What is DOTA? Is this DOTA? It doesn’t feel like it. (Start at 1:10 if you wanna skip the lead up)
So why does stupid shit like this work out? Well, because despite being a strategy game, people go into a game with a certain mindset and a certain way of approaching the game. Once you break away from the status quo and do something no one would expect, you gain an inherent advantage over the other team. In this case, you can see the CM accidentally force staff herself onto the cliff out of ward vision of the dire. By doing something unusual, she got herself in a perfect position to see the sf creeping up onto our invoker, who with a man advantage, the enemy team thought they could kill. And they probably could/should have if it weren’t for CM’s accidental positioning.
So, again, why does something work in DOTA? There are two reasons.
1) It’s what they least expect.
I mentioned this above, but, as a human playing a digital game of chess, we rarely think that someone could bend or stretch the rules unless we saw it happen (in this case, paying attention to the fact that cm suddenly disappeared from the map during the fight). By thinking outside the box, you’re breaking the game while still playing within the rules and a lot of times you give yourself and your team an advantage. I love creative play as long as its calculated. I need to do more of this, myself when the cast comes off and I can execute combos efficiently.
2) It’s practiced.
This is the part where I tie in my one handed experience. I’ve always been the player who was the most versatile. I consider myself competent with at least half the hero pool and I do not main heroes or roles (except I will never play offlane fuck that shit). But then I wonder why my progress stays relatively stagnant. It wasn’t because I wasn’t learning more about the game.
It was because I was not practiced enough with any of the heroes I am competent with to the point that I can be the catalyst to turn the game around even when we are losing 40-20 down a rax. How could I win a lot of the time, when I haven’t had enough experience losing with a hero to know how to turn it around?
After I get my hand out of this cast, I plan to play multiple heroes again, and I plan to random. But perhaps not as much as I used to. For now though, my one handed hero pool has me at an 85% win ratio this week alone and in the past 30 days, which includes time not one handed, 2/3 of my games are wins. I've never won this much in my life and I'm not even playing at full strength!
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if you're winning more simply because you're being forced to play no-frills, straightforward heroes.
I suspect everybody below like 5k might nudge their winrate a bit if they went on a jug/luna/viper etc binge, especially for players whose fundamentals are a strong point.
without a doubt, i'm winning in part to that. but the general rule of thumb is if you're winning with va 15-2-15 kda or something absurd like that (so you're crushing), you don't belong where you are. that's what i'm seeing right now.
i was always above 50% WR, steadily improving..now im just stomping bc im playing strong right clickers. i guess what i'm saying is that i was still learning those other heroes so naturally ill lose games here and there bc idk how to win with them yet.
Nice. I've found that doing the same thing but instead using my feet has meant that I have to think more about what I'm doing, because I can't just react to things (yet), which can lead to better or at least different decisions.
i mean you post a video of you 3v1ing a SF then 3v1ing an NP who both walk into you without vision then say "they didn't expect it" and, presumably, that you feel like there are a ton of tricks like hiding a CM that you might be able to use in the future
it just sounds really fucking weird coming from someone who "is matched with 5k players" (i went ahead and checked your mmr coz it wouldn't be weird coming from a 100 game player and i'd sound like a dicker)
On January 20 2015 01:57 Gowerly wrote: Nice. I've found that doing the same thing but instead using my feet has meant that I have to think more about what I'm doing, because I can't just react to things (yet), which can lead to better or at least different decisions.
wow, i checked this too and it actually isn't a joke r o f l
On January 22 2015 20:46 FFGenerations wrote: i mean you post a video of you 3v1ing a SF then 3v1ing an NP who both walk into you without vision then say "they didn't expect it" and, presumably, that you feel like there are a ton of tricks like hiding a CM that you might be able to use in the future
it just sounds really fucking weird coming from someone who "is matched with 5k players" (i went ahead and checked your mmr coz it wouldn't be weird coming from a 100 game player and i'd sound like a dicker)
I don't think there are a ton of tricks like hiding a cm. all im saying is that this particular kill occurred bc of the cm's unexpected mistake. in addition, what you can't see is how the sf was pretty far ahead at the start of this game, so honestly he would, normally, have straight up murdered my team with the np swooping in after.
think more along the lines of..sometimes the easiest jukes are the most obvious/simple bc a smart player would expect a more complicated move. I think akke pulled one like this vs sing? he simply walked around a tree in fog and sing thought he force staffed so he lept down a cliff. nothing fancy there.
On January 20 2015 01:57 Gowerly wrote: Nice. I've found that doing the same thing but instead using my feet has meant that I have to think more about what I'm doing, because I can't just react to things (yet), which can lead to better or at least different decisions.
wow, i checked this too and it actually isn't a joke r o f l
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