Theory Exercise 3 : Fill in the Gaps

Hi all so with a new week brings a new Exercise in theory crafting .... i can actually hear how excited you all are!!!

for this one its pretty simple

I will Give you all a draft and there will be 2 heroes missing.

Complete the draft by picking two heroes. Give Explanations why you would pick them and where you would lane the resulting draft!.

Mirana
Viper
Shadow Demon

GG WP GLHF

Ok then!

So I'm going to have Viper mid, Shadow Demon and Mirana roaming supports. For the other heroes, I will run a safelane Terrorblade and an offlane Timersaw.

Why? Well, those first three heroes are powerful gankers, especially with the option of roaming supports. Timbersaw complements this, while Terrorblade grants much-needed lategame and push. Both are also still useful when the enemy team inevitably gets sick of the POTM ult and buys a gem. General strategy would be to gank HARD early game to give TB and Imbasaw some dosh for items. All five heroes also benefit from the early-game setup provided by Midnight Shadow - Terroblade can get off his short-ranged slow, while Timber will be able to position perfectly for a barrage of Timberchains and Chakrams. Viper, SD and Mirana would create space early for Terrorblade to farm, and since none of the other five Heroes actually farm creeps, he will be able to maximise his potential.

Are we to make the assumption that obvious bans have happened like the Terrorblade Ban? Or is this operating under the idea of there being no bans?

ok so bans are

Doom
Leshrac
Legion Commander
Razor
Shadow Shaman

have fun lads.

Right so I'll take a safe lane Terrorblade, with what begins as a defensive Tri-lane in combination with the Shadow Demon and Mirana. Reasoning:

Terrorblade is a fantastic Hero right now (A slight understatement I admit), and he can snowball hard from any slight advantage in lane like a kill. Thus giving him one of the support combinations with the highest kill potential against a solo laner gives him a great chance to achieve this. (In addition, Metamorphisis is fantastic in early fights, and can give solo laners such a hard time). In the event of an aggro tri.

Mirana and Shadow Demon would be my supports simply because the roaming potential allows them to somewhat shut down the opposing cores, and thus increase the gap between my cores and them. Again, something Terrorblade loves.

Viper would be mid because he's a solid mid (Especially with Razor banned, which is one of the Heroes with a good match-up against him). Given I already have my safe-laner, a mid with great harrass in combination with my roaming duo should do wonders to shut down the opposing mid.

My offlaner would probably be Nature's Prophet building into Null Talisman's and Blademaill. Furion will almost always get something from his lane, he can be anywhere on the map to help with ganks (Both to and prevent them) and early fights (The former being expected against a Terrorblade). And the item build generally allows for early game brawling, which is all you need to buy time and space for the Terrorblade to get a Yasha and become huge off of the back of that. He also transitions brilliantly later in the game, which is a great thing, and can ***it in the split pushing, basically forcing two lanes at least to constantly be pushing in after a certain point.