Prepare yourself for long but fun race,watch some pro io players,it will help best,focus on practice spirits its a key to get higher winrate,in 50m game you need to be dealing much more dmg than you did...dont be afraid do relocates moves with your carry,use mic is necessary,be friendly lovely io and you might be getting 4 comments per won game.
You can check my profile and hybrid build io,but i wouldn't recommend to play this till you not mastering io support
Oh I see. Thank you! What item build would you recommend for supp io? I've seen people go bottle as first item; what do you think of that? Or would it be better to start off with the normal tango/clarity/salve/ward?
Soul ring is fun if the hero your main tether bitch is just dump trucking mana, (tiny basically)
It also lets you skip arcanes if you want to get tranquils.
Oh okay. How do I improve on my damage dealt? I feel like I deal a measly amount of damage as io ._.
Easier to shoot self in the skull than to learn io at low mmr in solo queue. .....however if you really insist on learning a hero
1-go to opendota/dotabuff hero ranking
2-pick one of the top io players
3-go to gh replays
4-download any of those
5-copy whatever he does while trying to understand why he does whatever he does
6-have a paper and a pen next to u
7-right down what u learnt to feel better about urself
realise what you've written down is related to getting better at the game in general and has nothing to do with the hero and know ur a shit player
8-decide to quit playing ranked and start only trolling with friends in party unranked
tl;dr....noone will help u learn a hero in this forum 'cept cuki god analyze replays and git gud on ur own...
I don't play ranked and am not planning to anytime soon. I'm just trying to know more heroes better in general atm to get better. I just find it helpful to know the pov of other people since you all have more experience than me and probably can see/point out things I didn't notice. I'm at this point where I'm just trying to learn more and soak up more info to improve myself.
in 50m game you need to be dealing much more dmg than you did
When I asked about improving my damage dealt, I really meant this. I know io(supp) is not a big damage dealer but I was just wondering how I could work on this.
But anyway, appreciate the advice.
Bottle,trang,soul ring,urn - all you need...you can pretty much win games only with this sometimes,glimmer is very good,mek was always thing on io.
Dmg you deal only with spirits master them hit them fast,in first round if possible,they deal a lot of dmg and its important for especially relo ganks when you need kill fast and literary deliver some dmg.
Oh okay I see. I usually hit most of the spirits but come to think of it maybe I don't use spirits often enough. It's been a really fun hero to play so far though :D
Urn is good
Arcanes is good
Bottle is super good
Greaves when u need purge
Mek when u r pushing
Heart when ur super rich
Glimmer for saves
Vlads/pipe accordingly
Only overcharge when ur Target is getting focused or is hitting something
Try to use the tether slow
Keep an eye on ur positioning
Know where u shud be, sometimes as io u can pair urself with the offlaner to destroy the safelane, like bristle, legion, clock, necro, etc however sometimes u want to just play less aggressive and pull for ur safelaner
Always carry a tp, don't tp from base, because if anyone is getting dived u r their saving grace.
Io works well with heroes like Sven, legion, bristle, tiny, ck, and generally heroes who benefit a lot from the movespeed and who r already inherently tanky, work well with overcharge.
Most of what I say is common sense, but some is from a d2bowie vid I saw, u shud search it on youtube.
Omg I watch d2bowie too. I think I learned a lot from it, though when I first started out it was pretty hard comprehending stuff cos I didn't have enough basics. I think the only skill I'm not too sure of atm is when to overcharge.
Only pick Io when your team already have a hard support, because Io cannot ward all the time
You can buy necrobook to increase your damage
Tether to the melee minion then overcharge
The melee minion will hit like a truck to heroes and towers
Can u not post here 1 k player. Noob
If every single person in SEA like you die, the region wouldn't be filled with shithole countries
Miracle likes to buy armlet on io, i guess its a free hp drain for you + hp regen for your tethered ally at the push of 1 button. This is under hybrid builds so don't try this @ home kids
Yea I love watching GH play, even more than miracle maybe. I think a couple of weeks ago I saw the video where d2bowie broke down his io saves in detail it was so enlightening
Sadly I'm pretty shit at armlet. Like a week after I started dota I became obsessed with the idea of mastering armlet on huskar. I spammed hours of armlet/huskar in demo mode and obviously failed epicly because I barely knew the game. Rip haven't touched armlet or huskar since HAHAH
From my low Io experience, never pick it if you have a squishy draft or when you'll be the only one supporting (pos 5).
If your teammates are squishy, its extremely difficult to relocate-save. Also heros like jugger or naix are both not very good to pair with, cos you cant tether them due to magic immunity.
Also relocating with blinking heros is a bit tricky. If they blink too far, tether will be cancelled. Sometimes tether cd will make you unable to bring your partner back, so mic is a must.
The biggest problem with playing Io is when your carry is a piece of trash, such games are a nightmare. Youl will find yourself useless.
Also relocating with blinking heros is a bit tricky. If they blink too far, tether will be cancelled. Sometimes tether cd will make you unable to bring your partner back, so mic is a must.
I came across that problem when my friend and I tried to io-sven combo. Even tho we were using mic he blinked away from my tether when I was channelling my ult -_- But we still won that game in the end so I suppose all's good
The biggest problem with playing Io is when your carry is a piece of trash, such games are a nightmare. Youl will find yourself useless.
Ifkr! Tmw my carries bought bkb and the pa decided it would be a good idea to jump into the middle of 5 enemies with the bkb on and without backup, then proceeded to flame me for not saving him when he died. Literally the epitome of sea server cancer.
https://dotacoach.org/FantastiK i can help you with your Io, just add me then we talk, maybe a free coaching sesion for me to practice coaching
Armlet is my favorite item in dota 2
I remember the one time I toggled thru Frostbite
It was orgasmic no Kappa
Also whenever I get a rampage my bpm goes thru the roof
^^
sadly that is the basic reality. The heros isn't very good right now. Too easy to jump right on it and burst IO down.
Yea a lot of times even tho I tried to stay at the edge of fights I got picked off before anythign :/
Dazzle and Oracle are best supports for Huskar,its work with Io of course but not that well as these two
To the blue star,io wasn't rly good for all the time sitting on lowest winrate in game so i just wouldn't say io is not good right now couse i feel like it was always like that,few last patchs io getting nerfs even have lowest winrate,the thing with io is use his full potencial,on each k of mmr could work different kind of playstyle,build etc,
In my opinion till propably at least 4k mmr its very hard to find player worth to support with io in your solo games.
In low mmr games is super frustrating and demotivating to play supp io.One thing is you have to explain every singl game how io works,in 98% of games you forced to play pos.5. I manage to have winrate on support io in 2k games around 46% and i was proud of it couse after like 100 games i was sitting on 36%.
But i learn to master him and found my own way how to play io jungle now im on nearly double global wr on io and i having incredible fun every game 😍
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Io players, any tips for being a good io (supp)? I just tried it out for the first time in a match and I'm really interested in learning this hero :D
This is the match if you need reference or anything btw.
https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/3382762185