Long time player. Stuck in trollville. Rather climb out than start a new account. Would like to find a regular team to work at it.
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My battle tested method is as follows - takes about a year to take actual effect.
- Download Heroes Profile Uploader. Upload all your matches.
- Play as many heroes in QM as you can. Do not play your best heroes in between, or you will corrupt the experience (inflate your MMR). I use a script to roll a hero (easy version is 1…88) for me.
- Decide whether to play X matches on a day or for X losses. I play to 1 loss. It’s a bit random, but it doesn’t really fail long term. Normally, I get instaloss on bad hero, 1:1 on okay hero and 2:1 on good hero. Occasional 11 wins in a row happens. Also, the game seems to keep hero specific MMR to some extent, my 2700+ hero gets really hard first match, and my 1500 sometimes gets muppets. But it still ends up 25-50-75% winrate or somesuch.
- Visit your Hero page often. Place top 4 heroes from Ranked as your top 4 picks. Place the next 4 sorted by MMR, or somesuch. Note that some heroes are completely fail in ranked, either design or playstyle, my Q Ming has about 700 MMR difference which is basically Diamond 1 to Bronze 4.
Prepick your best heroes. Quickly check a couple teammates, what do they play, which hero of yours would click.
Sometimes this method fails to expose a hero you like, in which case just remember it (or replace a favorite). Typically a new hero that needs to win a lot to have reasonable rating - in my case, ETC.
Ultimately, it’s possible that you have a specific skill level that keeps you at B5, my mum couldn’t ever progress Zuma past about 60%. So what. She still plays it, nearly 20 years later.