Uncommon Supports Picks and Builds

My 3 favorites right now are:

  • Night Stalker (following sQreen's build)
    • Abilities
      • At lvl 6: 3-1-1-1
      • At lvl 11: 4-1-4-2
    • Items
      • Starting: Boots, Tangos, Clarity
      • Early: Phase Boots, Magic Stick, TPs, Smokes
      • Core: Aghanim's
      • Luxury/Situational: Gem, Vlads, AC, Halberd, Sheep Stick, Abyssal, Necro
  • Zeus
    • Abilities
      • At lvl 6: 1-3-1-1
        • (however, you need to tweak it based on the lane -- often more Chain Lightning is better for more damage on a low cooldown and low cost)
      • At 11: 3-4-2-2
        • (again, might need to tweak based on circumstances)
    • Items
      • Starting: Tangos, Wards/Cour, several Clarity, and w/e else you want/need
      • Early: Boots + Ring of Basi
      • Core: Tranquils, Soul Ring, Magic Stick
        • Note: Break the Basi into comonents to make Tranquils + Soul Ring
      • Luxury/Situational: Force Staff, Eul's, Ghost Scepter, Bloodstone, Blink Dagger, Necrobook, Sheep Stick, Arcanes, Veil of Discord, etc..
  • Nature's Prophet
    • Abilities -- standard
    • Items
      • Starting: Either Boots + Tangos + Clarity, or Tango + Multiple Clarity + Wards/Cour
      • Early: Phase Boots
      • Core: Mek
      • Luxury/Situational: Blink/Shadow Blade, Mjollnir, Orchid, Dagon, Sheep Stick, Necrobook, Deso, etc...
    • Notes: I do this when I get stuck jungling as NP. Jungling isn't very fast, so you need good map awareness and early phase to help with kills.

I also used to do Spirit Breaker a lot, which is pretty fun. I used the Goblak build:

  • Abilities:
    • At lvl 6: 3-1-1-1
    • At lvl 11: 4-1-4-2
  • Items:
    • Starting: you can do a lot. You can help with wards, or you can start with Boots. You can start with some +3 STR items, Stout Shield, etc..
    • Early: Boots, Urn, Magic Stick
    • Core: Treads, Blade Mail
    • Luxury/Situational: Vlads, Halberd, BKB, etc.

Tusk is another fun hero for support.

  • Abilities:
    • At lvl 6: 1-3-1-1
    • At lvl 11: 4-4-2-1 (i.e. don't go past 1 lvl in your ult until your other 3 spells are maxed)
  • Items:
    • Early: Boots, Urn/Medallion, Magic Stick
    • Core: Arcanes, Blink Dagger
    • Situational/Luxury: Gem, Halberd, Vlads, etc..

Someone else mentioned Kunkka (who you basically just skip Tidebringer on), and Morph (for the 4 sec stun). They are also both fun.

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