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I fancied shaking things up a bit recently and chose to immediately random my hero most games, instead of waiting to see what gets picked and then grabbing a desperately needed hard support :).

This has been fun as I've got to play a bunch of heroes that I wouldn't normally get near, playing a lot more solo mid, and doing a lot more carrying. These are all things I've done a lot of in the past, but I'd got into the habit of playing support almost every game as it seemed to need doing.

The funny thing is it's shown up for me just how bad a lot of the support play in the "very high" (yeah right!) bracket is. Really simple things not done, totally ignored or "that's somebody else's job". This week's worst offender was a who bought an and then not a single utility item all game, not even with a on the other team. Constantly stole kills and farm, here are her final items:

Fortunately I'd randomed so did all the heavy lifting on support and made sure the team had what they needed to win.

I kinda get that it's horrible being lumped doing the full support job with a semi-support hero (e.g. , etc) as it can really impact on your performance - your team's picks were obviously poorly balanced, or a "harder" support has decided they're really a carry. But ultimately the job ALWAYS needs doing. So do it.

THE TL:DR GUIDE TO PUB SUPPORT

(In priority order)

1) Make sure your team has an
2) Make sure your team has s
3) Upgrade to as soon as you have 220 gold
4) Continue to buy and place s all game, do not delay buying them for any reason other than someone else on your team getting them
5) Buy s and as required
6) Buy your boots and core equipment
7) Buy anything else that will help you and the team, and consider it a luxury

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I played a pub last week where I chose thanks to what seemed to be a balanced team with and Lycanthrope.

So I say during the pick phase "I'm going hard support. I got Courier, I got wards"

Them team then proceeded to go top. Lycanthrope bottom...

And no one else would play mid.

So I ended up trying to hard support from mid...

Ended up being able to harrass my mid enemy decently. Got wards and upgraded courier and got boots and a bottle.

Then we got rolled for a long, long time.
Managed to finish Mekanism and by end game and somehow we squeaked out a win but it was awful in the process.

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Yup, good warding gives you plenty of time to escape/hide from a gank you can see coming, even with your reduced walking speed. And it works for the whole team!

As a very general rule, if it's past 15 minutes and you still haven't got something's been going very wrong. At this point maybe one of the other players on the team can maybe help you out with a set of wards while you get boots.

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ok. but is there a point where u can say F*ck me, im buying my Boot of Speed now instead of wards? (expecialy as a CM?)

If the team doesn't need wards at the moment and/or you already have wards.

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ok. but is there a point where u can say F*ck me, im buying my Boot of Speed now instead of wards? (expecialy as a CM?)

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Well I agree completely on ****py team mates waiting for you to die so they can get the kill, but you kinda missed the point of the post.

ALWAYS WARD FIRST!!!

Yep, before , before - s and a are your first priority as a support. If you're having problems surviving then you need to look at your positioning - don't be alone, and don't be at the front. If there's fed assassin type heroes on the opposition, ask one of your team to take the wards and put them up. About the only time you have a tricky decision is if you're say 100 gold away from a recipe, then maybe you ask your team to buy a set.

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That annoys me realy, like ksing es that dont use fissure untill im dead and he can grab an easy kill, yeah i woud let him the kill because im playing support the most of the time and he need the garm morr then me. But then, after i got some assists and ( dont blame me) kills on lets say cm (omg noon cm steals kills report) i went to buy a bracer and a RoP for the tranquils, some one says: lol noob cm buy wards ****ing noob buys bracer first. And when i say i cant because i woud die instantly in a teamfight, he saud stfu noob enjoi the mute... thats the point were it pisses me of so hard that i refused to buy wards in the rest of the game and buyed a meka and a euls instead. At the end of the game, he said report cm for no wards... he fourth picked mirana and played as hard carry with 3 carrys in team... i know is abit offtopic but just saying that if ure the support in team, u get flamed, for feeding because u have no money for items or for not buy wards because u buyed a bracer

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