DotA2 Skill: Nightmare

Nightmare

• As long as a unit is affected by Nightmare, it is replaced by the sub-ability Nightmare End which allows Bane to wake the unit up.
• Applies a sleep on affected units, preventing them from acting.
• Turns affected targets invulnerable for 1 second, preventing affected units from waking up.
• Reduces affected enemy unit's vision to 200.
• The target wakes up when a unit starts attacking it (including manual casting of active attack modifiers), or when the target takes damage.
• The target does not wake up when taking damage from certain sources and under a few rare conditions:
  • Damage dealt by Sleight of Fist, upgraded Assassinate, Side Gunner, Stifling Dagger, or Swashbuckle.
  • Any damage from active attack modifiers, be it a debuff (e.g. Burning Spear), or direct damage (e.g. Tidebringer).
  • Any damage from already launched ranged attacks if the projectiles hit after the invulnerability period.
• When waking up with an attack, the Nightmare is transferred to the attacking unit at the start of an attack, not when the attack hits.
• When Nightmare is transferred, its duration is refreshed, including the second of invulnerability.
• The Nightmare cannot be transferred to spell immune units, or to wards. So their attacks only wake up nightmared units.
• Nightmared units are never automatically attacked, regardless of settings. A forced attack order is required to attack them.
  • This prevents enemies from accidentally afflicting themselves with Nightmare by auto-attacking a nightmared unit.
  • This also means that nightmared units are never attacked by lane creeps, neutral creeps, towers and fountains.
  • Units can force an attack on an allied nightmared unit to transfer the Nightmare to themselves.

Spell Immunity: Does not pierce spell immunity. Spell Block: Blocked when primary target. Blocked upon attacking a unit affected by an enemy Nightmare. Dispel: Invulnerability is undispellable. Debuff is dispellable with any dispel.