Silence

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Mechanics

Queen of Pain attempting to cast a spell while silenced. A grid layer covers the ability icons while silenced.

When a unit is silenced, the ability icons in its HUD are overlayed by a grid-like effect. Clicking on an active ability or pressing its hotkey displays the word "Silenced" in red on the screen.

Silence disables every active ability, including toggle abilities and active attack modifiers Attack modifiers are modifiers which apply an effect to a unit s basic attacks. These effects can widely vary, from healing, to damaging or even disabling effects. Most of these modifiers have their own rules. For . If an ability is being channeled Warlock channeling Upheaval Channeling an ability causes the caster to stop acting for the duration of the spell. Channeled spells may be ended when the channeling unit takes another action or is interrupted by another , silence cancels it immediately. If an ability is toggled on, silence does not turn it off, but prevents the player from toggling it off. If the toggle ability drains mana and the unit runs out of mana while silenced, the ability toggles off normally.

Silence does not stop the effects of already cast spells. For instance, silencing Razor   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs     Razor 21 + 2.6 22 + 2 21 + 1.8 Level Base after he has already cast Static Link or Eye of the Storm does not stop the link from draining or the storm from striking.

Silence does not disable any passive ability. Although silence prevents, for instance, Drow Ranger For the race in Dota 2 lore, see Drow.   Hero   Strategy   Counters   Equipment   Gear   Responses   Sounds   Lore   Old Abilities   Changelogs   Known Bugs     from using the active part of Precision Aura, it does not cause the aura to stop granting attack damage bonus. Even when a passive ability has a cooldown or mana cost, silence never affects them in any way.

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Sources of Silence

• Besides the listed abilities, all hex Hex (also referred to as Sheep or Polymorph) is a status effect which turns the affected unit into a harmless critter, disabling many of its fighting capabilities. Contents 1 Mechanics 2 Sources of Hex 3 abilities silence, mute and disarm affected units.

Mute

Tusk attempting to use Scythe of Vyse   Item   Changelogs     Scythe of Vyse The most guarded relic among the cult of Vyse, it is the most coveted weapon among magi. Cost5700 Bought FromCaster Active Hex Bonus +10 Strength+10 Agility+35 while muted by his Snowball. Unlike for silence, there is no indicator for the unit that it is muted.

As a counterpart to silence, a Mute disables the affected unit`s active items in the same fashion as silence disables active abilities. As with silence, it does not affect passives at all. It does not stop already ongoing effects of items, but does cancel channeled items. It also prevents the unit from toggling their toggle items on or off.

Sources of Mute

• Besides the listed abilities, non-sharable items Play “Singing trio.” It has been suggested that this article or section be split into multiple new articles. Reason given: The shop should get its own page Discussion to support or oppose the split should be are always muted when picked up by a different unit than the owner.

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Silence Abilities