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Hypercarry Strategy, also known as 1-3-1 Strategy or Funneling is a tactic utilized by many players and also pro players.
Description[]
The Hypercarry Strategy is a strategy where a team focuses all the resources on one hero only, hence the name Hypercarry. The hero that acquires all the resources is called a "carry" or a "funnel". The aim of the tactic is to make the carry well-fed, meaning he obtains a lot of gold to buy items which in turn, makes the player stronger and the chance of winning the game is very high.
Usually, a marksman, an assasin or a mage fill up the role of being the funnel. In rare cases, the fighter becomes the carry, while the marksman become a side-laner. The line-up usually consists of 1 carry, 1 tank, 1 support and 2 fighters.
How the tactic works[]
At the start of the match, either the support or tank goes to the mid while the other will accompany the carry take either the red or purple buff and the 2 fighters or offlaner will go to the sidelanes. Then they'll kill the gargoyle or rockursa. Then the carry will clear the second wave while either the tank or support start killing the other buff. By the time the carry finish clearing the minions, the buff already has low HP and the carry can easily kill it, usually, the funnel will now be level 4 unless one of his companions didn't bought a roam mask. Then his team will start ganking and get a kill, and the cycle repeats. Because of the tactic, the carry will have a huge gold margine than the enemy carry.
Nerfs[]
Moonton worked hard to eliminate the tactic. First, they nerfed the roam mask, thus when 2 teammates simultenously bought the mask, then both of them will have the same gold and experience for the rest of the match unless one of them gets a kill or assist or farm creeps. Second, they added a new feature where if the enemy kills the carry, they all get extra gold. This extra gold is to increase the chance of the losing team to make a comeback. Later, they nerfed heroes that's a very popular pick for funneling, this includes Bruno, Claude, Karrie, Granger and more, this patch was dubbed as the end of Marksman era. Finally, on September 22, 2020, Project NEXT arrived on Original Server and now, marksman heroes were primarily used in the side lanes but in some rare cases, the Hypercarry Strategy is still implemented.