This seems to happen quite often.
Around the 10-minute mark, you kinda won your lane so your carry is happily farming close to the safelane tower.
Your mid laner is maybe still 1-2 minutes away from his powerspike items.
The offlane 2v2 is still going on.
So as a position 5:
- I don't want to pull because the safelane lane equilibrium is good.
- I don't want to go to the lane because I don't want to take my carry's xp and he is already farming well
- It is not time to stack camps yet, there's another 50 seconds to go
- I could be playing a hero like Warlock where it could be very hard to gank mid (also it would be day time so that'd be even harder with the vision enemy heroes have)
- My mid is not ready to smoke gank yet (his powerspike not ready)
- I can't just solo walk into enemy jungle to ward
So what do I do for the next 50 seconds? I often find myself just walking back and forth really unsure what to do
And this scenario really seems to happen a lot, both teams are just farming, and it's not time to stack camps, and we're not ready to smoke gank yet.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/rjjv3n/what_should_a_position_5_do_in_this_scenario/