Solo Lane as Melee vs Ranged hero - Page 2

On October 17 2012 02:12 JohnJohnson wrote:
This may be a dumb question, but I didn't see any searched threads pertaining specifically to this.

I'm fairly new, I've got about 70~ hours on DOTA2 now.

The one thing bothering the most is specifically how to lane as a melee character, vs a ranged hero, particularly in mid.

Scenario: I went random, got spectre. All my random team-mates took their top/bottom slots and refused to trade out with me. I end up stuck on mid lane vs Silencer. It's near impossible for me to move away from my tower, as he will harass + use that spell that drains Mana+HP. Consequently, he ended up like 3-4 levels ahead of me, more money, etc.

I tried to get one of my teammates to swap positions with me so I could have a ranged person support me in a lane, but no one would communicate.

So.. is there a specific technique or something I should be doing when I get stuck in a situation as a melee hero vs a ranged, early game, trying to farm up some xp cash? I ended up just getting stomped the rest of the game because I couldn't hardly make any money to buy useful stuff.

On October 18 2012 12:28 xHQx wrote:

stoutshield + 190 on potion+trees first, +5 reg ring before boots
ezgame

On October 18 2012 06:55 prplhz wrote:

so your solution is to convince the silencer who is beating him to do another build

i doubt this is effective at all