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Heyo people! I'm Terathiel, occasionally known by other names, most of them silly. I've been playing Dota for what, bit under a year and a half? Across this time, I've played a variety of roles, but my favourite (and probably best) role is that of the carry. While I'm not the only carry player in the world and certainly not the best, I have a reasonable skill level and a firm grasp of the theory involved (yes there is theory. Dota has a surprising amount of homework!).
A lot of this guide will be copy-pasted from things I have previously written, but much of it will be new. It is designed for those who have a basic grasp of the game and want to expand their knowledge. Do be warned, there will be a lot of text but I will do my best to spice it up with pretty pictures.
I'm updating this for 6.87 because while nothing has really changed in terms of how a carry works, a lot of the carries themselves have changed and I've grown to have a better understanding of a lot of them now.
In this guide I will be discussing the theory behind playing a carry. This is going to be a lengthy guide which is not alt-tab friendly, so set yourself some time to read it. It will have numerous sections:
1) What makes a carry
In this section, I shall talk about damage steroids, scaling, and the difference between semicarries and carries, as well as carries and hard carries.
2) Overview of the carries
The second section will be divided into two sub-sections (hard carries and carries) so it doesn't go on so long. I will go over each carry individually, their abilities, their scaling and their features. The hard carry section will be ordered by lategame power, whilst the carry section will be ordered alphabetically by name. Carries are also given a score of five in different categories based upon their ability to fulfill that role. The categories are:
What makes a Hero a carry
Generally speaking, a 'carry' is a Hero whose abilities and skillset scales with items and/or stats. These are often referred to as 'damage steroids'. For example, let's look at the quintessential carry, the oft-reviled 
Anti-Mage.
He has a spell called 
Mana Break, which is passive like most damage steroids. It burns 64 mana per hit from the target and deals damage to them based on mana burnt. To capitalise on this, you build a lot of attack speed on Anti-Mage (this also is affected by his Base Attack Time, or BAT, but more on that later). Mana Break also transfers to illusions, which is why you see so many professionals build 
Manta Style on him.
There are other kinds of damage steroids, too - they do not have to be right-click abilities. See 
Skywrath Mage's 
Arcane Bolt (though he isn't technically a carry, this ability does scale directly with him meaning that if you get enough of a lead it's easy to maintain that lead) and 
Tinker's 
Rearm, which allows him to refresh the cooldown on all his nukes and deal more damage.
Generally, scaling abilities can often be determined by a multiplier in them, or a % based effect.
The Different Kinds of Scaling
Back to right-click steroids. There are three kinds of scaling - attack speed scaling, damage scaling and attribute scaling. Some abilities, like critical strike effects, fit into both categories.
Attack speed scaling is clearly visible by on-attack effects which usually have a set number to them - 
Lifestealer's 
Feast and 
Spectre's 
Desolate, as well as the aforementioned Mana Break, are both attack speed scaling abilities. There is usually a point in the game where the ratio of attack speed to enemy HP pool is at its peak. After this point, they will begin to fall off. To capitalise on these abilities, you want to build attack speed.
Damage scaling abilities are abilities which scale with the Hero's damage. These abilities often have a cooldown such as 
Weaver's 
Geminate Attack. These are much rarer. Damage scaling abilities can also take the form of bonuses to attack speed, such as 
Fervor from 
Troll Warlord and 
Night Stalker's 
Hunter in the Night. To make the most of these abilities, you build flat damage. On Heroes with an innately high attack speed due to their passives/skills, you can also build on-attack proc effects like 
Mjollnir or 
Monkey King Bar.
NOTE: Despite being scaling, 
Bounty Hunter's 
Jinada is NOT a damage steroid, the cooldown is far, far too long. It is better classified as a scaling nuke which deals physical damage. By extension, Bounty Hunter is not a carry.
Attribute scaling is an ability that scales with the Hero's attributes. Prime examples are Outworld Devourer's 
Arcane Orb and 
Riki's Backstab, which both deal damage based upon the mana pool and agility of the Hero, respectively. Illusions come under this category.
Carries and Semicarries?
In its most basic form, the difference between a carry and a semicarry is this: carries scale with items, semicarries scale with levels. While semicarries often gain a lot of benefit from items, a semicarry is more level-reliant than item-dependant. A level seven 
Zeus with 
Aghanim's Scepter and 
Refresher Orb is a lot less effective than a level nineteen Zeus with no items. Some Heroes can be both carry and semicarry, such as 
Shadow Fiend, who will go to the midlane, achieve a level advantage and allow his nukes to snowball him into a powerful right clicker. Many semicarries also have right-clicking potential, but not to the extent a carry does, such as 
Queen of Pain and 
Viper.
The Difference between a Carry and a Hard Carry
This is a crucial difference of deciding when to end the game. Before the update to this guide, I discussed the idea that there are three criteria a carry must fulfill in order to be considered a 'hard carry'. Well, it wasn't entirely wrong, but it left a lot of unanswered questions. So the altered list is here;
1) They must have enough DPS. A carry that doesn't deal damage is something of a liability and is the reason that they drop off.
2) They must have lategame utility. This can be something as simple as split-push, counterpush, or it can be a complex series of abilities that work to control teamfights.
3) They must have presence. This sort of ties into the other two; but it also encompasses the kiting issue. Hard carries aren't unkiteable, no matter how much I like to pretend otherwise; you've got 
Glimmer Cape, 
Ghost Scepter and 
Scythe of Vyse to ruin your day. Presence refers to the idea that you can't be ignored, in fights or in anything else. Ignore 
Wraith King in the lategame, he's going to be very, very hard to kill, but is easily kited and if he isn't acting as a sponge, then he isn't doing his job. Ignore 
Faceless Void, you're going to automatically lose that fight. It means, essentially, that the enemy team has to expend a disproportionate amount of resources to deal with you.
For the sake of explanation, I will compare four Heroes whose abilities encompass much of the different kinds of carry abilities you will find: a hard carry, Spectre, and three normal carries, Lifestealer, Weaver and Outworld Devourer.
Spectre is an illusion Hero, as her illusions gain her Desolate ability. This ability is an attack speed scaling ability which due to the illusions carrying it, and Spectre's mediocre attack speed, peaks very late in the game. Her ultimate, 
Haunt, also summons an illusion at all of her enemies which contributes to a huge chunk of her damage. Finally, 
Dispersion deals more damage the higher your HP pool, encouraging many Spectres to build tanky. These three abilities combine to fulfill criteria 1. To fulfill criteria 2, Spectre uses 
Spectral Dagger to move around a fight and keep in position, and Dispersion also keeps her alive. The combination of Spectral Dagger's powerful slow/speed boost, the massive radius of damage reflection from Dispersion, and the high speed of illusions from Haunt, make Spectre extremely difficult to kite, fulfilling criteria 3.
Lifestealer also has an attack speed scaling ability in Feast which scales with the enemy's HP pool, allowing it to maintain high effectiveness throughout, and also possesses a damage scaling ability in the form of 
Rage. These two abilities make him a high damage target His 
Open Wounds slow, spell immunity from Rage, ambush powers from 
Infest and the life leech from Feast all combine to allow him to fulfill criteria 2. However, Lifestealer is considered one of the most easily kiteable Heroes in the game; while he does have a powerful slow, he is melee, does not usually build a 
Yasha for extra speed, and the presence of Ghost Scepters and 
Force Staffs will ruin his day. He does not fulfill criteria 3 and cannot be a hard carry.
Weaver, conversely, is utterly unkiteable. 
Shukuchi alone fulfills criteria 3. He is also able to move around a fight, being extremely elusive and hard to kill due to Shukuchi and 
Time Lapse. However, his damage steroid, Geminate Attack, is very weak and does not give him nearly as much damage as he needs to be a hard carry.
Outworld Devourer certainly possesses the damage - Arcane Orb and 
Sanity's Eclipse are both attribute scaling abilities that eat faces. He is also unkiteable, being ranged, fast and almost always building 
Rod of Atos and Scythe of Vyse. However, he is squishy, having little HP, and if you can get a silence off on him his damage shuts down. He fulfills criteria 1 and 3, but not 2.
I'm going to scale this section in order of lategame dominance, because there is a clear hierarchy of hard carries and who carries hardest - Dota's version of comparing sizes. A lot of the ranking is based upon opinion, so do be aware of that.
1. Faceless Void
At the top of the list we have Faceless Void, a great all-purpose hero with high impact at all stages of the game. Alone of hard carries, he has rather low damage; 
Time Lock only adds an average of 31.25 magical damage per attack, as opposed to the steroids you'll see later that can almost triple the damage output of your hero. Void carries hard, not just on his own, but because he has amazing combo potential. 
Time Walk makes it incredibly hard to kill him as he backtracks damage, while 
Time Dilation and 
Chronosphere are hugely disruptive influences that ensure you can't possibly ignore him. In complete contrast to his pre-rework state, the new Faceless Void thrives in extended fights, applying a constant 
Radiance burn, freezing cooldowns, bashing everyone in sight and having that final trump card in his ultimate. Add in a Manta Style for split-pushing, and you've got a very potent tool on your hands.
Difficulty: 5/10. Faceless Void is a rather forgiving Hero, with good base damage, decent farm speed and being tanky enough to eat up most attacks and still (time) walk away from it.
2. Medusa
Mana Shield and 
Stone Gaze make her obscenely difficult to take down, and since her area damage with 
Split Shot is truly frightening, you can't really ignore her either. While she is kind of kiteable, she is more than content to just hit the enemy team's buildings, being a frontliner they simply can't get past.
3. Spectre Dispersion meaning that if you're taking damage, you're also dishing out a huge amount too. With Radiance and Haunt as well as Desolate disintegrating any isolated hero, ignoring Spectre will also result in a lost fight. While her push is weak given her abysmal right-clicks, Spectre presents an insurmountable obstacle and a teamfight force that causes absolute chaos among the enemy. Haunt requiring management.
4. Terrorblade
Metamorphosis up is the fastest early game and the fastest lategame pusher, bar none. Not even 
Tiny. While innately extremely squishy, his damage is so high that you can purchase four dedicated survival items and still be the highest DPS hero in the game. And you should definitely do this. 
Sunder, while unreliable, is a failsafe that forces the enemy team to often play inefficiently so as not to get punished by it. Finally, 
Reflection, aside from being a huge area slow, has the added benefit of not only spawning full-damage illusions of every enemy hero, but also stealing any auras they have for the skill's duration. Despite having a great lategame to fall back on, Terrorblade is perfectly happy taking the Aegis and ending the game at 20 minutes - sadly, this requires more team coordination than solo queue can really muster.
5. Morphling Manta Style do a huge amount of damage. The ability to blow up any one target with 
Ethereal Blade and Adaptive Strike is incredibly potent, and Morphling continues to pump out huge sustained damage while being incredibly frustrating to kill due to his constant stat shifting. Our watery friend also has the added benefit of being the best lategame rat, with Replicate making it basically impossible to catch him out and his high damage melting towers.
6. Tiny Manta Style. The Avalanche and Toss combo is a massive lategame nuke, and 
Grow, especially with the added cleave from Aghanim's Scepter, make Tiny's right-clicks something to be feared, especially once he has some attack speed. His damage, high against both heroes and towers, means that ignoring him results in a very wiped base, and high strength gain combined with 
Craggy Exterior makes him a tough prospect to bring down. With Boots of Travel, Grow, and Manta Style, Tiny reaches an incredible 489.5 movement speed, and with the added range from Aghanim's Scepter make him almost unstoppable. His synergy with 
Io is worth noting - this allows Tiny to come online much earlier than he normally would, and gank globally.
7. Chaos Knight
Chaos Strike, his passive, ensures that he has all the lategame damage he'll ever need (remember that illusions can crit!). He is one of the game's tankier Heroes, and the illusion confusion can make it hard to find the real one - combine this with the fact that nobody wants to go near a lategame Chaos Knight and he has more than enough presence. 
Reality Rift, 
Chaos Bolt and his naturally high speed mean that you'll have a very hard time kiting Chaos Knight.
Crystal Maiden on the team.
8. Phantom Lancer Manta Style and 
Doppelganger, is a frustrating effort without counterpicks, and ignoring him allows PL to put his mana burn to work, slowing enemies and impeding spell casting.
9. Naga Siren
Mirror Image and Riptide give her considerable damage, and the illusion confusion factor as well as her excellent stat gain and 'oh-****' button in 
Song of the Siren make Naga incredibly frustrating to actually kill. She'll get outcarried in a full-on fight by a lot of heroes, but you're causing too much of a disruption with relentless splitpushing to allow that fight to happen. Very similar to Terrorblade in abilities and role, but Naga focuses more on slowly strangling the enemy as opposed to blasting apart buildings in bursts. Radiance.
10. Luna
Moon Glaives, her illusions do not provide a large amount of her damage and as such she does not possess as much lategame potential. It is worth noting that Luna is a good counter to illusions, though, as she can cut them down very fast, getting rid of a lot of her enemy's damage. Moon Glaives is such a potent damage steroid that Luna barely has to build any damage (instead focusing on survivability and utility), and the bouncing effect means that once the tier 3 tower is down, the barracks will follow in seconds.
11. Lone Druid
13. Troll Warlord
14. Anti-Mage Mana Break and 
Mana Void grant him insane burst potential, while a 
Heart of Tarrasque and Spell Shield give him the survivability he needs to be a disruption and dangerous splitpusher. 
Blink and a high speed thanks to Manta Style make kiting Anti-Mage a daunting prospect. Troll Warlord.
15. Phantom Assassin
Coup de Grace coupled with high attack speed granted by 
Blink Strike give her a lot of burst damage, whilst 
Blur and a purchase of 
Satanic give Mortred the teamfight presence she needs. As the name would suggest, Blink Strike makes it hard to kite her, especially when combined with 
Stifling Dagger. 6.87 note: PA has been nerfed so hard that I wouldn't hesitate to call her the worst hero in Dota at the moment. 
Abyssal Blade, previously her core of core items, now gives so little damage that it's honestly best to go a Manta Style and 
Eye of Skadi build instead, which then begs the question of why didn't you pick Luna or something? Seriously, RIP this hero until further notice. Could've been good.
Alchemist
This obnoxious **** has ruined more games of Dota than any other hero, and I'm including ****ing 
Techies in this. Given freefarm, a 10 minute Radiance will **** everything up. He vacuums all the farm on the map, scales poorly into the lategame due to a ****ty steroid and even worse stats, and needs 15k gold to outcarry his opposition... which unfortunately he can do. The only person that has fun in an Alchemist game is the person playing the hero.
DIFFICULTY: 3/10. Alch is almost completely braindead. Even when pitted against a much better mid, he'll simply spam 
Acid Spray and STILL ruin all your fun. Then, of course, it's just pushing lanes and being annoying until you can finally punch your opponents. Ugh.
Clinkz
Strafe, 
Searing Arrows and 
Death Pact make him a force to be reckoned with in the early-game, and while he drops off as the game goes into the late stages Clinkz is still an excellent tower pusher and ganker. Death Pact's limited duration, he must also have good map awareness.
Drow Ranger
Visage), Drow does see competitive play. She is possessed of a powerful slow, a great silence, and high early-game DPS. Drow's weakness is an incredible vulnerability to gap closers, even more so than Sniper, and that she drops off HARD after 25 minutes. Popular if you want to end the game early.
Ember Spirit
Sleight of Fist. This single ability, and to some extent the rest of his skillset, gives him incredible control in lategame teamfights and the ability to burst down entire teams in a single cast. However, he's squishy, vulnerable to silences, and farms rather slowly even with a Battlefuy.
Invoker, Ember may be worth a try.
Lifestealer Rage.
Lycan
Feral Impulse. Lycan is a midgame fighter that drops off towards the lategame, but his incredible push potential is relevant at all stages of the game. Can solo Roshan from early on, giving your team a gold advantage - make sure to utilise this.
Meepo Arcane Orb. Outworld Devourer comes online rather quickly, around 12-15 minutes with a Null Talisman, Force Staff and Power Treads, and scales well into the lategame. Be aware that he is low maneuverability and is squishy, as well as having an extreme weakness to spell immunity. Though his squishiness is somewhat mitigated by Octarine Core, he's still a fairly fragile Hero.
Razor
Mekansm is a popular pickup. The Lightning Revenant falls off lategame as it becomes harder and harder to steal the full amount of damage from 
Static Link and his nukes drop off in effectiveness.
Riki
Shadow Fiend
Silencer
Slardar
Blink Dagger, takes advantage of his powerful bash to become a tanky right-clicker. However, Slardar's DPS, being Strength rather than Agility, is never very high, and he falls off lategame once his -armour effects are negated by an Agility hero's natural stat growth.
Slark
Pounce isn't too hard to hit and the rest of Slark is timing 
Dark Pact and keeping your finger on the 'oh-****' button.
Sniper
Shrapnel was reworked into a good skill, Sniper has seen much more play at competitive levels and has become a part of the meta, despite his stigma as the ultimate noob Hero. His glass cannon nature leaves him vulnerable, but a team built around a Sniper can be a daunting prospect to take down if the little Keen is played well.
Sven
Tinker Rearm allows you to build mass disables and lock down entire teams. Imagine permanent 
Hex. It's exactly what it sounds like - ********.
Ursa
Weaver Time Lapseing away.
Black King Bar.
Wraith KingA lot of people say that mid is the hardest role.
Others say that supporting is.
In reality, all the roles in Dota are difficult in their own way. Carry is often considered the easiest, but the fact is, you have limited time and limited space to make as much gold as possible.
To do this, a good start is essential. Few carries can comfortably lane alone, and most that can are relegated to the midlane like Shadow Fiend. Babysitting by supports is required. For this reason, it's best not to pick very weak laners like Spectre and Anti-Mage unless you know that you have a good reliable support or two that can help you.
The first stage of playing a carry is picking the right one. To do this, look at what your team is lacking in, and what the weaknesses of the opposing team are.
Let us say, for example, that the opposing team is Medusa, 
Dazzle, 
Venomancer, 
Clockwerk and Night Stalker. What are the strengths and weaknesses of this team, and as a result what is a good carry to pick against them?
Answer Wraith King or Sven. If you need to shut down a single Hero, 
Doom is a great choice, or simply burst them down with Phantom Assassin or Chaos Knight.
<I have this set in red, truly gorgeous
You're going to spend a LOT of time in one of these. There are a few points to remember about the lane:
1) Last hitting
2) Creep equilibrium
3) Vision - this does NOT mean spamming >We need wards.
Last hitting is a simple concept that pretty much everyone in Dota knows. Get the killing blow, get gold. There are details of this that apply very much to carries, however.
I'm now going to explain attack animations and their importance.
Let's look at Anti-Mage. Here is a gif representing his animation:
In text form, this is expressed as 0.3/0.6.
Basically, your animation is comprised of two sections: the frontswing and the backswing. The frontswing is the time after the attack command is issued before the damage is dealt; the backswing is the Hero's period of inactivity after the attack lands. Described by the wiki as 'a delay between the damage point of an attack and when another queued command will be performed'. Visually, this is usually the character recovering their position, as such:
Note that your backswing can be CANCELLED. This is EXTREMELY important to remember, especially on Heroes with sluggish animations like Luna. While cancelling the backswing does not increase your attack speed, it removes the period of inactivity after an attack, allowing you to move. Doing this has numerous terms, such as 'stutterwalking' or 'orbwalking' (the latter being a misnomer, as orbwalking refers to the act of manually casting an autocast ability such as Searing Arrows so as not to draw aggro from the creeps). In function, this allows for better chasing and often can secure very close kills. To cancel your backswing, wait until the attack has landed then issue an immediate move command in the direction you want to go. Once in range, attack again. To see this in action, I recommend watching professional players on Heroes like the aforementioned Luna, or on melee Heroes like Sven.
However, the frontswing cannot be cancelled, and attempting to do so will abort the attack. As such, it is wise to familiarise yourself with the animations of many Heroes, as the attack animation is an important part of lasthitting.
Maintaining creep equilibrium is a very important part of farming a lane. Most commonly, you will see 2v2 lanes in pubs, which makes it extremely difficult to farm at optimum efficiency and often you will have to throw this concept to the wind. However, in higher levels of play when trilanes and solo offlanes start being a thing, remember this.
The old adage of 'carries last hit, supports deny' is technically wrong. If the carry is freefarming, the support should not be touching the creeps - and not in the lane at all, they're better served stacking, pulling or ganking.
Your goal when maintaining creep equilibrium is to keep the creep wave just out of range of your tower by 150-250 units. The image shows a good spot to keep it on the Radiant side, and the Dire side is mirrored.
To do this you must try and make the different creep waves die at the same time. This is a combination of autoattacks, aggressive denying and sometimes leaving enemy creeps alive to better control the lane. I personally am a fan of leaving an enemy siege creep alive so the lane pushes slightly in my direction, allowing me greater freedom in pushing against it in case the creeps do something unexpected.
The best way to practice this is to go in a lobby on your own and just roll with it.
Another reason for keeping creep equilibrium in one spot is to reduce the threat of ganks. The image above is just outside of tower range, ensuring that anyone wanting to kill you is going to have to dive your tower, often a risky endeavour. The more pushed up your lane is, the easier it is for you to get ganked and the harder it is for allies to gank your lane.
Here is where advanced farming techniques come into play, and a lot of it is just feel.
There are a number of items in Dota that assist with farming:
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Helm of the Dominator
- Radiance
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Battle Fury
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Maelstrom
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Hand of Midas
That said, most items in the game contribute to farming, but these five are the main items bought solely for the purpose of farming. Each has different uses.
Battle Fury is popular on Heroes with the ability to quickly move around the jungle and clear camps at lightning pace. See Anti-Mage - his low-cooldown Blink means that he can quite easily clear two lanes and the whole jungle in under a minute. A similar principle applies to Phantom Assassin but it's better to buy fighting items on her to make use of her midgame powers. Aim for 12-16 minutes to get this item, or just don't bother.
Radiance is usually bought on Heroes who make illusions. Why? Because illusions carry the burn aura from Radiance. On its own, Radiance is a slow farming tool, because 50 DPS to nearby creeps isn't that much compared to other items. However, if you can extend this burn aura over a large part of the map... imagine the outcome. Very popular on Naga Siren and Spectre, the latter of who also gets the benefit of owning early teamfights with her ultimate. Aim for 17-22 minutes to get this item, or just don't bother - with one exception: for the purpose of cancelling Blink Daggers.
NOTE: To use a Radiance, simply move near to jungle camps and the burn aura will farm the creeps for you. Throw in a few right-clicks and voila, 500 gold in 20 seconds.
Please don't ever buy this on Terrorblade.
Maelstrom is that odd combination of fight and farm. The lightning decimates creeps and Heroes alike and it is a very cost-efficient damage item. I am a big fan of this on Phantom Assassin and we all know how good it is on Faceless Void. Generally, it's not worth upgrading to Mjollnir until much later in the game.
Helm of the Dominator is an item less-commonly seen as a farming item. It's usually bought on Luna or 
Gyrocopter to control a creep and use it to stack the Ancients before farming them. However, even on Heroes with no way of farming Ancients, it can be used of its own.
First, dominate a Wildwing Ripper. Find the nearest hard camp to your base. Stack that 3-5 times, then use the Ripper's tornado ability to clear it. Repeat over and over, sending the Ripper back to base when necessary. This can net you a lot of gold over the course of a game, especially if you have supports helping you with the stacking. This technique works well on Heroes who need a lot of gold but do not benefit from any of the other farming items, such as Chaos Knight.
Hand of Midas is the most controversial item in the game (probably). For it to be effective, it has to be *rushed*, often before boots. It is good on gold and level dependant Heroes, and is best used on large creeps like the Satyr Tormentor. If you can't get this around the 8-minute mark or earlier, seriously reconsider.
Often when jungle farming, it's a good idea to pick up a 
Quelling Blade. This allows you to cut down trees and farm multiple creep camps at once. It also grants bonus damage to creeps, and is very cheap. What's not to love?
Don't, however, spend all of your time in the jungle. Go into lanes and push them, taking a tower if the opportunity arises. Often people will call out 'rat dota' in a tone reminiscent of hate speech but you just got an easy 500 gold so what do you care?
It's really simple; avoid counterpicks and if needed counterpick the enemy team. There's a reason carries are often left as 4th or 5th picks in Captain's Mode games or professional tournaments. The exception is with overpowered carries, like current Troll Warlord and 6.82 Terrorblade.
I've gone over most of this in the 'Playing a Carry' section. Once you have a wide Hero pool, you'll know when to pick what carry - it's not really something that can be taught outside of individual examples, like don't pick Wraith King against an Anti-Mage.
Team needs a stun? Chaos Knight, Sven, Wraith King.
Team needs push? Lycan, Meepo, any illusion Hero
Team needs early fight? Weaver, Troll Warlord, certain Spectre builds
It's all situational.
Why do people play carry?
Perhaps it's for revenge against those creeps for all the times they've blocked your way or gotten you killed.
Perhaps it's the thrill of leading your team in the lategame and throning your opponent.
Perhaps it's that addictive sound of money clinking with every kill.
Perhaps a combination of all three.
I hope this has helped someone. As usual, don't hesitate to point out things that I've missed or anything I should clarify further.
I'll leave you with a final piece of advice; no matter how good of a carry player you are, if your team already has some, they'll be better served by a support. 5-carry teams never work.
Now holla holla get some dolla.
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