Morphling Build Guide DOTA 2: Support Morphling (No Really)

Offense
Damage	43-52
Defense
Armor	0.66
Other
Movement Speed	285

Offense

Damage

43-52

Defense

Armor

0.66

Other

Movement Speed

285

Attributes
Strength	69
Agility	99
Intelligence	54.5
Basic Stats
Health	1803
Mana	949

Attributes

Strength

Agility

Intelligence

54.5

Basic Stats

Health

1803

Mana

949

Support Morph

Morphling is one of the most versatile and devastating carries in this version of dota, with rapid farming, multipush, mobility, escape, and DPS potential. However, morphling is also a very powerful support hero, with a 325 damage AoE nuke/blink, 3s stun, massive HP pool with strength morph, and awesome steroid, anticarry, and mobility skill with replicate.

Plus, morphling has the ability to basically switch from hard support to one of the hardest carries in the game with an ethereal blade pickup.

Let's compare

With a .

You have an 80 damage 3x stun with 900 range on a 10 second cooldown
CM has a 3s, 210 damage semidisable with 500 range and 10s cooldown

You have a 1000 range 325 damage AoE nuke/blink/dodge on an 11s cooldown
Cm has a 700 range 250 damage AoE nuke on a 15s cooldown with a strong slow

You have thousands of HP
CM has a global mana regen

You have a global movement, carry-copying, chasing replicate
She has a channeled AoE

At level 25 she has 59 strength
At level 25 you have 69, plus whatever agility you want to morph in (all)

Maybe not a venomancer, shadow demon, or leshrac but pretty good no?

Item/skill justification

As always, we max our nuke at 7. I like picking adaptive strike during the roaming phase to give me a ministun to block channeling spells, but priority is on waveform. Your ulti is very valuable to create a meatsheild for pushing, copy of a carry for your own team, or as a TP to minimize time wasted walking/as an escape. You will be walking around with pretty much full strength morph, making you very hard to burst/catch out, especially since you have waveform and the ability to morph to your replicate. You do everything a crystal maiden does but better.

Armor items are important to maximize your giant health pool, and tranquil boots are great for that as well as movespeed. You don't need more than 1/2 points in morph early to get your HP maxed. A fast mek provides you with great pushing and utility for your team while also helping with your armor problem.

Gameplay

You have a 3s stun and giant nuke on very short cooldowns. It should be very easy for you to set up ganks early. You are also pretty farm independent as you won't be rightclicking for much. Blink or waveform adaptive strike initiation is very good. Waveform and agility morph make you capable of jungling very well compared to most other supports, so you can bring in additional gold to your team.

If at any point you start getting a major farm advantage, which is very possible giving how good waveform/replicate is for flash farming, it is super easy for you to switch into a carrying mode.

As always if you questions/comments/criticisms post them. I'm sure I'll get some interesting responses at this suggestion, but really: I urge you to try it -- not only is it fun but very effective.

can't support. Enough said. There are a lot of heroes that can do WAY better.

Keep as a carry please.

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Actually if you read the dev interviews from when morph was introduced in Dota 1 they go on about how versatile he in any role, and certainly in the comparison I make a point of comparing him to a not uncommon support (CM). As mentioned he's no Lesh/Veno/SD, but it's pretty impressive.

Of course Morph is a more exp dependent than most supports, but not more than a Leshrac or Sand King. Morph also farms a lot harder than other supports as you can agility smack neutrals while your team does work with a replicate to jump in with.

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No it can not be.

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Actually i like the idea of a morphling support. I don't see why it would not work.
However the enemy team may still see you as a carry and you will be focused down a lot, although this isn't really a bad thing as not only are you survivable but it takes some pressure of your main carry. +1

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i tried being a morph support using my own skill build and item build and it worked pretty well even though i got owned early game

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Well, this is original. Cannot say I would have thought of this. 6.57 kinda makes this not work as well but still an interesting thought.

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Last night random a Morphling and the team chooses all carries, I ended up supporting, deny last hits was supper easy because of morphling base damage, placing wards was no risk cause of my scape and building some strong items late game wasn't that hard either, it was a good support, not to mention our hard carry wasn't as focused as I was, it was ok that I died a couple of times after getting focused with ALL the ulties, they think they where winning because of my deaths, but then the real hard carry rip face and we won. I was really fun match.

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Hades4u wrote:

can't support. Enough said. There are a lot of heroes that can do WAY better.

Keep as a carry please.

This made me laugh so hard, that I lost my breakfast after. What was quoted, not the guide. The guide is hilarious and a fun idea. +1 for shenanigans.

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Support Morphling (No Really)

Build 1: Support

DotA2 Hero: Morphling

Offense

Defense

Other

Attributes

Basic Stats

Purchase Order

Wards or Donkey, not both

Core

Extensions/Luxury

Maybe pick up

Hero Skills

Waveform

Adaptive Strike

Morph Agility Gain

Replicate

Stats

Support Morphling (No Really)

Support Morph

Let's compare

Item/skill justification

Gameplay

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