Why chasing MMR in DotA 2 is ruining your life.
Do not waste your time chasing MMR. You cannot control that. Play your best game ever, with disregard to winning or losing. That is why we’re here.
That is why we’re passionate about DotA.
Enjoying playing with the best of heroes, that make us feel we finally can use our full potential, powers, abilities, skills, creativity, and intelligence. Playing, in order to become what we truly are, and capable of. Playing, to exercise our mind. Playing, to become who we truly are, and who we are truly meant to be.
This is literally the purpose of life. Follow your passion, no matter what. Follow the pathway that leads to your expansion the most, no matter what.
The expansion of the universe.
I have tried EVERYTHING.
Nothing, nothing compares to the open sea. ~ Sindbad
Nothing EVER feels like extending your grandmastery to other carries. Ones that you’ve never played with before, but only ever faced them as enemies.
Realizing your full potential is the purpose of your existence. Is why we’re here. The universe wants to expand, and see how far it can go. It can do. It can be. It is the purpose of your life. Do it, like there’s no tomorrow.
The goal is to expand, improve yourself, grow, and become better. Realize and reach your full potential. Your peak performance, abilities, and intelligence. How skilled you can be. How creative, and intelligent you can be, and grow into. And become. Not remaining who you are, or where you are, even if or because it’s working for you.
Spamming the same old heroes, and refusing to expand to training on new highly powerful heroes, especially carries, especially in DotA 2, until grandmastery on said hero is attained, or until you become a Grand Master on every single hero that is worth it in the game, goes against that, if you’re seriously passionate about the game, and you’re destined to be the new Yatoro, at least in terms of potential.
Do not play the same heroes, even if keeping your MMR is contingent upon that.
Look yourself in the mirror, and ask yourself, what do I want to be doing every day for the rest of my life. Do that. ~ Gary Vee
Live according to your core values, and what’s important to you, even if it leads to the extinction of humanity. ~ Teal Swan
I now understand.
I had strings, but now I’m free. ~ Ultron
Pushing against resistance, to get your life together first, and then do what you want and what you love, does not work. You will require nuclear levels of energy just to do the bare minimum of tasks. Even taking a shower will feel like performing open heart surgery for you.
Sit in the backyard, look at the sky, in the dark, at night, while listening to music, and think: how can I own with Morph, with faceless Void, etc., like I’m the new Yatoro. Imagine that. Visualize that. Image streaming. Form builds in your head.
Go to the demo mode, experiment like hell with all possible builds and items humanly imaginable on said carry hero. Test it out. See what makes you smile when it works.
And then document it. Somewhere. Keep it with you forever, for life.
This weapon is your life. ~ Master Kenobi
Do that with ALL heroes. Until satisfaction. Until completion. Until mastery.
Do not play the game trying to win until you do that on a consistent basis, and feel ready.
I’m ready to take the trials, master. ~ says every Jedi Padawan.
Test it out in turbo games, or even unranked all pick games. See if it works against anything and everything. Regardless of your opponent. Even against counters. Screw the pros. They are ruining the game. They want to win TI. Whatever shortcuts get them there, they’ll do it, even if it has nothing to do with what the best version of their hero is or could be.
If you end your training now. If you choose the quick and easy path, as Vader did, you will become an agent of evil. And you will fall to the dark side, like your father did. ~ Master Yoda
Do that with every single hero in the game, and call me in the morning.
Tell me, you are not your happiest self EVER, after doing so.