A lot of things can explain why a player got lots of deaths; there are many reasons and the context is the most important. Why did that player die so much?<\/p>\n
\u2013 Maybe he\u2019s tired, hungry, angry, unfocused on the game, not an expert with this character\u2026, it doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s bad in a general way. Maybe the context is not good for him right now. If you insult him, it will not improve the situation.
\n\u2013 Not an expert with this character? During the lineup, did he complain about the role he was about to play? It\u2019s the team\u2019s fault if he said he wasn\u2019t able to handle a specific role and the team didn\u2019t listen.
\n\u2013 Is the team\u2019s setup unfavorable for him? You shouldn\u2019t neglect the importance of the team\u2019s composition; some characters are countered, by nature, by other characters.
\n\u2013 Is he a frontline character? Characters that fight in the front, like melee and tanks, have a higher chance to die.
\n\u2013 Is he squishy? Do the other teams engage and focus on him a lot?
\n\u2013 Is he dying because he\u2019s not in the right place, at the right time? Or maybe he\u2019s THE ONLY ONE in the team to be in the right place, at the right time, which means YOU\u2019RE not there to help.<\/p>\n
These are just examples! We could find other reasons.<\/p>\n
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2) WRONG: \u00ab\u00a0If the team dies, it’s because the support failed!\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n The help provided by a support role is always inferior to the DPS of the enemy\u2019s team; that\u2019s why it\u2019s called support.<\/p>\n By nature, he can\u2019t SAVE everyone. Playing with a support character in the team does not allow you to throw away your self-management and survival instinct. You have to pay attention to YOUR cooldowns, but also the OPPONENTS\u2019 and YOUR support\u2019s.<\/p>\n The best way to play with the support in your team is playing like there is NO support in your team!<\/p>\n 3) WRONG: \u00ab\u00a0If I deal more damage than my team, it means I’m a better player!\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n Leaderboards record all damage dealt, useful ones as well as useless ones.<\/p>\n \u2013 If you\u2019re playing a character that has a lot of burst damage and if you engage fights alone and then die after delivering your huge damage, you will probably be ranked first on damage dealt; but it will be useless as your teammates will have to fight 4 versus 5. And their support will probably heal all the damage your dealt. You have to understand when it\u2019s the right time to deliver damage. It can be explained in other ways<\/span>, but sometimes it\u2019s BECAUSE you\u2019re first ranked in damage dealt that your team dies.<\/p>\n This is also true for tanks: taking the most damage does not mean you\u2019re doing a good job. Maybe you engage way too soon and too fast, your team can\u2019t follow up and you die before they can engage\u2026 you\u2019ll definitely be first ranked at damage received if you play like that. 4) WRONG: \u00ab\u00a0A character not played means it’s a bad character.\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n A character not played maybe just means it\u2019s an unpopular character, but it could be really effective depending on the context. But the game is not the same depending on if you are a pro-gamer or a complete beginner: for example, in Heroes of the Storm, as I\u2019m writing these lines, Lt. Morales is a powerful continuous healer but she\u2019s not really played in high ranked games and never banned, because of her lack of escapes and her vulnerability against characters that have engage skills.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, beginners ban Lt. Morales a lot and if she\u2019s not, having her in your team is almost an instant victory. Why? Simply because beginner players always focus on the tank, not the support nor the damage dealers; in that context, Lt. Morales is overpowered.<\/p>\n The opposite is also true, some people called it Mobacharphobia: \u00ab\u00a0usually happens when you constantly meet a specific char being played so well, that he will look OP or broken. It usually happens to new people in the game, and can be easily healed by increasing your playing skills and giving your character a better build.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n 5) WRONG: \u00ab\u00a0Theorycraft is the most important thing in a MOBA.\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n The most important thing is the way you play your character. Theorycraft knowledge is extremely important for pro-gamers because they master their characters, but you\u2019re not a pro-gamer.<\/p>\n If you don\u2019t play the way you feel comfortable, you\u2019ll make mistakes and you\u2019ll lose. For example: you don\u2019t have to force yourself to buy items with active powers if you never use them. On paper, that item is better than another. But by never using its active power, YOU make it worse. Otherwise, theorycraft will just lead you to a wrong analysis of the current game and bad arguments\/bad faith behavior.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 6) WRONG: \u00ab\u00a0Not answering a bad call from the team is a good idea.\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s better to make a mistake with 5 players playing together than trying to do something great with different goals. A bad call can change into a good one if everyone plays it like it was the action of the game.<\/p>\n Depending on the time it takes to explain why it\u2019s not a good call, sometimes the better option is saying nothing and to give your best as much as possible.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 7) WRONG: \u00ab\u00a0What is true for a pro-gamer is also true for me.\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n As you have already seen above with #4 and #5, pro-gamers don\u2019t play the way you are supposed to play at your level.<\/p>\n I will explain it a last time, with an example not thanks to a MOBA game, but thanks to Starcraft and the very popular \u00ab\u00a0Zerg rush\u00a0\u00bb: If you\u2019re a beginner, the first thing you\u2019ll have to do is not to spam a zerg rush, because you\u2019ll be thrown quickly with players better than you; the first thing you\u2019ll have to learn is how to counter it. <\/p>\n 8) WRONG: \u00ab\u00a0I’m EXTREMELY good at playing a role, I’m ready for ranked games!\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n Most people want to play as DPS. If you master only that role, you cannot be effective in ranked games, because you cannot adapt to the setup and therefore to your team. But the truth is, you have to master all roles and all popular characters to be extremely efficient, even if you always play the same one. Indeed, playing something\/someone is the best way to discover which strengths and weaknesses that role\/character has and you\u2019ll be able to see more easily if your opponent is making mistakes and how you can exploit them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 9) WRONG: \u00ab\u00a0If we’re doing lots of kills, we will have more XP\/Gold!\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n People who always want to do team fights and kill other people make a huge mistake. The best way to have more XP\/Gold than your opponent is to keep control of the farming\/soaking sides. 10) WRONG: \u00ab\u00a0That guy is ranked <insert league> or unranked, so he’s bad.\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n What are the 4 components required to perform in ranked games, except buying an account? Skill is the first one, of course, but there are also: For obvious reasons, someone in a high ranked league is not necessarily good too (bought HL account, power leveling, smurf\u2026).<\/p>\n Judging someone by his ranking is a cognitive bias called the \u00ab\u00a0halo effect\u00a0\u00bb, it\u2019s like judging people by their skin, nickname, avatar and so on. <\/p>\n BONUS WRONG: \u00ab\u00a0Games without this is for noobs!\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n What gamers should learn about game design, is that it\u2019s not the\u00a0complexity<\/em>\u00a0that makes a competitive game, but the\u00a0depth<\/em>. A game can be perfectly very accessible but also having a lot of depth, in that case we say \u00ab\u00a0easy to learn, hard to master\u00a0\u00bb. For example, the\u00a0Go<\/a>\u00a0has no items, no last hits, no experience, no ultimates, no passives, no lanes\u2026 Each element you remove is reducing the complexity of a game, which means errors from players are usually more punitive. The less mechanics in the game, the less you can rely on them, the more you have to rely on your personal skill and team play to make the difference.<\/p>\n We don\u2019t play for the same reasons, we don\u2019t like the same mechanics, but we have the same passion. 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\n\u2013 If you\u2019re playing a character that pokes a lot, perhaps you can be first ranked on damage dealt; but during team fights, your role may be to take down your opponent\u2019s DPS or support, which may involve taking more risks, and having less total damage. Simply damaging the first hero you can target could sometimes make you the weakest link.
\n\u2013 If your first focus is the tank all the time, all the damage dealt will be mitigated thanks to his toughness, huge life bar and support heals\/shields.<\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019s better to learn WHEN to take damage: to protect allies, secure objectives or doing damage yourself.<\/p>\n
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\nSince MOBA exists, for more than 10 years, it happened all the time that a character was not played until a pro-gamer played it and destroyed everyone; then everyone played it and developers had to nerf the character, or even sometimes, completely rework him.<\/p>\n
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\nThis is just an example amongst many others. Theorycraft knowledge has an impact on the game ONLY if you play your character correctly, if you\u2019re united with your team, if your team is played as a one human being.<\/p>\n
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\n– For beginners, doing a zerg rush will be extremely effective because people there are slow, with a low APM and have no idea how to counter such things that fast. And even if they know how to counter it, they don\u2019t have the skills to do it.
\n– For advanced players, a zerg rush is no longer effective as people know how to counter it and players doing it don\u2019t know how to handle both the economy and the rush at the same time. This means if the player fails his zerg rush, he lost.
\n– For experienced players, zerg rush is effective again if the attacker can be both on the macro and micro-management sides, being able to continue the game if it fails. The opponent who endures the zerg rush loses a lot of time and resources to counter it and is outplayed by his opponent.
\n– For master players, zerg rush is a huge risk but balanced: both the attacker and the defender know how to manage both battle and economy at the same time.<\/p>\n
\nThat\u2019s why what applies to a pro-gamer is not true for YOU. The context in pro-gaming is completely different than the context you\u2019re in.<\/p>\n
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\nBeing effective in ranked games and mastering one role can only happen if you master almost every character of that role to cover all possible setups, and assuming you\u2019re the only noob who masters that role only in your team. Mastering at least 2 roles makes you more flexible.<\/p>\n
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\nKilling enemy characters is good for securing lanes, objectives, jungle mobs, buffs, merc camps, push\u2026 but XP\/Gold is mostly granted by your minions\u2019 management!<\/p>\n
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\n-> Time: you have to complete the games to rank up, which requires a lot of time.
\n-> Luck: Being the only good player in the team with 4 complete beginners versus 5 low-average players is a defeat.
\n-> Will: Indeed, there are lots of good players who are unranked or don\u2019t want to climb the ladder, because it\u2019s not their objective; it\u2019s not the reason why they play.<\/p>\n
\nOf course, this can be true for people with not a huge amount of games. If a gamer is stuck at a specific league with more than 200 or 250 games trying to get out, then he’s probably at the right place and should improve himself somehow to get higher ranks.<\/p>\n
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\nJust a square-patterned board (called Goban) and 2 types of pawns (called stones, they are black and white), however the depth is real and the metagame too!<\/p>\n