It's high damage to a single target, and can be buffed by uses of rake, but lowers the abomination's speed by 3.

Rage is one of two of the Abomination's riskier abilities.

It is good for applying AoE damage to the enemy frontliners, especially with the bleed at level 3+, and is very good for applying buffs to the Abom's Rage skill. As to where your other abilities in beast form lower his stats, the only stat lowered by Rake is Rake's damage.

Rake is the only non-punishing move for the Abomination's Beast form, and is likely the one you will use most.

At level 3, it gains debuff skill chance, but with your only debuffs being -blight resistance and -dodge, it isn't quite as beneficial as on most other heroes. In addition, it can pull you out of position 1, where you can't use Manacles or Beast's Bile, and it can set you into row three to transform for an immediate Slam. It is excellent for last round stalling with a stress heal and a flat heal.

Absolution is the Abomination's highest versatility ability.

At level 3, it gets a -dodge, which is mostly just a kicker to the blight damage. Generally, you would use this ability similarly to a row 2/3 Plague Grenade. It does no damage on impact, but it can still crit for bonus blight duration and stress relief.

Beast's Bile is, as it displays, a blight.

At rank three, it gains a knockback which can be effective at repeatedly displacing units. Generally, you want to use it on high priority targets to CC them with the stun, but remember to balance it with your other stuns and use it opportunistically if you can kill a target. It may hit hard, but it still has a -60% damage modifier. It is decent damage on a stun, but remember that it isn't DPS.

Manacles is the primary ability of human form, in that you will most likely be using it the most.Teams with a high amount of mark priority or DoTs will leave the Abomination in bad shape quickly. Transformation gives bonus Prot., but it also marks you and leaves you vulnerable to blight and bleed. My largest tip would be to watch what the enemy team is. The ability is extremely potent, but it also leaves the Abomination vulnerable.

Don't transform when it's a good time to, transform when it's a bad time to NOT transform. Generally, you want to transform only in situations in which the ramifications of not transforming will be more severe than the cost of transforming. The ability is potent, but it is also very costly. The abomination's first and primary ability, Transform.For the first hero alphabetically in this guide, we will begin with the Abomination.

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