After having a long break i recalibrated at 2k (used to be 5.5k at peak) and I’ve gone from 2k to 3.5k playing mid only (around 3 months), i maintained across all ranks a 70% winrate. Only since getting to around legend 2/3 has it become super fucking toxic. I’m still dominating mid lanes but the carry or even offlane gets ganked once with a rune or tp and apparently that’s me not moving and they say report me. The games are literally going to shit within 5 minutes. I dont understand why its suddenly so toxic
I have played on my brothers account and won in Divine Lobbies as a Pos 1. Won my lanes as core also, its more coordinated and you get TPs from other lanes.
In Legend everyone is toxic, nobody gives a fck and there are 3 mid pickers 3 core pickers.
Been stuck in Legend 3-5 for quite a while on my own account. Normal Dota Ranked All Pick.
Took me 3 months to get out of that bracket then just shot up through the rest. It is harder than the higher ranks I shit you not, because of the griefing.
As someone who goes frequently from Legend to Divine due to breaks/party games and so on, Legend players are the worst. They finally tasted the feeling of how games should be played but they don’t know how to do it themselves so they flame others because they “know” the game but they are still losing so it must be others. Legends are ignorant, Ancients are arrogant and Divines are cocky.
Those people are playing too much and letting the last game spill over
Legend and ancient players are fucking delusional. They thought they have the skills to be immortal but frankly they just the same low rank players🤫
Everyone is toxic at every rank. Divine has been miserable since I got to it. Ancient has had the best/least toxic players in my experience.
Based on my experience, Legend - Ancient was the most toxic. I think the reason is that they take ranked too seriously and are afraid of accepting their own mistakes, instead they see others minor mistakes. People will eventually learn to realize their own mistakes and reach higher rank.
But of course, in any rank there’s always toxicity, just so happened that in my case the most toxic ones are Legend to Ancient.
A few things: 3.2k+ historically was where players could expect to shift from normal skill to high skill games (this is/was an actual metric of the old system and you can still (?) see it in your matches on your dotabuff if you have your steam profile public. Let me tell you, when I was grinding and was right there on the cusp and getting normal skill and high skill games, the difficulty of those high skill games was much higher and they were not at all fun for a 3k pleb like me. Keep on mind this was all literally at the same mmr. By the numbers, since 3k ala legend is/was the largest bracket and essentially the middle of the pack bracket skill-wise, the skill gap between high legend into ancient and a low to middle legend can be quite large compared to someone of average skill. If I had to guess, the games in this part of legend are matching people that are executing all or close to all mechanics of their role even if not perfectly with people who may be straight up not executing multiple portions of mechanics required by their role but have a lot of game knowledge and game sense. Middle of 3k always felt like that point where you either chose to learn the underlying mechanics of the game and execute them every game or accept that you play dota for fun and don’t care about w/l.
I also just calibrated in legend (3.5k) and I’ve had the same experience, I’m so confused.
Last time I climbed from archon to divine, like 4 years ago maybe? Legend was one of my fav ranks, I found it pretty chill. People understood basic mechanics, there weren’t many sweats and everyone was pretty chilled out. I remember Ancient being the absolute worst fucking bracket.
This time Legend bracket is behaving just like the ancient bracket last time I was there. Utterly confused I’ve barely had a single good game since hitting mid 3.5k.
Even the games I win it feels more down to the enemy griefing or throwing than us actually winning.
What tf has happened
Can agree with ya. 3K/legend MMR is toxic.
Especially in SEA.