Talk:Ganking

Heroes
Venomancer counts as item-dependant, and Spirit Breaker as item-independant? hmm...

I think it's pretty hard to decide for most heroes. Tidehunter, for example, was played as a supportive roamer for a long time. Now teams started to put lots of farm on him. Same goes for Sand King and Shadow Shaman. Windrunner is often the Mekansm carrier for the team, so teams often want to give her some farm. I could continue this list forever, it's pretty hard to put Heroes into categories. Maybe we should add a short reminder somewhere in the text, like "these Heroes are well-suited for X, but can also be played in another way.". -derFreiBierFred 9th May 2012


 * When I made the list, the Heroes I categorized were based on my assumption that "Item-dependant" are ones that have a great potential to become a Semi-Carry, and are usually requiring to get the kill, while Item-independant are just ones that help with the gank possible, but not necessarily have the requirement to earn the kill to get the money.


 * Like you said, Heroes like Sand King and Sven are one of those heroes that also do good when they are farmed - and Venomancer and even Viper are ones that does not necessarily need farm to be good at ganking, but I don't know. Maybe item-dependence is a bad factor to create categories, and we should use another, or just remove it all throughout.


 * There's also difficulty in heroes like Pudge, Tiny, Leshrac, and Spirit Breaker. Denmax 10:48, 9 May 2012 (UTC)