Non-standard carry

I recently saw a nature's prophet do very, very well as a late game carry. Not only was I surprised but it also peeked my interested about non-standard carries. I know that prophet is listed as a carry but nonetheless it is rare to see.

there are a lot of nonstandard carries.
vengeful spirit can do very well as a carry
lina can carry to an extent thanks to her crazy attack speed
dazzle can also carry, he is almost unkillable if he gets a aegis. if im playing a carry dazzle, i get desolator armlet and a rapier with aegis, thats enough to rape without dying.

veno can carry pretty easily, ES, Brew, Omni, Mag

When Keeper of the light first came out in test I carried my sorry bots to victory with stacking rapiers. How did I get this farm? The other team bots did not try to avoid my illuminate.

But on topic competitive team have started to use Gyro as a cary.

Enchantress can carry if the other team lets her.

Most heroes can carry to some degree, given enough equipment - the question is whether they're a "cost effective" carry or not. I.e. how well they perform with a given level of gold to spend.

All "good" carries have some combination of:

- Farming speed
- Good primary stat growth
- Decent agility growth
- Passives that scale well

Nature's Prophet has no passives, but his farming speed and stats growth are both pretty good.

Meepo.

Nobody expects him to actually carry a game once it gets past a certain point because everyone has the mindset that Meepo is only good if the game doesn't reach the 40-50 minute mark. Few people know how to exploit the true strength of a stat-focused carry that direct +damage items simply do not work for.

Yes, he's INSANELY expensive to build for, but once he's attacking almost twice a second with all five Meepo for over 1200 damage incoming on a single target BEFORE factoring in Geostrike damage, well...

Treant Protector, in my opinion, is better played as a carry than as a support: I know that some people used to build a Radiance on him, but I tried an Armlet of Mordiggian + Mask of Madness build that worked.

What about Necrolyte? Many people says he can carry with Scythe of Vyse and stuff like that, but I tried to use Hand of Midas + Radiance on him: insane farming capabilities and, if you pick a Heart of Tarrasque right after them, you can kill enemies by literally standing close to them.

Treant does well with a Mjollnir now. He's all around great utility in almost anything but a mid. He could probably suicide lane...

Necrolyte doesn't need a Hand of Midas, a Mek - Bloodstone - Radiance and he'll still be effective at 70 minutes. You can go into a Shivas and other things, really to be a carry all you have to do is build durability, you don't even need a Radiance. I've built a Bloodstone and a BKB on him and was being effective.

Necrolyte can definitely be a carry, perhaps not a conventional one with massive right click, but a carry none the less.

Either you start as a carry and go from there, or his farming speed means he can go from support -> carry. Sadist and Death Pulse work brilliantly together once you have a decent number of levels in both.

The funny thing is that most people don't see him as too much of a threat, but he has amazing survivability with the right equipment, and Reaper's Scythe can suddenly turn an encounter on it's head.

Personally I like the Aghanim's Scepter + Bloodstone combo on him - your health and mana pools are so big that you can be constantly spamming Death Pulse and swinging the fight your way.