HOLD YOUR POSITIONS

Just played a ranked game as Bane against a Tusk, Earthshaker, Mirana, and Clockwork. They very obviously had a lot of stuns to stop my ult from happening, and yet I only got it interrupted ONCE, and it was only because I failed to micro a necronomicon unit correctly in front of a Mirana arrow.

So recently I updated my Drow guide to include a section on positioning, and I realized those principals are so much more far reaching than just one hero. Where you are in a team fight can be so much more valuable than people realize. I was able to get off an uninterrupted bane ult against 6 stuns purely through where and when I used it.

Step 1: I made sure our team had the superior vision for a teamfight. I needed to know where they were so that I could position myself accordingly.

Step 2: I entered the fight late. I LOVE doing this unless I'm a hard initiator. I honestly don't care if someone dies before I come in because I will be in such a superior position than the enemy team. If you come in right after that first wave of spells that you have a few seconds of pure freedom because of cooldowns.

Step 3: Against this particular team, I made sure to be by creeps to absorb arrows, hookshots, and battery assaults.

Step 4: Enter at a unique angle.

Step 5:?? A little bit of pure gamesense knowledge of who they are going to focus, idk

Step 6: Profit.$$$$$$

The other team wasn't ready for it. I'm sure they've played against a lot of Bane's that just lurk in the back and find a weird little opening for their ult that only works for like .2 seconds before they get hit by the fissure/hookshot/arrow/snowball that just goes right through the rest of the team. So when they had thrown all that forward, suddenly I am coming from behind and sleep the earthshaker, enfeeble the lifestealer, ult the mirana and tusk/clock are already initiated into the rest of my team and now the other 3 can't do diddly squat. Ez teamfight.

This is all a long example of how positioning can really throw your opponent for a loop. Don't go for crazy stuff all the time, but sometimes coming from behind their tier one in a fight is just gonna be fight-winning because they didn't even suspect you were coming at all.

A lot of people have thousands of games under their belt. Do something that only 1% of the players they go against do instead of sticking with the trench-bound 80%.

I don't know if I've communicated well this evening(sleepy) but I hope you get the point.

TL:DR
Stand in cool places