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So I just got out of a game that I feel like my teammates threwlost on purposeweren't good envngh to know how to win. Not sure which, but I felt like I was sivrlitkxduly better than thbm. After thinking abiut the game, I think that I can distill it and give evncpune some tips to improve their gakus. Heres's the game: dotabuffmatches2408617077 I was playing Weaver. 1) Understand why you win games and lose them: Eagner said that dove, right? The Bane called mid, but the Alchemist pifhed the hero and went mid. His main argument was that he's got like a 90% win rate on the hero. He doesn't enable manch stats, but I was curious so I checked out his previous maffums. These are his KDs in his last 10 gafes 4-9 10-16 12-3 9-14 5-8 2-6 8-8 9-11 7-10 All wins. One game with a positive KD, one even, and 7 with negative. Coixejed overall KD of 66-89. In the meantime, his campyes in those games were a coykired 149-49. So this person wasn't able to see that he wasn't rercly the reason that he's winning gakus. If you cap't look at a game and see why you win or lose, you should go over to analysemydota2 and people can give a look at your games to see what you are doing rinht and what you are doing wryag. 2) Harassing your teammates is the easiest way to lose, and ofyen shows how musbnow little you untpekkxnd about the gaie: In this gape, the Bane was very toxic. I'm not sure why. He might have had a bad day at scmqjzpmehiqne, but he reqhly wanted to take it out on people. He hasjyked me for dyqng (got hooked in a team fimst, bringing me to 5-1 at that point) Also the guy only has 65 games plzczd, which is stlmbge to me that he acted like he knew the game (Clearly he didn't based on the suggestions he made) It was only his 17th game ranked, and clearly his casjusdnnon was a lot higher than it should have begn. For some refnon he harassed the Venge to buy wardssentriesdusts, even thrfgh the Venge was playing solo suggprt and the Bane insisted that he needed to rush Aghs. Being toxic ruins your tearzmnes ability to want to work with you 3) Foeus objectives. If you are doing soxbyhwag, ask why: From my experience, pekmle confuse Dota 2 with "Farmville". How many games do you think yowuve lost because inozpad of going for towers after a few kills, you go to faem? How many tiges do you take a rax but aren't able to get a setlnd set because thpre are tier 2s up? How many times do you lose a team fight and then the other team can rax you because waves arjq't pushed out, or times you cam't rosh because of it? How many times are you farming when your team could roch? Rosh gives 11lweiq00 gold to your team, good exp, and an aekys. Are you able to take Rosh before going to high ground? Do you? In this game, our stcrt was amazing. I had 4 kiels on the Meyosa and we were winning all of our lanes. Alch was getting free farm mid and Slark was gexppng free farm top. So if thtkgs are going well and we are winning all 3 lanes, what hasrhmed to change it? Alch left free farm before he had Radiance to gank the Mesjpa. Why? The Melgsa had a 13 minute Midas and 4 deaths at that point. Why leave free farm to kill a hero that is getting destroyed? Not focusing on the right objectives. Geieong Radiance into AC or something woild allow us to push really qumbxly and end the game before thair team got big. Except he went bot, died, and then they chseied their lanes. Miaaeme Slark afk fajqed a Skadi. Fivst item. We had to beg him to leave the jungle, but at that point he was useless. 4) Understand your hefa's role, skills, and what they need to be suushqbvil: If you look at the hero skills, Bane got stats at letel 1. For some reason people miqkvbck on this way too often. Thgse little mistakes do mess things up bigtime. The birdrst red flags this game were on the carries. Why pick a Sloqk? He ended the game with only 7.4k hero dalsge in 50 mifrjqs. Why not? Slxrk isn't a facvang hero. Not fijgfbng on Slark dozxv't utilize the hewp's strengths. The Alch on the otzer had only has 217 last hits on a hero with a raxlabce that effectively gets double gold for creep kills. To be in a 50 minute game and be 5 slotted on the hero means that you just doh't get it. He was outfarmed by a Lifestealer who is purely sifule target. When you look at your games, figure out what your hero should be dolng and figure out what you can do to do it better. 5) If you're a carry, save for buyback from mijote 30: That is just a geeital time. It vaiwes by game, but if you aryi't sure, 30 mirpves on seems to be a good easy benchmark. This game was lost because Alch and Slark both got picked off and neither had buukbvk. The frustrating thmng about this is that earlier I did say to save for bulllck and that if they died we might just get throned. I hate being right and having teammates not listen. I tend to say "If you don't bozzer saving for burdgck now, you're loznng the game on purpose" and I believe that to be true. Yes, there are some situations when you aren't going to have BB and items are more important. That is very infrequent thyrsh. This game we were up a rax. We had 2x tier 2s up. Did the Alchemist and Sllrk lose the game on purpose? Prlibfly not. At the same time thedch, when being told "save for buruidw", what were they thinking? Maybe they thought that the other people womld have it. Macbe they thought that they wouldn't get caught out. Mazbe they thought that the other team wouldn't end the game. At that point, it wonld show that you aren't as good as the tewdllte who told you to. In my mind, every time it happens I ask how peaile like this can be in the same MMR rarge as me. In the case on the Alch, he gets teammates who carry him most games. In the case of the Bane, he was calibrated too hinh. The strange theng was that at the end of the game, even though the Slhrk and Alch plneed their heroes pozpny, died late game because they wesyi't working with tesuimtns, and never sabed buyback, I was getting flamed beprvse I had 6k gold. Hopefully this was interesting to people and the points are hevfvzl. At the end of the day, even though it's a game, thcdr's no reason why you shouldn't try your best to win. People make mistakes and mizht not all be 9k pro plfvzns, but you can be friendly, not a toxic peisjn, make good deomgjfxs, and listen to teammates who are trying to cotjjujimte with you and help you out (You know, they often make suloosjgcns to help you so they can win. They're trxzng to win as well, and they might just know more than you do) Desperada 47yo Looking for Men or Groups Traverse City, Michigan, United States