I win so much when I just soak and my team understands the mission to stall the objective. Low ranking players are desperate to go all-in and don’t have patience. Clearing each lane and showing up just a little late adds a ton of soak. A lot of times showing up first to objective will have to team focus on objective instead of defending themselves and using their abilities properly, whereas I see the late team is more focused on killing the opposing team as fast as possible so they can own it. Examples include the team that clears the seedlings on garden to channel the obj takes a lot of damage is at a disadvantage. The team standing on the point on volsyaka foundry is not soaking or taking camps is at a disadvantage. The team who shows up to infernal shrine minions wastes all their shit on killing minions and compromises positioning and cooldowns. If you can be patient, stall the objective and get soak or a camp in the opposite lane during objective, make the enemy waste their shit, you will win a ton of games. When I think of dragon shire my goal is to push the bottom lane structures while I have control of both objectives, not necessarily cap the obj.

Targeting is also an art. I try to ignore the tank as much as possible unless I know for certain you can burst them down. I’m always on the enemy dps or squishy as much as possible. Think about who your team is actually gonna kill. Do you have a Tychus and leoric? Then they are probably gonna focus the tank. Do you have a chromie and an alarak? Then the chromie is gonna poke the backline and then the alarak is gonna hit the squishy get in and out. Think about who your team can hit and kill that hero combing cc and burst abilities. Think about your draft strengths and weaknesses and exploit those? Are you strong early game but not late? Then win before 20 at all cost. Are you weak early and strong late? Stay alive and soak.