Learn Dota 2 - SGLeroy's Regular AMA, Rank 300 NA immortal pos 3 player, ask me any questions on how to improve your mmr and I will give you answers. |
- SGLeroy's Regular AMA, Rank 300 NA immortal pos 3 player, ask me any questions on how to improve your mmr and I will give you answers.
- Just picked up this game, feeling very lost. How do I approach learning dota?
- Why is Maelstrom not popular on Huskar?
- Some tips on grinding, both at skills and mmr
- Crusader 1 player losing nearly every TA game despite having over 600 gpm, getting rosh, pushing advantage
- Hi guys! A while back I made this video guide aimed for beginner players to introduce them to the concept of splitpushing. Would appreciate it if you guys take some time to check it out. Thanks in advance!
- Early game Necrophos...
- Full guide on jungle creeps stacks
- What caused a rather severe change in pace at 2K MMR?
- Help me play Visage.
- How do I snowball?
- Bloodseeker items - what, when and why?
- Is Sven just not worth using or am I missing something?
- PL questions
- Easiest way to learn mid techniques?
- How do you maintain lane equilibrium when laning with someone who's not aware of it?
- Javelin + Clinkz
- How do you deal with an upcoming loss
- Windrunner
- Teaching my gf dota, need tipps for teaching
- What is arc wardens playstyle right now?
- Will Alternative Playstyles for Heroes Result in Lower Seasonal Rank Medal?
- Some tips on grinding, both at skills and mmr
| Posted: 15 Jun 2018 01:45 PM PDT Hi, im a NA pub star and im trying to promote myself as a coach, my first AMA went really well and got some great feedback so I thought I should do a regular AMA on r/learndota2 trying to continue to help you guys while also putting myself out there. If you want to know my current mmr or hero experience check my dotabuff here: https://www.dotabuff.com/players/44544729, keep in mind that my dotabuff wont show competitive games/scrims on it, but as an example ive played like 500 dark seer games but it only shows my pub experiences on there. My specialty is position 3 but I have a large amount of knowledge in all areas of dota, I've participated in many tier 2 events and leagues, including FPL pro circuit and JDL. If you want me to join you in-game to analyze your gameplay and give you personal coaching lessons, the best way to contact me privately is through Discord/Steam. Discord: SGLeroy#6314 https://steamcommunity.com/id/SGLeroy/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dota2tutor/comments/8qjbha/ltc_sgleroy_na_rank_300_immortal_offlane_player/ Ask away! [link] [comments]  |
| Just picked up this game, feeling very lost. How do I approach learning dota? Posted: 15 Jun 2018 03:07 PM PDT As an absolute beginner, how should I be learning the game? I would like to eventually play on a decent level but I have no idea where to start. What heroes should I learn and should I cover a lot of them or stick to a few? Which ones? How did all of you guys learn the ropes? Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Why is Maelstrom not popular on Huskar? Posted: 15 Jun 2018 06:17 PM PDT Maybe there's an obvious reason why Maelstrom isn't popular on Huskar but I've theorycrafting recently and I feel like it could be nice on Huskar due to recent buffs to the item and his high attack speed. Why don't more people buy it? [link] [comments]  |
| Some tips on grinding, both at skills and mmr Posted: 15 Jun 2018 02:41 AM PDT Hey. I'm sia. I'm currently chillin' in a cool-ass weather in the balcony next to the jungle, and am currently not busy doing anything and i don't have access to pc. So i thought aight lez open reddit and share some of the stuff i learned in my own grinding journey that could help others. (No tldr, if anyone is looking for tldrs chances are u aint gonna grind cuz it's a long term process) So let me start with this: the reason most people fail and the reason even the ones who got the results suffered to get there, is always internal issues. BUT almost always if you ask them why are you [put the type of suffering or getting stuck here] they'd talk about their teammates, valve, heroes. And whenever someone wants to improve, what does he do? A big percentage of the time they ask in forums "what hero do i pick?, what item should have i bought?" And things like that. Let me see if i can get this through right. ISSUES ALMOST NEVER GET SOLVED BY EXTERNAL SOLUTIONSYou might think when you're in debt, if someone pays all your debts then your issue is solved, but 2 years later, i assure you you'll find yourself in the same amount of debt if not more. You see, the human works through a bunch of predictable habitual loops. Until you change the loop, even if we fix the external result of your habit loops, you'll still create the same results. even if we refresh it like paying your debts off, you'll still be that guy who does these things that make him go in debt. So let's put this in the dota 2 perspective. People want to change their heroes. They wanna change their item builds. But the only ones who grind, are the ones who develop or change their thought patterns aka internal loops. Wanna know why rtz plays at rtz level? Cuz from before a game starts until the game finishes, in his head there are a bunch of programs, running, that give him his results aka what we see on screen. So: IF YOU WANT TO TRULY GET BETTER AND GRIND, CREATE NEW SETS OF PROGRAMS THAT GIVE THE RESULTS YOU'RE SEEKING. How do you do that? There are a bunch of ways. The most efficient way according to the successful people's advice is through modeling others who got your targeted results. A few years ago this was not even an available option in dota unless you were friends with pro players. But god bless, in this very moment there are a bunch of great resources to learn from. People like bsj, my friend u/circis1 , gameleap, pvgna, and any of the educational resources that FOCUS ON THE THOUGHT PROCESSES of the pro players are great resources to learn. Now let's get practical.What does the actual process of getting good look like? It is absolutely different for each person BUT there's a main framework i used and i'll share my own personal experience and you can model me or you can find someone else who shared their model, or you can make your own through trial and error. Mine was kinda like this: (1) Learn base psychological frameworks that boost your result getting (check out high performance habits from brendon burchard) (2) Learn dota 2's concepts without expecting any change in your gameplay. Only know there's this thing called constant pressure aka shoving lanes, or lane equilibrium, or the concept of advantage, etc etc. You can acquire these concepts through learning from educational content. My #1 free resource was bananaslamjamma's youtube channel and coaching sessions. This step will take a bunch of time and you'll not learn it perfectly at the start and you wont see any results since your knowledge isnt in the practice phase. VERY IMPORTANT TIP. Have some sort of journal for this. The info will overwhelm you and it'll end up getting lost a few minutes after you watch the video, and totally forgotten after a few hours/days. Actively learn not the way you were taught to learn in school. Take notes, think about the stuff as if you were gonna apply em in your own games. (3) DO. Take all you learned, review your journal notes, and then choose one thing in it and in next 10 games or smth (unless you dont get ur chosen role) do that thing you learned through the concept. For example if you learned about lane equilibrium, have that as ur #1 priority even more than winning the game. Put your knowledge into practice. "Knowledge is not power. It's potential power. Putting it into use will release the power" -almost tony robbins xd A VERY IMPORTANT HEADS UP This is the period of sucking dick, losing 2, or 3 times than before, frustration, anger, and jadhhsjdvkwiwhsj. Please do yourself a huge favor if you're following this and wanna put it into practice: WHEN YOU GET IN THESE PERIODS IN YOUR PATH , REMEMBER THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NORMAL because you're throwing away your old habit loops as we talked about and you're stepping into the unknown and it's confusing and frustrating but it's exactly through this process that you can install the new high performance habit loops. (3) The period of grind. Your new habit loops, your new programs, get installed, and you can feel the change of thought processes in-game inside your head, and on the outside your gameplay and decision makings change. When the new high performance programs get installed, they'll serve you and this is the time where you win more games and "suddenly" start getting more results. (4) BUT wait, this isnt the end. You install one good new set of programs, but you still have a lot of garbage programs installed, AND programs that you need but have not installed yet. So you go through step 1 to 3 AGAIN, for a new set of programs. And guess what after that one is installed? A NEW SET of programs. This process is not gonna feel clean. It's absolutely energy draining. It's not clear what program you gotta install next to fix your current issue. You don't know what you don't know a lot of the times. So the most important thing is acknowledging that it's ABSOLUTELY OK that you're trying different stuff but you're not getting any results or even worse results. Just go through it. Trust me. You'll have your breakthrough at some point. It's just that when you're in the shitty no-result step (step 2), you keep reminding yourself that there's gonna be a step 3, just not clean and clear-cut. Aight guys i think that was it for this time. I hope this could help you change your current program/loop of thinking on how grinding works, and more importantly i hope ppl who cared take action right after reading this. Cuz short term memory is 6-9 secs long, and short long term memory is a few hours/days long. So if you dont take action the whole effect will fade into your old loop of thinking which will again keep giving you your old results which you're trying (desperately like me?) to get out of. I'll post more stuff whenever an idea pops in and i got the time. I'm also starting youtubing the same stuff + some other stuff like anaysing replays for anyone who asks for it (20 replays in queue ._.) . I still suck at it and I'm sooooo slow at making into editing process (new habit loop getting shaped right here) and my vlogs lack gameplay and clips in em. But i still will post my thoughts and analyse replays abd slowly get better at it. (Also gotta work on my consistency and schedule with irl) So if any of you guys is interested this is the link to my youtube: (using mobile app idk how to hyperlink text) https://youtube.com/channel/UCei0I_lPyJHNArHF6oQcZRQ Btw did any of the said above resonate with you? How are you gonna use this for yourself? And does anyone have anything to add or any suggestions or anything? Interested to see if anyone actually would take action instead of sitting on their asses going through it and g next. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2018 02:58 PM PDT I love TA, she is my favourite hero, and I have about 70 matches on her. I used to have around 70% winrate, but it has since dropped to just over 50% even though I have gotten EXPONENTIALLY better at the hero (I used to average around 450 or so gpm, and I had a record of 630. Now I average 650 and ahve a record of 800 odd). However, my winrate for the past month on TA is 38% despite ticking all the checkboxes for winning on TA (from the replays of high mmr games I've watched), Early rosh, map control, 2 shot people, 2nd rosh, hg, win. https://www.dotabuff.com/players/370991693/matches?date=month&hero=templar-assassin&enhance=overview If anyone cares to check these, also here is my last game where we were up 2 racks and yet couldnt win https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/3954703531 Maybe TA is just a bad hero at low mmr? I dont think I play her badly at all (have beaten 3k players quite frequently in 1v1 solo mids etc). [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2018 07:50 PM PDT |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2018 03:52 PM PDT ... feels kinda awkward to me. I find his LH'ing not that easy, and I'm having a hard time having a real impact on the early game, usually playing offlane (2v2). At very low MMR where there is barely a farm priority at all, I kinda end up leaving the farm to the other offlaner and supporting him. I feel like I don't have much impact in lane phase, regardless of the lane going well or bad. It's weird because I have some success with Necro in general (like 5-6 wins 1 loss so far), but that's from recovering in mid-late game. He's not really mobile (I'm actually tempted to play him with boots with speed bonus and/or a wind lace) and doesn't feel to me like I can accomplish much if I leave offlane early due to the lane being pretty much handled by the other offlaner. From the point I start recovering gold wise, I'm not sure either if I should go tankophos, or dagophos. Basically it's a really weird feeling, because I like his kit, I feel like I have an impact in mid/late game, but in a very awkward way. Like, for 15-20 minutes I'm never really sure where to go and what to build. After 2 months of playing DOTA and trying a LOT of heroes he's one of those I like the most and seem to get shit done with, but somehow he doesn't feel very comfortable yet... [link] [comments]  |
| Full guide on jungle creeps stacks Posted: 15 Jun 2018 07:10 AM PDT Hey guys, I've noticed many questions on stacks from new players. Hope that would be useful for you, as it was for me, especially if you play with friends and picked a core, who can farm those fast. It made a lot of games for me when I was playing support and my core was suffering, but with the boost from jungle stacks he managed to actually comeback and be on the same track with enemy cores. In case you are winning, it still gives a huge boost to your cores and support, who gets extra gold from those stacks. I would also recommend staying next to your carry when he farms them, in order to get the exp boost you totally deserved. Here are all the camps, info on which direction to pull and where you can make the maximum amount of stacks. Hope that will be helpful! Tell me, what you think of it! P.S. I would also really appreciate if you subscribe to my platform's Facebook page. I upload stats(analytics) on heroes there, so as some educational content like this, along with some Dota arts and video highlights I like the most. https://www.facebook.com/m0remmr/ Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| What caused a rather severe change in pace at 2K MMR? Posted: 15 Jun 2018 11:55 AM PDT After recalibration, I got just 200 more MMR than I had. That's barely anything, yet early game is a constant battlefield with enemies ganking incessantly, enemy offlaners pressuring my carry beyond my ability to push them back as support and there being tons of deaths by the 15th minute already. 2-1-2 isn't new to me, being the norm at lower MMRs yet I feel the game changed massively lately. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2018 11:07 AM PDT Guys I need to know how play Visage, what replays I can watch and which pro player should I watch. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2018 02:11 PM PDT Guardian IV I often have a good laning phase as a safelane carry (usually PA) or mid lane (usually WR) but have trouble building on it past mid game. What should I be doing differently? [link] [comments]  |
| Bloodseeker items - what, when and why? Posted: 15 Jun 2018 05:03 AM PDT I like to play utility heroes which scale into late game - Mirana, Windranger, Nightstalker, Kunka, Abaddon etc. They allow for mid-game adjustments to my role/play style according to other heroes in my team and how much farm is available. I'm at fairly low MMR, where picks are super random, so its important to be flexible when there is a last pick hard carry or one lane feeds and lives in the jungle for 20 mins. So I tried BLOODSEEKER for the first time this week, and he is my new favourite, usually OFFLANE. But he has so many potentially good items that I'm struggling to known which is best, and in what situation. Currently going Phase, Aquila, Blademail....and then I'm not sure... I understand that Radiance is strong, but I feel like it slows down my game, stops me capitalising on a good laning stage. What else - Euls, Echo Sabre, Solar Crest, Shadow Blade, SnY, Dagon, Heart, BKB, MKB, Bloodstone, Skadi, Butterfly, Octarine? At this point I'm just listing every item! TLDR: Any Bloodseeker players here that can tell me what they build, when, and why? [link] [comments]  |
| Is Sven just not worth using or am I missing something? Posted: 15 Jun 2018 04:16 AM PDT I've been using a good bit more Sven lately and despite liking his playstyle a lot more and more I'm starting to think he's not very good. Typically I do well in lane (die very little or not at all, get kills, not behind in farm ect), then well in mid game but regardless of what happens later on people just outlast bkb then control me forever and I die. It doesn't help that people tend not to be very good at this game, and I don't get the sense he's good at overcompensating for bad teammates at all. At the end of the games I usually have top cs, high team fight participation and not a large amount of deaths compared to anyone else. Build wise I tend to go Treads > MOM > BKB > S&Y > Daedalius > Heart or Abyssal Blade > the other or satanic Am I missing something, or is he just not great? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2018 07:59 AM PDT I recently had a pl game where looking back, I should have gotten a bkb. How do I figure out when I need a bkb, and what timing should I get it at? If you have an easy lane, first item is probably diffusal, but after that what should I get? Usually I go for a straight heart for survivability, but recently I've seen high mmr players sometimes go dIffusal moonshard. How does that work? [link] [comments]  |
| Easiest way to learn mid techniques? Posted: 15 Jun 2018 04:10 AM PDT I know there is a lot of videos but usually they are 10-20min+ and I forget everything after watching that video. I want to know when to push lane,what's the best way to harass enemy,best way to understand can u outharass enemy and many other things. If u can explain or send me a video where u learned all of these things I would really appreciate that. [link] [comments]  |
| How do you maintain lane equilibrium when laning with someone who's not aware of it? Posted: 15 Jun 2018 10:32 AM PDT Had a quite a few games where the my lane partner was just randomly hitting creeps, A-clicking enemy hero and dragging creep aggro all over the place, and single pulling the wave causing the next one to be double ranged. How do you regulate the equilibrium when presented with such problems? Trying to tell them to not push the lane, or to double pull, or just not randomly killing the enemy ranged creep and leeching XP usually just goes over their head and then flame. Can't really ask them to leave the lane since trilanes is basically bullshit rn. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 15 Jun 2018 08:50 AM PDT |
| How do you deal with an upcoming loss Posted: 15 Jun 2018 06:59 AM PDT I'm scared to queue boys. I had like 7 good teams in a row and I don't want it to stop m [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2018 11:21 PM PDT All of the sudden i see that hero being picked in pubs and competitive. What changed? Is viable as pos4? [link] [comments]  |
| Teaching my gf dota, need tipps for teaching Posted: 15 Jun 2018 12:30 AM PDT Hi learndota2 guys, its my first post here. A little bit about me first. I would consider myself as a pretty good player (playing since the beginning of dota allstars). The problem I have is, I don't really know how to teach my gf dota, because I learned dota such a long time ago. I don't really know how to teach a noob from scratch. Some info about her, she has never played any kind of moba, she only played Age of empires 2 so far. Sorry for bad englando and I am looking forward for your tipps guys. Thanks in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| What is arc wardens playstyle right now? Posted: 14 Jun 2018 11:36 PM PDT |
| Will Alternative Playstyles for Heroes Result in Lower Seasonal Rank Medal? Posted: 15 Jun 2018 03:19 AM PDT For example, Supporting as Wraith King or playing a carry/heavy farm hero as a lower position. Does Ranking take into consideration standard values ( gpm/epm )( K/D/A )for a given rank for a particular hero? This is assuming you have this planned ahead with others in the game or they are allowing it so you aren't throwing the game needlessly. [link] [comments]  |
| Some tips on grinding, both at skills and mmr Posted: 15 Jun 2018 02:41 AM PDT Hey. I'm sia. I'm currently chillin' in a cool-ass weather in the balcony next to the jungle, and am currently not busy doing anything and i don't have access to pc. So i thought aight lez open reddit and share some of the stuff i learned in my own grinding journey that could help others. (No tldr, if anyone is looking for tldrs chances are u aint gonna grind cuz it's a long term process) So let me start with this: the reason most people fail and the reason even the ones who got the results suffered to get there, is always internal issues. BUT almost always if you ask them why are you [put the type of suffering or getting stuck here] they'd talk about their teammates, valve, heroes. And whenever someone wants to improve, what does he do? A big percentage of the time they ask in forums "what hero do i pick?, what item should have i bought?" And things like that. Let me see if i can get this through right. ISSUES ALMOST NEVER GET SOLVED BY EXTERNAL SOLUTIONS. You might think when you're in debt, if someone pays all your debts then your issue is solved, but 2 years later, i assure you you'll find yourself in the same amount of debt if not more. You see, the human works through a bunch of predictable habitual loops. Until you change the loop, even if we fix the external result of your habit loops, you'll still create the same results. even if we refresh it like paying your debts off, you'll still be that guy who does these things that make him go in debt. So let's put this in the dota 2 perspective. People want to change their heroes. They wanna change their item builds. But the only ones who grind, are the ones who develop or change their thought patterns aka internal loops. Wanna know why rtz plays at rtz level? Cuz from before a game starts until the game finishes, in his head there are a bunch of programs, running, that give him his results aka what we see on screen. So: IF YOU WANT TO TRULY GET BETTER AND GRIND, CREATE NEW SETS OF PROGRAMS THAT GIVE THE RESULTS YOU'RE SEEKING. How do you do that? There are a bunch of ways. The most efficient way according to the successful people's advice is through modeling others who got your targeted results. A few years ago this was not even an available option in dota unless you were friends with pro players. But god bless, in this very moment there are a bunch of great resources to learn from. People like bsj, my friend r/circis1 , gameleap, pvgna, and any of the educational resources that FOCUS ON THE THOUGHT PROCESSES of the pro players are great resources to learn. Now let's get practical. What does the actual process of getting good look like? It is absolutely different for each person BUT there's a main framework i used and i'll share my own personal experience and you can model me or you can find someone else who shared their model, or you can make your own through trial and error. Mine was kinda like this: 1) Learn base psychological frameworks that boost your result getting (check out high performance habits from brendon burchard) 2) Learn dota 2's concepts without expecting any change in your gameplay. Only know there's this thing called constant pressure aka shoving lanes, or lane equilibrium, or the concept of advantage, etc etc. You can acquire these concepts through learning from educational content. My #1 free resource was bananaslamjamma's youtube channel and coaching sessions. This step will take a bunch of time and you'll not learn it perfectly at the start and you wont see any results since your knowledge isnt in the practice phase. ****VERY IMPORTANT TIP. Have some sort of journal for this. The info will overwhelm you and it'll end up getting lost a few minutes after you watch the video, and totally forgotten after a few hours/days. Actively learn not the way you were taught in school. Take notes, think about the stuff as if you were gonna apply em in your own games. 3) DO. Take all you learned, review your journal notes, and then choose one thing in it and in next 10 games or smth (unless you dont get ur chosen role) do that thing you learned through the concept. For example if you learned about lane equilibrium, have that as ur #1 priority even more than winning the game. Put your knowledge into practice. "Knowledge is not power. It's potential power. Putting it into use will release the power" -almost tony robbins xd A VERY IMPORTANT HEADS UP: This is the period of sucking dick, losing 2, or 3 times than before, frustration, anger, and jadhhsjdvkwiwhsj. Please do yourself a huge favor if you're following this and wanna put it into practice: WHEN YOU GET IN THESE PERIODS IN YOUR PATH , REMEMBER THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NORMAL because you're throwing away your old habit loops as we talked about and you're stepping into the unknown and it's confusing and frustrating but it's exactly through this process that you can install the new high performance habit loops. 3) The period of grind. Your new habit loops, your new programs, get installed, and you can feel the change of thought processes in-game inside your head, and on the outside your gameplay and decision makings change. When the new high performance programs get installed, they'll serve you and this is the time where you win more games and "suddenly" start getting more results. 4) BUT wait, this isnt the end. You install one good new set of programs, but you still have a lot of garbage programs installed, AND programs that you need but have not installed yet. So you go through step 1 to 3 AGAIN, for a new set of programs. And guess what after that one is installed? A NEW SET of programs. This process is not gonna feel clean. It's absolutely energy draining. It's not clear what program you gotta install next to fix your current issue. You don't know what you don't know a lot of the times. So the most important thing is acknowledging that it's ABSOLUTELY OK that you're trying different stuff but you're not getting any results or even worse results. Just go through it. Trust me. You'll have your breakthrough at some point. It's just that when you're in the shitty no-result step (step 2), you keep reminding yourself that there's gonna be a step 3, just not clean and clear-cut. Aight guys i think that was it for this time. I hope this could help you change your current program/loop of thinking on how grinding works, and more importantly i hope ppl who cared take action right after reading this. Cuz short term memory is 6-9 secs long, and short long term memory is a few hours/days long. So if you dont take action the whole effect will fade into your old loop of thinking which will again keep giving you your old results which you're trying (desperately like me?) to get out of. I'll post more stuff whenever an idea pops in and i got the time. I'm also starting youtubing the same stuff + some other stuff like anaysing replays for anyone who asks for it (20 replays in queue ._.) . I still suck at it and I'm sooooo slow at making into editing process (new habit loop getting shaped right here) and my vlogs lack gameplay and clips in em. But i still will post my thoughts and analyse replays abd slowly get better at it. (Also gotta work on my consistency and schedule with irl) So if any of you guys is interested this is the link to my youtube: (using mobile app idk how to hyperlink text) [link] [comments]  |
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