The GosuGamers strategy team, with lead writer Bruno "shostakovich" Tomasz, presents a look into the pool of potential carry appearances at The International.
- "These heroes are the cornerstone of their team's strategy; they hold full complements of items and get highest priority when it comes to farm. Supports will die for them, utility heroes will break their keyboards for them and gankers will do their very best to hunt them down."

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An excerpt from "Keep calm and carry on"



Broodmother
"Even real men can be scared of spiders."

Pushing is a risky business. If you're successful, you stand to gain massive amounts of gold, farm and even victory. If you're unsuccessful, you end up standing impotently by as your siege breaks upon their defenses, all the while providing them farm and levels from the relative safety of their base. How to deal with this? Don't be there!

Broodmother is the quintessential split-push hero, and her goal is to build up enough momentum to force enemies to choose between two lanes. If they go for her, the rest of the team breaks through, and if she is ignored she pushes and farms to dangerous levels. With heroes like Sand King in the popular pool, Broodmother has become more of a situational pick, but I think that her mobility, damage output and pushing strength will get her some showtime during The International.

Tiny
Grown from ganker to carry.

Vigoss and MaNia- made the ganking Tiny very popular. Here's the traditional formula: Get Blink; proceed into exploding people; drop in a Dagon if possible to maximize the explosions; do it even if it means diving into the enemy fountain. But his ultimate changed, and so the way Tiny is being played.

Now it's absolutely viable to skip Blink Dagger and get Aghanim Scepter and other big items like Assault Cuirass. With that big tree, Tiny's potential to destroy bases put even Lone Druid to shame. He became a hero that will always pose a threat to the opponent no matter how ahead they are, because Tiny can demolish the entire base if given a chance. And here's the scary thing: he can still burst people down in the early and mid game and become this beastly carry in the end. We can definitely expect a lot of dual mid lanes with Tiny on it.
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