Dota 2 longest team fight to walk

General DiscussionI need to get better at team fights. Help!

First of all I could have just made another “I need to get out of my mmr bracket” post where I start listing excuses and blaming others for being stuck where I am. Well I won’t do that. I suck. I know I suck.

But I remembered a video from Purge where he said that most of the lower MMR players are there, not because they are generally bad, but because while they are good at something they lack skill elsewhere.

So I made my no1. priority to try to identify my bigger weaknesses. For this topic note that when I say I am good at something I mean I am good at it within my current mmr bracket when playing solo queue. Obviously compared to a 4k player I suck at everything.

So first of all, what do I think I am good at:

1. Laning in general. If I play support I make sure to zone the offlaner while also going for pulls, build stacks. I buy and place wards. If we got invis on our lane I make sure to get proper detection. When playing roaming supports I mostly start with several assists or a killing spree, because my early ganks are good. I am not a mid and shouldn’t ever play that role, except for Dragon Knight, that1s the only hero I understand how it works well mid. As an offlaner I mostly get the most xp out of my lane without feeding, but with Tide or Clockwerk for example I get kills. A rarely play carry, but I know my farming paterns are good. I know when to fall back and farm jungle camps inbetween creepwaves, when I rotate lanes I make sure to collect runes and farm on the way. Almost all of my games laning phases start well.

2. Timings. I know when to retreat from a push when enemies respawn. I know when to go for a push, for example when my DK’s and my sup’s SS’s ult go off cooldown. I know when I can start taking a fight, like when my Juggernaut gets his Manta Sytle against Silencer for example.

Now the things I SUCK at:

3. Team fighting as mentioned in the title. Definitly my biggest weakness. I get lost. Too much effetcs, too much things to look for. Where should I position myself? Should I initiate or should I keep waiting for an initiation of a teammate? Who to target? By the time I could read the scenarion the fight is over. How can I improve this?

4. When laning phase is short.
I used to have a much better win rate some patches ago when I did know less about dota, but the laning phase was definitly longer. These days in so many games the clock hasn’t even hit minute 3 and the enemy team starts 4 man fighting. No laning. Teamfights. I suck at teamfights. Ever since the meta shifted to see earlier team fights my winrate and therefore MMR started going down.

5. Reaction time. Well I am 35 who plays a 1-2 games a day when comming home from work, or 4-5 games on a weekend day. Won’t be as fast as an 18 year old, can’t change that.

What do you suggest? Could you give me a guidline what to look for in team fights? What kind of characters are supposed to do what in a team fight?