I’d rather leave games to lose mmr when there is a genius picking offlane medusa into safe lane am on the team, mid witch doctor, safe lane AA.

There is seriously no solution to this?

  • AmuletMan33B
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    1 year ago

    If it was like this I would 70% of the games that I think we have inferior draft!

  • shaker_21B
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    1 year ago

    Mid WD was one of the strats used in the last TI qualifiers. It was pretty strong. Offlane Medusa was also one of the strats Liquid used and won with throughout the year. Safelane AA, though, sounds absolutely atrocious.

    Sure, some people will say “But my teammates don’t have the skill to play like pro players, so they shouldn’t be using these strategies”. I get where they’re coming from, but I don’t like the idea of people needing to literally be pro players before they’re allowed to try out strategies that have proven to have some worth.

    At some point, learning to adjust to bad drafts is part of the Dota experience and learning process. Draft issues manifest in many ways. Sometimes your team won’t have enough disables. Sometimes your team has a carry Tidehunter. You can’t control what other people want to play in a video game, but you can adapt how you play lanes, how you play fights, and how you play the map to help make your team’s draft work.

    And if we’re being honest with ourselves, we’ve all lost to some drafts that we think absolutely should not work. Like I lost to a pos 4 PA that just rushed spirit vessel and nullifier in TWO DIFFERENT 3k average games, and after that, I told myself that I lost every right to complain about weird drafts, since they’ve somewhat proven some degree of viability. So I’ll always play through weird drafts and try to adjust. Immediately reporting weird picks or off-meta picks seems shortsighted. You can report them after the game, but at least wait and see if they actually try to play their role and responsibilities before you consider reporting or abandoning.

    I hope that helps!

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      1 year ago

      I’m pretty sure they didn’t pick offlane medusa with am safelane already picked. I’m also sure that their WD mid has a plan unlike this crazy ass player

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    1 year ago

    rubick mid says hi
    each game I have rubick mid in my team its auto lose no matter what
    and each game our draft is trashy single target + enemy last pick PL its also auto lose
    such games are better not to play and abandon
    but it will result in matchmaking abuse like any game I don’t like I will abandon before first blood and 10 players can do that
    this will make 99% of the matches last no longer than 1st minute then abandon
    making dota2 unplayable at all