I wish for a patch which gives us more variety in viable laning setups. There was a time where min 0 roaming sup, defensive trilanes, aggressive tri lanes, suicide offlane were a thing. Personally I miss playing a real roaming support the most. Nowadays it feels this playstyle is far too risky by getting not enough gold/XP while also sacking your offlane. The occasional mid rune secure or portal gank feels far more predictable. And from a viewers perspective it felt exciting to see teams outplay their opponents with a surprising aggro tri lane. In general I think more viable lanes gives the game another level of strategic depth which is more exciting to play and more exciting to watch.
PS: also shifting the offlane role more to an intiator/chaos creator than the current carry no.2 would be more fun (personal opinion)
yeah, people complaining about this either don’t play offlane or play at low mmr. Archon and above you should be using portals like fucking crazy and securing runes and ganking mid.
Yes, I am your pos 4:
I start a fight somewhere on the rune, maybe get a kill, maybe one of us dies, I don’t care, I’m pos 4 I’m supposed to do shit… than I need to rush my boots so I’m gonna walk to the portal and show up after two waves in the offlane with 40% hp while you sucked dicks getting zoned by 2 heroes cause I don’t wanna spend my tp. Maybe I’m late to block the camp, maybe I’m not, I don’t care, now I will just stay back cause I’m not fucking sending a salve in before my boots, I’d rather have hard support tp to me and share me some regen than buying it myself. And now the real warfare begins, I used all my tango, I’m finally 95% hp, I will click one right click and a lvl 1 spell and I get nuked back by 2 level 2 heroes so I walk back to base and miss the lotus, too bad this fucking hard support didn’t tp to heal me. Now it’s 4 minutes and my mid needs a bottle refill, I’m gonna tp there from my base and camp the water rune for extra value. I’m gonna run back to the offlane and see the enemy carry lvl 4.5 while my shit offlaner that can’t play dota is lvl 3 with no hp, fuck this shitter I’m walking to the portal. I’m ganking the safelane. I reach my pos 5 and he says “we are fine here, carry is free farming”, but no I wanna force a shit play on the guy with vanguard or the enemy support, I force this shit and we manage to sneak a huge kill on the enemy skywrath with no mana and the carry only lost 5 creeps to tower, worth it im a god at this game. I take the portal back, I watch the offlaner lvl 4 vs lvl 6 carry, this guy really suck. Fuck this guy. I’m walking to 6 minutes rune to help mid cause I’m a pos 4 and I HAVE to do shit. After I missed the rune I walk again to the offlaner and ping his level than I ping enemy carry level and spam some well played. Enemy carry has dragonlance half deso at 12 min
“Report centaur” I write in all chat, everyone clicks on him and sees vanguard and a stick at 15 mins. They agree centaur suck, fuck this guy why do I always get bad offlaners. Matchmaking is fucked up.