Pub Support Players

You can take advantage of raging carries on the enemy team by playing an aggro dual Offlane. Once you get a kill or two, someone on the enemy team usually says to report them for feeding. This boosts your team's moral so your safe laners typically play better. I've used this to get really high win rates on heroes like undying and veno.

I'd have to agree, I usually play support or offlane and even heroes that can contribute to kills like Lion while still giving the kills to your core make people happy.

Some people are just impossible to make happy though, so making space is always a good route to go

I play a lot of omniknight and io in pubs, and being competent with my positioning, item builds, keeping wards on the map makes people happy, and for whatever reason those heroes really help my focus.

If my mid player dies to either rotations or even solo, I buy him a tp because I understand the item progression is important. I'm 4.5k as well, and sometimes mmr discrepancy is quite high wherein my 5k player is versus a 6k, so losses in the mid lane have to be expected.

I always play for consistency, just making sure I don't miss my spells or don't make mistakes. Counting mana is important.

Also being a support player, you have to often be impactful in other means, so I ask questions frequently to keep people aware of things like item progression and "are we defending this tower or not?" And try to manage macro decisions like split pushing and team fighting.

Buying smokes is a great way to get people to group as well. Many games I see heroes like tide get early blinks and then ravage not used until the enemy pushes 5 minutes later when we could have put it on cooldown twice already for picks.

Basically to make people happy you have to win, and being the sacrificial lamb that dumps funds into the sentries and smokes is necessary in order to play Dota like a team, and teamwork makes the dream work.

If your even or ahead I've found warding up the enemy side of the map often gives your cores the confidence to roam together and pick up free kills - no matter if there is a language barrier.

Of course there is the risk of moving into the wrong side of the map, solo, to do it so these days I wait for an invisible rune.

I'm pretty sure just seeing where the enemy isn't has won games for my team without anyone really knowing it. There's such a benefit to be able to know when they are ganking or in Rosh just because the lanes and jungle are clear.

I agree with you. I sit at around 3k at the moment and I have a hard time getting up at the moment. For example the last ranked match i played nyx support and kept our sinking ship floating but with the "Carrys" I had there was no way to win it. So I tend to think playing greedy supports who have huge impact is probably still a viable option you know. A warlock with Agha refresher or something can turn Shit around sometimes. But I don't really know at the moment. With the teammates I get at the moment I don't see Myself ever gaining some mmr again :/

Definitely agree.

that is a big gamble becausa, like you said, it can work both ways. they might think you missed a skill and they died because of that. personally, i think the most important thing is to talk as much as you can with your core, the whole team really. if they ask for wards, ask them where do they want them

Agreed.

But from my experience, it's more of "not making them angry".

Just do no fuckups and you should be ok. No single pulls, no failed graves, zone enemy offlaner and never miss a spell. Also keep the vision up 24/7 and make sure you upgrade chick exactly at 3:00.

I've been experimenting with different levels of greediness on Oracle in 2.5k recently. I feel like he's uber broken if you can get a decently timed Euls. No one can deal with W spam in lane, and once you hit 6 your carry can farm anywhere as long as you're behind him. Euls give you huge damage potential and lets you stay on the map to protect your team and get your next few items.

Sir action slacks did have a point when he said solo queue is based on securing a winnable late game.

When people draft 4 cores who all have stupidly greedy item choices and have their own agenda, it's impossible to make sure they don't lose barracks and still have the jungle and ancients to safely farm.

Repelling and shallow graving them is one option. Killing the enemy is the other. Setting up kills is unfortunately the better way to secure games this patch. It may not be always in the laning phase. But it's doable eventually.

Many heroes I have as comfortable choices right now are supports that have a lot of offensive and defensive capabilities. Winter wyvern, Chen, and witch doctor.

But all of these heroes also have easy ways to jungle decently fast or clear camps. from there it's much easier to afford detection, obs, and smokes to secure a decent mid game.

As strong as a repelled and blood listed hero is, force staff, urn and medallion timings help too. Being repelled isn't as good as an aegis for example.

Some players/cores take advantage of the repel better than others. It's a dice roll honestly.

I mostly play support in very low mmr (~2k, haven't calibrated yet but that's probably where I'm at) and therefore usually wind up solo supporting. Players at this level don't usually have effective supports on their team, so even doing simple things like warding, stacking the jungle, and helping harass in lane can make a huge difference in the game.