Here it is, the secret to ranking up in soloq and still have a positive outlook on league.
Just treat it like an anime.
Somehow, the self-flaying potato seems like an appropriate metaphor. Or is it a simile?
If someone flames you, this just means that they are tsundere, and are giving you a hard time because they like you. Don't feel bad, just remember, the dere will come sometime! They don't even mean most of what they said, they just want to hide that they like you.
If you are getting camped, this goes to show that the enemy team has taken a liking to you. Much like an anime, all this attention means that you have to be the main character! Don't let everyone down by dying as the main character, simply don't die and watch as in the last few episodes(late game) you come out on top!
If a teammate afks, this just means that they wanted senpai(aka you) to notice them. They either realized that feeding or complaining is not enough to get your attention, so they left the game so that you would notice them! Or, if you happen to be doing badly, it is because they want to take the blame for the loss, so that no one can get mad at you. They just love you that much <3.
If a teammate is calling out what you are doing in all chat to annoy you by griefing, think of it as they are actually just announcing what you are going to do, just like characters do in anime. They realized that you forgot to announce to the enemy your super special move or tactic, and are doing it for you!
Every loss is actually a victory! With every defeat, you only grow stronger, becoming better and better at the champion as well as the mental fortitude to handle the loss. Every anime has some sort of bad thing happen to create the plot. Just remember that this is a plot device, and that you will soon emerge as the hero.
People don't try to troll in champ select, they are just nervous, as the big battle to decide the fate of each summoner lies partially in their hands. They are worried that their own actions might send everyone down a bad line, and pretend to be bad people by trolling to help take the blame away in case your team might have lost.
Don't worry if the other team has slain the dragon Gold Fury. I guarantee you that they did not get any good loot, and the dragon will respawn a mere 5 minutes later to try again. The other team has no idea, because they were not beaters like you are.
People want to win and people don't want to blame themselves, so they look for excuses to explain their loss. And they do that by scold or berate a teammate. I think :P
I think it's because people don't want to admit that there exists better players than themselves. Whenever I'm playing with my sometimes toxic friends, and we lose a fight, and he starts blaming lag or his team or whatever, and I say "I think they're just better players than we are" and he gets insanely irritated, and he's like 'NO, NO, IT'S THE FKN NOOB POSEIDON/TRUNDLE/RUBICK WHO SUCKS AT THE GAME'
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I'm just going to quotethe end of purge dota 2 guide which is mostly about the illusion of MMR/elo Hell (also known as being stuck in bronze)
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The Biggest Hurdle In Dota 2
The hardest part about learning to get better at Dota 2 is focusing on yourself more than focusing on your team. With Match Making Rating (MMR) becoming public, players become very focused on raising a number linked to their profile. When things go bad and you lose games, all players look for the reason they lost, and it's human nature to look at your allies mistakes first before you look at yourself.
The biggest misconception due to this is the fake principle of 'MMR Hell'. The idea is that you are unlucky and get worse than average teammates which result in you not advancing in MMR, ever. This doesn’t exist.
The reality is that being good at Dota is extremely multidimensional, as you've probably figured out from the guide.
For example, it’s easy to look at your Kill/Death/Assist ratio and notice that yours is better than your teammates. This leads you to think that your teammates obviously died too many times and that you played better, but perhaps you didn’t back them up enough. Maybe you didn’t do a good enough job zoning the offlaner, pulling, ganking, or last hitting.
There are MANY reasons that games are lost, but the chances of you getting unlucky with allies is the least likely one.
To raise your MMR, you need to get better at Dota, and you are the player that you have the most impact on. Focus on fixing your mistakes from game to game, or you will quickly grow more frustrated, continue to stagnate in skill, and stop having fun, if getting better at Dota is your goal.
Maybe getting really good at Dota isn’t your goal. Maybe you just came here to learn a few things so that playing Dota casually is a bit easier.
Regardless of your intentions, you are going to run into players that are angry and mean. They might believe in MMR Hell, they might be taking their frustrations out on you when they make mistakes, or they might just genuinely be *******s and taunt you whenever they win a teamfight or score a kill on you. If you encounter anyone in Dota 2 that is mean to you. I recommend to immediately mute them.
To mute a player in Dota 2, open the scoreboard in the upper left, find the person that you don’t want to hear from in text or voice for the rest of the game, and press the little microphone button and you’re free. The safest way to protect your enjoyment of the game is to mute them immediately.
If they were being extra mean to you or someone else, you get bonus points from me if you defend the other players in chat and use the report function to report them for communication abuse, which is the proper way of saying ‘this guy is using his words to hurt people for some reason’.
I believe that games like Dota 2 can take normal competitive people and turn them angry and mean because of under performing allies, disappointment in themselves, and the general frustration that comes from losing, but that doesn’t make it okay to spread that anger to other people.
Not only is hurtful to other people, but it significantly impacts how well your team plays.
Morale is not the easiest thing to improve on for the average player since a lot of a person's morale comes outside of the game, but it has the biggest effect on your game that has nothing to do with Dota.
Do not flame or criticize your allies when they make mistakes. Don’t call them idiots, and don’t talk down to your allies as if you’re superior (your MMR is likely similar). Say good job when they get a solo kill, or win a teamfight. Even if you think they are playing terribly, some false encouragement will make your allies play with less stress, they will feel less pressure, and their increased morale will help them play better than usual.
After all, MMR is a measurement of how much impact you have on a Dota 2 game.
That includes how well you last hit, how efficient your farming patterns are, how good you are at attack moving, calculating chain stunning, how good your map awareness is, how well you place wards, how well you teamfight, how well you itemize. Can you pull without missing the connect? Is your late game decision making correct? Does your negative attitude affect the rest of your team, lowering their ability to perform at their MMR?
All of these things matter in every single Dota game. Don’t assume that you are superior to one of your teammates just because they did a few extremely stupid things that you never would. There was probably an error that you made that they wouldn’t have.
It’s also important to remember that you can raise your MMR with any position in Dota. For a safe estimate, until you reach the 5,000 MMR range, it’s very possible to even play support and to support so well that you consistently increase your MMR.
Don’t look to your allies as the excuse of why you aren’t winning. Don’t look to the role you are playing as to why you aren’t winning (unless you are better at other roles, then blame yourself), and make sure that your attitude doesn’t prove toxic to your allies, since them playing worse can easily affect your team’s chance of winning.
Focus on your mistakes. If you have trouble seeing your mistakes, ask a friend who is better, watch a pro player stream a game, watch a pro game to see players playing at the top level and emulate what they do.
This partly explains why people are toxic and why being toxic isn't going to fix your problem. I could also post the LoL vid about toxicity losing you games but I'm lazy to search for it.
And I'm going to agree with the perons above me on. most of these players want to win. But instead at looking at their own mistake they think they are the perfect player (who should easily win TI or SWC) so the problem is not them (spoilers alert: it is). so they search for one of the weakest players or the player who should have helped him (aka the (hard) support (5*) or jungler (farming support) (4*) mostly). and one of the most funniest things is that they are normally doing the worst of the team (and still blame someone doing better then them).
I think your completely right, if people merely admitted that they got out played when they do, not saying lag isn't a thing and sometimes it happens to me but if when it happens you tell your team guys I'm getting outplayed and this guy is better than me can you gank my lane please. I feel at that point your team is much more likely to gank your lane cause your not being arrogant you are openly admitting that this guy has more skill with his God over yours or contermatchup whatever it is and they still want to win so they will help you... In theory.
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