Focus on making kills, while never dying, like there’s no tomorrow, and then you’ll escape low MMR DotA 2, for good. You must be kill oriented, as opposed to farm oriented, from the start, to climb out of the entirety of low MMR, for good. There’s no amount of fundamentals that you can fix without that, that can reliably make you accomplish that objective.

I know Kung-fu.

Show me. ~ Morpheus 

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

What are you trying to say to me, that I can farm like Arteezy? 

I say when you’re ready, you won’t have to. ~ Morpheus 

What if I told you, that you’ve been lied to, all your life, when it comes to winning in DotA, gaining MMR, climbing out of low MMR, even climbing behavior score. You were told that you need to fix your fundamentals, and make less mistakes. 

You were deceived.. And now, your republic, shall fall. ~ Darth Malgus

What if I told you, that the secret to becoming immortal, becoming better at DotA, fixing your MMR, behavior score, match quality, everything, is all about, how good you are at making kills, or making kills happen. 

Nothing else WHATSOEVER matters, when it comes to DotA. 

Perhaps, in League of Legends, it’s all about how well you perform in team fights, in a way that makes your teammates always more likely to win those team fights TOGETHER, with you, not solely because of you, but as you part of the bigger picture, like an army marching together as one towards victory. 

But when it comes to DotA, it’s all about solo kill potential, whether those kills take place in team fights, or as solo pick offs randomly across the map because you know enemy antimage is still farming alone his own bot jungle at minute 30 while extremely low HP with not enough mana to blink away.

That sounds oddly specific.

The thing that I will always fail to fix in your brain is to make the switch so you can instead of last hit creeps without missing, you last hit heroes, without missing.

There’s no escape.. ~ Vader

Because for you, even people who are 11k plus MMR, the philosophical debate is all about should I farm, or join team fights and help the team so they don’t feed too much because they will then be playing 4 v 5 without you. 

WRONG. ~ Jordan B. Peterson 

You should never join team fights to “help”. 

You should only join team fights to kill. 

Fire at will! 

To last hit enemy heroes. To farm kills. To make kills happen. To add a bunch of kills to your kill streak. To hunt for kills. Regardless of whether or not those kills can be considered as cleanup kills or not.

The question that you should be asking yourself instead is, Can I do this now? 

If the answer is yes, then go for it. Go join those fights and make kills happen.

Then you will die. ~ Darth Vader

If the answer is no, then why are you so underfarmed to an extent that does not allow you to begin doing so, once the laning phase is over. 

The difference between high immortal Phantom Assassin, and a low MMR one is, the first one thinks, I have my ulti now. I’ve reached level 6 on my hero. It’s time to farm kills. 

The low MMR Phantom Assassin, on the other hand, thinks, I need battle fury, DeSo, BKB, and at least morbid mask, before I can fight or join team fights. 

Same for antimage, I need Manta Style and battle fury and skull basher, and then I might consider joining team fights. 

The high immortal antimage thinks, I have LEVEL 2 NOW, on my hero. It’s time for me to farm kills. I only need blink and mana drain to do so. 

And he’s not doing this against level 30 six slotted enemy heroes. The enemy heroes are still at level 2 as well. 

But look how early he is thinking about farming kills. 

It is somewhere around minute 3. You, around minute 30. 

That’s why he’s high immortal, and you’re not. 

It has nothing to do with the fundamentals. 

I’ve said this in the past, and I’m going to say this again. Kills are the most reliable thing ever in DotA 2. 

Even in low MMR? 

Especially in low MMR. 

High immortals have given up on farming kills against each other in the laning phase, because they are all unkillable from the start. They just DON’T DIE. 

Rule number one: Don’t die. 

Rule number 2: Follow rule number one. 

That’s why, their fundamentals, revolve around, playing as if you have no opponent. And farm until you’re strong enough to outfight high immortals. 

In low MMR, there’s only one fundamental. Farm kills, from second one, until you’re ready to end the game. Until you win that one fight, where after you win it, all your teammates are still alive, and are strong enough to go end and go high ground, without worrying about buybacks or whatever. And nothing can stop them now. 

You have no idea how slow 99.9% of the DotA 2 players are. The game itself slows their mental agility. You want to notice how slow you are? Play League, and look at people wondering, what’s wrong with this guy. He seems to not be intentionally griefing, and he’s doing EVERYTHING right, but he’s, he’s..

FREAKING SLOW!! 

Look at rank 400 EU UNION ranked games. The people are INSANELY SLOW, but they don’t miss their spells, they do everything right, they make no mistakes. They wait for the right moment to jump in, they know how to play. 

But they are doing everything, while in deep sleep mode. They are AFK in their heads, without griefing games, necessarily. 

Don’t get me wrong. Not all DotA 2 players are slow, or too slow. 

But this is like real estate. 

Everybody else has maxed out on DotA 2 game knowledge (thank you BSJ), fundamentals, farming speed, fixing the laning phase, and the next level is, just pick meta heroes, copy the pros, and gain easy MMR, without the individual himself getting better! 

And you want to compete with that. You want to out do them, when it comes to all that.

Good luck with that. There will always be someone, who can outfarm you, out CS you in the lane, or make less mistakes than you do.

But when it comes to speed, and making kills, or outfighting your enemies?

The sky is the limit, because no one is trying to do that, and what’s better than that is, they can’t, even if they wanted to, because they don’t have what it takes. They don’t have the intelligence, talent, creativity, cognitive ability, speed, wisdom, mental agility, or abilities, to compete with you. To outfight you.

For a simple reason, they are humans. They are part of humanity, and humanity sucks. At least when it comes to intelligence and cognitive ability. IQ.

You are part of the rebel alliance, and a traitor, take her away! ~ Darth Vader

It’s him, the anomaly, do we proceed? Yes, remember, he is still, only human. ~ Agents of the Matrix, upgrades

You said you would destroy the avengers, make a better world?

It will be better.

When everyone is dead? ~ Wanda

You must understand, that unless you are a total idiot, the entirety of the DotA 2 community or any community whatsoever, can’t be ahead of you, better than you, or above you in any sort of ranking system or dominance or competence hierarchy there is, no matter what.

It is because you refuse to resort to the one thing that you know makes you better than all of them combined.

Yourself.

You are not resorting to your talents, creativity, intelligence, knowledge, experience, wisdom, abilities, skills, and what makes you special. You are not resorting to your genius. You are not asking yourself what am I missing. How can I win those games. How can I get better. How can I get out of this mess and deal with this situation. How can I solve this problem. What should be done at the moment. You ask yourself what would Yatoro do if he was in my place.

The question should be, what can I, do, if I’m in Yatoro’s place.

No, I, am your father. ~ Darth Vader

You are not living up to your full potential.

It’s all Obi-Wan’s fault. He’s holding me back! ~ Anakin Skywalker

You don’t need guidance, Anakin. In time, you will learn to trust your feelings. ~ Darth Sidious

You are source. The answer has to come from you.

No more training, do you require. Already know that, which you need. ~ Master Yoda

You just mastered the fundamentals, but nothing has happened since then. Nothing has changed. You did not evolve. You did not improve, grow, or get any better. You did not unlock or reach, or even come close to, your full potential.

That was dramatic. I’m sorry I know you mean well, you just didn’t think it through. You want to protect the world, but you don’t want it to change. How could humanity be saved, if it’s not allowed to, evolve? ~ Ultron 

You do not change, you do not get smarter, better, or faster, you do not evolve. 

You just FIX YOUR MISTAKES. LIKE THE SCHOOLING SYSTEM HAS TAUGHT YOU. 

As opposed to honing your talent. Focusing on how can I, upgrade my speed. Become better, stronger, faster. Improve, grow, and develop myself to a better and higher level and version of myself. Reach my full potential.

Hmmm, upgrades. ~ Neo 

This is the disastrous situation we arrived at, because the pros are all salivating over the insanely huge TI prize pool, at least in the past, and that made DotA all about what can I exploit. What can I do to trick the enemy into a trap they never predicted or anticipated, and that’s how they will lose. 

As opposed to, we’ll try our best, and so will our enemies, and the guys with the most talent, speed, wisdom, intelligence, knowledge, experience, and better skills, training, coordination, and strategy, will always win. 

As opposed to, how can I get better, as in stronger in the force, and then I’ll end up winning more. 

How can I reach my full potential, and then worry about MMR. 

You tend to get out of the griefer pool and the system “forgives” you the second you start being kill oriented from the start, otherwise, you’re disruptive, because you are not playing the game the way the developers intend it to be. It’s the only way out of the smurf pool and the griefer pool, to become kill oriented from the start. 

That’s why it has been becoming harder and harder to solo carry the game through AFK farming alone since a decade ago. 

That’s why you couldn’t destroy me. ~ Luke Skywalker 

Look at ALL PEOPLE SMURFING, what do they have in common. 

They all follow my formula. They all farm kills from the start, as early as level one. 

And how they win? They make average 60 kills every single game, almost ZERO deaths, and one billion assists. 

They don’t AFK farm until six slotted, and then join team fights, in the hopes of turning the tide of the battle, because they are now slightly stronger than the enemy, and they have a little networth advantage over the enemy. 

When I told Zquixotix you are WRONG, in his face, he intentionally misrepresented me for views, to an extent that made him intentionally misunderstand me, in order to defend himself and have fun with the viewers at the expense of a random dude who pointed out the obvious. 

You will NEVER get out of low MMR, unless you look at low MMR people and can’t help but think to yourself, hmmm, easy kills.  

This was my stance. It simply says of course we need more than the laning fundamentals, to get out of Herald and the entirety of low MMR. Stating in public that you simply don’t need more than that, is misleading the masses to say the least. 

But Peter, I fixed my fundamentals and gained MMR? 

It’s because you were losing because of bad fundamentals, but the core skills that you are taking for granted, that you can never climb without, you already had that built in. It came naturally to you. That’s why you were always entitled to climb MMR. That’s why you always thought I never belonged to my MMR bracket. 

You wouldn’t have that dream in your heart, if you didn’t already have what it takes to make it happen. ~ Marie Forleo 

Kills are the most reliable thing in DotA 2, ever. It’s time for you to stop walking on eggshells, and start playing the game. 

But I don’t wanna die! 

It’s not dying you need to be afraid of, it’s not having lived in the first place. ~ The Green Hornet

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.