People playing this genre of game put far too much stock into lane combinations, item builds, team composition etc when what they really ought to be focusing on is teamwork (warding, intiation, support during teamfights) and mechanics (farming, positioning, micro, map watching).
At the level the majority of people play at you can get away with building whatever you want on whichever hero you feel like so long as your team communicates, farms properly, works together, focuses damage and CC on the correct target(s), and bails each other out of trouble.
Instead you get the Axe who blinks into a 1v5 when you're all too far away to support him and goes 'WTF NOOB TEAM NO HELP'. Or the guy who blows all of his stuns on the tankiest hero on the enemy team simply because he's the only one in range and then blames your nonstandard item build for losing the team the game. Or the team that consistently clumps up in a desperate bid to get 2 or 3 more creep kills when there is an Earthshaker on the enemy team with blink/ulti up. The leaps of logic some people will make to justify terrible decisions are quite amazing:
- Me (Dazzle): "Why'd you walk back in? You were one hit from death and we could have killed him without you"
- Him: "I thought u would cast grave on me".
- Me: "But I used it to stop sniper getting ganked, you saw me do it, you must have known it was on cooldown. I am baffled as to why you walked back to your death for no reason."
- Him: "Why u use on sniper noob he still have 200hp. waste"
- His matchmaking buddies: "Fuking noob dazzle fuk u"
The fact that he walked into range of a melee hero on 40hp when he could have just as easily walked back and let us kill the enemy was ignored because I'd cost us the game by buying phase boots instead of mana boots and got my mek pretty late because I'd been buying nothing but wards and trying to avoid taking farm.
Obviously none of this applies to high level games, but the attitude of players in low level games is maddening. People need to spend less time analysing optimal DPS builds for their favourite stealthcarry hero and more time worrying about the actual game. I've been known to diss a guy's build (Mask of Madness on Sniper springs to mind), but generally it's a combination of an odd build AND terrible play that brings out my rage.
There was a player (Destiny) who went from Bronze to Platinum in SC2 building nothing but Zerg queens with superior macro in order to prove a similar point. I wish I could show 90% of the people I play with in matchmaking his videos.
/rant
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