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Deleted User 97295
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
1137 Posts
December 09 2014 16:41 GMT
#1
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Archeon
Profile Joined May 2011
3272 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-09 17:47:17
December 09 2014 17:45 GMT
#2
Dota (2) is a game first and foremost and that is way more important than getting better imo. I made the mistake in sc2 that my focus was only on getting better and i started to hate playing the game. I bet even super-tryhard EE plays most of the time for fun. If you become frustrated, just make a pause.

With fun comes practice and to some extend improvement. The more you are used to things, the easier it becomes to focus your attention on other things like item choices, enemy movements, map awareness, checking items, all these types of things. Just get your basics down first. Thinking faster is really mostly a practice thing.

If you are at 700 mmr buying a 5.5k account wont help at all. You learn most from games where everyone is slightly better than you, not where everybody stomps the living crap out of you because that will only leave you frustrated.

Also do what you like. I play all roles and just train my weakest one. Which always was carry until i started focusing on being a better carry and now hard carry is one of my best roles. So yeah, nobody is "born" for a role.

Your friends sound awesome. Wish a few more of my rl friends would play dota.
low gravity, yes-yes!
RoyGBiv_13
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States1275 Posts
December 09 2014 18:00 GMT
#3
I'm not sure what you've been told, but there ain't no fun in Dota.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
ChunderBoy
Profile Joined August 2011
3242 Posts
December 09 2014 18:31 GMT
#4
wtf did i just read? not sure if cereal or...
"mmr is a social construct" - tumblr
Piledriver
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States1697 Posts
December 09 2014 19:17 GMT
#5
Need more paragraph breaks. My brain can't process this wall.
Envy fan since NTH.
BongChambers
Profile Joined September 2012
Canada591 Posts
December 10 2014 00:22 GMT
#6
wish i had the money to buy 5k accounts so i could play with the big boys ;(
420
Fleetfeet
Profile Blog Joined May 2014
Canada2832 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-10 00:24:44
December 10 2014 00:24 GMT
#7
Synopsis:

Friend talking about playing pro dota

Carrying at 700 mmr

Lie about being good at chess but am actually good at chess

Can't be good at dota because play too fast

Buy 5k mmr accounts to learn

Don't watch anime but EE does so that's good

Im not trolling.


Analysis:

2/5 troll, not sure if honest or insane.
JD.
Profile Joined September 2014
Australia250 Posts
December 10 2014 04:33 GMT
#8
You are not good at Chess, and that's okay.
You are not good at Dota, and that's okay.

What's not okay is your attitude to both of these things.
You lie on the Internet, claiming to be an International Master yet you played(?) at a 1400 rating.
You lie on the Internet, purchasing a 5000 rating MMR account - and promptly losing MMR, all while BM'ing your teammates ("u play like a 4k").

Stop being so delusional.
NeThZOR
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
South Africa7387 Posts
December 10 2014 05:35 GMT
#9
More of a hypocritical take on Dota if you ask me.
SuperNova - 2015 | SKT1 fan for years | Dear, FlaSh, PartinG, Soulkey, Naniwa
Talin
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Montenegro10532 Posts
December 10 2014 08:07 GMT
#10
If you struggle not to repeat your mistakes at 700 MMR, you're going to struggle with that just as much at 5k MMR -- except all those mistakes (plus a ton of other mistakes you're not even aware you're making) are going to be exploited so much harder.

Why pay money just to set yourself up for an agonizing failure?
ahswtini
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Northern Ireland22213 Posts
December 10 2014 09:48 GMT
#11
this is better than qbek blogs sorry qbek bb
"As I've said, balance isn't about strategies or counters, it's about probability and statistics." - paralleluniverse
Dorner
Profile Joined March 2014
Ireland22 Posts
December 10 2014 13:10 GMT
#12
How high were you last night bro? Damn...
Kabras
Profile Joined June 2011
Romania3508 Posts
December 10 2014 13:24 GMT
#13
that's some good shit ur on, i gotta say. about "carrying" at 700 mmr, learn to last hit and learn to farm non stop around the map without feeding and u'll easily stomp ur way to 3.5k at least, probably higher. u don't even need to hit heroes until you're 6 slotted.
"So playing SF in pubs, everyone remember that a very important point is that when using a carry hero like this you must be very selfish. Because working with team mates is a very dangerous thing" - 2009
ahswtini
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Northern Ireland22213 Posts
December 10 2014 13:27 GMT
#14
can you even get to 700 mmr while trying to win
"As I've said, balance isn't about strategies or counters, it's about probability and statistics." - paralleluniverse
hootsushi
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany3468 Posts
December 13 2014 15:52 GMT
#15
I don't even know what to say after reading it.
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