[0:00] Hello friends. You wanted to go play
[0:01] Dota, but what? You have to play off
[0:04] lane now, but you're not an offlane
[0:06] player.
[0:08] What do we do? Don't worry. Whether you
[0:10] are an experienced Dota player who needs
[0:12] to brush up on how to play off lane or
[0:13] you're a new player getting into the
[0:15] role, we're going to cover all the
[0:16] basics you need to not feed to be an
[0:18] acceptable off laner, at least have some
[0:20] impact every game. Down the line, we'll
[0:22] do a more advanced guide to become like
[0:23] a real off laner. But for now, let's
[0:25] cover the basics. Keep in mind, you
[0:26] don't have to become an actual offlane
[0:28] player. theoretically the the best for
[0:30] the given bracket. We just need to be
[0:32] better than the other panicked roll Q
[0:35] offlane players or support players. The
[0:36] concepts the same. If you're doing a
[0:38] different role than usual just to earn
[0:40] the tokens, you just need to be in the
[0:41] middle of the pack doing your best as
[0:43] long as we are better than the other
[0:45] clueless people who aren't bothering to
[0:46] learn the new role and they're just
[0:48] tanking the losses. You just need to win
[0:50] some. 50% would be great, but if you're
[0:53] like 30 to 40% win rate on an off
[0:57] offlane role and then you earn your
[0:59] tokens to go play your main role and I
[1:01] assume have a positive win rate there,
[1:03] it'll work out. You can climb. But of
[1:05] course, the better you become an offlane
[1:07] so that you can win more games, that'll
[1:08] make the MMR games easier. And because
[1:10] the off link got added as a high demand
[1:12] role, that means in a lot of games, you
[1:14] versus the enemy off laner. Sometimes
[1:16] you're going to play versus actual off
[1:17] laners and they're going to be better
[1:18] than us. But actually, there's a pretty
[1:20] good chance you are just playing versus
[1:22] someone else who also does not play that
[1:24] role. They're just having to do it
[1:25] because no one is playing the role.
[1:27] That's why it's high demand. So, we just
[1:28] need to be better than them. And we are
[1:31] going to have our team is going to have
[1:32] the better off laner. It's us. First,
[1:34] we'll need to decide on a hero pool. And
[1:36] you want to hit a couple of things here.
[1:38] First, pick a simple game plan. You want
[1:40] to do you don't want have to do anything
[1:41] complex. As you get further into the
[1:43] role, you can do all that stuff later.
[1:45] For now, just something easy so you
[1:46] don't have to think that hard on it. And
[1:48] then you want a hero who can be useful
[1:50] ahead or behind. If you're watching this
[1:52] video, you're getting into the offlane
[1:54] role. You're not that good at it. So,
[1:55] we're actually likely to lose a lot of
[1:57] our lanes to start. Now, if you win,
[1:59] fantastic. Then, you know, do whatever
[2:02] you're doing as a winning hero. But
[2:04] realistically, as we start off on the
[2:06] back foot because we're bad at off lane,
[2:08] we need to still be useful. Certain
[2:10] heroes are better at that than others.
[2:12] Some people have to win their lane or
[2:14] they're useless. I don't want to play
[2:16] those heroes even though they might be
[2:17] strong laners. Uh so you could do it if
[2:19] you really want to, but my advice be
[2:21] useful whether you are ahead or behind.
[2:23] With that said, I don't actually want to
[2:25] lose all my lanes. So pick strong laners
[2:29] rather than weak laners just to make it
[2:30] easier on yourself. But if you do lose
[2:33] the lane, people who can jungle early to
[2:36] recover are very nice. With this in
[2:38] mind, there's a certain type of offlaner
[2:40] that is best to start with in my
[2:42] opinion, and that is going to be
[2:44] initiators and or aura builders. They
[2:47] usually they frequently overlap, not
[2:49] always. If you pick one or both of
[2:52] these, you're going to be in a good
[2:53] spot. If you need a new off laner to
[2:54] learn, these are my go-to
[2:56] recommendations. They all are fairly
[2:58] tanky in the lane. You know, starting at
[3:00] the beginning, we got Centaur and Axe.
[3:02] Very high strength, some of the highest
[3:03] in the game, and then some of the
[3:05] highest HP regen in the game. So even as
[3:07] you get harassed, you'll just heal up
[3:09] naturally. You've got the retaliate
[3:11] build on centaur and then spin on axe.
[3:14] So in the lane, the first few levels can
[3:16] be a little awkward, but once you get
[3:18] past that, you walk into the creep wave,
[3:20] you farm it. You walk into the jungle
[3:22] camps, you farm it. The enemies hit you
[3:24] and you don't know how to harass, they
[3:25] take some damage back, right? So it's
[3:27] it's not that hard to do. And you just
[3:29] focused on last hitting as you are new
[3:31] and then eventually hitting your item
[3:33] timings later. you will then be a fairly
[3:35] low cooldown playmaker with like blink
[3:37] hoof stomp or blink call and that is
[3:39] useful no matter what every single game.
[3:42] Tide hunter and underlord they're more
[3:44] aura builders but also very tanky in the
[3:47] lane. Tide hunter has the anchor smash
[3:49] to reduce enemy damage when he hits them
[3:51] with it and then he has kraken shell for
[3:53] guaranteed damage block whereas
[3:55] underlord has the atrophy aura which
[3:57] reduces enemies attack damage so he just
[4:00] takes less damage when they hit him.
[4:03] Then in fights, uh, Tide Hunter, you
[4:05] know, the big AoE ravage, build auras.
[4:06] Underlord, build auras. Fiends gate in.
[4:09] That part's a little bit more complex,
[4:10] but you can also just be with your team.
[4:12] Uh, fiends gate people into you. And
[4:14] then just, okay, giant AoE pit, giant
[4:17] AoE firestorm, press my auras, I'm
[4:20] contributing. It's very straightforward.
[4:22] The last three are more honorable
[4:24] mentions. Uh, I don't like them as much,
[4:26] but I still think they're fairly
[4:27] straightforward. Dragonite has high
[4:29] armor and HP regen in the lane, so it's
[4:32] hard to bully him out. You can get a
[4:34] blink so you can initiate for your team.
[4:35] You push towers with your ultimate. Then
[4:38] you kind of scale for damage, which is
[4:40] why I'm like, you know, not as uh not as
[4:44] good of an offlane pick for keeping
[4:46] things simple, but uh at least the lane
[4:48] I think is straightforward. Abdon kind
[4:51] of similar cuz his main build right now
[4:52] is to go for radiance, but throughout
[4:54] the game you're just hard to kill.
[4:56] Aphotic shield is a great utility uh
[4:59] spell for your team because it's a
[5:00] strong dispel and then you can kind of
[5:03] build some auras, but you also kind of
[5:05] build for damage. And then that's also
[5:07] true for Viper where you crush certain
[5:10] people in the lane and you often build
[5:14] towards being very tanky but also kind
[5:17] of doing damage, which is fine. I'm
[5:19] giving you guys the options. But the
[5:21] downside of these types of heroes,
[5:22] especially Abdon and Viper, if you don't
[5:26] do well in the lane, you can fall off
[5:28] pretty hard because uh these three
[5:30] heroes do not have farming mechanics as
[5:33] easy as these four heroes. Uh Viper has
[5:36] like a Nether toxin build that kind of
[5:38] bumps him up there. So, he's a little
[5:39] safer and I did want to give a ranged
[5:41] off laner. Uh, so you guys have options.
[5:43] But he is meant to win the lane. And if
[5:45] you don't win the lane cuz your like
[5:47] mechanics are a little iffy, then I feel
[5:49] like these three can be a little shaky.
[5:52] For the other positions who need to
[5:53] learn some off lane, a different
[5:55] approach you can take is to just play a
[5:57] hero you already play as a carry, as a
[5:59] support. And hey, they can work as a mid
[6:01] laner. So then you just do that. And
[6:03] you're already comfortable with the
[6:04] hero. You might be doing a new build.
[6:06] you're going to be higher level and more
[6:07] money, especially for like supports than
[6:09] maybe you're used to, but you kind of
[6:11] already know like roughly your matchups
[6:13] and how your abilities work. So, you
[6:14] make it a little easier for yourself and
[6:15] now you just have to play in a new lane
[6:18] and a new role. Uh, but then that's
[6:20] easier than just like completely brand
[6:21] new stuff. The downside is there's only
[6:24] so many heroes that overlap multiple
[6:27] roles, like truly overlap multiple
[6:29] roles. So, I tried to put those heroes
[6:31] closer to the front here. So, for
[6:33] example, you see like if you happen to
[6:34] play any of these guys as carries,
[6:36] they're like actual offlaners. Same down
[6:39] here. Like you can run these as actual
[6:41] offlanes.
[6:43] The further you go, I admit especially
[6:45] the experienced Dota players, you're
[6:46] probably like, "Zack, that one seems
[6:47] kind of griefy." And I, you know, kind
[6:50] of agree. But if, for example, a carry
[6:53] player is like stuck in the off lane,
[6:54] it's like, "Look, I can play D or I can
[6:56] play Wind Ranger. God, please pick Wind
[6:58] Ranger off lane over Draw, dude. Don't
[7:01] no D off lane. Please Win Ranger, right?
[7:04] That's what that tier of off laners are
[7:06] like. It's like the real C to D to lower
[7:08] tier heroes, but they aren't the
[7:10] absolute garbage worst pick you could go
[7:13] and you've seen it in your pubs. Like it
[7:15] does happen. The reason they're a little
[7:17] griefy is cuz many of them just build
[7:19] towards damage. So like the Wind
[7:20] Rangers, the Weavers, Terblade offline,
[7:22] I know you could do like the pipe, but
[7:23] then it's like it's into damage, you
[7:25] know? So like, oh damage, you know? So
[7:28] it is a little but it works. And if
[7:31] you're a more experienced Dota player,
[7:33] you can kind of understand certain
[7:34] matchups when these heroes would be
[7:35] better uh and then go towards it. I
[7:38] think a newer player, you know, you
[7:39] wouldn't really know why this is kind of
[7:40] griefy or when it's good. So then I
[7:42] would wouldn't recommend it as much. Uh
[7:44] but for the off lane, like I just need
[7:47] to off lane and I'm just going to play
[7:48] heroes that are good enough, then these
[7:50] are some that I think are they're
[7:52] acceptable. They're not the worst out
[7:54] there. I know these three are actually
[7:55] more offlaners than carries. This is for
[7:58] people who want to try to pick up
[8:00] semicaries. uh carry players
[8:01] specifically and then you can play it in
[8:03] off lane or in the safe lane depending
[8:05] on the lineup. Especially when you have
[8:06] like sniper mids, TA mids, things that
[8:08] are actual carries and you don't need a
[8:10] second carry. You actually need to bring
[8:12] a bit more utility upfront value to your
[8:14] team. Then you can learn one of these
[8:16] guys and then flex that in between your
[8:17] roles. I've got a cheat sheet for you to
[8:19] help you understand what to prioritize
[8:20] at different times of the game here.
[8:22] Starting with the lane at 0 minutes, get
[8:25] the lane to come back. back. I know this
[8:27] sounds obvious, but as soon as the
[8:28] bounty is grabbed, we're going to run to
[8:30] the lane, and we're going to do a
[8:31] variety of tricks to bring the lane
[8:34] towards our offlane tower to make laning
[8:36] safer for us, but it might also open up
[8:39] some kill options on your opponents. I'm
[8:41] going to talk through uh some examples
[8:43] of this later, so we're just going to
[8:44] brush over it for now. And uh more
[8:46] details to come. 7 minutes, the wisdom
[8:49] shrine activates. You have to make sure
[8:51] your team gets at least one wisdom
[8:54] shrine. If you lose both, the game is
[8:56] very hard. If you can secure both,
[8:57] great. But you're not usually involved
[8:59] in stealing the enemy wisdom shrine,
[9:01] unless you have like some global
[9:02] ability. Most of the time, the off lane
[9:04] is part of securing the wisdom shrine
[9:06] that is right by the lane. You don't
[9:08] strictly need to be the one to get it.
[9:10] If your four supports headed over and
[9:12] you can see the enemy heroes in the lane
[9:14] still, you're fine. Just stay where you
[9:15] are. But if you think the enemy is
[9:17] invading, then you need to go get it.
[9:19] And if the support is busy, you need to
[9:21] make sure you head over to the wisdom
[9:22] shrine to get it. Along that topic, when
[9:25] the support is busy, because they're
[9:26] going to go get the wisdom shrine, you
[9:28] can't die. You just have to be patient.
[9:30] You will lose a little bit in the lane,
[9:31] but that's okay. That also applies when
[9:33] the lane is coming towards you. If you
[9:35] can count to five, you can figure out
[9:38] which way the wave is going. I recommend
[9:40] you practice this for yourself. So, come
[9:42] over to play Dota. Don't actually play
[9:43] Dota. Create a custom lobby. Come over
[9:45] to these settings. Make sure we are
[9:47] filling in the empty slots with bots.
[9:49] Uh, make it all pick and then whichever
[9:51] team you're going to be on, we'll do
[9:52] radiant first. Give yourself passive
[9:54] bots or new player bots. That'll
[9:56] simulate your teammates. And on the
[9:58] enemy side, give them whichever
[10:00] difficulty you feel comfortable with.
[10:02] But the higher you can go and manage,
[10:04] the the more prepared you will be. We're
[10:06] going to walk out to lane, and I'm just
[10:07] going to give you a couple tips here
[10:09] while we wait for the creeps. First, I
[10:11] really recommend you buy a safety salve
[10:13] just as a default. The Salve is very
[10:15] forgiving. When you mess up, inevitably
[10:17] playing a new role, new hero, the Salve
[10:19] will heal you back up. You want to do a
[10:21] little bit of backpack efficiency, go
[10:22] for it. But the the Salve just as your
[10:24] starting purchase off the bounty runes
[10:27] will just cover your ass. And then as
[10:29] you get more comfortable, then you can
[10:30] start skipping it if you don't think you
[10:31] need it. Uh at least until later when
[10:33] you like end up do needing it. Bounty
[10:35] runes, don't go crazy, guys. We're bad
[10:38] at the off lane. Go there safely. So
[10:41] take a very defensive posture. If your
[10:42] team is with you for this rune, just do
[10:44] it. You get one bounty rune, it's no
[10:46] problem. If your team wants to be here,
[10:48] that's fine. You can come over as well
[10:49] and then TP to lane. If you don't want
[10:51] to go and you just want to like do
[10:52] something safe, also wouldn't mind. And
[10:54] if you see enemy heroes and you're by
[10:56] yourself, just give up on it. And if
[10:58] they aren't there, then oh my god, get
[11:00] out of here. I might die. Actually, I
[11:02] think we're okay. We're pretty fast. So
[11:04] we're going to come over here. And then
[11:06] because I just walked a lane, you maybe
[11:09] take this angle too if you need to. You
[11:10] could also end up tping like if you went
[11:12] bottom. I'll just t to show you. We'll
[11:13] do a, you know, somewhere up front.
[11:15] We're going to head to our creeps and
[11:16] we're going to body block the first or
[11:18] we're going to body block the back
[11:20] three. This is a very safe trick to do
[11:23] because you can just TP to your tower.
[11:24] Like this is always doable if you're
[11:26] being safe at the bounty runes. Now, I'm
[11:28] not going to do too much here. I'm going
[11:30] to turn on the XP range indicator. If
[11:33] you come over to the settings, it's
[11:34] under Dotal Labs interface persistent
[11:37] range indicators. Alt rightclick your
[11:38] XP. And I'm going to pretend I have a
[11:40] useless support. So, because I have done
[11:43] this trick, the first creep walked up
[11:46] and started fighting the enemy four
[11:48] creeps first. So, you can see as the
[11:50] rest of the creeps get here, my creep is
[11:53] already half dead. So, it's going to
[11:56] quickly become four versus three. And
[11:58] because I can count, I know four is more
[12:01] than three. I could do extra tricks
[12:04] here. And which doctor might try to
[12:06] grief me, but I'm not going to right
[12:08] now. I'm just going to show you that
[12:09] this block alone is enough. Look, the
[12:11] enemy is even doing some damage. This
[12:12] actually going to happen. I'm going to
[12:13] try to get No, I didn't get him killed.
[12:15] Uh the enemy will do this kind of stuff
[12:16] actually surprisingly a lot if you are
[12:18] crusader and lower. The bots don't
[12:20] usually go this aggressive. That was a
[12:22] little weird. But you can see depending
[12:24] on a little bit of a mistake, it is
[12:25] shoved in the lane now. And look where
[12:27] I'm laning. I am set for the rest of the
[12:29] game actually because it's now up to
[12:31] these guys to fix the lane. These creeps
[12:34] that are just spawned at 1 minute,
[12:36] they're walking into the lane. They're
[12:38] supposed to meet the wave here. This
[12:41] wave right here, they're supposed to
[12:42] meet here. Any amount of delay from
[12:46] these creeps that affect these creeps
[12:49] bring the equilibrium from here to here.
[12:53] Now, you don't need to fully understand
[12:54] this. All you need to know is that once
[12:57] you get a wave here, what will
[12:58] frequently happen is it will keep doing
[13:00] this. Even as you bring it under tower,
[13:02] the wave will just keep bouncing back
[13:05] and forth. This was maybe the most
[13:07] dangerous.
[13:09] This actually a strong combo right here.
[13:11] And here is going to be the safest. So,
[13:14] you just evaluate on the lane where can
[13:16] you get last hits. And anytime you're
[13:18] scared, just default to a safer tier.
[13:21] So, right now, I'm I'm too scared. I'm
[13:23] just going to be back here. my witch AFK
[13:25] witch doctor feeding. Who knows, right?
[13:27] I don't need to die for that deny. Look,
[13:29] the creeps are coming in. I'm going to
[13:31] start being pretty safe. I have the
[13:32] tower behind me and I'm going to go for
[13:34] last. So, I'm going to miss them cuz I'm
[13:35] bad, but at least I can try to get some
[13:37] and I can get the XP. And you can see
[13:40] because this creep wave is interacting
[13:41] with the next one. It has delayed them
[13:43] and they're now meeting this creep wave
[13:45] that was supposed to meet here, we're
[13:47] now meeting here. And once again, pushed
[13:49] up. It's going to push back down. My
[13:52] creep wave shoves up. Where's the next
[13:54] creep wave? This time, um, my tower did
[13:57] a good amount of damage, but it still
[13:59] delayed a little bit. Once again, three
[14:02] creeps versus four creeps. I'm gonna
[14:03] come. Look, they're being weird. I get
[14:05] to last it, right? Sometimes, okay,
[14:07] these bots are being wacky, but what
[14:09] will happen more often in your pub
[14:10] games, like someone will try to do a
[14:12] pull and they'll leave. Maybe they
[14:13] don't. They keep sitting here, then you
[14:14] just see what I'm doing. I just keep
[14:16] sitting in this area and pull them back.
[14:19] Get my last hits. Uh-oh, the carry's
[14:20] here. I'm scared. Hit your own creeps as
[14:22] much you can. This is the extra tip. Hit
[14:24] your own creeps to kill them off faster.
[14:26] This one gets low, kill it. If you miss
[14:28] a last hit, you actually shouldn't. You
[14:30] should prioritize last hits. But if
[14:32] you're scared, that's okay. Then just go
[14:33] for N. Look at my feeding support. Let
[14:35] him die. I don't care. The creep wave is
[14:37] pushing in. I'm going to drag it here.
[14:40] By the way, what will frequently happen
[14:41] is that the melee creep that tanks the
[14:43] tower first will die and then, okay,
[14:45] well, in this case, it just went to
[14:46] another melee creep. It often goes to
[14:48] the range creep in the back. And so as
[14:51] you drag the creep wave back, make sure
[14:52] you kind of turn around in time to
[14:54] attempt this creep. If you miss it, it's
[14:56] not the end of the world. If you have a
[14:58] ranged ability, you can use that to get
[14:59] it. Um, but it's just a little bonus tip
[15:01] to help you get CS under the tower.
[15:03] Ranged creeps are often let the tower
[15:05] hit it three times and then you hit it
[15:07] once or you hit it once, the tower hits
[15:09] twice, then you hit it once if you have
[15:10] higher damage. For melee creeps, hit it
[15:12] once if they're full health. Hit it
[15:14] once, let the tower do all the shots,
[15:16] and then you hit it again at the end.
[15:17] That is a very rough guideline cuz it
[15:20] does depend on your damage, what the
[15:21] creep's focusing. Don't worry if you
[15:22] miss last hits for now, guys. Just do
[15:24] your best. We're all learning off lane.
[15:25] Again, if you weren't playing off lane
[15:27] before, let's say your team goes for an
[15:28] aggressive play. I would generally
[15:30] follow them. You end up here. So, we are
[15:32] going to grab the rune and then we are
[15:35] going to aggressively body block the
[15:37] enemy's creep wave. If you're not sure
[15:38] where they are, look at your own side.
[15:40] It's going to be mirrored. So, they're
[15:41] by this tower. It's going to be here.
[15:43] The timing is about 13 to 15 seconds
[15:45] where you need to be here. So, I'm just
[15:47] going to stand here. And now I'm going
[15:48] to head over and I'm just going to start
[15:50] body blocking because they're supposed
[15:52] to meet just outside the tower. Just a
[15:55] little bit of body blocking on my part
[15:57] means that my creep wave will now go
[15:59] under the tower and I get scared so I'd
[16:00] run away. You don't have to do the full
[16:02] block. Like honestly, just blocking like
[16:03] from here to here is likely to be
[16:05] enough. Uh, this can be a little bit
[16:07] dangerous. You see, I'm like passing
[16:08] some enemy heroes. As you get better at
[16:10] the game, you keep an eye on the map,
[16:11] you see them showing other places, then
[16:13] you will realize that this is actually
[16:14] surprisingly safe.
[16:16] because it went under tower. Look how
[16:18] hard this pushed out compared to the
[16:20] other trick we did where I let the one
[16:21] creep go through and I mentioned if they
[16:23] hit their own creeps, they could fix it.
[16:25] There's actually nothing you can do to
[16:26] fix this. Like once the tower starts
[16:28] hitting creeps, you're cooked. You have
[16:30] to they have to come out and body block
[16:33] our creep wave and most pubs are simply
[16:35] not going to do that. So right away on
[16:37] the very first wave, the wave has shoved
[16:39] in and now I'm laning here. Maybe it's a
[16:41] little further up than I like. So I'm
[16:42] just going to keep being safe and I'm
[16:43] going to wait for it to come in. You
[16:44] don't have to be this is overly passive,
[16:46] but let's just say you're really scared
[16:47] cuz this guy's gone. Then don't lose
[16:49] your health for one creep. Just wait.
[16:51] And now here it is. And even if I bring
[16:54] this under tower, it will just do what
[16:56] we talked about. It'll push out, push
[16:58] back in. You come to the lane late.
[17:00] We're not able to do the body blocking
[17:02] trick. So the creeps are going to meet
[17:03] normally. Actually, even if you block
[17:05] the back three and let the first one go
[17:07] through, you can still do this trick. So
[17:08] because the creep wave meets here, we're
[17:10] going to immediately draw aggro. And if
[17:13] you can time it with the range creep
[17:14] attacking like now it works out because
[17:16] like you pull it back and then these
[17:18] guys get aggroed by the range creep.
[17:19] It's a little messy sometimes. Um but
[17:22] you can attempt that. And then I hit
[17:24] their creeps. I mean I should get this
[17:25] lasted I guess because I aggroed my
[17:28] creeps went under the tower right away.
[17:30] And then here we are. And then I just
[17:31] hit my own creeps. Maybe I don't get the
[17:33] deny. No big deal. But I help kill the
[17:36] creeps faster. And look at that. The
[17:37] very first wave already up here again.
[17:40] And it's going to do what? It's going to
[17:42] push in. It's going to push back out.
[17:43] Going to push in. Going to push back
[17:45] out. I'm just in a good spot
[17:47] immediately. Why not just block every
[17:49] creep? There are reasons to do this, but
[17:52] as a newer off laner, I don't recommend
[17:54] this because it requires more
[17:55] participation from you to get the lane
[17:58] to actually come back. So, I do the body
[17:59] block. Let's just stop there. And now it
[18:01] meets. I can count. So, I know that this
[18:04] is four creeps versus four creeps, which
[18:07] means this is actually at equilibrium
[18:10] even though it's a little further here.
[18:12] And I did the air quotes cuz actually
[18:14] it's going to push slightly this way
[18:15] because my creeps are going to meet here
[18:17] first. It's getting advanced. Don't
[18:18] worry about that. So, this is like fake
[18:21] equilibrium where for one wave it's a
[18:23] little better than here. And if I did a
[18:25] better block, you know, maybe it's like
[18:26] here, whatever. From then on, it's going
[18:30] to be moving this way and then sit here
[18:33] again unless I do more work. And if I
[18:37] can, then it's okay. And that's part of
[18:39] the reason you would do this, cuz you
[18:40] feel you can play the lane. But if we
[18:43] are taking the safest default route and
[18:46] my support, who knows what they're
[18:47] doing? Oh, I swear they're going to be
[18:49] smurfs on the enemy team and I'm I I'm
[18:51] just going to get destroyed. then I
[18:52] can't actively participate here and I
[18:55] need to be running in the trees while
[18:56] the other tricks I did the body block
[18:58] here instant creep aggrager to get to go
[19:00] into the tower blocking one creep
[19:01] forward. All of those work themselves
[19:04] out without me needing to do anything
[19:06] else here. Once this happens, which can
[19:08] happen like even if you were trying to
[19:10] do the other stuff, sometimes it doesn't
[19:11] pan out. What we're going to do is
[19:12] instantly hit our own creeps as soon as
[19:15] they drop below 50%.
[19:17] And now look at that count. Four creeps
[19:19] versus three creeps. Even if I don't do
[19:21] much here, I'm not going to use too many
[19:23] other tricks right now. I'm just going
[19:24] to hit my own creeps as much as
[19:26] possible. And if the enemies don't do
[19:28] the same thing, look what's happening.
[19:30] They should, you can see the creeps were
[19:32] below 50, but they aren't hitting it.
[19:35] And until you get to immortal, people
[19:38] are not going to consistently hit their
[19:39] own creeps even as they see you do it.
[19:42] So from here, you just have better
[19:44] equilibrium, right? We're still kind of
[19:46] here for now. I'm still having to work
[19:47] for it, you see? And that's why this
[19:49] isn't as great. You see how close I am
[19:51] to the enemy heroes frequently, but
[19:52] we're getting there. I am pulling it
[19:54] back over time. And again, you can do
[19:57] more tricks. I'm just trying to show you
[19:58] the basics right here why you have to be
[20:00] involved in this. Okay. And now here I
[20:02] am. It takes about 30 seconds to a
[20:05] minute longer. And it could take a lot
[20:06] longer depending what the enemy does.
[20:08] The other tricks were pretty instant
[20:10] that very quickly the lane came back out
[20:12] to me and I was good to go. But let's
[20:15] just mess things up. I start attacking
[20:17] too much. I get involved in a fight, my
[20:19] four support is terrible, and we start
[20:21] shoving the lane. It might take a little
[20:22] bit to do,
[20:25] but at this point here, you can see we
[20:27] have two range creeps and four creeps.
[20:29] The lane is shoving. So, at this point,
[20:32] just commit cuz it's actually really
[20:34] hard to fix it with any of the tricks we
[20:36] talked about. So, we're just going to
[20:38] shove the lane. Don't use spells that
[20:39] early. That was actually bad. Bad
[20:41] example. You should use the spells to
[20:42] secure the creeps, not to lower them. So
[20:44] lower the creeps with auto attacks and
[20:45] then use spells and then come do your
[20:48] own pull. Shove the lane in. Look, they
[20:50] have to deal with this. They can't stop
[20:52] me. I was like, this the support's
[20:54] supposed to do this. It doesn't matter,
[20:55] guys. Someone's got to do it and we're
[20:57] going to be self-sufficient. So once the
[20:59] lane starts shoving in cuz the support
[21:01] tried to grief you, just commit. Do your
[21:03] own pull. Zach, it's blocked and the
[21:05] support hasn't. So then buy your own
[21:07] sentry and then shove it in and then do
[21:09] your own pull. It's just how it's got to
[21:12] be. if uh your rank is like a little
[21:14] lower and people are doing this kind of
[21:15] thing to you. Now, you'll notice because
[21:17] I was doing the pull, this creep wave
[21:18] walked into the tower, that's where you
[21:20] mess up. You do not want to allow that
[21:21] to happen. So, I did a pull. I can come
[21:24] over, grab this creep wave, and if I'm
[21:25] feeling strong, I just bring it over
[21:27] here. This will get my creeps killed off
[21:30] cuz they're finding the neutral camp.
[21:31] And then these all die. Now, here you
[21:33] may enter a weird spot where now their
[21:34] camps fight the neutral camp. And this
[21:36] is where things are a little bizarre. U
[21:39] it can be okay. It's just, as you see,
[21:41] very chaotic. Um, but it will still lead
[21:44] to your equilibrium overall because now
[21:47] we have these creeps. Then we can even
[21:49] reconnect them into here. And then I
[21:51] have the ability to count. And so now I
[21:53] know the enemy has more creeps than I
[21:56] do. I hit my own creeps a little bit.
[21:58] And then here we are. You only do this
[22:00] if you feel strong enough to fight over
[22:03] this camp. This time we're going to
[22:04] pretend we're a weak lane. So I did the
[22:06] pull. The wave is coming in. And the
[22:07] enemy carries going to be coming up. Oh,
[22:09] I'm scared. So, I've run away. Now, the
[22:11] downside of this is that I'm going to
[22:12] give the enemy the creep camp. So, he's
[22:14] going to get more gold. But, if I was
[22:16] losing the lane the whole time, he's
[22:18] getting a lot of money. I need to get
[22:19] something. So, then we are giving him
[22:21] short-term value for long-term
[22:23] equilibrium for us. So, I bring the
[22:24] creeps around like this. And then I
[22:26] start laning. Now, for him, he was
[22:28] killing my creeps. And so, you actually
[22:30] see there's not a lot alive. They could
[22:32] have done a better job. Let's say the
[22:33] carry just focused on killing the
[22:34] creeps. They then bring it in and now
[22:36] they're kind of matching what we're
[22:38] doing. Um, but a lot of carries will
[22:39] also just bring it under the tower and
[22:41] then their creeps will die. So depending
[22:44] what they do, it may still work out in
[22:47] their favor and we have to try again.
[22:49] But if they mess up at all, we're back
[22:51] in this situation where because I kept
[22:53] the creep wave alive by running it in
[22:55] circles, I'm laning here. You've seen
[22:58] this. I won't repeat it too much, but
[23:00] now we are happy again and they have to
[23:02] go do a pull. And you have seen many
[23:05] times where people try to do a small
[23:06] pull and it it temporarily brings the
[23:08] lane up and then it ends up under the
[23:10] tower and then shoves back out. So once
[23:12] you identify that, you know, ah, this is
[23:14] where I have to be patient. I don't take
[23:16] crazy risks cuz I know in 30 seconds the
[23:18] lane's going to be right back here once
[23:20] again. I'm going to be happy to last it
[23:22] and do my best and so I don't have to do
[23:24] anything insane. If you're strong
[23:26] enough, sure, go for it. But you don't
[23:28] have to. The last thing you can try is
[23:30] to just constantly draw creep aggro. I
[23:33] don't. This is the last thing you should
[23:34] try because there is a much more refined
[23:38] way to do this. It goes beyond the scope
[23:40] of this guide. I have a creep aggro
[23:41] guide kind of covers a bit of it. There
[23:44] could actually be even more detail
[23:45] beyond that. So, it's too much to talk
[23:47] about in this one video, but essentially
[23:52] if you draw no creep aggro and the enemy
[23:55] is stronger than you, they can do all
[23:57] the tricks I have told you as well. And
[23:59] so they can keep the lane here forever
[24:02] if it just is a standard lane. I'm too
[24:04] scared to go in. I'm too scared to do
[24:05] anything. So just start drawing aggro
[24:08] nonstop even though you may not
[24:10] understand what's happening. So first
[24:12] the creeps walked back to me and you
[24:14] saw, oh, it came closer to me than the
[24:16] enemies. So then it was easier to get
[24:18] elastited. You know, kind of like that.
[24:20] You could try for denies like this if
[24:22] you want, but one of two things is going
[24:25] to happen is either the creeps are going
[24:26] to split up like this, which makes
[24:28] things easier on you, right? Rather than
[24:30] all the creeps here and we're constantly
[24:32] losing cuz the enemy is stronger than us
[24:34] and I can't even approach this area. Now
[24:36] it's split like this and it's up to the
[24:37] enemy to be like, how do I how do I
[24:39] manage both? Do I get this one and this
[24:41] one? Like where do I stand? Right? We're
[24:43] creating chaos as the off lane. And if
[24:46] we're losing non-stop, then we want the
[24:49] chaos. We want the wave to get split up.
[24:51] We want builds to uh develop. So you see
[24:54] now my creep wave is pushing because I
[24:56] drew so much creep aggro. And I'm going
[24:58] to keep doing it, right? Rather than
[24:59] lane here, I'm laning a little further
[25:01] back. Rather than lane here, I'm coming
[25:03] back even a little further. You can do
[25:05] more advanced stuff. I just don't want
[25:06] to talk about it right now. Like I said,
[25:07] trying to keep it simple. We may miss
[25:09] some creeps during this, but we will
[25:11] skill check the enemy. I keep two creep
[25:14] waves like this. I was losing every
[25:16] single creep trying to lane up here. But
[25:17] now I've actually secured two creeps for
[25:20] myself. And if I was XP range of the
[25:22] others, then I at least got that. And
[25:24] now my lane is shoving in. Did the enemy
[25:26] keep the creeps out of the tower? Did
[25:28] they know to do that or did they let
[25:30] something like this happen where they
[25:31] died? Okay, time to resume. Like start
[25:33] drawing creep a like non-stop crazy.
[25:36] Hope like that creep goes under tower.
[25:37] Hope the enemies are like drawing creep
[25:39] aggro and messing things up as well. I'm
[25:41] just going to make things chaotic. You
[25:43] again, you can do this in a much more
[25:45] refined manner, but for a beginner who
[25:47] is lost, just keep doing this. Watch the
[25:50] creep aggro video so you know how to
[25:52] creep aggro and then just keep a
[25:54] clicking the enemy and stepping back and
[25:56] things like this are going to happen
[25:58] where it builds up large creep waves one
[26:00] way or the other just cuz like things
[26:02] are getting so weird and you will be
[26:04] able to find some CS rather than the
[26:08] lane being static and you lose
[26:10] everything. One of your first big
[26:11] objectives as the laning stage starts to
[26:13] end is to take the enemy safe lane
[26:15] tower. This is just a very safe first
[26:18] play to go towards. It's not going to be
[26:20] like a oneanddone type thing. Most
[26:21] likely you're probably just going to
[26:22] have to like keep pushing for it. You
[26:24] might have to get a couple fights. But
[26:25] anytime you're feeling lost and you see
[26:27] that tower is up, okay, let me head down
[26:29] there. Let me try to take that tower.
[26:31] And once you do take that tower, try to
[26:33] occupy the enemy safe lane jungle until
[26:36] you hit some kind of power spike. This
[26:38] will depend on the hero you play, but
[26:40] it's usually something like a blink
[26:41] dagger or an aura item. And then it is
[26:45] easier to join fights around the map.
[26:48] That doesn't mean literally never leave
[26:50] until you have those items, but if
[26:52] you're feeling unsure, this is a good
[26:54] default move. And when you have your
[26:56] abilities available, you could probably
[26:58] head over somewhere else, make the play,
[27:00] and then, oh, what do I do? Oh, let me
[27:02] head back to the enemy safe lane jungle.
[27:05] Now, if you're really not sure what your
[27:06] power spikes are because you're a new
[27:07] player, around 20 minutes, it's a little
[27:10] on the later side, but if you're new,
[27:11] then it's going to actually happen
[27:13] around this time naturally, you're going
[27:14] to see people start moving together and
[27:17] just go. You may not understand why, but
[27:19] like, oh, my team's all there. I guess
[27:21] I'll head over it. It's not always the
[27:23] right thing to do, but for now, it's
[27:25] it's going to be a safe uh a safe move.
[27:28] This is going to be part of an effective
[27:29] farming video in the near future. So,
[27:31] I'm only going to do the quick version
[27:33] here to help you understand why we're
[27:34] doing certain stuff as the off lane.
[27:37] First of all, a lane creep wave at the
[27:39] start is about 160 gold, 240 XP. Over
[27:41] time, these ramp up, but don't worry
[27:43] about that for now. So, we both have
[27:45] creep wave spawning. So, there's 320
[27:47] gold and 480 XP every minute cuz there's
[27:50] two creep waves a minute. And we fight
[27:52] over this at the start of the game
[27:53] because we're too weak to do anything
[27:54] else. Now, you might use the pole camps
[27:56] or you eventually get strong enough to
[27:58] start farming these camps and then you
[28:00] can add in an extra 160 gold and 250 XP
[28:03] that we fight over. This is usually
[28:05] about the first 5 minutes because then
[28:07] you have enough levels and enough items
[28:09] that you can start opening up more of
[28:11] the jungle and you can farm it without
[28:12] just dying and wasting your time. So,
[28:14] those jungles can be like anywhere on
[28:16] the map where you go is very game
[28:18] dependent. But for example, say you're
[28:20] having an off lane, having a rough time,
[28:22] then you might fall back to these camps
[28:23] or to this camp. And yeah, you can see
[28:25] like, okay, if I just completely abandon
[28:27] the lane, I'm getting none of this, but
[28:30] I'm getting about half of it over here,
[28:32] which is better than losing everything
[28:33] in the lane and feeding. So, if you're
[28:35] having a really bad time, try to fall
[28:36] back to one of these. Uh, some of the
[28:38] off laners I recommended can do the
[28:39] ancients relatively early. They often
[28:41] need an item to do it, but it is at
[28:44] least doable um relatively early. You
[28:47] will notice though that if we add up
[28:48] these values, if I'm the off lane and I
[28:51] keep falling back here, sure, maybe I'm
[28:53] getting all the creep wave money and
[28:54] then farming 500 gold. But if I leave
[28:56] the carry alone, they're getting the
[28:58] creep wave and then there's 360 gold
[29:00] here and then 400 over here. So the
[29:03] longer they're left in this area,
[29:05] they're actually going to out farm me as
[29:06] the off laner. Now you might be saying,
[29:08] Zach, I mean, is some of this not there?
[29:10] Like the mid laner might get this. Yeah,
[29:12] but like the mid laner might get some of
[29:13] this that I'm stealing from them, too.
[29:15] So, however it's split, the enemy has a
[29:18] lot more money available to them here
[29:20] than we do here. And I don't want them
[29:22] to have that money before the safe lane
[29:24] tower falls. The split is something like
[29:26] this where the off lane can play the
[29:27] lane and then feel comfortable falling
[29:29] back to their own jungle and then maybe
[29:30] fight over this stuff and then the safe
[29:32] lane does the same, right? They push the
[29:33] lane and then they feel comfortable
[29:35] fighting over this potentially and then
[29:36] the rest is where they feel a little bit
[29:38] safer. So, a very common safe lane
[29:40] farming pattern is to push the lane and
[29:42] then go this way and then you
[29:44] re-evaluate. Oh, the off lane has shoved
[29:45] the lane back. Okay, I I'm like right by
[29:47] my tower. I push it back again. And then
[29:49] maybe I like I come down here if I can
[29:51] farm ancients early enough. And then I
[29:53] look again. Oh, the off laner shoved it
[29:54] back. Okay, I just come back to the lane
[29:56] once again. What if the off laner isn't
[29:58] pushing the lane and they're just
[29:59] holding it here? Well, okay, maybe I'm
[30:01] over here. Let me just head over here.
[30:03] Are they pushing it back? Sure, I'll
[30:05] come back to the lane like right away.
[30:07] Oh, they're still not doing it. Well,
[30:08] let me just keep going. Have they pushed
[30:10] it back? Okay. Oh, they haven't. Okay,
[30:12] maybe over here. and then push back
[30:14] here. I could do this number of arrows
[30:17] any which way. You can increase the
[30:19] efficiency by like timing it with things
[30:21] respawning, stacking a little bit
[30:22] advanced for this. The point is the safe
[30:24] lane has a million options here of how
[30:26] they path and come back to the lane and
[30:29] get more gold as you saw from the
[30:30] previous slide compared to us as the off
[30:33] lane. When we take the enemy safe lane
[30:34] tower, we open up more options for
[30:36] ourselves as the off lane while
[30:38] restricting the safe lane because this
[30:39] is now the new split where they feel
[30:41] safe up to their tower. They push the
[30:42] lane out and then h I don't feel so good
[30:44] because the off laner is playing it here
[30:46] and I can't see in that jungle. So, is
[30:48] he waiting to kill me or is he gone? I
[30:51] don't know. So, let me just play it
[30:53] safe. They shove the lane and they only
[30:54] have access to these jungle camps now,
[30:56] which is a lot less as the off lane.
[30:59] What can we do? Well, we're playing this
[31:00] area. Anywhere along this lane, we can
[31:04] kill the enemy creeps and shove it back
[31:06] in. Let's say we're just doing it like
[31:07] right here, right? And then we Okay, I
[31:09] don't actually want to push the tower,
[31:10] so let me just come back in here. Or
[31:12] maybe I come back bottom. Right now, I
[31:14] can farm this stuff. Oh, from this mid
[31:16] lane, they think or from the safe lane
[31:18] jungle, they think I'm farming. I'm
[31:20] actually moving to the mid lane to gank
[31:22] that guy and then take his tower. Oh,
[31:25] I'm actually feeling scared. So, I'm
[31:26] actually already falling back to my own
[31:29] half of the map. Oh, maybe I want to go
[31:31] surprise the enemy safe lane or set the
[31:33] enemy off lane. I'm going to twing gate.
[31:35] And at any point, you could also just
[31:36] teleport out, right? You don't have to
[31:38] walk any of these paths. You could be
[31:39] farming, see a fight happen, and then
[31:41] just immediately teleport over. So, you
[31:43] can see that as the off lane, when we're
[31:45] defaulting to this area, one, we have
[31:48] way more access to farm than we did
[31:50] before when the split was over here, and
[31:52] we have restricted the enemy's carri's
[31:53] farm. And then two, we can make a bunch
[31:56] of plays. Whichever we end up picking, I
[31:58] don't know. That depends on the game.
[32:00] But I'm in a good position to move to
[32:02] any of those. Compare that to being over
[32:04] here or back here. There's not as many.
[32:06] Like you're farming here. That's usually
[32:08] cuz you're losing. Like where do I go
[32:09] from here? I got to walk all the way
[32:10] here to the mid lane. And this isn't
[32:12] even a good angle. Like he's going to
[32:13] see me coming. Like this surprises him
[32:15] from the back. This is just the front
[32:17] just like the end our own mid laner.
[32:19] That's not surprising at all. I want to
[32:20] go to the safe lane. I got to go all the
[32:21] way over here. And there's not a whole
[32:23] lot of farm in this area. So, I can't
[32:25] even like farm along the way to get
[32:27] money. When you're back here by default,
[32:29] you also aren't stealing any gold away
[32:32] from the enemy. So, maybe you get
[32:33] farmed. And then you get to the game and
[32:34] you're like, "Hey, he's got the same
[32:35] amount of items as me." Yeah, cuz you
[32:37] didn't take any of his money. You got to
[32:39] come here and take the money. That's the
[32:40] off lane. We steal their money. From the
[32:43] Midame onwards, it becomes difficult to
[32:44] say exactly what you should be doing
[32:46] because every hero is unique. Every game
[32:47] is unique. If you're an experienced Dota
[32:49] player, this part's a little easier
[32:50] because it's like, oh, I used to play
[32:51] support and I know Roshan into towers is
[32:54] good, but now I'm in off lane. Is that
[32:56] still true? Yeah, it's still true, guys.
[32:57] So, for experienced players, this
[32:59] shouldn't be as hard of a transition at
[33:01] this point. For newer players, there's a
[33:04] late game flowchart video. I would
[33:05] recommend checking that out for a little
[33:07] bit more detail here. But the long story
[33:08] short is that you want to try to create
[33:10] situations where you have the numbers
[33:12] advantage. Dota is a fiveon-ive game,
[33:14] but if you can take a fiveon two fight,
[33:15] that's a lot easier, especially if
[33:17] you're losing. This is the way you come
[33:19] back is that you find like three of us,
[33:21] kill that one guy, and now we have the
[33:23] numbers advantage cuz now five of us can
[33:24] fight those four heroes. So, you just
[33:26] try to do this. If you don't have your
[33:28] abilities or your items on uh available
[33:31] to you, try to farm the enemies half the
[33:33] map. Whoever is the most survivable
[33:35] heroes or the most sacrificable heroes,
[33:38] they are the ones who take this risk.
[33:40] Rather than stay safe defensively on
[33:42] your own half of the map, you take the
[33:44] risk to push the enemy's side of the
[33:46] map, steal their farm, and offlane is
[33:48] one of the roles that would try to do
[33:50] this. Then when you either have the
[33:52] numbers advantage because someone has
[33:53] come back to react to that, or because
[33:55] your items and spells are ready, so I'm
[33:58] feeling pretty strong, go fight. You do
[34:01] the fight, push the objectives a little
[34:02] bit. Okay, back to farming. And you just
[34:05] kind of like repeat this cycle and keep
[34:07] looking for opportunities where you can
[34:09] kill the enemies. And now that they're
[34:10] dead, you can push their uh buildings
[34:12] down. Once you get to these fights,
[34:13] enable your best damage dealer. This is
[34:16] often the carry, but sometimes it could
[34:17] be someone else. It's up to you to like
[34:19] figure that out in the game. But we are
[34:22] playing initiators and aura builders. At
[34:23] least that's what I recommended. So, we
[34:25] want to combo with the damage dealer.
[34:28] And when I initiate, I want to make sure
[34:30] my damage dealer can hit the target I am
[34:32] stunning or my carry is attacking. When
[34:35] they try to get my carry, okay, I go
[34:37] help them. I apply the auras. I try to
[34:39] keep them safe so that they can live and
[34:41] keep doing damage. Alternatively, you
[34:44] can target enemy saves and their damage
[34:46] dealers, especially if you are an
[34:48] offlander who has a little bit more
[34:50] damage yourself. So rather than helping
[34:52] your carry, okay, the enemy has a save
[34:54] hero like Dazzle. Anyone we try to kill,
[34:57] Dazzle's going to save them, which means
[34:59] my carry can't actually do damage. So I
[35:01] will go run at Dazzle. And even though
[35:03] I'm not meant to be a damage dealer, I'm
[35:05] an off lane with some items. Dazzle is a
[35:08] support. I can probably kill Dazzle or
[35:10] at least scare him out of the fight. So,
[35:11] you go distract Dazzle so he can't save
[35:13] whoever your carry is hitting. Uh, now,
[35:15] if you're going to line these two things
[35:17] together, fantastic. It won't always
[35:18] happen, but typically, do I help my
[35:21] carry or do I stop the enemy save or do
[35:23] I absorb all the damage from the enemy
[35:25] carry cuz we're a tanky initiator who's
[35:27] built auras, right? We are hard to kill.
[35:29] So, the carry keeps focusing us and that
[35:32] means our carry is free to kill the
[35:33] other people. Some random tips to close
[35:35] out this video. you're going to face a
[35:37] lot of pressure to be active from your
[35:39] teammates. Like, oh, you got to go like
[35:41] do things, you got to make space and all
[35:42] that. And it's true. You you need to to
[35:45] some degree. Of all the core roles, the
[35:47] off lane and the mid are the ones who
[35:49] need to be making the most plays. And
[35:50] because I recommended you guys play
[35:52] initiators and aura builders, part of
[35:54] the reason I recommend that is because
[35:56] frequently people do not draft any of
[35:58] that. So, you'll be the only playmaker
[36:00] on your team. So truly, you will have to
[36:03] find time to be active, but you still
[36:06] got to set your boundaries of your power
[36:09] spikes. And you may not know these power
[36:10] spikes right now because you're learning
[36:11] the heroes and you're learning the role,
[36:12] but eventually you will start to feel
[36:14] it. And you will realize everyone is
[36:16] telling me to join fights, but I know I
[36:19] need the blink dagger. Otherwise, I am
[36:22] just walking in and wasting my time and
[36:25] I never get anybody. We're we're
[36:27] feeding. We're we're wasting time. It's
[36:29] no good. I need two more minutes to
[36:32] finish this blink dagger and then I can
[36:34] do stuff. And as you learn more, you
[36:36] will realize, oh, I don't need the blink
[36:38] dagger. I can go sooner. Oh, I did need
[36:40] the blink and another item on top of
[36:42] that. Right? That's learning the heroes
[36:44] and the roles. But especially for the
[36:46] support players coming in to play off
[36:49] lane, you need to feel comfortable with
[36:51] this because it's like ingrained the
[36:53] guilt of like I'm not allowed to farm
[36:55] and like I got to go do things as a
[36:57] support. No, it is truly part of playing
[37:01] core to AFK farm. I know there's a bad
[37:04] connotation around that, but genuinely
[37:06] it is part of the game. There's an eb
[37:09] and flow to the action and it's going to
[37:11] be hard to know as you start, but I just
[37:14] want to advise you that it is there.
[37:17] Like you are supposed to have that
[37:19] downtime that is part of the role. For
[37:22] the newer players and the support
[37:23] players, just try to stay calm about the
[37:25] last hitting and mechanics overall. I
[37:28] know it can be a lot to take in at once
[37:29] when you didn't have to do this before,
[37:31] but you will just get the hang of it. I
[37:34] know there's not like better advice for
[37:35] it, but as you practice it, as you just
[37:36] play games and do it more, it's not that
[37:39] big of a deal. It's just part of the
[37:40] game, but being really nervous about it
[37:42] is only going to make you play worse.
[37:44] So, I know it's easier said than done,
[37:45] but try not to get too freaked about it.
[37:47] It's just a video game. It's okay.
[37:49] You're going to feed. That's part of
[37:51] learning it. Uh, and everyone is going
[37:53] to go through this right now. If I had
[37:55] to generalize, my theory craft is that
[37:59] in the short term coming up here, a lot
[38:02] of support players are going to drop in
[38:04] MMR and a lot of core players are going
[38:06] to increase to some degree because
[38:08] support players never had to play core
[38:10] if they didn't want to, right? So, we
[38:12] were only 100% playing support and yes,
[38:15] there was four and five yet to play, but
[38:16] a lot of people could do both to some
[38:18] degree. So we have been like in our own
[38:21] space and then core players their MMR
[38:23] was the core roles and then having to
[38:26] play support sometimes. So they were
[38:28] losing more than usual. Now it switched
[38:32] where supports are going to have to
[38:33] start playing off lane and we're not
[38:34] good at it. So we're going to drop a
[38:36] little bit until we get used to it. And
[38:37] core players have to play support a
[38:39] little less often. Maybe they're still
[38:41] bad at off lane. So I don't know.
[38:43] Offlane players are truly the ones who
[38:44] should be going up right now. But core
[38:46] across the board, I think it's easier to
[38:48] go between different core roles than
[38:50] core to support and support to core. So
[38:52] the core players MMR likely to increase
[38:54] in the short term. Don't let this freak
[38:57] you out. It is just it's just going to
[38:59] take some time, but eventually the
[39:00] system will balance again and you'll be
[39:02] wherever you need to be. Thank you for
[39:04] watching. I will try to make some hero
[39:05] guide soon for different off laners, but
[39:08] I too must go through this process. It's
[39:10] one thing to conceptually know all the
[39:12] stuff, but now we have to actually do
[39:13] it. So, I will also be going through the
[39:15] learning curve with all of you. You can
[39:16] catch me on stream if you want to see me
[39:18] struggling in real time. But once I get
[39:20] the hang of it, I will make some guides
[39:22] if you guys want to check that out as
[39:23] well. I'll see you in one of those.