The one thing that many noobs fail to realize about Dota 2 is that the game's objective is to destroy the other team's base, not their heroes. With the game's current meta, players tend to sit back a lot more and farm items. Heroes that require a lot of farm to carry their team have become a pub stomp constant. Games that used to last 30 minutes now take 45. This is not necessarily a bad thing, unless there are lanes to be pushed. Sitting back and farming may look like an advantage, but while you farm, so does the other team. Having your lanes constantly pushed means that the enemy is under constant pressure, making them spread out to defend multiple towers and giving you space to move around and gank. Playing passively can lead to turnaround victories by the other team because you took too long to end the game or fed them late by getting picked off in the jungle as you were farming your Monkey King Bar. A team with a big kill advantage can still lose by staying back and allowing the other team to make up for the early deficit. In the end, always remember that towers and barracks are worth more than kills. The thing about the mistakes listed in this article is that they are made at higher level brackets as well. All of these mistakes, however, are very easy to manage and fix. These minute fixes will make all the difference as noobs crawl their way into the higher rankings. Your team will love you and praise you for your good play, and you can shed the cursed title of noob once and for all.
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