Disarm

▶️

Visual effect that appears over disarmed units.

“

▶️ Render you harmless! — Pugna

”

Disarm prevents the afflicted unit from attacking, although they can still cast abilities. When a disarmed unit is ordered to attack, they will attempt to stay within attack range of their target but will be unable to act. After the disarm's duration is over, they will resume attacking normally.

Sources

Besides the listed abilities, nearly all sources of ethereal and hex disarm affected units.

Disarming Abilities

• Heaven's Halberd – Disarm
• Invoker – Deafening Blast
• Kobold Soldier – Steal Weapon
• Kunkka – Tidal Wave
• Sniper – Concussive Grenade
• Oracle – Fate's Edict
• Techies – Reactive Tazer
• Crystal Maiden – Crystal Clone
• Crystal Maiden – Freezing Field^2a
• Crystal Maiden – Frostbite
• Nature's Prophet – Wrath of Nature^2a
• Treant Protector – Nature's Guise^2b
• Treant Protector – Overgrowth

¹ Requires talent.

^2a Requires Aghanim's Scepter.

^2b Requires Aghanim's Shard.

Ethereal Sources

Ethereal Sources

• Ethereal Blade – Ether Blast
• Ghost Scepter – Ghost Form
• Leshrac – Nihilism
• Muerta – Pierce the Veil¹
• Necrophos – Ghost Shroud²
• Pugna – Decrepify

¹ Requires talent.

^2a Requires Aghanim's Scepter.

^2b Requires Aghanim's Shard.

Hex Sources

Hex Sources

• Dazzle – Poison Touch⁴
• Lion – Hex
• Scythe of Vyse – Hex
• Shadow Shaman – Hex

¹ Requires talent.

^2a Requires Aghanim's Scepter.

^2b Requires Aghanim's Shard.

Self-Disarm Sources

The following abilities disarm its caster, more information can be found in its respective ability notes.

Caster Disarming Abilities

• Batrider – Flaming Lasso
• Clockwerk – Hookshot
• Dawnbreaker – Starbreaker
• Earth Spirit – Rolling Boulder
• Ember Spirit – Sleight of Fist
• Huskar – Life Break
• Kez – Shodo Sai
• Monkey King – Tree Dance
• Nyx Assassin – Burrow
• Pangolier – Rolling Thunder
• Pangolier – Roll Up
• Phoenix – Sun Ray
• Primal Beast – Onslaught
• Primal Beast – Trample
• Slark – Pounce
• Timbersaw – Timber Chain
• Timbersaw – Chakram
• Tusk – Snowball

¹ Requires talent.

^2a Requires Aghanim's Scepter.

^2b Requires Aghanim's Shard.

Misleading Visuals

Fake Disarm Icon

• Pangolier – Lucky Shot

Instant Attack

Main Article: Instant Attack

Most instant attacks rule for interaction with disarm is relatively intuitive: if the instant attack is generated outside of normal attack animation, it ignores disarm. If it is generated together with a normal attack animation (e.g. various multishot instant attacks), then the attack is trivially not generated due to the normal attack not being allowed.

Version History

Version

Description

6.87
(2016-04-25)

• Dueling units no longer ignore disarms and ethereal state.

6.79c
(2013-12-12)

• Dueling units now fully ignore disarms and ethereal state.

Patch History

Patch

Description

21 Jun 2022

• UPDATE 2
  • Fixed disarm from stopping the following ability's auto-attacks completely while ability is active:
    • Static Link
    • Focus Fire

28 Mar 2012

• Added visual effect for units affected by disarm.

19 Jan 2012

• Now when attempting to cast-attack a target while hard disarmed, the error message Can't Attack will appear when you reach attack range of the target.
• Fixed Disarm not disarming active attack modifiers.

27 Oct 2011

• When disarmed, Right Click, A+ Right Click or M (attack-move-click) on enemies to move toward them. The Can't Attack error will not appear until you reach attack range of the enemy.