The Importance of Dota 2 Support's Role in the Current Meta
Following the changing meta in DOTA 2, Support has been and will always be the most important part of the game. The importance of the role of support has increased over time and peaked greatly in the current meta.
Why is support so important?
There are limited resources on the map so not all players can collect enough gold while farming to meet the required items. This concept of having limited resources is the reason why support is needed and very important in DOTA 2. Because of this small farm area, support must be able to play during the game, starting from minute -0 until ancient is destroyed. As usual, the increasing importance of support can be seen in the competitive. In the recent MDL2017 match, the Grand Final between LGD vs LGD Forever Young , with the final result 3-2 won by LGD. In 5 games, 15/20 from the first pick phase and 12/20 from the ban phase is support. This shows that these teams value the importance of the role of support.
How many types of support are there?
There are many different ways to categorize support, but the easiest and most people know is to divide it into 5 positions. Position 1 hard carry, position 2 solo mid, position 3 offlaner, position 4 semi support and position 5 hard support.
Here are examples of top teams with captains in 4th and 5th positions:
Team OG – Tal ‘Fly’ Aizik + Jesse ‘Jerax’ Vainikka
Team Liquid – Kuro Salehi ‘Kuroky’ Takhasomi + Maroun ‘GH’ Merhej
Team Secret – Clement ‘Puppey’ Ivanov + Yazied ‘Yapzor’ Jaradat
Evil Geniuses – Andreas ‘Cr1t-‘ Nielsen + Ludwig ‘Zai’ Wåhlberg
Virtus Pro – Alexey ‘Solo’ Berezin + llya ‘Lil’ llyuk
LGD.Forever Young – Leong ‘ddc’ Fat-Meng + Tue ‘Ah Fu’ Soon Chuan
TNC Pro Team – Theeban ‘1437’ Siva + Timothy ‘Tims’ Randrup
However, this concept does not apply to every team, depending on the dynamics of the team itself.
What is good about semi support and hard support?
The answer differs from patch to patch. It is a general rule that hard support is in charge of doing all support such as buying wards, smoke, dust or TP usually position 5 is more protective of hard carry in farming and preventing enemies from disturbing our hard carry farming such as Io, Dazzle, Oracle, Winter Wyvern Phoenix, Disruptor , Ancient Apparition, Warlock and more. This is a hero who can do a lot in a team. As for semi support, you will get some items and gold. Position 4 is on duty in trilane, dual lane or in the jungle. In other words, your task here is to control the lane, gank and buy support items if position 5 is difficult to do so. Such as Night Stalker, Clockwerk, Earth Spirit, Sand King, Riki, Kunkka, Earthshaker, etc.
Meta for support
After the release of patch 7.00 there have been many changes that make support more important than ever. Changes to the map, the presence of a new object called Shrine or Backpack, and existing Runes, as well as the presence of the Talents system. This increases the importance of semi supports, such as for securing runes. Then a few months the 7.06 patch was released. Here are some important changes that make support even more important:
- Neutral creep now pops up every minute
- XP and gold from neutral creep reduced by 20%
- XP and gold from neutral creep increase by 2% every 7.5 minutes
- Add extra creeps in the mid lane in the first 15 minutes
- Creep will now meet a little closer with tower off lane enemy
- Duration of creeps agro reduced from 2.5 to 2.3
First, although neutral creeps now appear every minute, the 20% XP and gold reduction makes support as much as possible to emphasize stacking camp or securing lanes and runes. Second, extra addition creeps in the mid lane in the first 15 minutes, making the support frequent ‘meta shifts’ was evident when two competitive teams sent their support to help in the middle lane early in the match, and led to a 3v3 fight at level one. Final, Creep who met a little closer to tower offlane enemy, this makes it difficult to support the offlaner zone.
So in conclusion, the early game in the current meta is so important regardless of the strategy you have. The team will always want to maximize its performance in order to win the game and the support will help it to achieve that target. And I myself don’t emphasize that the support role is more important than other roles, just think that position 4 is so important in the current meta. So let’s not be selfish, pick the hero needed to make the team perfect hehe
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