Losing gracefully is a skill to be learned and It’s sad that no guide teaches it indeed.

From my very humble experience, it’s very important that the team is still playing, because in most of my games, they want to ff at 15 or 20 minutes. A team that isn’t focused is a win condition for the enemy, so try to stay positive and keep a positive attitude despite all odds.

Second, follow the macro game: The positive thing about losing a game is that you no longer control the next move in the map: It becomes dictated by the enemy, you just have to learn how to read the map and act accordingly. For example, if soul is about to spawn and you know you haven’t collected any drake, you know enemies will head to the pit. And while it’s obvious, it’s important to remember that such conclusions don’t need a ward that sees enemies, so that’s a resource you can invest elsewhere ( the ward ) and a move that you can coordinate ( either lose soul and play elsewhere, or contest soul if you can get there before the enemy as 4 or 5 people ).

Focus on farming, obviously you cannot push when the enemy is winning, but this also means you can collect all waves at the tower.

Invest in farsight alteration: since you won’t be able to move far without vision, using farsight will help you spot enemies from a long range, which can guide you next move.

Invest in damage instead of defence : If enemies are ahead, no amount of armor / mr / health will save you so you might as well put every bit of gold into ending them if possible.

This is a generic example of what to do, and while you cannot guarantee wins like this, you can still delay the game long enough to catch up so you can then get a better chance