DOTA 2

Zaphid

Trakanon Raider
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The red ones looks much better imo, might finally upgrade from my TI3 courier and they seem to be dirt cheap.

Ranked AP is stupid, won a game at 3700 with 0 wards bought through the whole game and Weaver (me)/Sniper/TA/Undying/Ember. I thought I was safe picking a hero that can mid/offlane/carry first...

If anyone wants to go for the beast tonight, msg me on steam (same ID), got 4k ingots
 

Asshat Brando

Potato del Grande
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Sometimes I question why I continue to play this game when you have so many retards that just fucking ruin it. Though this feeling only happens when in the middle of a streak like my current 0-6 or 2-12 or whatever shit run I'm on. Every game someone cries about reporting someone else and how a person is feeding or an idiot. It gets fucking tiresome looking at a goddamn Luna making tranquils or whatever other bullshit you see every game. Oh well....
 

Fight

Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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I have made it a rule to report the first person that tells people to report someone else. I cannot stand people that try to bully other players. They are what is wrong with Dota, not the noobs or people that suck. They are a cancer that will bring your team down everytime.

  1. The worst people I have found are college age kids, that probably skip most of their classes and are straight up dota addicts. Most of them think they are much better than they actually are. This one game, this one time, they went 22-4 so they are now incapable of ever having a bad game again.
  2. If they over extend and get chased down in a lane, it's your fucking fault that you didn't help... and if you did die also, then your the feeder.
  3. If they go 0-2 to start a game, the game is DEFINITELY OVER (even though only 5 mins into the game).
  4. They refuse to play support themselves, yet expect the support on their team to have wards up 100% of the time covering 75% of the map... and if not, it's "FUCKING NOOB, REPORT THIS FAGIT". And a support that goes 2-8-24 in a loss... to them, that's a "FUCKING FEEDER!"
  5. They think every loss is the end of the world, and don't even allow for the fact that good/fun games come in the form of both wins and losses.
  6. They scream at you to buy TPs, ping like retards to defend a tower, while they run to the Ancients to farm. Then, they scream at the team to Rosh NOW, then erupt at the team when it's a trap and you should have counter warded.
  7. They are the first ones to cry noob, the first ones to cry "report", and the first ones to abandon... because the first person to sling the first insult is always right. Right?
  8. During the hero selection, you ask your team if you can pick a mid lane or jungle hero. After you buy your items, they go fucking nuclear on you, and you say "ok fine, I will off-lane". Then when your Chen game goes to shit, it's "YOUR THE WORST EVER".
  9. According to them, every hero they don't play is an imbalanced piece of shit. They bitch and moan how broken Cogs are, or how Ursa can Rosh at level 5... they are getting triple kills off of their "skill shot" Lich Ult bounces.
  10. They know the exact build EVERYONE SHOULD GO EVERYTIME. If you buy one item out of order it's, BAN THIS FUCKING NOOOOOOOOOOB, OMGz!
Dota is a game that snowballs. Sometimes your roll people and sometimes you get rolled. Don't be a whiny bitch. Don't be a cunt. Positive reinforcement of good actions and encouragement after bad actions, always produces a better result.
 

Zaphid

Trakanon Raider
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Honestly, US probably has worse mannered players than EU (anecdotal evidence, I know), even if I play in some early hours on EU when people are working, it's just a bunch of russians minding their own business and you can usually utilize the chat wheel to say anything necessary.

Couple of my personal rules:
People know when they fucked up, because they usually die during the process, no need to remind them.
When you are giving advice, ask them why they do the stuff they do and maybe encourage them to try something different.
If you solo queue and nobody is buying detection, it's your turn, people tend to buy more after that themselves.
Same goes for wards, spamming "We need wards" doesn't give you vision.
If somebody is disrupting your concentration, mute him ASAP.
Look for mistakes in your play before you blame others.
 

Dandain

Trakanon Raider
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If I'm asked to report someone because they got shit on in lane, I definitely don't. I tend to report for behavior and not play - its almost always communication abuse. Its pretty obvious to every player if someone deserves a report for feeding, you know like dying 6 times in 10 minutes. That takes intentional feeding to make happen. At least at the point where I'm at (4300)ish.
 

Koushirou

Log Wizard
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I've pretty much stopped playing DotA at this point because I don't really have anyone to play with anymore and I sure as hell don't feel like spending an hour of my time getting chewed out by 4 assholes. I already know more than anyone how much I suck at the game and feel bad enough already that I'm subjecting people to my crappy play, don't need someone telling me to abandon every 5 seconds on top of that.
 

Cyni

Lord Nagafen Raider
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How can you say you have nobody to play with? There are like 40 people at all times in our channel...
 

Julian The Apostate

Vyemm Raider
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I've pretty much stopped playing DotA at this point because I don't really have anyone to play with anymore and I sure as hell don't feel like spending an hour of my time getting chewed out by 4 assholes. I already know more than anyone how much I suck at the game and feel bad enough already that I'm subjecting people to my crappy play, don't need someone telling me to abandon every 5 seconds on top of that.
We need like a Charlie Brown league from the rerolled guild where we just have a 5 stack from all skill levels that just has a blast in unranked, tries hilarious lane combos (I'm looking at you Tusk+centaur), gets drunk and just has a blast playing the game.
 

Koushirou

Log Wizard
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Eh, I hardly know anyone in channel so I pretty much have the same reservations unless I'm also queuing with a friend. I'll admit I'm overly picky about who I play with these days.
 

Sulrn

Deuces
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Am I bad person for ignoring Teck ingame for his Trayvon / Zimmerman crap? Its the only reason I pretend to be dead in channel when hes on? I otherwise will group with anyone from the channel. Even if it's coaching or helping teach.
 

Julian The Apostate

Vyemm Raider
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Am I bad person for ignoring Teck ingame for his Trayvon / Zimmerman crap? Its the only reason I pretend to be dead in channel when hes on? I otherwise will group with anyone from the channel. Even if it's coaching or helping teach.
Change your in game name to DMX bro
 

TecKnoe

Molten Core Raider
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Am I bad person for ignoring Teck ingame for his Trayvon / Zimmerman crap? Its the only reason I pretend to be dead in channel when hes on? I otherwise will group with anyone from the channel. Even if it's coaching or helping teach.
aw is that why we aren't friends anymore
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keg gave me that pic bro, its never getting taken down.
 

Obtenor_sl

shitlord
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Man, I think the new gamemode is amazing; but I'm getting so fucking frustrated. 8 out of 10 games I lose because of snowballing.
 

Nite1

<WoW Guild Officer>
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so who wants to develop a program for me (not a computer program but a training one) that will give me something to focus on to get better at this game again
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. I'm not sure what exactly has happened but since i fell from 2900+ to 2500 i just seem to keep playing worse and worse and its so frustrating. I stopped playing ranked all together because i just wasn't having any fun with it and now i want to get back into it but need to get better before i do so. lol I'm not even sure what I'm doing wrong/right anymore... have to love a game that can frustrate you and yet still keep you interested enough that you want to get better. I really like playing jungle/offlane or if i can get my hands on puck i'll go mid but im almost afraid to play her/him right now with how i'm playing
 

Kithani

Blackwing Lair Raider
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I'm only 3500 MMR so take it with a grain of salt, but IMO you are trying to play some relatively higher skill-ceiling stuff. At least in my bracket playing a jungler isn't always a good idea because it puts a lot of pressure on whoever ends up being the solo offlane. If you don't have someone on your team who really knows what they're doing they can get wrecked pretty easily and the same thing goes for playing the solo offlane spot yourself. I personally try to focus on a few support heroes that aren't super difficult and fit in pretty much any lineup like Lion/CM/Shadow Shaman and occasionally Abaddon because they can be pretty high impact even if I'm not having my best game. That way I can focus more on positioning/map awareness and adapting my item builds instead of having to work on super micro skills.