Dota 2

Normally I think someone in my game is "grefing" when they do obviously stupid plays etc.

But watching overwatch cases of an IO teleporting teammates to the enemy fountain, now THATS grefing, and then maybe my teammates isn't really grefing as much as I think haha

It's just a joke, I don't actually think league players are any better or worse than dota ones.

I've occassionally played some Dota2 before but I'll be mainly switching to Dota2 after League releases their kernel level anticheat. I mostly play on arch linux (the league of linux community is the best), and I love that Dota2 supports linux natively while I have to literally hack my system and, in the past, patched some binaries to ensure that league barely works on my system. I'd often have the game crash on me right before the game starts because League's spaghetti code can't handle my system.

Overall, I feel like Dota2 is the better game holistically. The UI is better polished, the gameplay is more well balanced, and it doesn't feel like a shithole like League feels like now. I have long been contemplating making the switch, and I feel stupid at this point sticking to League up until they literally kick me out of their game because they want to require a kernel-level anticheat (aka spyware) that will block me from playing on my linux system.

I grew up playing League and I'll miss it, but I love MOBAs and Dotas is the de-facto best there is. My relationship with League can best be described as Stockholm Syndrome at this point, and I'm happy they're releasing me.

Dreamleague S22 was the last T1 tournament: https://liquipedia.net/dota2/DreamLeague/Season_22

It was played with a format of 2 large group stages and a small finals bracket with the top 4 teams.

Team Falcons continued their domination from the previous tournament (BB Dacha). It seems like the pro scene is a bit shaken up after the last TI and its season, with teams like Gaimin Gladiators and Team Liquid not really at the top anymore. Apart from Team Falcons, the whole scene looks a bit more even right now. The Eastern European teams, namely BB Team and Team Spirit, also look strong right now, together with some of the Chinese teams, mainly Xtreme Gaming.

As for meta, a selection of the top heroes right now:

For the support role(s), Chen, Batrider, Lion, Mirana, Shadow Demon, Tiny, Enigma, Techies

Popular offlaners include, Mars, Timbersaw, Centaur, Magnus, Dragon Knight.

Mids are Puck, Pango, Dragon Knight, Storm Spirit, Timber, Templar Assassin.

Carries include Naga, Sven, Morphling, Terrorblade, Faceless Void.

Playstyle-wise, there was a lot of focus on individual outplays, particularly from the offlane role. Successful teams had lots of the "meta" heroes in their repertoire and were able to use them to snowball from the laning stage into the midgame, simply securing more farm by pushing the enemy off the map and into defensive positions through outplays in how the map was played, which heroes could be where and how fights went. As such there was a higher focus on teamfight heroes with big ultimates, like Mars, Enigma, Faceless Void, Pheonix, Undying, but also saves against that, like Shadow Demon, also Undying, Vengeful Spirit.

Gaimin Gladiators vs Falcons

ATF to squadix after he lost with huskar

Falcons vs IG game 1

Apparently mc had a problem with Pure, moonmeander and zai and made an ultimatum to the ceo of the org yesterday, that either they leave or he will leave. Tundra decided to kick mc right before a match. Mc's replacement for Dreamleague is Laise from Team Klee.

Kind of telling that I'm more excited about ban waves now than upcoming new content.

I saw 天地星AI·固定搭配 when participating in a bot match. I googled its meaning in vain. Google translate wasn't much aid too. What does it mean?

Here is my match history for the last few games:

• 7552918956 l primal beast running alone and running into enemy alone, globally muted during game
• 7552902567 l pos 5 pudge abandon
• 7552860133 l mid necro rushes dagon ONLY, gets it at 9 mins with 4 deaths. result: 19-0 enchantress opponent on mid
• 7552767327 l long game, pos 5 grim plays very poorly, worthless items, then abandons
• 7550071221 w played as wd, lost of mistakes, played him like 5 times, team won
• 7549980733 w played as lion, same as above
• 7548787204 w 68 min game, pretty normal and close compared to that
• 7548731357 l 7-16 (lvl7 @10 mins vs lvl10 lc) mid np tping behind towers and feeding, vs 536 stack duel victory lc
• 7548485224 l pos 1 pl barely more nw than a support, dying uselessly a lot, lc afk deffensively farming triangle
• 7548416320 l everyone fed meepo, offlaner didnt know how to play his hero
• 7548356120 l cw pos 1, i wasn't good either but he felt insanely useless and died a lot
• 7548301173 l pos 1 dude was straight out afk from the start

I had more or less (rather less) success before, but in the games I lost I there is always one lc mid rushing khanda, or someone who plays their hero for the first time (believe me, I can go on)

I get someone who griefs nearly every single game, and it makes impossible to have fun during games. Worst part is that I have to play the game till the end even if there is 0 chance of any play. What am I doing wrong? In the past there were multiple occurrences of having a really good winstreak, where my team won pretty hard, and I took a good part of it. Even if it was a loss, it was something to learn from, and I could blame myself for the mistakes I knew I made, and it was somewhat close. Then I got griefers for the next matches till I lost all of my advancements.

I seriously doubt that after having such a good winrates at 1.7k mmr I reach 2k, and the skill difference is that much that I have absolutely 0 chance to win, and suddenly everyone in my team plays insanely bad, or griefs. I get a ton of uncalibrated players who usually play awful in my team

I know that I'm possibly not better then everyone, but it always feels like I'm the only one in the team that knows how to play, and nearly always feel like that I was the best in my team. I know this sounds bad, but prove me otherwise, because at this point I have no idea what to do to stop this.

MatchID    Date                    Periodic  Excessive Reports  Excessive Abandons  Match Count  Positive Matches  Reported Matches  Abandoned Matches  Reports  Reporting Parties  Comms Reports  Comms Reporting Parties  Commends  Behavior Score
7548356120 2024-01-21 16:02:44 GMT Yes       No                 No                  15           14                1                 0                  2        2                  0              0                        20        11875 
7537612880 2024-01-14 16:34:57 GMT Yes       No                 No                  15           15                0                 0                  0        0                  0              0                        27        12000 
7531262752 2024-01-10 18:18:10 GMT Yes       No                 No                  15           15                0                 0                  0        0                  0              0                        24        12000

My all-time lowest behavior score was 11767 (since the increase to 12k), my comms score is the same