Don’t try it. ~ Master Kenobi
You underestimate my power.
If you’re trying to climb out of low MMR in DotA 2, do not attempt to solo carry every single game, with disregard to your teammates. You will fail.
Let others do it for you, for free, stay behind them ALL GAME LONG, and avoid the excruciating smurf pool that inevitably follows if you tried.
I was shocked to see high immortals and pro players join every single team fight every single game even if they have zero impact with heroes like faceless void, phantom Lancer, antimage, etc.
They never 1 v 9.
You must understand that 1 v 9 is not a sarcastic term to say I won despite hard noob teammates.
It’s playing as if your teammates don’t exist. EVEN IF THEY’RE WINNING EARLY GAME.
You still didn’t check the map, ask where’s my share of the loot, or join in on the madness.
You just farmed, until it’s too late for the enemies to stop you.
Until the point of no return.
Until the enemies think to themselves, what’s going on over here? Why are we suddenly dying like ants around the map?? We were winning all game long.
Until the sky rained fire..
And then you said with a wicked smile on your face; Let battle be joined.
Jokes aside, it has a very limited potential to work back to back for over a hundred games.
You will be delayed by the smurf pool, heavily.
People will focus on you, kill you once, and then go end instantly. Your underfarmed potato teammates won’t stop them.
Stay behind the cores, and make sure they never die, is a way better strategy to climb out of low MMR.
Always fight with them, but don’t tank any sudden area damage that may get thrown in their faces when they go for kills. Stay behind, and wait for the right moment to strike, when you are certain you can make it out alive.
If there’s no fighting, you can farm in between, without griefing the farm of your cores.
Position 4 is perfect for this role. The problem with position 5 is that you’ll always be a squishy support that is easy to kill. You will lose late game because of that. Pick a highly survivable high DPS support hero that does not take forever to become capable of fighting. The earlier you can join team fights, the better. Queen of Pain is a perfect example for that, and she is designed to be a perfect position 4. You will be weak as a mid hero late game because you’re not unkillable. You don’t want to be the main focus of your enemies. Become illusive. Never die, no matter what. And stay always behind your cores, ready for battle, with full mana and HP.
There’s no surrender button in DotA, for better or for worse. It means, you will never kill your enemy heroes endlessly into submission. They will not give up, and you are going to lose because of that.
You already made forty to sixty plus kills already. And you’re exhausted. What more can I do to climb and win?
But if you make sure your carries never die, they will keep chasing kills and pushing towers, buildings, and objectives, like automated bots with no sign of psychological exhaustion or depletion in sight. They are happy with you, because what you’re doing, the kind of help and support you’re offering, is unusual, unprecedented, in low MMR.
And that makes them play at their absolute best.
If you attempt to solo carry the game on the other hand, regardless of what your teammates are doing, they will get tilted, give up, and stop trying as hard. They will play at their worst, or at least below average performance.
Remember, you can only win if your teammates are strong and well farmed. You can very rarely win in case they are underperforming or outright griefing. You can only rarely win with hard noob very bad teammates on your side.
You will climb, if you never lose a winnable game, that you could win, if everything goes right.
Do not lose those games, and watch your MMR passively climb and increase over time, without even trying.
You will find yourself sometimes supporting your offlaner for around five to seven minutes, and then you will go help the safe laner, simply because his hard support specialist is already helping and supporting him from the start, and you will be the third. Together, you will be able to protect him much more easily, than if you try to win your side lane with only one core while enemy mid is rotating for easy ganks and kills.
Ward sentries off of cool down, regardless.
Team fighting is a must. Don’t listen to any high immortal who tells you to solo carry games in low MMR.
They don’t know what they’re talking about.
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