Dota 2 fd vs awake and alive

Dota 2 fd vs awake and alive

No matter which support I decide to play, when team fights start happening I’m always one of the first to die. I tried playing Crystal Maiden – allowed my Anti-Mage to farm up, but late game their Zreus nuked 70% of my HP with his ulti and Riki would just jump on me and kill me with a Blink Strike and 2 auto attacks.

I don’t mind the fact that I have no cool items or that I don’t do as much damage as carries do – but why do I get insta-killed all the time? It’s like I can’t even survive a team fight unless the other team is completely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Thanks for the help!!

To be honest, you shouldn’t expect to survive most encounters as a support. More often than not you’re going to be very squishy and die pretty quickly.

The important part is that you do everything in your power to help in the fight (stuns, silences, AOE, etc) and make sure your team loses less heroes than your opponents.

If you really want to survive, I’d suggest buying Drums (Unless someone else is already making it, otherwise get a bracer), and possibly tranquil boots.

positioning is your answer 🙂 but yes, i have the same problem, not with the Maiden, but with the shadow shaman. with the Maiden i usually manage to stay alive 😉

Positioning you say? CM’s ult requires me to stand in the middle of their team in order to actually do some damage with it.

If I went so deep I’d get killed even faster.

positioning is your answer 🙂 but yes, i have the same problem, not with the Maiden, but with the shadow shaman. with the Maiden i usually manage to stay alive 😉

Positioning you say? CM’s ult requires me to stand in the middle of their team in order to actually do some damage with it.

If I went so deep I’d get killed even faster.

you don’t need to stand in the middle of their team, because the CM is not suited for that. don’t try to hit everyone, you just die very-very fast. try to hit 2-3 of them when there are your buddies between you and the enemy. and the shadow blade aka lotar can also help sometimes. blink in, ulti, lotar and just watch them run away.

you see, CM ulti’s a good thing, but it sould be used wisely.

To be honest, you shouldn’t expect to survive most encounters as a support. More often than not you’re going to be very squishy and die pretty quickly.

The important part is that you do everything in your power to help in the fight (stuns, silences, AOE, etc) and make sure your team loses less heroes than your opponents.

If you really want to survive, I’d suggest buying Drums (Unless someone else is already making it, otherwise get a bracer), and possibly tranquil boots.

positioning is your answer 🙂 but yes, i have the same problem, not with the Maiden, but with the shadow shaman. with the Maiden i usually manage to stay alive 😉

Positioning you say? CM’s ult requires me to stand in the middle of their team in order to actually do some damage with it.

If I went so deep I’d get killed even faster.

In a pub, it’s your job to die. The initiator isn’t going to initiate. That’s the squishy support’s job.

To be honest, you shouldn’t expect to survive most encounters as a support. More often than not you’re going to be very squishy and die pretty quickly.

The important part is that you do everything in your power to help in the fight (stuns, silences, AOE, etc) and make sure your team loses less heroes than your opponents.

If you really want to survive, I’d suggest buying Drums (Unless someone else is already making it, otherwise get a bracer), and possibly tranquil boots.

If that’s so, is playing support even fun? Dying every two seconds and not being able to buy anything but wards and maybe tier 1 boots for the first 30 minutes of the game doesn’t sound like much fun to me.

For a lot of people it isn’t. Everyone would much rathe pick a carry and just get kills. But for people who want to win consistently, you do kinda need 1 or 2 supports.

Unlike most carries, supports usually have 1 or more super useful CC skills (Ex. Crystal Maiden, Bane, Lion), making it much easier for the carry(s) to just roflstomp over the enemy.