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If you have Android, play my challenge, I had to think about this one for awhile before eventually getting it. Don't see this build very often.

I love having the community play my challenges, thanks everyone who plays!

It's a fun way to learn builds too. You can also learn hero biographies, or item lore!

Hello everyone! I'm writing this post to ask for your advice on how to play Crystal Maiden better.

I've already reached Tier 30 with this hero, but I feel like I'm falling short in many situations.

So I'd like to ask for your help.

Here's my Dotabuff.

If you have any advice on item builds, positioning, macro or general sup tips, or if you can point out my overall support mistakes, please share them in the comments.

If you're planning to watch replays, stick to the 'All pick' matches where I play as CM (very often, when I play other heroes, I get flustered and make silly mistakes because I'm focusing on learning that hero)

I'm open to any criticism.

Thank you in advance

You finish a game knowing what you did wrong. Then you queue again and make the same mistake. “Watch the map more” sounds right, but it’s hard to remember when a fight is starting.

Try one check for five games. Before you walk into a fight, ask who you’re trying to reach and which enemy spell can stop you. If you don’t know, take a second and look again. After the game, ask whether you remembered to do the check. The win or loss doesn’t tell you that.

I build DotaSense, a Windows app for habit reminders and postgame reviews. That’s why I’m interested in this. You can try the check with a note on your desk; you don’t need the app. What’s one thing you remember after a game and forget in the next one?

So Dota is my first serious MOBA. That being said, I spent a significant portion of my beginning time learning last hits / denies, items and such. Currently I have reached the point where I try out heroes that seem fun and try to understand why my build guide suggests this or that item. So all is a natural part of the learning curve and SHOULD be fun.

However, the matchmaking got to a point where I'm seriously dreading queueing up again because the next 30 minutes will most likely be spent getting absolutely rolled with 0 learning potential and even less fun.

I queue Unranked All Pick and yes, I've heard that the matchmaking is not so great. It hasn't bothered me greatly before because it would feel like I have a game against even bigger noobs, then the game "ranks" me up a bit and I get matched better, until I lose and play against weaker players again. But currently, 2 out of 3 games are absolute losses and it's nowhere near fun. It started to feel like the other team is playing a whole different game the entire time.

I know I'm not farming correctly. I know I'm just "blindly" following my guides and not thinking too much if there's currently a better item. I know that I haven't quite grasped the positions and team compositions yet and don't really know which role I should be playing with my character. But this is something I feel like I should be able to figure out naturally and not by getting bullied so hard that the only way out seems to be to sit down and watch fucking guides on YouTube. Yes this is a good way and yes, I have already watched some things but this is a game and I should be able to discover by playing and not by turning it into a lecture for myself! At no point has it ever been so frustrating as it is now.

Genuinely, what do I do? Is there no way than to watch guides so I don't get rolled anymore? How do I get back my fun? How do people have thousands of hours and not cry themselves to sleep each night?

Edit: The 80 hrs refer to the amount of time spent in Unranked All Pick against real players. In total I have around 130 hrs which include bot games, tutorials, newplayer mode etc.

Malr1ne has just played his first BO3 series with Team Liquid, so I decided to go through the games and look at the small details in his gameplay.

Not just his big plays, but the things that are easy to miss when you're watching a pro game how he moves his hero, where and when he clicks on the map, how he positions himself

These little habits might not look important at first, but they can tell us a lot about how a professional player approaches the game at the high level

In this video, I'll break down some of the details I noticed from Malr1ne's first series with Team Liquid and explain why they matter.

Link: https://youtu.be/fqIojMyYZ-I

Most toxic players don’t really care if they get reported. To encourage more players to stay with game and encourage new players to keep playing, should we consider using AI to detect toxic behaviour and chat thus increase punishment?

Hello everyone! Just wanted to share a historic match from my public matchmaking archive, which features one of the highest XPM records ever achieved on Anti-Mage in a regular All Pick match.

• Player Nickname: Аерфора
• Player ID: 399910453
• Match ID: 5129455698
• Hero XPM: 1600 XPM
• Hero GPM: 801 GPM
• Last Hits: 552
• KDA: 8 / 0 / 9 (0 deaths)

The match data is fully public and verified on Dotabuff and OpenDota. Feel free to check the stats!

if you're first pick and don't know what the enemy is going for, you want a hero that's hard to punish. i ran 8.7M ancient-divine games from 7.41e/f through a model to find those heroes for each role.

how to read the table:

- the big number on the right is how much better the hero does than an average pick for that role when you don't know the enemy yet

- "worst vs" is the one commonly picked hero that hurts it the most. if that hero gets picked early on their side, think twice

some takeaways:

- dawnbreaker (pos 3) and nyx (pos 4) have no hard counters among the 40 most picked heroes, they're the safest first picks right now

- necrophos is the most common "worst matchup" in the table. if your team first picks WK or DK, keep an eye on him

- PL is strong but not a blind pick, tidehunter destroys him. save him for later in the draft

- OD is the best blind mid, his only real problem among popular heroes is PL

off-role heroes and heroes whose winrate is mostly carried by one-trick players were left out.

your own hero pool matters more than any table, but if you're stuck on first pick and comfy on one of these, it's a solid default.

(the numbers come from a draft tool i'm building, happy to answer questions about how it was calculated)

This is a very big, negative outlier for me in terms of performance
This is likely one of the worst games I've ever had
I want to see if I missed anything about it, because in the middle of it, I was completely lost and could not fabricate a scenario where my team or myself could win if I tried.
Match: https://www.opendota.com/matches/9057247586
Profile, if you want: https://www.opendota.com/players/889840917

In this sea (not SEA) of toxicity, sometimes the best remedy is laughing at yourself: https://youtube.com/shorts/qHmQYzrKQyQ?feature=share

What mid do you think you would go with:

1 - jugg

3- hoodwink

4 - rubick

5 - lich

other team has venge, clinks, sniper (Mid), crystal, ogre

I went ember bc I felt I had to initiate on sniper Or clinks, but was very difficul. I think Pango could have been better or maybe a mars or timbersaw though I usu only play them offlane. The game felt cursed And it felt impossible to go in bc of stun and damage.