Ask yourself, are my teammates winning on their own? Do they REALLY need me? And if I join every team fight, will I die in every single one of them with zero contribution, but I only showed up to keep them from getting mad/reporting me? 

If not, then you MUST AFK farm until six slotted, pushing the lanes safely as much as humanly possible. Without joining any team fights that are not taking place under your towers. 

And this is ONLY if your teammates are ALREADY winning and stomping on their own early and mid game. 

Even if they think if you were with them, they’ll end the game faster. 

I’d rather delay the win, than try to rush it, and end up feeding several times until we lose BECAUSE I Fed, because I’m position 5 itemless at minute 20 trying to “help” my cores when I’m half their level anyway. 

Sometimes the best solution is to do nothing. 

And you’re not doing nothing. All lanes are pushed because of you, and you will be six slotted like a core late game regardless despite being a hard support squishy crystal maiden. 

You will not die to a herald PA with good farm late game this way. 

DotA now is about cores playing like a support fighting early to mid game, while supports helping from safety and farming all game until they’re ready. Because you were not allowed to touch creeps in the laning phase. 

The enemy is trying to make a comeback, and that come back will not be through farming. It will be through feeding on the squishy supports until they suddenly start winning against your cores for some reason. 

If you disappear during that try hard wanna come back period, you will always win the games you had a good start in as a hard support. 

You still need to ward EVERYWHERE around the map though. 

If your cores never die (and that’s how you know they don’t need you), and you never die, you will always have much higher networth as a team, as opposed to only your safe laner has superior networth but whole team is feeding. And it is extremely hard to lose a game where your whole team has 40k networth ahead of the enemy team, and there are no weak links on your team where they can target during their come back fights. 

You will not climb out of low MMR as a crystal maiden with force staff and glimmer cape, even if you do everything right. It’s not gonna happen. 

Cores, as long as they’re not griefing, or toxic in any way, in a well balanced game, always lose because of weak supports, even if they are not bad supports. 

When I’m core I always lose because everybody else is horrible. But when I’m support, I rarely lose because my cores are weak, it’s because my hero is weak and has no escape. Unless we’re against people boosting, we’re always going to win if I play support like I’m a core, without buying agility carry items or physical damage. But I will be unkillable exactly like the offlaner.