So I switched to dota 2 about 2 months or so ago and although it was a rough transition from HON I did it playing IXDL, did alright in there, got top 10 a few times, mostly hovered in the top 30 slots, but anyways, little did i know that it would all be useless when Ranked came out. But guess what, my account was level 4, with ~170 games being played 2 years ago before the leveling system trolling dagon OD games and rod of atos Ursa lol. Anyways, I came back and guess what I had 49% win ratio and was playing with truly atrocious players, getting leavers, throwers, feeders basically every third game or so.
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tl;dr pretty good player stuck grinding out matches to get get past elo hell.
Here's how I did, mind you I played matches on the booster packs to speed level.
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Here's what I have to let all those who are actually stuck in elo hell.
1) If you are actually better than all those people who you're stuck with, out last hit them, it's absolutely a joke how bad players are at last hitting in elo hell. I've seen some of my replays where I was 40 last hits over my middle before 10 minutes.
2) Don't pick a purely team fight hero oriented hero like puck, sure if you're insanely good with him you have a chance of snowballing, but split pushers/pick off heroes/ semi carries are definitely better, e.g. Storm, Shadow Fiend, !INVOKER!, slark, alchemist, Lone Druid (king of split push), also heroes who can recover in jungle when focused definitely have an edge.
3) CARRY A FUCKING TP, jesus I can't count how many times I've literally teleported out in front of the nose of the enemy cause there was only like 3 stuns versus me. (Also ofc you can tp to help /gank lanes)
Example: http://puu.sh/5UCmL.jpg - Ran into Rosh, killed aegis carrier, teleported out of a losing battle in the very center of it, simple! OFc i had tp boots, but same concept applies. P.s. I had two boots because i was using tp a lot at that point and wanted to not waste cash and invest into better boots, but the stats from treads were still good enough to not replace with another item.
4) Get your farm rotations down
5) buy smoke, you can sneak roshans, ganks, etc super easily once you deduce where wards are.
6) Don't panic when you're team is doing poorly, there've been games where 40 minutes into the game there were ~20 kills on my team, of which ONLY ONE wasn't either an assist or kill for me. I won a few of them, lost a couple, went back to watch the replay of one and saw where I could've solo carried my team, usually when 80% of your teams farm is on you it's better to split push / do pick offs because you'll push faster then their five man team. I stalled/won a great deal of games by simply going manta, boots of travel and push stick to split push to the point that I made the enemy rage extremely hard.
7) Keep an eye on your minimap, I rarely get angry about MIA's anymore, I can usually see the mia's now myself of the lanes, and remind the other lanes to call mias, butttttt if your lane goes mia make sure you punish the solo guy left alone while his supports are ganking. or if it's mid that's mia, take his mid tower.
8) And final tip, after 5 minutes, if your hero has the ability to push out the lane and roam/farm jungle do that instead of static farming the lane, you're less likely to get ganked, and more likely to cause enemy to play defensive.
Hope you guys like this little guide! I'll have educational videos for you guys, but for now here's a funny video of a crazy/scary rager/feeder lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uE9wzGIN6M
