There is more to supporting than just buying wards and dust. True sight even sees your play as carry. But to humor you, I once played Invoker as a support because I wanted to meme. Everyone wanted to report me at first but that didn't happen.
Sven ! There was a fully farmed Riki on the other side that was killing me every single time in the fights cause our supp didn't buy a single Sentry/Dust. Then I started to buy only Sentries/dust XD and we won that game !
Drow (long ass silence), Puck and Arc warden when he was released and I had no idea what he was
Just saw a tinker as support in my last game. He picked tinker after mid was picked and his team flamed him till he go support.
not really odd, but certainly rare, weaver https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/3558551998 (verri hai skeel btw smiley face)
and brew https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/3488310435
now the really odd stuff
alch https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/3350244779
sniper https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/3422834212
gyro https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/3536440815
tiny https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/3532123601
I also played naga as a pos 4 support 10 months ago before it was cool
https://www.dotabuff.com/players/382032027/matches?hero=naga-siren
funnily enough i won all games other than the roaming sniper support (still had more or same hero damage then 2 of the cores, most assists and better kda than cores, dont ask me how)
When i played unranked and some russkie would pick troll jungle i would quiet often just pick some dumb stuff to annoy him, thats why i have so many of those ''odd support''-games
Hipster naga roaming as well, right before pros started doing it, I’m not saying I’m meta or a genius or anything but I made a thread about this and even Cookie commebted something like “you can play any hero in any role, you can go Crystal Maiden carry, that doesn’t make it good”
Supporting is what I do best, and I'm the type of Dota player who loves experimenting different ways of supporting, I kinda have a list for this topic.
I used to play Invoker as support often, but it was really a long time ago. I find his disables pretty good, and well, uh.. I take 1 level for each orb, take 3 levels on Wex, max Exort, then finish maxing Quas. I don't go Aghs and skip Midas, and instead of carry boots, I'd go Arcane. I'd make either Atos or Eul, and Dagger if possible. I mean, I could often save my teammates just by using Snap and Tornado, I can save myself with Ghost, and Ice Wall and Alacrity really helps during team fights.
I also have tried Sven as a support. I find his AoE stun that not many support has really good. Warcry is also good during team fights. He's also not so easy to be killed. I go Arcane since he doesn't have a lot of mana, rush Aghs, then either get SB or Dagger.
Puck also used to be one of my faves support heroes, Puck's coil and silence is really useful during ganking, and his 1st makes it easy for him to escape. I'd go Dagger and Eul like any carry Puck, but Arcane instead of Treads. Force Staff situationally.
The recent one that I have tried is Spectre. I thought that her 1st and ulti was really useful for roaming, but I was wrong. She's completely useless in supporting, and I would never, ever, use her again as a support.
And despite all this, I have a very good friend that really loves using support heroes are carries, so I think we play pretty well. I only use core heroes as support if I'm in a party match though.
One time my friend got really mad at our real support for taking last hits and refusing to pull in lane so he played Spectre as a support. Bought lots of aura items and it actually worked, we won.
Sven is the way if you want unconventional support.
Most of my Sven game is as support.
https://www.dotabuff.com/players/203911513/matches?hero=sven
support huskar
not proud of it
@HanYolo you played jungle drow, not support !
everyone here says antimage, i remember some all-star game where miracle played a roaming am :-D
i've played alche as a support and just farming up aghanims wioth bounty runes :-D
meepo
i was trying to pass all hero challenge and i was shit
so i tried supporting. wards, meks, ...
^a friend of ine randomed meepo in his 2nd ever dota game and had to support, too xD
edit: mek on meepo was meta long time ago^^
I've done spectre, pa, void
I've jungled puck, dp, centaur (when talon was an item)
@nikki
Get on my level
https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/3414349374
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https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/3797450087. I was 2nd pick yet everyone still picked carry. Since I was desperate to win I was forced to play CK as a support. I was only able to build armlet and echo as all my money went to wards dust and smokes. Lol