ZQuixotix woke up and chose violence... 😂😂

Once you start blaming yourself for your losses you'll get better. It's crazy how people have been playing for over a decade and still think everything is someone else's fault.

Herald is a mindset.

Those darn immortal Smurfs

Lauging at the Ogre going to wrong tower feels like im being personally attacked...

1:13 into the vid and he's already humbled rofl

this guy is true herald, you cannot help him

As someone who has followed all of your tips religiously and practiced them religiously I have went from Herald to mid-high archon in about 6-7 months. It can be done guys you're just not really trying to improve. Be humble, Realize you suck, Realize you want to be better, and then be better.

Thanks Zach Ill let you know once I get to immortal Homie

That guy is just mental. Instead of seeking to get out of herald he should just seek therapy

A friend of mine that used to be a guardian once had a massive ego in Dota. At one point he tried to climb out of his bracket, but he wasn't getting anywhere. I told him bluntly that he plays poorly, ranging from builds, mechanics, and overall awareness of his surroundings. I went over a few replays with him and told him what he needed to do to climb. He followed my instructions as closely as he could seem to manage, and he is now just shy of ancient. The instructions I gave him weren't too different from these:

1. Pick a hero that can clear waves efficiently and threaten towers.
2. Look up what the pros are building, and stop starting every game with 6 faerie fires.
3. Play on your big item/ability timings.

When he was still guardian/crusader, I told him he could also play literally any hero he wanted to. He would not be punished correctly for playing a hero outside of their normal role(s). Learn to be both greedy and active.

50 last hits is not the same as 80 last hits. Glad I could audit that for you!

Please never stop doing these videos. It's peak comedy, better than Jenkins herald reviews. Love you Zquixi

I’ve been playing in the Herald V - Crusader II bracket for a couple years now. I can safely say this drow is a dog sheet herald I or II.

I fully understand where this dude is coming from, because I've been there too. Despite him clearly being Herald, he is consistently getting highest CS and--if I heard correctly--earning MVP in many games. This creates the illusion that you're MUCH better than you actually are, and keeps you from seeing all the things you do wrong. So rather than taking responsibility, you put the blame on your teammates and opponents, or even matchmaking lol.

Anyway, eye opening video because it reminded me of myself. Thanks, Z!

Everytime I come back to this video it really strikes me how little this guy wants to change anything.  He's not looking to improve at the game, he's looking for players he looks up to, to tell him that it's his team's fault that he loses, or it's smurfs, or it's him being tilted.  Never once does he think, "this is something I could do differently"

My very first game of dota vs human players (I practiced for a week on bots until I at least felt comfortable playing) I went 26-2-7 on spectre and lost horribly. Wondering what went wrong, I went back and watched the replay, and noticed that, while my team definitely was a bunch of complete deadweights, my map awareness was non-existent and I had a tendency to tunnel vision onto kills and ignore what was going on around me. So I put that in the back of my mind as something to improve at. I never particularly cared about my rank (this was back during closed beta before ranked existed) or even focused hard on improving, but just made little mental notes about things to do better and sometimes remembered to apply them, because getting better feels good. A year and a half later I was almost 4K mmr solely through this method, because being able to recognize your failings and putting even the smallest amount of work towards correcting them will take you a long way.

That being said, the most fun I ever had in dota was in the absolute MMR trenches, so maybe it's better to just blame everything on other people and never get better, cause at least then you get to spend more time in herald.

Playing Dota and only reflecting on what your team or enemies did as opposed to self reflection holds back what feels like most of the community from grinding up

There are indeed smurfs all over the lower tiers of MMR, but usually they are not Immortals.  But a Legend in Herald feels like the same thing to them.  This is something that you have to accept and adapt for if you want to rise.  Basically 4 parts:  Figure out who the best players are on your team - magnify them.  Figure out who the the best player is on the enemy team - minimize them.  Figure out who the worst player is on the enemy team - feast on them.  Figure out who the worst player is on your team - and let them die.  Don´t chase after them into bad situations.

15:30 2 years later and it's still as hilarious as the first time 🤣

As a mediocre ancient / divine player, I've been on herald playing an account of a friend, and... oh my gosh, people there is crazy as f, but they really seems to enjoy the game and have a lot of fun...