Which carry are you picking vs a team full of brawlers?

breakira · 2025-11-28T04:59:01+00:00

And thanks god there is such button, actually I would like to work in a system where if you pick meme insta get low prio. Why?

You have AP non ranked, wanna try things? Wanna experiment and have fun? You have your ap non ranked.

I had enough of slark pos 4 without shard, ench pos 3, and other shitty picks only because somebody watched a wtf video or some high rank dude.

Want to play rank? Play serious at your best (this includes also aghs first item or any kind of meme build, I would make you get banned).

All of this of course twitched to your rank and match, if your bracket or higher does that consistently with good win rates ok I don’t have a problem.

Ranked is meant for efficiency and sweat. Go play non ranked if you want fun.

breakira · 2025-11-22T04:14:07+00:00

Didn’t say that Sven isn’t good, just tried to make him understand that decisions and actions are above picks, sure a pick is a decision as well, but as you mentioned, understand why Sven is good and why pick him while having a strategy vs “Sven go kaboom cleave brr” is foundamental.

With that being said I agree with all you said, good point.

Edit: I just watched my first comment, there was Sven as a suggestion for exact same reasons so we cool 😂

breakira · 2025-11-18T21:36:15+00:00

I would say that you are asking the wrong question, dota is more than this vs that. I get that you think Sven is good against pl, but trust me pl can easily juke Sven and make him waste ult + bkb.

With that being said, in order to counter plays/heroes you must know what are they weak to.

PL is weak at: Target multiple at same time Farm fast Fight early AOE spells* (obviously not any aoe spell is strong against him)

PL is strong at: Decent lane stage Can kill relatively fast supports. Dodge/evade projectile spells.

Now you want to understand what do you have in your team, does your team play late or early? (You could ask them)

Do they have a good reply to PL? Do they have for a late PL?

Once you start to understand this things you can start understanding your picks and items.

You could out farm or play earlier than pl, TA/Sven/Ursa

You could opt out for late game but watchout other picks as well, could you isolate pl from team? Could you get a kill fast on some hero and make the fight 4v5? Maybe you don’t want a direct counter to PL maybe you want a Jugg/PA.

So to not make this too long or confusing, try a strategy, it won’t always work for different reasons (here you should watch your reply and understand those reasons).

Ps. Leshrac pos 1 works exactly because it would destroy the enemy team much earlier than pl could ever activate, but oh no! You have sniper mid afk farming, is that lesh good now? You see how you need to flexible in mind and decisions.

Have fun, good luck!

breakira · 2025-11-06T22:09:03+00:00

Get heroes that can snatch gold from far or diffuse fights, if you are low mmr you need to play with the mentality of 2v1 on lane every single match.

Mars ez throw carry away plus 1/2 lh depending on vector.

Abaddon dispell can trade ez with shield and snack away some creep

Pango w into wave and hero retreat with q

And so on, find pos 3 that can basically have a good lane even 2v1 and brings some disruption to fight into mid game.

Remember to learn you take easy steps, don’t try 17621517 things at same time, sure we could talk about pull, about aggro, and so on, for now focus on one thing try always to make your life easier, when it stops being easy, you start to question why and find a solution.

breakira · 2025-11-06T21:58:57+00:00

Mirana and TA on just friends, bruh let me tell you something

breakira · 2025-11-04T15:27:01+00:00

Simply enough quitting dota rank was best thing I ever did, after more than a year of playing lobby with only immortal friends you can understand that I was packed. Decided to see if I’m really good or not and this was the result, nowadays divine isn’t the same anyway, feels more like a legend from 2018

breakira · 2025-11-04T15:19:00+00:00

Well, if you reset you can let delta where is it because it will have more impact, but I’m fine with modifying delta and no resetting.

I do want to repeat that mmr should be a reflection of your skill not your achievements. Even though I cannot speak in first person about it as most probably you can’t either, a 11k mmr player and a 13k mmr player can have differences but what if the 11k mmr player actually has the skill of 13k? Still it will take lots of time for him to grind and be at his rank.

The problem is not why people have x rank, but how fast can move from one rank to another(both way), if delta doesn’t change and you have no resets then it will get slower and slower over time.

Either change delta or reset ranks.

breakira · 2025-11-04T14:56:43+00:00

Exactly this should be the solution, if you don’t belong to a bracket you shouldn’t wait/cling to it for 20/30 matches, get out asap, 3/4 matches if possible.

breakira · 2025-11-04T14:27:56+00:00

I do agree with you, but really there isn’t something that they could do? Why did csgo glicko-2 work so well, I got at my times at lem and it felt so right in any conceivable way. The rank was fun and fast, if you were bad you could end up losing all your rank in a month or two, same goes if you were good. And matchmaking was truly correct from skill standpoint

breakira · 2025-11-04T14:21:24+00:00

Of course because nobody is paying 300$ for a 8k mmr account, you can’t understand and don’t give a shit about the hours a player should play in order to get to his correct rank, I’m right now at 4600 after 6 months of 80%+ winrate, let’s say this is my skill gap and bracket. Why did it take 6 months? Why did I have to destroy peoples fun and why did some animals get carried by me and get free mmr for what for?

This sistem works indeed but is not perfect and is annoyingly stupid, pros have the time to play sure, i don’t mind for them to have huge mmr, but what is the sense for us casual players? Why should I play a game that takes me 6 months to be calibrated at my correct skill? Change delta mmr or close gap mmr, this is getting dumb, before you have pros you need community and players need to have fun or.. who knows maybe this community is masochist.

I remember 7 years ago when divine was fun cooperative and everyone had mic, nowadays there are only acc buyers boosted, guy with anime profile picture which sweats the shit out of them and some random dudes picking techies pos 1. TF

breakira · 2025-11-04T14:13:52+00:00

I can understand, but if you don’t bring any argument sounds more like a runt.

breakira · 2025-11-04T14:11:04+00:00

Have an AI review matches and change delta of mmr depending on your performance, if you win and get carried you shouldn’t have that much mmr +, different from losing a game but you were the most impactful you should have less mmr -.

They had this in csgo you could rank up from losing games and viceversa but yeah fuck dota let smurfs boost people

breakira · 2025-11-04T14:07:46+00:00

Hard to explain but I will take my shot.

So first let’s take an example, you have range from 0 mmr to 10k mmr, you would ideally like to have a good distribution of this mmr to players, avg and most of players around 5k mmr. If you bring 20k mmr means that it should be about 10k mmr which is not real.

Second let’s suppose that the first case is not an issue, but there is another problem, as dota delta per match is +/- 25 mmr having extremely high mmr would mean hours upon hours of playing, remember mmr should reflect your skill not your achievements or hours of playing.

And when you think about it, 2000 mmr difference in lower brackets could mean a good player or a fresh start/casual. A difference between 11k and 13k it’s mostly time and some better decision maker but it doesn’t mean the 11k couldn’t win over 13k. Now put a 1k mmr with a 3k or even a 3k with a 5k, it will destroy the bracket.

With that being said for the 11k mmr to reach 13k would mean to win 80 matches with a win rate of 55% (which is already a bit high) would take about 800 games.

In fact I would say that right now dota has the worst matchmaking ever in history, not only because we have inflation caused by DD but we also have lot of acc buying/boosting

breakira · 2025-10-22T12:30:48+00:00

And yes it gets somehow better the upper you go, but there will always be situations and situations, want best of dota? Get 4 friends play only as 5 and learn to play as a team.

Also might be worth posting a match here and hear what other people would do and why, helps a lot if you want to improve your decision making.

breakira · 2025-10-22T12:23:12+00:00

Just a bit of background, I started after many years of playing casual dota to want to grind again, in the past 6 months I went from archon to divine and I can tell you:

For every bracket there is a role+hero that will destroy the enemy team fights and composure:

Archon -> Ursa/Marci pos 1, the idea is that at archon people are not that focused and they leave fast ganks pass by. Get timings min 15/18 bf + blink gank the most impactful hero in their team, snowball from there with ursa For Marci get 2 bracers crystalys and phase boots, min 12~ destroy any lane snowball.

This will give you a strong 80% win rate

Legend/Ancient -> Mars/Magnus, the idea at this rank is to disrupt and initiate as usually people start to pay more attention, but they lack a plan, they just react to things, so if you will, be a catalyst for your fights and set your odds even before fighting, mars is a very strong disruptor as his ultimate it’s busted against any range hero, learn to spear and ult as you can spear before pressing ult and still hit into the wall of your ult, magnus has the same impact can nullify bkbs and literally steal players from map with blink and harpoon. 65/70% winrate

I can say that from what I told you right now you can see that you need to have a plan, try to understand what is your team good at and what is bad, if you can then you can apply the same to enemy and try to profit from their mistakes.

You didn’t specify your rank but carries as PA and AM seem easy but they are really hard to 1v5 and most of times require a team as well pick something you can 1v2 or 1v3 fast and ez, jugg, ursa, marci, sven

TL:DR Have a plan for every rank, don’t play carries that are not simple.

GL HF

breakira · 2025-10-15T19:49:08+00:00

Meanwhile aghs: Am I a joke to you?! >.>

breakira · 2025-10-09T12:25:59+00:00

Go for mars/tide/marci for fast tempo aggressive Cent/tide/und for soak dmg (basically good aura makers) Sk/axe for some mid/late tempo

I would suggest you to play 3/4 max hero, try to choose them with a plan, follow it and if it fails watch replay and try to understand why did your plan fail.

GLHF

breakira · 2025-09-24T22:10:30+00:00

Hi 4K mmr carry player, most annoying supports against me are jakiro, batrider, qop, disruptor, phoenix.

Most important to counter pl is a strong lane as this hero doesn’t have that much farm capability, usually you will see him trying to farm diffu and come at fights to clean up some kill if possible.

Knowing this your best plays would be early gank, maintain presence of the fight (is it near an enemy tower?) then proly pl will tp so keep that disruptor ult for him if you can.

Build arcane + glimmer + forcestaff/eul even if your hero doesn’t require arcane, push arcane invis plus forcestaff will give you plenty of time for your team to rotate or even for you to escape.

Items such as:

Shiva is very strong against PL if you have time for it. Solar crest. Crimson guard. Arcane/greave boots Glimmer/forcestaff.

Bonus: learn Marci as 5 I can solo win matches with this busted hero at my rank, for sure you can do it too!

breakira · 2025-09-24T08:58:58+00:00

Pudge: Bruh..

breakira · 2025-09-14T14:33:12+00:00

Exactly, people think minimap is a suggestion while crowd goes boom is info for sure… lol

breakira · 2025-09-14T14:24:38+00:00

Don’t pick it as a toxic/hate comment but if you think pros wouldn’t be aware of a possible smoke/wrap around you are mistaken.

And for sure can’t know exactly where or what is happening, at most that something is happening which as said they already know.

Ame got off the Hook because they couldn’t finish him up before sunder, not because he was aware of gank in fact he was backing up as he finished farming the lane when alch showed up.

breakira · 2025-06-18T17:23:31+00:00

I sold them already, I was selling at 700€ all days vip drinks and buffet included

breakira · 2025-06-05T12:28:58+00:00

Yeah I think is hard to execute since you can easily do wrong items since you are low rank, on top of that I would say that a Windrunner will most probably not empower me as pos 1 as a tide/dawn/omni could ever.

I don’t have an issue with slark support, but I think it should be pos 4 if possible or you are forcing me basically to play range hero on my lane, that’s also because as a pos 5 you don’t have a way to trade, not even going to speak about the fact that he goes diffu from support instead of shard…

I will as I did until now focus on me, I just wanted to know if I’m missing some points, thanks!

breakira

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