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Greetings, everyone! I hereby present you this 'How to play support' guide, or rather, a compilation of many useful tips that I have come across from playing this amazing game all these years, mainly focusing on what kind of mentality/strategic thinking that a support player should keep in mind according to different phases of the game.

 I may cook up specific support hero guide in future so this is intended to be a 'how do you play support in general' guide.

Quite often in both pubs and captain's mode you see players picking support heroes seemingly at random, rather than trying to get the maximum possible synergy for their team and lane partner.

While the amount of choice in DOTA can seem overwhelming at times, when you group up the heroes into categories, it can become a lot clearer what kind of abilities you're looking for. This guide will explore the options and help you understand when to pick particular heroes...