Dota 2 Roles and Farm Priority
Who gets the lane, who gets the stack, and why a fourth core item on a 4 is a missing ward.
Positions are farm order
Position 1 gets the safest farm. Position 2 gets mid. Position 3 soaks the hard lane. Positions 4 and 5 buy the vision and the saves. If four people need the same ancient stack, the draft already failed — or someone is playing the wrong role.
Pos 5 and 4
Wards, pulls, smokes, TPs. Your items are Force, Glimmer, Mek, Boots — not a Battle Fury. If the shop has Observer Wards and you have gold for a damage item, buy the wards.
Pos 3
Levels and a timing that starts fights. You can farm after the lane, but you should not disappear for 12 minutes while the team 4v5s. Blink, aura, or BKB — then you show.
Pos 2 and 1
Mid spends an advantage on a tower or a gank. Carry hits a timing and then hits a building. A 1 who never groups with BKB and a 2 who never leaves mid are the same problem with different lanes.
Call the farm
Say 'stack for me' or 'I need this wave.' Silent cores who ping their own jungle while a wave dies under T1 are why supports mute. Farm priority is a conversation, not a steal.