Abaddon (Dota 2)

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Abaddon (Dota 2) - Abaddon Skills

This page details each of Abaddon's abilities/skills.

First Ability

Mist Coil [Keybind: Q]
AbilityAffectsDamage
Target Unit Units Magical
Abaddon releases a coil of death that can damage an enemy unit or heal a friendly unit at the cost of some of Abaddon's health.
  • Range: 800
  • Heal/Damage to Target: 100/150/200/250
  • Damage to Abaddon: 75/100/125/150
  • Cooldown: 5 seconds
  • Mana Cost: 50/60/70/80
  • Is blocked by enemy Spell Immunity but can still be used on allies through spell immunity.
  • Is blocked by Linken's Sphere.
  • The damage to Abaddon is pure damage.
  • Self-damage from Mist Coil can burst Aphotic Shield.
  • Abaddon can deny himself with this ability.

Second Ability

Aphotic Shield [Keybind: W]
AbilityAffectsDamage
Target Unit Allied units Magical
Summons dark energies around an ally unit, creating a shield that absorbs a set amount of damage before expiring. When the shield is destroyed it will burst and deal damage equal to the amount it could absorb to an area around it. Removes certain types of negative buffs and stuns on cast.
  • Range: 500
  • Radius: 675
  • Duration: 15
  • Absorbed Damage: 110/140/170/200
  • Cooldown: 12 seconds
  • Mana Cost: 100/105/110/115
  • Blocked by spell immunity, but not removed by becoming spell immune.
  • If under the effects of Borrowed Time, Abaddon's own Aphotic Shield will not burst.
  • Will automatically detonate and replace any existing Aphotic Shield already surrounding a target.
  • Aphotic Shield will burst at the end of its duration if it has not absorbed sufficient damage.
  • It will always burst for the maximum damage, regardless of how much was absorbed.
  • Damage is calculated after all reductions.
  • Can be used on siege creeps.

Third Ability

Curse of Avernus [Keybind: E]
AbilityAffects
Passive Units
Abaddon strikes an enemy with chilling power on each attack, causing all units who attack the slowed enemy to gain increased movement speed, along with faster attack speed, for a limited time.
  • Duration of Slow: 2.5
  • Slow: 5/10/15/20
  • Duration of Bonuses: 4.5
  • Bonus Attack Speed: 10/20/30/40
  • Bonus Movement Speed: 15%
  • The Curse of Avernus buff is placed on Abaddon at the start of his attack, so he gets the bonus on his first hit. The debuff is only applied on hit.
  • Works partially on towers. Abaddon will receive the buff from attacking a tower, however no debuff is applied to the tower so no other targets may benefit from it.
  • Can affect allies, including creeps being denied. Enemies attacking an ally target affected by the debuff benefit from the Curse of Avernus buff.
  • Affects spell immune targets.
  • Can be purged.

Ultimate Ability

Borrowed Time [Keybind: R]
AbilityAffects
No Target Self
When activated, most negative buffs will be removed and any damage you take will heal instead of damaging you. If the ability is not on cooldown, it will passively activate when your hitpoints drop below a certain threshold.
  • Duration: 4/5/6 (5/6/7 with Scepter)
  • Cooldown: 60/50/40
  • Aghanim's: Borrowed Time now redirects 35% of all damage dealt to nearby allied heroes to Abaddon when active within a 900 unit range.
  • Borrowed Time will activate itself if you suffer damage while you have less than 400 HP.
  • Upon casting Borrowed Time, Abaddon will effectively dodge any projectiles currently flying at him.
  • When activated it removes most negative buffs from Abaddon, including Stuns.
  • Borrowed Time can be manually activated.
  • Borrowed Time is auto activated during Duel.
  • It is possible to kill Abaddon without triggering Borrowed Time's auto-activation if he were to take damage higher than his remaining health, due to the fact that on activation of Borrowed Time, Abaddon takes the damage that activated it and then heals double the amount. Any other damage taken during the duration of Borrowed Time will deal 0 damage and heal instead.
  • Culling Blade and Ice Blast will kill Abaddon if he reaches the health threshold, even with Borrowed Time active. Ice Blast also prevents you from being healed by attacks, but you will not take any damage either for Borrowed Time's duration.
  • If Abaddon is doomed before he hits the HP threshold, Borrowed Time will not activate.

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