Basic game stratagy with Dota2 Tidehunter

If you want to learn how to play a very good support, this post is for you.

All you got to do is follow these few hints and you'll be short on your way to success!

Now one thing you must understand is that Tidehunter can and will help you and your team drastically. Whether you playing with friends a relaxed game or a serious clan game. Because:

§  He has one awesome ultimate, Ravage, which will disable their whole team for a few seconds and damage them. That is the time when you and your allies should engage on them and start picking them off one by one.

§  He has a slow, Gush, for when you want to decrease a players armor and make them easier to kill or to chase a person down by slowing him.

§  He has a area of effect spell which has some mana cost, Anchor Smash, which you can use to deal some additional damage to enemy heroes or you can use it to farm and last hit most creeps with it when you are alone in a lane and not supporting.

§  And he has his damage reduction spell, kraken Shell, which will most probably save you a few times from lethal spells like in example Viper's ulti, Viper Strike. Reason is because it removes any negative buff, damage/spells, once you gather more than 600 damage.

How you going to play Tidehunter is quite easy actually.

Support Hard get your carries farmed up. Help them get kills. Denie your creeps and pull your lane.

Play Smart. Think when to use your Ravage spell and when to engage. You don't want to be the cause of your whole teams death by making a small mistake on wasting your ultimate on one hero or engaging at the wrong time. Look out for opportunities.

A good support always pulls his lane at the right time so that your creeps don't push to far against the tower. The reason for this is that you can go an kill the enemy heroes easier because they need to run deeper in the lane if they want experience and the tower doesn't kill your creeps and gives him the free experience. So lets say you are on the Sentinal/Radiant side, the lane you are going to pull is the bottom lane. You will see between your Tier 1 tower and your Tier 2 tower there is a small neutral creep camp and a passage through the trees to the lane right beneath them. Al what you need to do is attack the creeps and run down through the hole so that the creeps follow you and then your allied creeps will start following them and you'll see the enemies creeps pushing ******* down in the lane. This is the perfect opportunity to try and kill him. NOTE: you can do this with any hero.

When to engage with your ulti and when not to engage with your ulti. The perfect example to engage with your ulti is when there are 2 or more enemy heroes and you have a most of your teamates at your back (at least 3) and preferably another hero with a stun or slow at your side for those lucky people who always seem to excape the grasp of death.

 Items you should buy for Tidehunter:

Blink dagger

This item will help you to enage easier by blinking in the middle of their team and then using your ultimate.

Arcane Boots

Will help you to have a sufficient amount of mana all the time and to give your allies mana when they need it.

Mekansm

Usually Tidehunter doesn't go Mekansm but when your team doesn't have another support you should try and get this item as soon as possible. It will help to make your whole team last longer in team fights and sometimes even save teamates. How you use it easy, when you see your teamate is low on hitpoints run close to him and click on the item. It will heal all your allies in a 750 radius.

Refresher Orb

This item will reset the cooldown of all your ablilities and items. Which means you will be able to throw your Ultimate twice, Gush twice, Anchor Smash twice, if you have Mekansm you will be able to use Mekansm twice and also your Arcane Boots twice. Its very easy to use, after you use your spells just click on the item in your inventory and it will do its job and reset all your item and spell cooldowns. Just remember When you use your Ultimate wait a bit till the stun is almost worne off and then use the the Refresher Orb and Ultimate again, this way the enemy team will be dissabled a bit longer.