I was hoping you guys could give me a few tips for improving.
Almost as soon as I started playing DOTA I transitioned into playing a #4/5 support. I imagine it gets better higher up in MMR, but at 2500 MMR I'm often the only support on the team, and if I didn't play support we would have 0 wards, no courier, or if we were lucky we would have a walking courier at 15 minutes. I decided I'd rather play support and buy wards, courier, rotate for ganks, stack camps, etc.
When I started I was absolutely terrible. I was buying double bottle on some heros, horrible builds, etc. My builds may not be that much better now, but they aren't as horrible as they used to be.
Short of rotating to defend/secure a kill, roaming when needed, protecting our carry in lane, warding, stacking/pulling, I'm not sure what else I should be doing. I know supports have a lot of things they can be doing to help out, but late game I'm relying on our carry to not feed & get enough farm to be viable. I try to get my stuns, silences, etc off every time I can.
I'd love some tips guys.
*NOTE* I absolutely deserve to be in normal skill; please don't take this as a "WTFUX?!! WHY AM I NO 6K MMR?!" tread. I would still like to improve at the game though.
I was hoping you guys could give me a few tips for improving.
Almost as soon as I started playing DOTA I transitioned into playing a #4/5 support. I imagine it gets better higher up in MMR, but at 2500 MMR I'm often the only support on the team, and if I didn't play support we would have 0 wards, no courier, or if we were lucky we would have a walking courier at 15 minutes. I decided I'd rather play support and buy wards, courier, rotate for ganks, stack camps, etc.
When I started I was absolutely terrible. I was buying double bottle on some heros, horrible builds, etc. My builds may not be that much better now, but they aren't as horrible as they used to be.
Short of rotating to defend/secure a kill, roaming when needed, protecting our carry in lane, warding, stacking/pulling, I'm not sure what else I should be doing. I know supports have a lot of things they can be doing to help out, but late game I'm relying on our carry to not feed & get enough farm to be viable. I try to get my stuns, silences, etc off every time I can.
I'd love some tips guys.
*NOTE* I absolutely deserve to be in normal skill; please don't take this as a "WTFUX?!! WHY AM I NO 6K MMR?!" tread. I would still like to improve at the game though.