Dota 2 QQ thread - Page 318

On January 25 2013 08:18 Avs wrote:


And this is why Dotabuff is getting all its flak from. Don't forget that you're dragging his win rate down from 52% to 51%.

On January 24 2013 23:20 Lightspeaker wrote:
Some players man...

Game last night. SS, Rubick, Nyx, Lifestealer and me on BH. I go offlane. Nyx claims top solo safe and Lifestealer goes jungle (surely better getting LS some farm in lane considering he's main carry? But ok, whatever, I'm not going to argue it; haven't got the patience). Rubick ends up mid and SS comes bottom with me.

We're up against Tide/WD. A little messy there but ok. SS doesn't do any harrassment or counter harrassment, just attacking creeps all the time. And later hanging around the tower to be safe (more XP for me, no problem). Going to be one of those games eh? Ok, never mind. I keep at it.

All this time Nyx is busily losing top hard to Gyro/Silencer. He eventually throws a tantrum and demands someone swap with him. So I go top instead and carry on quietly getting on with gaining levels. Silencer is a bit of a nuisance and they instantly buy wards when they see theres a BH in their lane but I do ok. Though the top tower goes down soon after (couldn't do anything, it was at about a third health when I arrived in lane).

Whilst I'm competing in the "OMG IMPOSSIBLE" lane that Nyx abandons he ends up spending the next ten minutes or so just constantly yelling abuse at SS. Ok, SS wasn't playing well and he'd annoyed me a bit to. But it was unbelievable how horrible Nyx was being. To the point where when SS died he was screaming about feeding, despite having fed top about four kills at the very start.

Whole game went on like that. Just Nyx yelling abuse at SS no matter what we said to calm him down and demanding that SS leave. Ok, SS was playing badly but man at least he wasn't being a dick about it. In the end SS literally said "you know what? I've got work in a few minutes, I've not got time for this" and just quit. We still won though because we were so farmed up. Honestly just some people...I don't even...

On January 25 2013 09:03 PoP wrote:
So I'm pretty bad at this game but the matchmaking seems absolutely horrendous to me.

4 times out of 5 one team is about 3 times more skilled than the other and the game ends up with something like 50-12. My performance doesn't even seem to matter much at all in these games as even if I completely own my lane the rest of the team will mass feed and vice versa.

I keep trying to have fun and improve anyway, but this is really really frustrating.

On January 25 2013 09:20 Lightspeaker wrote:


Sadly it really is the same for everyone. Some games you wreck. Others you just can't do anything no matter how well you do. And despite the insistence that there's "nothing wrong with matchmaking" you get matched with people who can't last hit, don't buy courier or wards ever and insist on 5-man carry lineup (or 4-man if you hold off on picking).

It goes both ways. I've played games where no matter how much farm I've got I can't outcarry the fed opposing carry. I've played games where I'm helplessly watching as a support as our carry tower dives to death again and again. At the other end of the spectrum the game I just played I was fed four kills in 10 minutes as Drow (single draft, meh) and ended up with a 13 minute Lothars plus two bands, boots and wand. Then their Void ragequit. Game over in 20 minutes flat, finished with lothars, quarterstaff, manta, boots, wand, wraithband. Relieved it wasn't another loss, but horribly unsatisfying.

But we all keep playing for those rare games, oh so rare, which are closely fought and back and forth with decent players on both sides. Proper supports warding and couriers, proper initiations, sensible item builds, people buying detection versus invis and helping to get rid of detection for your own invis, lane control and even in some cases...dare I say it...smoke ganks.

They're like precious gems amid the piles of rubbish. And we have to go through so much rubbish to find them we question why we even bother trying. But we all keep scrabbling around regardless, because when you find one its amazing and you feel good about it win or lose.

On January 25 2013 09:03 PoP wrote:
So I'm pretty bad at this game but the matchmaking seems absolutely horrendous to me.

4 times out of 5 one team is about 3 times more skilled than the other and the game ends up with something like 50-12. My performance doesn't even seem to matter much at all in these games as even if I completely own my lane the rest of the team will mass feed and vice versa.

I keep trying to have fun and improve anyway, but this is really really frustrating.

On January 25 2013 10:25 unkkz wrote:
When undying and kotl lose a lane to warlock + am and lose it hard, i just don´t know what to say.

On January 25 2013 09:03 PoP wrote:
So I'm pretty bad at this game but the matchmaking seems absolutely horrendous to me.

4 times out of 5 one team is about 3 times more skilled than the other and the game ends up with something like 50-12. My performance doesn't even seem to matter much at all in these games as even if I completely own my lane the rest of the team will mass feed and vice versa.

I keep trying to have fun and improve anyway, but this is really really frustrating.

On January 25 2013 10:35 Firebolt145 wrote:

If you're brand new you should find a few friends to play with. If your account is young you may also be plagued by smurfs, they're everywhere right now and it's actually a really bad environment for newbies :<

On January 23 2013 13:15 RuskiPanda wrote:
Napalm needs to be fucking removed from the game. Stupidest skill ever thought of.

On January 25 2013 09:03 PoP wrote:
So I'm pretty bad at this game but the matchmaking seems absolutely horrendous to me.

4 times out of 5 one team is about 3 times more skilled than the other and the game ends up with something like 50-12. My performance doesn't even seem to matter much at all in these games as even if I completely own my lane the rest of the team will mass feed and vice versa.

I keep trying to have fun and improve anyway, but this is really really frustrating.

On January 25 2013 19:13 Canas wrote:
Why does everyone who plays this game fucking suck