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Coming back to d2 after 3 years is so difficult.... I find myself playing as a clueless support, and your videos does help me understand the basic of the game again.

We need this video directly from the role pos 5, because as a core in some ways it's easier to lead the game from just being individually strong, but if you are pos 4 or 5 you may get disregarded because of the position you play and it doesn't really feel good when there are 3 cores none of which play the way BSJ would play on the map

In low rank, there's so sign of intelligence life. They just feed their ego. Fight and farm, do nothing significant. To climb the rank, you have to play hero that can get objective on your own

Honestly, such advice as "be patient", "be disciplined" and "think about what you are trying to accomplish" are applicable to any game that has a hint of teamplay or strategy.

Great video, thanks. I'm 4k atm (was 6 before a long break) but this stuff still applies. At the end of the day as you rise in rank you still see many of the same blunders, just less frequently. The most essential aspect to ranking is good leadership from whatever position you're playing. That combines humor, directing focus, defusing toxicity/flame, and general PMA. This is the number 1 issue that flips winnable games to losing games.

This was a great video man. Clearly explained and from both points of view and other positions. That's the way we learn more. Keep it going!

A really good point I heard from one of the TI casters about taking towers as an objective that I think explains it really well is, you should basically never hit a tower if you're trying to be Efficient (except racks ofc, although the same concept applies, enemy heroes can't defend racks, if they are dead from a team fight outside the base). Because of 2 points- Every second you're hitting a tower is less time farming, you can cut the wave and creeps will naturally take the tower for you, while you farm the wave. And every second you're giving the enemy more map control in other lanes, and losing the chance to take a good fight in an open map, away from an enemy tower.

Thank you for your incredible help and content. I am trying so hard to escape from 2K. I am thinking that I know all the tips of higher MMR games but I see all my mistakes on that video. I don’t even realize that I am doing them so often!!! You are amazing keep up the good work! My new motto will be patience patience patience

Nice guide BSJ, I spent 40 mins and watched full video, really good information, thank you so much.

Thanks for the informative videos. Really enjoying your content! I like how objective you are about your own gameplay, teammates, and opponents, and your objectiveness about getting triggered by bad teammates. Great learning opportunities.

As someone who climbed from 2k to 4k, I approve of this mentality - applies to both cores and supports Also nice tip about ppl spamming all skills to clear wave as hint to whether his team is behind him or not - kinda make sense in retrospect

I get support like this Silencer, only exception is, he gets pissed if I don't play with him and help him with the harass because he keeps getting out traded, and killed. Then leaves me alone in the lane and mess up the mid lane because he's soaking up exp. And then when you look at their profile, they have thousands of games and still suck so bad.

just got back into dota and this video has been really helpful. always can count on bsj!!!!

1:20 that smooth AF transition!!

first replay i enjoyed and actually watched till the end. a lot of info, a lot of explanation, very valuable, thank you

my man BSJ out here with some of the best, most educational dota 2 content on youtube. great video, thanks dude!

I remember watched this video when i'm at 1800 mmr, learned and get to 2300 mmr, now i'm at 2700, and watch this once again, still get so much knowledge, and realize so many mistakes that i've done, very good video, thanks

I have learn more from this video than watching replays , thanks this is Pure Gold

thanks amazing advise helped me tremendously

Amazing content, thank you BSJ

Love the squirtle and charmander in the background :D Great video though, really need to try and add that kind of forward-thinking into my games as i'm definitely someone who just reacts and focuses on what is in front of me.

another banger BSJ. Content has been another level lately

thx for this Video BSJ. i am on 3k MMR now and i recently played the same lane matchup with WK with a support Natures Prophet VS Luna and Warlock. I did what you did not trying to push the lane and focus on farm. To my luck the enemy Warlock got several times out of position and so he was an easy kill with skeletons. My early lane was so good that i was gone for midas + phase boots because the enemy team had Sladar and Venge. After that i got armlet , radiance, blink, AC and at last BKB. The enemy team was so desperate that they were constantly trying to find teamfights. I just dodged them and kept pushing tower after tower. We won with a big lead and i was highest networth and LVL. Your video really helped me to understand what to do in the game.

I really hate when my team has one member get picked off, then the others decide yes, let's go HG right now, down a teammate. Instead of just shoving the waves and keeping them penned in.

the dog when see a butterfly are so on point and hilarious 🤣

Great advice!

thank you for such an amazing educational video. If you have time can you make a juggernaut video too at safelane for early game.

Great tips!

"People will eventually get the right play done" is too real. I was Dark Willow and spent too long thinking we could fight from behind before committing to making an area "safe" and making stacks for Luna to keep us in the game XD too late though. Fun game; neat to see from the other side as well.

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nice explenation i like it. you said wrong at the end about bkb instead of aganim and shard was given by tormentor. i love this video. i notice what you said what im doing wrong is patience

Thank You BSJ❤🎉🌷🌹🙏🏻

video we all 2k needed

Ty, gj bro.

Watching this video then realizing BSJ accurately describing 2k SEA gameplay is a total mindblow lmao

I feel like dawnbreaker have been great for me as a new player to dota2 ( I have played league and she reminds me of shen ) you can split or farm camps then if your team gets jumped or starts fighting you just ult them ( especially if you have ags apter) fight a bit then go back to farming or push lanes. rinse and repeat. She trains you to multitask while looking on the map because the fate of a fight depends on how well you time your ult and positions it

That WD is cute xD always making sure you don't die , and just pressing it all when you fight lol , no matter how noob , thats the type of support any core would need around !!

I think one thing to mention, is getting flamed for not participating in 2k shinanigans. When you know its best to farm and not team fight, team goes and team fights. They all die and say "why are you afk farming" in this instance you are not afk farming, you're just not participating in a team fight where your presence will not matter.

My teammates are actively jeopardizing the wins. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

YEAAAA this vid is for me. time to watch

this is gold, BSJ best dota 2 player this world has ever fucking seem

Mr. BSJ, would like to share a Herald game for you to review. Very entertaining!!

Atlast a bsj i like, u seem more "nice" u know. and yeah its a good guide. and this is in the NA region right? or are u in amsterdam right now?

Trapped in 2k? It me... 😭

I laughed so hard when he said "if you guys wanna get out of this bracket... don't listen to me at all!!" hahahhhaha

At 22:00 Ursa could just use the twin gate to get to Roshan.

I know what's keeping me in my bracket. Last night we had a 10k lead, Rosh and only 2 barracks (I mean 1 set, no tower) left to take, we march as 5 to enemy high ground , but my full team dies without even hitting racks, without buyback and the enemy ends the game. Pos 5 life, I guess

very good vid

What I always struggle with is when the opponent distracts my gameplan. Sometimes they push so hard and we as a team have nothing to hold against that… you like watch the enemy fuck up your lanes and everybody panics because we don’t know what to do next 😂

21:10 BSJ: my team is not doin anything, so i farm. BSJs team: my offlaner is not doin anything but afk farm, what do i do? ;)

as a support, you need to actively look for good cores. check their dotabuff, check replay on how they farm and comeback from a bad start and if you think they have potential, add them as your friend and play together. of course you need to show that you have good play and stats too im a casual player like 2 games per day and the friends i added are already 2 ranks higher from where i met them. they would still invite me to their party.

even wearing the wk t-shirt. nice!

thanks

BSJ you won't believe this yesterday I climbed above 600 MMR for the very first time in my life (from 10 MMR, against all noob teammates and smurfs on the enemy team every single match because they are trying to balance the matches against me!), I'm two matches away from herald V! This never happened before in human history (for me)! 🤯

wow first sponsor I've ever neen interested in. that's an achievement mr bsj!

this dude help me more done watching speed damn

Thanks for the vid, i keep making the same mistake on 3k with my ld , i keep pushing into their lane and then 5 people come and kill me, and i feed them like 1 k gold

What are the moves we chould do when we loosing the game as cores or offlane ?

When i started watching ur vids i was 2k now im finaly 5k also can you make guide to play drow? I have been playing her lot recently with great seccses but i want to improve

4:52 who wouldn’t want to hold hands with you Brian

That's actually a must see for anyone climbing the ladder. Good one bro! 🫡

@BSJ what are the supports supposed to do if the team is not going to stick? if they try to farm alone, its slow and dangerous and steals farm from cores..if they don't try to smoke and go, they just will need to stand around?

BSJ, why didnt you disassemble the radiance for the nuli? Just wanted to know if its so you can keep the burn up for farm/didn't want to use the evasion for your next item or if you had another reason in mind.

Imagine your team having all 3 level-2 towers and your enemies already lost 2 sets of barracks only to lose later because your stupid trash cores didn't buy the right items. Remind them that their 2K 1-hit means shit if they get chain stunned before they could ever do it.

What about 2k supp? Do we also farm steadily? I mean with the amount of free camp cores left its possible, but should i farm it?

I just won a game because of this. Thanks, BSJ!

Hey @bsj when to go BM ags or armlet rad or armlet deso on offlane wk

Under 5K people really need to grasp a strong understanding of is how their refusal to contest their early lane experience, massively impacts the rest of the game. I would much rather they play aggressive to prevent your opponent from getting any farm, rather than play safely and also allow the enemy to get farmed.

Love the LTT like sponsor sageway

for real though. the biggest thing holding me back (imho) is the chaos. things i cant control are triggering me half the time.

As an pos 3 offlaner you should'nt do afk farming for about 20 minutes. After 10 minutes mid game begins and you have to be ready for teamfights together with pos 2. Only to create space for pos 1.

Great content but I have to mention one thing. At 4:30, at 2k your team will notice enemy pulled when they reach the enemy tower stay there for 40s and then start complaining WHY U DONT PULL

your play makes so much sense...but at the same time i kinda stand by silencer holding hands with you and stealing yr creeps

26:40 its not that they use the spells, its the urgency with which they use the Spells is probably a good way to explain it.

Educational smurfing is SO helpful

I don't understand this XP share at 6.30. How is XP shared from neutrals when two opponents and I are in range? 25-25-50 or 33-33-33?

the more i stare at wk mini image, the more it looks like BSJ right beside him.

Can you clarify what you mean by if you wanna get out of this bracket don't listen to me at all??

Thanks Brian for this video it helped lot to understand game better generally. I tested today and played NP pos 4 today. 3rd biggest networth and dmg in match and most building dmg in my team even it was loss. I think i have now better odds to win matches more than half of the time

Title of the video : "2K guy gets Tipped by BsJ"

i gotta get this of my chest, is this rly legend? the luna is playing like a guardian in EU?

Damn! Check out the guns on BSJ!

13:50 im afraid of spiders

biggest issue is, you won't get the team you want. even supports are also try last hit. you can be a good support as well but if the carries are noobs, you are done.

BSJ, asking 2 question with big hopes. Please help me. I solo que in unranked games 90% of the times & have ~3000 MMR. I am safe lane carry. Questions - 1. Consider that I am playing a carry like drow or antimage & I am safe lane. Now there is offlane necrophos + veno or windranger + CM or jakiro + slardar or CK + ogre in front of me. They beat the shit out of me even by tower diving (most of them). I die 2 or 3 times early game. And my item timing messes up badly like power treads in 8 to 9 minutes, darn :( If you leave lane early, you cant farm NC on these heroes because even the small camp brings down the hero HP to half. We can't afford to spend 1 healing slave for 1 small or medium camp. No rotations from supports or ganks by mid hero can be expected in unranked pub games. If I ask to switch lanes, I am mostly denied. How to look at this situation & farm safely & faster in such case? Is my hero drafting wrong? I still manage 500 gpm in a games I lose or 700+ gpm in games won (& around 350+ last hits on average). 2. I see the carries like PA, LC, CK or troll getting picked mostly. The CK & LC literally tower dives at lvl 6 & my team mates lose the lane to them several times in row as I mentioned. The enemy carry gets fat fast & we lose the game. The games that I play (even ranked) are always almost a stomp, either by me or enemy stomps my team. Rarely I see a game with both sides fighting hard. Can I say that this is just my badluck? How to deal with noobs in team? I know these are just bad games. But 13-14 times in row? How? KDA speaks how a player played. If you are dying & achieving nothing (several times), it's just feeding the enemy. Many players don't understand when to take fights, going for objectives or when to be where on the map, lane equilibrium, single pulling, crowd control matchups etc. Tired of games with 0/10 BS having 9k networh after 30 mins in team. Should I ignore these games & call it a badluck? Sorry for a long read. Really hopeful to get answers. You rock ❤️💯

I hate it when I apply your strategy then most players will argue and start to blame me. then they keep loosing discipline they feed the enemy team by dying over and over again, then it becomes too difficult to win, the enemy team gets too strong even when I buy items to counter them, its useless when you have a teamate who feeds them by aggressively attacking, it happens 8 out of ten games. What do I do with feeding players?

as an offlaner and WK main i think this strat wont work under 2k MMR , my reason is the opponent supp usually spell spam mostly or just keep on hitting u and the large camp is almost blocked for like 6-7 minutes and if u chasing a high item like RAD then i suggest just buy Boots and keep WAND with 3 mangoes (use them incase of escapign stun or to secure kill).but if u r getting bullied so forget RAD and jsut go THREAD/ phase and make ECHO SABRE later u can dissemble it and make 2 items(BKB and mageslayer->BLOOD thorn). the mentality is u will be ready to take most enemy hero in team fight even though ur safelaner is behind networth and the enemy will now try to gank u and keep all their attention 2 u ( so ur safelane can get some farm and built himself for late game fight) i think the OFFALNER role is to bait the enemy team and keeps their attention towards u so that SAFELNER/ midalner get space and can carry the game . thats the scenario. please correct me if im wrong somewhere...

problem with this approach is , my mmr people follow you religiosly and suddenly now my pos1-2-3 all 3 of them just keep splitting and farming.There will be no ganks and no team fights , knowing enemy has a PL/void who in late game will carry the enemy team.

Bsj we need an educational smurf on 5k bracket please

Gold, bsj

I have to commend the sponsor transition

My team sits in the triangle or the other jungle and i go to split push then i get blamed and reported for not sticking when they fight without me even though i keep marking that i almost have an item that will win us the next fight just wait a min for me. What do i do should i just go fight with them without my item or let my 2-4 teammates die in a bad fight without vision

22:12 why would ursa needs to tp when the twin gate is available?

Bsj we need one educational smurf on low immortal please

Being disciplined works games even in high divine low immortal brackets. I'm a simple offlane player, buying utility items, getting beefy and providing stuns. I try not to feed in the lane and join with my team later on. I encourage taking objectives and I discourage being alone in dangerous parts of the map. Result is steady climb in MMR. I encounter some extremely skilled mid players, some flashy 4s, some ultra-farmed carries in my games, but these skilled dudes cant stop throwing. If you can just learn not to lose, you'll win 55% of dota.

I have a question : wouldnt it be good for lunar to lose the tower actually, because the map is so big and tower going down mean safer creep waves.

''You cant do too much in 2K'' Dats the truest sentence you ever said as an old 4k (the max was 6K on my time) coming back to the game i see that i cant try to do waht i used to, if i do i fell like i get punished for tryharding, while playing simple/sometimes even wrong rewards much more on the 2k-3k brakets of today What am i? a 1k? i see guys with 10K these days

I'm confused on when to go armlet or radiance first

Hey, Brian. Just want to take this time to tell you that I appreciate you and I love you as a human being. I've been following you and watching your content for years now. Thank you for all the content and all the advice you've given us all. I'm an older fellow, however, it's good to see someone like yourself doing your best to help people out. It's trully heartwarming and I respect you for that. From all the Dota creators, you are by far the one I'd like to meet one day, buy you a drink and hopefully get a chance to exchange a few words with you. Respect, brother. On topic: I'm stuck at 4k, after having quit dota several years ago. I was Divine 4/5 and couldn't get to Immortal so I deleted the game since it became too frustrating climbing/being on a losing streak. After a long break and new calibration I'm now stuck at Legend 5/Ancient 1. Some of these can be applied in my bracket too and I guess my skill has declined a lot over the years. I might get some of your training sessions for the sake of improving and as a plus to meet you online. Cheers