.8 14 steals the Chain Lightning spell from Doom with Spell Steal and then casts it, the animation will become the animation for Rubick`s ability slot, and consequently the backswing would be 1.07.

This goes for every animation and ability. But since Ability Draft “ Play If that s the kind of fight they want, then I will give it to them! Click to listen— Legion Commander ” Game modes are a set of restrictions within which the game of Dota 2 is the only game mode where abilities can have a different slot or be on different heroes, this only matters in that game mode. In all other game modes, it only matters for Doom and Rubick, since they presently are the only heroes which can acquire spells of other units.