Hey guys,
Was thinking of something we should really use more often especially if we are vs are really hard farming carry that is weak early game - Spectre, troll, PA.
Even vs a Storm, Sniper, Drow in mid. Support buys a smoke. Ping the location and then gather for the fight. We actually did successfully the other night and had a team wipe after it.
Goal- Goal is to prevent an opposition carry from gaining experience and farm. Or potentially get first blood and ruin.
Benefits - carry is week. Supports gain gold and experience. Scares the enemy to go into jungles/forces them to buy wards etc.
If it is to gank mid (which is often unsuspecting), you can smoke at the rune spot and basically walk up the other side of the river to the trees before being seen. Similar if there is a jungling hero we don't see on the map. Doom, Ursa etc we can go in 3v1. Easy kill, free gold.
It can create space as well for our carry to farm. Staying in the safe lane getting the free farm. Deny the enemy experience as they react to it.
I think if we are going to do this, everyone has tp's as well to get to the other side of the map to defend/escape/as per normal.
Anyway, I'm open to suggestions but I really think we should be looking at these opportunities. Especially if we are behind in kills as the experience and gold boost plus the denying the other team helps stop them from snowballing.
I'll try and find some Youtube vids and post them up.
We are also doing it to a degree when we have Mirana, and the other night when we did it with Smoke it was very good.
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering about timing, I think that it is risky to do too early in the laning phase, as time out of lane leads to XP loss and an early kill is low XP and gold. The gold is also mostly safe gold (?). Best time is probably once mid has 6+??
As a five stack we could also do pre-start ganking if on Radiant team by running up to the spot top left of mid and jumping on their. Risky but worked for us once.
agree. i think the first blood gank would be easy to do in our games. just need to be quick.
DeleteAt other times - if its still the laning phase you need to be 100% certain it is going to land you a kill. Otherwise, like you said you miss out on experience and gold.
We are also doing it to a degree when we have Mirana, and the other night when we did it with Smoke it was very good.
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering about timing, I think that it is risky to do too early in the laning phase, as time out of lane leads to XP loss and an early kill is low XP and gold. The gold is also mostly safe gold (?). Best time is probably once mid has 6+??
As a five stack we could also do pre-start ganking if on Radiant team by running up to the spot top left of mid and jumping on their. Risky but worked for us once.