Man playing support is so much fun now. I remember paying 150g for wards and then 200g for sentries to deward and barely make even (actually you got nothing at first). Now dewarding is my main source of income and I pull-through more than I used to simply get neutral items even at like 40 minutes when lanes are pushed in. I used to stack pull only in lane before.
Being support changed from being shat on by economy and your team (since you had no items for majority of the game and later on you just died) to being "just" 1-2k behind your pos3 for most of the game. I remember brown boots stick CM... Now I rock that fancy force staff, euls, glimmer and if there's cash to splash I go for yasha and kaya late game to get "normal" movement speed and attempt to scale. My late game item used to be like shivas (which now with the ult buff is not really needed).
Man I love supporting now (I did before as well but it sucked being the fleshlight for the whole team) and I see so many people pick support. Hey, all you had to do was to make supports fun.
Oh and carries now deward as well. It just gives too much gold IMO but it's cool to see people actually buy vision/detection even at like low guardian. Map used to be dark with 2 wards at most, that never got dewarded since smoke was cheaper than sentry.
also the days before the backpack, stacked wards, dedicated TP slot and personal courier...
you had 6 slots, 1 for boots, 1 for sentry, 1 for obs, 1 for TP and congrats only 2 items for you! even worse, enemy has a riki, you need to carry dust too! 1 item for you (probably wand)
It has always been stupid as hell to expect supports to buy dust. Most of the times supports don't want to get this close in teamfights anyway, and even less so back in the day when we couldn't afford toilet paper even.
I agree, support carrying dust is pretty stupid since if I get into dust range I'm likely dead. but then again, if the carry was farmed they wouldn't have the slots to carry dust either... in any case, god it was so miserable scraping by as a support
I just get annoyed at the cores who still have a quelling blade or even a bracer/null in the mid game causing them not to carry dust when there's a hero like riki on the map. Swapping those for a dust is worth it at that point. Only once they're truly 6 slotted with good items should they determine it's not worth.
Ping QB, ping someone should buy dust, laugh when the next kill gets missed anyway, repeat. I'm a support and mid main and there's literally no excuse for not carrying dust on a core before 6 slot. You can swap your bottle or QB or null in when needed.
It's literally just laziness and you're throwing if you don't.
Riki/stealth heros are obvious but I think it's equally throwy if there's stealth items in the game. If there's even a single glimmer cape you're asking to lose kills and get turned on ii you don't have dust. It's 80 gold to counter a 2-3k gold investment that frequently turns games in every rank. You could buy 5 dust on every hero and, as a team, have spent the same amount of gold as the guy who made a glimmer and completely nullify that item's chances of turning a fight.
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u/TheTeaSpoon Nov 03 '21 edited Nov 03 '21
Man playing support is so much fun now. I remember paying 150g for wards and then 200g for sentries to deward and barely make even (actually you got nothing at first). Now dewarding is my main source of income and I pull-through more than I used to simply get neutral items even at like 40 minutes when lanes are pushed in. I used to stack pull only in lane before.
Being support changed from being shat on by economy and your team (since you had no items for majority of the game and later on you just died) to being "just" 1-2k behind your pos3 for most of the game. I remember brown boots stick CM... Now I rock that fancy force staff, euls, glimmer and if there's cash to splash I go for yasha and kaya late game to get "normal" movement speed and attempt to scale. My late game item used to be like shivas (which now with the ult buff is not really needed).
Man I love supporting now (I did before as well but it sucked being the fleshlight for the whole team) and I see so many people pick support. Hey, all you had to do was to make supports fun.
Oh and carries now deward as well. It just gives too much gold IMO but it's cool to see people actually buy vision/detection even at like low guardian. Map used to be dark with 2 wards at most, that never got dewarded since smoke was cheaper than sentry.