sand king & zeus are normally to be played as support
sven/gyro
drow if 4 of you are ranged
jugg if your team has lone druid
naga siren (pretty popular?)
I realize that SK is a common support, but he's not listed as such in the descriptions. And Zeus is listed as one, but most don't really seem to play him as one that I've seen.
I once played with a friend of a friend of mine who had gone to pee and when he came back he picked Invoker. Then he said he messed up because he didn't notice we already had a mid lane DK and me with PA in safelane (so DK wouldn't go safe farming) and said fuck it, and went support Invoker instead of repicking...it was a weird game.
A misconception of most average-skill players is that every hero is 'locked' into a role. Literally any hero can be any role depending on the situation. Wraith King can be a very tank support that has a free aegis, and vladmirs that affects ranged, and have a stun, while heroes like Venge and Veno can be carries. Avoid the thought of "pro players do this" and think of "I can do this", that's what pro-players themselves think and thus create new metas.
Dagon + Arcane's maxed Stun Wraith King best Wraith King...I haven't done this yet, but I sooo want to try it.
Bloodseeker fits sorta into the support role. He has a beneficial ability for the team that works globally, he has an ultimate that goes through bkb that can completely shut down a core enemy hero, he has a long silence, he can trade hits with anyone and win early on, he has a ranged dot. try him :D
@BlackStar if a pro hasnt done it, you are going to get flamed to death for doing something different
@blackstar - I realize that, as well, but some just work much better at their main roles, if that makes sense.
beh, i just got flamed cause i played tiny as a carry instead of going the caster build, rofl
they were all like "WTF MANTA ON TINY WHAT A NOOB".. i got that manta by 18mins with a rhasta stealing all the LH early on
but manta is core on tiny... his illusions fucking rape buildings...
note that you can still go arcane+blink then go aghs ac manta...
@N0pe, they won't flame you if it works. You cannot say to someone he is a noob because he got dagon on puck- if he's 21-0
Just don't do stupid stuff.
@-hg-Bob_002
Then there should be no point to this thread. My point still stands.
SpiritBreaker - not in the meta, but if the enemy doesn't come with an agressive trilane, it really works out well. (Especially when the enemy tries to rat doto with Furion.)
Centaur - with a ShadowDemon it's pritty nice for the early ganks.
Sniper - once or twice we picked him as dual lane support for fun, it really annoyed the enemies with it's long range harassment with mini stun.
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Lately I've been trying out Sand King support as "something different", and recently did Zeus earlier. I know Alch is coming in as a support as of late, but who else is that isn't typically either used as one or isn't listed as one? When I was looking at guides, I could only find one support Zeus guide; every other one uses him as a nuker/semi-carry.