What is a support hero?

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Incredibly strong early on in the game – 2 slows as well as extremely strong harassment, sets up ganks well, which free up space for your carry.



– 2 slows as well as extremely strong harassment, sets up ganks well, which free up space for your carry. Doesn’t require farm – Venomancer uses his abilities to bring things to the table, a Venomancer at level 7 with half a magic wand, some wards and maybe some boots is still super useful.



– Venomancer uses his abilities to bring things to the table, a Venomancer at level 7 with half a magic wand, some wards and maybe some boots is still super useful. Flexibility – A Veno can lane with any other hero, or even by himself, as a solo. He can be the ward ♥♥♥♥♥, or the mek rush, he can even be played as a semi carry. He can tri-lane or roam, he can even jungle if he HAS to, even as a pusher. This allows “lane dependant” (No hero is lane dependant) heroes such as Invoker, Tinker, Anti-Mage, Nightstalker or Windrunner to jump into that spot, or if there is no suitable laner, he can get into there, such as a solo mid Veno.



– A Veno can lane with any other hero, or even by himself, as a solo. He can be the ward ♥♥♥♥♥, or the mek rush, he can even be played as a semi carry. He can tri-lane or roam, he can even jungle if he HAS to, even as a pusher. This allows “lane dependant” (No hero is lane dependant) heroes such as Invoker, Tinker, Anti-Mage, Nightstalker or Windrunner to jump into that spot, or if there is no suitable laner, he can get into there, such as a solo mid Veno. Sustenance – A lane support veno is absolutely superb in protecting your farm dependant uber carry. Firstly, he can constantly throw out poison wards in the fog below/above your safe lane. This allows the carry to go out a little more and not be afraid, securing vital farm. Secondly, if the carry does get jumped on, he can attack a hero or two to get an easy 11% slow in addition to the gale to slow the pursuers down to a crawl, and perhaps initiate a counter gank. Lastly, as a ranged hero with an inbuilt DoT he can get out a lot of harass onto an enemy hero forcing them back, he can then use his wards in lane to get out a quick right click onto an enemy using their clarities or salves to make them head all the way back to base. A veno played well, will open up so much room for your carry. All of these reasons will allow your carry to be sustainable in lane allowing them to get more exp and gold.

“A support, in theory, should be able to utilise the strengths of their hero early on to secure an excellent early game presence to allow the mid game to go more favourably for their team”

A support hero is generally one that is incredibly strong early on in the game, does not require farm(gold from killing creeps) to perform their role in the team, usually does not require a great deal of levels to be of use and brings alot of flexibility and sustenance to the team which holds them. I’ll use Venomancer(Veno) as a typical safe lane support that fulfils all of these points.Here we can see that Venomancer is:So, what does that all mean?I’ve been focusing a lot on the early game here and rightly so, as the early game is when Supports should be playing their best, and really focusing on timings and lanes.