Ward for your own advantage. A planted ward is better than no ward. At your level do not get obsessed with how much vision you provide. Of the 10 people in your games, none of them will effectively use the minimap for large effect. Don't shy away from playing carries and robbing yourself last hit practice. Its boring to rag on, but mechanics are the one thing you can practice non-stop and by merely being better mechanically than you were yesterday you will go up in rating for quite some time. Thing to remember about a pro dota game vs your current dota games - is that the acquisition of items - the speed of the game is relatively much faster. This is why mechanics will carry you to higher skill brackets early on in your dota career more than any other aspect you can work on, if you have your 4th item, 10 minutes before anyone else that can be leveraged into many wins. As was mentioned, always carry a TP. By carrying a TP you will be encouraged to pay attention to the minimap - check if the enemy is diving towers - and counter TP to turn the fight. If you have no TP in your inventory you cannot even think or execute this kind of play.
As long as they didn't mind it then you should keep playing with them. For one it is nice having helpful people on voice coms to explain things in real time. Secondly you get better when you get your shit pushed in on a regular basis. Playing with other new players may feel better but it takes longer to increase your skills wh everyone in the game blows.
Yup. The roughness just accelerates your learning curve if you can handle th e stomping you will receive. One of the best intro articles to dota is titled "welcome to dota, you suck". It is just that type of game early on. It is going to take hundreds of games for most people just to get down what long time players consider the basics.
I don't play DOTA (fuck point to click) but play Smite and one thing that really got me over the hump is watching the pro games on the weekend. I was struggly to make it to gold and after starting to watch them and a lot of practice I made it to plat division at least.For me I learn better playing ranked early on in my career; casual games teach you so many bad habits.
If you want, feel free to add me on Steam. Same name as here, I haven't played more than a handful in the games in the past year, so I am probably rusty as hell, and I have the patience of a saint and don't mind losing to teach/instruct. Also, does this game have the captain feature where a 6th player or whatever can observe your game and chat to you as it is going, or was that another MOBA?
SingSing was saying on stream that 2-3 days before the end of TI he was told that EG was going to drop Aui regardless of results and was told it again at the after party. Yet Aui didn't find out until a couple days after getting back home (seems like texting to break-up).
Team Secret was a little underwhelming before Arteezy and Zai left EG to be honest. Arteezy left to join them because he's an immature kid that would rather hop to a new team than to try and work out any problems.
