Quote (sMACKTRiCKz @ Jan 23 2012 07:59am)
yes the problem is no matter what bracket you are in most of the time your team will be bad. but hey, guess what? the enemy team is bad too! and don't tell me "the enemy team always has good teamwork and players". no they don't. the closest thing most pubs can do that resembles teamwork and proper play is jerking off as 5 all around the map after minute 10 because they aren't skilled enough to do anything without number advantage.
so, how do you counter this? easy. don't rely on your team to play well. rely on enemy team to play badly. get a hero with strong carry potential AND good escapes / mobility for mid (madman, silh, valk, drunken, nomad, etc.). if someone on your team tries to go mid tell them to fuck off, NEVER give up the lane. personally i just say i'll feed 0-37 and leave if they stay mid. haven't had to actually do it once yet.
then once you're mid just FARM. i don't care enemy mid is ganking from level 3. doesn't matter if you're range and he's melee and you want to harass him. just get the creep kills. only harass enough to keep him away from denying your cs. the bare minimum is 5 a minute. "but smacktrickz, mid lane was hard and i couldn't get runes and the enemy player had more base damage than me". stfu. 5 a minute is nothing. thats 62% success rate on creep kills. you SHOULD be getting 8 a minute. 5 a minute is the bare minimum because sometimes games are tough. you should get your full boots + bottle by no later than 7 mins. after you're level 7+ and have boots/bottle/whatever, always carry a tp scroll. get the walking courier to bring you one if you have to. tp ganks/counters are generally very effective and can end up getting you 2-3 kills as opposed to the 1 you'd normally get if you did a normal gank. but remember, your job is not to hold your team's hand through their laning phase. your job is farming.
you should aim for 500+ gpm once midgame starts rolling around. that means, if you're drunken, you should have at least 15 minute phase bottle chalice bulwark. on valk you want shieldbreaker 3 or geometer's or whatever your first core item is by around 22 minutes at the latest. the goal is to have so much more farm than the enemy team that you just obliterate them in any fights. but just because you get 1-2 core items fast, DON'T stop farming. lots of the time your team will be too bad to end the game even with the massive advantage you give them. so keep farming/ganking enemy heroes if this happens. its never time to completely stop farming unless you have a full inventory of tier 4 items, post haste, and enough gold for 2 buybacks.
also, one very important thing. if the enemy is jerking off as 5, DON'T start traveling as 5 with your team and trying to teamfight. that's what the enemy WANTS you to do. they're trash and the only way they can play is with 4 other teammates helping them. why stoop to their level? if this is happening, ONLY tp/take fight if you're sure you can win it and get a few kills, or if your very far towers are getting pushed. else, just fucking farm and push a lane. 5 enemy team top? cool, push both mid / bot lane towers while they jerk off trying to force a teamfight. 4 enemy heroes come mid to camp you, followed by 3 of your teammates coming to "help" you? Fuck that shit. tp to another lane and start pushing / farming it. if you fall for the trap of jerking off as 5 to counter the enemy doing the same thing, you're going to be sacrafising exp and farm and your carry potential. DON'T FALL FOR IT.
ultimately, if you follow this strategy and execute it well, you'll be sitting on 500+ GPM with 2-3 core items while the enemy is 300 GPM at best with 1 core item. so many times i've played drunken with bulwark, shield 3, phase, chalice, etc. when enemy team all only have like full boots and a portal key or some shit. i just 1 shot them all. same with madman, i have like nullstone + Shrunken + steam + chalice in 25 mins, enemy team is still working on finishing their shiledbreaker 1 on their carry. kids have NO IDEA how to farm properly. they either miss easy creep kills or just do stupid shit like try to set up ganks / farm jungle instead of farming free lanes and taking free towers. DON'T BE LIKE THEM. get that farm, and dominate the game
Stop trying to sound like you know what the hell you're talking about, rand multi.