Crystal maiden dota 2 carry tips

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Playstyle
Crystal Maiden is an efficient support who specializes in slowing enemies. Her highly valued Arcane Aura increases mana regeneration for all her teammates, while she remains effective throughout the game with very little items. In large fights, she can channel a Freezing Field to obliterate enemies over a w >Frostbite to target individuals. However, Crystal Maiden is quite fragile even compared to other supports, and is one of the slowest heroes in the game.
Pros	Cons
Gives team mana regeneration. Numerous slows with high cast range. Great at killing jungle creeps to catch up. Not item dependent.	Low movement speed. Very fragile.

Lane Support Crystal Maiden
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Hero Talents
+300 Crystal Nova Damage	25	+1.5s Frostbite Duration
+60 Freezing Field Damage	20	+250 Attack Speed
+150 Gold/Min	15	+14% Manacost/Manaloss Reduction Aura
+100 Cast Range	10	+250 Health

Crystal Ma >Invoker for the second-lowest base movement speed in the game. Due to her strong disable potential, she can most effectively mitigate this and by building mobility items that give her a measure of escape, since it doubles to give her initiation potential.
Because her abilities are strongest in the laning stage of a match, Crystal Ma >Abilities [ edit ]

Crystal Nova is a large area of effect nuke that also slows enemies’ movement and attack speed.
Use Crystal Nova to harass enemies out of lane. The movement and attack speed slows should prevent the enemies from fighting back with attacks.
Crystal Nova’s long cast range and w >Frostbite [ edit ]

Frostbite roots the target enemy while also disarming them and dealing damage over time.
Frostbite can be a strong disable due to its ability to instantly immobilize an enemy. While it does not prevent enemies from casting spells, it can inhibit teleport abilities, as well as Charge of Darkness and Phase Shift . Depending on the enemy lineup, maxing out Frostbite first can give Crystal Ma >Arcane Aura [ edit ]

Arcane Aura prov >Arcane Boots on all teammates globally whenever it is off cooldown, which allows all allied heroes, especially those with small mana pools, to cast spells much more frequently.
It is wise to get at least one level of Arcane Aura in the early game. As Crystal Ma >Freezing Field [ edit ]

Freezing Field is a channeled spell that summons a blizzard around Crystal Ma >Ravage or Black Hole , Freezing Field should be used in tandem with their mass disable. Using Freezing Field very often results in Crystal Ma >Items [ edit ]

Tango prov >Healing Salve also restores health to Crystal Ma >Clarity is a useful purchase due to Crystal Ma >Animal Courier ferries items to allies.
Observer Ward s should be purchased regularly and placed at key areas around the map. As a support, giving your team map vision is critical to victory.

Magic Wand is very useful on Crystal Ma >Boots of Speed are a crucial early purchase on Crystal Ma >Wind Lace also gives movement speed boost for cheap, and builds into various items.
Town Portal Scroll should be carried on Crystal Maiden as her disables can turn ganks around.

Tranquil Boots are the cheapest upgradable boots available, and allow Crystal Ma >Glimmer Cape can be a useful item to purchase if you intend on making use of Freezing Field regularly, and is otherwise a good support item. Casting the active on yourself prior to jumping in with your ultimate can give you a little extra time to channel it, allowing you to deal more damage. In other situations, it can give you or an ally the ability to stealthily initiate on targets you have vision on, or can be used as an escape or survivability tool by granting someone on your team invisibility and greatly increased magic resistance.

Blink Dagger augments Crystal Maiden’s mobility, allowing her to instantly jump within range for locking down enemy heroes with her disables. The improved mobility also allows her to move around the map more easily to support her teammates, or escape pursuing enemies.

Eul’s Scepter of Divinity grants Crystal Ma >Force Staff is a good cheap support item to build on Crystal Ma >Black King Bar is an expensive luxury item that should be considered only if given farm priority and all other support duties have been met. It prevents interruptions to her ultimate, as well as increasing the size of Crystal Maiden’s health pool.

Ghost Scepter gives survivability against attacking carries by granting Crystal Ma >Urn of Shadows is a good utility item for a roaming Crystal Ma >Drum of Endurance gives Crystal Ma >Veil of Discord is a cheap utility item that gives Crystal Ma >Aether Lens is a strong caster item that greatly improves Crystal Ma >Meteor Hammer can be used as an extra means of disabling enemies when combined with Frostbite. It prov >Aghanim’s Scepter can give Crystal Ma >Scythe of Vyse is a very expensive support item, however it gives a very reliable ranged hard-disable, a larger mana pool and some more HP, and a powerful mana regeneration boost.
Shiva’s Guard gives Crystal Maiden a strong area slow which synergizes with Crystal Nova and Freezing Field. The armor bonus also makes her much more resistant to physical damage, making it harder to focus her down.