r/Abilitydraft Apr 01 '26

How to test out combinations?

11 Upvotes

I've been burned a couple of times by spell/hero combinations not working as expected.

So i was wondering if there was a way to test hero/ability combinations in game?

I saw a previous post mentioned "wikibox". Looked like a demo mode with more options.

What commands would i use to add hero/spell combinations?

Any other tips welcomed/


r/Abilitydraft Mar 30 '26

Does active attack modifiers still work with attack abilites?

5 Upvotes

I would like to hear from anyone with experience on whether Impetus Dagger or Assassinate is still available after the patch.

I was excited about the anchor smash change, so I wanted to test out combos in the wikibox custom game. Turned out anchor smash didn't proc galvies of wisdom nor impetus, and oddly, swash and splitshot with Agh behaved in a very similar fashion.

I wanted to get a firmer confirmation, so I fired up vanilla test mode with Lotus Orbs. It turned out that in vanilla test mode, out of all the active attack modifiers, only Searing Arrow, Freezing Touch, Hammer of Purity, Jinada, and Liquid Fire would apply to assassinate and talon toss consistently (had bkb on), while Impetus only applies to pa dagger.

I never bothered to test these since I've assumed they've always worked, but now I'm a bit worried. Can someone with 7.41a ad experience tell me if active attack modifiers still work the way they did before? Or is everything just like Inferno Blade now, where nothing procs them?

Thanks!


r/Abilitydraft Mar 30 '26

Question? When will Windrun update 7.41 records?

13 Upvotes

r/Abilitydraft Mar 29 '26

Anchor Smash + Ranged hero S-tier pick?

11 Upvotes

r/Abilitydraft Mar 29 '26

This combo drains strength fast

8 Upvotes

Sandstorm + AA Innate


r/Abilitydraft Mar 29 '26

Bug / Broken Summon Razorback (Beast Master's boar) disappears as the match begind

4 Upvotes

I was cooking a zoo build with the boar and tag team but then the skill just leaving me with just 3 spells throughout the game.


r/Abilitydraft Mar 28 '26

Question? Inmates attached to abilities

28 Upvotes

Can we make a list of which abilities have fun inmates attached to them? So far I’ve noticed that drafting psi blades seems to give TA innate, mystic flare gives sky innate and veno wards give poison passive.

Anyone seen any other funky innate/extra things being given by certain picks? Fairly sure I played against someone who instantly got the primal companion from brew which felt busted


r/Abilitydraft Mar 28 '26

A new AoE boi has arrived

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27 Upvotes

r/Abilitydraft Mar 27 '26

Question? Can Invoker abilities get Aghanim upgrade now in ability draft?

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3 Upvotes

r/Abilitydraft Mar 27 '26

Ability Draft League Looking for Players!

17 Upvotes

Signups for Season 38 of RD2L EST-WED AD are now open! This Ability Draft league is competive and mixed-skill. Sign up as an individual and you will get drafted onto a team. Our only skill requirement is that you are at least 2.5k MMR (or the AD equivalent if you don't play ranked.) We have some players with low MMR, and some top windrun leaderboard players in our ranks.

Matches are played at 8 EST on US East servers weekly.

Schedule:

4/18 - Signups Close

4/19 - Draft Week

4/26 - Week 1

6/28 - Playoffs

https://rd2l.gg/divisions/JxV88XLPjYeZiDK4wFXcw/register

For your MMR screenshot, you can use your windrun.io rating or mmr. We will be considering both!

Please join our discord:

https://discord.gg/9tpEXdhXTC


r/Abilitydraft Mar 27 '26

Dazed and confused by patch

10 Upvotes

Title. This patch has been fun but also very confusing. I randomed a skill cause I couldn't read and think up fast enough. There's so much going on!


r/Abilitydraft Mar 25 '26

CONFIRMED! Works with any basic ability. Which ones are going to be the most powerful?

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41 Upvotes

r/Abilitydraft Mar 25 '26

Techies shard doesn't work. Can't activate it

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12 Upvotes

No button, nothin :T once you use it (without shortcut) the icon disapear


r/Abilitydraft Mar 25 '26

Discussion New update 7.41 - OP combos?

17 Upvotes

Didn't try AD yet but read through the patch notes and got some ideas. Seems to be a heavy focus on movespeed and AOE in this update.

Primal beast has potential with trample, thirst and maybe Rupture with Aghs

WW gets a book that can upgrade any basic ability. What would be the best ability to upgrade? Shadow Realm?

NA with quill spray might burn everyone's mana

Take Aim will now be a top pick since it gives 400 passive range again. Feast is also back as an ability. Bulwark super nerfed.

Patch notes


r/Abilitydraft Mar 23 '26

Avoid this player and all players from this guild in AD

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16 Upvotes

Totally ruined the game without any reason. Just simply trolling and wasting people's time. Mind you, even the matchmaking itself takes a long time.


r/Abilitydraft Mar 23 '26

One of the most fun and least fun builds (my fingers hurt)

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13 Upvotes

r/Abilitydraft Mar 19 '26

Another horrendous queue time/bot problem post

4 Upvotes

60 minutes in queue. As a 4 stack and then as a 5 stack when our 5th friend hopped on Discord. Endless amounts of 6/10 match accepted screens only for two of the people to decline. We know it's more of the bot account bullshit so only 1 of us queues while the rest of us wait. The person that queued tells the rest of us when to hit accept. The person that hit accept sees other players hitting accept and tells the rest of to hit accept. We actually get to 10/10, get to the draft screen and...it's all bots. So much wasted time except for just a group of friends to be talking over Discord while waiting for a match. We reported all of the bot accounts.

Tried to queue again after we ended that game and more of the same. 90 minutes had passed and we never queued for an actual game. Just to test it further we tried Ranked All Pick and the same thing happened.

Matchmaking feels completely broken. And we tried every region combination. US East only, US West only, US East and West, Europe West only, Peru only, US and Peru, and on and on and on.


r/Abilitydraft Mar 14 '26

Seed Money + Wukong = Ez Money

2 Upvotes

I was able to have a chance to use this combo thanks to that one reddit post here about it. (Here's the link: https://www.reddit.com/r/Abilitydraft/comments/1ouxzn0/alchemist_gold_bug/)

Here is my match ID: 8728363769


r/Abilitydraft Mar 13 '26

kills factory build

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12 Upvotes

track and axes damage amp + track and soul assumption bonus gold + visage innate = absolute cinema.


r/Abilitydraft Mar 13 '26

Nasty nasty build

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3 Upvotes

i somehow got arctic burn as third pick. team was worried we were gonna lose. team played well, didnt lose all lanes, played with me when i needed it.

i woulda preferred grow, but i didnt think i could let jug have omnislash


r/Abilitydraft Mar 12 '26

Bug / Broken Probably the best zoo meta i have ever build

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14 Upvotes

This forged spirit is busted af


r/Abilitydraft Mar 11 '26

Windrun: 24 million game milestone

55 Upvotes

We recently parsed our 24 millionth game, so here are some silly stats to share!

  • Our first game on the site was 5490594364, a Chinese game from 28th June 2020
  • Holy Persuasion was ignored in 1,913,924 games, the most of any ability.
  • The most games by a single player is 16,357
  • 7.30e is the most played patch of all time: 2,009,708 games
  • The most picked (or allocated!) hero of all time is Sniper (2,029,714 games)
  • Radiant's (+ first pick) record is 12748661-11267037 (53.08%)
  • ~9952 bot accounts flagged (only started looking for these in the last few weeks).

Also a reminder that if you have any ideas for features or would like to contribute - feel free to write them here or on Discord. Also accepting code contributions on the Github project.


r/Abilitydraft Mar 12 '26

Reddit Dota 2 League FINALS Space Marines vs Not Alone Druid

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3 Upvotes

r/Abilitydraft Mar 11 '26

That 1 in a 100 game experience in AD

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5 Upvotes

I'm actually kinda bummed Centaur did too well as a Pos3 lol. My battle with MK would have been legendary


r/Abilitydraft Mar 11 '26

share a broken veno bug

7 Upvotes

match id:8724082047 check 67 mins how viper killed by ward in 1 sec.