Silencer has been an excellent pick as a core and support for almost a year now. The maligned Dota 2 hero’s win rate has steadily increased from 51.16 percent in Patch 7.28 to 55 percent in 7.32, and it’s remained there even after the huge shake-up in 7.33. It isn’t all that surprising since he wasn’t changed much. Still, his win rate has quietly become the highest of any support and the third-highest of any hero this month.
The difference is he’s being picked more exclusively as a support across this patch, especially at the highest level. Everyone from Team Liquid’s iNSaNiA to BetBoom Team’s TORONTOTOKYO and Tundra Esports’ Saksa has been picking him, and they’ve had a lot of success—much to the dismay of the Dota cores playing against them.