u/TestIllustrious7935

I am not saying hero diversity's been bad or that the patches were not impactful in 2026, but it just feels like the whole year we had pos 1 and 5 dominating lane, pos 2 playing hyper agressive mobile heroes only, pos 3 playing just to survive and jungle, and pos 4 having low diversity. Feels like this pattern's been happening all year or at least since the facets removal patch.

I really wish the next big patch really changes the game a lot and brings a lot of forgotten heroes back like Omni, Riki and Chen

I reached 8,4k mmr and now play Immortal Draft, but I still don't feel like I have a solid understanding of macro. I only play pos 4 and 5

I know all the classic stuff, the laning phase patterns, the farming patterns of cores and objectives. But beyond that I don't feel like I can predict enemy movement on the map at all.

It feels like I am just playing fully relying on experience and 'vibe' and most of the time it works out, but I am not confident this way.

Maybe it would be best to try other roles and learn them to have better macro?

I keep seeing it in my pubs - enemy safelane is a duo of ranged pos 1 + treant, undying or clock or tusk.

They are so strong lvl 1 that they can shove you away from first wave, so you as pos 4 go and drag the second wave out.

You have no big camp because it's stupid easy to just body block it as pos 5. And as pos 4 you cannot keep enemy small camp blocked with a sentry either because it's stupid easy to unblock.

I have seen it at EWC too. The ranged pos 1 + tree or undy literally always won the lane HARD. The only way for pos 3 to get gold was to farm jungle or stacks because they cannot lane against this shit.

It just feels miserable to me and clearly even pros don't know what to do about it except ban either Tree/Zombie or SF/Drow, but in pubs you obviously cannot ban them on demand.

I as a pos 4 main feel terrible when we get fucked in lane by these safelane heroes even if I keep dragging waves. You just can't fight them back at all, not on lvl 1, not lvl 2 and not lvl 3 either.

I hate seeing my pos 3 poor on gold and levels because they can't even approach a wave.

I have seen Techies instantly place 3 mines after jump in a triangle

Is there some trick or you have to be a god?

So there are quite a few spots for high value wards that require quelling blade to place

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Is there maybe a video specifically about that on current map version? It takes a long time to find a good spot that needs a tree cut

Anyone else feeling like current patch is very boring for support hero variety?

Please recommend any unorthodox pos 4 heroes you have any good experience with