I’ve always found comfort in reading other people’s esports tales.

I do a lot of thinking about the offlane.

A few weeks ago, I was approached by a redditor curating a Dota magazine who wanted to see if I was interested in contributing to the inaugural issue of Feeder’s Digest. Witnessing successful efforts towards constructive content creation on /r/dota2 is about as rare as a Team Secret LAN victory, so how could I say no? I had some archived article ideas I never got around to publishing when I was writing for Team eHug, but most of them didn’t seem to fit the tone of the magazine I’m lazy, so I decided to remaster one of the most popular articles I had written called ‘Making Money as a Support.’ I’m republishing it here for posterity, but you can view the article and the rest of the magazine here. ^{I’m the cover story, ma!}

Everyone’s knee deep in roster drama, so I’m here to wade through the wall of text that was the spring cleaning update. Inspired by this thread, here are some notable balance changes I noticed that basically made this patch 6.86g.

Welp, as of 6.85 this post is now mostly invalidated, WHAT A SURPRISE. I’ll keep the rest of the post for posterity.