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Even though the skill has been changed to auto-cast i still don't think it's a good harassment spell for laning as it has quite a sizeable aoe which normally causes you to hit some creeps with it, pushing the lane.
With it being an auto-cast, you can turn it off or on at times considered by the user to be reasonable.
That, and if the situation occurs where you would want to push the lane (situations vary from time to time)
and worst case scenario you can pull the creep wave (more difficult in suicide lane, but that comes with its own set of difficulties).
I played Jakiro this morning for the first time in about a few months (not counting the one Wraith Night I played just before it ended xD, but that keep me in-synch in terms of his abilities).
it's an incredible auto-cast skill, it turns your right-click harass into a DoT (similar to everyone's not-so-favorite Viper), it doesn't deprive you of mana to be saved for a much more valueable Ice Path, and if the carry has to leave lane for whatever reason (or whatever the circumstance calls for) it is a splash damage DoT that can help push the lane out.
Of course it's not a lvl 1 skill, but I got it at lvl 3 and harassing became a lot easier, especially since the DoT damage doesn't scale well at all into the mid-to-late game.
Another thing to emphasize is to try to time your ice paths in synch with your teammate's stuns. If you see a teammate's stun is about to wear off, you should already be setting up the ice path in order to add another 1-2.2 seconds to the stun-lock.
It's pretty incredible how easily a kill can get away or be secured within that split-second decision, and the 1-2.2 seconds that the stun lasts.
Overall a good guide though. Very likeable, and it emphasizes one of my weakest points as a support: warding.
Wards save lives. I usually (on most of my support heroes in general) get too caught up in trying to feed carries last hits and harassing enemy heroes to go warding, and it has costed me a gank or two.
I think that spacing out your purchases between the items you really need to function well as the support and warding is an invaluable skill and needs to be practiced before doing anything beyond pubs/bots.
Also, I think you forgot to put the