How to play Offlane | Dota 2 Beginners Guide

[00:00] Hello friends. You wanted to go play

[00:01] Dota, but what? You have to play off

[00:04] lane now, but you're not an offlane

[00:06] player.

[00:08] What do we do? Don't worry. Whether you

[00:10] are an experienced Dota player who needs

[00:12] to brush up on how to play off lane or

[00:13] you're a new player getting into the

[00:15] role, we're going to cover all the

[00:16] basics you need to not feed to be an

[00:18] acceptable off laner, at least have some

[00:20] impact every game. Down the line, we'll

[00:22] do a more advanced guide to become like

[00:23] a real off laner. But for now, let's

[00:25] cover the basics. Keep in mind, you

[00:26] don't have to become an actual offlane

[00:28] player. theoretically the the best for

[00:30] the given bracket. We just need to be

[00:32] better than the other panicked roll Q

[00:35] offlane players or support players. The

[00:36] concepts the same. If you're doing a

[00:38] different role than usual just to earn

[00:40] the tokens, you just need to be in the

[00:41] middle of the pack doing your best as

[00:43] long as we are better than the other

[00:45] clueless people who aren't bothering to

[00:46] learn the new role and they're just

[00:48] tanking the losses. You just need to win

[00:50] some. 50% would be great, but if you're

[00:53] like 30 to 40% win rate on an off

[00:57] offlane role and then you earn your

[00:59] tokens to go play your main role and I

[01:01] assume have a positive win rate there,

[01:03] it'll work out. You can climb. But of

[01:05] course, the better you become an offlane

[01:07] so that you can win more games, that'll

[01:08] make the MMR games easier. And because

[01:10] the off link got added as a high demand

[01:12] role, that means in a lot of games, you

[01:14] versus the enemy off laner. Sometimes

[01:16] you're going to play versus actual off

[01:17] laners and they're going to be better

[01:18] than us. But actually, there's a pretty

[01:20] good chance you are just playing versus

[01:22] someone else who also does not play that

[01:24] role. They're just having to do it

[01:25] because no one is playing the role.

[01:27] That's why it's high demand. So, we just

[01:28] need to be better than them. And we are

[01:31] going to have our team is going to have

[01:32] the better off laner. It's us. First,

[01:34] we'll need to decide on a hero pool. And

[01:36] you want to hit a couple of things here.

[01:38] First, pick a simple game plan. You want

[01:40] to do you don't want have to do anything

[01:41] complex. As you get further into the

[01:43] role, you can do all that stuff later.

[01:45] For now, just something easy so you

[01:46] don't have to think that hard on it. And

[01:48] then you want a hero who can be useful

[01:50] ahead or behind. If you're watching this

[01:52] video, you're getting into the offlane

[01:54] role. You're not that good at it. So,

[01:55] we're actually likely to lose a lot of

[01:57] our lanes to start. Now, if you win,

[01:59] fantastic. Then, you know, do whatever

[02:02] you're doing as a winning hero. But

[02:04] realistically, as we start off on the

[02:06] back foot because we're bad at off lane,

[02:08] we need to still be useful. Certain

[02:10] heroes are better at that than others.

[02:12] Some people have to win their lane or

[02:14] they're useless. I don't want to play

[02:16] those heroes even though they might be

[02:17] strong laners. Uh so you could do it if

[02:19] you really want to, but my advice be

[02:21] useful whether you are ahead or behind.

[02:23] With that said, I don't actually want to

[02:25] lose all my lanes. So pick strong laners

[02:29] rather than weak laners just to make it

[02:30] easier on yourself. But if you do lose

[02:33] the lane, people who can jungle early to

[02:36] recover are very nice. With this in

[02:38] mind, there's a certain type of offlaner

[02:40] that is best to start with in my

[02:42] opinion, and that is going to be

[02:44] initiators and or aura builders. They

[02:47] usually they frequently overlap, not

[02:49] always. If you pick one or both of

[02:52] these, you're going to be in a good

[02:53] spot. If you need a new off laner to

[02:54] learn, these are my go-to

[02:56] recommendations. They all are fairly

[02:58] tanky in the lane. You know, starting at

[03:00] the beginning, we got Centaur and Axe.

[03:02] Very high strength, some of the highest

[03:03] in the game, and then some of the

[03:05] highest HP regen in the game. So even as

[03:07] you get harassed, you'll just heal up

[03:09] naturally. You've got the retaliate

[03:11] build on centaur and then spin on axe.

[03:14] So in the lane, the first few levels can

[03:16] be a little awkward, but once you get

[03:18] past that, you walk into the creep wave,

[03:20] you farm it. You walk into the jungle

[03:22] camps, you farm it. The enemies hit you

[03:24] and you don't know how to harass, they

[03:25] take some damage back, right? So it's

[03:27] it's not that hard to do. And you just

[03:29] focused on last hitting as you are new

[03:31] and then eventually hitting your item

[03:33] timings later. you will then be a fairly

[03:35] low cooldown playmaker with like blink

[03:37] hoof stomp or blink call and that is

[03:39] useful no matter what every single game.

[03:42] Tide hunter and underlord they're more

[03:44] aura builders but also very tanky in the

[03:47] lane. Tide hunter has the anchor smash

[03:49] to reduce enemy damage when he hits them

[03:51] with it and then he has kraken shell for

[03:53] guaranteed damage block whereas

[03:55] underlord has the atrophy aura which

[03:57] reduces enemies attack damage so he just

[04:00] takes less damage when they hit him.

[04:03] Then in fights, uh, Tide Hunter, you

[04:05] know, the big AoE ravage, build auras.

[04:06] Underlord, build auras. Fiends gate in.

[04:09] That part's a little bit more complex,

[04:10] but you can also just be with your team.

[04:12] Uh, fiends gate people into you. And

[04:14] then just, okay, giant AoE pit, giant

[04:17] AoE firestorm, press my auras, I'm

[04:20] contributing. It's very straightforward.

[04:22] The last three are more honorable

[04:24] mentions. Uh, I don't like them as much,

[04:26] but I still think they're fairly

[04:27] straightforward. Dragonite has high

[04:29] armor and HP regen in the lane, so it's

[04:32] hard to bully him out. You can get a

[04:34] blink so you can initiate for your team.

[04:35] You push towers with your ultimate. Then

[04:38] you kind of scale for damage, which is

[04:40] why I'm like, you know, not as uh not as

[04:44] good of an offlane pick for keeping

[04:46] things simple, but uh at least the lane

[04:48] I think is straightforward. Abdon kind

[04:51] of similar cuz his main build right now

[04:52] is to go for radiance, but throughout

[04:54] the game you're just hard to kill.

[04:56] Aphotic shield is a great utility uh

[04:59] spell for your team because it's a

[05:00] strong dispel and then you can kind of

[05:03] build some auras, but you also kind of

[05:05] build for damage. And then that's also

[05:07] true for Viper where you crush certain

[05:10] people in the lane and you often build

[05:14] towards being very tanky but also kind

[05:17] of doing damage, which is fine. I'm

[05:19] giving you guys the options. But the

[05:21] downside of these types of heroes,

[05:22] especially Abdon and Viper, if you don't

[05:26] do well in the lane, you can fall off

[05:28] pretty hard because uh these three

[05:30] heroes do not have farming mechanics as

[05:33] easy as these four heroes. Uh Viper has

[05:36] like a Nether toxin build that kind of

[05:38] bumps him up there. So, he's a little

[05:39] safer and I did want to give a ranged

[05:41] off laner. Uh, so you guys have options.

[05:43] But he is meant to win the lane. And if

[05:45] you don't win the lane cuz your like

[05:47] mechanics are a little iffy, then I feel

[05:49] like these three can be a little shaky.

[05:52] For the other positions who need to

[05:53] learn some off lane, a different

[05:55] approach you can take is to just play a

[05:57] hero you already play as a carry, as a

[05:59] support. And hey, they can work as a mid

[06:01] laner. So then you just do that. And

[06:03] you're already comfortable with the

[06:04] hero. You might be doing a new build.

[06:06] you're going to be higher level and more

[06:07] money, especially for like supports than

[06:09] maybe you're used to, but you kind of

[06:11] already know like roughly your matchups

[06:13] and how your abilities work. So, you

[06:14] make it a little easier for yourself and

[06:15] now you just have to play in a new lane

[06:18] and a new role. Uh, but then that's

[06:20] easier than just like completely brand

[06:21] new stuff. The downside is there's only

[06:24] so many heroes that overlap multiple

[06:27] roles, like truly overlap multiple

[06:29] roles. So, I tried to put those heroes

[06:31] closer to the front here. So, for

[06:33] example, you see like if you happen to

[06:34] play any of these guys as carries,

[06:36] they're like actual offlaners. Same down

[06:39] here. Like you can run these as actual

[06:41] offlanes.

[06:43] The further you go, I admit especially

[06:45] the experienced Dota players, you're

[06:46] probably like, "Zack, that one seems

[06:47] kind of griefy." And I, you know, kind

[06:50] of agree. But if, for example, a carry

[06:53] player is like stuck in the off lane,

[06:54] it's like, "Look, I can play D or I can

[06:56] play Wind Ranger. God, please pick Wind

[06:58] Ranger off lane over Draw, dude. Don't

[07:01] no D off lane. Please Win Ranger, right?

[07:04] That's what that tier of off laners are

[07:06] like. It's like the real C to D to lower

[07:08] tier heroes, but they aren't the

[07:10] absolute garbage worst pick you could go

[07:13] and you've seen it in your pubs. Like it

[07:15] does happen. The reason they're a little

[07:17] griefy is cuz many of them just build

[07:19] towards damage. So like the Wind

[07:20] Rangers, the Weavers, Terblade offline,

[07:22] I know you could do like the pipe, but

[07:23] then it's like it's into damage, you

[07:25] know? So like, oh damage, you know? So

[07:28] it is a little but it works. And if

[07:31] you're a more experienced Dota player,

[07:33] you can kind of understand certain

[07:34] matchups when these heroes would be

[07:35] better uh and then go towards it. I

[07:38] think a newer player, you know, you

[07:39] wouldn't really know why this is kind of

[07:40] griefy or when it's good. So then I

[07:42] would wouldn't recommend it as much. Uh

[07:44] but for the off lane, like I just need

[07:47] to off lane and I'm just going to play

[07:48] heroes that are good enough, then these

[07:50] are some that I think are they're

[07:52] acceptable. They're not the worst out

[07:54] there. I know these three are actually

[07:55] more offlaners than carries. This is for

[07:58] people who want to try to pick up

[08:00] semicaries. uh carry players

[08:01] specifically and then you can play it in

[08:03] off lane or in the safe lane depending

[08:05] on the lineup. Especially when you have

[08:06] like sniper mids, TA mids, things that

[08:08] are actual carries and you don't need a

[08:10] second carry. You actually need to bring

[08:12] a bit more utility upfront value to your

[08:14] team. Then you can learn one of these

[08:16] guys and then flex that in between your

[08:17] roles. I've got a cheat sheet for you to

[08:19] help you understand what to prioritize

[08:20] at different times of the game here.

[08:22] Starting with the lane at 0 minutes, get

[08:25] the lane to come back. back. I know this

[08:27] sounds obvious, but as soon as the

[08:28] bounty is grabbed, we're going to run to

[08:30] the lane, and we're going to do a

[08:31] variety of tricks to bring the lane

[08:34] towards our offlane tower to make laning

[08:36] safer for us, but it might also open up

[08:39] some kill options on your opponents. I'm

[08:41] going to talk through uh some examples

[08:43] of this later, so we're just going to

[08:44] brush over it for now. And uh more

[08:46] details to come. 7 minutes, the wisdom

[08:49] shrine activates. You have to make sure

[08:51] your team gets at least one wisdom

[08:54] shrine. If you lose both, the game is

[08:56] very hard. If you can secure both,

[08:57] great. But you're not usually involved

[08:59] in stealing the enemy wisdom shrine,

[09:01] unless you have like some global

[09:02] ability. Most of the time, the off lane

[09:04] is part of securing the wisdom shrine

[09:06] that is right by the lane. You don't

[09:08] strictly need to be the one to get it.

[09:10] If your four supports headed over and

[09:12] you can see the enemy heroes in the lane

[09:14] still, you're fine. Just stay where you

[09:15] are. But if you think the enemy is

[09:17] invading, then you need to go get it.

[09:19] And if the support is busy, you need to

[09:21] make sure you head over to the wisdom

[09:22] shrine to get it. Along that topic, when

[09:25] the support is busy, because they're

[09:26] going to go get the wisdom shrine, you

[09:28] can't die. You just have to be patient.

[09:30] You will lose a little bit in the lane,

[09:31] but that's okay. That also applies when

[09:33] the lane is coming towards you. If you

[09:35] can count to five, you can figure out

[09:38] which way the wave is going. I recommend

[09:40] you practice this for yourself. So, come

[09:42] over to play Dota. Don't actually play

[09:43] Dota. Create a custom lobby. Come over

[09:45] to these settings. Make sure we are

[09:47] filling in the empty slots with bots.

[09:49] Uh, make it all pick and then whichever

[09:51] team you're going to be on, we'll do

[09:52] radiant first. Give yourself passive

[09:54] bots or new player bots. That'll

[09:56] simulate your teammates. And on the

[09:58] 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.