In this video I'll be showing you my top five best and easiest support heroes in DotA 2 for beginners.
There are many support heroes to pick in DotA and it can be very confusing,
but after this video you'll have a good idea of some of the easier and less frustrating heroes to play.
Support players- kudos to you guys! You help protect carry players,
like myself, from getting our butts handed to us in lane by sacrificing your own lives to save ours.
So thank you for taking one for the team. I'm really selling this aren't I? Oh, well, let's see our first support hero-
Dazzle has pretty much everything that you could want in a support... well except for a stun and maybe a silence and a purge.
Okay, maybe he doesn't have
everything but I guess it's why you get five heroes per team. Well Dazzle's a super support
anyway. He has damage, harass, healing, more damage and even invincibility, but seriously
you still want more?! All right, while Dazzle might not have a stun
he more than makes up for it with his ability to turn fights around with his amazing skill set. His first ability,
Poison touch, is a crowd control spell which causes heavy damage over time as well as slowing the enemy.
What makes this ability even more amazing is that it refreshes every time the enemy gets attacked. What? Yep exactly.
This thing is so powerful,
it can literally stop heroes from coming into the lane because they just get so frustrated
With you chasing them down while they tick lower and lower.
This makes your carries life much easier and they'll love you for it.
Now, perhaps the enemy has worked out how to beat your first skill and now they're in the lane and they're beating on your carry. Or
perhaps your mid hero just got initiated on and is about to die.
Well nevermind that- just throw your Superman cape aka shallow grave onto your teammate to prevent them from being killed for five whole seconds
This ability is amazing and can turn fights around if well-timed. Just be careful though,
this does not stop certain instant kill abilities such as Axe's culling blade.
Yo Dazzle!? Yes! What is your favorite ability? Shadow Wave!
All right this one has to be one of my favorites and obviously Dazzle's favorite ability of his.
Shadow wave is a bouncing healing spell which can heal up to seven units including himself at max level.
What makes this ability great though is when enemies are near a stack of your teammates or creeps
you can heal bomb them dealing significant damage to them
the more your allies are healed. At the highest level this can heal 980 health
which also means that it can deal 980 damage if all the bounces hit on the enemy!
Zap!
Finally Dazzles ultimate, bad juju, is probably one of the strangest ultimates as it's actually a passive ability.
This one reduces the cooldowns on all of your abilities and items as well as inflicting an armor reduction debuff on all nearby enemies
every time you cast. This stacks up,
so casting a lot of spells in a teamfight can really hurt the enemy, especially if you have strong physical damage carries in your game.
Dazzle is certainly a great hero to try out and a lot of fun to play.
So make sure you give him a go! All right
now number two I covered in my top ten heroes for beginners, but Lich definitely deserves a mention here.
I am the dead of winter!
Yeah. All right, mate. Thanks for reminding me *he he he*
Lich is another great support hero and is a good pick if you seem to die often as he is slightly
tankier than a lot of other supports.
He's also an amazing team fighter and can deal heavy damage with his abilities, especially from his ultimate.
But first his frost blast is a strong spell which deals damage to the main target,
enemies close to the main target and also slowing all affected for four seconds.
But his second ability is probably the best one in the early game.
Frost shield is a
single target spell which reduces incoming damage to you or your teammate but also deals several explosions in an area around the target,
dealing damage and slowing enemies.
This one is great to initiate fights with as you can
Throw it down on your teammate such as juggernaut who can then waltz in and start spinning while the enemy is slowed
Don't forget it also helps to reduce damage so you can place this one on yourself and it will help you to escape if you're
in trouble.
Sinister gaze, his third ability,
locks down and draws an enemy towards you which can also be really useful if you want to bring them over a cliff.
But his ultimate is truly where he comes into his own. If there's a teamfight breaking out and enemies are bunched up
this is the perfect time to unleash your Chain Frost!
This chilly spell
bounces around the enemies dealing huge damage on each bounce and also slowing the enemy's movement and attack speed at the same time.
That's quite a freeze-frame.
This is truly devastating in fights
but just make sure that the enemies are close enough so that you can get the maximum number of bounces and damage off as possible.
Right in the middle at number three is Witch Doctor,
and if you haven't heard that song that just played I'll make sure to put a link in the description
so you can check it out as it's pretty cool!
Witch doctor is a really fun support hero and can also be a devastating gank type hero as well.
I love to pair this guy with a relatively strong early game carry
like lifestealer or juggernaut as they pair well with his maledict ability which deals bonus damage
over time based on the damage already inflicted to the enemy.
Basically, the more damage the enemy takes under this ability
the more damage will be dealt to them on each major tick which can be really deadly when combined with high burst damage teammates.
His first ability,
paralyzing cask,
helps you to land your maledict by stunning the enemy as well as bouncing around to stun multiple enemies or the same enemies multiple times.
Oh look at it go!
Voodoo restoration is his third ability and is a really strong channeled healing spell which costs mana to activate as well as mana per
second to keep channeling. It can heal up to 40 health per second, which is already pretty good
but at level 25, you can also heal up to an additional 1.5 percent health per second if you take the level 25 talent
which is really strong in teamfights.
His ultimate can also be a lot of fun
especially if you can land the paralyzing cask, maledict combo. The death ward is a channeled spell which deals heavy attack damage and
attacks the closest enemy very quickly.
Now this spell is insanely strong in teamfights. But combine this with an Aghanims scepter and your attacks will bounce up to 4 times
destroying the enemy team. Keep in mind though that as soon as you use this spell you'll become a target for a stun
so try to keep yourself hidden or consider getting a glimmer cape to hide yourself once you start channeling. All right
Now the heroes I've gone through so far are great support heroes and a lot of them are very deadly.
But I think out of all of them the one who is probably the deadliest is Lion. Feel the rage of a mage!
This guy is
extremely dangerous,
especially to mobile heroes who rely on their high movement speed or escape spells to get in and out very quickly.
His skills are geared towards stopping enemies in their tracks and then dealing extreme nuke damage to them in a split second.
First off we have earth spike which stuns and damages all enemies within its range and straight line trajectory.
His second ability, hex, is an instant disable which has no cast time
making it extremely deadly for those quick heroes as they'll have no chance to react to your spell
Hex turns your enemies into little critters that can't do anything for a few seconds. That's a good look for you!
This can also be really useful if you want to cast your third ability, mana drain, on an enemy for longer than a second.
This one does exactly what it says it does. It drains the enemies mana and it replenishes your own.
This one is really good for annoying the enemy and minimizing how dangerous they can be. And finally we get to Lions ultimate ability,
which is probably the single most powerful damage nuke in the game. Now do you like to kill steal? Then
yhis is the moment and the hero to kill steal with. Finger of death rips an enemy target for up to 850 damage
But not only that it gets more powerful every time you get a kill with it. With enough kills
You can literally start to one-shot enemies which is just insane for a support hero.
Just remember though that you are a support and you should be using your spells to help your teammates out and not just steal all
the kills.
Alright and lucky last is Rhasta! I am shadow shaman
Now SS is similar to lion in the sense that he is a support hero that has a lot of crowd control spells
but he is more geared towards pushing down towers than dealing significant single target damage.
Shaman has probably the longest single target lockdown spells in the game. Which also make him deadly for fast escape type heroes
He has a hex, just like lion, which is an instant cast spell rendering the target useless for a few seconds.
His third spell, shackles, is a channeled disable which holds a single enemy for up to 5 seconds.
And this can even be extended to 7 and a half seconds with his level 20 talent.
This is a crazy long time and it's really amazing as you can pretty much
permanently disable an enemy if you also take the negative 5 second hex cooldown.
You can continually chain the two together and lock someone down forever or at least until your teammates dispose of them.
You're not going anywhere! His first ability
Ether shock is a multi target nuke which strikes up to seven targets in a cone-like shape and is very useful for pushing out waves.
Finally, his ultimate is the powerful mass serpent ward,
which summons 10 wards on the ground at the selected location which attack the closest target in their range.
These guys can dish out some serious damage to enemies
but they are often used in tower pushes as you can throw them down near the tower and they will continually attack the tower until
tt dies or they expire. For this reason Shadow
Shaman is a great support hero
if you want to end the game quickly as his wards are almost impossible to defend against if the enemies have many late-game or no
anti-push heroes.
Now there's lots of other easy support heroes that you can try- Jakiro, bane or even the iconic crystal maiden
nut I think the ones I covered in this video are the best ones for you if you're new.
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Before you go leave me a comment below on your favorite support hero in the game
I really enjoy playing vengeful spirit and seem to pick her more than other support heroes.
I don't know why but I find that she's a lot of fun to play. Alright, thanks everyone. I'm Blake Unlively and God bless
