I used to be Ancient V 2 years ago when I stopped playing. Recently I started to play dota2 again, but I was calibrated to Archon 1. After many games I’m fluctuating between Crusader V and Archon IV…
Even though I’m at much lower level than 2 years ago, I noticed even CRUSADER people are incredible. I mean people use aggro all the time, they use manta dodge(!), when I’m playing hoodwink and throw my 1st spell to bushwack the enemy, the enemy destroys the tree in that 0.3 second, they deny eachother or themselves at neutral camp if possible, they carry dust, they cut waves(!), etc.
As I see the main problem in this bracket is the urge to overextend and dive like crazy, not playing for objectives and lastly bad target priorization. As a support player I always try to help my team making the right decision, but this rarely happens. Apart from this, I’m really surprised how mechanically advanced people are in the crusader bracket.
As I was missing for 2 years, I would be interested in your observation. Are players this much better on avarage, or am I really getting old and bad? :)
yes its getting better over time
lets put a scale for (potato/pro) dota2 match from 0 to 100 meaning 0 = complete potato game and 100 = complete pro 12k mmr game
now people sitting at crusader lets say they were at 40/100
after couple of years, there are still players stuck at this rank and most probably they learned many things and their skill level got higher but not to a limit where they can climb to immortal for example, you can see players with 5000-10000 matches in 2-3k mmr which is awful but it does exist, their skill is absolutely higher than themselves when they had 1500-2000 matches only, they might have learned every single aspect of the game like the ones you mentioned, but they still make a crusader gameplay for some reason they are unable to get rid of their old habits
note: I was 5k mmr in 2016, left dota2 from 2017 to 2022 and they gave me legend 5
It feels so trash to be at very lower rank than what you used to have, but after playing it seemed to be the correct decision, I was missing many important things while people kept playing all day long for many years. Now I got 7k mmr and very appreciating that they didn’t place me 5k instantly and gave me lower rank after a long break, since I learned A LOT