I Dont Get It?

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1001362639

This game made me confused.

here's why.

Silencer early game with 2 points in glaives is huge damage, then you have Huskar with his spears and thats massive DPS early game.

Now Add Axe and Vengeful Spirit with her Aura and stun and armour reduction and your early game is insane, am i right?

so naturally you would think we would go aggressive early game no?

No....

i tried so hard to get them to fight but they just wouldnt, running away from 5v3 backing off from a 5 man tower push with only 2 defending. Not jumping on solo heroes...

i couldnt understand why they weren't going aggressive.

i kept saying... Go Aggressive Go Aggressive.

about the 24 minute mark i forced them to smoke gank with me ...took me about 3 minutes.

what happened?

we team wiped them and got two towers.

i forced them to smoke gank with me again at 31 minutes... what happened?

we team wiped again...

then people just started farming.

i dont understand it. i really dont. when you have a lineup that requires a certain strategy why do people not play to it?

i dont get it.

Because everyone has old habits. For example I am trying to get out of old habits where I push for that "extra" kill which ends up making it more worth while for them in the end.
I am presuming that you were on the back foot early so everyone has switched to def and farm strat but I do not understand how they cannot make a transition into pushing once you get a team wipe.
You have my sympathies for that loss.

it was annoying because everytime they would get away from a fight with 4 heroes at under 100 hp. all because one or two heroes were off farming early game...

argh i just wish people would realise how to play dota properly.

yes you can use a heroes abilites right but if you dont play them to their strangths then whats the point....

meh rant over.

i had exactly the opposite problem in all my recent games. 90% of all players that were not in my party seemed to be russians. i know the russian servers were down for two days but even on other recent days russians seemed to be BY FAR the most on EU west.

now dont get me wrong, a decent amount of them were nice and could speak english but still..... you can see the difference in playstyle. no patience, not knowing if they can take a target down, overagression, and EXTREMELY bad at going highground since they are so unorganised.

games also seem to take a lot longer, atleast for me. probably a combination of unorganised russians and the last patch.

I find it's a nightmare when there is one dude on the team who is determined to split push. Yes, it may have got you a tower that one time, but all the other 5v4 fights? Urgh.




This is the **** that happens. and then we just get "Well you won the fight!", well, yes but that isn't the point.