
Focus on getting the Blink Dagger: that will be your main item during late game. During the mid game you can even kill solo a few heroes with the right skill combination and positioning. When you finish your job there, start to ward their jungle and to gank the other lanes. I consider a Mid Game when you already carried the tower you were supposed to.

But remember 2 important things: ALWAYS KEEP WARDED, as you kill and kill, they will start to gank you as soon as possible, and NEVER LET THEM GET AWAY, if you must, dont leave the kill to your partner, kill them yourself. If the play back, use the jungle creeps to pull and therefore make them come to you again.
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If they make the mistake to be agressive, just do everything again and get another free kill. When you get the first kill things will go a little different:Ģ- They will try to be more agressive to catch up with you But be aware, don't freeze him when he is in the maximum range of the spell, try to get him as close as you can. If you lane partner is smart, he will jump right in the fight and that will give you a free kill. But now here is the tricky part: always be between your partner and the enemies, NEVER BEHIND, and when he comes to poke, farm or deny, HIT THE **** OUT OF THAT **********E, FREEZE HIM, AND ATTACK HIM AGAIN. Don't push the lane, always leave the farm to the other one. Ward the jungle, where you normally ward, and go to the lane. Get a partner with slow/or/stun skills (or a roamer like, ) and go to the SAFE LANE. The worse item in my opinion is Shadow Blade, wich can be countered with a 180g item, Dust of Appearance.

In that case, you would need to get rid of an item, I would suggest Urn of Shadows since its not very effective on late game. I like specially the combination of Ethereal Blade and Black King Bar, or maybe an Ethereal Blade with Aghanim's Scepter. How do I know wich item to choose? Well my friend, you will need to have a good "reading" of the game and predict wich one will be more useful. Q: Vanguard? Are you idiot?! I could be using that money with something else!Ī: Yes, you could, but you wont, cause you need HP regen and a decent defense against the enemy.Ī: Nope, ask someone else to buy it. You can play way more agressive knowing that there is no one ganking your lane. Having the Stout Shield will give you the chance to counter-attack him without taking too much damage.Ī: Basic item for any support player and to prevent ganks. That's the main thing you can NEVER forget: Don't do stupid moves, the only excuse to die is to save the team carry, and thats IT, don't EVER try to save another member of the team if you KNOW you can't get out alive or don't have enought skills to do it.Īnd that's why I chose those items, to give you an edge against others agressive players and to give you a better chance to save your team and get out alive.Ī: Simply: You need a plain and strong defense against those "poke" heroes and agressive players. Okay, why am I suggesting all those "tanky" items? Simply: to play an agressive Crystal properly, you need to survive. Crystal Maiden base Intelligence reduced from 21 to 19 (same base damage)

Freezing Field Scepter AS/MS AoE slow increased from -50/-30 to -50/-50 Freezing Field AS/MS AoE slow increased from -20/-30 to -30/-30 Aghanim's Scepter Freezing Field's attack speed reduction aura increased from -20 to -50 Freezing Field explosion AoE increased from 215 to 230 When the enemie see this IRON MAIDEN, they will RUN TO THE HILLS while you dance the DANCE OF THE DEATH and will call you forever the WRATHCHILD that have no FEAR OR THE DARK. This play style is recommended at Pub-Stomping and even to surprise some weaker players at competitive scene. Crystal Maiden, one of the best support heroes in the game, will be shown how and when to play with an agressive style, that can lead your team to victory faster and easier than most of you would think.
