Hello. So over the past few days i have been playing alot of aba since i like his playstyle of sitting in hiding/under a fort and supporting my allies from a far. I have been learning mine placements to give vision and sometimes it helps alot but one thing i cannot get a grasp of is soaking. How am i supposed to soak with aba? I have a little paranoia when i am sitting in lane as aba and sitting under tower is not generating enough exp. What should i do?
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Easiest way is lv 4 choose talent Prolific Dispersal, and then put mine to kill minion. Your Q skill can get orb exp too, use on the gate or tower when minion come
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The special thing with Abathur’s Symbiote is that, you can put it on one of your minions, structures or mercs and you’ll be able to collect EXP through them. So when soaking as Aba, look for unoccupied lanes, or lanes where enemy minions will walk under your turrets/fort, and Symbiote a target to collect the EXP.
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When’s a good time for that? Because i always think that my allies need me. So should i do that during objective?
That why you should choose mine talent very strong to soak exp, put mine in lane gather exp and then use your Q on your allies, you can do soak and help your allies same time.
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I’ll be sure to try it out next game. I’ve been also trying out monstrosity but i pretty much turned into a Murky O_o.
Don’t try monstrosity if you didn’t have a good teamwork, your team 4v5 all time not a good idea, need clone ulti help your team win at teamfight, aba is easy hero to soak, don’t wasted ulti for it.
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Yeah it was just this one game i go clone 99% of the time. Ty for the help tho 
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Technically you can soak exp with the hat and the body at the same time. Obviously soaking with the body is very risky but if you never take risks you might not get the most out of the hero. If you have good map awareness and know where the enemies aren’t you can position your body on the map and still get away in time.
Like this you can benefits from your locus spawns because they don’t do anything if your body is in your base. You can even use the clone heroic just to quickly remove your body from the map when there is an emergency (your body will be back when the heroic ends, enemy players might wait it out but your team could also help you out).
Sometimes i put my body in risky places to make enemy players ganking me and then i burrow away to the opposite side of the map so they waste time running around, creating space for my team while soaking exp.
I show my body during objective phases far away from the objective… if someone tries to gank me i will clone my teammates at the objective so my body is temporary safe while we temporary outnumber the enemy team at the objective for a quick fight that should win us the objective. If they don’t gank me and focus fully on the objective then at least i soak two lanes at once and it’s pretty safe for the body.
It depends on the maps and the enemy heroes how risky you can be… sometimes they have global abilities that can kill you, Illidan could use the hunt for example or Precision strike from Nova whatever…
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Abathur hat counts as a magnet for soaking, if you see a bunch of XP around an area you can just hat a minion and it will magnetize to you, also kills through hat on minions counts as soaking.
I’ll try that! The most diffucult part of playing aba for me is balancing the soaking and helping my allies with the hat i feel like i’m playing starcraft sometimes 
Treat monst. as a siege camp not for EXP but as a afk’pusher
Use it when an obj starts, not before because you can push uncontested.
Only thing you need to do , when it reaches towers use Z to move it back.
When the CDR of your Q is there, use that time to plant your mines or reposition aba. Then you have all the time to help the team while the ult pushes
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You also need to have high map awareness and be able to multitask with that hero. No joke he is classified as very hard in his hero info.
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Overrated he is easier then other heroes because you are safe, you don’t need to worry about your position constantly like other heroes.
Like if I move here ETC will slide/ mosh me
You just need to be safe behind your gates most of the times and think who or what to hat at the time aba is not that hard as many think he is.
Dumb teammates you also have as a Raynor Hanzo or Diablo
You just need to know things trough experience like doing your mule to gain max value and that adrenaline overload isn’t a must pick
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How many times do you think i have caught a sleeping Aba behind his own fort ? And killed him.
Hiding behind your forts gives false sense of security to bad Aba players while good Abas with map awareness will borrow away before you even get to touch him.
So the ‘‘i cant be killed cause i hide behind a fort/keep that will guard me againts any who will dive me’’ mentality is what gets bad Aba that dont even use mini map or place mines on the map killed.
Bad Aba players keep sleeping himself to a dead while good Abas rotate around on the map and always have both eyes on his mini map and on his team.
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Well, first you have to convince him that it’s logical to get in the bath with you.
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Exactly, staying in 1 spot too long especially if it’s too close to gates, will sooner or later lead to unnecessary deaths as Abathur. People will find ways to kill him in that situation even if he’s inside the Fort or Keep.
Some seasoned players might even be able to calculate his precise location in the fog from the locust timer.
Keep burrowing around the map.
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I really need to improve that! I try to move around the map as much as i can. I remember that one game on warhead junction where i captured 4 nukes as aba. I felt so good about it and it’s mostly the reason why i want to learn more about the slug
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Early game, your allies shouldn’t constantly need you. They should be busy pushing a lane or soaking.
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Welp good news. I played aba reached exp like 15k exp. But i died 3 times :P. With more map awareness i could 100% survive. Thanks for the tips. I’ll be sure to body soak more and try to soak another lane with hat.