round 1 - mmr dota2 experiment

8/20/2019 Round 1 - MMR DotA2 Experiment

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Hi All,

About me:

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Since you've been gracious enough to come by to read this spreadsheet, then please let me say thanks for reading!

I hope that you learn something out of this experiment. I intend to take this seriously and include some progressive statistics to conclusively prove to others that the MMR ranking systemfor DotA2 is indeed accurate at providing an overall Match Making Rating (MMR) score. I also hope that those of you who want to dedicate themselves to be able to play a stronger game, can learn from my experiences and if any of you have any questions or concerns or would prefer to see me do another hero, please don't hesitate to ask me.

The goal of this experiment is to prove that the MMR system used by Valve in DotA2 is accurate in determining the overall skill level of a player. As such, I will be taking records of eachgame played and provide my commentary and reviews of the game. I will also be splitting the Game Logs (GL) by MMR levels, starting from 2278 (my starting point). The MMR levelswill go from 2278-2750, 2751-3250, 3251-3750, 3751-4250, 4251-4500. As I move up in MMR, the games should be progressively harder and harder for victory and opponents moreaware of the map.

Conditions for Solo:- I will be playing every role during Solo- I will be playing every hero depending on the heroes chosen by the captain.- I will not limit myself to one hero.- All recorded games are with Ranked MM.- The vast majority of my games will be Captains Draft and Captains Mode. I will not captain more than 20% of the games.(If nobody chooses to be captain, then I will choose to be captain if it reaches 2 seconds and under, this still counts to the 20%)

My actual steam ID is www.steamcommunity.com/id/i7Jing . I've been playing since Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos and was introduced to the game via my friend. I didn't really have a'newbie' phase so much as others since I continuously went over to my friends house to watch him. Eventually, I saved up enough money to buy the game and I've been playing ever since. I didn't start competitive until after DotA Allstars 6.48b. The first time I played a competitive game, was with Viper. I failed epicly and then I found out how to orb walk. Back then itwasn't known and I knew at that point, I was seriously still in the newbie phase even after all those years. My MMR fluctuates between 4.9k -> 5.3k.

http://dotabuff.com/players/74703341 Is the account I played on. You can check and verify each game that I recorded it correctly.

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Acknowledgements:

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198034969069 Thank you to Rashad for lending me his account to perform this experiment


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# of Games Kills Deaths Assists

32 502 44 288

Win Rate 100.00% 100.00 S tart Date 4/14/2014

# of Solo Games 20

# of Party Games 12

Solo Party

Kills/Game Deaths/Game Assists/Game Total Games Won 20 12

Overall Ratio 15.69 1.38 9.00 Total Games Lost 0 0

Solo Ratio 17.10 1.10 9.05 Total MMR Gained 490 309

Party Ratio 13.33 1.83 8.92 Total MMR Lost 0 0

Current MMR 2768 2505

# of Games Kills Deaths Assists Date Started 4/17/2014

65 780 170 652

Win Rate 91.67% 9 0.24%

# of Solo Games 24

# of Party Games 41Solo Party




Party Ratio 9.80 2.61 9.68 Total MMR Lost -49 -95



47 516 153 612

Win Rate 80.00% 7 5.00%

# of Solo Games 35

# of Party Games 12

Solo Party







69 670 270 796

Win Rate 70.83% 7 6.19%

# of Solo Games 48

# of Party Games 21

Solo Party







105 1104 364 1163

Win Rate 69.23% 6 9.62%

# of Solo Games 26

# of Party Games 79

Solo Party



Solo Ratio 7.62 3.62 10.88 Total MMR Gained 438 1287 Date Completed

Party Ratio 11.47 3.42 11.14 Total MMR Lost -199 -556 Solo 5/14/2014

Current MMR 4500 4503 Party 5/25/2014

318 78.93%

Games Won 251

Games Lost 67

Solo Party

Total MMR Gained 2988 3154

Total MMR Lost -766 -847

F na MMR 4500 4503

Round 1

Role Summary

Role Solo Percentage Played Win Rate Party Percentage Played Win Rate Total Win Rate

Carry 24 15.69% 83.33% 41 24.85% 87.80% 65 86.15%

Jungle 2 1.31% 50.00% 7 4.24% 71.43% 9 66.67%

Mid 35 22.88% 88.57% 36 21.82% 77.78% 71 83.10%

Offlane 23 15.03% 82.61% 33 20.00% 63.64% 56 71.43%

Support 69 45.10% 73.91% 48 29.09% 81.25% 117 76.92%

153 79.74% 165 78.18% 318 78.93%

MMR: 2278-2750

I see that there are a severe lack of warding as well as actual support plays. There isn't any actual inappropriate warding being done because there aren't any wards being bought. Courier upgrades are few and far in between and usually I find myself upgrading it even though my role doesn't call for it. However, I did notice that so far, the captains are extremely thoughtful inpicking the requested heroes and the attitudes were much better. Another side is that most teams don't know how and when to push. In that case, what I see is actual people trying to pushwithout any delicacy. They just run into a lane with their allies and try to kill a tower, which usually prompts my team to have a standoff with them. As such, many of these pushes thathappen in mid lane end up being a 2-3 minute standoff with either side being too scared to initiate. Whereas I would be just farming in a side like waiting to come in with a TP until the fightstarts.

http://i.imgur.com/b60qoYc.jpg

MMR: 2751-3250

I didn't really see too much of a change at the very beginning, but now I do feel that the quality of players are getting better. There aren't that many 'retards' that I can see. But I have hadgames where people are definitely trolling. I will count that as one offs, but so far, my skill is enough to make up for the differences created by these heavyweights. I have no problems sofar with supporting although I am clearly dying noticeably more and dominating noticeably less. This can be seen in my Deaths/Game being on average twice as high and the dropping onthe kills. My assists have remained consistent though overall. Warding is in general much better although supports are definitely still very easy to pick off and predict. One example is whenI play ember, they are using their spells with no regards to their positioning. Consequently, they do end up getting wiped or they line themselves up for a combo. Shadow Shaman andDeath Prophet are getting banned a lot more often than I thought. It's easy for a support to win the lane; however, I notice that people are trying to do too much of their role too hard.Supports end up buying too many wards and don't level up fast enough or the carries try to overfarm such that they actually don't end up doing anything until it's already too late.

MMR: 3251-3750

This bracket was pretty hard actually. People take picks extremely seriously (like me) and then end up raging when things go south. I've had a lot of games where people ended up griefingand strangely enough, it was a LOT harder to win because their attitude was so bad that they wouldn't even attempt to play the game out or would purposely fuck the game over if theydon't get the heroes they want. I had a lot more fun at the lower MMR levels because people attempted to work together. I did like the fact though that my allies are much more reliable inwhat they do, and for example, I can reasonably expect the Lone Druid to farm his radiance by 20 minutes if he's in the offlane. I do realize that they are still somewhat greedy and tend tooverfarm or over support. I've had many games where my teammates were simply impossible to argue with and I ended up converting into a semi-carry (ie: check my cm games) and I wassolo pushing and being successful at it. I still feel that this bracket has tremendous problems with fighting when they should or pushing decisively. Many of their pushes were broken or theywere too busy doing their own things. For example, if there's a teamfight middle, the carry would be farming jungle instead of pushing the opponents lane and tower.

MMR: 3751-4250

I thought the last bracket was 'tough', but this bracket, especially around the 3950-4100 MMR took a LOT out of me. I got pissed off at so many people because the game wasn't evenabout the game. It was more about people raging because things didn't happen THEIR way and when they wanted to get vision, they wanted the support to cater to them specifically. No.I'm not going to give you three wards to ensure absolute vision around middle area. You should pay attention to the MIA calls and also the non-said calls because you should have somesort of map awareness. And in the case you DO get ganked, you don't rage and start running your hero mid. This bracket was done midway when the patch hit, so the meta changed a bit.Captains were much more competent this bracket and chose decent line ups; however, i do encounter the troll captain where he picks up a lineup like this one: http://puu.sh/8DKjq.jpgwhere I ended up being a pugna support for a pudge/qop lane. I could also reasonably rely on my allies to farm up and that makes all the difference. If there ever was a trench tier, the3950 and 4100 MMR range is probably the hardest range mentally because there seems to be an abnormally huge amount of trolls there. I do admit that I had to mute people and I diddodge games just because i ended up on their team on another occasion. However, after i passed the 4100 MMR, the games are much better in quality in terms of attitude.

MMR: 4251-4500

This bracket was filled with a lot less ragers. People did seem to know what they were doing and the only difference between them and 5k was their efficiency as well as the decisionmaking. I was really surprised tbh on how fast I went through this bracket.

Total Games Played to Date


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Game 1: Role Hero Description Dotabuff Link

http://www.mediafire.com/download/roys7dxzhob6b4r/706945577.de Mid Rubick

Outplaying enemy team. Picking was a huge factor. I don't normally play rubick, as I've only played him ~25 games out of 2500+.However, I can still do decently with him provided I'm given the right resources. See what sort of mistakes were made especially atthe rosh pit when I went in at the 23:31 (game time) after losing the team fight - should you want a oh shit moment. Also, managedto steal quite a few good spells and capitalized on that (morph on rubick is OP).

http://www.mediafire.com/download/4sie6ns1ceove2o/686303746.de Semi-Support Earthshaker

Positioning. Look at my positioning throughout the games and during team fights. Again, this is a VERY difficult moment and yougot to pay close attention to your opponents. As a support, getting caught in any AOE spell is usually enough to get yourself killed.

Always watch who you stand with. I make mistakes and get hit all the time, the question is more of how much I can learn from mymistakes and obviously, you may also get in a position where you're like...oh shit, i didn't even go in because I didn't see anopportunity. In this game, I did manage to get opportunities.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/2kf9boakijlj1km/744035533.dem Carry Tiny

This is an example of a typical game with my build (although you can still technically do this as a roam/solo laner). I had completefree farm with 17 minutes getting my core (Vlads/Treads/Aghs). It got a bit rough, but my positioning and them using their spells onthe other heroes allowed me to dominate them. Omniknight repel allowed me to skip going BKB and I was pretty much unkillable as

none of the opponents went diffisal blade against me. Once I won a team fight, my hero snowballed and we kept taking theraxes/towers.

Note: I did not participate in THAT many fights at the early time and focused more on pushing/farming solo. I played it right inguessing where their heroes were and dodged the defenses/ganks. Their weaver positioned himself incredibly badly in fights aswell as their invoker and I took them out early and very quickly. Again, my thoughts are that this is a 'snowbally' and 1 trick pony(although very fucking strong) build. Tiny gets kited very easily and has a lot of problems dealing with any sort of heavystun/aoe/spell casting line up. However, he excels at taking on more traditional squishy carries like AM/Weaver/etc (though theyare getting picked less and less often). Tiny's main pros are his PUSH and BURST. This build is dedicated towards being able tolevel an entire lane within 10 seconds and only works if your team is able to provide a very good distraction.

This is an unranked game. My storm (friend) is about low 4k and wanted to do his compendium hero and isn't good with it.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/tngeydtpyrfb4xj/751583033.dem Semi-Support Ogre Magi Ogre Magi with 15 minute aghs/soul ring/boots.

Since I've been requested, these are a couple of replays that I've uploaded of my own games. I'll provide a brief description of each.

http://dotabuff.com/matches/706945577



http://www.mediafire.com/download/roys7dxzhob6b4r/706945577.demhttp://www.mediafire.com/download/4sie6ns1ceove2o/686303746.demhttp://www.mediafire.com/download/2kf9boakijlj1km/744035533.demhttp://www.mediafire.com/download/tngeydtpyrfb4xj/751583033.demhttp://www.mediafire.com/download/tngeydtpyrfb4xj/751583033.demhttp://www.mediafire.com/download/2kf9boakijlj1km/744035533.demhttp://www.mediafire.com/download/4sie6ns1ceove2o/686303746.demhttp://www.mediafire.com/download/roys7dxzhob6b4r/706945577.dem


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Game # Game ID Party or Solo Hero Played Kills Deaths Assists Creep Kills Creep Denies GPM XPM Win or Lose MMR Change Solo Rating Role My Comments

0 9999999 N/A N/A 2278 None.

1 609142065 Solo Shadow Shama 13 0 8 91 12 628 641 Win 24 2302 Support

Was not necessary to buy too many wards. Enemy team's composition and play style were really weak. They leftthemselves open so much it was hard to not try and kill them. Played rhasta like he normally would...objective basedgaming and forcibly pushed towers.

2 609199300 Solo Ember Spirit 33 3 8 223 8 776 854 Win 25 2327 Mid

I went mid this game,. The enemy team went a Kotl/PL/Lone Druid/Furion/DP push line up. I did attempt to counter themas much as possible, thankfully, the nyx was decent at playing. One thing to note aboute their picks was that they don'tcome online very quickly. Kotl PL takes a while and it gets shut down by Nyx' carapace. Another thing that they weren'tvery good at was that they shouldn't have had 5 pushing a lane, and should've been doing 4 push, 1 side lane push. Stillvery weak on avoiding ganks here because I did manage to gank them easily still with no real problems. Gyro's farm wasabsolutely terrible and he wasted his entire trilane farm. My team did flame me for getting outpicked, because their line upwas a very scary push.

3 609228734 Solo Earth Shaker 15 2 7 102 3 572 525 Win 24 2351 Support

Was a 4 Earthshaker. There was a lot of rotations by our mid player and our meepo player was quite good. I wassurprised at how well the meepo played and I used the time that the mid player was spending ganking to farm up quickly. Ihad a 10 minute blink that was definitely aided by the first blood kill. I went soul ring as it was a cheap alternative to manaboots, but I was still running out. ES most important thing is to secure the mana regen, and I was playing an aggressivestyle, which prompted me to go mana boots as well. Please use soul ring AFTER you drop your mana boots. Pick up your mana boots right afterwards and you'll be at almost 80%+ mana everytime during the early-mid game.

4 609247838 Solo Wraith King 11 1 15 102 2 520 541 Win 24 2375 Support

I wasn't playing as a carry this game despite the Wraith King. I played him as a support and ganker. Later on when itbecame clear that I had time to farm, I went into the jungle to farm and ganked when the lane was pushed to our tower. Irushed a soul ring + blink dagger to make sure that I was always able to chase/stun. I noticed that at this MMR range, thereactions and responses are VERY slow


First time playing an actual hard carry. This was a captains draft game, so oddly enough, nobody called or wanted a carry.I didn't have too many issues with farming nor did I have any laning problems. The only time was when WD came into thelane and auto attacked, but once I asked him politely to go pull, he never got in the way again. They rotated all their heroes top to try to stop my farm, but that didn't work too well since I harassed them very well with the 2nd skill.

6 609296499 Solo Necrophos 15 0 14 162 30 649 713 Win 24 2424 Support

Just bought the wards/chicken and continued buying obs but didn't place. Most of my gold came from jungling as well as just staying alive. Staying alive is such great gold and I believe that's the only reason why I managed to get an 18 minutescythe despite not being the main farmer in the lane.

7 609408007 Solo Bounty Hunter 21 0 5 142 4 988 962 Win 25 2449 Offlane

This was dedicated to a request that was made by my friend to teach him how to offlane a bounty hunter despite themhaving sentry wards. To be fair though, bristleback + jugg vs BH doesn't make it a fair match up and I easily dominatedthat lane. If you have any questions on how to play a BH offlane, just ask and I'll do my best to answer.

8 610614136 Solo Meepo 17 1 8 164 4 886 1267 Win 25 2474 Mid

I accidentally forgot to switch the mode so I ended up in an all pick game. Don't ask me to play meepo again, i'm godawful at micro. The reason why they did terribly was that they laned poorly. I levelled up very quickly and they did notcontest or ganked me. I also pushed and farmed the jungle + lane while they were busy moping around trying to teamfight.


The DP was much better in lane and capitalized on farm. The opponents were slightly more organized, but didn't positionthemselves according to who was missing. Hence, why when I went in from behind, there was actually no counter or evenpreparation to fight on another front. As for the Ember Spirits game, there are too many of them here, so I will try avoidingpicking/playing him; however, there was absolutely nobody interested in captaining (odd?).


We were outpicked here. And the Luna...was farming atrociously slow and gave FB to the solo sven top. The push aspectof the team relied too heavily on having ultimates up and that's what would've cost us the game if the enemy capitalizedon us and forced us to use our ults for a fight versus passively waiting for the push. Initiation was key in this game and if we wanted to have an easier time, clockwerk really should've opened with his hook versus waiting for the rhasta to getinto position. He also needed to use battery assault a lot earlier, and that would've affected a lot of enigma's ultimates if hedid that. As for their sven, him not stunning the shadow shaman and immediately using a BKB was what really cost themthe fights. He was hexed immediately and unable to fight and their ES needed to jump into the fight beforehand with a

BKB as well. Vision was sparse and I did spend too much time trying to farm because I realized fairly early onwards thatthe Luna would take forever to farm (22 minutes treads yasha) and also since I saw her miss a ton of CS. I did buy acouple sets of wards, but nearer to the end of the game, I focused more on trying to figure out a way to get my doubleserpent wards in their base (which is a garanteed rax at that point). Honestly, this was THE hardest game to win as I feltthe CM was only useful here for the ultimate and she fed so much without contributing to the observer wards. I had amuch higher amount of deaths here this time because I was caught out by Viper once or twice and I sacrificed myself inan attempt to save the DP. Shadow Shaman is a risky pick for this line up because they have a lot of long range and mymobility is very limited due to low MS and getting hit by ES fissure, Black hole, viper, etc will cause me to be unable tomove. I should have bought a blink this game though.

11 610794614 Solo Axe 19 3 12 154 6 665 820 Win 24 2547 Carry

I would say that laning phase, they were better, but decision making was weak. The gyro did not go rocket barrage andended up missing a lot of kills. I was a lot more aggressive (a bit too much) because I saw that he was not using hisrockets. Also, he was denying his disruptor the ability to last hit when I used battle hunger on his supports. Leaving mewith the first blood. Later on, I was spending a bit too much time ganking, so I quickly rotated towards farming up the blinkdagger. Aside from that, the team played it fairly smart and managed to grab a few kills. The tinker on the otherhand wasmainly insurance to win in the late game should it come to that point.

12 610833632 Solo Rubick 15 1 22 128 10 581 803 Win 24 2571 Support

They had really odd lane choices. Allowed me to get very strong ultimates like rupture, serpent wards, etc. The storm wasdouble ganked and didn't have enough map awareness causing me to gank him at an early level. They went abloodseeker suicide lane, which was extremely odd and ineffectual. I was surprised by the invoker as he was playing quitewell and also keeping an eye out for ganks as shown with his sun strike. My death was because I was too greedy anddidn't think they would try to gank me.

13 612037278 Solo Invoker 11 2 8 136 13 585 592 Win 24 2595 Mid

I spent too much time ganking this time around and wasn't able to farm optimally. Also, I was missing the combo's,honestly, the game was frustrating because the lanes were constantly being pushed out. It wasn't too difficult this gamebecause it was simple to farm and there wasn't that much pressure from the enemy heroes. Warding wasn't an issue nor was there any other problems other than my tornado/emp failures.

14 612121654 Solo Tiny 14 1 6 182 1 810 997 Win 25 2620 Carry

Was a bit difficult as the sniper had no map awareness and made terrible decisions. He gave up first blood because hetried running the long way to base while being chased by an enemy with haste. The kunkka in my lane was lagging andmissed all his torrents despite having a stun/toss set up. I was surprised that the tuskar was doing very well, so thatcontributed to the victory and I luckily had a cm on my team. As a tiny, that was huge because I would have the mana tocombo and it helped me a lot. The vlads helped me jungle a lot which enabled me to get my aghs quickly and taking their towers. On the other hand, their shadow fiend played a ridiculous troll game in which he would constantly buy backwhenever possible. And then he TPs back to the fight and finds himself in a position of death. That cost them the gameand any sort of mid-game power as that set him back more than 1k+ gold despite him having an extremely strong firstblood and early game.


Had an easy lane. I grabbed the quick aghs and vlads and side pushed them extremely fast. Tiny excels at quick pushesand is just as fast as a lycan pushing a lane. In the turn of one team fight of 15 seconds, I solo levelled an entire lanebefore they could disengage and defend. The jakiro did fairly well at making sure that we farmed well and kept up thevision. He definitely should've gotten his 3rd skill though as that would've greatly helped our pushes as it also slows tower attack speed.

16 612219685 Solo Kunkka 28 1 3 207 4 973 1104 Win 25 2670 MidEnemy team fell for every single trick in the kunkka book of baiting torrents. My death was because I missed the right hitand i hit only hit one unit with my splash.

17 613478026 Solo Tiny 10 0 8 176 6 681 653 Win 24 2694 Support

Support/Roam. I dc'ed at the beginning so I had a late start at minute ~3-4. I picked up a few opportunistic kills here andthere. At the start, I got into a fight with the TB who majestically thought that being a TB granted him the rights of being theonly hero that should be last hitting. I spent most of my time going around for opportunistic kills or jungling. Constantlymoving around while gaining EXP allowed me to maintain and keep up in levels to still be near the top despite not havingany lane to farm in. When allied heroes leave their lane, quickly move into their lane to soak up farm and EXP. Manyplayers and supports tend to miss out on this and thus are subsequently lower levelled than they should. A support withlevel 6 (ie: rubick) is infinitely more important th an the TB with sunder.

18 613503916 Solo Invoker 20 0 3 186 18 768 696 Win 24 2718 Mid

Was a cookie cutter game. Despite the grand lead, my team was extremely underfarmed and didn't have much skill tofollow up with many of the set ups. ie: Tornado set up, omniknight doesn't use his heal immediately upon landing.Radiocartney did very well, their PA, despite being in such a disadvantageous position. He did not immediately jump in for fights and he also waited for opportunities and watched the situation, which is much different from people within that skillbracket.

19 615163222 Solo Invoker 17 1 8 79 1 781 652 Win 25 2743 Support

I was babysitting a luna in the lane as a role 4. This was a really weak game as the only reason we won was because of the drow/luna/venge aura stack that enabled me to have an easy permanent double damage aura while pushing. Mapawareness is still really terrible in this bracket. The t imbersaw did not see any of the incoming ganks until it was too late.Similar for the drow in middle did not notice 4+ heroes off the map for the ganks. Wards are still not that big of a factor ingameplay. However, carries are noticably getting slightly more farm than usual. After seeing a ton of missed CS, I went to jungle and ganked with sun strike and mask of madness for the dps. It was a glass cannon build, but ha ving +100 damageat 13 minutes in the game is no joke.

20 615193974 Solo Lycan 7 1 5 212 12 866 674 Win 25 2768 Carry Straight up push line up.


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21 616469778 Solo Axe 16 10 6 257 1 488 631 Lose -25 2743 Jungle

Well, this was a terrible pick game. And captain didn't listen. Other side is that the team wanted to completely abandon, sothey decided not to win or even really try. At one point, the lich decided to feed the enemy team alongside of our courier.There was a lot of things that could've been improved on, but it was mainly attitude and outlook. If people just tried their best regardless of picks or game state, they might be able to eventually turn it. And THAT is the biggest difference,because there were so many situations where it could've been turned around IF people just tried to play normally. And atone point, we were actually making a good comeback. Even the team managed to startr to believe they could win, butthey still didn't listen to the right directions. IE: starting a fight without the two cores, which in turn threw the game.

22 616532367 Solo Silencer 17 3 13 128 10 523 682 Win 25 2768 Support

I transitioned from a support style Silencer to carry due to the wraith king not being able to hit in lane. Still seeing bigproblems with players not knowing when and where to farm. Big examples were just mid with 4 heroes standing in onespot per side having a stand off yet not accomplishing anything.

23 617176470 Solo Spectre 13 1 13 382 10 751 756 Win 25 2793 Carry

Carry Spectre. Was a bit tough because I was against Weaver. I had no ranged supports to zone him out, so I keptrushing towards him to force him back. It was a back and forth lane and it would've been impossible to win it if I didn't havea tree + vanguard to help me survive. The trick to spectre is to max your 2nd skill and to combine your ult with another gank. It is a near instant kill as your illusions get at least 3 hits off. Desolate deals the pure damage, so it's very strongagainst any low HP supports like Shadow Shaman. Once spectre has radiance, her damage output increases a lot, but it'sstill very difficult to secure any kills since she has no nuking power.


Mid Solo Ember. I picked this game due to nobody selecting captains spot. The doom was game throwing with his Doomsand using his ult on creeps. Venomancer complained for 30 minutes about how it was impossible to first blood with the

lane and he couldn't harrass a shadow shaman and disruptor with venomancer. The trilane did fairly well, consideringvengeful spirit seemed like he didn't know what he was doing. I went around picking up kills with the searing chains +sleight of fist combo. It's difficult to get off just one target and I'm trying to learn that still, but it's a bit difficult with thetiming. If there's 2 units, then it's doable. Always try to keep one of your remnants outside the fight in case the fight goeswrong. Then you can easily port out. The only problem was if I got silenced by DP or Disruptor. Thankfully, it onlyhappened twice and not anymore as the sprees got pretty huge. It's actually really difficult to not choose carry or solo midas I really don't want to leave the game impactful heroes to the other teammates.

25 623023770 Solo Bloodseeker 11 9 5 194 22 489 7380 Lose -24 2793 Mid

Solo mid BS. Weak picks coupled with stupid lanes. The disruptor refused to support or be useful and afk'ed at thefountain for the vast majority of the game. Prior to that he would be pushing a lane like a creep. I think he went to go readmanga or jerk off. Was better off using Disruptor as a chicken. Necrophos had really nothing useful to add into the gameexcept for his ultimate, but there was a lot of disable and I didn't go BKB because I sort of didn't care at one point. I wentdagon to go for the cheap kills since we had no ability to fight against them in any fights or in any of the skirmishes. Doomdied a lot of times without managing to cast his doom despite him getting shadowblade and them not getting any sentries.Not too sure how that happened or why it went the way it did. Laning phase was definitely easy though.

26 623048075 Solo Bristleback 15 1 2 135 6 869 779 Win 25 2818 Offlane

I'm surprised that I managed to get an offlane and they didn't counterpick me so hard. I thought it was going to be anaggro tri, but they went defensive with their heroes. With that, I managed to gain levels which was crucial for a bristlebackmatch up. Once I reached level 3 before them, I managed to outkite them with an early boots and manhandle them at thevery beginning of the game. I picked up a quick urn because I was running out of regen and it was a good offensive itemconsidering I was only really able to damage them by stacking quills. This was really a 15 minute rax, but bristlebackhimself isn't that great a pusher.

27 623084825 Solo Naga Siren 9 4 19 231 2 605 512 Win 25 2843 Support

Naga Siren aggro tri as a support. Picked up the kills quickly and managed to get an early mana boots due to the allyviper (carry) having horrendous last hitting abilities. We pushed the tower fast and because of that I managed to grab arelatively fast Radiance considering i was buying the Obs wards. The radiance allowed me to farm and helped increasethe damage output greatly in fights. After that it was a constant push and farm while the enemy team had difficulty in fightskilling the viper and razor due to their natural purge/slow abilities. I would say that it was more of the strength of picks thatcarried the game as it was very difficult for them to pull off any sort of combo without me stopping it.

28 623112297 Solo Lycan 7 1 5 188 5 874 733 Win 25 2868 Carry

Captain and team were surprisingly very competent. I was trilaning lycan and managed to capitalize on the vengefulspirit's over aggressiveness and out harrass her with wolves. I picked up a 13 minute vlads/book 3 and pushed quickly toend the game.

29 623133195 Solo Nyx Assassin 9 1 6 82 1 519 593 Win 24 2892 Support Support Nyx Assassin. Was a really boring game because they had early game leavers, and their one player just wantedto stay for no reason.

30 623169810 Solo Drow 8 0 6 97 22 897 556 Win 24 2916 Mid Drow mid. The team crushed them in all 3 lanes, no contest. I didn't even get to be useful.

31 624484914 Solo Centaur 19 1 17 241 10 798 873 Win 24 2940 Offlane

Centaur offlane. Picks were absolutely awful. Captain decided to pick whatever people asked for, which is a recipe for disaster. Necrolyte first pick and then goes into a lane with 8 tangoes and 1 salve as a support. Warlock fed first blood inthe trilane agaisnt an AA silencer. Not too sure why we won this as we were entirely outpicked. It was just a case of who'steam didn't know how to play their heroes.

32 624508362 Solo Razor 28 1 7 197 17 878 1039 Win 25 2965 Mid

Mid solo Razor. Was a really easy mid lane because the opponents didn't know how to pick their heroes. They sent ODmiddle which ended up being free food and he had 0 lane presence against me. My hero matched up well against theirsbecause they had a lot of single target supports.

33 624547119 Solo Luna 15 2 10 205 10 901 937 Win 25 2990 Carry

Carry Luna. Was an easy trilane, I had my doubts about the bloodseeker first pick, but it worked out because theopponents didn't know how to lane their heroes and didn't have any synergy. People are better at recognizing thesituations of when and where to fight, but still really need the map vision to make any sort of judgement call (needs a100% GO time to make a move when sometimes the move just needs to be made).

34 624580690 Solo Queen of Pain 17 2 14 188 8 641 756 Win 25 3015 Support

Support QoP. Don't ask how or why. AM/Ursa/QoP/Pudge/DS. I got a lucky rune and got FB. It just so happened the nexttwo times I ganked, the pudge suicided his hero (again, don't ask) and I got really early levels. I used that to roam aroundgetting kills. The AM didn't seem very bright so I thought my time was better put to use roaming. I grabbed a mjollnir tofarm the lanes that were free and ganked whenever possible. Kills were had by picking off enemy heroes with obs.

35 624612034 Solo Mirana 26 0 13 296 16 848 791 Win 25 3040 Carry

Carry Mirana. So much trash talking this game. Thought we were going to lose since the entire team was feeding.Shadow Demon kept trash talking and i had to mute him because he thought he was doing amazing by pushing theclockwerk back into his own tower or when he was pulling. The other team started trash talking after gaining the lead andthen they started throwing the game and that gave me the opening I needed to start killing/carrying.

36 625967625 Solo Axe 18 4 9 227 1 726 864 Win 24 3064 Offlane Axe...sort of solo top. I did pretty well but had a lot of problems because I couldn't escape them. There were numeroustimes where I couldn't escape and that got me killed at least 3 times. Team plays weren't that great and neither were theirs

37 626058005 Solo Vengeful Spirit 12 6 26 204 23 550 683 Win 25 3089 Support

Venge semi-support/carry. Was a really weak farming luna who absolutely refused to go bkb. It did worry me for a bitbecause nobody cared about killing towers and focused more on killing heroes. Wards were weak and the players didn'tknow where to place the obs effectively. Their bristleback was almost a non factor as he kept getting himself killed in alane he had an advantage in. Their puck did manage a very early blink dagger which allowed them to set up and kill a lot

of us. I was the main target of the naix and I couldn't stop him from charging me so I swapped in another enemy hero.

38 626101143 Solo Earthshaker 25 2 13 220 8 697 778 Win 26 3115 Support

Semi-Support/Carry ES. I just bought chicken and farmed up in the lane once I saw slark miss creeps with death pact.Secured my mana pool with soul ring and mana boots and went into fights grabbing as many kills as possible. I went max Aftershock first because I knew I'd need some reliable stuns to handle the puck and Fissure doesn't let me continuouslycombo. I died a few times being too greedy thinking they weren't at a level that they'd gank. Was very easy to get super strong ultimates off because nobody on their team were really aware of their positioning still.

39 627563382 Solo Sniper 21 2 8 313 23 880 871 Win 24 3139 Mid

Solo Mid sniper. They didn't have any actual good team play aside from my first death to kill me. The tiny built badly andwas a non-factor and their morphling took forever to farm. My team was relatively OK, except slardar had problems hittinghis own stun without a set up and he didn't farm up his blink well. I was able to zone them out with sniper relatively easilyand so I really didn't end up getting picked off in fights.

40 627700287 Solo Sand King 18 0 12 193 8 641 908 Win 25 3164 Support

Support SK. Basically play with the jungle creeps until you get dagger. The CM didn't bother stacking for me, so it was alot slower than anticipated, but still OK considering I picked up many solo kills. SK does an incredible amount of damagewith aghanims and veil of discord. My luna went midas and subsequently got pooped on for the vast majority of the gameas she didn't have anything to deal with the lycan charging at her and the sniper just...sniping her. Thankfully, this was anon-factor as I managed to get full ultimates off with my blink and stun, which ended up wiping their entire team. Theynever got a BKB (didn't farm it) and never got a pipe.

41 627744530 Solo Luna 7 2 4 221 9 955 672 Win 24 3188 Carry

Carry Luna. Was a pretty easy game. I did fuck up a bit early on because I walked into the cogs too many times. Hit boxon those things are incredibly huge for some odd reason. We had a strong dps push team so it wasn't difficult at allbecause we would hit them very hard.

42 627775484 Solo Shadow Shama 7 0 5 76 4 501 357 Win 25 3213 SupportSupport Rhasta. Highlight of the game: http://puu.sh/8nPSH.jpg and http://puu.sh/8nQ0g.jpg. 3 bracers = 100 damagefrom our carry naix. Easy game, just push hard.

43 627852967 Solo Ancient Appariti 13 5 21 116 10 429 502 Win 25 3238 Support

Support AA. Managed to make a few good turnarounds as the trilane lost horribly. I did pick up the kills so that was one of the good reasons why I managed to get an early mana boots before my lifestealer got his boots. I stayed in the back justoutside of the fight range and casted my spells from afar. I attacked whenever possible. I threw the ultimate as far as icould so that I hit the supports (and hopefully the carries in the middle as well).


Solo Mid Ember. Was more difficult than anticipated because they had a stack of 3 players playing a roaming VS andShadow Shaman. I was surprised that my supports were fairly competent because they were able to zone out batrider very well and won teamfights with extremely well placed ultimates and spells. Their alchemist was a weak farmer and

that's what caused them to lose their game. I overjudge my HP as ember spirit and I noticed that I have a lot of instanceswhere I'm too far up or i overestimate my escaping abilities.


6/42


45 629267056 Solo Lina 8 6 13 153 4 445 651 Lose -25 3238 Support

Support Lina.Terrible drafts and my elder titan refused to solo bot and tuskar was whining that he didn't want to bot solo.So we had cm go there. Top lane was Lina and Void versus ogre/panda/tree which was difficult as they had a lot of slow.Void needed to pull but wouldn't pull and all our lanes were pretty much lost as we had a much weaker laning phase. Our team fights were somewhat reasonable, except we had no coordination in comparison to theirs. They had many blinkswhich allowed them to initiate almost whenever they wanted to. Void afk farmed for 30 minutes but got shit items for it andcouldn't dish out any sort of damage. It would've been more useful to have void solo offlane.

46 629318275 Solo Bounty Hunter 16 1 8 127 5 908 654 Win 23 3261 Offlane

Offlane BH. Was a somewhat better draft; however, my other lanes, solo mag mid lost to morph mid and trilane dazzle, wdand dk lost to pugna juggernaut. I won my lane because they had no heroes to zone me out and I was able to creep dragfor my exp. I'm getting stacked as a solo player against a full party here and it was the same as last time. Once the teamgot wiped bottom, I rotated around and constantly ganked as much as possible.

47 629347093 Solo Ursa 15 s 4 141 15 740 771 Win 25 3286 Carry

Carry Ursa. Captain was adamant on going for the level 1 roshan and kept spamming lvl 1 rosh or lose. Thankfully, wemanaged a successful rosh and I was seriously having doubts about the captain as he was pretty much only a factor for the first rosh. After that, he was pretty worthless and wasn't really doing anything. The game was a stomp as there wereno wards to counter my future roshes and we had no wards on the map because all the supports were really greedy thisgame. Luckily, as we were just straight up running at them, the wards weren't too necessary as the opponents justgrouped up in front of us instead of hitting us from the side.


Solo Mid Ember. Team kept crying for me to go help them bot and still failed their ganks. I had to let the invoker solo midfor some time as the trilane was crying extremely hard on their ganks. I died underestimating their bane's ultimate range

and that allowed them to kill me 3 times. I farmed slower than expected, but i did enjoy this game as I am getting muchmore used to using the sleight of fist + searing chains combo on solo heroes.

49 629491419 Solo Ogre Magi 13 4 21 82 5 490 609 Win 24 3334 Support

Ogre Magi Support. Was pretty fun after I had enough mana, I just kept running around stunning people. I shouldn't havedied as much as I did but I was busy trying to outplay them and ran into 5 heroes. I didn't really think we were gonna loseuntil the opponent axe started all chatting about his shitty Luna and then dc'ed. I taught my Ursa how to buy todaybecause he bought mask of death first for vlads and didn't know that he loses the life steal anyways because of FurySwipes.

50 629549312 Solo Shadow Demon 8 1 12 39 5 439 373 Win 24 3358 Support

Shadow Demon support. Managed to get a lot of pick offs because they were too reliant on their Bane/Potm set up. Their potm was very weak so she missed a lot of arrows and I was able to dodge some of them. Other than that, it was justcareful positioning of my hero to ensure I wasn't picked off during fights and was able to dish out huge amounts of damage.

51 629603969 Solo Sand King 18 2 11 139 2 632 722 Win 24 3382 Offlane

Sand King solo. Was very worried about this game because my trilane of Luna, Potm, SD fed 9 kills by 4:55. My nyx middied solo to the batrider. Thankfully, my lane was easy because I was against centaur, but I had some severe problemswith my trilane being utterly worthless. I carried the game though through very well placed ultimates and was able to blinkright into the middle of all of them. Their Gyro went BKB but he was way too slow at activating it. By then the SK ultimatehad pretty much killed him as he would be immediately stunned. I queued the blink and the veil so it was as most damageas I could get it. I would immediately sand storm afterwards so they couldn't touch me. Their supports were extremelyweak because they were lining up for stuns and got hit by every single AOE. Their warding was extremely weak.

52 629659154 Solo Storm Spirit 20 5 17 262 9 563 595 Win 26 3408 Mid

Solo Mid Storm. This was one of the hardest games I've had to play. I really did think at one point we were going to losebecause their offlane clinkz was able to get an orchid before I did. However, their carries and supports threw the gameand got picked off a lot. I aggressively rushed them and luckily I didn't get focus fired and killed. I should've used the hexproactively on the CK or WK nearer to the end of the fights. I realized that storm's should play as aggressive as possibleand pick up kills. By going defensive like BKB, you waste a lot of potential output with him or pick offs. Unless they have aton of AOE, it's not worth it, but if it's target spells, it's very difficult to touch storm. My cm played exceptionally well and myshadow shaman...although really badly, he picked up his slack a lot and pushed a ton with his wards. He 'won' the endgame by pushing their top solo while we were keeping them busy mid with team fights. They should've went for the throneas soon as shadow shaman put down his wards to kill their last lane because they would've came in too late.

53 631026546 Solo Ember Spirit 16 5 11 159 2 609 872 Lose -25 3383 Mid

Ember Mid. Hard game because captain was a total dumbass and didn't listen to the lanes or skills to go. Also wentshadowblade first which didn't help the situation. The teammates tried their best, but it wasn't really helping because our

carry was braindead and wasn't using his spells properly. I did die a lot playing aggressively and instead of taking towersthe team dove with me instead of actually going for the sure gold. They also hesitated a LOT and had to be led aroundand let the team rosh in front of them instead of contesting multiple times.


Tiny Carry, I drafted. Was an easy game, I countered and played to the strengths of tiny to crush their trilane. Top lost asexpected, but I just needed magnus to get his blink dagger and hit ultimates. Invoker pick was mainly to serve as theinitiate and counter initiate because of his EMP. The team played relatively well given their heroes and the game sort of went as expected minus their Lycan building mask of madness first before his book 3. 16 minutes for the core items.Would need further testing to see viability due to weak lycan player.


Tiny Carry, didn't draft. 17 minute core items. Worked very well because they went an extremely greedy line up and wehad a relatively strong early game. Was a bit concerned with the ember, but he couldn't farm and spent too much timetrying to kill instead of getting his core battle fury. By then it was already too late. Teammates are definitely getting 'better'in the sense that they are able to use their skills on the right targets when apparently very obvious. I'm seeing peopletrying to get the 'best possible scenario' like my puck who holds out for a kill and wants to get 5 man coils.

56 631244989 Solo Crystal maiden 15 5 14 149 1 599 695 Win 24 3456 Support

Support CM. Saw that our trilane was in a terrible position and so i stacked and pulled for early levels. I jungled a bit to getto level 3 so i had all my nukes and I rotated middle to gank the SF as our mid lane had ultimate. That allowed me to get alot of early gold and I went top to try to gank it. Bottom was not in any situation of death, but they were having troublefarming, which was sort of unsalvageable. So, it was better for me to rotate around the lanes. I see that the opponents hada lot of trouble with learning vision and I had wards up in vital spots without really finding any of their wards. We had somestrong team fight which allowed us to easily cover for my no HP dps build as CM.

57 631408337 Solo Phantom Assas 5 3 4 278 9 612 525 Win 24 3480 CarryCarry PA. Wasn't that good a game for me, shouldn't have chosen this hero because I really wasn't a factor and they hada ton of AOE to deal with me. I got outdrafted this game because they really shouldn't have lost versus us in team fights.

58 632833762 Solo Necrophos 10 3 9 184 32 575 566 Win 24 3504 MidMid Necrophos. There's a clear improvement in the quality of players. One such is that the cm farmed quite wellconsidering she was support. She also was able to do a jungle properly and gank and still keep up with wards.


Support Shadow Shaman. Was really tough early in the trilane, but had some strong early ganks despite giving up FB. Irotated bottom immediately to get jungle XP and we ganked the bristleback. With some good team fights, I managed toget my Euls relatively fast. One thing is that positioning was extremely crucial in these fights and I managed to isolate acouple heroes like slardar and get full duration shackles. My team flamed the shit out of each other and we graduallystopped talking. Sven called me a retard a couple of times because I missed my initiate twice, but didn't recognize the factthat I had participated in 7 of the 8 team kills whereas he had only 2. That and I was keeping up with warding as well and

keeping the map open with relatively good vision.

60 632956432 Solo Warlock 3 1 13 71 7 333 369 Win 25 3553 Support

Warlock Support. I bought the shit out of that shop. I had so many sentries on the map, i counted at least 14 sentries onthe map. I overwarded, but that clinkz was a sneaky fucker. We had extremely weak lanes and honestly, if the opponentswere better, we should've lost this game. We technically lost all our lanes because centaur was feeding, lycan couldn'tfarm and warlock + lich is as useful in the lane as a techies without his mines. I had no damage nor did the lich becausehe went ritual and i went heal. I think the major turn around point was when we defended against their main push mid andI had my aghs up right at that moment. Which enabled a 5 man double infernal ultimate + a perfect fatal bonds with anupheaval. Thank god Infernal fists go through BKB and shits on DK and Viper's armor.


Wraith King Support, i picked. Was aggressive early and picked up an easy kill early (the other veno support got FB).They ran around a good 2 minutes early trying to stabilize their lanes because their lifestealer was in a lane where he wasnot able to even get creeps and their supports weren't able to handle the SK/Veno roam. My team was a bit flamy towardsthe WK support because they didn't see him as useful, but I think WK's biggest asset is his healing (which scalesincredibly well to the late game) and his 7 second stun (which is fantastic and one of the shortest cd's in the game for a 2sstun spell.

62 634714261 Solo Shadow Shama 2 5 4 77 3 250 227 Lose -24 3553 Support

Shadow Shaman Support. Mid naga was absolutely horrid. Picks were...well, not good for this draft. Our lanes followedthe old meta and these changes were extremely difficult to do against their team fight. Undying + zeus rendered my hpalmost non-existent and I had trouble doing much else. Nyx didn't really do much and wasn't pulling because he got hisquelling blade early. Naga didn't know how to use bottle crow and took 20 minutes to farm a radiance (no other items onher hero).

63 634761352 Solo Pugna 10 2 15 99 0 667 654 Win 24 3577 Mid Pugna Mid. Was a very very fun push and team fight draft because they were so mana dependent.

64 635517416 Solo Batrider 6 0 15 76 9 534 533 Win 25 3602 Offlane

Offlane Batrider, I picked. Was a pretty strong draft comparatively as we managed to grab the better heroes for laning andteam fight. There was more synergy amongst the playing, so it was a much better game as their enigma couldn't land agood black hole and they went a greedy line up. My lane was relatively easy as the gyro went max (homing missile) for some odd reason and it didn't really help them. They had an ET top as well which screwed around with my diving ability,so I played it passively.


Support Sand King. Was difficult and we had a weaker trilane, yet still ran it. We mainly won because we had the stronger picks in the mid game and I managed a relatively fast blink dagger since our trilane was crushed. Huskar pick was good,but it didn't carry us to the win, but it did allow me to get nearly 5 man ultimates. Veil is definitely a lot more useful than

Aghs and I will be getting it first from now on because it produces more damage output than Agh s and it costs less.


7/42



Support Shaman left to solo top. Idiot hell is the more appropriate name for this level than MMR Hell. The medusa refusedto lane and tried to ancient his camps except he kept getting harrassed by a lvl 1 venge. The sven decides to go bottomwithout enough regen, so they spend the next 8 minutes at bottom sitting around with 300 hp and get one hit nuked anddie. Same with leshrac. The storm spirit didn't do shit with his hero all game because he stood middle free farming thelane, yet somehow managed a 23 minute orchid. He did tp into 4 heroes directly and died. As soon as he came in, the VSstunned him and they all focused him. Sven played exceptional for a downs syndromed baby. His stuns were greatbecause he would stun a fully hexed hero and by the time they got out of hex, his stun was already off. He also couldn'tdecide which unit to kill and would in the end try to kill everything and end up killing nothing. THe last fight he turned onhis mask of madness, took a vs stun, bane brain sap and 2-3 hits from wraith king before dying. Which is still shit becausehe got one shotted by the wraith king's crit. All in all, the team was pretty stupid and I really don't think anything I could'vedone would've changed that unless I took a core hero. I already bought the chicken and smoke and took the suicide laneand won it before getting busted by 3-4 man hero dives for the next 8 minutes. Vision was an issue and despite theobservers placed, people still ended up getting ganked after being pinged like 40 times. Muted the entire team.

67 636190162 Solo Lina 23 2 14 302 10 653 629 Win 24 3627 Offlane

Offlane Lina, i picked. Well, I actually fucked up picking and randomed lina instead of taking brewmaster, but it worked outanyways. I went max passive after getting a point in each of my spells. It helped my harrass ability and I also managed toget 3-4 auto attacks off on razor. I also was able to kite a lot easier and dodge his spells. It got very rough in the mid gamebecause SF and Ursa didn't manage to farm anything worthwhile and so we were on the defensive for 40+ minutes.

68 636240695 Solo Silencer 7 2 14 124 6 520 456 Win 25 3652 Mid

Solo Mid silencer, I picked. It was an outpick here because they had nothing to counter silencer and I was dictating if theycould fight or not. Clinkz won his lane as expected versus ET and proceeded to dominate their heroes whereas theycouldn't initiate or win the fight without taking me out first. Hence, why shadow demon was such a crucial pick because hecould disrupt their combo's and allow me to ult everytime.

69 636272903 Solo Tiny 8 6 8 177 5 434 472 Lose -25 3627 CarryTiny Carry, I picked. There was a LOT of problems with the invoker because he jacked the hero and proceeded to feed hislane versus clockwork. It took him from minute 13 -> minute 28 to get an Euls recipe. Was an unfortunate and slow loss.

70 636355488 Solo Viper 9 1 3 180 51 766 804 Win 25 3652 Mid

Mid solo Viper, this was a lvl 1 rosh strat. It was a pretty easy game, but I fought with the ursa a lot because he was toobusy crying for his abaddon to shield him. I'm glad I didn't play that hero because it was absolutely terrible to hear himkeep squawking for his shield. They were definitely outpicked, but it wasn't really fun to hear him talk all the time so he gotmuted. I didn't go mek because of the lich declaring he is buying it and rushed an aghs. I still don't think the 'Aghs on lichis a thing' because those unlimited bounces almost always never get to the point where you see 7+ bounces anyways.

71 636395174 Solo Tidehunter 7 2 5 126 5 484 540 Win 24 3676 Offlane

Offlane Tide. Was fun, they got outpicked here by the captain. I actually went stout shield first and ignored getting pointsinto my kraken shell because I didn't need it for their spells. Anchor smash dealt a lot and kept the sven from being able todo any really strong damage. This was helped in part by the thd who was very good at tping to lane to countergank.

72 636431331 Solo Kunkka 19 1 3 254 7 920 751 Win 25 3701 Carry

Kunkka Carry. I actually queued and was with the players that got stomped last game. It was a pretty interesting gamebecause the BH dominated that NP so much that it snowballed into the other lanes very hard. Was a bit tough for me tosecure XP and farm because they had a lich. Once BH started roaming, I took his lane and farmed up my bfury and itallowed me to get what I needed. We were very far ahead in gold because of the track kills as well as the fact that their heroes had no real counter ganks aside from magnus. Their alchemist wasn't allowed to start being a problem because of the Bane/Kunkka/wd combo.

73 636469921 Solo Witch Doctor 7 0 13 40 3 435 360 Win 24 3725 Offlane

Solo WD. I just went cask + heal and ended up maxing heal because of strenous situations where I needed to keep myally alive, so I skilled it. In any case, Heal sustained our team fights and pushes and literally was the reason why all myallies were keeping their HP up during our dives. I went vlads as well because it was a very good item for its cost. +5armor to all allies as well as mana, HP regen and life steal for the melee carries. It helped in keeping the creep waves andput constant pressure on their towers. The enemy team gave up very quickly despite their picks being much better.

74 636506661 Solo Windrunner 4 5 7 86 5 301 395 Lose -23 3702 Offlane

Offlane Windrunner. I don't really see why I needed to solo here as it was really difficult for me to get anywhere. My trilanelost to the bh solo and fed about 3 kills there. Morphling went midas and never managed to finish his ether blade anddidn't use morph until very late. Was a clusterfuck with axe and abaddon screaming at each other through the mic. Endedup muting everybody on my team because it was just too much to listen to their petty fights. Clinkz got stomped by the SFand didn't really do anything. In any case, our mid and late game and team fights were terrible as we had nothing to really

stop or heal or interrupt the void/shadow fiend and we went greedy lanes.

75 636591800 Solo Shadow Demon 11 5 8 46 3 303 386 Lose -27 3675 Support

Shadow Demon Support, i picked. I got outpicked here, and shouldn't have grabbed visage. Would've been much better tohave gotten the nyx. Visage...I don't think is that useful now compared to the other possible heroes to get. We wereinitially raping and winning our fights, but we lacked enough crowd control and that was the problem as we didn't haveenough to kill anybody once they started getting too tanky and there were a lot of the illusions.


Warlock support. I upheavaled and this spell rapes trilanes so hard. Not too sure how we won this, but the opponentsoutplayed themselves, especially at the roshan fight. The bane got stunned by wraith king, VS swapped bane and thenclock hooks into VS and cogs them all in. I ulted right in the middle of the cogs and upheavaled and they couldn't run out.Some really stupid stuff happened this game and I don't know how to interpret this win.

77 637827475 Solo Windrunner 5 4 8 189 10 434 469 Win 25 3722 Support

Offlane/Support windrunner. Was a really sketchy game since they had so many counters for me. Our pudge got reallystrong and ended up with over 5k HP because the opponents let themselves get hooked so many times. AA and ES weretoo busy farming their own items, so I transitions to support and bought wards later on.

78 637986971 Solo Naga Siren 10 3 8 381 6 743 745 Win 24 3746 Carry

Naga Carry in the trilane. Our storm died due to some extremely stupid pauses and proceeded to flame and give up therest of the game. I farmed alright considering I went arcane boots and couldn't bottle for my creeps. The game suddenlybecame insanely easy once I picked up the radiance + travels. I still need to work on the micro because I would havemany instances where naga would be standing in one spot. If i were to recommend something to stop their pushes, it is tokill off their spawning creep wave from behind with the illusion and then your allies spam clear their approaching wavefrom the front. Once that is done, they have no wave to push and they have to face backdoor protection. However, thisstrategy does not work unless you have decent long ranged nukers like puck/windrunner/earthshaker and you need to killall the creeps otherwise the backdoor protection won't activate. Clearing their behind waves effectively made their pushincredibly difficult and also gained us a lot of time and damage on their base towers.

79 638042303 Solo Razor 20 3 9 133 8 721 817 Win 25 3771 Mid

Mid Razor. Had a very easy time middle because I got fed by the silencer and I had some epic rune guessing. I died a bitafter getting a spree because I was overconfident and overestimated my HP and underestimated their gank potential. Iplayed a lot more safer and that was better. Their AM rushed a battlefury with no items, which left him with insanely lowHP and was super easy to kill. He wasn't able to flash farm very well either. It took a lot of effort for them to kill mebecause I went HP/Damage/Movement speed items (SNY, Aghs) and since we lacked push, Aghs was definitely the bestchoice since it takes down towers very fast. I got lucky and farmed up a refresher and got a rampage because they hadsuch low HP heroes, my ult was taking down buildings and before they could get a spell off.


Shadow Shaman Support. Got outdrafted very hard and our solo mid decided to troll the game by going Travels/SNY on

DK against their mega slows and strong damage. We didn't have very good teamfight and had not much ability to handlethe Tiny/CK/Viper that was wrecking us with damage.

81 638144802 Solo Batrider 7 3 20 151 2 458 566 Win 25 3771 Offlane

Batrider offlane. The shadow shaman support got very farmed and managed an aghs + refresher, which i've never actually seen at this MMR level. The opponents didn't play their supports well and afk'ed in their jungle instead of makingplays despite my two deaths bottom. Once I picked up the early gem, they were unable to teamfight us effectively and Ialways dragged a hero out of the battle to be killed later or immediately.

82 638214117 Solo Clinkz 15 1 7 236 11 702 646 Win 25 3796 Mid

Clinkz mid, i picked. Was a bit worried when storm fed fb and then tp'ed and died again bottom versus tide and lich. I alsodebated very heavily on a BKB, but it was more useful for me to rat around and get blink dagger. Blink dagger seriouslyhelped a lot in extending my range as I could blink to get another 6 hits on an escaping hero. It also helped me when Iwas sieging their base as it allowed me to get away instantly and still get 2-3 more hits off. It was a bit tedious as well infights because tide's ultimate was hard to escape, so if I were to fight, I would have to rat around on the edge, picking off any enemy hero that wanders too closely.

83 638254164 Solo Sand King 2 6 1 86 1 298 328 Lose -25 3771 Support

Support Sand King. Captain initially said that he was going to let me solo except he decided to pick doombringer after our weak lanes and they obviously fed so hard. Vengeful didn't manage to farm a boots until it was past 25 minutes, doomdidn';t get devour until 4 minutes after laning phase and batrider took 20 minutes to get his blink dagger after boots. Hegot beaten extremely hard middle and also didn't max his sticky napalm. The other team played their lanes well and had amuch better hero composition.

84 639872908 Solo Sven 25 3 10 251 9 774 734 Win 24 3795 Carry

Sven Carry. Was a bit worrisome early onwards, but their team composition lacked oomph and teamfight. They were in aposition where they had to clump up and Sven/Magnus/Tide combo really made it super difficult for them to initiate or toeven fight properly. The other thing was that they lacked any sort of reliable damage and that made it so that they couldn'tever really win the fight. The teamwork in my game was pretty decent considering they tp ganked and fought together.Vision was lacking to counter the TA, but it was alright because she wasn't really that big of a problem when I casted myWarcry because it gave us so much armor. If there was anything different in this game, I would've definitely gotten somemore mana regen early on in the laning phase instead of relying on cm aura.

85 641279434 Solo Earthshaker 6 9 15 158 7 357 461 Lose -25 3770 Support

Earthshaker support. Felt like it was def initely winnable, except that heroes w ere having problems farming (CK) or clinkzhad problems pushing. They were 5 man deathballing and that was why we were having problems in team fights becausewe couldn't push properly. Zeus got into an argument with clinkz/CK and ended up using his ult purely to KS whereasdazzle kept randomly getting picked off and not doing anything worthwhile with his spells.

86 641378788 Solo Gyrocopter 12 2 8 201 4 805 774 Win 24 3794 Carry

Gyro Carry. My supports were actually pretty decent, minus the fact that they didn't buy the early game sentries for the

clinkz offlane. Other than that, DK did very well middle, despite him being against veno and our game was fairly easysince LD knew what he was doing. Their picks I thought were better overall, but they didn't have the individual skill to pullit off effectively. Veno didn't zone out DK as he should've and their trilane was getting zoned out by the LD solo bottom.


8/42


87 641432002 Solo Beastmaster 8 2 12 123 2 676 517 Win 25 3819 Mid

Beastmaster Mid. Rushed the book 3 because we needed it and it was pretty easy to farm against their TA. I had the book3 at 18 minutes and I would be able to take out TA easily because she couldn't run away. Underrated hero that contributesa lot in the mid game, but requires levels to get worthwhile

88 641485472 Solo Warlock 2 4 10 51 11 217 228 Lose -25 3794 Support

Warlock Support. Had really terrible lanes and our naix had some terrible plays. Also went a bad build so everybody diedextremely fast in these teamfights despite our tide ult + warlock ult. We had no actual crowd control aside from our ultimates and razor would static link our naix everytime. It was difficult because everybody tried to fight for farm and theneverybody had nothing. It was just stupid on most of these fights and most of these builds because TA and Naix built upextremely slowly and took 40 minutes for a blink deso.

89 641628894 Solo Shadow Demon 6 3 10 64 7 242 253 Lose -25 3769 Support

Shadow Demon Support. Having difficulties, morphling carry was a retard and bought bkb and didn't actually use the BKBuntil 5-10 minutes after he got it. Our picks didn't really have much cc to control their heroes, so it was hard for me tomove on them without any sort of backup.


Support Wraith King. 13 minute boots on our nyx middle versus OD. Took fucking forever with this shitty batrider too whowas too scared to ult people when it was plainly obvious to do so. These games are extremely hard as the morphling that Iwas paired with last game shit on the nyx to give you an idea on how weak some of these players are. On their side, theywere doing pretty well until the Ember's double bfury/daedelus harrass started really stomping on them. However, until itgot to that point, it was extremely difficult to get a good fight in because a few of us would get picked off everytime. WraithKing's death state is really good to use as it's a super slow and that made a lot of them unable to get out for 3 seconds.The ancient apparition that was supporting with me and bought wards later after I converted to semi-carry did quite well

and hit his ultimates.

91 641720512 Solo Warlock 16 8 15 253 9 465 569 Lose -25 3770 Mid

Warlock Mid. Tookk forever for this drow carry to farm and farmed shit items. He rebought BKB and had no damagecompared to their heroes. Our shadow demon did fine as well as the supports, but the weakness lay in the carry this timeand I was gettign focused by their venge/skywrath with blink a lot despite my full build. The enemies are much moredecisive in these games and it was tough to fight as our centaur was also very passive and somewhat slow. Shadowdemon did well in killing, but didn't like saving allies.


Ember Spirit Mid. Played very aggressively and ended up almost dying many times. I did think if I went to stop the nyx, Iwould have lost too much but it's very debatable. I realized that searing chains level 1 is so weak, it's terrible and I'mvirtually forced to max out searing chains now. This balance fix was quite...painful for ember and I think that i am forced toskill searing chains over the flame shield. Flame shield came in handy, but I would pop all too often and I needed tosurvive a lot better. On the other hand, their puck was very weak as a solo mid player and never managed to get his blinkbecause we were constantly killing him while we were fighting. I did buy back once in order to return to the fight and get adouble kill, but it wasn't worth it as I died later and was left with a 71 second death timer at lvl 11


Vengeful Spirit Support. Was an easy laning phase as we had so much damage from the aura's. When we managed toget time to hit, we did a ton of damage because of all our aura stacking making me almost into a semi-carry. It was apretty easy game and they weren' t able to capitalize on their heroes just because of their skill usage. Puck couldn't blinkwith phase shift usage.


Shadow Shaman Support. Managed to get some good ganks off and their timbersaw was ass as he walked right intomany of those ganks. The VS wasn't that great as all he did was howl and miss creeps when he tried to CS and thealchemist rushed BKB without actually having any sort of damaging items. Luckily, we had 2 other strength beefies thattanked the damage and dealt a lot because they all went mjollnir. I survived most team fights through picking off theheroes with hex and my ultimate and usually grabbing the invoker first.


Sand King Support. Was a lot easier game because the supports were competent (rubick). He force staff initiated and wasat the right time and place for many of the ganks. As for drow, it wasn't exactly a good build, but it pushed well and fast.Our potm although solo top, farmed quite a bit. Kunkka didn't really know how to combo with his spells properly though.Their team's lanes were terrible and they definitely could've capitalized on the dk solo mid more than morphling. Their warding was OK as they were able to find out where we were and also had some sentries for the latter game fights.


Earthshaker Support. Was an easy lane top because of the spell damage we had that linked with kotl. We had someissues because the Nyx was fucking the combo a lot, but we had some good nuking power that pretty much made the

void have little to no farm. Our lanes went extremely well, so we didn't have a hard time drawing it to a close.


Sand King Support. Was a lot easier because our opponents seemed really dumb to keep getting hit by arrows. Also, our rubick played...well, not that great as he dived too far and got caught way too much. I had a lot of mixing up with my spellsas sand king and didn't do as well as I should've. Their lanes were very weak and had no synergy with a push strat asthey had a furion first pick, yet chose no supports to work with the hero itself.

98 645204310 Solo Luna 7 8 5 259 20 516 584 Lose -24 3894 Carry

Carry Luna. Our pink captain went AFK at the start and then randomed every hero and didn't ban any hero. Was a totalshit show and we held out fairly well, but the solo mid razor was blind to everything and the nyx had the reaction time of aturtle.

99 645235662 Solo Clockwerk 17 2 5 116 6 521 662 Win 24 3918 Offlane

Clockwerk Solo top. We had the better picks this game and that was the decisive factor. My trilane lost horribly, but midwinning his lane barely with a 25 minute radiance and me shitting on the DS allowed us to stay in the game. Their DS wasa really weak player as was their mirana as they were leaving themselves open a lot to ganks and got themselves killed inquestionable positions. I feel that there is a really big gap between 3900 and 4200 as the 3900s in this game were reallyhorrible at watching the map whereas the 4200 were much smarter about their playstyle.


Shadow Shaman Support. I picked. It was an easy game, the ganks all worked out and pushes were good. Our naga solomid had a 13 minute relic and an easy time. Mainly because their mid gank failed so hard and they gave up 3 killsbecause of it to naga and 2 to me. Letting the roaming shadow shaman pick up a 3 minute arcane boots and lvl 4. Rotatedto quickly crush the top so that our clinkz had the advantage and the rest was just snowballing.

101 645297886 Solo Warlock 1 6 5 82 1 290 290 Lose -25 3918 Support

Warlock...Support/offlane. Razor threw the lane running 2v3 against dazzle juggernaut and I was warlock. I ended upsolo'ing bot after the Razor left the lane because he hated me. I was farming...alright, but died a lot. Warlock needs ateam to do damage and we had nobody to hold them in spot so they kept getting their TPs off in front of us withdazzle.Pugna played it like a dumbass and wisp didn't know his relocate showed where we were relocating. Ursa boughttranquil boots and had trouble farming the vlads. All in all a ridiculously stupid game. Wisp fucked up our own teamfightsbecause he relocated the core hero out of the fight, I was debating if he was actually trying to throw or was actually thatbad. He was the highest MMR 4k on the team.

102 645330748 Solo Rubick 3 3 18 69 9 390 488 Win 24 3942 Support

Rubick Support. Got matched up with the Razor from last game. He fed the AM/WD lane as a solo clockwerk three times.Wasn't that rough because their AM built a midas and didn't get his bfury to flash farm. Consequently, the PA starteddealing a lot of damage and they couldn't side push us. It was a lot longer than it should've been because the PA wasn'tdoing squat other than killing heroes and backing off before taking the rax/throne for the longest time. The puck was quitesensible and did his job whereas the Skywrath mage with me was busy flaming everybody without actually helping withthe wards/supporting, which was...OK, as i had it all covered. Their magnus took forever to farm his blink and was stilluseless with it as he never got a good ult off. Their players had a lot of problems synchronizing with each other.

103 646875879 Solo Undying 5 8 14 31 7 264 393 Lose -24 3918 Support

Undying Support. Difficult to make plays in the latter stages of the game as their brewmaster got extremely fed andtombstone wasn't making a difference. Fighting was difficult with the LS being half brain dead and not being able to playhis position properly. I got one play off early in the lane because I managed to keep decaying, the rest were crushed withthe brewmaster constantly getting haste runes and our qop being unable to CS against an empty lane farming a 30 minutelinkens. Need to take more active part in following through on playing with Muted players as my QoP was muted alreadyand his friend was the LS. Despite the LS afk'ing trying to farm for the latter half of the game, he was the least levelled andthe least farmed.

104 646916679 Solo Viper 13 2 13 109 4 558 594 Win 25 3943 Carry

Viper Semi-Carry/Carry. Was well played by my team, I drafted this game and they played their parts very well. It was arough semi-early as they immediately started 5 man pushing and took 5 towers in the span of the time I was farming mymek/treads. I laned viper/tree against VS/Luna/AA and we lost it as I couldn't touch creeps either. However, the tree armor allowed for the cent/veno lane to crush the drow solo and the SF to beat the DP. Which was worth it, however we hadissues defending towers at the stage where they 5 manned and I didn't even have my ultimate. We turned it around withour defense on the top t2 tower with the centaur blink/ultimate which dropped the DP extremely quickly and allowed us tosteamroll them. That was pretty much the rest of the entire game in that one fight in a nutshell. Treant got 3 levels in thatfight and we kept 5 man wiping them. BKB's didn't really help as I got my aghs upgraded viper ultimate which basicallyneutralized any BKB'ed heroes. Their draft was OK, but they had all squishy heroes, no counter initiate other than a VSswap, and too many farm oriented heroes to be able to farm their BKBs. The lanes aside from their top was weak, butthey had a LOT of damage on their heroes from the aura stacking....but they couldn't make use of it.

105 648203635 Solo Clinkz 12 5 5 233 11 625 681 Lose -24 3919 Offlane

Clinkz Solo bot. I think i did my job against the DS, I wasn't really able to kill him, but I farmed well against him. However,our trilane was a lot weaker in terms of skill as well as our mid. Our viper didn't really do anything to counter gank and waslower levelled than their supports, which shows that he didn't really make use of his mid solo. Our mirana didn't farm verywell either and fought with the sand king who eventually kept dc'ing and reconnecting, to throwing fights by wasting hisultimate beforehand, and forcing fights 2v5. I tried the original tactic of trading towers/pushing other lanes, but it didn'twork well this game simply because their push was much stronger than ours.


Earthshaker initial support -> Carry. Was a really annoying game because our puck played like he didn't know how to playpuck and used his skills in the wrong order or got picked off properly or died using agility treads with an empty bottle. Justso many things that went wrong. Our kunkka went soul ring, urn and then phase boots by 20 minutes and I managed a

blink dagger, arcane boots, soul ring. I then managed to farm (through ganking/fighting) my shadowblade faster thankunkka's despite him being the farmer in our trilane. The puck did get better over time, but he still played weakly and hadtrouble getting himself out of tight spots or initiated after we clearly said WAIT FOR US. Thankfully, the opponents hadissues with clumping, chasing too far or getting themselves caught alone and too far out.


9/42


107 648266794 Solo Lina 6 6 14 109 3 509 541 Win 24 3968 Support

Lina support. We had some problems with our slow moving supports against their trilane, but our Razor dominated themid huskar really well. Pugna lost his lane to lich, but their ember was not very good and didn't make use of his early goldadvantage. Razor made the most plays and the pugna ward helped a lot in the team fights as it neutralized thelich/skywrath/ES from getting too many things done in the fights and almost killing them outright everytime. Our teamfightwas fairly strong considering we had a lot of good disables and we had the advantage in pressure as their ES had noplace to get gold.

108 648296589 Solo Bounty Hunter 13 7 7 133 4 495 536 Lose -24 3944 Offlane

BH offlane. Had some serious issues with our carries. Kunkka went boots then shadow amulet against timbersaw anddidn't have hp regen. So he kept getting himself killed. Gyro couldn't farm too well versus zeus and so he got nuked downinsanely fast. Our supports were really squishy and i think if we had to have any sort of chance, we should've went aggrotri. Their heroes had much better teamfight and damage than ours and basicaslly no counters/hp regeneration to survive.Thus once zeus had his aghs and refresher, the entire team just fell down dead. I would say that we got outpicked andoutplayed here.

109 648329923 Solo Chaos Knight 8 6 7 153 10 448 584 Lose -25 3919 CarryChaos Knight. Got counter picked every time and the captain kept banning stupid heroes for himself. Ended up gettingshit on middle and we had no team fight potential and got crushed everytime.

110 648356125 Solo Windrunner 9 1 7 201 18 605 492 Win 26 3945 Offlane

WR Offlane. This was a complete reversal and counter pick. And the team played it pretty well, it was a bit rough top lanebecause the undying was learning how to use his hero and the opponent dazzle started raging after they started losingfights.

111 648393767 Solo Pugna 12 7 19 133 2 479 558 Win 25 3970 Support

Pugna Support. http://puu.sh/8DKjq.jpg We won with 5 mid heroes. Was a really stupid game, and we ran a pugna qop

pudge trilane and a tinker offlane. We had control because we were pushing extremely hard early, which is probably whywe secured the advantage. Pudge and I managed to get a lot of early kills on the offlane, which allowed us to get our items very quickly. They played it terribly and that is why despite their heroes, we managed to beat them in the push andtheir tiny also didn't get any bkb items. So, we decripted and blasted him with magic spells.


Venge Support. I kept rotating and wasn't seen and managed to pull off a lot of ganks mid because their batrider wasplaying way too forwards for losing his lane. His supports didn't rotate at all. THe opponents gave up quite early so I justfarmed a dominator and farmed creeps until they made a small comeback.

113 649922434 Solo Sven 21 2 6 185 6 864 839 Win 24 4019 Carry

Sven Carry. Their dazzle got caught out of position a lot early and that snowballed and gave us a lot of opportunities to killthem in the trilane. The top lane was doing OK, but not great partially because our bear didn't get the venom orb toharrass tide. Tide is very hard to solo 1v1 especially when his anchor smash negates pretty much all the damage youdeal. Middle was crushed, but the opponent SM got ganked too much and died too quickly. He also didn't build any tankitems, so he would die whenever I would start smacking him. They also had big problems with clumping up as I managedto get 2-3 hero stuns a lot.

114 649938754 Solo Ursa 19 10 6 223 2 549 665 Lose -25 3994 Carry

Ursa Carry. Had a shit start in that i accidentally built tranquils again. I really hate how the build for tranquils screws upwith vlads. That set me back alongside of a failed roshan gank twice. We picked it up and managed to make a goodcomeback and punish them for their midas' but we really played sloppy.


Warlock Support. Had stupid lanes, still managed to win because their players were very bad and didn't capitalize on their advantage. Ended up muting half my team again as they were flaming too much. Asking the team to swap the lanes andthen subsequently having the captain end up taking offense to it because his drafts and lanes were "perfect".

116 650859586 Solo Clockwerk 12 4 15 88 6 436 505 Win 25 4043 Offlane

Clockwerk suicide lane. Played a bit too aggressively and overestimated by battery assault damage at the start. Madesome good choices and spaced out my skills for good efficiency durign the later teamfights. Isolated a lot of heroes, I thinkI should've focused more on picking up the supports like VS rather than isolating kunkka/PL though. I went armor as ithelped me a lot and they had a lot of damage, which did mean that it was the right decision since shiva's helped a lotversus their PL illusions.

117 651000654 Solo Earthshaker 4 5 5 65 0 251 347 Lose -25 4018 Support

ES Support. Got paired up finally with somebody from NADota except it was Demise who kept yelling out that he was 5.4kMMR and that he wouldn't support for scrubs. Kept asking for a core hero and when he didn't get it, he ran around farmingthe lanes. He was obviously better than the carries, but I was outfarming our cores too despite having support. In anycase, was not very fun to play with because he kept calling everybody else trashcans and ended up getting muted byeverybody despite his points that the lanes did need to be swapped. The opponents played alright considering their team,but we were just outpicked.

118 651095806 Solo Timbersaw 9 2 11 73 1 555 501 Win 24 4042 Offlane

Timbersaw Offlane. Was pleasantly

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