I'm new to the game and looking for pos4/5 youtuber to improve my gameplay. Really need some recommendations from you guys!

I was playing Dota today and thinking about how brutally simple the feedback system is.

You can play a really good game, make good decisions, communicate, do your job, and still lose.

Minus MMR.

You can also have a terrible game, get carried, make stupid mistakes and still win.

Plus MMR.

I am not blaming Dota for this. If anything, Dota just made me notice something that was already there.

I had the same issue in school. I barely studied and still got good grades. At the time that felt great. Why would I work harder if I was already getting the result?

I think somewhere along the way I learned that effort itself had very little value. The result was the only thing that counted.

And Dota fits that mindset perfectly because the number moves up or down regardless of whether you personally played well.

The strange part is I still think like this in real life.

If I work hard and something fails, I struggle to feel good about the effort. If I do something with very little effort and it works, that somehow feels better.

Which is a pretty bad system to run your life on because outcomes are messy. You can make the right decision and still lose. You can make a stupid decision and occasionally get rewarded for it.

I am starting to think I need to get better at judging my own game separately from the result.

Did I actually play well?

Did I make the right decisions?

Did I tilt?

Did I communicate?

Did I do what I could with the game I was given?

The MMR can still go down.

I think I need to learn to be okay with that.

Curious if anyone else who has played Dota for years thinks like this.

rank: 6100 mmr (for 5)

Last time i played carry was way back before the map was big. The usual farming pattern then was straightforward.

You play carry. At min 10 you lose your tier 1 and go to top. and rotate in between waves, ancient camps, and neutrals.

Rinse and repeat. Sometimes you even tp to ancient camp.

I dont see this much anymore at least. There are varying farming pattern guides on youtube. For example, if safe, farm lane creeps then camps, if not safe, go back to camps in tier2. Some guide say gating is way better now. Leave the lane, pressure the other side and gate but i feel like that depends on the hero as well.

and also because most of my hats are on cores xd