Crystal Maiden, best waifu and support! For me, she's like the hero with the most flexibility in terms of team composition which means she synergizes well with just about anybody. With 3 levels on Arcane Aura and Tranquil Boots, she never has to spend gold on tangoes and clarity pots! Just a few seconds out of combat and she's back in business! Her +250 Health talent (if you're not into cast range) is very, very useful for a delicate girl (lol) and once you get Glimmer Cape, she's very hard to kill. Her abilities are very, very useful and have fast cooldowns. Compared to other supports, she has a good balance of disable, slow, damage, farming capabilities, teamfight power, utility aura, etc. If left alive, a Crystal Maiden in a teamfight will slowly whittle down foes, plus her ultimate, which was recently buffed in 7.14, is so so useful that even just half seconds of the 10-second ult is enough to aggravate enemies if they do not disable her quickly. Once you get the +120 Gold/min talent, life is just a breeze! You can buy wards AND buy items like force staff!
With CM, I never have to worry so anxiously about what my teammates will pick! She's a constant in the meta, in my opinion.
Well yeah HAHAHA, at the first few minutes, but a few big neutral creep kills using Frostbite to save for Tranquil Boots is more than enough to compensate. She may not be able to roam effectively early game due to slow-ass feet, even with a SoD, but a good pos 4 can make up for her disadvantage.
As a CM main... the hero rly sux... the 275 ms hurts af.... it feels like she is always under the slow effect... idk how i could even win matches with her... but i'd got to admit she is a good bait...
OT: lich is good , can be even played in offline to make enemy core's life shit. Warlock cuz of that tank ass golem, io, dissruptor against high mobile heroes, and oracle ( maybe).
No it allows you to have a more active support. I mean chen doesn't really need money for the first few minutes.
Like what's gonna matter more an early boots on sk or tusk, or an early boots on chen?!!
Depends on your other heroes. CM is completely useless when you have drow or AM, you just lost lane. For CM you need really strong core or trilane. I am always happy to see enemy picking CM. It means my game will be 10x easier than against disruptor, ss,sd, lion or pretty much any other supp hero.
Okay, guys I get your point, geez. No need to hate on my bracket. - 3- Maybe CM just feels right for me, I guess it's just a personal preference. I can agree though on Lion, SD, SS, Disruptor, Lich, etc. they are pretty good position 5 supports, I play them too. Maybe it's just the majestic feeling I get when my CM uses Freezing Field that I really find myself attracted to playing her LMAO.
Lion is maybe the next best thing. He has 2 disables, a damaging ult, plus a mana-stealing + slow ability. The only true con I can think of is that he damn ugly HAHAHAHAHA
LION is situational man, not a good overall hero. if you need to burst someone like PL. cm is dogg, very dogg
I most definetly can not recommend trying to play AA in low mmr solo Q. play that hero with friends, very good hero
go to joindota and see what pos 5 heros are being picked in professional games, there you go. dont listen to 2k or 3k plebs like myself
what i can recommend though is jakiro. strong for laning stage, good for pushing, good disables. emphasis on the "pushing"
Good supports almost always come down to the carries being played, more than the raw power (although both being important). Alch was a really high pick with older runes, so it made AA one of the better supports.
For newbies, I would recommend starting with supports that have some form of escape, and once you get better, you can play some of the higher skill caps (because you won't know how to position early game).
i think 2ks pick her because shes the archetype support
why would anyone need cm aura when you basically can have clarities running nonstop
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Hello im fairly new to dota and have been wondering who are some of the better position 5 supports in the current meta and help is appreciated