How to Play Position 5 Support: Full Guide by 10K MMR Coach

I'm 10K MMR Support player and in this video I have covered everything that I keep in mind while playing my ranked games as support. If you follow this guide sincerely, you can get Immortal from any bracket as I myself have grind from 4K to 10K MMR playing support.

Dota Academy:

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:20 Heropool
0:55 Picking Phase
1:45 Type of Supports
2:47 First Bounty Rune Detailed ( very important )
6:03 Lane Approach
7:57 Laning: Spell Usage & Level 2 ( very important )
9:08 Creep Aggro
10:00 Lotus
10:41 Blocking & Pulling
12:41 Lane Itemization
14:47 Rotation ( very important )
16:57 TP Usage ( very important )
17:51 Wisdom Rune ( very important )
18:51 Smoke
20:26 Team Fight Approach ( very important )
22:00 Warding
22:38 Mid Game
24:55 Late Game Items
26:51 Mentality
27:54 Coaching & Outro

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[wyburp]

Hello my friend, I appreciate the love you inject in your videos. I feel like you glimpsed over some important stuff that you may or may not know, but I didint hear them in the video (tbh i jumped some parts so forgive me) so allow me to communicate them to you as a gift of gratitude :

1) Lane equilibrium basically the best lane would be to keep your carry in the armor/heal AOE of the tower while having the ennemy big camp block and moving the creep equilibrium for objectives (runes, ganks, lotus, kills) and resetting the equilibrium infront of the tower by pulling. To know if a lane will move, you have to count the difference of creeps of both team. If there is a desequilibrium, you want to proceed kill 2 creeps more than the difference of equilibrium, as there is a lag between the killing and the progressive process of desequilibrium. This is what pulling is used for : to kill that amount of creeps. You can either do "half pulls" by pulling a limited amount of creeps, ou stack for a full clearance. The closer you get to that flow, the better the theoric laning stage will be. Of course, stuff happens that will disrupt that perfect idea, but the closer you get to that, the better the early game will be.

2) Whole game plannification : know the flow of the game. This needs alot of experience, but when you know when are the powerspikes of your team and the ennemy team, you know when to play defensive, evasive or aggressive.

3) keep track of the ennemy team movements and items (especially supports) : To call out loud heroes missing in action and their general direction usually tell your team which area to avoid or how much time they got left in that area. As the principal "vision keeper" of the team (and the guy who is the most often dead xd), it's usually the pos 5 who do that. Keeping track of supports ward supply is crucial for the whole vision game. One omega trick i can give you is that if you select an ennemy portrait, you can see if he put a wards in the 3 seconds after he goes in fog. You can fallow how many wards he put after going out of fog, which is usually accurate. This will there you where is the ennemy team vision and therefore where to put wards carefully. As tracking ennemy items, that will allow you what to do in fight or when to avoid them.

4) Vision is time, not space : by knowing where the next encounter will happen or which area you want to control, you can put down vision minutes before a fights break down which give you a huge avantage on the vision game and for the incoming fight. High efficient visions are good for fights that are about to break down, not for futur fights. One type of vision that i never heard of but i think is super important is "teamfight vision". Even before the fight goes down, drop the best ward and sentry you can. It will give huge information as the fight stretch around the zone, but mostly around that spot. the ward might be "bad" but it's instant value will be crazy if not dewarded instantneouly. And still, it ask 4 hit from an hero to deward which is a good fight contribution by itself. One last type of vision is the "rune vision". As the game developp in later stage, runes will get more and more benefices, power spikes. If picked up undetected or picked up over and over, runes past min 20 have a huge impact.

TLDR <3

[kegdoty]

I’m 4k and I’ve never considered half pulling to be a thing. I’m definitely implementing that. I’ve done it before but only on accident. I normally don’t pull much unless I have the small camp stacked, this changes that

[jamesbargerbos]

This is a very good guide. Definitely worth coming back to over time as it covers a lot and as advised it’s best to implement and work on one thing at a time.

[azulcrescent]

This is a great video for pos 5! Thank you for the advice in it! ^^

[azhar]

Love your videos man, best educational content creator for Dota IMO. Hope your channel goes big :)

[Smitywerban]

Thanks a lot! I just recently started playing dota and this helps a lot!

I think i found a trick to get out of MMR hell. Pick CM and ask pos 4 2 and 3 to pick lane dominators. Level your aura at lvl 2 and focus on pulling. This allows for 2 won lanes and strong midgame that can enable your pos 1 to freefarm.

With only 450 games played i just reached archon using this and an omni strat that sadly doesnt work anymore since the omni rework.

[diogocarneiro]

This channel is gold. I rewatch these videos from time to time.

[huzaifashahid]

Really enjoyed the guide cause everything was very detailed. Looking forward for the next one

[miuzix]

Yo appreciate this video man, as I'm enjoying playing 5 in the immo bracket!

[feitofeo]

Don't stop making this kind of videos with huge value. Greetings from Cuba

[JewTube]

"every time you smoke, there needs to be a reason behind it"

Very useful advice for chain smokers trying to cute down

[xerxesmontes]

Will have more fun with my ranked role tokens grind now. Thank you

[saurabhchopra]

A great guide for supports, with great bits of advice throughout the video... Many thanks!!

[jchtx]

Im going to save this video and make sure to frequently come back to it. thank you for all of your advice!

[rckbrch]

Got back playing dota 2 again and wanted to play Rank hehe thanks for this! new sub here! Io hope your channel will grow soon!

[kimbarsumo]

This is the best guide so far for pos 5. Great vid man! Keep it up 🙂

[StayFreeStreams]

Great content i only play 5 and been away a few years !

[youtubeonly]

i remember when sonneiko hit 9k or 8k i think as a support back then. Now u. And u are just a content creator but u are so skilled, i hope some team sign u soon.

[jeffquibot]

Pos 5 done! What a great vid to watch! Pos 4, please! New subscriber here! Keep it up! ☝️

[hsoonsafia]

Nice video bro
We need guide for pos1 thanks.