Role Responsibilities in Five-Man Group Queue
Goal: To make high-stress team based activities more manageable by providing a simple accepted framework of what each player’s responsibilities are.
What's in a Role?
Roles are like jobs. Most of us have had one, and nobody likes doing somebody else's. The problem is, in DotA, unless something has been explicitly stated as our "job", most people will just pass the responsibility off to someone else instead. The mid and carry won't buy wards because it isn't their "job", and neither support will buy them because they each expect the other one to.
Who should this apply to?
This should be able to apply to each and every team, no matter what the composition is.
This helps alleviate arguments over what everyone else should be doing, and allows each player to better focus on their own role, while feeling secure that everyone else is as well.
We've all played with teammates that spend more time looking at their own teammate's inventories and flaming than actually playing the game. When you trust that everybody else is doing what they should be, focusing on your own job becomes much easier.
The Roles
Position OneSafelane Carry
Focus towers and objectives in fights
Focus on GPM
Do not get distracted by laning phase fights
Build damage items
Destroy the opposing tower
Out GPM the opposing carry
Position Two
Midlaner
Control tempo of the midgame by leading supports
Keep up on GPM
Cause chaos all over the map to make room for your carry
Always hold a TP scroll
Destroy the opposing tower
Control runes
Position Three
Offlaner
Initiate clashes during mid-late game
Disrupt opposing safelaner’s farm
Always hold onto a TP scroll
Farm enemy Jungle when possible
Keep up on GPM
Always carry detection against invisible heroes
Protect objectives
Destroy the opposing tower
Zone heroes off objectives
Position Four
Greedy Support
Initiate clashes when the offlaner can’t
Follow up on initiations/counter-initiations
Always carry TP
Always carry detection against invisible heroes
Maintain ward coverage
After winning a lane, rotate to go win another lane.
Gank mid
Secure runes
Position Four
Jungler
Gank the safe lane before the six minute mark
Initiate clashes when the offlaner can’t
Focus damage on objectives when the safelaner can’t
Follow up on initiations/counter-initiations
Always carry detection against invisible heroes
Maintain ward coverage
Position Five
Hard Support
Buy all wards/courier/flying/smoke
Always carry TP
Maintain ward coverage
Always hold onto detection against invisible heroes
Assist position four during the early game
Gank mid
Babysit the safe lane if needed
Secure runes
Try to stay alive at all costs
