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marshbaboon wrote: »The matchmaking is designed to keep everyone's win percentage as close to 50% as possible. If you start doing well you'll eventually be paired with dribblers and vice versa. I was in the very high skill bracket for a while, consistently great team mates resulting in almost every game being won. then got 30 games in a row paired with the worst players Russia has to offer.
Aye often been the case where the other team builds up a lead and Im trying to offer advice to my teamates not to go off on their own,keep to the tower when they're coming for us,kinda like this :pac:
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I only recently started playing, I prefer Dota2 over LoL so far but I must say: the learning curve is kind of putting me off the game, I want to play it but I find myself often preferring other games where I don't have to fear people shouting at me because I suck
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I only recently started playing, I prefer Dota2 over LoL so far but I must say: the learning curve is kind of putting me off the game, I want to play it but I find myself often preferring other games where I don't have to fear people shouting at me because I suck
This is the bit that amazes me, I have a newbie account (20 wins) and people do this. Sometimes it's the fault of the MM system (when a guy with 500+ wins is in a game) but usually these comments are coming from people who are obviously playing on smurf accounts - Who The Hell do they actually think they'll end up playing with on a smurf account - oh yes the newbies to pubstomp should be on the other team only!0 -
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I don't have to fear people shouting at me because I suck
Be liberal with the mute function, people complain about the mute system ruining communication, but from what I have seen 90% of the communication in the newer brackets is negative and/or pointless, as much as I hate borrow terms from 4chan, I think that the only way to get out of the "Trench" in the solo queue, is to just pick Mid and concentrate on getting yourself farmed. Might not win you the game but its your best chance !
Pick QoP, go mid and farm farm farm, side lanes going full retard ? **** them just farm and carry a TP and gank when you are sure you will get kills ( good rune spawn, enemy dives, enemy miles past the river etc ). I think one of the biggest mistake new players make is they don't farm enough, farming well and not dieing for the first 20 minutes can give you enough of an advantage to win the game on a decent semi carry like QoP or TA
However my biggest recommendation is to find people to play with, a regular 5 / 4 stack is perfect, even if the skill levels are disproportionate ( Like when I queue with that scrub Craig ) having fun is way more important, and people will improve faster in those environments. However even a 2 stack is good enough, One takes mid and the other a decent roamer, gank mid early, and if you get a kill for your solo mid qop before minute 5 ? Fecking snowball city right there ! Or alternatively pick a strong lane combo like Sven + Lina and go to the offlane, shut down the enemy carry and get some farm, roam mid if your ruskie pudge is already 0/5 and get some more kills !
Then again this is all easier said then done
tl;dr Find people to play with ( Join the Boards.ie Dota 2 steam group as well )
Now that the guild system is out all my work on the Steam groups logo is going to be obsolete ? Is / Has anyone making/made a guild for Boards ?0 -
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i got sick of having to play mid every game in HoN
i broke my jinx yesterday by going jungle ursa. an early roshan can perk a team up. GO_Bear is right about not dying and farming though. a lot of the new heads that have started with Doto 2 seem to think that playing aggressively all the time is a good thing and in the worst cases, think it shows they are more skillful lulling your opponent and then unleashing hell when they misstep is a far better idea than consistent diving with 50/50 trades. my old trick mid was to act like i was a really bad player, miss a few unimportant creeps or something, make the over aggro mid player who watches too many pro streams think im rubbish, wait for him to dive and oh dear - ive just won the lane and you wont be getting anymore creeps, you are free to dive me again though 
(this can cause rage quits though which f-up the game 
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The matchmaking system is rubbish though. if solo queue, once you hit a certain level of skill, winning is absolutely luck. I've found a lot of time that the heroes dont matter, its the pilot behind them that counts. Id much rather a team of 5 players with a brain with low tier heroes than 5 high tier heroes piloted by the new age baddies0 -
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marshbaboon wrote: »It's very difficult to turn a losing game around.
BUT it can be done !Deleted User wrote: »Donal & I were in a very funny game earlier. One of those games you have no right to come back in at all, so far behind and had lost every lane. Plus they had a void and naix....
The Game in question, Craig feeding up solo mid sniper, free farm random slardar position 1 feeder, and me on a support feeding Alchemist. We got our Shadow Blades up at like 30 minutes lol. Here is the gold graph, game of absolute throws on their part.
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DAT graph LOL
The best part about this game is when we got our shadow blades we were only taking the piss when we said we'll win this now. But then the dives started by dire and we responded very well. To be fair DS got off some absolute huge walls and with a void being replicated with empower on him the damage they were doing to themselves was insane. That along with Donal's alch acid stopping magmus blink ulti and after their Magmus being their early game MVP he actually was the main reason they lost. The main reason though was the epic baiting by your's truly, **** the team I said. Sit at the back and shoot whoever has Slardar's ulti on them. The results were hilarious I haven't enjoyed a game like that in a while. The game is actually worth a watch because it's such a funny turn around. I remember the point me & Donal said we can actually ****ing win this . How the **** did you only die 4 times LOL?
A few decent games in a decent playing tier last night though Donal. That game I was ES and you kept timing out as DK. Again baiting the team to get a full ES ulti off which resulted in me ****ting on the other team numerous times . I really need to be signed by Na'vi for the International though seriously, I;m just so good at feeding. 0 -
Deleted User wrote: »DAT graph LOL
The best part about this game is when we got our shadow blades we were only taking the piss when we said we'll win this now. But then the dives started by dire and we responded very well. To be fair DS got off some absolute huge walls and with a void being replicated with empower on him the damage they were doing to themselves was insane. That along with Donal's alch acid stopping magmus blink ulti and after their Magmus being their early game MVP he actually was the main reason they lost. The main reason though was the epic baiting by your's truly, **** the team I said. Sit at the back and shoot whoever has Slardar's ulti on them. The results were hilarious I haven't enjoyed a game like that in a while. The game is actually worth a watch because it's such a funny turn around. I remember the point me & Donal said we can actually ****ing win this . How the **** did you only die 4 times LOL?
A few decent games in a decent playing tier last night though Donal. That game I was ES and you kept timing out as DK. Again baiting the team to get a full ES ulti off which resulted in me ****ting on the other team numerous times . I really need to be signed by Na'vi for the International though seriously, I;m just so good at feeding.
We had a serious amount of -armor as well with slard, Deso, AC and acid spray. The second void used MoM you were 3 shotting him lol. It was when we bodyblocked Void into the trees on the bot lane and killed him that I knew we were on the way back ! I stunned myself more times in that game then I stunned the enemies as well !
I literally did nothing that DK game, every 3 minutes I got a white screen, think I need to clean the inside of my laptop as it burning red hot ! I propped it up at the back so cool air could get in underneath as well as at the back, hope that's enough !0 -
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