DOTA 2 MMR: 5 Steps To Increase Dota2 Solo MMR

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#2 Picking the heroes

This is one of the most important points in the entire article if not THE most important point. Learn to pick heroes. First thing, never try new heroes in ranked matchmaking. Now, a lot of people will tell you their tales of gaining MMR with OP heroes but that's bullcrap! Because there's is no OP heroes. Say it 10 times in your head now, "There is no OP hero, there are only heroes that noobs can't counter". Then how people gain MMR by spamming? Fact is, players spam a hero that is in the patch and meta, which makes them good enough to survive not to win, what makes them win is their opponent's inability to counter those heroes. Soon you gain MMR and climb high and you meet people in the higher scale bracket who knows how to counter that hero and that is when you get stuck. This is not even worse. The worse part about this is, that you are now stuck in a position where you are losing games and getting reported right and left and you can't play any other hero to save your life, so you start to drop.

My advice, do not master 1 hero, master a set of heroes and make yourself a hero pool of at least 5 heroes that you can use if your hero is taken or not viable in the situation. This way you are now more of a team player who can survive even without your own special hero. This also gives you another advantage, the more heroes you know the more heroes you can counter. So now you can not only play a different hero but you can also pick a hero to ruin your enemies game.

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