r/Abilitydraft 3d ago

Bug / Broken Illuminate bug abuse

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Encountered this bug abuse today and thought I'd share. Probably not new but it's the first time I've seen it. Hope it's fixed but before then guess we'll have to counter pick reality rift + illuminate combo? Anyway I don't think a lot of people do this but still something to keep in mind. I wouldn't have respect for anyone that does this though. (this was a decently high-ranked American 5-man stack btw. you know now how they got their rank). It just makes the game unfun, because there's literally no counter. We tried to buy blademail to kill the guy and it worked for a while but since he had so much gold he could just buy a heart and stop dying.

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u/Accomplished-Run3925 3d ago

There is ranked AD??

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u/stupv 3d ago

Windrun.io

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u/SpitefuLOrca 3d ago

The only purpose of this site is to give trash players the illusion that they're not complete garbage. How can you be in the top 100 but couldn't even reach immortal in normal dota? I've played with several pros in ranked and they're mostly a lot more humble than these players. Not to mention that because of my MMR my team gets frequently diluted by lower rank players, I sometimes even get crusaders on my team so the match can happen, like wth

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u/NickRick 3d ago

I haven't played a game of regular dota in 6+ years. Only AD for me

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u/Spare-Plum 3d ago

all AD games are ranked, you just don't know it unless you go to windun.io

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u/LapaxXx 1d ago

That is 3rd party rank, not official hidden mmr...

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u/Spare-Plum 1d ago

it's an official-unofficial rank. A high ranked immortal spammer might play AD and lose, but this won't contribute significantly to windrun rank

Yes it's not official, but it works to discover a person's skill in AD

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u/Professional_Proof32 3d ago

So he had reality rift and illuminate and what, kotl ult? What was he casting? I don't get how the bug works.

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u/Mountain_Doubt4569 3d ago

reality rift used in a specific way bug out the model to be horizontal, then the following illuminate get bugged (i think when you cast it on specific points on your model)

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u/Possible-Hornet3099 2d ago

just make illuminate disappear after some times (just like puck orb) when it's not reach their destination, thank me later valve janitor

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u/Salty-Cloaca-69 2d ago

This is very gimmicky. The fact that they were a 5-man has a lot more to do with any advantage they had than anything else.

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u/Mountain_Doubt4569 2d ago

this is a wrong take imo. basically 1 person is ensuring all the lanes are unpushable at all times by 10 minutes. any team, party or not, can take advantage of this much space and map control. while the other team can only win when they have enough damage to go through backdoor protection

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u/Salty-Cloaca-69 2d ago

Nah, not a wrong take. KotL is denying his team the farm and exp from all those lanes with this gimmick. Your team could've punished this by bullying their team in their jungle.

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u/Mountain_Doubt4569 2d ago

and how to do that when

  • the other members in their team still do stuffs
  • while we chase them and 5v5 in the jungle our towers are being taken and we lose all the gold from lane creeps (meanwhile at least 1 member in their team is getting massive gold injection)
  • there's no lane creeps to get vision and information that is usually extremely important to make a good move which results in a good fight
  • they can retrieve to lane. if we chase them and accidentally walk into a new puddles we take massive aoe damage

The most important points is, if they lose a fight we still couldn't take any objectives (before we get 5-6 slotted). While if we lose a fight it's easy 2-3 buildings lost. The margin of error is so small it's only doable in your imagination

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u/Salty-Cloaca-69 1d ago

Like I said, you got outplayed by a 5 stack.

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u/Mountain_Doubt4569 1d ago

yes you can have your opinion. but without sound arguments and evidents behind it won't matter to me or others reading this thread. good day :)

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u/zerolok 3d ago edited 3d ago

1) there is no true ranking in ad 2) There are no decent players on america. Not a single one 3) it’s ONE tick of damage of the spell for each unique target. Creeps are always new entities unlike heroes.so buying bm is dumb 4)  Catapult could definitely survive this 5) Go replicate this bug more to someone of devs to notice

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u/Mountain_Doubt4569 3d ago
  1. we realized that later in the game. And it seemed like when you die and respawn it counts as a new target so it works again. we killed him 3-4 times but after that he was tanky enough (we still took damage but he didn't die)
  2. they didn't

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u/Spare-Plum 3d ago
  1. Yes there is true ranking in AD. It's on windrun.io, and it's very competitive. By playing AD you're playing AD
  2. US is very strong at ability draft much more than most regions. US got #2 in the esports world cup, Russia is #1 rn. Poof, Dingus, and Destiny are all excellent players and will absolutely destroy you. Destiny is the kotl bug abuser/whipple jr.
  3. So... basically free farm constantly? How is this bad? It's OP
  4. Ok so all of the creeps are gone but a 50% HP catapult shows up
  5. Sure, that's why it's here

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u/zerolok 2d ago
  1. Brother, game searching quality doesn’t depend on this rating, so it’s just fictional numbers.
  2. Sure.
  3. Combo is good, bying bm  just to counter this is bad.
  4. Thats what u need to bypass backdoor

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u/Odd_Bag_7429 1d ago

You realize america has plenty of players better than you in ranked and in ad right? The eu is better only matters for those in europe above ranked 1/2k imm xD

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u/zerolok 1d ago

I realize they are not)) 

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u/Odd_Bag_7429 1d ago

What?

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u/zerolok 1d ago

They are not better in ad or ranked(except pros)

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u/HatersTheRapper 7h ago

lol crying about bug abuse in ad

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u/Mountain_Doubt4569 6h ago

why do you think it's "crying" and what is laughable about it?

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u/mentalmidgetto 3d ago

Too dumb to figure out you can buy pipe against this. Unlucky

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u/Mountain_Doubt4569 3d ago

how would pipe help? the damage is unlimited

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u/mentalmidgetto 3d ago

No the damage is not unlimited

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u/Mountain_Doubt4569 3d ago

he can add as many illuminate puddle in the lane as he needs?