Please help. I know, I am good... but, I suck.

1. Too serious while playing will never help improving your skills. The reason is you will keep using same playing style but with more caution.

2. This not only will make your skills worsen but also will give you stress.

3. Watching pro Live game or replay or VODS will help improve your skills as well as reduce the stress.

4. The other way is playing with practice intention. It is like "i don't care with my win rate, or to win the game, I will just enjoy and experiment it". This feeling alone will not help, your must do the practice with it. For example you are practice a carry, add something like "I will make sure my creep status for at least 100 before 20th mintues and I will practice how to improve my time". Even though you lost the game but you achieve your goal, you will have a little bit happiness and at the same time improving your skills.

Got the yips, do ya?

Here's how to shake those in a few easy steps:
1. Get into low priority matchmaking
2. Select Russian region
3. Put game setting to random draft
4. Hard carry with whatever you get
5. Have some fun

Russian Roulette, the sport of winners.

Thanks so much to everyone who posted. It is for sure helping! I have come to realize that, I was just getting worked up over and over and over again. I do need to just calm down and watch the replays.

Stop dota and have fun IRL. Or go play other games, anything else. The best remedy of bad dota is a few moments without dota.

You might have moved up in the skill bracket, if so congrats. This would mean you were playing with and ageist better players this would result in the need to to step up your game.

when I'm having a bad streak, I just go **** it

100% of the time for me at least I lose that streak since my mindset is changed from being annoyed/agitated to being chill.

Or just pick Pudge and have fun, works for me :)

If I'm having a series of bad games something I do may be to go play another game, preferably shooters since they require little strategy and are dictated by reaction and memory. Also, sometimes eating will calm you down, you may not realize it but when you spend hours at the computer you often forget to hydrate or eat. If your getting aggravated a shower is a good way to calm down as well.

Most of the time its yourself going on tilt and just going downhill each game because of specific emotions toward losing the previous game, then the next game, and so on. You just need to calm down, analyzing your plays right away might just make you even more distraught.

Having a bad game isn't something new. If you checked my DotaBuff record, there should be one of the games that I fed so bad that I felt like crying. It's natural, the reasons are there, sometimes they are (assuming you are a carry):

• Supports don't support you.
• Other carries run when the teamfight breaks out
• Other carries KS you like mad, causing you to be underfed.
• You underestimated the enemies.
• You overestimated your abilities or heroes.

... The list stretches on. However, instead of crying about it, just watch a replay and see what went wrong. No player will always have a smooth game. Sometimes you win sometimes you lost. When you watch the replay, try to mend your mistakes. Stop always blaming others (even though they are at fault), when you play in pubs, everybody wants to carry and nobody wants to support.

Another suggestion is you can gather a small group of friends to play with. Normally your friends are more willing to listen to what you have to say than completely defying you.

Now, back to your example of Chaos Knight and Huskar. Sometimes, people makes mistake. At yours, it would seem that Huskar jumps in and nearly gets himself kill. Here, you have a judgement to call upon yourself. Whether to save him or not, yes?

If he is your main carry and you are already underfed, it is better the enemies kill you instead of killing it because the amount of gold to one carry is important. If you know you did a noble and right thing, why blame yourself? Some pub players might not see why you did that but there is sure someone that appreciates your effort. So, don't worry about it and just have fun, like you should in every game!