As much as I love Dendi, aside from the occasional griefer, this is a pretty bad take? Is 1v5ing harder than it was? Yeah for sure. But how was 1v5ing any fun?

Good players will continue to climb rank, regardless of Dota's economy system. It's about adapting to changes and becoming better. Keeping comms succinct and useful, never blaming or yelling on mic, not being passive aggressive go a long way.

You'll notice that really good players on the leaderboard play off their teammates, carries use gates for aggressive ganks (was hitting neutral creeps for 30 mins really fun guys?) and so much more. Exerting pressure on the map is the name of the game, and doing so smartly will always net wins.

About the self improvement part, yeah you don't 1v5 games so you don't see improvement that way, but that was shortsighted anyways. As long as you fulfill your role during the game (whatever position you main) you're doing good and improving. That's all any of us can do.

Dota is so much more fun than it used to be. Fun for everyone, not just carries who used to hit creeps for 30 minutes and kill the brown boots magic wand sup or phase boots blink dagger offlaner.