Hero Discussion #1: Abaddon, The Lord of Avernus

In my experience as an Abaddon spammed for mmr, here's what I've found.

1) Abaddon is best run as a safelane support, a dual offlaner, or a 4 position offlaner paired with a jungling core. As such, I am one of the few people here who actually LIKES having a jungle legion on his team.

2) Abaddon can survive a tri lane, and absolutely destroy any dual offlane with a melee farming core. Aphotic Shield used on your low health allied creeps may push the lane, but the harass and farm Disruption you put out is worth it.

3) Aphotic Shield is the go to skill to max for three reasons: lane harass, cooldown reduction, and health preservation. Frosto is right when he says Abba doesn't have the health pool to max coil early on, but the most important thing from that list is cooldown: the ability to remove a stun from an ally every six seconds is just GOOD.

Thats my opinion, anyways. Glad to see this thread really take off.