Abilities are bought with Gems, and Gems are slow — drops, the Gem Dealer and codes. A roll is random, so the useful question is not which ability is strongest but which problem you are trying to solve. This page lists what each one does, which one answers which problem, and the fact the developer does not publish the roll odds.
Each row is what the ability does to items, where it comes from, and the moment it earns its slot. Nothing here is ranked against anything else, because these do not share one measurable axis.
Lays a one-way band that keeps carrying whatever touches it toward The Void, so items move while you are not pushing.
The upgraded Conveyor: wider coverage and a higher void conversion value on everything it carries.
Sends a wide wave forward and clears a whole band of the pile at once.
Blows a straight line of items in front of you into The Void.
Pulls scattered items in toward your pusher face so the next sweep catches them.
A short forward dash that gets you out of a spot where items have pinned you.
Raises what the run produces in rare items and Gems rather than moving anything itself.
This is the part of the page to actually use. Find the problem you have, take the ability in the middle column, and read the last column before you spend Gems on it.
You want to stop hand-pushing
Gems are the bottleneck
The pile is winning
The third row is deliberately missing: if the platform is empty rather than stacked, the answer is a spawn upgrade bought with Cash, not an ability. That decision lives on the upgrade order page.
Gems arrive from drops while you clear the platform, from selling spare items to the Gem Dealer, and from codes. They are the only currency the ability wheel takes, which is what makes a roll a real decision rather than a purchase.
The roll odds are not published. The wheel shows you the rarity tier of what you got, but the developer has released no drop table and no pity counter. We are not going to print percentages we cannot point at a source for — that is the one thing this page got wrong before, and it is worth more to say so plainly than to fill the gap with a number.
Cooldowns and durations are the same story. How long an ability lasts and how long you wait for the next cast are readable in game on the ability itself, and you should check them there; this page describes what each ability does rather than promising timings it cannot stand behind.
There are three places a Gem can go: an ability roll, the Rebirth threshold, and staying in your pocket. The choice is about which one is currently blocking you.
The developer does not publish them. Abilities come out of the Gem Roll wheel at rarity tiers, and you can see the tier of what you got, but no drop table or pity counter has been published. Any site quoting exact percentages is quoting numbers the game never released, including this one before it was corrected.
There is no single best. Each one answers a different problem — Conveyor for throughput while idle, Prospector for Gem income, Wave for a stacked pile, Dash for getting unstuck. Start from the problem you actually have, which is what the table above is for.
Gems compete with Rebirth. If you are close to a Rebirth threshold, the reset is usually worth more than a roll, because a roll is random and a Rebirth is a permanent multiplier. If the index is stalled and you cannot earn more Gems, rolling is the only way forward — which is why Prospector is the pick at that point.
Abilities are not consumed by rolling again, so a roll you did not want is not a loss of the ability itself. What you lose is the Gem you spent. That is the argument for saving Gems until you know which problem you are solving.
