(Hopefully) Semi-Daily hero tips. Day 1: Abaddon

I'd love to start something like this up. A lot of you probably know about the weekly hero discussion, but that often ends up in a meta discussion (whether or not the hero needs buffs, etc) or a meme war than actual tips to play, itemize and build the hero.

This is what I'd like to do. I have a small list of hero tips for every hero in the game and would love to publish these on a (if I'm available) daily basis. Starting off with Abaddon.

Please discuss any notes I made and possible improvements while also giving tips of your own if you have them.

DISCLAIMER

The roles, skill builds and item builds, as well as a lot of the notes are my opinion on matters and should not be seen as a must do or don't. Also remember that almost every single build or role is situationally possible.

A lot of the tips on heroes were also mentioned in tsunami's amazing hero tips series he did over the last couple of years.

Abaddon

Role: defensive support, offlane support

Skill build: Shield --> Mist coil

Item build: Stick, Tranquils/Arcanes, Urn, Force staff

Notes:

• Shield can remove stuns and slows
• Ultimate can be manually activated (even when disabled!) and also has a strong dispel
• Semi carry items: MoM(EDIT: not since 7.00)/OoV, SnY
• Abaddon is one of the best aura-carriers in the game given his high survivability and move speed. Vlads, Drums, Helm of the Dominator, and his aghs upgrade (effectively making his ult a huge damage reduction aura) are all great items for a semi-core and/or late game support. (/u/Dyne4R)
• Semi carry skills: Curse over mist coil
• Mist coil heals during ult
• Abaddon's automatic ult is disabled by break.
• Good versus: Jakiro, Veno, DP (heroes that have AOE damage which they have no control over), aggressive tri lanes, bane, beastmaster, mirana, slardar, and so on (to purge off their great CC/debuffs) (/u/bneutrality)
• Counters: Axe (trigger ult early to resolve this), AA (ult stops borrowed time heal), Necrolyte (Note that this is not a real counter since you can manually trigger your ult during the stun! (/u/MutoYuki)), SD, Bane, ES, SM, Eul's (borrowed time), Silver edge LC (borrowed time break into duel)
• Borrowed time does NOT heal you through soul ring, rupture (EDIT: no longer HP removal) and other HP removal
• Friends: Visage (punish aggressive tri lanes), bristle, weaver (aggressive dual offlane), pudge (shield + rot), luna, SF (squishy carries), huskar, PA, ember, Ursa, and others (Heroes that get in people's faces early can really use shields and heals to avoid CC) (/u/bneutrality)
• You can deny yourself with mist coil
• Replacing a shield will detonate the previous one. It will also deal the full damage no matter the damage taken.
• The attack animation is enough to get the curse of avernus buff. No need to complete the attack, which means no need to break tranquil boots.
• If for some reason you have a blink, you can use it during borrowed time because you technically take no damage. (/u/MandomSama)
• Shield does not do damage to invis units or units in FoW (/u/RabBit176)