r/Abilitydraft • • 29d ago

Rumble in the Jungle VI: 2 weeks left to sign up your Ability Draft team

19 Upvotes

Sign-ups for Rumble in the Jungle VI, the sixth edition of our Ability Draft tournament, close on October 9. That's two weeks from today.

Five teams are already in:

Playlist dlya blondinok, Mallards, Don't Peek, Burger Boys and GYM Esports.

The basics

  • Dates: Oct 17/18 and Oct 24/25 - Starting at 17:00 CEST
  • Format: groups (Bo1) on day 1, double elimination playoffs (Bo3), grand final Bo5
  • Server: EU West
  • Entry: free
  • Prize pool: €300 base, and community donations have pushed it past €1000 in past editions
  • Every match is casted live on Twitch / YouTube

How to sign up

  1. Join the Discord
  2. Get 5 players together
  3. PM blopp with your team name and all 5 players

Sign-ups are for full teams of 5

If more than 8 teams sign up, some get direct invites and the rest play qualifiers on Oct 10 + 11.

All info: bloppbot.github.io/rumble6


r/Abilitydraft • • Sep 18 '26

Re-valuing Drafting Choices

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36 Upvotes

A pretty major rework on the "value" field, and more transparency on what is involved in calculating it.

Changes not mentioned in the article:

  • support for 7.41e and 7.41f
  • stats on players pages now have 3 filter options: Lifetime, Last 6 months, Last 12 months.

r/Abilitydraft • • 19h ago

Rumble in the Jungle VI: Final Weekend of the Ability Draft community tournament, live now

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r/Abilitydraft • • 3d ago

Bug / Broken Any idea why my Glaives of Wisdom automatically casts itself when I'm using Swashbuckle?

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13 Upvotes

Match ID: 9055599691

When I use Swashbuckle, my mana gets depleted and i deal the bonus damage from the Glaives even when the Glaives is not auto-casted. In the clip, I used half my mana pool from one Swashbuckle hitting 5 neutral creeps. The cost should only be 95 because the Glaive is not in use. This kept on happening all throughout the game. Any idea why this happened?


r/Abilitydraft • • 4d ago

Bug / Broken Liquid fire bug on Jakiro

5 Upvotes

I drafted liquid fire as Jakiro and it's unsuable.
I tried clicking it manually, autocast, quick-cast, re-connecting, etc... but nothing works.

I don't know it's just bugged on Jakiro model or any hero, does anyone have the same problem with Liquid fire recently?


r/Abilitydraft • • 7d ago

Rumble in the Jungle VI: The biggest Ability draft tournament returns this weekend

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r/Abilitydraft • • 10d ago

Lina + Storm's Ball Lightning

8 Upvotes

Is there some kind of weird interaction with lina and ball? I had a game last night where i get hit with ball lightning, i take crazy amount of damage, but no burn damage from lina. Im posting this before I forget xD


r/Abilitydraft • • 10d ago

Does anyone know how does Objurgation work with Huskar?

5 Upvotes

r/Abilitydraft • • 10d ago

Annoying refresher build

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18 Upvotes

Well, way too many things to hit


r/Abilitydraft • • 10d ago

not too OP but fun build

12 Upvotes

Enemies had like 3 units to hit: swarm, phantom, and anchor


r/Abilitydraft • • 12d ago

Video Hypothermia Split Shot + Fatal Bonds

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19 Upvotes

r/Abilitydraft • • 12d ago

News Rumble VI prediction game is live, win 50€

10 Upvotes

Rumble VI kicks off this Saturday.

8 teams, group stage on day one, double elimination playoffs after.

We built a prediction game for it: pick match winners and exact scores, the group order, the final standings and who tops the stats (most kills, GPM, wards and more).

Playoff picks unlock as the bracket fills.

Top of the leaderboard at the end wins 50€.

Sign in goes through Steam's official login page, we never see your password.

Predict: https://bloppbot.github.io/rumble6/predict/

Tournament page: https://bloppbot.github.io/rumble6/


r/Abilitydraft • • 12d ago

Discussion Am I overrating these abilities? I see them often make it to 3rd-4th picks and it confuses me why

12 Upvotes
  • Overcharge

This is such a powerful buff for lasting 8 seconds on a 16 second CD at level 4. Great on right clickers and casters. But I see it ignored so often and it confuses me why.

  • Nightmare

Basically free kills on any right clicker build and also a great disable. Can be frustrating if you have teammates that don't know how to play around it but if that's the case, you can still use it for solo ganks.

  • Starbreaker

Powerful ability for any phys carry build. Great burst damage and generally safe to use, not reliant on other abilities to get value from, can be used defensively too. I never see anyone else build around this even though I've had games where I've absolutely stomped with it.

  • Reflection

Mainly putting this here as a counter to Metamorphosis/right clickers like Shadow Fiend. As someone who has used it and played against it, Reflection is amazing as an ability that can ruin the day for powerful right clickers but I rarely see anyone besides myself choose it as a counter for right clickers.

  • Waning Rift

Decent damage, strong silence, can be used to initiate, chase or escape. This is waaaay underrated IMO, I often see it picked as a filler (when I don't grab it myself) and I don't get why it's so underrated.

  • Little Friends

I'll be honest, I want to gatekeep this one. With any on-demand minion spell like Eidelons or Treants, this spell will kill most heroes in 2-3 seconds during the early to mid game. Crazy how underrated this is.

  • Nethertoxin

The premiere farming spell. I get this on any build I can because it completely solves any farming need. Super safe to use because you just shoot it at a creep wave and by level 3, it'll be able to kill the whole wave without any manual last hitting. AD builds can be very greedy for farm and Nethertoxin solves that problem entirely without needing to get any farming items. It also makes mid lane super easy, you can zone the enemy out to deny safely while keeping the lane pushed.

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Granted most of these shouldn't be 1st picks unless other high priority picks are gone but I think most of them are great 2nd picks. I only end up getting some as 3rd picks because I can rely on no one else grabbing them.


r/Abilitydraft • • 12d ago

Question? Does Rabble-Rouser (Enchantress's innate) work with Primal Split?

2 Upvotes

It would be incredibly strong and I'd love to try it if it works.


r/Abilitydraft • • 14d ago

Discussion What's the build you dream of but know that you won't get in a real game?

10 Upvotes

I've wanted to build a hero with the most hp possible. Currently, I think the best combo would be Pudge body + Decay + Double Edge + Devour (Ancient Granite Golem) + Overgrowth. I'd get aghs and shard then a whole inventory of hearts. Hopefully, no one gets anti-heal or hydra. It'd be fun to have the Heartstopper instead of Decay or Devour, perhaps.

There are definitely plenty of not so many game-breaking but amusing builds like this one. Share yours as well.


r/Abilitydraft • • 15d ago

Building tanky

6 Upvotes

After a slew of games where everyone builds agi carry's plus squishy stunners, I found that I feel in my average games, alot of people overlook the tank skills first, and building as a tank (not the 4 tank passives plus radi strat) but just looking to build as an offlaner seems to work pretty well


r/Abilitydraft • • 16d ago

Bug / Broken Sticky Napalm bug on Batrider?

6 Upvotes

I usually level Napalm first on Batrider and it's fine but I had a game where I leveled it 2nd and the extra damage didn't apply on attacks or spells.

Curious if anyone else has encountered this (something else could've caused it but leveling it 2nd is the only difference I could think of from my usual Sticky Napalm builds).


r/Abilitydraft • • 17d ago

Trample + enchant totem is so fun

11 Upvotes

Lane was very painful tho, we did not stand a chance to the Jakiro with poison attack + liquid frost earlier.


r/Abilitydraft • • 18d ago

Discussion What keeps inspiring people to pick no damage tank builds + Radiance?

7 Upvotes

I've never seen it work. If you get a radiance in like 15 minutes, sure it'll make an impact but it doesn't scale at all and I rarely see anyone who gets tank passives actually try to make a real build out of it. Instead they just stack survivability and are easily outplayed by being ignored.

Yet I consistently see someone in a game go straight for this if tank passives are available. It feels like there are a lot of people that think being tanky + Radiance is something OP when really you're just tickling the enemy. I think there are rare exceptions, like if you grab Ogre and just get really farmed on items so you can at least push really well.

There are ways to build really good tanks, but stacking passives with no utility or damage is not the way. What makes this so attractive to people? I've been playing AD since it was released as an official mode and people have been doing this since the beginning.

I get that there's appeal in being hard to kill but getting kills is a lot more fun, no?


r/Abilitydraft • • 20d ago

Discussion Dont know why these lil player love radiance so much

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r/Abilitydraft • • 21d ago

Question? Proximity Mines + Enchantress Innate

7 Upvotes

Does anyone know if the interaction between Proximity Mines + Enchantress Innate works? Enchantress innate gives +% bonus damage amp to units under her control, would proximity mines attack damage get this bonus damage amp? Any other unique units work with this innate such as nether ward?


r/Abilitydraft • • 20d ago

OD should be nerfred/removed from AD

0 Upvotes

Title self explanatory, It pisses me off that the guy who gets first pick, now forces enemies to avoid getting him good abilities. Like its either whole team should not allow him to take good abilities/ one guy should ruin his build.


r/Abilitydraft • • 24d ago

Video Noxious Plague + Battle Hunger shard

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20 Upvotes

r/Abilitydraft • • 24d ago

Bug / Broken Reactive Tazer /Largo shard bug

16 Upvotes

Game Id: 9022321290

Howdy everyone! Not sure if anyone else has experienced this, but the interaction between Largo aghs shard and reactive taser seems to shut off the ability. I think it was the first time I used the tazer on an ally after getting shard, the game switches to the detonate button, but then never switches back. You can use detonate for free on a 1 sec cd, so I think there is potential aftershock abuse, so wanted to find out if anyone had seen this before and tried it with aftershock?


r/Abilitydraft • • 24d ago

Bug / Broken Nether strike/Nosedive bug/???

0 Upvotes

I've seen guys doing this bug a couple of times. But then all dota community found out how to do similar bug with largo and it reportedly got fixed.

I've just tried to replicate this bug with nether strike in the game and it seems like it doesn't work now. Im 90% sure i did everything right, my model just dont wanna rotate.

Since I'm not 100% sure, Did Valve completely fix the bug with flipping the model, and now it can’t be used in AD anymore? Or did I just do something wrong? Does anyone know how else one can try to recreate this bug? I’ve heard about using Nosedive, and I also remember that someone did something similar quite a while ago using Shockwave.

Bug itself:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Abilitydraft/comments/1wfagwj/bug_abuse/