T'was Not Luck...: A Guide to a Semi-Support Mirana

Have you ever considered Drums of Endurance on her? It's really good, pretty much fixes a lot of your problems in one item. Gives you mana, health, attack speed, movement speed. It's really good.

Have you also considered maxing Sacred Arrow first? I mean yeah, you lose some of your burst, but if you're playing a full on roaming support, you're often not going to have enough mana to arrow, leap and starstorm. And depending on how well you are doing, your main contribution in ganks will mainly be your arrow anyway.

Great guide btw +1

Manta is pretty good if you can disjoint ****. Also disassemble and upgrade sange to halberd. Would like to see you put in situationals.

Im not fond of maxing startstrom because it ate a lot of mana. You would need a mana sustain for that build.

But still, decent guide. +1

To hofelixho, I would agree with Manta Style in most situations, as would most other Mirana players, but I have a very deep fondness for Sange and Yasha to the point of it being possibly harmful. :p I find that the extra HP and it's passive maim is great when there's someone who needs to be taken down and Leap and Sacred Arrow are on cooldown. It also reduced their attack speed, which could be nice in a 1v2 situation where no one has mana and it's the battle of the ballsiest.

To Kyphoid, Linken's Sphere is a great item, and if you can score it, go for it. I will put it in the guide under situational items, but the reason I didn't initially put it in there is because I was explaining that it's pretty hard for a semi support to find farm, and that blue ball of blocking is pretty pricey. I do agree with you though.

To Keep Calm, Wow, that's insane! Glad I could help out so much! Actually that makes my night. Just keep checking over here for any more heroes you want to learn that I make guides for. ^-^

To TheSofa, It's been my weakness as a Dota player for a while with grabbing early/mid game items such as the Medallion and Drums, because like most people, I want to get my core items as early as possible and don't think of the worth of the early/mid game. However on Boots, I can agree the phase is very good and I don't pick them up nearly enough, but I've always liked the extra health more. Phase Boots are very viable though.

Thank you all for reading this guide once again.

Hmm... I'm questioning what you mean by Semi-Support. If you're putting Mirana as a support in trilanes, then sh'e effectively a position 5, I guess.

I think that as a support, Mirana can comeback later and still deal a fair amount of damage, kinda like a Venomancer.

Some items you are missing (IMO): Medallion of Courage is a great pickup on her, especially if you plan to do an early Rosh.
Drums of Endurance is also a great pickup, since Mirana needs everything it gives.
Ring of Aquila is also a good pickup, useful for pushing etc.
Vladmir's Offering is a good lategame pickup, the bonus damage and armour really helps.
Never overlook Phase Boots on Mirana. Every bit of damage helps, and since you aren't going to deal much damage anyway, the movespeed and damage the Phase provides might be more useful than the Attackspeed from Power Treads.

YOU WANNA SEE HOW I WENT WITH YOUR GUIDE?
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1055834654
8-1-14 FIRST TIME MIRANA.

OMG
SHES BROKEN OP!

I warded, saved them with my ulti, setup ganks with my ulti, deterred them going into roshan and still found myself lots of gold to spend at wards and items!
Your arrow explanation made me hit about 90% of arrows!!!!!

+1 brother take them. If theres anything else take them!!(Just tell me though, m new here)

EDIT: Pardon the hype; i just went out of game and headed straight here to post my success with your guide.

Agree with manta style rather than SnY. You can always keep your naked boots and upgrade to boots of travels , mirana is a solid pusher given her starstorm and if she gets a maestrom.

Put in linkenspehere as situational item, as a mirana player i fond myself focused a lot in team fights or pre team fight pickoffs.


Good gameplay explanation. +1

Overall, good guide, have you ever reconsider Manta Style instead of Sange and Yasha?? I know this is a semi-support guide, but I think it's better. You benefit from the illusion + Maelstorm, it gives you stats, attack speed, and movement speed too!