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[EnigmaticHat]

Something I'm noticing in my low MRR: some people down here have a LOT of games.  Like, they have more games played than they have MMR points.  Its kind of humbling to know that someone can play that much DOTA and still have so much to learn.

[RexMundi]

Or be that ignorant. I say this as that's kinda me.I could do so much better but I just don't, I Leroy into things and crap too often, and almost half my losses are throws
EDIT: unintentional throws, things that looking back I could have fixed, not feeding.

[EnigmaticHat]

That's fair, lategame DOTA requires discipline more than anything else.  When you're an hour and ten minutes in, any avoidable death is basically throwing.  As is not saving for buyback, not pushing when you could have pushed, not warding, trying to ward and getting ganked, any number of things really.

[umiman]

I just discovered this Reddit comment:

you can literally find your behavior score by typing in the console "Developer 1" then "dota_game_debug_account" or whatever and it shows you your behavior score. 10k is a perfect score - never reported, never abandoned, no bad language.

Mine is 9787.

[RexMundi]

Mine was 99-- something, yet I know I've been reported before, even if no low prio.
Did show me I'm apparently 6 games from forced 50

[EnigmaticHat]

8842, for some abandons I did early in my playtime almost certainly.

Just because people SAY they'll report you, or ask others to, doesn't mean you actually got reported.  The people who use that to flame tend to be aggressive types who, if nothing else, have probably already used all their reports for dumb reasons.

[RexMundi]

True enough. Reminds me how when someone asks you ro report someone they are always out of reports themselves. A responsible reporter does so, and moves on

[crazysheep]

I got 9840. Probably dropped points from having a party of 3 all report me in the same match lol (I don't think my account got affected from those reports).

Apparently that account debug option also shows a lot more information, such as revealing what your commends were for (just like in the old client).

[RexMundi]

I was surprised how much I was commended

[EnigmaticHat]

So lazer birb is pretty fun.  It doesn't get the kills but it sure racks up the damage.  I've taken to playing it offlane support and then using my team's tomes of knowledge (which most people still ignore) to make up some of the difference compared to solo oflane.  Come into lane with a ring of protection, 2 gg branches, ward for pull camp (not that people I play with know how to pull), and 8 tangos.  Usually I give away a good chunk of the tangos but with low health and self damage tangos can do a lot to smooth over my laning phase.

Reason I go offlane support is because fire spirits can mess up the enemy carry's last hits.  Under ideal circumstances they're 16 seconds of severe attack slow combined with heavy damage.  Usually if its a melee carry the run away instead of letting me do that but hey, that's time spent not last hitting.

[BlackHeartKabal]

Invoker laning mid against a newbie Juggernaut who I manage to off in lane 3 times, which lead to me clearing two towers in mid, then going to help bot and top, clearing them near single handedly before the team stormed the Radiant Ancient. Only real problem was Riki, who I eventually got tired of having to Ghost Walk away from, leading me to buy a gem of True Sight late game.

[Crazy Horse]

Riki is making a reappearance. I've seen him as a roamer Pos. 4 quite a bit. An interesting choice.

[EnigmaticHat]

Just had the weirdest game.

Our safelane was an Centaur Warrunner who clearly didn't know how to play the hero and got vanguard before blinkdagger.  Our mid was a Venge who rushed solar crest (not medallion, solar crest) as her first item.  And we had a roaming support Earth Spirit.  Now, I'm a pretty low rated player, all my unranked games are normal skill.  But somehow, I got matched with someone who not only knew how to roam, not only knew how to play Earth Spirit, but kicked ass while doing both of those things.  Most of those kills were early on and most of the deaths were later, when an ultra fed Slark came out of bot lane with an orchid and repeatedly gibbed both me and ES.

Also notable in that PA and Centaur roshed while we lost our last two lanes of rax.  I've... never seen anyone do that before.  Like I haven't even watched that happen in someone else's game.

Edit: Also I solo killed AM for first blood because fuck you I'm WW; that doesn't happen every day.

[crazysheep]

solar crest venge is legit, but not when it's a mid venge that ends up with a pos 4 networth

[i2amroy]

Can't actually play real games of Dota 2 anymore guys, too busy chopping down trees.

(Ran some numbers and if every player contributed we'd be able to clear the whole goal in about 5 minutes; it's only around 2k trees per player.)