Silence
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▶️ Silence!
| “ | ▶️ This will shut you up.
— Silencer
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Silence is a status effect that prevents those affected from using active hero abilities for the duration of the silence. It can be useful when ganking a hero with a blink or invisibility spell, as silences tend to have longer duration than other disables giving more time to kill the enemy. Silences in teamfights can also be very effective even for a short period of time, as they prevent the enemy from using their spells in combination with one another. Silencing an opponent also stops any channeling spells that they are currently using.
Definition
[edit]| Ability and Item Disables |
Disabled Aspect / Definition | Examples |
|---|---|---|
 Silence |
|
Global Silence |
 Break |
|
Viper Strike |
 Mute |
|
Doom |
Mechanics
[edit]See also: Break
When a unit is silenced, the ability icons in its HUD are overlayed by a grid-like effect. 
Left Click 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. If an ability is being channeled, silence cancels it immediately. If an ability is Toggled/On, Silence only prevents the player from toggling it off. If the toggle ability drains mana and the unit runs out of mana while silenced, the ability is Toggled Off normally.
Silence does not stop the effects of already cast abilities. For example, silencing Razor 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 example, the caster from using the active part of Vampiric Spirit, it does not stop him from gaining skeleton charges or the lifesteal to proc. Even when a passive ability has a cooldown or mana cost, silence never affects them in any way.
Abilities Castable When Silenced
[edit]Few abilities with DOTA_ABILITY_BEHAVIOR_IGNORE_SILENCE flag are still castable when silenced. Silence also can not prevent them channeling and starting the ability's cast point.
Abilities Castable When Silenced
Ancient Apparition – Release
Buildings – Glyph of Fortification
Bounty Hunter – Jinada
Brewmaster – Drunken Brawler
Fiend's Gate – Warp
Omniknight – Hammer of Purity
Kez – Switch Discipline
Kunkka – Tidebringer
Muerta – Gunslinger
Phantom Lancer – Phantom Rush
Roshan – Roar of Retribution
Scan – Scan
Troll Warlord – Battle Stance
Undying – Tombstone (Enterance)2b- Twin Gate – Warp
Watcher – Lantern of Sight
Weaver – Geminate Attack
Abilities Castable When Silenced [CONDITIONAL]
- 1 Requires a
talent. - 2a Requires
Aghanim's Scepter. - 2b Requires
Aghanim's Shard. - 3 Requires the selected corresponding facet.
Silence
[edit]All sources of fear and hex will also provide silence status.
Silence Sources
Arc Warden – Flux2a
Bloodseeker – Blood Rite
Clockwerk – Hookshot4
Dawnbreaker – Solar Guardian4
Death Prophet – Silence
Disruptor – Static Storm
Doom – Doom
Drow Ranger – Gust
Earth Spirit – Geomagnetic Grip
Enigma – Black Hole
Grimstroke – Phantom's Embrace
Kez – Talon Toss
Legion Commander – Duel6
Lone Druid – Savage Roar
Marci – Unleash2a
Muerta – Dead Shot
Muerta – The Calling
Night Stalker – Crippling Fear
Outworld Destroyer – Astral Imprisonment2b 7
Psionic Trap – Trap2b
Puck – Waning Rift
Queen of Pain – Blink2b
Riki – Smoke Screen
Shadow Fiend – Requiem of Souls
Silencer – Last Word
Silencer – Global Silence
Skywrath Mage – Ancient Seal
Snapfire – Gobble Up- Spirit Bear – Savage Roar
Templar Assassin – Psionic Projection2b
Templar Assassin – Psionic Trap2b
Void Spirit – Aether Remnant
Void Spirit – Dissimilate
Void Spirit – Resonant Pulse2a
Hoodwink – Decoy (Illusion)5
Silence Sources: Items
- 1 Requires a talent.
- 2a Requires Aghanim's Scepter.
- 2b Requires Aghanim's Shard.
- 3 Requires the selected corresponding facet.
- 4 Silences caster when moving.
- 5 Only silences the illusion.
- 6 Both the Dueled target and caster are silenced.
- 7 Only silences allies.
- 8 Silences when cast on yourself.
Mute
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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. Does not prevent disassembling in any way.
Mute also prevents the unit from toggling their items On / Off.
Besides the listed abilities below, non-sharable items are always muted when picked up by a different unit than the owner.
All sources of fear and hex will also provide mute status.
Mute Sources
- 1 Requires a
Talent. - 2a Requires Aghanim's Scepter.
- 2b Requires Aghanim's Shard.
- 3 Requires selecting the corresponding facet.
- 4 Mutes caster after succes channeling.
- 5 Both the Dueled target and caster are muted.
- 6 Only mutes allies.
- 7 Mutes Tusk while inside the Snowball. Allies inside are not muted, but are disabled.
- 8 Mutes when cast on yourself.
Version History
[edit]Description
- The following items now uses the Mute mechanic:
- Added HUD indication over inventory to show mute state.
- Item silencing is now called Mute.
- Silence no longer disables invisibility.
Patch History
[edit]Description
- Added a generic Mute modifier.
- Added new overhead visual effects for Mute debuffs.
- Increased music volume during silence effects from 0.4 to 0.6.
- Fixed the following abilities not being disabled by silence:
- Update 3
- Fixed a bug where you could not target items while muted.
- Fixed Silence interrupting channeling items.
- Fixed Silenced state getting stuck in the HUD.
