Mirana + Tusk

Why this works

Picking these two together often looks better on paper than it feels in-game. The core idea is to use Tusk's Snowball to deliver Mirana for a guaranteed Sacred Arrow. While this does work, it feels a bit redundant. You're using a powerful initiation and save spell to set up a stun that's most valuable for its long-range pickoff potential. It turns a high-skill, high-reward ability into a clunky, point-blank stun that many other supports could provide with a single, instant button press. This overlap means they don't enhance each other's kits as much as they simply repeat the same job.

Early roaming can find a few kills, but it requires both heroes to commit deep into enemy territory. Later on, the combo's value can fall off. Tusk may need Snowball to save a core, preventing Mirana from using it aggressively. In messy teamfights, the setup time is a liability. While a Moonlight Shadow can help Tusk find a great initiation with Walrus Punch, the overall laning and ganking dynamic between them isn't as smooth as it first appears. They can certainly function on a team, but rarely feel like they're enabling each other in a special way.