Back in the day, I did SD only. Choosing between 3 heroes allowed me to skim-read their abilities fast in the picking phase. Playing also allowed me to recognize previous heroes.

Today, I would probably do all-hero challenge due to lack of players in SD.

- Check: Can PA swap lanes? I.e go offlane while your offlane goes safelane?

- Check: Can your pos 4 swap place with you? I.e your pos 4 supports your pos 1?

- Check: Can you bring a gank from mid to reset the lane for you?

- Check: Can you bring a 3-lane (pos 1, 4, 5) to win the lane 3v2?

- Check: Can you leave your pos 1 and try to win offlane/mid? This brings attention away from your carry if the enemy venomancer leaves as well, leaving Axe solo. Then, if Axe solo dives, your mid or someone can always TP to kill Axe and save your PA.

You have a few cards to play. Nonetheless, your situation is difficult indeed.

Where did they say they fixed it?

What dota needs is a mass release of heroes. Getting one new hero, The Ringmaster, is nice and all. But one time, just one time, release an update with +7 new heroes all at once.

You shouldn’t have a lineup where the team’s chances of winning relies on 1 person.

If you have two carries in a team, if not even 3 — say CK 3, LD 2, and Specter 1 which btw are all meta heroes — it takes off a lot of pressure from the otherwise solo pos 1 having to carry the game.

Any team that consists of something like Zeus 2, Sand King 3, and then a bunch of supports that can’t scale into core, forces everything on the pos 1 player’s back to carry the game. If the pos 1 is a carry like MK, that makes it even harder, instead of a hard carry like PL.

Sure, you could argue any draft can work, especially if you’re stomping. But really, you do not want to have only one carry in your team if you want to win reliably, not to be confused with core.

Sniper

He has 4 games on storm this entire year. If you want to talk shit, at least be right.

Moreover, the rest of your entire point is either just you being a troll or completely out of it mentally. Nothing of what you said is sane. If anyone, YOU talk like you report others for having a bad game, and by extension assume everyone else do as well. That’s called projecting your own small pp onto OP. Good job, sir.

Rubick and Bounty Hunter.

Honourable mentions: PA and Drow.

I can make it work with most else somehow, but almost never with those 4.