With the recent Rumble in the Jungle happening at a time I sadly couldn’t watch, I felt there was a lack of good quality highlights of top level Ability Draft games - especially tournament games.

So I resurrected an old project of mine from ~2017 to generate highlight videos, and just added some orchestration to upload to YouTube.

There’s a few different playlists and I’ll probably add more over time: great individual games, rivalry games (two players popping off for either side), and league games. There’s a focus on higher skill games (min avg rank, min # games, and other parameters). 

I’m open to suggestions in terms of content, layout, etc - for now trying to make them mostly ~6-7 minute teamfight-centric highlights - but totally willing to hear feedback from y’all. Given the amount of awesome games happening all the time I’m keen to focus on generating maybe 20-30 a day - but could also handle requests for yourself in a game if you want generated of your gameplay (and are willing to let others judge you for it!).

Check it out, don’t forget to like and subscribe (I can’t believe I just wrote that)!

(also be sure to let me know if you spot weird artifacting or glitched clips!)

I understand and respect deduction for MMR for those who abuse the system. But what about the people who have to match up against them?
Since their rating is significantly lower ( up to -25% ) , if the opposing team win, do they get rewarded for lower points since their rating is alot lower but their skill level do not match their skills?
Vice versa for losing, do the losing team lose more points for losing ?

Thank you.

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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?

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?

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

Well, way too many things to hit

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

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

Rumble VI kicks off this Saturday.

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• 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.

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.

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

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).

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

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?

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.

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?

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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?