April 06, 2013

The Possibilities - Not always your team

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Dota 2  |  Noob  |  Possibility
A strange mentality I'm seeing in games is starting to become annoying on many levels. When a game is going bad, and you are getting 'pubstomped', there seems to be always a guy blaming his own team for being 'noob'.

Yesterday, a client came into the DVD Rental store I work at. The woman brought back a DVD, placed it on the counter, and started complaining. She told me that she placed the DVD in her DVD-Player, and it refused to play. So, as always, I took out the disc, and checked it for scratches. There weren't any. Upon telling the woman that there seems to be nothing wrong with the disc, she continued on to tell me that she has the best, state-of-the-art DVD player, and that the disc must be faulty because her player is perfect.

Now, my metaphor is a bit in reverse, but it'll do. Just because your team loses, doesn't mean your team is the 'biggest noobs on Dota', and 'should uninstall Dota'. In fact, I have come to realize that very often than not, you lose a game because the enemy team is better. When solo-queuing, you will very often be matched up with other solo-queurs. If you happen to play against 4-5 people on the enemy team playing together with Skype or TS, you will have a defenite disadvantage. They might know each other's playstyle. They'll have quicker communication because they all know each other. They might even have a strategy planned beforehand.

So, my silly post simply boils down to this : When you play in a Pub game alone, and you suddenly get ganked by four people all better farmed than you, and you die, and then subsequently keep dying until you lose, please, don't start calling your team noob. Sure, there might have been a overzealous tower-diver that fed. But, very often, everyone is an average player that just couldn't outfarm the super-Dota-1-master AM that knew exactly how to do everything he needs to do to win. And very often than not you get counter-picked, even by accident, and lose because they chose heroes that work better against your own team setup.

So try to keep your name-calling to a minimum. Everyone has to start somewhere, and many of us are still stuck in the average-gamer rut while looking for friends or a clan to raise up to become more. Don't let a good team beating you make you feel like you played badly. You played average, the enemy simply played better.