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Can the dark archon cast any type of thing that will kill a unit like the defiler casts its dark swarm?

There are no easy ways to detect maelstrom, or feedback - although feedback will kill many units. To detect mind-control, the player will own a unit that they shouldn't have, or they'll own too many units. This gets complicated if they're allowed to mind-control units that they are allowed to control, though.

However, there is no spell of the Dark Archon which can be treated the same way as the defiler's dark swarm.

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I don't understand your question. Do you mean like can the Dark Archon cast a spell that can kill a unit like the Defiler's Plauge? Yes, but with reqirements.The unit has to be llow on health. The Defilers Plauge can kill a lot of units.

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What do you mean by 'detecting'?

No it can't but if it's mind controling things it shouldn't own then that would be a pretty easy to make a trigger off of. Feedback can kill halucinations and units with less HP than Energy.

yeah i meant can a dark archon cast any of its spells that will kill a unit like the dark swarm thing that a defiler does for example defiler casts dark swarm and it creats like a tank and it explodes u should know wat im talking about can a dark archon cast any of its spells to do the same?

Read my post.

It won't happen like Dark Swarm, where you can cast it practically anywhere. Like said before, if you Mind Control a unit that you're not supposed to have (Ex: Your only unit is a Firebat and you MC a Marine), you can do triggers based on owning the marine to semi-act like what Dark Swarm can do. Otherwise, the only skill that would work just like Dark Swarm is Disruption Web.

I mean being able to check for a change caused by, and only by, those spells, using trigger conditions. Casting Dark Swarm can be detected because player 12 commands at least one dark swarm after it is cast, and not before, and cannot acquire one in any other way. However, you cannot easily detect which player cast the dark swarm, because all casted dark swarms are created for player 12.

Hmm.. i never understood what trigger made that tank appear under the dark swarm.. i really doubt it. Corsair should do it, or some other unit that casts spells like that, but i really doubt dark archon can do it. U need a temporary constant spell.

I used a Dark Archon to activate town portals. It can be done in the same way with any units, but it will be harder if the player controles the units it can also mind controle.