It’s not the algorithm, it’s your pain.

Pain. 

Not Pain DotA, but actual physical, mental, and emotional pain. 

And it is not a joke. This pain cripples you and dramatically dampens down and reduces all your abilities. Leaving you feeling like a prisoner with infinite intelligence but inability to act. A prisoner in your own head. Your own body. 

You guys call it tilted. The antimage that never seems to want to leave the jungle, despite being immortal. 

But, there’s a way. A cure. 

Pain killers. 

Not drugs, at least not the artificial addictive ones. 

Natural ones. 

Endorphins. 

How to obtain? Physical Exercise. Especially heavy weight lifting, push-ups, pull-ups, dips, squats, and sit-ups. They are better than cardio, and they always include cardio alongside the strength and hypertrophy aspect of them. 

All of a sudden, after the workout, all your abilities are back, and you are high immortal again. 

The third ability.

I killed you, Mr. Anderson. I watched you die, with a certain satisfaction, I might add. ~ Smith, The Matrix Reloaded

In order to unlock your full potential, when it comes to speed, how fast you can become, you don’t need to improve your flexibility any further, if you’re already a Grandmaster. You need a third ability.

The first ability will always be processing and movement speed. How fast you can run. How fast can you sprint, and for how long. With full focus on running faster, in a linear direction, towards your goal. No distractions. This is just speed equals distance covered in less time. You are just running faster, not slowing down or moving around to dodge anything. Unchecked, unopposed, at full speed. How fast can you go, without thinking.

Run, as fast as you can.

As fast as I can?

As fast as you can. ~ The Incredibles

The second ability, is pure flexibility, accomplished at maximum speed humanly possible.

How’d you do it?

Do what?

You moved like them.

I wasn’t fast enough. – The Matrix

How fast can you switch between goals, tasks, and targets, without losing or sacrificing speed in the process.

Good, but you’re faster than that. Don’t think you are, know you are. – Morpheus, The Matrix

Which brings us to the third ability. Which is only attainable once grandmastery is attained.

Only a true Grandmaster can wield such infinite power.

The ability to stop yourself after you’ve launched a move at full speed with maximum strength and determination, and then switch to flexibility mode, and pick another move, that the situation needs to survive, or win the encounter.

It is not like pulling the handbrake. You don’t want to shut down the whole thing, and then initiate once again with new activation energy, and then launch a new similar focused powerful rigid attack in another direction with all your might either.

You need to instantly go to flexibility mode, where there’s no charged focus in a certain direction with all your power, but low energy disengaged infinite speed movement in opposing directions, according to what the situation needs every millisecond. Reacting, with zero rigidity, and infinite speed, to whatever that is happening in front of you, with total disengagement from charging yourself up in any certain direction in particular. No power strikes in flexibility mode. Just infinite speed, at switching between targets, goals, moves, actions, tasks, or outcomes you’re pursuing. Like you’re not even fighting. You’re just buying yourself time, until you determine what the next move is, even though you did not stop moving altogether in the meantime, but you were in constant motion at maximum speed possible, like a Matrix Agent, dodging bullets.

What are you trying to tell me, that I can dodge bullets?

No, Neo. I’m trying to tell you, that when you’re ready, you won’t have to. ~ Morpheus, The Matrix

The ability to instantly abolish, kill or end a premeditated, predetermined strike, where you have mustered all your physical and mental strength, and poured it all into that strike, or move, or next action, is the third ability. The ability to instantly being able to switch between rigid maximum determined focused speed, and infinite flexibility, is the third ability. Canceling the whole move, after you’ve summoned maximum energy humanly possible into that move, or to power that move, and charge it with full energy, focus, strength, power, and speed, like it never existed, as opposed to stopping yourself in the last millisecond, which is depressing, energy draining, and depleting, and leaves you frustrated and immobile afterwards for a few seconds. And then you take time to think what am I supposed to do now, or instead. You lost the fight in those moments.

Trust me, you lost. – Anakin Skywalker

You have to abandon the move, and instantly switch to full flexibility mode, instantly, with no time in between. Alternating between full speed mode, and flexibility mode, at instant speed, with infinite speed like there’s no time in between, is what the third ability is all about.

Much to learn, you still have. ~ Master Yoda

You must understand, that Anakin Skywalker lost to Obi-Wan Kenobi on Mustafar, just because he did not unlock that third ability yet. He was not a Grandmaster, yet. That’s why, he mustered his full power, his full potential, rigidly in a certain direction, with disregard to what is taking place, otherwise, he would’ve blocked Obi-Wan’s Light Saber with one strike, landed safely, and continued the fight normally as before, which eventually he would’ve won easily, because he is infinitely more powerful than Obi-Wan could ever be.

Flexibility alone, won’t cut it. It will lack strength, power, and speed, if it was all there is. Speed alone, can get you killed, by a much denser, slower opponent, just waiting for you to land, only to kick you towards the wall with all his strength.

You think this is air, you’re breathing? ~ Morpheus

How to turn unwinnable games into easy MMR, in DOTA 2.

You are losing because you build the same items every single game regardless of the situation.

This isn’t a joke. 

You must understand, that every hero has a counter matchup or hero, sometimes as straight forward as antimage counters Medusa, but sometimes as subtle as ancient apparition OBLITERATES poor IO entirely. I literally tell my teammates, kill Ancient Apparition first, and I’ll heal you all better than the fountain. 

He also counters huskar, but that’s a good thing.

And, the point that I’m trying to make here is; every single hero CAN be potentially countered through items. In fact, the entirety of the enemy team can be countered by a single hero, who buys the right items. 

Counter heroes, counter items. 

Itemization, in my opinion, is the hardest thing ever to learn and master in DotA. Literally the hardest to understand. So, I’m not going to spend a ton of time trying to help you with it, when you’re under 6k MMR, unless you’ve mastered everything else first, because mastering everything else combined is still easier, and more doable. ~ BSJ (I’m paraphrasing, he said that a gazillion times before, and he is right about that, but not for me). 

The problem isn’t buying the recommended items on DotA plus assistant, or DotA 2 pro tracker. 

It’s buying the SAME ITEMS EVERY SINGLE GAME REGARDLESS OF THE SITUATION. 

Does that mean I should buy different items every single game just for the love of it to game the system? 

NO. 

Buy items ACCORDING TO WHAT CAN MAKE YOU WIN THIS GAME. And in the right order. 

Ask yourself, what do I need to have, in order to not just die instantly right after I join team fights. How can I make kills. How can I survive and escape. How can I disable the support with escape, and how can I become unkillable if need be. How can I always get the kill. 

To unbalance it. ~ The Oracle 

You don’t have to itemize in a balanced way. Balancing escape, survival, with damage, and tanking. 

You only have to itemize according to what can help you do what you want. 

For example, I blink with Axe and I die instantly, because even if I have BKB, they might overwhelm me with physical damage and I die on my way out. BKB is active, taunt is on cool down, blink dagger is on cool down. 

I might die to hits, unless I have a Silver Edge. (Wind Waker, they are just waiting for you to land). 

That is an example. Not the way forward regardless of the situation. 

I need blade mail on Crystal Maiden, buy it. 

I need BKB on Juggernaut. Why not. 

I need Linken Sphere on PA. I saw a pudge once just walk towards me while my BKB is active, and just ulti me. THE AUDACITY.

Sell battle Fury, buy Linken Sphere instead. BUT THE DAMAGE BRUH? 

You can’t deal damage, if you’re dead..

You cannot change your hero after the picking phase is over, but you can always change your items. 

Do that, and watch your MMR skyrocket in no time.

I’m glad you’re awake, I wanted to show you. 

I don’t have, anyone else.. – Ultron

Everybody has their main heroes. The key is to understand that you will be forced to pick your main heroes when you’re on a losing streak, no matter what. 

Once you understand this, you’ll understand why you must expand your hero pool to the best of your ability. This is key to raising your win rate that works better than anything else you can ever learn. 

You will get tilted, and you will pick your main heroes nonstop until you win. It is inevitable. That is just fact. 

What are you trying to say to me? Are you trying to say to me that I should pick my main heroes only when I’m struggling with winning? 

I’m saying when you’re ready, you won’t have to. 

Make sure the heroes that are your main are strong enough to solo carry the games and win you the unwinnable games. 

My main hero 5 years ago or so was Lina. I will ALWAYS lose late game if I’m a Lina BECAUSE I’m a Lina. 

You will pick your Grandmaster heroes when tilted. EVEN IN TI. Think Quinn on Pangolier or Ame on Juggernaut. 

Make sure your main heroes don’t suck, otherwise you will always be held back by how strong they can be or the height of what they’re capable of when they are at their full potential. 

Make sure your main heroes are strong enough, because you will tilt pick them anyway when you’re losing, even against counters, and if the heroes are bad carries for example, you will always lose because of them, even if you are doing everything right when it comes to the general stuff. No, strong heroes, not weak heroes that are only good when they’re meta. Heroes that will always own. Winter Wyvern, for example, is a helpless squishy support hero. You will never solo carry the game against all odds in unbalanced games regardless of the meta on a hero like Winter Wyvern.

When the hero is good because the hero is meta, that doesn’t mean anything. 

The hero itself has to be strong even at its lowest meta. For example, Mars will always be an OP offlaner. Regardless of the meta. Unless they REMOVE the hero from the game, he will always be something. 

Yes, but if your best heroes are also the strongest of DotA heroes even when nerfed, even against counters, you will have a much higher win rate. As in 70 percent, instead of 51 percent. 

Even if you “know” the hero, your speed and performance on said hero will exponentially increase the closer you get from grandmaster rank on the hero. Make sure your mains are worth it. You will win or lose because of them. 

Make sure your main heroes are strong enough to always be capable of winning unwinnable games, otherwise, you will lose because of them, because you will be compelled to pick them when tilted, desperate, or on a losing streak. 

You feel like what you’ve accomplished today was still not enough, even if you’ve literally moved mountains today, because the fact remains, you haven’t made it yet to where exactly you want to be in life. You’re still too far away from where you’re heading towards. That’s why you always have the feeling of no matter what I do, I’m still not going to make it. This feeling doesn’t come to you because you really are never going to make it someday no matter what you do, but because you haven’t made it yet. And your mind cannot tell the difference between the two. Am I too far away from my goals and dreams and aspirations? Yes, I am. Have I made massive progress and significant movement forward towards my goals today, regardless? Yes, I did. Do not let that feeling slow you down, or make you stop. You ARE going to make it, one day, I promise. You just need to get started, even if you don’t feel like it, and you just have to keep going, until satisfied. 

You will never succeed, as long as you think you don’t matter. You’re not important, even if that allows you to enjoy life more, because you don’t care, or you don’t give a damn anymore. 

You must think to yourself, I wanna succeed at the highest level, in order to attain the bare minimum. 

The real question is can I do this now. Not am I too tired to do this, or not.

You will always be tired, as long as you are not living a life that is true to you. That’s the whole point of trying to get there, to get to a life where you feel energized, happy, well rested, motivated, and alive all the time. If you’re not there yet, you’ll always feel tired, if not physically, then psychologically. If you wait until you don’t feel tired, you will never do anything.

Can you do this, is a better question that you should be asking yourself instead.

And if your life isn’t your dream life yet, the answer should be always yes. 

Do not let the narcissist dictate your life. Do not let the narcissist determine what’s right or wrong for you or your life. Live life according to your values, and on your own terms.

Please, live life according to what you think, not what the narcissist thinks. 

Most of your thoughts and actions are governed and determined by what will not offend the narcissist. What the narcissist approves of. What the narcissist thinks you should do. What the narcissist thinks is best for you. What the narcissist or the psychopath will allow you to do.

Do not let the narcissist, psychopath, or abuser influence your decisions on anything whatsoever in life. This can happen on a subconscious level as well, even in the absence of the narcissist.

Live your life to the fullest. You’re free. Do what you want.

Counter that by thinking: I don’t care what the narcissist thinks.

There’s nothing wrong with you. Do what you want.

You will not have energy before doing the thing, because not having done the thing yet is energy draining in and of itself. You will only start having energy, or getting your energy back, once you start doing the thing. Once you get started. 

The biggest lie sold to us by the DotA 2 coaches.

If you’re not kill oriented, you will lose. 

You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson, you must know it by now, you can’t win, it is pointless to keep fighting. 

Why, Mr. Anderson, why, why, why do you persist?? 

Because I choose to. 

Every single coach, including BSJ, Pain DotA, Zquixotix, ALL emphasize the assumption that if you outfarm the enemy, eventually you’re gonna get out of low MMR, because it is more RELIABLE than kills gold, thinking that kills are all about the money. 

BSJ personally told me kills don’t mean shit. Only focus on what you can control, and eventually you will slowly climb out of low MMR until high immortal, or at least 6k MMR. I’m paraphrasing. 

Zquixotix also personally told me, over a hundred games, you will win more games than you lose, and with a 55 percent win rate, you will slowly but surely get out of whatever rank you’re stuck in. By mastering the fundamentals and focusing on the laning phase because DotA is a snowbally game, and eventually 50 CS in 10 minutes will compound, and if you have a thousand gold above the enemy herald, you will stumble upon them in the jungle and end up victorious in this encounter. 

You don’t need to know more than that, to get out of Herald. 

Pain DotA, the most braindead thing you can do to climb from zero MMR to 5k MMR is get 200 CS at minute 20. If you farm like the average player in your rank, how are you ever going to climb. 

Every single coach on the internet has this disease, called get good at the fundamentals and the laning phase and make no mistakes and over time you will win more and climb. 

Think to yourself, why every smurf farms kills instead of jungle? 

When was the last time you saw a faceless void smurf just six slotted at minute 20 with zero kills and went to end the game with no advantage whatsoever over his low MMR opponents but superior networth. 

The reason why coaches advocate for this, is because they are bad. 

Bad at DotA. At least bad at making kills and team fights. That’s why, despite being all-knowing, they will never win TI.

They are not fast enough. Smart enough. Intelligent enough. They don’t have what it takes. 

BSJ himself has a video where he says no flare, no style, to escape the madness, chaos, and unpredictability that is the 2k and below MMR of DotA. 

The reason why I get 5 high immortal smurfs on the enemy team every single game AFTER I STOMP, and not when I afk and take it easy, is because the matrix doesn’t know what to do with this. 

This is the combination of Map hacking smurfing from 17k MMR, and being a game developer that does what he wants in game. We haven’t seen anything like this before, not even in TI. Not even Yatoro can play like this. 

Even master Yoda doesn’t have a midichlorian count that high.

No Jedi has. ~ Qui Gon Jinn 

But if this works for me, how is that helpful for us normal people?

You will climb, until you stagnate at whatever bracket you truly belong to. 

The match ID I’ve mentioned below contains an Archon III Axe. I am 400 MMR. Let that sink in. I won through out fighting him and his whole average 3k 4k MMR team, with the help of the Riki, of course. 

You’re a Jedi too? Pleased to meet you. ~ Young Anakin Skywalker

I’ll kill them, I’ll kill them all. ~ John Wick, chapter 2

If being kill oriented, instead of farm oriented, is not a reliable way to get out of low MMR, I don’t know what is. 

The system is designed to keep you low MMR. You can’t outfarm your way out of low MMR anymore, this isn’t 2017. 

If you watch the replay down below, you will see the defeat from miles away. 

If I haven’t stepped in, trusted in the force and the guidance of Master Yoda and the light, none of us would be here today, celebrating this unreal instance of victory. 

Quadruple down on what you’re naturally good at. ~ Gary Vaynerchuck 

You will naturally develop map awareness and map control, just by being kill oriented. 

I want you to understand, that the system thinks I balance out a stack of 5 high immortal smurfs with multiple rampages per day and a hundred percent win rate all on the enemy team, with normal accounts on my side. Just because of my performance in the previous game. I don’t remember the last time I got a rampage, and I have below 50 percent win rate. But what I do in game is better than the entire team COMBINED, given the easy bots I have on my side, and the fact that the game is balanced ideal 5 very close perfect, at least according to valve. 

The fact that you guys still climb, and never have to face this kind of increasing difficulty the better you play, means that you’re no different from everybody. There’s nothing special about you, and so you fly under the radar, without ever getting noticed by valve’s algorithms and anti climbing mechanisms. 

It doesn’t mean I’m going to stop farming altogether, and watch my MMR go up. 

You still need some gold to become capable of fighting in the first place. 

It’s being farm oriented that is wrong. It will not increase your win rate. 

I’ve seen pain DotA in his streams, and his mental agility and speed are unnatural. And he was AFK while playing like this. These guys take speed for granted. They think you already have it, but you suck at the fundamentals, and you make a ton of mistakes every game, and that’s why you’re low MMR. They have no self awareness whatsoever. Or they’re lying to you. You need speed, you can’t climb without speed. It’s everything. If you’re not faster than your enemies, YOU WILL LOSE. No matter what you do, or how hard you try. Being kill oriented is the only reliable way there is to climb MMR. Ever. You don’t know what will happen once you reach late game, and you will. How is having more farm than the enemy reliable to guarantee you victory late game if the entirety of what happens late game is unpredictable and unreliable in the first place? If nothing is guaranteed to work when you get there? Then how getting there with more farm a reliable way to win more? Focus on the laning phase because it’s the only thing you can control. And then what? Lose every game afterwards anyway, but be proud you did everything right? 

Lie down in bed for a moment. Visualize every single game you’ve ever played. The ones you won, and the ones you lost. 

What do they all have in common? 

People fighting each other all game long, until the side with more kills wins? 

Wrong, people who are superior to their enemies, stomping early to mid game, and then end up winning eventually, unless someone throws or overextends. 

Unbalanced games, every single game, one side is always superior to the other. 

Sometimes it’s just some players who are superior to others. And how do they take advantage of this? 

They keep making kills, until they eventually win. 

But what about the games where I made a ton of kills and still lost the game? 

You were farming kills for networth, not for killing your enemies to victory. 

As you can see here, it’s all about can I kill all my enemies all game long, no matter what they do, and win all fights I engage in, or not. 

Can I become unkillable, can I survive, can I kill anybody early, mid, and late game, no matter what they do or how hard they try, whether one versus one, or five versus five? 

You HAVE kills, but you can’t kill them. Either because you died, and they decided to just hit the buildings and end, or you failed to kill them late game when they got stronger. You still can’t kill them. And that’s why you lose. Having a billion dollars in the bank, or 40 kills prior to that, doesn’t change anything. You still cannot kill anybody, or everybody, at the moment. If you jump in, you will either be harmless, or die. 

But you still think DotA is all about when to farm Aghs, and when to not. What your farming item should be. And whether to buy tangos or healing salve. You think the game is about avoiding making mistakes. This is the thinking of weak flat chested incompetent people who were bullied in school, so they decided gaming is the only thing they cannot be embarrassing at despite failing at everything else in life compared to real deal men, who are strong enough, brave enough, to embrace their anger, and be okay with making mistakes in order to improve and get somewhere in life. 

There’s a reason females are highly attracted to “the bad guy”, because he has no problem with making mistakes, so he will never lead a boring mediocre life, where avoiding making mistakes and walking on eggshells is of utmost priority. It speaks to intelligence, and that’s what they want to reward. Natural selection. 

Do not listen to ANYBODY, who tells you the pathway to success, is avoidance of making mistakes. It’s about becoming better. Stronger, smarter, faster, more powerful, more knowledgeable, more intelligent, more skilled, more competent. More, complete. 

The force is strong with you, but you’re not a Jedi yet. ~ Darth Vader 

Ask yourself, can I outfight my enemies. And how can I do so. Always, every single game. If not since early game, at least mid and late game. 

You cannot amount to anything, or get anywhere in life, through excessive inhibition. Through avoidance of making mistakes and walking on eggshells. 

In order to get to the top, you have to fly.