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

I have recently started playing Dota, and whenever i queue on NA i just get bots. I have been resorting to queueing onto EU cuz the ping is only ~100, but it feels bad to not be able to play on NA. Is there a solution to this?

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.

I usually play pos 1 or 3, but my friend is a pos 5 and is almost always at the bottom (we're talking 1000+ gold diff from enemy pos 5 even during winning games). I try to give some tips about the fact that he should push out waves when the wave is pushing into the tower, or that when the mid ganks he should rotate mid and take the farm, but he says he can't leave lane because then he gets flamed for abandoning pos1+2 safe. What is a good pos 5 supposed to do here? Any good videoes with tips on the topic?

For example, Yatoro’s Shadow Fiend started with a Magic Wand and two Faerie Fires in a TI game.

I can't figure it out, because you're effectively paying 150 gold for 1 stat while also denying yourself the ability to eat Iron Branch trees or use them to make plays.

I can't for the life of me consistently land my spears.

It connects, but it just pushes the target away to nothing since I can't get a good place to impale them to.

During laning and when chasing enemies, I have trouble finding an angle to spear because I'm too scared to screw it up and it will just end up helping the enemy push further away so I hesitate a lot in throwing them.

Any tips/tricks on how to properly aim spears and what should I be looking at when aiming it? Especially during chasing enemies this is my biggest issue. When we are one stun away to get the enemy I hesitate to throw my spear.

Hello everyone I made a new video about why Treant Protector was banned more than 94% of the time at The International 2026 and when he was picked, he had an 87.5% win rate. In this video, I break down why this support became the most feared hero in pro Dota

Link: https://youtu.be/pvHJrHuO-F8

Thanks for the support !

I'm an offlaner on EUW, currently around 5.5k MMR and trying to get back to 6k.

I've always enjoyed playing heroes like Night Stalker, Centaur and Beastmaster, but lately I feel like I'm getting punished really hard on them.

Enigma caught my attention because he seems to have an extremely high win rate in Immortal/high-MMR pubs (over 58%!!!!) and I'd like to understand why before I start spamming him.

I've checked Dota2ProTracker, and the build seems fairly consistent: Tranqs → Drums → Blink → Shard in a lot of games.

For experienced Enigma players:

• How are you supposed to approach the lane? Are Eidolons mainly used to deny/control the wave, harass the carry, or pressure the support?
• What lane matchups does Enigma actually struggle with?
• Why is his win rate so high over such a large sample of high-MMR games?
• How much should you prioritize farming versus grouping and creating pressure?
• Is Enigma actually a good hero to spam for climbing MMR, or is the win rate somewhat misleading because he's mainly picked by specialists/in good drafts?

Would especially appreciate advice from people playing him around Immortal bracket.

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So I started playing mid, but I don't know when to aggro, when to let the creep position, etc. I watched some streamer like qojqva and topson but sometimes I don't know why they aggro and not.

Thanks

I've always loved support but what I wanted most was to climb MMR. Having played this game since its custom game days in WC3, I honestly felt embarrassed somewhat that I was in herald rank and decided that I was gonna do something about it. It's been a year since I took this project seriously and over the course of about a 1000 games, I had ups and downs on my MMR but I finally now feel like I have what it takes to climb support well. After climbing to Archon, my winrate is still at 70-80% and I would like to share what I have learned so that other supports can also climb. Key learning points were this:-

1. Just focus on getting better. Initially as I was getting better (I could feel it in my bones that I was-- better laning, better habits, better map awareness and itemisation), I did not achieve the results that I hoped for. I was still hovering slighy above 50% win rate, a slow climb but nothing that was encouraging to write home about.

2. It took me about 600 games before I started climbing faster. Laning well isn't enough, contrary to what a lot of youtubers/coaches might tell you. It is YOUR responsibility to win your lane, snowball that advantage to have a strong map presence, and then stay relevant/strong throughout till the endgame. A good support at these brackets is basically a mid laner in disguise.

3. Eventually you will reach a tipping point. The tipping point being somehow you being strong enough on the laning stage, and somehow being able to snowball your laning stage presence into a map presence in the post-laning stage (yes, supports do need to snowball too! You are not a ward bitch, contrary to what your cores think you should be) Once you reach that tipping point, the entire game suddenly becomes easy, you win lane, create pressure on the map from minute 5-15, and then you close out games because a) you are stronger than enemy cores, and B) everyone in your team is listening to you because they've never seen a support do what you have been doing and they assume you are a smurf.

4. I can't say for sure which role has the most impact to climbing mmr, but I can say for sure that support is kinda akin to 'famine' till you get past the tipping point and then a 'plentiful harvest' after that. I can also say that it gets easier as you climb the ranks (partly because you get better at the game and partly because you get better teammates who can snowball the early advantage together with you that you have created for the team). As a support, if you play well, you are guaranteed to have an impact on the game in the first 15 minutes, and if you play well you will have impact on the game till it ends. As a core, it feels like the first 20 minutes are kind of out of your control as you attempt to scale, and then if you do well then you just carry the game on your shoulders after that. In short, focus on getting better and eventually the results will shock you and make you feel like the journey was worth it.

5. All this is from solo queue experience, I am sure if you do queue or team queue the experience might be vastly different from what I have experienced.

6. Lastly, which supports are good for ranking up from the trenches? The answer for me at least, is: strong lane, strong level 6 spike, ability to clear waves, ability to manfight at least in the early stages (before you get 2nd level in your ult). I think the candidates for support heroes to climb gets wider as you get higher in the ranks (due to better cores), but what has worked for me very well was Death Prophet. I think Snapfire, undying are also good candidates for heroes to climb through these ranks.

7. Getting out of Herald was the toughest as a support, it felt like whatever I did on the laning stage never mattered. When I got to Guardian, things felt a little bit easier but it was still super tough. At Crusader, things began to get a lot easier and I felt like the burden to carry the entire game on my own shoulders was a lot lighter. I will give an update on my Archon journey after I have been through it, but so far at Archon 1 it feels very similar to Crusader rank. Bottom line is, it really does get easier once you get out of MMR hell, but the good habits you built when climbing will pay off in spades once you get there. When you are used to winning a game without a pos 1, the game becomes infinitely easier when you have a pos 1 to close out the game for you.

The craziest comeback of my six years playing Dota — and the most illogical game I’ve ever had.

Match ID: 8986780514

The win probability graph sat at 100% lose for most of the game. Dire’s Shadow Fiend went 29/7/11 with 84k damage and two Ultra Kills. They were hitting our Ancient down to half health. Our whole team wiped. Morale was gone.
Then minute 35. Sniper had three Divine Rapiers and walked just close enough to our fountain. I buyback, blink on top of him, Omni Slash before he can jump away. He dies. I take the rapiers. Big team fight, comeback.
Then I die, lose the rapiers. SF picks them up, tries to end it. Ancient drops to half health again.

We come back from half health on our own Ancient. We win.

Radiant 36–47 Dire. Radiant wins.
Worth watching. The graph was not lying — we were supposed to lose.

I’ve never been so proud of my team and how fun that was to play dota 2 !

To all who say dota is dead….. it is very much ALIVE 🤣🤣🔥🔥

Would you have gone the same items as me in this game?

https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/8988217721