![]() Just get rid of whatever you think will be most annoying and that would fit in their comp. There are often 2-3 good heroes for the remaining slot on their team, or even more if you think they are running duo lanes or aggressive trilane. If you think your original team will beat their gameplan, it is up to them to make a correction, not you. Does it look like a splitpush lineup? Pick up someone who can set up your ganks well like nyx. Does it look like they have a very squishy team? Lina could be a good alternative to jakiro. Here, you can swap in some of the alternate heroes you planned for. ![]() You should have a pretty good idea what their game plan is, certainly after their 3rd pick. The second ban phase is where your flexibility comes in. What heroes you ban depeneds a lot on your skill as a drafter, and you will only get that with experience. Both sides know some information about the enemy comp and can choose to either target bans on heroes that make sense in the enemy team or you can keep banning heroes that acn mess with your comp. Second ban phase is where the draft gets interesting. If you take a core hero first, you know it won't get banned, but the enemy team has a better idea of what your game plan is and can draft around that. If you pick versatile heroes, the enemy has very little information to ban with and doesn't have much idea how your lanes will look. In your first round picks, you either want to get your most versatile heros (like alchemist, clockwerk or mirana) or a hero that is 100% core to the team (like nature's prophet in a split push team or visage in a really aggressive team). After a few games, you should figure out what heroes give your team comp the most trouble. If you are going to rely on puck mid having a good game, you can ban out OD. For example, if you want to split push, you might want to ban out clockwerk. Start your draft by banning out T1 heroes that you think will erally mess with your plan. ![]() Going into a game, know which of the team plans you are going to use. Switching lesh for shadow shaman gives you much more consistent lockdown but you lose a lot of early damage and you can't really take 5 minute towers anymore. They don't need to synergize perfectly, but you should understand how they will affect the team. In each other those 30 hero slots, fill in 2 alternates from your pool of workable heroes. Maybe also throw in a wombo combo team as well for when you want to rely on winning silly teamfights with stuff like RP>kunka's boat>split earth>macropyre. Once you have a list of heroes that everyone can play (at least 3-4 per player that they are "good" at and another 2-3 that they understand the basics of) make up a list of 4 ideal teams for the core playstyles: ganknig aggression, 4 protect 1, 5 man push, and split push. 90% of the time, a good hero played well will do better than the perfect hero played poorly. IMO, the first thing a new drafter should do for his team is figure out what heroes the team can actually play well. If Pugna rushes a Mek (which you normally would in that situation), then any gank attempt will be pretty futile.Īs always, CountJigglesworth really gets to the core of the issue. If Blood Seeker attempts to gank, it doesn't matter because you have 3 heroes bunched up. If there are TPs, now your offlaner gets a 1v1 lane against Lifestealer, when your offlane already has a level advantage from being 3v1. If there are no TPs, then you'll be at their base in under 10 minutes. However, with those 2 heroes you can bulldoze their T1 tower in < 5 min. You also have several squishy heroes against a Blood Seeker. Traditionally, all that magic damage looks bad against Lifestealer who has built in BKB. You're going up against let's say a Blood Seeker and Lifestealer. ![]() Let's say you pick Pugna & Leshrac + 1 for your safe trilane. ![]() In many situations, you can just get them responding to your pushes and the carries they chose will have difficulty farming when their map control is reduced to jack shit. You Don't Have to Deal With Their Heroes to Win ![]()
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