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goody153
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
44238 Posts
August 05 2014 15:01 GMT
#21
Hmm i think i experience this before and the solution is really simple at least for me.

Just don't take the game seriously and stop being competitive. You know do it for fun and just stop looking at your mistakes and others mistakes as well.

Just relax when playing remember it's a game.
this is a quote
sabas123
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands3122 Posts
August 05 2014 15:40 GMT
#22
On August 05 2014 23:40 Laertes wrote:
I fail to understand why I cannot learn how to play dota because I'm only 2.4k. That doesn't make any sense and you have to start somewhere. I can't believe how people say "it's not worth it because you have to work harder than me.". What do you know about life, saying shit like that? It's just false, and it's why I'm not getting better. Because I'm listening to people who have no idea what they are talking about. There are some good points on this forum, but I don't agree with all of them, and if you think determination is unhealthy then newsflash, what are you doing with your life that's so great?

If you truly PLAY 7-8 hours a day, I mean actual game time not spending time afk reading tl, and you dont see ANY improvement then your mind set has to so incredibly fucked.

there is so much amazing matrial about how to have a good mindset, what it means and what you should focus on ect, (day[9]'s podcasts are great for this!)

if you are prepared to spend so much time in it and you have the goal to improve, start making time count instead of wasting it trying to find conformation on the ideas you already have, which by the looks of your previeus posts are really fucked and terrible for dota.
The harder it becomes, the more you should focus on the basics.
FFGenerations
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
7088 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-05 15:57:40
August 05 2014 15:53 GMT
#23
some heroes are many times easier to play than others so its VERY easy to think you are a "good" player but not know why you have a shit winrate overall.

try playing puck or nyx until you get a 50 (60?)% winrate with them over 50 games each and you will learn a lot of hidden improvements you need to make to your play that you wont ever notice whilst playing an OP hero like lycan or sb

for example,

missing any skillshot ever = you are shit
missing any cs that you could have got = you are shit
not realising that you could have farmed your next sub-item before dying = you are shit
not using quickbuy = you are shit
any wasted time = you are shit
any missed tp to help a teammate and secure a kill = you are shit
any time you ever got caught out = you are shit
any time you engage or initiate and end up feeding/your team doesn't show up soon enough = its YOUR fucking fault!
any of these of any combination of these things = towers/runes/deaths/kills/control/farm/rosh lost = you just lost the game

you wont EVER realise these things by playing heroes like lycan or sb but if you play a hero like puck then you will realise how much potential you are missing in your play coz you will realise u have a fucking 30% winrate with this hero compared to 80% with another easier hero.

examples of improvements from playing a "difficult" (not mechanically difficult) hero:

1) you will never die before farming your next sub-item and hence be 1-4 minutes ahead in items than you previously were all the time

2) you will never initiate/engage without full knowledge that your team will be able to get into the fight within the 1-3 seconds of the initiation, and hence never be feeding wondering wtf happened to your team and then losing a tower and getting them wiped and then rosh and the rune and everyone raging at everyone

3) you will never get caught out because your map awareness is either perfect or on the safe side, e.g. the sniper game i played against a "decent" pudge the other day when he landed only 1 hook on me all game coz i had shit-hot map movement even with 0 wards all game

4) you will never miss those 1, 2, 3 cs every minute that you really should have gotten, and hence be up +400 gold over 4 minutes than you otherwise would have been, and hence finished buying a sub-item before dying, and being literally 4 minutes ahead of any given opponent just because your farm and item buying is immaculate

5) you will have a lot less blame for your teammates once you realise that if you yourself had played to your very high standard of the above things then you should really be +5 minutes +1 item and probably +1 tower +1 rune and -1 death and +1 kill than you are right now

6) once you attune to all of these tiny but cumulative faults you will feel the satisfaction of knowing you played well regardless of the outcome of the game and understand that your teammates would have to be pretty fucking amazing to play as well as you, and since you're in shitty MMR you can't expect them to be anywhere near your level and so can't blame them for being crap

7) fuck LC pickers and fuck LC pickers who dont know they're supposed to gank
Cool BW Music Vid - youtube.com/watch?v=W54nlqJ-Nx8 ~~~~~ ᕤ OYSTERS ᕤ CLAMS ᕤ AND ᕤ CUCKOLDS ᕤ ~~~~~~ ༼ ᕤ◕◡◕ ༽ᕤ PUNCH HIM ༼ ᕤ◕◡◕ ༽ᕤ
schmitty9800
Profile Joined August 2010
United States390 Posts
August 05 2014 18:33 GMT
#24
On August 05 2014 23:40 Laertes wrote:
I fail to understand why I cannot learn how to play dota because I'm only 2.4k. That doesn't make any sense and you have to start somewhere. I can't believe how people say "it's not worth it because you have to work harder than me.". What do you know about life, saying shit like that? It's just false, and it's why I'm not getting better. Because I'm listening to people who have no idea what they are talking about. There are some good points on this forum, but I don't agree with all of them, and if you think determination is unhealthy then newsflash, what are you doing with your life that's so great?

The fact that you bought two different accounts instead of just simply trying to improve your MMR makes people question your mentality.
Deleted User 97295
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
1137 Posts
August 05 2014 22:16 GMT
#25
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Alpino
Profile Joined June 2011
Brazil4390 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-06 06:52:10
August 06 2014 06:46 GMT
#26
Dont feel bad. One or two years are not even close to enough to get passable at dota. I've been playing this for 8 years. I suck badly.

Lol I just read the other stuff you wrote. Why the fuck you thought buying an account is a good idea? Dont fake yourself into something you arent yet. Do you know what Day9 used to do to get good at BW? He started new accounts from scratch so he could learn the basics over and over and get motivated to climb the ladder again and again. Of course you get frustrated if you're playing people dozens of times better than you, you dont belong in 4k, have patience and do it legit. Also, if your mindset consists of blaming your low skill on unknown people whom you just asked for help you shouldnt take any competitive game seriously.
20/11/2015 - never forget EE's Ember
LemOn
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United Kingdom8629 Posts
August 06 2014 11:29 GMT
#27
you mean
the pleasure from gains is lower than the pain from losses?
[image loading]
you mean like every single human has had for tens of thousands of years?
ur so special dude xD
Much is the father figure that I miss in my life. Go Daddy! DoC.LemOn, LemOn[5thF]
Exoteric
Profile Joined January 2011
Australia2330 Posts
August 06 2014 14:10 GMT
#28
either get better or learn to accept the level you've plateaued at, don't ruin the games of other people by buying accounts well above the mmr you were at. even starting a smurf account is better than that. if you post some replays in the strategy section people can help you out
hell is other people
Advantageous
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
China1350 Posts
August 06 2014 18:32 GMT
#29
play games for the sake of playing games. that's all it is. there's no need to take it so seriously. if your friends are giving u shit, and putting u down, then play the game just for fun and for the sake of friendship bonding.
"Because I am BossToss" -MC ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ raise your dongers ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノ I'm sure that all of my fellow class mates viewed me as the Adonis of the Class of 2015 already. -Xenocider, EG, ieF 2013 Champion.
Snerd
Profile Joined October 2013
United States125 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-07 03:31:05
August 06 2014 21:21 GMT
#30
On August 05 2014 23:40 Laertes wrote:
I fail to understand why I cannot learn how to play dota because I'm only 2.4k. That doesn't make any sense and you have to start somewhere. I can't believe how people say "it's not worth it because you have to work harder than me.". What do you know about life, saying shit like that? It's just false, and it's why I'm not getting better. Because I'm listening to people who have no idea what they are talking about. There are some good points on this forum, but I don't agree with all of them, and if you think determination is unhealthy then newsflash, what are you doing with your life that's so great?

You're not going to learn how to be better than 2.4k at 4.8k. You're going to get shitstomped, your team mates are going to flame you, and the other team is going to laugh at you. If you want to be better play at your own mmr and get better from there. If you really have the capability to be better than 2.4k then you will go up, if not, you won't change. A shiny new account isn't going to change who you are or the way you play.
神の手
Snerd
Profile Joined October 2013
United States125 Posts
August 07 2014 17:22 GMT
#31
On August 05 2014 23:40 Laertes wrote:
I fail to understand why I cannot learn how to play dota because I'm only 2.4k. That doesn't make any sense and you have to start somewhere. I can't believe how people say "it's not worth it because you have to work harder than me.". What do you know about life, saying shit like that? It's just false, and it's why I'm not getting better. Because I'm listening to people who have no idea what they are talking about. There are some good points on this forum, but I don't agree with all of them, and if you think determination is unhealthy then newsflash, what are you doing with your life that's so great?

I'm not going to say you can't learn, but you don't put a failing 7th grader through a college course so he can learn.
Just start where you're at.
神の手
LamaMitHut
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany187 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-09 21:31:01
August 09 2014 21:29 GMT
#32
@Laertes:

you said that your mindset is your biggest problem, right?

so buying accounts is the PERFECTLY WRONG way to get better. u lose a game, and u know that you are most problably the reason that your team lost. you win a game, and you know you got carried - OFC, this is depressing...

play at your own MMR, and do not try to "adapt" to the skill level of much better players.



try to be the one who knocks in your MMR-range.



this is the way to get better.
don_kyuhote
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
3006 Posts
August 10 2014 01:21 GMT
#33
On August 08 2014 02:22 Snerd wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 05 2014 23:40 Laertes wrote:
I fail to understand why I cannot learn how to play dota because I'm only 2.4k. That doesn't make any sense and you have to start somewhere. I can't believe how people say "it's not worth it because you have to work harder than me.". What do you know about life, saying shit like that? It's just false, and it's why I'm not getting better. Because I'm listening to people who have no idea what they are talking about. There are some good points on this forum, but I don't agree with all of them, and if you think determination is unhealthy then newsflash, what are you doing with your life that's so great?

I'm not going to say you can't learn, but you don't put a failing 7th grader through a college course so he can learn.
Just start where you're at.

Sums up my thought. Very well said.
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Snerd
Profile Joined October 2013
United States125 Posts
August 11 2014 01:14 GMT
#34
On August 10 2014 10:21 don_kyuhote wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 08 2014 02:22 Snerd wrote:
On August 05 2014 23:40 Laertes wrote:
I fail to understand why I cannot learn how to play dota because I'm only 2.4k. That doesn't make any sense and you have to start somewhere. I can't believe how people say "it's not worth it because you have to work harder than me.". What do you know about life, saying shit like that? It's just false, and it's why I'm not getting better. Because I'm listening to people who have no idea what they are talking about. There are some good points on this forum, but I don't agree with all of them, and if you think determination is unhealthy then newsflash, what are you doing with your life that's so great?

I'm not going to say you can't learn, but you don't put a failing 7th grader through a college course so he can learn.
Just start where you're at.

Sums up my thought. Very well said.

Thanks man
神の手
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