7k tips to increase your MMR

Hello guys!

I've seen a post of someone quitting earlier, and he made a pretty decent post giving us tips before he quits the game. So I decided to do the same. (Yes I'm quitting too, yay!)

Tips:

1. Spam your best hero.

(I've spammed wisp, increased from 5.5k to 7k in a month)

Can't find your best hero? Pick the most OP hero in the current meta. (Leshrac!)

1. Don't play with bad friends.

Seriously, when I used to play with my real life mates, I was always listening to them, and do whatever they told me to do. I was falling into their pressure and that just made my game-play worse.

Now that I stopped playing with them, and started doing whatever I feel is right to do (in game), I managed to climb to 7k, while they are still stuck in 3k.

1. Use the Mute button.

People might hate me for this, but seriously - use the mute button to mute bad players. I'm not talking about a player that went 1-10 in a single game because he had a bad game. I'm talking about people who feeds couriers if they don't get the role they want (mid, safelane or offlane... cuz who really wants to support?). Also, people who trash talk your team-mates from minute 0 and make the game not enjoyable to play which leads to a free lose.

1. Always ask for combos!

Especially offlane combos! Trust me in this.

If you get a decent combo for offlane, the opponents always panic, their carry starts to cry for not having a good farm, and you will have a lot of kills in that lane.

Combo ideas for offlane: Wisp+Bristle, Wisp+Anyone really (leshrac, slark, LC, Sky, etc...), Bristle+Abbadon, Undying+Anything, Bane+Mirana, or even a casual pudge+techies.

I honestly reached 7k mostly by playing Tiny+Wisp mid. But trust me, I was telling the tiny EVERYTHING what to do, every game, and of course, in a very nice way! It is very important to be nice to your combo-mate, otherwise you would fail miserably.

For example: If Tiny dies stupidly on lane, you should encourage him to not lose hope, like "its okay, we still have our stacks to catch up", etc etc...

1. If you are in a much higher MMR average game than you are supposed to be, pick support!

Now you might think, "Oh, pick support because its for noobs who can't play the game". Not really. Imagine you are a 4k and matching with a 7k in your team. Every 7k core player's dream, is to have a good support. So do what supports are supposed to do! Go stack the jungle for him, refill the bottle for him, gank his lane, and make sure you are his bitch. This is really a good way to win.

1. Outsmart your enemy.

Pubs nowadays are all the same. It's really easy to predict what everyone is going to do. What lane they are going, what they will do next, and what they would do to win.

So....? outsmart them!

They have a sandking not showing anywhere on the map? He is stacking! Go steal his stacks! If you can't alone, go with your supports.

They have invisible gankers? Make them become useless, by purchasing an important item which costs 200 gold. SENTRIES!

Smoke ganks? Not very popular in the lower brackets. Always a good surprise gank will turn the tables when it comes to networth. Just don't make it seem to obvious when smoking!

1. BE FRIENDLY!!!!! THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT TIP OF ALL!

No kidding, attitude has a lot to do with your MMR.

I've gave a small example in TIP #4, to always encourage your team-mates to win, and never flame. Always be positive and friendly.

Imagine you hit miss 3 arrows in a row, and someone write you "CAN YOU FUCKING HIT 1 SINGLE ARROW PLEASE?!?!?!?! FUCKING RETARDED PIECE OF SHIT GET OUT OF MY BRACKETS". Will you still have the mood to play the game?! I wouldn't!

Now imagine the same scenario, with a nice friendly guy! He would be like "One day you will latch an arrow"... Even though its not the nicest thing I could think of, but its kind of a friendly sentence, and I would keep trying!

Alright I honestly have a lot of other tips to give, out of my 8 years of Dota experience. But I feel that I've written way too much, and not sure people will actually enjoy reading this.

I'm up to make another one if people seem to like it.

PS: I have a highlight in my twitch of me coaching a guy on how to Tiny+Wisp mid, the road on how I got 7k. I'm afraid to post the link, so people won't call me a sellout!

Have a great one!

TL;DR - Key to winning is to think outside of the box, predict enemy moves, don't play with players you know you will lose with, and most importantly - BE FRIENDLY!