Vengeful is kind of particular since you put yourself at high risk during team fight with the swap, so you will die more often than many other support.I don't play support often and find myself dying a lot as Vengeful Spirit. The other team has a Storm Spirit and Spirit Breaker, so every time I go ward/deward, they kill me, maybe I get the ward placed. All I have 47 minutes in is a Basilius, Force Staff, Phase (had two Arcanes on the team already), and Ghost Scepter.
How the hell do I survive and get more farm as a support? I can never do it. I went 2/12/16 on Vengeful Spirit, and I know you all think a non-positive score is garbage. We still won the game but how the hell do I not die? I ask people to go with me to ward, and usually it's only ANOTHER support who's squishy like Bane. Oh, and Bane had Scythe, Force, Mek, and BoTs... I think I bought every single ward we had all game though.
People tell me "just farm the pull camp", and usually the other team contests it and I'm forced away from it, maybe getting the XP if I'm lucky, or the lane partner needs me out in lane. This is why I don't usually play support.
If you are the only one to ward/deward, yeah you will end up -far- less farmed than the other support, not only he doesn't buy those ward, but have more opportunity to make gold ( pull, push, etc ) and will die less often ( get xp so more lvl/life, won't get ganked while warding )
But not having big item on you'r support isn't a problem in itself, I mean that some of my support hero :
crystal-maiden
keeper-of-the-light
shadow-demon
the three of them with decent win rate, yet you will see many games where I win without many big item on me ( if any ), even on kotl ( well I still get far more farm on him in general ) who do some big push/depush.
Now gold still come from pulls, some depush when a lane need it and no carry come get that farm, tower kill, and some occasional kills you take ( I don't think it's that bad to take some occasional hero kill as a support, at least once you get to the mid game ).
You shouldn't die too much from warding ( thought with the 2 ganker you told about, it sure can happen ), try to ward when it's not too dangerous ( you have vision on most of the ennemy team ) and ward the least dangerous spot ( most of the time why ward the other side of the river when you can simply ward your own side ? ).
Dewarding alone does is really dangerouse thought ( even more so when like me you will miss 90% of your hits because of the lower ground ).
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