For example, i play Zeus a lot, every 1 lvl of Heavenlu jump reduces cooldown by 4 seconds, Zeus has 4 seconds cooldown reduction lvl10 talent, right now #1 spectated game has Zeus who took that talent at lvl10 or 11 and he has lvl1 Heavenly jump, why would he do that?
“high rank” players are just heralds with more playing time
I just played Zeus today and when it I got level 10 I just read and found out that the spell leveling gives the same cd reduction as the talent. So I leveled up the spell. I’m 3k and play turbo and suffer trying to complete compendium quests.
You should watch people who spam zeus. If you watch some streamers, you will realize that if they are not picking a comfort hero, but rather picking a hero that they’ve missed playing, they will follow an old build till they realize how to efficiently build the hero. Their thinking on playing zoos would be, do i need a quicker escape? or do i need more dps? So, they’ll figure it out as they go forward.
And this is also common at TIs. If you want to learn how to play LD, and you follow the Ace build in TI finals, you’ll just lose. Both qojqva, and excalibur were seriously questioning his build (they’re LD spammers), and yet Ace was the reason GG made it to finals. So, there are players who are experts on their own heroes, and players who closes the gap of experience through their skills of outplaying.
Btw, I forgot which pro player said it in an interview, but he did say that if a hero’s OP, they go check how a spammer of that hero plays that hero. For example, for brood, he went and watched an ancient player play, and was amazed at how he had set up his nets across the map and had a gpm of 1k at less than 20mins (or something like that). Of course, it wouldn’t have worked at immortal bracket because he’d get ganked or rotated on, or farm taken, but the point is that they were learning the net placements from there.
They are not high rank because they know every skill build, picking a talent over a skill is not the reason you win or lose.
some of these high ranks you have seen wasn’t probably a zeus player. watch them play their main hero and role and you’d realized why they’re high ranks.
marci has this with her level 10 too iirc
Dota player brain doesn’t work like that. A few months ago people were analyzing why most lvl10 talents are not meant to be taken after you max out all your spells, they all got downvoted and some even fight back with dumb excuses to why lvl10 talents are good.
It’s not optimal to do so, but the end of the day the micro and macro is what matters. I mean, Ana doesn’t even know how to agro creeps until the first TI.