It's not a hard and fast rule. I feel like this needs to be repeated every time you ask for advice in the thread.
Stop treating strategy in this game as a straight line from A to Z. You go into hero select with a plan, sure, but there are times when the plan isn't coming to fruition and you should switch to a backup plan.
I don't know how you still haven't figured this out yet. You're at the MMR range where you have to take a multi-faceted approach to builds and decision-making but you're only sticking to one strategy, always.
When a mid/carry game goes your way, and you build items X, Y and Z in that order, you assume, wrongly, that you won because you built items X, Y and Z in that order. But when it doesn't go your way, suddenly you can't understand why you're losing. After all, you built items X, Y and Z as usual and it's worked before!
No. You won in those cases because you lucked out with your choice of hero, choice of build and the matchup.
I feel like this is an unintentional consequence of you never seriously playing support, because you have never been forced to make the hard decisions like saving for an item or buying more detection, of pulling the lane or zoning the enemy, of controlling runes or setting up a kill, of getting halberd or getting force staff.
More broadly, I think that you are unaware of what this game really is, on a basic level. You think it's about execution, and that's true, to an extent. But that's only half of it. The other half is strategy and tactics. You are woefully weak on this front and, as far as I can tell, make no proactive effort to get better at it. How many times have you posted something like this in this thread?
Because it comes up a lot. Because you say this every time someone "contradicts" advice you've heard before. Because you missed the memo that games are shifting towards early fighting and traditional late game carries have to change their playstyles to adapt. Because you think AM is only good at being a late game carry and nothing else. Remember RTZ's aggressive PA in TI4? Same principle applies to AM. True, he needs to play it a bit safer. But he has hero killing abilities at level 6. He can kill at level 4. Yet you aren't aware of any of this.
Maybe if you actually observed the other players in your game, you might figure these things out?
I hate to say it, but out of your almost 5000 games of DOTA 2, you've managed to squander half of it, if not more, because you missed this lesson early on. Instead, you've been powering forward through sheer force of will. Now, you've reached a skill plateau and you can't overcome it, because there's a whole other element to the game you've been ignoring which you can't ignore any longer. And the worst part is you don't even realize this, because you needed the skill of analysis to recognize what you're missing as a player in the first place.
Stop treating strategy in this game as a straight line from A to Z. You go into hero select with a plan, sure, but there are times when the plan isn't coming to fruition and you should switch to a backup plan.
I don't know how you still haven't figured this out yet. You're at the MMR range where you have to take a multi-faceted approach to builds and decision-making but you're only sticking to one strategy, always.
When a mid/carry game goes your way, and you build items X, Y and Z in that order, you assume, wrongly, that you won because you built items X, Y and Z in that order. But when it doesn't go your way, suddenly you can't understand why you're losing. After all, you built items X, Y and Z as usual and it's worked before!
No. You won in those cases because you lucked out with your choice of hero, choice of build and the matchup.
I feel like this is an unintentional consequence of you never seriously playing support, because you have never been forced to make the hard decisions like saving for an item or buying more detection, of pulling the lane or zoning the enemy, of controlling runes or setting up a kill, of getting halberd or getting force staff.
More broadly, I think that you are unaware of what this game really is, on a basic level. You think it's about execution, and that's true, to an extent. But that's only half of it. The other half is strategy and tactics. You are woefully weak on this front and, as far as I can tell, make no proactive effort to get better at it. How many times have you posted something like this in this thread?
Because it comes up a lot. Because you say this every time someone "contradicts" advice you've heard before. Because you missed the memo that games are shifting towards early fighting and traditional late game carries have to change their playstyles to adapt. Because you think AM is only good at being a late game carry and nothing else. Remember RTZ's aggressive PA in TI4? Same principle applies to AM. True, he needs to play it a bit safer. But he has hero killing abilities at level 6. He can kill at level 4. Yet you aren't aware of any of this.
Maybe if you actually observed the other players in your game, you might figure these things out?
I hate to say it, but out of your almost 5000 games of DOTA 2, you've managed to squander half of it, if not more, because you missed this lesson early on. Instead, you've been powering forward through sheer force of will. Now, you've reached a skill plateau and you can't overcome it, because there's a whole other element to the game you've been ignoring which you can't ignore any longer. And the worst part is you don't even realize this, because you needed the skill of analysis to recognize what you're missing as a player in the first place.
