So does anyone here play MMR still? I'm looking for advice to get better at supporting but some carries seem utterly hopeless at farming.

 

I've been hovering between 3.3 to 3.5k MMR scrub in the past few weeks after getting back into the game. Of course, I'm also a SEA scrub player, which means comparative to the rest of the world I'm probably closer to a flat 3k MMR.

 

It's not quite as bad. Usually the carries I end up with seem to be able to last hit at least half of the creep wave, if I can zone off the enemy. The problem is that they make dumb decisions late game (like going 1 v 5, charging blind into enemy jungle when we don't have ward vision - i.e. not safe to ward -, going solo rosh when it hasnt been cleared of wards, without sod, farming jungle while clash is going on after 7 slotted, and general idiocy).

 

Been going with an Enchantress main these past few games with mixed results, and I'm theory-crafting on a possible jungle strat, modified from this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6OSXVBG7EA.

TLDR, using enchant and with creep micro, you can stack 2 hard camps while farming a medium camp. At 5 minutes, assuming you get 4 stacks on both hard camps, you can afford a midas by flash farming with the Wildwing Ripper's Tornado. In his build, he buys courier at start of game.

To take into account my current MMR rating, I've tweaked it a bit to be more viable.
1) I assume I'm solo ward-bitch in game, so I buy first set of courier and ward. I give one ward to off-laner/mid and set up the safelane ward. I also buy the second set of wards at minute 7:00.

2) I do other things in the downtime. Whereas in the original strat you go attack other camps to lower their hp, I would contest/secure runes for midlaner.

3) I stacked 3 camps instead of 2. For Radiant, this would be the Easy Camp (near safe-lane) and a Hard Camp together, with some tree chopping from a quelling blade. For Dire, this would be the Medium Camp and Hard Camp together with tree chopping.

4) Instead of a Midas, I go for an early Maelstrom.

As an Enchantress, I don't really have difficulties with having levels, nor do I ever really need a level advantage to secure kills. My main problem is that I fall off hard somewhere around the 23 minute mark, because by then enemy carries have finished their second core (assuming their first core was a flash-farm item).

Given how Impetus is no longer a UAM, Maelstrom gives me some bonus damage and more importantly, fixed on of the problems of this hero in the form of more attack speed and flash farm capability (other problems being lack of EHP to survive getting bursted down and mana regen for my 3 active and mana heavy skills). I'm hoping to be able to farm Maelstrom + Treads in this modified build within 10 minutes, then follow up by ganking aggressively/taking towers and invading the enemy jungle, freeing up my own jungle for the team "carry" to farm.

Compared to a safelane "pro" carry timing of a Battlefury/Maelstrom + Treads "pro" timing of 11:00-15:00, I have a minute lead theoretically, which could be game winning depending on how well I manage to invade their jungle.

Now, obviously, this is a very greedy play, but unlike traditional junglers, I'm not really going to get shut down by an invi hero leaching off my exp, as I'm doing this to flash farm. It would delay how quick I get my six, but that shouldn't matter too much as I'm going for late early-game/early mid-game dominance (and the amount of players that actually try to leech exp from junglers are abysmal at my bracket). They can't really steal that much gold from me either.

The only real way I can think of to shut down this build is if the enemy team aggressively pushes into our jungle and has a much better early game fight potential than mine, and that relies on them having wards very deep into our jungle (again, very rare in my experience) to know what I'm trying - which they won't know from experience in all possibility. AFAIK, I'm the only idiot stupid enough to rush maelstrom on a jungle enchantress.

My issues with the build, other than being very greedy could mean I can't really "support-carry" my team if they get steamrolled (like getting a 0-10 score while I'm jungling) and my lane presence might have made things a bit more manageable (a risk for any jungler). On the other hand, if they were bad enough to get in such a bad state without me, I probably had an unwinnable team to begin with.

My best ganker-games with Enchantress had me giving about 4-5 kills to our carry on the enemy offlane/mid in the same amount of time, but I fall off even faster in those games having almost zero farm and being underlevelled (usually around 15 minutes into the game).

Another issue is that Maelstrom might not be the best item to get (I could theoretically get a 4:00 minute midas with this build) or for the same amount of gold I *could* switch out maelstrom for something like a Force Staff + a Boots of Elven Skin (for Hurricane Pike), which would also be pretty darn good compared to my timings in normal games where I solo offlane and dominate 3 v 1 (and still somehow manage to lose the game).

I'd welcome any thoughts on this build to make it better, or if I'm better off playing a typical Enchantress game.