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Hello everyone,
Its Ler_GG with some exciting news! I finally managed to get the Magic number of 6000+ MMR.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/zWBYqwF.png)
Last time I wrote a blog regarding MMR was back in December 2014 (Blog) which was about playing support when you are not aware of the average MMR of the game you are currently playing. Since then a lot has changed.
Changes:
- Average Team MMR is shown on start.
- Highest MMR player of both teams is shown on start.
- A complete Meta change due to the Patch in May.
These 3 points have been pretty important for my 6k journey.
Let me explain why:
First of all, knowing the average MMR of a game gives you an idea in which bracket you are currently playing. With this knowledge, adapting as a player is a key to victory (If you are not sure what I am talking about, take a look at this Climing the Ladder Part1 - The same concepts also apply to the 4k 5k and 6k brackets, they just differ heavily). Abusing roles, farm distribution and mentality in the different brackets is very important to maintain a high win rate.
Let's talk about the second big change, the highest player in each team. There will be games from time to time, that are literally 1000 MMR below the usual games. These games have most of the time 1 high MMR player in each time paired with 4 very low MMR players compared to the high ones. Knowing this before the game starts is crucial. If you manage to take out their secret weapon, your chances of winning are very high. With this information you most likely know where the high MMR player lanes and you are able to hard counter / play against him yourself. Own him, win the game - Simple as that.
So these two chances make a really big difference compared to the match making a few months ago. Crucial information is given which heavily influences decision making while picking and laning.
In May 6.84 got released which had a huge impact on the meta. This allowed me to benefit on a certain hero: Undying. He got a nerf twice, but that did not change anything for me since I got my own way of playing the hero.
When I started to play Undying, I sat at roughly 5,250~ MMR which was around 10. of May. Approximately 3 weeks later, I hit 6000+ MMR just by spamming Undying. When I came in low MMR games, I tried to skip Undying and go for some high Impact Mid like TA.
Graphs and Stats:
Overall Undying stats:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/ag9S3Yn.png)
MMR Graph:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/YMJ6yKG.png)
Undying Games Filtered:
dotabuff.com
My Dotabuff:
@Ler_GG
Thanks for the read! If you got any questions or also want to get some dirty MMR, post your questions here - I will try to answer everything 
Greetings,
@Ler_GG
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Congrats you dirty zombie picking whore
:D
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When I started to play Undying, I sat at roughly 5,250~ MMR which was around 10. of May. Approximately 3 weeks later, I hit 6000+ MMR just by spamming Undying
ranked matchmaking ladies and gentlemen
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congrats Ler  well done
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I must say l3lraven nailed it XD
grats on 6k tho
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Congratulations on the achie-
Wait, you spammed Undying for this? Uninstall please, disgusting zombie-picking scum.
:D
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I felt bad for you when y ou went sub 5k, nice to see that turn around, lol 
Are you gonna try and go higher or are you done with RMM and just gonna play with a team or something.
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On June 04 2015 07:31 TheEmulator wrote:I felt bad for you when y ou went sub 5k, nice to see that turn around, lol Are you gonna try and go higher or are you done with RMM and just gonna play with a team or something.
Going for leaderboards right now Just got rekt by Pajkatt and Trixi lol
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rip 6k 0-12 on the mighty dirge and spewing flame the whole time youre an inspiration to us all
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Sanya12364 Posts
LER is such a fucking hero.
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Do people actually enjoy climbing the ladder by spamming relatively op heroes? Honest question here because I find more satisfaction climbing by first pick randoming all the time.
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On June 04 2015 11:48 DucK- wrote:
Do people actually enjoy climbing the ladder by spamming relatively op heroes? Honest question here because I find more satisfaction climbing by first pick randoming all the time.
Pub is cancerous anyway. Earthspirit, Bloodseeker Troll and Sniper. Spamming one good hero to maintain a high win rate should be normal in a competitive environment like a ladder.
If people enjoy spamming OP heroes? I dont know. I can only speak for myself. I like undying a lot since its a really high impact support if played correctly which also allows some really sick plays sometimes.
Randoming is fine. But I highly doubt anyone could maintain 60%+ win rates(in the 6k bracket) by randoming.
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Essence of the blog: 5000 mmr skill player spams pub breaking hero to break into the 6k bracket. Did I get it right?
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On June 04 2015 15:47 Sebastien wrote:
Essence of the blog: 5000 mmr skill player spams pub breaking hero to break into the 6k bracket. Did I get it right?
I actually was 5,9+ 6 months ago.
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This was a pretty fun blog. I mean, most bloggers like this would probably try to hide that they spammed a pub-killing hero to reach some MMR threshold. I would normally expect people to throw out cliches like "i got better and became more of a team player" or "i tried very hard and improved my mechanics" or so. This blog just says it straight up "i picked undying :D".
I'm not sure if I should feel respect for actually coming forth and telling it as it is or feel disgusted because someone needed to resort to spamming an OP hero to reach his goal. :p Oh the conflicts!
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In May 6.84 got released which had a huge impact on the meta. This allowed me to benefit on a certain hero: Undying. He got a nerf twice, but that did not change anything for me since I got my own way of playing the hero.
YESSSSSSSSS
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On June 04 2015 15:47 Sebastien wrote:
Essence of the blog: 5000 mmr skill player spams pub breaking hero to break into the 6k bracket. Did I get it right?
This sounds very much like you are incredibly jealous, cause you probably can't even get past 4k, by spamming (supposedly) OP heroes.
Or are you just angry at dealing with Undying lol?
well done Ler.
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On June 04 2015 17:21 Ler wrote:Show nested quote +On June 04 2015 15:47 Sebastien wrote:
Essence of the blog: 5000 mmr skill player spams pub breaking hero to break into the 6k bracket. Did I get it right? I actually was 5,9+ 6 months ago.
Which abusable hero did you spam for 5.9k? Actually curious.
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On June 04 2015 18:53 Sebastien wrote:Show nested quote +On June 04 2015 17:21 Ler wrote:On June 04 2015 15:47 Sebastien wrote:
Essence of the blog: 5000 mmr skill player spams pub breaking hero to break into the 6k bracket. Did I get it right? I actually was 5,9+ 6 months ago. Which abusable hero did you spam for 5.9k? Actually curious.
Played support only - Every support you could imagine.
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Any tips on playing dirge? I notice you often finish games with guardian greaves or arcane boots but rarelywith a mek, so is this a mid/late game pickup that you don't really want a mec but want the boots. You also seem to prioritise glimmer cape over solar crest in most games even sometimes when there seems to be more physical dmg on the other team.
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does this not put you in an awkward position where you either have to keep spamming undying to stay above 6k, and thus dont really improve much at dota....
or you go back to playing other heroes again and inevitably drop mmr, but probably become a better player?
Did you just want to hit 6k and dont mind going back to 5k?
(note: not saying it takes 0 skill to win with undying. it's just that when you've played pretty much a hundred-ish games in a row with him, you're probably learning a lot less from every extra undying game, compared to other heroes.)
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On June 04 2015 21:21 Eyx wrote:
Any tips on playing dirge? I notice you often finish games with guardian greaves or arcane boots but rarelywith a mek, so is this a mid/late game pickup that you don't really want a mec but want the boots. You also seem to prioritise glimmer cape over solar crest in most games even sometimes when there seems to be more physical dmg on the other team.
Guarding Greaves are just so insanely good. When my game goes good and i get decent farm from pushing/kills/lasthits, I build into mek if noone goes for it. ON early rosh lineups with low farming prio, I build mana boots into medallion. If I am super poor or someone already has a mek i mostly build into Glimmer.
Glimmer vs Solar:
- Glimmer Forces people to carry dusts/sentries/gem
- Glimmer can prevent heavy magical burst.
- Glimmer can be used to safe teammates
+ Solar can be used for a fast Rosh due to medallion
+ Solar can be used to make one core super tanky or blow opponents up
+ Solar gives decent EHP due to Armor/Evasion
This being said, Solar costs 3k Gold and Glimmer 2k gold. Due to the fact Undying is one of the worst farmers ever, 1k Gold is a lot so most of the time Glimmer it is.
On June 04 2015 21:30 ThePianoDentist wrote:
does this not put you in an awkward position where you either have to keep spamming undying to stay above 6k, and thus dont really improve much at dota....
or you go back to playing other heroes again and inevitably drop mmr, but probably become a better player?
Did you just want to hit 6k and dont mind going back to 5k?
(note: not saying it takes 0 skill to win with undying. it's just that when you've played pretty much a hundred-ish games in a row with him, you're probably learning a lot less from every extra undying game, compared to other heroes.)
I play officials and Scrims with my team. There is the place for improvement. Pub is just ... a challenge.
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Also why do you feed in unranked normal skill games?
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On June 04 2015 23:19 Eyx wrote:
Also why do you feed in unranked normal skill games?
low prio )
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On June 04 2015 21:21 Eyx wrote:
Any tips on playing dirge? I notice you often finish games with guardian greaves or arcane boots but rarelywith a mek, so is this a mid/late game pickup that you don't really want a mec but want the boots. You also seem to prioritise glimmer cape over solar crest in most games even sometimes when there seems to be more physical dmg on the other team.
Glimmer always because invis is op in pubs
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actually w/e i dont really care enough about this guy gj
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On June 04 2015 19:12 Ler wrote:Show nested quote +On June 04 2015 18:53 Sebastien wrote:On June 04 2015 17:21 Ler wrote:On June 04 2015 15:47 Sebastien wrote:
Essence of the blog: 5000 mmr skill player spams pub breaking hero to break into the 6k bracket. Did I get it right? I actually was 5,9+ 6 months ago. Which abusable hero did you spam for 5.9k? Actually curious. Played support only - Every support you could imagine.
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He said he played support only when he got to 5.9k. Not that he's only ever played support only, lol.
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what is happening keppo :D
Streaming btw ^^
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Honestly. Dota is a competitive game, where the goal is to win, what the fucks weird about picking the best heros.
theres nothing "cool" or "edgy" about deliberately making your game harder by playing worse heros and putting yourself at a disadvantage.
if you wanna random or paly other heros then thats fine, if thats what you enjoy, don't dog on people that play heros because they wanna win
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I don't get the hate for picking a hero over and over again. It doesn't have to be the OP hero, just something that has space for choices in how to play it and that you like to play. If you play it a lot you will perform better and better due to learning most situations you can end up in and the correct choice there. I probably have 20% of my games since Dota 2 came out on Witch Doctor, great hero and a lot of fun.
You can think of it as a normal sport. Do people flame somebody for picking a position and become the best at it? Ronaldo is a bad defender, he just spammed forward...
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It's unfun to start the game at a colossal disadvantage because the enemy picked ridiculous shit like undying/earth spirit
when somebody does that every game people aren't happy u know, hence the backlash.
I aint judging in this particular case but I can't deny it's hella annoying when ppl just pick those heroes.
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I find it fun facing the same heroes over and over. Let's me try out a lot of different ways of solving the situation. I never have the same heroes on my side, at most it is the same heroes in the game, still a large variance possible. Lanes won't even play out the same game to game due to people having their own ideas of what to buy and how to skill.
Take undying, some people level tomb stone level one. Makes for a very different lane compared to normal.
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Nice to see you up there man - also ggwp @ LAN, hope to play you guys more!
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On June 06 2015 00:02 Zealos wrote:
Honestly. Dota is a competitive game, where the goal is to win, what the fucks weird about picking the best heros.
theres nothing "cool" or "edgy" about deliberately making your game harder by playing worse heros and putting yourself at a disadvantage.
if you wanna random or paly other heros then thats fine, if thats what you enjoy, don't dog on people that play heros because they wanna win
On the contrary though, I wouldn't mind losing games if it was a chaotic heavy action game. I find that way more fun than winning because the enemy has no storm/naga counters. Thats why I enjoy sing's stream whenever he stacks with tucker/arise/bangfish/akroma
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