Radiance is decent, here, as is Assault Cuirass, Heart of Tarrasque and Necronomicon if you need more utility. As a carry Abaddon, try to beef up your damage while taking maximum advantage of your natural toughness. After that point, be reactive: go for a Mek or Pipe of Insight as the situation demands, and consider a Solar Crest if you can pull together the gold. As a support Abaddon, you’ll likely want Tranquil Boots and a Soul Ring so that you never have to leave the lane. Although this may not be linguistically correct due to the Hebrew origin of the name (not sure what it is since I don't have a real legitimate source), but since LOST is the best show in the universe, I'm going with that. Those are mid to lategame considerations, however. a-BAD-dun There's a character on 'LOST' named Matthew Abaddon (pronounced that way). Stick a Mekansm, Vladimir’s Offering, Drums of Endurance or Assault Cuirass on him and his team will benefit for much longer than they otherwise might. Items to considerĪbaddon makes a natural aura carrier because of his survivability. In an even fight where both teams are content to mash buttons at each other, the team with a half-awake Abaddon should win. Like Omniknight, he becomes a target that is important to eliminate quickly but is hard to kill, who can badly disrupt a teamfight but who is happy to absorb your wrath because doing so spares their allies.
If the enemy acknowledges this and ignores Abaddon, he’ll have free reign to shield and heal up allies. Every bit of damage and every disable that Abaddon eats up is a victory for his team, because (a) it’ll still take longer than normal to take him out and (b) that damage and those stuns aren’t going on a more valuable target. In the event that the enemy does successfully focus Abaddon, Abaddon is doing what he is supposed to. He’s far from indestructible, but it takes an iota more thought to efficiently take him out than it does for other characters: and that iota is often what makes the difference in pub matches. If you try to burst him down one-on-one, you’ve still got to be attentive to his ultimate and successfully disengage when it activates. Voidspawn origin says that these habitats were not connected and didnt knew about each other, which is impossible for hivemind. If you rely on a lot of AoE ultimates, he’ll lap up lots of free healing during a fight. Even when players become more experienced, Abaddon requires special consideration. At lower levels of play, it’s likely possible to charge face-first into a confused enemy and survive simply on the basis of Aphotic Shield and Borrowed Time alone. Key to Abaddon’s winrate, I suspect, is the fact that he almost never dies unless the enemy makes a concerted effort to take him down. It takes effort to take him down (and people are lazy)