How to Exit Vicious Cycle?

It's nice to know I'm not the only one in this situation.
I'd love to try a game, but I can't guarantee I'd be the absolute best either.

I didn't seem to receive any friend request on steam though...
My Dota ID is 176069995 (I hope it's not a big deal for my to give this out); click the button in the upper right corner of the friends tab in Dota2 to add me.

if u play on SEA or AU

add me : Smuggler1965

if your lower MMR it doesnt matter, if you have only a couple hundred games it doesnt matter.

if you want help or coaching im more then happy too help :)

Neither region, sorry.
Thanks for the offer, though.

this was more a generalized offer to everyone on this thread. but all good bro :)

The fast way? Warlock. Go mid, make refresher, make aghs, carry because nobody knows how to deal with golems.

I second you on that

Did a game the other day where a friend basically did that. He cried a lot when he realised 2 of the other team built Diffusal Blades. By the time we noticed it was too late. Still deals a great double stun, and, IIRC, we still won so it's all good!

Man, you shouldn't care about your team at all when playing on your level. Focus on learning heroes (in practice, not guides) and improving yourself. The moment you find your favorite hero just keep playing it and you will start winning. For example my doto journey started with heroes like mid Clinkz, Lina and offlane Slark. I found those heroes very fun to play and started raping games all by myself. Don't expect your team to have any knowledge after just 100 wins. Don't try to play like 6k, 5k, 4k, 3k or even 2k players because you're not one of them. All you have to do for now is to find fun in this game, there will be time for tryhard later.

I'm 150 games in (with about twice that many bot games ) and have about a 40% win rate, at 50 games I had a 60% win rate and felt like I was better than my level but a couple of massive losing streaks put paid to that. Don't let it get to me and just try and enjoy the games as I know I'm still learning and still will be when I get to 500, 1000, and even 10,000 games. Watching my own games has made me realise I need to improve my team fighting - I'm a better laner than most I come up against but sometimes in the midst of a 5v5 I don't use an item or a spell, or stupidly forget something is on cool down - things I'm doing wrong that could change the outcome that are all on me and nothing to do with how good or bad my team mates are. Once I eliminate those sort of mistakes from my game I can start worrying about my team mates but for now I'm looking at the things I have complete control over.

I used to be all about getting up to the level where I could play ranked and desperate to maintain my win rate but now I'm just concerned with getting better. I can play 5 or so heroes really well now (relative to the people I play with/against), another 10 well, 20 okay, understand how to play another 30 on top of that, and there's none that I don't know about at all - when I was winning most of the time I had a fairly small hero pool. When I feel I'm ready I'll start playing ranked and probably stick a small pool of the ones I'm good with and enjoy playing. But to the original poster - just don't be so concerned with winning and rankings right now, just concentrate on improving and the rest will come.

PS: There's an excellent guide on this site about dealing with the standard pub stomp heroes.

@chessgeek10:

Hey man, I'm sending you a friend request on steam (sent it like 2 minutes ago). I'm 1553 games into my Dota 2 career, been playing a whole year and I'd genuinely love to play with you and help you to both win more and to coach you on some more complex mechanics in Dota.

I find it very admirable that you are here asking people for help on DOTAfire and think that honestly we'd all love to give you a hand getting out of the trench. I looked at your Dotabuff page and you have hella potential. ;)

The only advice i can give to you on the matter is that you need to find a hero that you can develop a niche for (Mine was Razor, my roommate's was Lone Druid <3) and from there you can get comfortable playing that hero and begin to research more on the mechanics of the hero. Eventually you will begin to experiment with other heroes and develop yourself into a specific role (all in due time of course :P).

Also, if you play with me I play on EU west and US East. See you There! :D