Lich
Support
Playstyle Breakdown
Lich fits players looking for a support whose defining traits are summarized by the top playstyle tags. The notes below explain why those traits matter.
- Information Control: Vision, recon, or denial
- Teamfighting: Strong in grouped or multi-entity fights
- Anti-Carry: Specializes in shutting down enemy cores.
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- Information Control: Vision, recon, or denial
- Teamfighting: Strong in grouped or multi-entity fights
- Anti-Carry: Specializes in shutting down enemy cores.
- Defensive Utility: Protects allies with mitigation, saves, or disruption that prevents enemy follow-up.
- Harass: Applies repeated pressure through safe poke, forcing poor trades and limiting enemy options.
- Initiator: Starts fights and forces engagements.
- Lane Support: Improves lane outcomes through harass, saves, and control rather than farming priority.
- Mana Sustain: Maintains mana through regeneration, restores, or efficiency to stay active longer.
- Nuker: Deals high burst damage in short windows to remove targets before they can react.
- Slow: Relies on strong slows and movement control to keep enemies in danger and enable follow-up.
- Support: Provides utility, control, and protection to enable allies rather than being the main damage source.
Dota 2 setup
Gear searches for playing Lich
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Low-latency wireless gaming mouse
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Burst windows are tight. Eliminating wired drag and reducing click latency gives cleaner execution.
Optical gaming keyboard
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Optical switches actuate faster than mechanical and don't debounce, which helps with exact timing on combo openers.
High refresh gaming monitor
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Burst playstyles live and die on seeing opportunities before opponents react. Frame clarity helps.
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