From 2100 to 1400 mir solo, what to do get better

Hello guys, because my Mmr dropped heavy I created a filter on my desk where I write down what went good and what could be done better next time. I have one for venom, Lina, Luna, silencer and Lycan.
Ok I think I improved with this method. I pick counter and watch for friends and foes. I read guides and made in game builds in Dota 2.com
I talk to my team mates and to calm down and not raging. When I'm not support I try to help support and I also give recommendations for the weak player on what they can buy.

I would love to know how I can improve the situation that all engage in the same time and not die solo and I want to know if it is normal that in minute 11 it's like 18:11 in my opinion the farming stage should be longer. But all fighting already. Or am I wrong here? I also would like to know if I should pick last and get what's needed or if I shall pick first and convince my team to pick friends of my hero. I really know I suck and I want to learn. So pls help. Any tip recommended

Cheers mc dauly

Got any replays for people to view? That would be incredibly helpful for people to suggest things to improve on. However there are generally things certain brackets lack and in the bracket you were, including your current mmr, most likely you're having mechanic problems. Thus it translate to having problems everywhere else.

What heroes are you playing? Are you a position 1 or 2 core? Are you a position 3 core? Are you a position 4 farming support/roamer/jungler or are you a position 5 hard support?

Really need a few replays to assess your predicament, have you enabled external sites to log your stats like Dotabuff or YASP?

As I started 2012 I played always safelane carry. But I had a 1,5 years break. And now I started around 4-6 weeks ago to play dota. Since then my Winrate dropped 8 percent (I saw the old on dota buff. Now I updated the stats) I started to play other roles, because I do not get the safelane normally. I try to play middle and offlane also. Anyway somehow I suck and I want to get better mmr in solo queue.

Here is my link: http://www.dotabuff.com/players/27007784

Hope you guys can help
Cheers McDauly

OK I can give you a few tips :

- Lycan : always buy Necronomicon on that hero, just after Vlads. It's really a core item since his ultimate was reworked to make the necro warriors crit. Before the ult rework there was maybe an argument to build combat lycan with just damage items but now there's really no question about necro being core. And don't go with the "I can't micro" nonsense XD. Press F2 (select all units), and right click, that's all the "micro" there is to it.

- Phantom Assassin : Don't pick that hero. The hero is literally **** in 6.87, possibly the worst hero in the entire game right now. She got massive, and I mean MASSIVE indirect/hidden nerfs (abyssal blade changes, MKB changes, dagger change, silver edge existing...) that cut her damage output to pretty much zero and make her passives almost useless, making her plain unplayable.

- Medusa : the build you use would maybe have been OK...3 years ago! But the hero got buffed a lot since then so it's outdated as hell. Don't max Mana Shield, always mas Split Shot. You should be 4/4/1/1 at level 10 or 11, every single game. You max your Q just after snake because it's your farming skill, while putting more than one point in your shield early game does...literally nothing since the scaling was buffed. Also, don't buy Linken's Sphere on Dusa, pretty much ever. Linkens is an item for very mobile heroes, not for tanky carries that sit in the middle of fights. Essentially Linkens on Dusa is paying 5K gold for a slightly better Ultimate Orb, wasted regen, and an almost useless active since you'll be eating far more than one disable anyways. Eye of Skadi gives twice as much stats, so buy skadi instead, and if you really have a problem against disables buy BKB after a few items. You want Butterfly on Dusa ASAP because it's your only way to deal any damage. Also it's Phase Boots not treads for Dusa, since she needs the +24 damage to last hit, otherwise you just won't farm jack in lane.
(I mean if there's a Beastmaster, a Pudge and a Sven in the enemy team then sure you can buy Linkens on Dusa, but it's like 1 game out of 50 and even then it should probably not be your first item).

- Don't buy Vanguard on Viper. EVER. Again, maybe this was a thing 3 years ago, but now it's just a scrub build that gets made fun of, rightfully so I might add. The item is literally garbage on ranged heroes. If you want an early game survivability item, it's either Mekansm or Dragon Lance.

- Rod of Atos is generally better than Orchid Malevolence on a carry Silencer. Essentially you need the slow because Silencer has no real slow or stun, so no way to catch up to people.

Essentially it shows that you've only started to play dota again recently after a long break. Maybe read recent guides on heroes to see how they are played right now, or watch high skill games...a lot has changed :)

thx mate,

can you give me also recommenadations on venomancer?

I also would like to know how to act as effective as possible in the picking phase, also how to communicate effective then.
And I also would like to know how to act when team is not well organized. Is there an effective way to organize?

Veno's skill build is very versatile so I can't give you a generic one. Just keep in mind that maxing Poison Sting first is really not the best build unless you're laning against one or two melee heroes and you want to spend the entire early game harassing ; against ranged heroes it's completely useless. Try out maxing Venomous Gale at 7 and going for heavy roaming, it's pretty legit (it's 600 damage!). Also try out maxing Plague Ward and getting early towers. You can spam wards in lane even as a support Veno, just remember that you need to control the wards so that they don't autoattack the creeps (press the stop command for that), and select them so that they attack only the heroes.

Item build, you always want a mobility item ( Blink Dagger or ( Force Staff), and an Aghanim's Scepter as soon as you hit level 16. Almost every single Veno in competitive goes blink, I really recommend you to do the same, it's just so good to blink + ult on 4 heroes. Also buy Veil of Discord for even more damage, Ghost Scepter and/or Glimmer Cape to stay alive and Blade Mail because the item's OP right now



Call your role in chat (e.g "solo offlane please"), and put your hero cursor on the minimap. This way everyone knows what you intend to do.



(laughing uncontrollably)
Umm, you kind of don't, really XD
The best advice I can give is to try to guide your team like "let's push this tower", "let's gank that guy" or "let's get Rosh", but there's really no guarantee that anyone is going to listen to you.
Still, sometimes it works and you get commended for leadership. Sometimes.

Your best chance is to pick heroes that don't need a team. Especially at 1K MMR.

just for clarification

This is one option I already use.

The 2 others are:

1. Waiting for others to pick and then look on counterpicker which hero I can play and also is good for the team and the enemy team.

2. Pick a hero first or second and spam the chat full with synergy heros.

My position I always mark on the minimap. so that should be no problem ;)

By the way, one question for the medusa build. Shall I build manta before butterfly or try to rush butterfly after aquila and boots?

How do i build carry Silencer this patch ? hammster mentioned that Rod of athos is better than Orchid Malevolence, but orchid scales far better on silencer because absurd critic, you have already a slow on Q, and you should build Eye of Skadi and Guinso which are good for disable

Skadi! If there's one core item on Medusa it's that one.
Don't rush damage items. It's more like skadi into damage items, since skadi gives everyting : damage, mana to spam snake to farm, and more HP than any other item.

Manta is good if you need the dispel, typically against silence or Treant ulti. If you don't need the dispel butterfly is always better.

After boots I recommend grabbing either Hand of Midas or Mask of Madness. Both accelerate your farm and MoM has a great synergy with her shield (the damage on shield isn't amplified)

You don't need to unless there are silences and you need to get your ult out. You can build Yasha and just leave it as is for the nice bonuses ideally before Skadi but getting Manta depends on who you're up against. If they have silences or you're up against someone like Lifestealer then Manta is not a bad pickup after Skadi but if you want to skip it, you can. It's also good in pushes once you have some items but it's never something you want to rush.



That is not the reason for whether or not to get Linkens. You'll want Linkens so you can get your ult off and once that happens, it becomes that much harder to kill you. That is the main reason to get Linkens, against heroes who want to stop you from being able to cast your ult on time... or ever. Why? Your mana will be burned before you have the chance to cast it if you're focused. If you cast it late, you're still kind of in a bad situation since the medusa ult costs a good chunk of her mana.

This scenario won't happen every game but it's good to know when or when not to get certain items. You want to get Linkens especially if you're the front line and absolutely need to get your ult off.