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[umiman]

I need to get new friends to play this game with. I more or less cut myself off from the previous group because they were toxic as all hell and it was affecting my behavior as well.

Also, I used to have a 70-some winrate with Omniknight, but recent games have brought me down to 67%.

I'm super lucky to have a really good group of people to play with.

It's hard. You have to find people that:

1. Are around the same skill level as you.
2. You get along with.
3. Actually play Dota.

I've met all the people I play with in person too because we all live in the same city.

Edit: if anyone is interested how I did it, I was on the Calgary subreddit and a guy was advertising his LAN event. I complained there was no Dota and another person invited me to play with his group.

Turns out his group was pretty good at Dota but in true Canadian fashion was also really chill. And we use the mumble server owned by the guy who advertised the LAN.

[Putnam]

The only people I've tried playing with are in "high skill", which AFAIK is at least double my MMR, lol.

[EnigmaticHat]

Part of a feeding two stack, over mic: "oh look, they're reporting, how cute.  3 reports isn't going to do anything!"

Game becomes safe to leave, I abandon.  Instantly: "We've taken action against one or more players you previously reported."  God damn that was satisfying.

[umiman]

Part of a feeding two stack, over mic: "oh look, they're reporting, how cute.  3 reports isn't going to do anything!"

Game becomes safe to leave, I abandon.  Instantly: "We've taken action against one or more players you previously reported."  God damn that was satisfying.

The only way it gets better is if this happens: https://streamable.com/x7we

[Wysthric]

Trying to break into 3k MMR on ranked.

First member of team randoms, randoms Leshrac. Goes mid. Ok.

Leshrac goes 0 - 10.

Aaaaaaand that's the game.

Edit : Now that sodium levels have decreased, I'll admit I, as Silencer, got caught a few times, but how the enemy managed to make a 4 core non -jungle strat run over us so easily was embarrassing. Invoker roasted Lesh mid and then it just went downhill from there (despite our Spectre getting okay farm, she wasn't able to use it properly.)

[Android]

Trying to break into 3k MMR on ranked.

First member of team randoms, randoms Leshrac. Goes mid. Ok.

Leshrac goes 0 - 10.

Aaaaaaand that's the game.

Edit : Now that sodium levels have decreased, I'll admit I, as Silencer, got caught a few times, but how the enemy managed to make a 4 core non -jungle strat run over us so easily was embarrassing. Invoker roasted Lesh mid and then it just went downhill from there (despite our Spectre getting okay farm, she wasn't able to use it properly.)

I feel the same frustrations

[EnigmaticHat]

You are the common factor in your own games.  Everyone loses games to idiots like that, the important thing is your opponents will too.  Forget what your allies are doing and focus on learning a new aspect of the game.  And play often, it makes games like that feel like less of a big deal.

[Wysthric]

You are the common factor in your own games.  Everyone loses games to idiots like that, the important thing is your opponents will too.  Forget what your allies are doing and focus on learning a new aspect of the game.  And play often, it makes games like that feel like less of a big deal.

Of course, of course, I know. But it still gets to me.

Had a similarly annoying situation just now (but this was unranked, so I don't feel like the game is as liable) - me as CM and my friend as Zeus do amazingly, then the other 3 teammates do utter trash.

I mean, we lost, and I went 9 to 7 on CM. ON CM

Not saying I'm the ultralord because there are definitely games where I've done totally shit. But those are easily mentally explained away as not getting enough support or enemy being very good. But when someone in our team does the same, it's annoying.

Also, I hate it when the enemy your team uses voicechat to communicate but has apparently positioned a large cupboard between themselves and the microphone so I can't understand them.

[Crazy Horse]

If the pre-game discussion is looking cancerous I'll just mute, play Lycan and kill buildings. With necrobook and wolves I can build my own team. Sitting on a 64% win-rate with the old dog now.

[crazysheep]

Might as well play beastmaster if you want necrobook army, boars > wolves and inner beast is a pretty godly aura.

[EnigmaticHat]

Finally reached ranked.  Playing my placement matches in RD, so far I've played 3 as Rubick and lost every one.  So far my teams have been identifying other people as the problem; I've been going around diligently warding and applying telekinesis, plus occasionally getting something done with spell steal.  Can't help but wonder if I'd do better as another support... on the other hand my lanes tend to go fine.  I dunno, after the silliness that is Rubick its hard to have fun going back to being a disable/nuke dispenser.

On a related note, the "standard" Rubick build of bracer>arcane boots>blink dagger is giving me awful timing on arcane and blink.  Before I did tranquils + soul ring but 800 gold seems an awful lot for an item that's only going to help for ~15 minutes.  Maybe something like tranquils > euls or brown boots > bracer > bracer > drums of endurance > BoT?  Or perhaps glimmer cape, the magic resist seems like it would have synergy with his passive.  I play him as a super sacrificial support, the way I look at it he basically steals exp from the enemy every time he spell steals so who cares if Rubick farms.

[crazysheep]

Rubick needs farm, otherwise he drops off in the midgame and doesn't recover easily. Apply Fade bolt more often, and use his range to do stuff lol

[EnigmaticHat]

Finally got placed, shit mmr.  Oh well, that's a blessing and a curse.  At least no one will flame me for not knowing how to stack or whatever.

Finally tired of hard supporting, going to switch to solo offlane.  The 3 times my team has actually given me it, things have gone swimmingly.  Usually someone who didn't call lane comes up with me and starts pushing creeps

Its funny, a lot of the people I'm meeting down here do have technical skills related to the game but every one of them you can see why they're stuck down here.  Its actually pretty varied.  Had a PA who was perfect at last hitting and understood how to stack and deny but spent the entire midgame getting ganked or blink striking into multiple enemies because the player had terrible judgement.  In general I would put them into three categories: bad communication, bad judgement, ignoring a basic aspect of the game.  But often a player who's awful in one area is pretty solid in others.  Time will tell if I'm actually at the right place...

[Putnam]

ooh ooh i am so deep in the second category, i'm at ~1700-1800 mmr due to my utterly awful judgement

[crazysheep]

nobody does solo offlane in pubs, it's typically two in the offlane and the one that's not supporting is expected to be the second core