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smol brain

    I made this smurf after 500 games on my first account, did well in unranked vhs and then started sucking some major dick, got unlucky etc. I don't think I can endure this 3k cancer anymore. I need suggestions when it comes to gameplay and heroes and whether I should make another smurf or not.

    Bad Intentions

      Yo OP u gotta assess the situation and find out whats the core problem. You need to find that couple of heroes that you can consistently play effectively. Be a specialist man, dont be a jack of all trades :)

      Oldman

        Actually 3-4k is very pleasant to play, and ez to grind mmr. Git gud.

        Androgynous

          your problem is that you suck at the game. you don't belong in vhs which is why you're losing games and dropping ranks. creating a new account is not the solution cos you'll still be at the same skill level you're currently at. the solution is just to keep playing and learning from your mistakes and you'll eventually improve.

          if you make a new account, what does that change? does it make your mechanical skills better? your game sense, your last hitting, your item and skill point choices and everything else that represents skill? no, it doesn't. you can make a new account just so it says "very high skill" when you look up your matches on dotabuff but that doesn't mean anything if you can't stay there.

          smol brain

            ^Hehe OK but I really feel like smurfing, but yeah I get it. Can anyone be more specific when it comes to my in game performance please.

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            WonderWaiter

              ^ smurfing is that thing 7k players do to enjoy not tryhard games, learn to play new heroes and show other people how to climb mmr.
              youre trying to get out of the shit tier creating new accounts, but if you cant win at 3k how you gonna win at 4k or 5k? people like you dont bother me cause after a couple of matches with your new account you gonna have the same ranking you have now
              People i hate are those 5k retards with smurf accounts playing unranked games cause the account has only 5 games played with their friends and they pick meta heroes and tryhard to boost win ratio of some random shitstain in their party and i has to try to hard carry an unbalanced casual match with my true 2k friends.

              TripleSteal-

                i agree with androgynous

                endfastpls

                  seconded androgynous

                  It was explain i couple of hundred times smurfing is not the answer to escape mmr.

                  Smurfing reasons are

                  1. Long que time @ higher ranks like Rtz

                  2. Hiding Hero they been practicing.

                  smol brain

                    ^Don't be irrelevant please, any better advice?

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                    smol brain

                      Bump.

                      saving private RTZ

                        there is no better advice

                        smol brain

                          ^yeah life is just barren as fuck isn't it?

                          Androgynous

                            how is he being irrelevant?

                            if you are the average dota 2 player then there is no reason to smurf besides being deluded about your own skill. the average player will have short queue times because there are plenty of people to play against in the average skill level, while pros sometimes take half an hour or even more to find a match.

                            same with hiding heroes. if there is money on the line, then you don't want to show other teams heroes you have been practicing. you are not a professional player playing for tournament winnings, so again, you have no reason to smurf.

                            anyway common mistakes 3k players make imo is not focusing on objectives enough. theres tons of people complaining on dotabuff about how they can carry well and have decent (not good, but decent) kda ratios but have less than 1000 tower damage in most of their games.

                            if you are a carry, prioritise farming and objectives over kills. instead of looking for kills and wasting time, fight when the enemy come to you. make them the ones who have to waste time running around the map looking for kills while you are farming.

                            you have a high average amount of deaths and mediocre gpm and the two are probably related. my guess is that you spend too much time looking for kills, but not being successful. this lowers your gpm because you are not farming creeps and you are not getting kill gold. also, you will sometimes die when looking for kills, and that also slows down your farm.

                            if you are unsure what to do as a carry, just keep farming because you need items. stop looking for kills. if there is a fight, you either teleport and help if it is close enough to a tower, or push out a lane and try to damage a tower if you cannot fight e.g. you are anti mage with only battle fury. farming lane and taking a tower is much better than farming the jungle.

                            if your team loses the fight, the enemy can push your base. if you are pushing a different lane, then they might back instead. this is how you can stop enemies taking ur rax even though you are the only person alive on your team. if you tp back to base and watch the enemy hit your buildings, you lose the game.

                            creep equilibrium is something 3ks dont understand imo. when they see the enemy pushing as 4 or 5, they immediately tp back to their base instead of pushing out side lanes to force the enemy back, and then only tp back when the enemy still push *and* their own team can take the fight.

                            Androgynous

                              TL;DR
                              3k players have no legitimate reason to smurf, if you want to get better, put in the time and effort
                              stop looking for kills + don't take risks (same thing)
                              focus more on objectives (towers / split push)
                              focus more on farming (5 mins farming / 1 min fighting instead of the other way around)

                              Androgynous

                                there are other ways to improve (e.g. improving game sense and item/skill builds) but improving your farming efficiency and lowering your average deaths is something that you can easily see. there's no lying about it.

                                smol brain

                                  High cs/min, kda, impact OK kthanx, won't be smurfing I guess.