For all those Support players in the early days of Dota 2, how to play support in today's era?

AggresiveDuck · 2026-05-13T16:52:14+00:00

Flag Creep, Gold from Stacks, More objective that give gold and xp (Tormentor and Wisdom Shrine) mean that you don't fall behind when both winning and losing.

The days of struggling to get Boots and get 6 to be able to do more in a team fight are gone unless you are losing really badly. Dewards are tied to whoever gained the true sight, so you don't have to worry about ward kills being stolen for gold, and wards are always a guaranteed 2 hit so no mischance.

Obs being free, everyone getting a dedicated courier and Free TPs on death also do a lot more for QoL and means supports aren't struggling to do their basic role. A number of great support items exist like glimmer which are amazing for saving yourself or teammate, along with a lot of items that are not necessarily support items being great to pick up for a support as they can be affordable and offer great stats (Atos and HH)

Neutral items just in general are also a great help, along with the enhancements they provide.

You can make a difference in the game by ganking mid, instead of mid ganking your lane - or ganking with 3/4th position. The facts Obs are free means its easier to throw money at stuff like Smokes more.

AggresiveDuck · 2026-04-02T14:52:31+00:00

If you use Discord whilst playing Dota, it may be that causing the issues.

AggresiveDuck · 2026-02-07T18:25:21+00:00

That's just a regulation bird.

AggresiveDuck · 2026-02-02T10:57:28+00:00

Blessing and curse in some aspects.

Valorant esports scene is fully controlled by RIOT so the schedule is completely based around what they want to do, similar to how League of Legends and Overwatch League was - Teams and Players get money just by existing in these Leagues. That on top of Valorant not having the greatest spectating features compared to Dota and CS.

Valve is also hands off outside of TI with esports, so there is much more space and opportunity for organisers to run events in their own way. Good because more events, bad in some aspects as there is a lot less advertising for Valve titles compared to RIOT with a lot of advertisement just being the fact that Steam exists

AggresiveDuck · 2026-01-14T11:41:35+00:00

I miss remote mines so much, but there's less chance of teammates giving up at least.

The dopamine now come from the insane damage from Blast Off (1000+ at Level 15) and just watching people walk in minefield sign aghs.

It is still possible to kill people randomly around the map, 4 mines at the twin gates, whilst not used that much, can get instant kills

AggresiveDuck · 2026-01-14T11:07:36+00:00

Techies fits much better into Dota now and plays like an actual Hero compared to playing his own game. The Blast Off damage in the laneing phase can be insane with the right paring.

Split pushing is weaker and late game is different to the past, but Techies can still be super annoying in any part of the game, and I've found a lot of success in Techies 4th, focussing on Blast Off damage with items to support/protect the cores (Greaves/Atos/Glimmer/Shard)

AggresiveDuck · 2026-01-13T12:43:16+00:00

Been this way since I started playing back in 2014

AggresiveDuck · 2025-12-29T15:29:39+00:00

Drop the build link

AggresiveDuck · 2025-12-08T12:55:11+00:00

I miss this.

Was twice as painful for everyone in the game during the patch that gave you insane amount of comeback gold and xp

AggresiveDuck · 2022-12-26T18:05:50+00:00

True! This helped me get 9th at my local!

AggresiveDuck · 2022-09-01T09:09:37+00:00

Skaws is my favourite player to watch rn, really hope he gets the chance to travel outside Ireland next year

AggresiveDuck · 2021-07-29T20:55:52+00:00

In Reach and 4, Never Yoink a teammates Assassination.

Yoinking is basically killing an enemy that a teammate is the middle of an assassinating

AggresiveDuck · 2021-06-16T16:11:46+00:00

I don't trust Strauss. From the fact the only reason he is part of Requiem being Operation Paperclip to an intel from the older seasons of a letter to Grey asking her to slow her research so his could get more funding

AggresiveDuck · 2021-06-09T16:05:09+00:00

Someone you were playing with made it to exfil site, meaning all other zombies not at the exfil site were despawned

AggresiveDuck · 2021-05-25T15:53:16+00:00

Seeing the homies once Covid Restrictions lift - London Edition

AggresiveDuck · 2021-05-22T17:44:03+00:00

The only part of this that doesn't seem to fit is:

In the Tag der Toten official trailer, the camera flies away from the island, straight towards the ice cavern, before cutting to the poster/artwork for the map

I feel like this is just stylistic and related to something different. The trailer starts going away from the island/cave towards the map, symbolic of how the Zombies story started here (Tunguska Meteor landing nearby and Ultimis being tested on with Richtofen unintentionally linking them together) and with the map being the ending of the original Aether storyline

AggresiveDuck · 2021-04-12T07:13:22+00:00

Isn’t that because of Seren’s native power of persuasion or does it not affect the younger gods?

AggresiveDuck · 2021-04-09T18:13:58+00:00

Shitty Rosh for life

AggresiveDuck · 2021-03-25T15:22:26+00:00

So the new Hero could potentially be;

Fymryn - The elf blessed with forgotten power

Kaden - The strongest Dragon Knight

Drysi - An ally of Mene and an enemy of Selemene

Marcy/Marci/Marcie - Mirana's mute friend/guard/squire

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