The Best Carries Opinion

There's a lot of opinions out there on who's the best carry. So let's hear them by stating your choices and supporting it or refuting someone else's choice.

My Opinions:
Faster Farmer: Anti-Mage
Strongest DPS: Medusa
Longest Crowd Control: Faceless Void
Best Pusher: Lycan

Let's hear those opinions so we can learn a bit or two about those heroes and some strategy behind playing them.

Faster Farmer: Natively Terrorblade; with an item Naga Siren or Anti-Mage
Strongest DPS: Terrorblade, easily for single-target. AoE would be Gyrocopter with rapiers, Medusa or Spectre.
Longest Crowd Control: Faceless Void
Best Pusher: Terrorblade or Tiny if you're brute forcing down mid; Naga Siren for a drawn-out rat game.
Most Durable: Spectre
Best Laner: Medusa or Shadow Fiend

Best carry arguments are usually invalid due to game situations and the Heroes in the game, but in a perfect world... well, you'd pick Void every game.

Fastest Farmer: AM/Naga with item, TA if not.
Highest DPS: Single: Windranger AOE: Gyro/Dusa
Longest CC: Invoker
Most durable: Spectre/Dusa, can't really tell.
Best laner: Morphling/ Lone Druid

And now, for the carry championships!
Fastest Farmer: Terrorblade / Meepo
Highest Single Target Damage: Terrorblade
Highest Crowd Damage: Ember Spirit / Sven
Greatest Crowd Control: Faceless Void
Amazement of Burst Damage: Tinker / Morphling
The Stone Wall: Medusa / Spectre
The Lane Master: Outworld Devourer
Snowballer Lord: Chaos Knight / Phantom Assassin
Hardest Pusher: Tiny
He who flies kites: Sniper
Fighting Early: Wraith King / Phantom Assassin

Best Strategist: Arc Warden

Fastest farmer: Meepo, Naga Siren
Highest DPS: Windranger, Medusa
Tankiest: Medusa, Morphling
Most crowd control: Magnus, Faceless Void
Best laner: Gyrocopter
Best pusher: Tiny, Naga Siren

Fastest Farmer: Meepo, Alchemist
Highest DPS: Troll Warlord, Alchemist
Best Pusher: Tiny, Naga Siren, Terrorblade, Meepo, Troll Warlord
Dangerous Snowballer: Legion Commander, Chaos Knight, Phantom Lancer, Templar Assassin
Highest Damage Potential: Sven, Juggernaut, Phantom Assassin, Tiny, Wraith King
Most Durable: Spectre, Medusa, Wraith King, Tiny

KAPPA

in the current meta t of 6.84 the best carries are quite simply and clearly defined, gyrocopter takes the top position with insane early game mid game and late game precense and fantastic farm capabilities.

Ganking carries such as slardar, shadowfiend and slark also go very well once they hit 6 and get a blink dagger(or sometimes shadowblade/silver edge), they do however require that they are picked in good situations and snowballing enough to finish the game early.

Finally there are the snowballing carries that just want to push early with powerful items, examples include viper razor leshrac and lycan all of which want to pick up some big items early and then take towers and rax at around 20 min into the game. All that is required to kick these heroes into gear is an item like mech, the now cheaper DESO the buffed necrobook and sometimes a solar crest is enough to start 5 manning and snowballing to victory.

Fastest farmer: Windranger
Highest DPS: Windranger
Tankiest: Windranger ( Windrun + lotus orb inhounrse)
Most crowd control: Windranger shakleshot
Best laner: Windranger powershot to the death
Best pusher: Windranger focus fire those towers

Fastest farmer: Alchemist - he can get 6 slotted insanely fast.
Highest DPS: tough one ...id say Spectre
Tankiest: Medusa - hands down
Best crowd control: Faceless Void or Naga Siren - tough one as well
Best laner: Gyrocopter or Juggernaut
Best pusher: Tiny or Terrorblade - would give TB the edge tho

Fastest farmer; Alchemist - Because he is. Like sure he's a worse Anti-Mage in that he's worse when he's 6 slotted, he still gets 6-slotted quicker than any other hero. And even has ways to use gold obtained afterwards for more than just his own private courier.

Highest DPS; Tiny arguably because his damage before items is terrifying. Chaos Knight I'd also consider, not because of his sustained DPS, but because well the heroes burst is ludicrous and the cooldown on Reality Rift is low enough in my eyes. Leshrac is technically here as well, because you know massive amounts of AOE dps. Likewise for Bristleback whose has somewhat under-estimated DPS. (So yeah, this one is less clear).

Tankiest; Medusa, Spectre and potentially Chaos Knight. All heroes who build lots and lots of stats. Whilst Chaos Knight doesn't have the defensive ability that the former two have, he just has massive amounts of stats even relative to the other two, because he doesn't need to build a typicl damage item, whereas they still do. It's iffy for sure, I just wnted to throw him in there.

Best CC; Faceless Void has the best AOE lockdown because you can combo with it and has some single target as well. Single target; I'd say Lone Druid because you know that RNGesus loves his bear. But realistically, it's probably something like Slark instead.

Best laner; Shadow Fiend, Templar Assassin, Viper, Razor or Medusa - All of them are extremely strong laners, given that the first 4 are all in the top tier of mids I'd say. Razor and Viper being famed for there laning dominance after all. And just because these are mid heroes does mean they are not carries, carries are not defined by there laning position.

Best Pusher; Tiny with Io. There's no competition to that. Tiny with an Io can kill barracks in seconds, and an entire base in under 30 seconds? As well as killing creep waves within like a second, he's just undeniably the strongest pusher in the game.

Without an Io uuuuhhh, Terrorblade is the fastest other than Tiny, but I think the hero is too weak to kill him the best pusher. Probably Leshrac actually.

Oh and Leshrac is a legitimate carry in my book now.