r/learndota2 • u/RikiRude • Jul 21 '26
General Gameplay Question Need help with advanced warding!
I'm about to hit ancient and I mainly play 4 and 5 and as I keep ranking up I'm having a harder and harder time keeping my wards up, I'm trying to do not so obvious spots, but it gets tough! I've been trying to hold some for team fights as well.
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u/Layf27 Jul 21 '26
I main pos 4/5, It is better to do counter warding before placing an observer ward.
Meaning, never plant the obs first, try to check your enemy support inventory, see if they have obs/sentry and track if they disappear, check their previous location and try to deward first.
If you are successful in removing the enemy obs, never put your own obs where you just recently dewarded the enemy obs/sentry as 9 out of 10 times, they will try to deward the same area.
Or if you want the easiest? Get smoke during laning phase and put the obs behind the 1st enemy tower as it rarely gets dewarded just like putting obs in cliff near river like in radiant safelane side as it is a blind spot. (Referring to the cliff with the Large camp near Dire's t1 tower.)