Dota 2: How to Carry with Multiple Farming Cores in the team?

The problem of having more than the required number of carries in a team has been there since the very inception of Dota. Especially in the South-East Asian server where people just aren't aware of support as a role, specifically in the lower to mid-tier.

How many times have you picked a carry and a joker on your team last picks an Anti Mage or any other hard carry hero for that matter? It is both frustrating and game breaking when people pick more than two farming cores in a game. There is just not enough farm for your whole team, you might somehow scrape through in the low skilled pub games but it is a crime to do so in higher level or pro games.

This guide is not a typical one which forces you to be the good guy and pick support. No! Instead, we have come up with a new working solution where you get to play a core hero and still win games easily. Here are some tips on how to go about it.

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#1 Pick the right items

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If you have many greedy cores in your team and you are still not adapting to the situation and making the same build on your favourite carry then you are doing it wrong. For Example, you are playing Phantom Assassin and have an Alchemist and Medusa on your team. A Pretty hairy situation, where both Medusa and Alchemist need tons of farm to come online.

In this scenario making a Battle Fury will be a suicide mission. Battle Fury is an item which enables you to farm fast. However, there is very little space to farm on the map. The best item choices, in this case, will be a quick phase boot, a Sange and Yasha followed by a Desolator and BKB.

If the enemy has a lot of silences and projectile spells, a Yasha and Desolator is a great choice, you can later combine the Yasha into Manta which will help you deal with the enemy in a better way. These items enable you to come online extremely fast and you can participate in team fights constantly, creating a huge amount of space for your other cores.

#2 Where to farm?

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It is extremely important to get a grasp of the concept of farming when there is very little space left on the map. If you have two greedy cores who have occupied the jungle and a lane, it is vital for you to clear creep waves on the other empty lanes and try to push towers.

As discussed before in point number one, you already have fighting items, so it doesn't really make sense for you to sit in the jungle and steal your team’s safe farm. You can always jungle in the enemy half of the map if they rotate two to three heroes in the lane that you are pushing.

As simple as it sounds, the idea of constantly shoving the enemy creep waves to their tower is a very high-level concept and has many benefits to it apart from giving you farm. It is also vital to keep in mind your boundaries of pushing and when to back off otherwise you might end up feeding.

#3 Heroes to pick and limitations

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There are some limitations to picking heroes under this concept. You should refrain from picking heroes like Anti Mage, Medusa, Alchemist etc. These heroes take a lot of time and farm to come online and do very little with two to three items.

For Example, an Anti Mage with Battle Fury and Manta is still weak and cannot engage as a front man in fights. Skipping Battle is very situational on AM and usually is a bad idea because he can blink and flash farm really fast and an item like Fury enables him to do so really efficiently.

Picking heroes like Juggernaut, Phantom Assassin, Lifestealer etc. will be better as they come online really fast and if you go the right item builds with them. They can snowball with little advantage and farm. For example, Heroes like Jugger can push waves safely and spin-TP to other lanes or base when pounced on.

This means they can play really aggressively yet safely on any part of the map and keep creating safe farm and space for other cores.

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