If someone on your team is doing something incorrectly or not grouping often times just saying "Group up" and taking control of the game will wake them up and force them to stop wave clearing with no real purpose. Sometimes you'll get someone who just refuses to take direction so just chalk that up to a loss. But honestly the match making has been pretty decent for me lately. I'm often times matched with people within 10 or so of my rank on each team.
Just the other day on Cursed if it wasn't for me directing the team it would have been a surefire loss. Someone decided to take the driver's seat at the start of the game and was making a ton of wrong moves. Pinging camps when I knew tribute would spawn within 20 seconds. Pinging boss when everyone was alive. Just incorrect decisions. So I just started to basically say "No tribute too soon" when he'd ping stupid shit. Don't be aggressive and don't act like the person is stupid just let them know it is a bad call. Like 99/100 the boss pings on Sky Temple are the wrong call. You have got to question them because that is the easiest way to throw an advantage on that map. And if you're not comfortable making those decisions nor can you see they're incorrect prior to the unfavorable outcome occurring then maybe you are playing at the right MMR. This game does allow for a certain amount of counterplay but in general it is more map-strategy focused than other MOBAs. A group of 5 average skill players following correct orders on the map will always beat a group of 5 extremely skilled players incorrectly following map orders. Just look at Tempo Storm. I don't think individually they're the best players at their roles (possibly Zuna is now filling that role as being a wild card extremely skilled player) but they always seem to find mid-game advantages by map presence.
Just the other day on Cursed if it wasn't for me directing the team it would have been a surefire loss. Someone decided to take the driver's seat at the start of the game and was making a ton of wrong moves. Pinging camps when I knew tribute would spawn within 20 seconds. Pinging boss when everyone was alive. Just incorrect decisions. So I just started to basically say "No tribute too soon" when he'd ping stupid shit. Don't be aggressive and don't act like the person is stupid just let them know it is a bad call. Like 99/100 the boss pings on Sky Temple are the wrong call. You have got to question them because that is the easiest way to throw an advantage on that map. And if you're not comfortable making those decisions nor can you see they're incorrect prior to the unfavorable outcome occurring then maybe you are playing at the right MMR. This game does allow for a certain amount of counterplay but in general it is more map-strategy focused than other MOBAs. A group of 5 average skill players following correct orders on the map will always beat a group of 5 extremely skilled players incorrectly following map orders. Just look at Tempo Storm. I don't think individually they're the best players at their roles (possibly Zuna is now filling that role as being a wild card extremely skilled player) but they always seem to find mid-game advantages by map presence.
