His starting items prove that he is indeed a veteran player that is out of touch for so long

The game has definitely become a lot more tryhard and the overall skill is higher. Back in 2013-2015 when me and my friends played the most we would always do dumb strats like all purple team, all green team, famous no legs strat, and we were all still pretty high rank.

hay jenkins you look like you showered today congratulations!

I'm sorry to hear that he fell to the bottom of the trench, you can climb it tho cory, just don't afk and you can do it

i never thought trying to coach someone who just goes afk would be so funny😂😂😂

I think the MMR shift is very real. I used to be 3-4k but stopped playing for years. Came back and apparently am now 2k. Mostly just play unranked now but the standard isn't as low as you'd think. I probably have better quality games now than I did back then haha

this just demonstrate how knowledge heavy our game is. dota now is so much different than dota 4 years ago, I sympathize with cory.

I can relate to this a little bit. I was recalibrated from Legend 4 to Guardian 1 after 2 year break :D

That video will just give the entire community that kept stuck on a rank a sense of evolution in some way. Jenkins did more for dota 2 ,with this 11 min video, than Valve in 2 years.

I've actually managed to reverse with my mmr, I think my lowest mmr ever was literally 50 mmr, but I've managed to rise up 3.5k.

thats my story, the game changed incredibly much between release and today, or should i say the players. I had 4k MMR in 2013/14 then stopped playing and started again with covid and while back and im really struggling to get back into legend, eventhough I'm starting to watch a lot of dota2 youtubers and guides. Back then you could do stupid and dumb shit at that mmr and still win, its impossible now if you are yourself not a smurf in that bracket. Like honestly I believe your average 3-4k player today would be at least TI-Qualifier Level in the early 2010s. But that's just how multiplayer game communities develop over time. At the start you have a big playerbase from every level but obviously the people who sink more time into the game and are better will stick to a game longer, thus the community will get better over time. In general.

Going AFK during a ranked game is a dick move.

Oh damn I'm witnessing the jenkins history as it unfolds

I really enjoy players who havnt grapsed the finer concepts of the game but have one or two heros they are well versed in. Was satisfying to see this giu that can't farm an uncontested creep wave hookshot two heroes through the middle of creeps and shiz.

I still remember back in the day where I would just build 6 different boots and still win. If I did that today I would be put in low priority queue

WTF 4k to 500 LMAO *JENKINS LAUGH 😂

We're the same. I started playing 2016, and stoppef 2017 and came back early 2020. And now I'm still at crusader with 1.4k mmr. I never thought it's this hard hahaha

I feel like this was less coaching and more of jenkins going "CORY WTF ARE YOU DOING" and either 1. facepalming or 2. laughing hysterically

10 years doto from dota 1 and moving to dota 2 still range mmr between 1200 - 1400

I lost 21 games str8 in ranked on stream..... went from arch 3 to cru 3. Was rough. Learnt so much in those 21 games was amazing