Give unit UNLEARNED hero ability?

How can i give a Hero an ability without that hero learning the ability.
As in, its still level 0

replies are greatly appreciated

You mean adding an ability to a hero? Just add a hero ability via this method...

I hope I understood correctly...

Check if this works:

If you dont know jass and your using GUI, you would do this:
anything inside <<>> look on the bottom for.


*insert a variable here, this should be the unit you want to add it to.>>
**the rawcode of the ability to be added

This won't work, you can only add abilities with triggers, not hero skills. The only way to "add" hero skills is by using engineering upgrade, consult PitzerMike's Warcraft III Ability Guide.

In a failed attempt to create a dual-instance cast (you cast once, then again for the effect) I was using the process of removing/adding the hero abilities from the hero. Though this method failed, because the cooldown reset, it did succeed in adding the hero abilities back and setting them to their proper levels.

I didn't do anything fancy, just:
This worked fine. I think he should just -try- what moyack suggested and if it doesn't work, then move on.

Yes, you added the hero abilities back, not hero skills, because you never removed those in the first place. You can add and remove abilities at will, but the hero's ability to learn them will remain the same, so after a hero ability is removed from a hero it can still be re-learned at level 1 as it was not removed from the hero skill learn menu because that can not be done (at least not directly, there are some possibilities to alter hero skills with engineering upgrade though).

Understood. I guess I didn't see exactly what you were saying.

yeah. the engineering upgrade for tinker would work nicely. i get to it