Abaddon — hero grid for mains

The in-game name is Abaddon — the same in the English and the Russian client. Short names for Abaddon you will see in chat: “aba”. Russian-speaking players say “Абаддон” (or “аба” and “абадон”).

Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Shields his allies or himself from attacks”.

The site's “Choose a hero” window finds Abaddon by any of “Abaddon”, “Абаддон” and “aba”.

Abaddon is a Universal hero (22 of them in the game), melee, complexity 1 of 3 by Valve's rating, one of the 55 easiest heroes.

Role dots from Valve: Support ●●○, Durable ●●○, Carry ●○○ — no role at the full three.

In the ready layouts that means the “UNIVERSAL” (16th of 22) block of By attributes and the “EASY” (1st of 55) band of By complexity. Abaddon is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “5 · HARD SUPPORT”, 9th of 12.

Abaddon is played in two positions — hard support (5) and soft support (4) — like 38 other heroes with two scores of 0.5 or more; the main one is hard support. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0 · mid 0.06 · offlane 0.04 · soft support 0.58 · hard support 1 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Abaddon in the “5 · HARD SUPPORT” and “4 · SUPPORT” rows and nowhere else.

Lanes over 417 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026: safe 57%, mid 9%, off 34%. Median GPM 359, XPM 580 — pure support gold on the site's scale (360 or less).

In Classic: positions 1–5 Abaddon sits in the “5 · HARD SUPPORT” row, 18th portrait of 18.

Quickly, the rest of the practical templates for Abaddon: Meta by stats — “HARD SUPPORT”, 9th of 10; Two columns — “SUPPORTS”, 43rd of 44.

With the button at the top, the MAINS block of Mains + situational starts with Abaddon, then Io, Bane and Undying, because all three share the same main position (hard support).

The file goes into your Steam folder, 570 → remote → cfg of your account, with Dota closed — step by step in the install guide.

In the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026 Abaddon shows up in 136,672 games (105th most played of 127) and wins 51.4% of them (32nd).

Rank barely changes the picture: 51.4% at Herald–Crusader and 51.4% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Abaddon more than usual at Herald (+20%) and less at Divine (−19%).

Abaddon in the snapshot's pro matches: 3 picks, 3 wins, 0 bans. Turbo: 90,148 games at 52.9%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

For a grid with an Abaddon portrait, bring your own art: Picture to dots draws it in dots right on the field. Among the heroes with skins that are also played as hard support, the closest to Abaddon are Ogre Magi, Vengeful Spirit and Crystal Maiden — their dot drawings are ready for a hard support grid.