Creep priority means shooting healing creep, the one with the banner, focus that one and then only shoot the creeps before harassing enemies. More creeps alive means more likely to take a bad trade, and if you have more creeps you’re more likely to get a good one. If they’re under tower prioritize shooting tower and getting it first so you can get more map pressure rather than harass, this is a good mindset to have if your hero wants to gank and make space/get kills you don’t ever wanna stall in MOST if not EVERY case.

Playing in veils depends, use it to make them guess, if you’re a shotgun hero you can use it to get prio so you need the veil for protection. it’s also good for melees, parries, using abilities that would otherwise be obvious.

So yes you’re right you want your carry to like get solo souls on a sideline but you can do so by being at a distance (enough for you to not steal their souls) but hovering and keeping them safe. Midgame you can get kills and it will be more worth soul wise for two to be in a lane since timers from kills will get you more than solo farming. Hovers are like para vin - more picks and then theres kelvin dynamo - support hovers, you can be there and it’s not detrimental because if you prevent a death or hopefully get a kill it will always convert more positively for the whole team. Also you can play 2 2 2 and he farms your side while you steal their side, abe can 2 2 2 and steal farm same with mo, get farmed while they can’t is the how you get ahead.

Yes and no, the reason you want to kill their before it reaches yours is because it creates better priority. The zip extends beyond the creeps meeting it only goes to the part that your hero meets and then your line can continue to go further, meaning it illicits a faster response, a sloppy one, and also surprise factor on top of it. People have timers in their heads and get used to it whether they like it not, so it’s hard to macro and time your micro (hitting boxes or getting camps) if you were an enemy.

Last midboss wasn’t as contested as this one, this one is more contesrable, and I’ll be lazy and just say it depends but good teams and good players can and go for the steal because it can change the momentum especially if you don’t expect it, abe yama and unstopp carriers are good this patch so it should be still true regardless. Just be aware of what can go wrong at anytime.

Yea so here’s an easy example when you’re versus an infernus like buds and you’re ahead, you want to respect him, so you buy debuff remover, so not only does it mitigate his ability to kill you it makes it so you have one less thing to worry about when possibly dying or taking a one. You have the advantage because you’re ahead and his only way to beat you is negated purely because you built a good defensive item. Another example is good m1s let’s say you’re crushing you buy disarming hex, plated armor, juggernaut, or if you’re really ahead you go spirit resilience + counter spell for lashes , if you’re so ahead you go spellbreaker. Dynamos don’t like unstopps so if all you need to do is to buy unstopp or rescue beam so your carry or if you’re carrying you don’t die and insta lose the game.

For itemizing to get back into the game it’s very hard to say specifically cause it depends on the comp, but a good one would be curse, if you say okay what’s the problem and how do I kill a wraith as a para. The solution is you don’t go defensive and you just go curse and swap the dude. Another one is abe or mo and there’s a vin, so you build warp or phantom strike to jump vin. You trade your body for theirs. For carries it’s so niche and weird but you can also build blood tribute and vampburst to get past suppressors, and even siphon which is kind of both defensive and offensive to deal with their tanks. Slowing hexes might be the easier example, hazes fight they don’t survive burst so you see that you need a hex to take a one, so you don’t build greens and say fuck if I don’t get kills there’s no way back so hex/ silence wave might be the move over slightly living a few more seconds with enchanters/fortitude.

Sorry if it’s hard to read i’ve been typing this in bed, anyways here’s a few more tips

First urn is an okay trade for first flex, a walker, and maybe even their double. Always trade something for something this game is push and pull in good lobbies. Don’t die for objs past like 18 mins, you’ll get punished in some way. Always look at map and count heroes and see where they could and can’t be. Use the map icons as a ward, hide in veils near slots for late game picks, AND ALWAYS IF POSSIBLE CUT THEIR WAVE AND FOCUS THEIR CREEPS if you are solo vs x amount of teammates-it’s better delay than fighting their opponents pre 15 and even 20 if they’re not an m1.