Is offlane/initiator least desired role? Tired of getting it
So im pretty new to the game, played back in 2010-2011 little bit and played some dota 2 after that but haven't played anything else in the genre since 2012.
Decided to come back to this and knew I would suck but just wanted to have some fun reliving this game because it had by far my favorite heroes in the genre. Lost a lot of games obviously and now about 1200 rank. What is frustrating is that I have the two support roles as my top priority but 4/5 games I end up with offlane or solo offlane. No one else picks any kind of initiator on the team so I end up playing Moraxus or Pesti, and since I am noob apparently I have no idea when a good time is to initiate. My team is around me and I blink in to initiate, they abandon me and flame me saying "why would you go in there?" "why would you go in on those heroes?". I play patient and don't initiate and they flame me "why arent you going in wtf?"
I don't know what many of these heroes do so I don't think about what hero is good to initiate on, if I see 3 people together or something I just hop in. But yea it seems that its just impossible for me to play it right I dont know. When I actually get support role its fine im not feeder and I win more games than I lose.
Guess the whole point of this post is im just asking, is offlane like everyones least favorite role or something? I know the game works by giving role priority to higher ranked people on team, so theres people higher rank that priority support. Just weird I figured support would be least liked role in these games.
Posted Dec 29, 2025, 2:57 AM UTC