Hide

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▶️ Off with you! — Shadow Demon

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Hiding (also referred to as banishing) a unit causes it to temporarily disappear from the game.

Mechanics

Hide renders the unit unable to move, attack, cast abilities and items. Most Hide sources also turn the affected unit invulnerable. Hidden units still gain Experience and Gold . While hidden, a unit cannot be affected by any abilities, with some exceptions (e.g. Shadow Poison). For example, a Meat Hook would just fly through and possibly hit a unit behind the hidden unit.

Sources

Hide Sources with invulnerability

• Brewmaster – Primal Split
• Chaos Knight – Phantasm
• Earth Spirit – Enchant Remnant
• Fallen Sky – Fallen Sky
• Lifestealer – Infest
• Manta Style – Mirror Image
• Monkey King – Wukong's Command (Clone)
• Meepo – Dig
• Meepo – MegaMeepo
• Meepo – MegaMeepo Fling
• Naga Siren – Mirror Image
• Necrophos – Death Seeker
• Outworld Destroyer – Astral Imprisonment⁴
• Phantom Lancer – Doppelganger
• Phoenix – Supernova
• Puck – Phase Shift
• Riki – Tricks of the Trade
• Ringmaster – Funhouse Mirror
• Runes – Illusion
• Shadow Demon – Disruption
• Snapfire – Gobble Up
• Snapfire – Spit Out
• Sven – Storm Hammer (Alt-Cast)^2a
• Terrorblade – Reflection (Illusion)
• Undying – Tombstone (Enterance)^2b
• Tusk – Snowball
• Void Spirit – Dissimilate
• Witch Doctor – Voodoo Switcheroo

Hide Sources without invulnerability

• Dawnbreaker – Solar Guardian
• Shadow Shaman – Fowl Play^2b

¹ Requires a Talent.

^2a Requires Aghanim's Scepter.

^2b Requires Aghanim's Shard.

⁴ After Aghanim's Shard upgrade no longer hides allies.

Piercing Hidden

See also: Invulnerable

Dispel abilities cannot target hidden units, but will fully affect hidden units.

Forced Movement does not stop due to the fact of hide itself, but can stop due to stun and other reasons.

Spell Block only triggers on an hidden unit if the spell can negatively affect hidden unit, or if the spell can bounce off it. Bounce spells do not consider an hidden unit as valid new target, however if the unit becomes hidden after being targeted, the spell will still bounce off it.

Interactions with enemies:

Affects hidden enemy only under specific source⁴
• Outworld Destroyer – Sanity's Eclipse⁵
• Shadow Demon – Disseminate⁶
• Shadow Demon – Shadow Poison⁶
• Shadow Demon – Shadow Poison Release⁶
• Shadow Demon – Demonic Purge⁶
No Target
• Spectre – Haunt
Link, need to be connected before hidden
• Death Prophet – Spirit Siphon
• Razor – Static Link

⁴ Unlike any other abilities, these can damage hidden units. However, they do it only if enemy affected by specific hidden sources.

⁵ Only affects the unit under Astral Imprisonment.

⁶ The following abilities and its effects, regardless of its source, fully affects the affected hero under the most recent Disruption cast by Shadow Demon.

Interactions with allies:

• Centaur Warrunner – Stampede
• Clockwerk – Overclocking (Self-slow)
• Chen – Hand of God
• Mirana – Moonlight Shadow
Link, need to be connected before hidden
• Io – Tether
Teleport
• Chen – Divine Favor (Self-Cast)
• Io – Relocate
• Keeper of the Light – Recall³
• Lone Druid – Summon Spirit Bear
• Meepo – Poof (Alt-Cast)⁴
• Sand King – Burrowstrike
Items
• Arcane Boots – Replenish
• Crimson Guard – Guard
• Guardian Greaves – Mend
• Mekansm – Restore

³ Requires selecting the corresponding facet.

⁴ Meepo can teleport to another Meepo even if that Meepo is hidden.

Path Block

Allowes

• Disruptor – Kinetic Field
• Disruptor – Kinetic Fence
• Mars – Arena of Blood

Blocks

• Clockwerk – Power Cogs
• Drow Ranger – Glacier
• Earthshaker – Fissure
• Hoodwink – Acorn Shot
• Iron Branch – Plant Tree
• Nature's Prophet – Sprout
• Tusk – Ice Shards

Effect Pause

• Shadow Demon - Disseminate
  
  Duration is paused if unit is hidden by own Disruption.

Castable while Hidden

• Earth Spirit - Rolling Boulder
  

  
  Earth Spirit can self-cast this ability while hidden by Enchant Remnant.
• Lifestealer - Consume
  
  Lifestealer can cast this ability while hidden by Infest.
• Phoenix - Sun Ray
  

  
  Phoenix can cast this ability while hidden by Supernova.
• Tusk - Snowball
  
  Allowes Tusk to grab allies and use Ice Shards, Launch Snowball and Tag Team.
• Puck - Phase Shift
  
  Puck can use any ability during 1 tick buff linger while being hidden.

Debuff Immunity

• Earth Spirit - Enchant Remnant
  

  
  Debuff immune under this effect can attack, use items and abilities while being hidden.
• Elder Titan - Astral Spirit
  

  
  If Astral Spirit returns while Elder Titan being Hidden, Debuff Immunity will make him able to move, attack, use abilities and items while being Hidden and not visible to anyone.

Stun

Most sources of Hide apply just a Stun.

Stun

• Brewmaster – Primal Split
• Chaos Knight – Phantasm
• Earth Spirit – Enchant Remnant
• Fallen Sky – Fallen Sky
• Manta Style – Mirror Image
• Meepo – Dig
• Meepo – MegaMeepo
• Meepo – MegaMeepo Fling
• Naga Siren – Mirror Image
• Necrophos – Death Seeker
• Outworld Destroyer – Astral Imprisonment⁴
• Phantom Lancer – Doppelganger
• Puck – Phase Shift
• Runes – Illusion
• Ringmaster – Funhouse Mirror
• Shadow Demon – Disruption
• Snapfire – Spit Out
• Sven – Storm Hammer (Alt-Cast)^2a

⁴ After Aghanim's Shard upgrade no longer hides allies and applies Silence instead of Stun.

Which allows the usage of these abilities:

Castable while Stunned

• Abaddon – Borrowed Time
• Bane – Nightmare End
• Buildings – Glyph of Fortification
• Dazzle – Nothl Projection^2b
• Elder Titan – Return Astral Spirit
• Elder Titan – Move Astral Spirit
• Legion Commander – Overwhelming Odds⁴
• Lone Druid – Savage Roar^2b
• Spirit Bear – Savage Roar^2b
• Morphling – Attribute Shift^2b
• Roshan – Roar of Retribution
• Rubick – Telekinesis Land ^{2b 5}
• Scan – Scan
• Templar Assassin – Refraction ^2b
• Troll Warlord – Battle Trance ¹
• Ursa – Enrage ^2a
• Visage – Stone Form
• Familiar – Stone Form

¹ Requires Talent.

^2a Requires Aghanim's Scepter.

^2b Requires Aghanim's Shard.

⁴ Ignores stun only during Duel.

⁵ Ignores stun only if self-casted Telekinesis.

Silence

Some sources of hidden use Silence, Mute and other modifiers:

Silence

• Shadow Shaman – Fowl Play ^2b
• Snapfire – Gobble Up
• Undying – Tombstone (Enterance)^2b
• Void Spirit – Dissimilate

^2b Requires Aghanim's Shard.

Which allowes pick up runes, drop/take items and usage of these abilities:

Castable while Silenced

• Ancient Apparition – Release
• Buildings – Glyph of Fortification
• Fiend's Gate – Warp
• Roshan – Roar of Retribution
• Runes – Activate
• Scan – Scan
• Undying – Tombstone (Enterance)^2b
• Twin Gate – Warp
• Watcher – Lantern of Sight
Attack Modifier
• Bounty Hunter – Jinada
• Omniknight – Hammer of Purity
• Kunkka – Tidebringer
• Treant Protector – Leech Seed
• Weaver – Geminate Attack
Toggle
• Brewmaster – Drunken Brawler
• Kez – Switch Discipline
• Largo – Amphibian Rhapsody
• Muerta – Gunslinger
• Phantom Lancer – Phantom Rush
• Troll Warlord – Battle Stance
Castable while Silenced [CONDITIONAL]
• Legion Commander – Overwhelming Odds
• Lone Druid – Savage Roar
• Spirit Bear – Savage Roar

¹ Requires a talent.

^2a Requires Aghanim's Scepter.

^2b Requires Aghanim's Shard.

Can't Act

Some sources of hidden use Cannot Act and other modifiers:

Сan't Act

• Dawnbreaker – Solar Guardian
• Lifestealer – Infest
• Phoenix – Supernova (Ally) ^2a
• Tusk – Snowball (Ally)
• Witch Doctor – Voodoo Switcheroo

Castable while Can't Act

• Buildings – Glyph of Fortification
• Lifestealer – Consume
• Elder Titan – Move Astral Spirit
• Elder Titan – Return Astral Spirit
• Scan – Scan

Other Modifiers

These abilities do not apply Stun, Silence or Can't Act but use other list of modifiers:

List

• Earth Spirit – Rolling Boulder
• Phoenix – Supernova (Self)
• Terrorblade – Reflection (Illusion)
• Tusk – Snowball (Self)

Shared Unit Control

Changing Hero box will have no effect if u are Hidden.

Map Interactions

Scan and Crystal Ball ignores hidden units.

Rejuvenation Aura ignores invulnerable units.
Tower Protection ignores invulnerable units.

Hidden heroes can't Pluck Lotus or pause process.
Hidden heroes can't Gather Experience or pause process.

Hidden units still block spawn of Neutral Creeps.
Hidden units also do not count towards the triggering of certain neutral creeps abilities.
Hidden heroes are not taken into account when determining whether there are heroes nearby Tormentor.

Patch History

Patch

Description

22 Dec 2022

• Fixed Avatar being castable with ⇧ Shift-queue while being Doomed after returning from being hidden (e.g. Disruption).

08 Nov 2017

• Created new healthbar status called BANISHED.
• Added status duration indicator for the following abilities:
  • Astral Imprisonment
  • Disruption

22 Jan 2016

• Fixed a selection issue with non-hero units when they became temporarily hidden (i.e. during Astral Imprisonment).

05 Feb 2014

• Fixed kill assist gold not being given to heroes that are hidden (i.e. Phase Shift).