The moment you get aghanim, no one in your team dies during teamfights for 9 whole seconds… (except of there’s an AA or Doom ofc)

Make it 18 seconds if you have refresher.

If you have some cd reduction neutral item/octarine, you have your ulti ready every 40 seconds (minus the borrowed time duration = 31 seconds)

With Holy Locket, you can literally insta heal 400 hp with one 4sec cd mist coil. What is this…?

Only downside is that I find abba support a bit useless early game. Pretty weak harass. So maybe that’s why I don’t see him more often.

  • niztaoHBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I agree with you. He’s my go to 5 if my 1 thinks about picking a ranged carry. I prioritise Holy Locket over Aghs though. Aghs is just a nice 30 min bonus when I can get it.

    It’s even better when enemies try to kill you first (as they should) because it takes so damn long. Pray enemies don’t pick Axe though.

  • TwychTwychBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I actually think hes quite nice, can’t farm for shit but hes a lot better early on than you give him credit for, aphotic shield is just one of the best abilities in the game and going 2 levels in it allows you to burst damage or heal for unreasonable amounts at no health cost let alone the save power if you use both with no regard for you own life, and people tend to go in too deep when they think they can get a kill so he can get quite a bit of damage from overextending enemies

    I’ll admit he isn’t the best support because he is much more defensive early, his support merit is keeping your carry alive, if that isn’t valuable then abba isn’t, just so happens that keeping you carry alive isn’t a boon at the moment

    and support don’t get money unless they can flash farm, and abba can’t so you gotta basically be able to work with just your boots and a few cheaper items none of which will ever be aghs unless you’re dazzle, which while abba with a holy locket and arcanes is good enough for him, its not good enough if a stun is needed, cause he doesn’t have one, only a dispel, so because of his reliance on items and lack of non passive CC, he’s better when in a higher position number