Dota 2 crystalis vs desolator red

Cold Comfort – Crystal Maiden (6.81b)

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I would never build Aghanim’s Scepter on CM, Veil of Discord suits her really good, is cheaper and has easier buildup (which is really important for hard support) and benefit go to rest of the team as well.
Dagon also feels a bit weird, you usually get enough money way too late to get use of it.

On the other hand there is a nice item you forgot – Shadow Blade . It’s pretty situational – mostly for pub games and if enemy team don’t have too much AoE stuns and your don’t have any invisible heroes. You can pop it during your ultimate for some protection – so you can get it instead of Black King Bar . It can also helps during ganks.

+1 for “harrasing your lane” paragraph – I forgot that disable inflicts almost as much damage while not pushing your lane. Pretty handy tip.

This guide is made by someone, who is incompetent and arrogant.

Crystal Maiden is the most flexible hero that you’ve played? No. no. What, d > Crystal Maiden and let’s say. Lion ? Crystal Maiden is pretty straightforward, and I can’t see her being flexible.

I play entirely too many heroes, really. I d > Sniper and Drow; There is a reason so few supports are played in low-level pub games, and played so poorly when they are chosen.

Desolator being useless is an interesting thought, and definitely an opinion I don’t share – With CMs laughable DPS output she can cause her team’s DPS output versus a target to sky-rocket; It is situational, as if your team is lacking overall in right-click it doesn’t help much but definitely not useless. Crysalis, as stated before, was a purely fun add, and actually at low levels of play even fairly effective since people don’t like the big scary RED hits on them.

To get to more constructive criticisms these items have been removed.

I actually agree with you on this one, my issue being that as a hard support I often find it difficult to reach the gold levels needed for this, and often find I am better utilized without using my Freezing Field which requires approximately 8,000 gold investment (BKB + Aghs’s) to be truly effective in late game, on top of the thousands spent on wards, dust and other support items such as Mekansm , Drum of Endurance , Pipe of Insight , Force Staff ; Oh, and those Black King Bar s and Pipe of Insight s and other items and skills on the other team blunt that effectiveness as well if you want to talk about playing at that level. EDIT FOR CLARITY: Hard Support CM is NOT a damage machine at that level of play except in very exceptional circumstances, with a skilled team helping her reach that potential.

Pub games are also often finished by this point, or so close to done that I can’t even get the courier to me in time for it if we are winning, and if we are losing I don’t generally survive long enough to stack up big gold anymore.

BKB was added to the build, along with some comments about it.

Thank you for your criticism, I only ask that in future you cons > Crystal Maiden the way you feel she ought to be played; I play this game for fun, I don’t necessarily min/max my builds, and in general I enjoy a positive win/loss ratio.