Support is the most interesting role to me with where the game is at. 4 > 5 > 3 > 2 > 1. Core roles have practically turned into PvE for the first 15m (at least at my mmr). It's mind numbing.
I also wish they had just removed the jungle, it's atrocious gold and xp. It's so frustrating watching your cores farm the jungle when the lanes are at your towers and you've warded for them.
Jungling is basically setting your team up to lose two lanes. It you don't want to play support just pick a roamer like SB or something.
Support has always been boring to me. Dota is a game of numbers. When I first learned how to play the game properly why people like Scarlett and Fluff and universe and Tides I'm obviously nowhere near as good as they are but was fortunate to play with him at one time) I was told that to play mid properly, you needed 30 cs minimum in the first 10 minutes of the game.
Midas in 6 or 7 Minutes. Radiance in less than 15 minutes.
Basically if you plan to have X item you need to have it by X time or you are falling behind.
These are rules that apply to carries. When I play support, I feel like I'm just sitting around waiting for a fight to happen, or my carry to farm so they can fight. With a core position, if a fight breaks out across the map, you have the option to instead of joining the fight, knocking down the tower. A tangible objective is met.
What are tangible adjectives for support? When both teams carries are content to just farm and everything is warded, what are you doing besides sitting around waiting for them to decide to do something different? Stacking neutrals? **** that.
As a core, literally every second you're not doing damage to something, rather is an enemy hero or something to farm, is a wasted second.
Also, I'm very good at not dying. A lot of people who played this support seem to enjoy dying or think it's okay when they do. Not this one.
Yeah you're not getting to 4k mate
On the contrary I have been in and out of 4K "mate." I started playing ranked captains draft solo trying to catch a friend who I taught how to play who went from 2.5k to 4.5k over the course of six months, and I suffered.
He quit so I'm back.
Hurricane Pike before scepter mate
Here's the deal, and my theory. I've been struggling trying to get to 4k myself, but been trying different approaches for doing it. For a little while, I tried picking pos 4 and 5...didn't go so well. I did win some games with it, but others not so much. I'm really not good at playing those positions and am better suited to core. I went back to picking core positions, have done much better so far. Comfort heroes do work the best, but I suggest having comfort heroes on all roles (you just might pick for a certain role more often if it's available)
That said, if I can't get a core position, I WILL play pos 4 or 5 if the team needs it because that is what it takes to win the game. If you want to move up in MMR, you do what it takes to win the game. This isn't about "Do I trust that AM to be able to farm correctly and carry us?", it doesn't matter. You play and try to give him the easiest game you can, like you would if it's someone you know. Let's say he's a total idiot anyway, don't you want to give him the easiest game you can so he has an extremely unlikely chance of screwing it up? If you click on them, you can see what items they have in their quickbuy (hold shift + click the item), so lets say you see a Basher coming after Manta on AM in a game where he really needs BKB. You should tell him you think he needs BKB, and briefly tell him why.
I don't like playing support either, but I will do it to win the game rather than locking another core and have a team that can't do **** unless we get really lucky. There is nothing wrong with buying wards on a core position too if your supports aren't buying them for whatever reason. Seeing an incoming gate and not dying to it easily saves you the 100g for that ward and pays for itself, plus all the farm that it allows you to get safely, or maybe picking up a kill.
If my support isn't buying Wards. I'll do it for them. I won't even wait to ask.
Majority of the time, I'm playing a hero like
Necro or BB if I can't play mid or safe.
If I absolutely have to play support, I'll Lich to kill secure and carry a gem (phase boots and mek) or CM to give my Storm an infinite Mana pool. But most of the time, I'm picking Bane or Skywrath or Silencer to semicarry.
