4 Tips On How To Increase Your MMR
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You love the game but losings got you down. You want to win but your teammates suck and the matchmaking system is unfair and broken. You want to level up your rank but the mandated 50% win schedule won’t allow it.
I used to feel the same way and the thought of becoming Ancient seemed impossible, let alone Divine. Then I got to Ancient but no way could I reach Divine. Then I reached Divine 1 last season, the highest MMR achievement I got in years.
In this article, I’m going to share with you tips on how to increase your MMR for fame, clout, and something to brag about.
Research what’s strong in your bracket
Some people believe drafting in Dota is at least 50% of the game. If you win the draft, chances are you’ll win the game. Of course, you still have to play well and execute in your game but with a favorable draft, playing well and executing is a lot easier.
Gain that competitive draft advantage by researching what heroes do well in your bracket.
By checking out the Dotabuff hero meta tab you can easily find out what’s strong in your bracket. For example, if you’re a Legend, you can see that 
Drow Ranger, 
Lycan, 
Visage, 
Clinkz, and 
Underlord have the highest win rates. You can go down the list to find some heroes you’re good at and try picking those heroes, you might have a good time.
To take that step further, you can look through each hero that does well in your bracket and find their counters. For example, if you look at Drow Ranger’s hero page, you can see that she does the worst against 
Mars, 
Sniper, 
Axe, 
Centaur Warrunner, and 
Broodmother. Then if you see your enemy pick Drow Ranger in your game you can counter them.
Play team fights better
Team fights are a crucial part of the game. One team fight win after losing five can be the start of an epic come back. One team fight loss can be the start of a tilt that doesn’t stop until you lose. Playing your role in an ideal way can be the difference between winning and losing a team fight.
To understand how to play your role properly let’s look at how the pro players play. One playstyle that seems to be a winning strategy is to counter initiate rather than initiate. You can see this strategy at work during the ESL One Hamburg 2019 finals.
offlane (dog) and his team won the tournament and his itemization prioritized tanky items. This allowed him to initiate or get initiated on and survive the initial burst. His team would then follow up while the enemy used all their spells.
This coincides with the rise of 
Abaddon as a position 3. Abaddon's playstyle revolves around this strategy thanks to his ultimate ability. The enemy has to spend their fighting resources bringing him low only for him to become immune to damage once he's low. After the enemy used all their spells and good position to bring him low, Abaddon's team can jump in and use their spells to counter initiate.
Another important tip is positioning yourself if you’re a spell caster. If your role is to use spells in a fight then you don’t want to be initiated on. As a 
Rubick or 
Lion or 
Oracle, if you get caught then you get blown up and then you’re useless in the fight.
If you watch the pro players play spell-casting heroes, they’re usually out of sight in team fights. They don’t hang around where all the action is happening as they can get caught and blown up. They hang out outside where the action is happening and then wait until their spells are ready to use at an optimal time, and then they enter the fight.
So don’t hang around in the main fight, right-clicking and doing 50 damage and risk getting blown up. Stay positioned on the outskirts of the fight and only enter when your spells are ready. Ideally, wait until you have an optimal opening.
Play heroes you’re good at
This seems like an obvious tip but it’s relevant. The way I reached Divine was by playing my best heroes over and over again. This can get boring but if your goal is to reach a high MMR, then it can be your best strategy.
I was playing exclusively position 4 as 
Mirana, 
Lina, 
Riki, 
Clockwerk and rarely picked other heroes. By doing this I was able to maximize my impact in the game and influenced the outcome more than if I were feeding as a hero I wasn’t good at.
It’s frustrating to be on a team with someone who doesn’t know how to play their hero, especially in a ranked game. Don’t be this person, play your best heroes.
When you reach your highest MMR potential, you play in high-level games. In high-level games, the average player is more skilled, more capable, and has more game knowledge than in lower-tier games. As you play in these games, you are more likely to be outplayed and it's through those moments of being outplayed you can really learn where your weaknesses are as a player. KawaiiSocks talks about this in an article he wrote about climbing the MMR leaderboards and what he learned after reaching Immortal.
Watch pro games, streams, and player perspectives
One of the main ways I leveled up my play style and Dota knowledge was by watching pro games, streams, and player perspectives.
These pro players are the best at the game and if you watch them play, chances are they play the game differently than you. A great thing about Dota is you can see exactly how a player like Miracle- or
BananaSlamJamma plays the game.
One thing I’ve noticed is how the pros play carry and support. Carry players spend a lot of time in the jungle. The carry’s job is to farm and get big, and farming in lane isn’t always the best idea. When I watched pro carrys, they would farm the jungle every chance they got. I started farming the jungle as much as I could when I played carry and my GPM improved. Farming the jungle is safer than farming in lane and you want to spend as much time as possible killing creeps when you’re carrying.
For pro supports one thing I noticed was the way they participate in team fights. As touched on earlier, they aren’t in the middle of the action as its happening. They stay out of range of the fight until their spells are ready or there is a great opening for their spell. For example, as an Earthshaker, they don’t jump in the fight and start right-clicking even though he’s a melee hero. They wait until the enemy groups up on one of their teammates and when they’re all lined up they use Fissure to stun multiple enemies, save their teammate, counter initiate, and stop the gank all at once.
It can be tempting to jump in the fight as its happening but as a support spell-caster, it’s important to exercise patience. You’re no use in a fight if you die or get blown up so wait until there’s a good opening and then strike.
To read more about support tips, check out these articles: Dissecting the Meta: Supports in 7.21, Supporting in 7.20 or visit this page to see all the support related articles.
Final thoughts
All in all, it comes down to practice and game knowledge if you want to improve your MMR. You gain knowledge by watching pro players and watching tournaments and listening to analysts. You gain practice simply by playing more and trying out different heroes and strategies.
Research and meta-knowledge are also important. If you’re only playing a hero that is extremely low in win rate percentage you can stop the losses by simply picking another hero. By researching what heroes are strong and what their counters are can help you win games by out drafting your enemy.
And remember, your MMR is not a reflection of your worth as a player. How much you enjoy the game is the most important statistic so enjoy it! Keep a positive mental attitude and use the mute function if your teammates are being toxic.
И как эта статья должна мне помочь апнуть рейтинг когда моя (условный) акс не может бонально с инициировать?
Если вы хорошо играете не-метовым персонажем, объясняйте своим союзникам что и как Вы собираетесь делать.
TL;DR: get good
I watch a lot of gameleap and dota alchemy, thats really all you need i think. also, git gud
How to increase mmr: GIT GUD
Ору, наконец-то поднимусь со своих 2к!
ty for the tips sir
Никогда не потел в ммр, так чисто по фану с друзьями с 50% побед, решил попробовать подняться, за две недели апнул 800 ммр с 3к
Какой пункт в этой статье может помочь побеждать в играх, где "союзнички" бегают со счётом 1-15 уже на 10 минуте (включая мидера), а коры противника с тотальным экономическим преимуществом? Все эти статьи полная лажа. А реальность проста: можно играть ногами и стабильно расти в рейтинге, если ты не в "черном списке". Если же ты проклят системой, то ты будешь каждый матч играть с четырьмя инвалидами и даже показывая высочайшее мастерство - проигрывать и скатываться в низ рейтинга.
Why watch demo, just play more kappa
И пишет это властелин 4, понимаю
"When I watched pro carrys, they would farm the jungle every chance they got. I started farming the jungle as much as I could when I played carry and my GPM improved." doesnt seem to be good advice
It does not matter, i can play (based on dotabuff grades) A+, but when 3 of 5 teammates are completely dumb in decisions in teamfights/building items/choosing hero-lane....then you will always loose and MMR will go down. The entire system of getting/not loosing MMR will be better, if it was based on how good was your performance during match. As it is already showed in Dota with green/red arrows on overview of your last played matches. For example, if your performance was really good, but your team lost, you should not loose your MMR points or get only a small amount (+5 or so). But this system as it is now, is really cruel in rank crusader, where are a lot of people with weird point of view on ranked games.
A+ and you have 5 teammates. K
i watch all of them my random team mates dont kappaaaaaaa
GIT GUD.
"A great thing about Dota is you can see exactly how a player like Liquid.Miracle-Liquid.Miracle- or BananaSlamJammaBananaSlamJamma plays the game."
Comparable talents
how many match to calebrate divine ? or how many wins ?
@DOTA 2
I was 4600 mmr when I got to divine 1.
были и будут в этой игре членоsoсы,которые руинять игры. статься говно!!
Article: focus on yourself and try to improve
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Хорошая статья, после прочтения апнулся с легенды 4 до божества 3.
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Como sacar mas mmr en cuenta nueva?
I watched a pro play carry safe lane pudge. Then I copied it. Guess what, I'm spending my time finishing my 2 low prio games. 😁
I'll try that method, but i really don't think that it works
I disagree with carries farming the jungle part. Cores should ONLY farm jungle when there is nothing better to do. CCNC said it best, you will improve in dota best by never jungling. Pushing lanes is most important in dota. You mightve meant it differently but some people might take this literally. Golden rule is: jungling is LAST resort. If I'm to give a how to gain mmr tip, it is to push lanes or help your cores push lanes (if you are support by warding and being ready to save, etc.) wherever and whenever possible. Stop promoting jungling because its "safer". Thanks.
win the game before 25 mins mark
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farm in jungle when ur support is gone and the enemies are farming near their towers
I second @Inner King's comment. Constantly pushing the lane without dying, back to jungle after pushing the lane should be the top priority when play carry heroes.
Это все замечательно, эти те вещи, которые понимает почти каждый, но, зачастую, игры сливаются из-за недопонимания в тиме или фида кем-то
This article has many fundamental flaws, although it's good advice to be aware of what heroes have good win rates in your bracket... a lot of those heroes aren't even that good. It's just the valve matchmaking system promotes shitty players to reach 50% win rate, thats a fact... that's just how the game works with a free to play model. They can't have a real fair system, they have to try make everyone 50% to retain customers. That's dota 101 in a nutshell.
So in other words my advice is play heroes you are good at. That also hopefully are not shitty heroes. I mean I think I'm a great Ember player but my win rate with that hero is garbage because the valve hidden mmr system judged my performance based on like OP heroes. So it's like oh you get a rampage every other time you play PA? well your hidden MMR is really high now so if u play hero like ember thats not OP ur gonna get destroyed most the time.
I hate valve and their god complex of manipulating game results for free to play model. True story though, good luck everyone in your games, im not a hater I just understand stuff and it hurts.
Your point #2 I agree abaddon pos 3 is completely broken OP. I have so many games with that hero pos 3 where im just like 16 min quelling blade, stout shield, wand, phase boots, radiance... games over already tbh. Hero is broken just most Abaddon players can't lane for shit, thats only reason why its not just spammed for free MMR.
I only have 5 losses with that hero and 3 them were sub 30 minutes, literally not even my fault. Long story short you play this hero correctly you win... I'm 74% with that son of a bitch atm.
https://www.dotabuff.com/players/19672591/matches?hero=abaddon
Even with 74% win rate my best Aba game i think is on my alt account that i play only when im drunk or hung over. My morph literally rage quit and sold his items this game... And I was like dude don't worry ez win. Link insane items insane timing... ez win etc:
https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/5045696425
My final thought about how to play support, I think you are 100% correct for pro games or immortals maybe. But for pubs... i 100% disagree with what you are saying. Playing too passive on support your cores are gonna die instead of you.
I think the best way to win in pubs as a support is play a hero that can do a lot of damage, hit stuns or disables, is a high threat etc, the enemy wants to prioritize you etc. And communicate ok guys im going in. You initiate as support, and your cores follow up. Even if you die chances are enemy blew so many spells on you cause they are noob pub players... your team should win the fight.
I think its much better to have support initiate in pubs, dont play for KDA if ur an average mmr support player thats terrible advice imo.
Good example of this playstyle is my recent Windranger support ranked games I had a stretch of ranked Windranger support games with 17-3 record. Then they combine team and solo mmr (i always played solo ranked) and I lost a game or 2 and quit ranked (still waiting hopefully they fix it)
https://www.dotabuff.com/players/19672591/matches?hero=windranger
Bsj lmao, I rather die.
Who cares mmr lmao
Look me in the eye. Thank you for the great advice as a legend 1 core player i appreciate this much
Offcourse i love juggernut but jugg dont love me😭😭
32 поражения подряд, я думаю что и сам денди бы не вытащил такие игры с ам 0-15, и мидерами 0,20