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[frostshotgg]

Yeah, Phoenix's W is amazing. 1200 damage aoe at rank 4 is too damn good.

[RexMundi]

It really is a fantastic mode. Diretide, wraith night, all don't compare.

Best of all, it stays forever suposedly~

[Malus]

Playing some AD, I got Faceless. I also have first pick. Permanent Invisibility and quite a few nukes are in the pool, so I figure I might as well go full cheese. I nab invis, Ion Shell, Scream of Pain, and Shadow Strike. 1.5 int gain means I'll have no mana, but I can deal. I take mid. Farming's easy thanks to Ion Shell, and I get a fast Soul Ring and Arcane Boots. And then the pain starts. Once I'm six, I head top and 'gank' Ursa (I stood next to him, invisible, with Ion Shell active. And when he tried to run, I Shadow Striked him. He died without ever seeing me.)

Cue rage from Ursa for being a 'tryhard' apparently. I gank him a few more times because it's hilarious. He buys sentries, but doesn't actually use them. I built a quick Euls for the movespeed and extra mana regen and it gave me enough to spam my spells as much as I wanted. Next up: Dagon. Dagon + Scream of Pain + Shadow Strike is already pretty hard to survive, but toss in permanent invisibility and you can't even see where it's coming from. You can't run. Fastest Dagon 5 of my life. And then I built a Veil. By the end, Veil + Dagon was enough to instakill the enemy supports while they sat in fountain. AD's great.

[Myroc]

One of the other good AD games I had whilst it was still on the test server was Batrider with Sticky Napalm, Battle Hunger, Bloodrage, and Mass Serpent Ward. Did you know that Sticky Napalm works with all damage sources that you own, barring a select few items? As soon as someone got into range he was more or less doomed unless he could kill me faster than my amplified DoTs would kill him, which was pretty damn hard to achieve.

Sticky Napalm is in general a pretty versatile skill in Ability Draft. Grabbing that along with any DoT spells (along other spells like Rocket Barrage or Diabolic Edict) can lead to some pretty hilarious shenanigans.

[Astral]

I've had three extremely successful ranged carry games with all passives in Ability Draft mode.

First was Razor, with Moment of Courage (Legionaire's passive lifesteal on hit proc), Time Lock (Faceless Void's stun proc), Essence Shift (Slark's "steal 1 of each stat and get 3 agility for 2 minutes on hit"), and Stampede (Centaur's ultimate, speed boost) as a throwaway.

Second was Drow, with Time Lock, Berserker's Blood (Huskar's passive that gives attack speed/magic armor as you get lower on life), Juxtapose (Phantom Lancer's image spawning proc) and Chemical Rage (Alchemist's overpowered ult). Probably my overall best game.

Third was Sniper with Moment of Courage, Fury Swipes (Ursa's stacking damage on each consecutive hit), Take Aim (Sniper's range increaser passive), and Venomous Gale as a throwaway ultimate. Ranged characters should NEVER be able to get Fury Swipes. Early lane harassment is a joke compared to someone with 1k range poking you for more damage each hit.

Any agility carry with Chemical Rage is a bit overpowered, considering they don't suffer from the lack of agility growth that Alchemist does, and benefit more from the decreased base attack timer, but a Drow with a Bash and more attack speed the closer to death she gets, all whilst spawning up to 7 clones? That's the definition of broken, even though Juxtapose was my throwaway pick. Moment of Courage is a welcome addition to any carry's survivability, since the extra hit can also proc orb effects, such as Fury Swipes, Bash, etc.

I suppose part of the fun is getting a character whose base stats, movespeed and growth fit the kit you are trying to build. I had a bit of fun with a Witch Doctor who had Spiritbreaker's Charge and Nether Strike, Dragon Knight's Dragon Tail stun, and his own Maledict. Charge in, stunning them for 2.4 seconds, Maledict, stun again for 3.25 seconds, and Dagon or ult them. Rinse repeat every 30 seconds.

But for every good build there are the terrible ones, as some don't know the game well enough to know what certain characters are capable of, or what they should be doing for certain roles. It certainly makes the game more interesting.

[Skyrunner]

Probably won't be playing that mode just because I don't know enough about the skills. :/

[Teneb]

Probably won't be playing that mode just because I don't know enough about the skills. :/

But that makes it even more fun!

I had an excellent AD game as Lion with Homing Missile, Voodoo Restoration, Unstable Current and Flesh Golem.

Turns out using flesh golem as lion transforms me into a mini-flesh golem with a ranged attack.

[Karkov]

Turns out using flesh golem as lion transforms me into a mini-flesh golem with a ranged attack.

Yeah, it's pretty much like stealing Flesh Golem while you're Rubick. 

Speaking of that adorable green guy, anybody seen him in AD yet?  Also Invoker?  I'm trying to find out if all of the heroes are in the pool or if you're shorted one or two, but seeing as how it randoms everything for you, I haven't been able to find out yet.

Probably won't be playing that mode just because I don't know enough about the skills. :/

Pshaw.  It's a joke mode anyway, go and have some fun with your friends and have some chaotic fun

[umiman]

Anyone with more than 4 skills isn't in AD sadly.

[Astral]

They probably have to do some heavy workarounding to get something like Troll Warlord in there. Give it time, they'll probably get it eventually.

[Karkov]

Suddenly, Abilities Draft with Invoker makes me giggle like a madman. 

"Don't you dare steal my Wex you jerk, I need that for skills."  "What's this blue thing called Quas?"  "Why can I get my ultimate at level 3?  What does it even do?"

And it's sort of a good thing that Templar Assassin and Troll aren't isn't in there quite yet.  Take aim and Psi Blades is POWERFUL, as evidenced back from the days of d2ware.  Troll would be annoying because of the fact that ranged units would be able to mini-bash like Headshot on auto-attacks, that and they'd get a bonus to health and speed.  Apparently I'm just dumb so I'm crossing dumb stuff out (if anybody actually sees Troll in the regular client please tell me, in the meantime I assume myself to assume too much).

[umiman]

Troll is inside. Or at least he was in test client version.

[Heron TSG]

Oh, there you all went!

I've been having a good time in ability draft lately. My favorite builds were:

Earthshaker with Sticky Napalm, Aftershock, Enchant Totem, and Dismember. Rushed an abyssal blade after treads to complete the absolute stunlock.

Undying with Tombstone, Rearm, Demonic Conversion, and Nature's Call. Ultimate split pushing army happened starting at level 6 once I got my boots of travel and a soul ring.

[Skyrunner]

Turns out using flesh golem as lion transforms me into a mini-flesh golem with a ranged attack.

Yeah, it's pretty much like stealing Flesh Golem while you're Rubick. 

Speaking of that adorable green guy, anybody seen him in AD yet?  Also Invoker?  I'm trying to find out if all of the heroes are in the pool or if you're shorted one or two, but seeing as how it randoms everything for you, I haven't been able to find out yet.

Probably won't be playing that mode just because I don't know enough about the skills. :/

Pshaw.  It's a joke mode anyway, go and have some fun with your friends and have some chaotic fun

^{_{I don't have any friends...}}

[umiman]

My friend ran sniper with take aim and impetus.

You'd think that'd be bad enough, 1000 range impetus.

Oh no, he didn't stop there.

He got untouchable and spell shield.

So he was immortal and did 600 damage per hit.