Abilities

Abilities in Among Us are game mechanics that enable players to interact with the map and access information about other players. Some abilities are restricted to specific roles, while others are accessible to all players.

Overview

Abilities appear as large buttons in the bottom-right corner of players’ screens, each serving a specific purpose. By default, all players have access to the “Use” and “Report” buttons. However, when standing near security systems like the Admin ability, the Use ability is replaced with the system’s appropriate ability.

Similar to assigned tasks with yellow outlines, certain abilities - such as Admin, Security, Doorlog, Vitals, and Customize - have white outlines. Conversely, abilities like vent and kill (which only appear when getting close to an interactive object or player) have red outlines, except for the Engineer and Hide n Seek Crewmate's vent ability, which has a light blue outline.

The Use button is positioned to the bottom right of the screen and becomes available whenever the player stands near an object they can interact with. The report button is positioned to the left of Use and becomes available near a dead body.

Extra roles (such as Scientist, Engineer, Guardian Angel, Shapeshifter, Tracker, Noisemaker, and Phantom) gain access to an additional unique ability that is positioned to the left of Report. Impostor players gain access to three extra abilities (kill, Sabotage, and vent) which are positioned above Use, Report, and any extra role ability.

List of Abilities

Ability	Used by	Maps	Description
Admin	All players	The Skeld MIRA HQ Polus The Airship	Opens up the Admin map which gives the user access to where everyone is.
Customize	Hosts (Lobby) All players (Practice)	Lobby All maps (Practice)	Lobby: Lets hosts customize the game settings. Practice: Lets players change their task list as well as allowing them to change their role.
Doorlog	All players	MIRA HQ	Lets players check which players went through which sensors.
Haunt	Ghosts	All maps	Lets dead players follow any other player. Not available to Guardian Angels.
Kill	Impostors (alive)	All maps	Lets Impostors kill Crewmates. Only available when cooldown is not active.
Report	All players (alive) (except in Hide n Seek)	All maps	Lets players report dead bodies.
Sabotage	Impostors (except in Hide n Seek)	All maps	Lets Impostors create fatal and non-fatal problems that the Crewmates can either fix or leave alone.
Protect	Guardian Angels	All maps	Lets Guardian Angels temporarily protect players from being killed.
Shift	Shapeshifters (alive)	All maps	Lets Shapeshifters temporarily transform into other players.
Vanish	Phantoms (alive)	All maps	Lets Phantoms temporarily turn invisible.
Alert	Noisemaker (when is killed)	All maps	Automatically sends an alert to all players (or just Crewmates depending on settings) when the Noisemaker is killed.
Security Security	All players	The Skeld Polus The Airship	Lets players watch through the Security cameras scattered around the map.
Start	Hosts	Lobby	Lets the host start the game.
Track	Trackers (alive)	All maps	Lets the Tracker track a player in their personal map.
Use	Crewmates Impostors (alive)	All maps	Lets players interact with tasks and other interactive objects.
Pet	Any living player with a pet equipped	All maps	Lets players interact with their equipped pets.
Vent	Impostors (alive) (except in Hide n Seek) Engineers Crewmates (Hide n Seek)	All maps	Lets Impostors and Engineers enter nearby vents.
Vitals	All players Scientists (portable version)	Polus The Airship All maps (Scientists)	Lets players check who is dead and who is not. Scientists can open vitals anytime as long as they have battery left.
Seek	Seeker (Hide n Seek)	All maps	Lets the Seeker pinpoint where each living Crewmate is located.

Trivia

Since version 2021.6.30, all buttons as in the game assets didn't have text on it.
- There was also an game asset called OldButtons when the buttons got redesigned without the text (version 2021.6.30).