General DiscussionDedication to Riki MMR Calibration

I ve played a lot of smurfs but first match was always Normal Skill bracket... How do you get VHS in it and what are your tips to get this mmr with riki with that pretty bad winrate and KDA ?

Hi, i think win rate is not something you can control and will not get you out of a bracket (because i think the bracket is just way too wide, i could be in a low end of VHS bracket for all we know). The MM syste, will put you together with some crazy good people (i've seen 7k in some games) after a while to get it balanced out the game so you should win only 50% at normalizing rate.

[i'm exaggerating in this section to make a point] So for only the sample of 100s of games, you can see this is a problem. You dominated a let say 5 game streak with god like 20s kills and no death and lots of assists. the game think you are 7k, putting you together with 7k people then you are losing like 10 of them. let's say 100 each, you still back down to 6k. so as you can see, if you keep going up and down like that, you will never go back to below VHS unless of course you don't belong there then after 150 games (which is what Valve is thinking, i think it should be around 1k games is when you truely show what you are), you will eventually get put where you are supposed to be somewhat normalized.

Regarding my KDA, it gets harder to gank and kill in some games as you can imagine. people are more competent and I can't just keep dominating the games. you can see the streak where I lost terribly because i was matched with players that are just work well together. so again same logic, you started out with lower bracket and you dominating, you get put in tougher games and you can't kill as many so KDA may not be as good but you are holding your games with the rest of the actions (see below).

One point about VHS bracket is you gotta do a lot of things and always on your game. You don't sit around and constantly helping ans assisting. Carry TPs everywhere you go, deal the most damage even you an offlane, hit that tower instead of camping fountain, warding when needed, block creeps... like everything that you think a good player may do, the MM system in my opinion do look at that like we are looking at Dotabuff/Yasp.

Hope that help you. It's been fun and I learn quite a bit about the game and the system.

^it's called smurf detection. if your main is NS, you will have a very hard time getting into HS/VHS. However you will meet 4-5k smurfs in NS regardless.

LUL.

If you're going to smurf. Keep in mind you have Presence of mind every game you should not be able to make a big mistakes here. Don't get die as must as you can. Protect your KDA ratio. Be aware of the map especially if your going to isolate from your ally you should assume that there's coming so you're always prepared. Riki is so soft. Easy target if the enemy have dust or gem. You should check the enemies items when dealing with them if they have dust or some detection. I give you some tips in lanes, If your in a lane and want to check if its sentried try taking the aggro of creeps while in invi. If creeps chase you when in invi state it has blue in there. That's all.

hows going with riki?

only 1 question: WHY?!

tbh ur riki is suck

Why watch you when they can follow the greatest man and dota player that ever lived? Donald Trump!

you are so bad

hehe, thanks for the comments guys. if you want to follow me, i just got to level 50 Trophy after 133 actually games played. Tomorrow, i will start my 10 games calibration.

The games are fine but there are series of games that I get matched up with funny players. I just don't understand how they get into those games. I tried not to throw so hard so you can see that I carried most of games even though i'm offlane all the time. I don't want to roam much because i'm not sure how supporting riki will affect the calibration. This whole calibration is basically dedicated to offlane riki.

to that asian dude: my riki is not that good but i wouldn't say it suck. if you can play better, show me. walk, don't talk. simply looking at your profile tells me that you have much to learn about riki.

to Cookie, meh.. it's fun. that's what games are for.

this guy already did it...lol

http://www.dotabuff.com/players/344869230

I wonder what he calibrated at.

I try to give as much data as I can so people who are trying figure out their calibration can analyze them.

First half of calibration games:
average 3800s (W)
average 3800s (W)
average 3952 (L)
average 3999/3994 Highest 4015/4013 (L)
average 4247/4246 Highest 4291/4370 (W)

Weird that I started out with 3800s then match up with higher average MMR as I lose.

Games are actually easier than Normal so far. A lot of them don't even ward the map like Normal games. But also maybe people taking it more seriously in Ranked that it made my life much easier. People were friendly and actually enjoy 4/5 of the games.

well, that's my update for today. enjoy.

Why am I in normal skill? ):

cause u cant achieve at least 50% wr in normal skill..

@6PLENDID
first games Vhs? Wtf how? Is it affect the question when u created dota 2 acc. Like "im a begginer"
"I played RTS games" and so on? What did u pick?

You can calibrate with Riki and any other heroes.

rx, i don't remember but i think i picked the "played dota before". also my first game wasn't VHS, it was HS.

i played pretty much only riki before i calibrated 1.3k solo and party. now both over 5k lul. EZ lvl 13 with battlepoint booster

first 5 yesterday:
average 3800s (W)
average 3800s (W)
average 3952 (L)
average 3999/3994 Highest 4015/4013 (L)
average 4247/4246 Highest 4291/4370 (W)

Last 5 today:
average 4147/4138 Highest 4196/4161 (L)
average 4106/4097 Highest 4307/4588 (L)
average 4088/4088 Highest 4114/4111 (L)
average 4101/4097 Highest 4249/4515 (not counted)
average 4040/4038 Highest 4378/4156 (W)
average 4128/4122 Highest 4373/4175 (W)

result MMR makes sense, in the region. now you have more data folks. have fun calibrating. I may try something weird like SB/zeus/ogre or something next.

I am in NS with 60% winrate how do i get to HS?

^ Hero damage/healing + KDA + Tower damage + reaction time + ward/deward + LH/Deny

there are more factors but if you improve all of these you should get somewhere. working on it myself

I tbd from 4.2k then i upt myself to 5.5k.. in my normal games i spam windrunner slark jug and lc....

I had a 3 out of 10 in tbd though cuz i was tilting when i calliberate my self .. us in 4k are cancer when i was in usa though but now in sea it seems easy to up mmr