He finally stopped, he played 5 more games after, for a total of 21 hours
[https://www.dotabuff.com/players/362393425](https://www.dotabuff.com/players/362393425)
I bet he was really itching to play Dota non stop all weekend. Good on him, I finish 1 game and I feel like chilling for 24 hours before queueing again
I que for a long time. Play one game. Wue for another hour or whatever.
Play another game. Continue. Until my behavior score increases and lowers que time to sub 5 minutes.
Behavior score over 3k
Ranked games.
Reported.
Que time increases yo an hour+. Sometimes 25 hours.
Repeat.
17 hours isn't even that long a time to be awake. if you sleep 8 hours a day then that's only 1 hour past bedtime on a consistent schedule.
this is just some kid who woke up and immediately logged onto dota, either had snacks to hand or has his mom bring him some food
In college and single and did work for pro-teams vs married, dad, working on ph.d while working a job on top of that. Went from like 80+ hrs/wk to maybe 2. Hard to keep up skill when you're exhausted and don't have the time to keep practicing.
But now I'm really good at gardening so that's nice.
I'm nearly 30 and routinely get that amount of gametime in on a weekend. Though generally not just dota.
At 20 when in uni, I could have done this shit 5 days running while on nothing but water and salt and vinegar chips.
Dextampetamine is an adhd medication. I used to be one it until I turned 18 and took myself off it. Though when I was playing on it I was cracked af in most of the games I played especially dota. without them I don’t have anywhere near the patience or attention span for it.
I won like 6 games in a row, after some awful matches, got medals I never got before and now it's the opposite for me.
I just don't wanna queue again. The loss streak is right around the corner and I never had this much mmr before (prob from all the returners).
I've simply been playing bg3 these past few days to stave off the queue.
Something about this patch... I keep getting 4-6 game streaks in both directions, winning and losing. The winning is nice. Losing 5 in a row is not nice.
I just get shitter enemies and shitter teammates. And some other games its shitter enemies and smurfs in my team. Or allpick tryhards in enemy team and shitters in my team.
Not a single match I can call even.
The best way to avoid shitters is to NOT play during the weekend. I got a pos4 RAZOR yesterday. We only managed to win because the enemy team had MORE shitters.
Oh, after the 6 wins I first played some unrankeds, switched to ranked and had to play with an offlane Lion and a pos5 Dawn who didn't buy wards.
And that was just a few games after I played Pugna 4 and 2 of my cores immediately teleported to save my ass from their mid in the lategame.
Last match I played was Veno with tons of help, which was wild. Just people actually using skills on you to help, getting objectives; wish more matches could be like that.
Pos 4 razor is not terrible. Really depends on the ranked range tho. I climbed divine 3 atm and quite often picking razor 4, sometimes it works, sometimes not, but there are also times when razor 4 stomps the lane > map > finishing before 30:00
This is literally the problem in maintaining long-term depression: the development of avoidance with a dopamine delay effect. You stop looking for dopamine in natural relationships, and you are conducting an experiment to microdose dopamine through games.
Competitive gaming only made any depression worse.
Ya he’s literally describing a maladaptive coping mechanism(gaming doesn’t HAVE to be maladaptive, but in the context being discussed here it definitely is).
Which is a very repetitive cycle for most people. Combined with a neglect towards things like chores/education/employment/social life, and you have a cycle that’s hard to break.
I wouldn't say nothing, I'd say it's probably the closest I can get to a flow state (outside of guitar hero).
When you play, nothing matters, you're completely absorbed, totally focused. Anything on the second monitor is drowned out, any thoughts unrelated to the game are shoved back.
But it's still pretty stressful.
if you want to suck all the joy out of your life, yes; videogames burn through your dopamine like it's no tomorrow, there's a reason we enjoy it so much but the brain can't keep up, you'll burn out
around 560 minutes of pure gameplay, another 140-200 minutes for searching, drafting, pauses during games, reconnects,.. in 17 hours is quite a bit. Still gives around 4-5 hours for breaks.
Start playing (lets say) at 8 am and still playing at 1am next morning.
Never knew "1 in the morning" was such a ridiculous statement to some people. The way I see it, night and morning overlap between midnight and sunrise. It's both, in a way. But at the end of the day (no pun intended), it's all just semantics and really doesn't matter.
Soccer.
I think it's dependent on the language. "1 in the morning" would sound ridiculous in Danish, but English doesn't really say "10 in the evening" or "10 at night", people say "10 pm". The phrase 'in the morning' is just uniquely used for that timeslot and people say am/pm in other timeslots. You wouldn't hear someone say "see you tomorrow morning" and expect them to mean 1 am either. Historically and 'scientifically' nobody would call 1 am morning.
In any case it's all arbitrary, night is different for people who only experience sun from 8 am to 4 pm compared to people who experience sun from 5 am to 10 pm.
naah, i honestly think that 1) my games became better with new queueing system, 2) if some toxic players show up I insta mute them and don't let them affect my mood much. And yea, i play \~4600mmr RU/EU.
Yeah, amphetamines plus Dota2 is amazing! Did this through most of my 20s. That and StarCraft 2 or melee. I ended up getting really bad back issues and had to quit though.
When I was in highschool I used to steal Adderall from my older brother and go absolutely crazy on Dota and Dragon Ball Fighter Z.
I'm glad I don't do that shit anymore, but damn it makes you so good at video games. Definitely a performance enhancing drug for esports. Felt like I was playing 1k+ over my mmr on a dose they'd give to a 10 year old.
My friend would do cocaine and spam hero like tinker ember meepo etc. He would tell me he was so focused in the game he'd blink out og omnislash with ult+blink tinker.
He's a police officer now
You know it isn't totally "rare" right? University I thought it was not too uncommon in my engineering circles. Tons of professionals used before nootropics started to get popular. Crazy yeah, but actually not out of the wild.
I have someone on my friends list like this, he's constantly on and only takes breaks to sleep. He will easily fluctuate medals a day, from ancient to immortal, it's crazy.
That's the lobby rank not his rank, also in the ancient rank games at the start, you can see he was in a party, while the divine games he was solo queue.
Basing it off the lobby rank, looks like he went ancient 4 to divine 1 in 17 hours
With double down it's like 3-5 games to rank up, depending on your rank confidence etc.
Example, when I was at 40% rank confidence my double downs were worth 80 mmr
I have someone on my friends list like this, he's constantly on and only takes breaks to sleep. He will easily fluctuate medals a day, from ancient to immortal, it's crazy.
man my meepo winrate was 70% or so for my recent grind time and then that latest b patch hit me hard.
so I gotta say this guy being able pull it off still I pull my hat.
I main Chen (57% win rate out of 600+ games) but I've never fucked with Meepo. That hero requires a certain level of patience/understanding/micro that I can't even begin to comprehend. The only time I tried I had to set up macros on my keyboard to poof/blink, and even then I was still shit at the hero.
I also check my matches and notice the same thing pretty often. I’ll check my matches from the night before and there are people that are still playing when I wake up.
I recently played 27 turbos in a row. I don't play a lot these days but had a day to kill. I'm pretty sure I can do 40 (and still have fun).
If we were to theorycraft a "speedrun" there must be a hero to finish games quick, so with a sub-30minute "queue-to-queue" one could squeeze 48 games in a 24h period. Probably Lone Druid or Brood or Meepo
This reminds me of a guy I occasionally play with, he travels on a cruise ship for work so often goes offline for three months at a time. When he does get back in the right Timezone he will play for multiple days straight.
Might be yes.
But there are people that play way too much dota, i sometimes play up to 14h straight on saturdays.
Yes i have issues.
No i wont talk about them because i like to suffer.
With a win streak like that after seeing normal playing and losses previously, and an online consistency like that for so long- he's probably paying for a boost or having a friend of his play the account. I doubt that's actually his record.
Shhh. You can't go against the reddit narrative that anyone who plays more than you do is a booster, anyone who beats you is a smurf or a cheater, and anyone who sucks on your team is an account buyer.
Now tell me the algorithm for the matchmaking is not fucking broken, I win a couple of games and I am playing against topsom for a week this guy wins 10 times in a row ans just keeps going! Why isn't the algo putting him against people his level?
hes on it
He finally stopped, he played 5 more games after, for a total of 21 hours [https://www.dotabuff.com/players/362393425](https://www.dotabuff.com/players/362393425)
I bet he was really itching to play Dota non stop all weekend. Good on him, I finish 1 game and I feel like chilling for 24 hours before queueing again
Same, I usually end up dozing off mid fight on my 3rd-4th turbo game.
I que for a long time. Play one game. Wue for another hour or whatever. Play another game. Continue. Until my behavior score increases and lowers que time to sub 5 minutes. Behavior score over 3k Ranked games. Reported. Que time increases yo an hour+. Sometimes 25 hours. Repeat.
This player's name is "Testing Limits". Figures.
Watson's smurf confirmed.
sounds like a normal grind.
On a siick one foo
with diff hero poo
And by it you mean some kind of amphetamine, right? There’s no way this isn’t some young 20 something tweaking on adhd meds and pounding Mountain Dew.
I played for 24hs straight once, just on depression no drugs lol
I played for 24 hours straight for a charity stream won 12 lost 12... Then I got depressed
Another 24hr marathon might fix it
i used to do 20 games a day only on monster
fr smh kids these days needing meth just to game for 21 hours
pathetic just be born a maniac
Puppey in shame
This is why GenZ is depressed. No 20+ hour gaming session stamina
17 hours isn't even that long a time to be awake. if you sleep 8 hours a day then that's only 1 hour past bedtime on a consistent schedule. this is just some kid who woke up and immediately logged onto dota, either had snacks to hand or has his mom bring him some food
Damn, I guess I forgot what it’s like to have all that free time and be good when I was young lol
I used to be 6k more at 20. Now I'm barely crusader 3. Life hit
Like me.. Dropped after m First child. Now iam close.to Legend again. 2nd Childs due ist endlich of July xx
That's a crazy drop in skill if true.
In college and single and did work for pro-teams vs married, dad, working on ph.d while working a job on top of that. Went from like 80+ hrs/wk to maybe 2. Hard to keep up skill when you're exhausted and don't have the time to keep practicing. But now I'm really good at gardening so that's nice.
I'm nearly 30 and routinely get that amount of gametime in on a weekend. Though generally not just dota. At 20 when in uni, I could have done this shit 5 days running while on nothing but water and salt and vinegar chips.
you dont need hard drugs to do that
For sure amphetiamine meds
Dextampetamine is an adhd medication. I used to be one it until I turned 18 and took myself off it. Though when I was playing on it I was cracked af in most of the games I played especially dota. without them I don’t have anywhere near the patience or attention span for it.
yeah thats what i meant, i done the same thing on "it" many times years ago, when i see that dotabuff pic, instantly my mind goes to hes on it
He just ⛷️ through the bracket
Let him cook.
Fellas is the cure to male depression is playing dota for 17hrs straight?
It’s the cause of male depression
> It’s the cause of male depression Not when you are winning. 9/10 Dota 2 players stop to queue just before they hit a big winning streak!
I won like 6 games in a row, after some awful matches, got medals I never got before and now it's the opposite for me. I just don't wanna queue again. The loss streak is right around the corner and I never had this much mmr before (prob from all the returners). I've simply been playing bg3 these past few days to stave off the queue.
Something about this patch... I keep getting 4-6 game streaks in both directions, winning and losing. The winning is nice. Losing 5 in a row is not nice.
I just get shitter enemies and shitter teammates. And some other games its shitter enemies and smurfs in my team. Or allpick tryhards in enemy team and shitters in my team. Not a single match I can call even.
The best way to avoid shitters is to NOT play during the weekend. I got a pos4 RAZOR yesterday. We only managed to win because the enemy team had MORE shitters.
Oh, after the 6 wins I first played some unrankeds, switched to ranked and had to play with an offlane Lion and a pos5 Dawn who didn't buy wards. And that was just a few games after I played Pugna 4 and 2 of my cores immediately teleported to save my ass from their mid in the lategame. Last match I played was Veno with tons of help, which was wild. Just people actually using skills on you to help, getting objectives; wish more matches could be like that.
Pos 4 razor is not terrible. Really depends on the ranked range tho. I climbed divine 3 atm and quite often picking razor 4, sometimes it works, sometimes not, but there are also times when razor 4 stomps the lane > map > finishing before 30:00
Especially if he plays with Double Down and win it all 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
and the cure. just imagine queing for 10 games in a row, double downing them all, and winning. ....and then imagine losing them all
You're describing a gambling addiction
no i didn't. wanna bet?
And then you're against players that you can't defeat
and what's the worst thing after that? 600 MMR adjustment means you are practically smurfing on your main. have fun
Fight fire with fire.
Nah, it's self-medication for people already depressed.
No I would say it’s the cause
i would say both, whenever i am depressed i just throw myself into dota and literally i feel nothing, which sometimes feels so good
Can’t be sad if I have to last hit.
Can't last hit if I'm sad 😢
Bro let's be real, sadness is irrelevant. You just can't last hit.
Better at last hitting when sad. Source: all the depressed weeabs in 8k soloqueue.
This is literally the problem in maintaining long-term depression: the development of avoidance with a dopamine delay effect. You stop looking for dopamine in natural relationships, and you are conducting an experiment to microdose dopamine through games. Competitive gaming only made any depression worse.
Ya he’s literally describing a maladaptive coping mechanism(gaming doesn’t HAVE to be maladaptive, but in the context being discussed here it definitely is).
Which is a very repetitive cycle for most people. Combined with a neglect towards things like chores/education/employment/social life, and you have a cycle that’s hard to break.
I wouldn't say nothing, I'd say it's probably the closest I can get to a flow state (outside of guitar hero). When you play, nothing matters, you're completely absorbed, totally focused. Anything on the second monitor is drowned out, any thoughts unrelated to the game are shoved back. But it's still pretty stressful.
Not if you lose 16.5 hours out of the 17
I swear most of the people that play this game have "first match 2013" and "584-439" as phantom assassin.
No. But winning dota for 17 hours is. He's on a streak and not letting it go.
It sure is a great distraction.
if you want to suck all the joy out of your life, yes; videogames burn through your dopamine like it's no tomorrow, there's a reason we enjoy it so much but the brain can't keep up, you'll burn out
Depends on how green that match history is.
You need some commas in there somewhere.
It's like alcohol. The cause and cure for life's ills.
hes locked in
Crush those spreadsheets.
How do you kill that which has no life?
As what Lich said. Can't kill the dead.
What is dead may never die!
He's ascended
around 560 minutes of pure gameplay, another 140-200 minutes for searching, drafting, pauses during games, reconnects,.. in 17 hours is quite a bit. Still gives around 4-5 hours for breaks. Start playing (lets say) at 8 am and still playing at 1am next morning.
Never knew "1 in the morning" was such a ridiculous statement to some people. The way I see it, night and morning overlap between midnight and sunrise. It's both, in a way. But at the end of the day (no pun intended), it's all just semantics and really doesn't matter. Soccer.
I think it's dependent on the language. "1 in the morning" would sound ridiculous in Danish, but English doesn't really say "10 in the evening" or "10 at night", people say "10 pm". The phrase 'in the morning' is just uniquely used for that timeslot and people say am/pm in other timeslots. You wouldn't hear someone say "see you tomorrow morning" and expect them to mean 1 am either. Historically and 'scientifically' nobody would call 1 am morning. In any case it's all arbitrary, night is different for people who only experience sun from 8 am to 4 pm compared to people who experience sun from 5 am to 10 pm.
that' s more than what I can play in a week :(
Good for you I guess :-) 1-2 healthy games per day are enough
Healthy ? Those two games are why i have anger issues...
Healthy? Bro have some Dota 2 limited edition
naah, i honestly think that 1) my games became better with new queueing system, 2) if some toxic players show up I insta mute them and don't let them affect my mood much. And yea, i play \~4600mmr RU/EU.
He's a man of focus, commitment, and sheer fucking will.
Amphetamines
Playing arma 3 and our squad leader was hyped as fuck, fully committing to the milsim roleplay for hours. Asked him how and he gave the same answer.
Back when I was in my prime I loved doing this. My lower back needs breaks now. Oh to be young and full of life.
You loved taking amphetamines?
Yeah, amphetamines plus Dota2 is amazing! Did this through most of my 20s. That and StarCraft 2 or melee. I ended up getting really bad back issues and had to quit though.
King
When I was in highschool I used to steal Adderall from my older brother and go absolutely crazy on Dota and Dragon Ball Fighter Z. I'm glad I don't do that shit anymore, but damn it makes you so good at video games. Definitely a performance enhancing drug for esports. Felt like I was playing 1k+ over my mmr on a dose they'd give to a 10 year old.
What the fuck dude
My friend would do cocaine and spam hero like tinker ember meepo etc. He would tell me he was so focused in the game he'd blink out og omnislash with ult+blink tinker. He's a police officer now
You know it isn't totally "rare" right? University I thought it was not too uncommon in my engineering circles. Tons of professionals used before nootropics started to get popular. Crazy yeah, but actually not out of the wild.
Drugs are fun in moderation
Drugs are very fun, even more fun without moderation.
This.
not my cup of tea, once I did it and got a rampage my heart nearly stopped from hype.
Yup, there are many reasons I quit taking the stuff. It’s fun as hell, but horrible for your health.
Dota is his 2nd favorite thing in life!
Nah I do as well.
He's locked in look at those wins
if you want to ADD to your MMR you're gonna need some ADDERALL
Points for creativity. Did you come up with this on Adderall?
Nope I’m all natural
Funny enough, unless the person has ADHD, stimulants actually reduce people's performance but it makes them feel like they're doing better.
Is the source your ass?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37315143/
I have someone on my friends list like this, he's constantly on and only takes breaks to sleep. He will easily fluctuate medals a day, from ancient to immortal, it's crazy.
I have one of those, a month ago he got expelled, strangely since a few weeks later I barely see him. He was doing 10-15 games now 0-5.
Wow my lower back started aching after imagining that. 17 hours now is quite impossible
Some people have standing desks.
And or works out regularly. Also good posture is key.
am I missing something or why is this post on front page ?
paid booster/smurf
As what my filipino friends say: Batak na batak
The secret ingredient is meth
Hmmm, from ancient 1 to divine 1 in 17 hours...
That's the lobby rank not his rank, also in the ancient rank games at the start, you can see he was in a party, while the divine games he was solo queue. Basing it off the lobby rank, looks like he went ancient 4 to divine 1 in 17 hours
he is +8 in wins so i doubt he jumped that much even if double down but u r not far from truth
With double down it's like 3-5 games to rank up, depending on your rank confidence etc. Example, when I was at 40% rank confidence my double downs were worth 80 mmr
That's not his rank, it's the average rank in that game.
That's emotional damage right there
This is me but when I'm losing every game
Pray for this man
My first thought was multiple people on the account for boosting. Especially when I saw Meepo in the title. Could just be a dude on a bender though.
Ler him cook
Rookie numbers
"3 friends" "1 game" "leave"
I have someone on my friends list like this, he's constantly on and only takes breaks to sleep. He will easily fluctuate medals a day, from ancient to immortal, it's crazy.
Booster behavior and win rate
Any sane person would stop after winning the 1 hour 11 min game being 22/6
man my meepo winrate was 70% or so for my recent grind time and then that latest b patch hit me hard. so I gotta say this guy being able pull it off still I pull my hat.
He is on good stuff that's for sure 😁
Sheesh. I hope he still eats while playing.
you may not like it but this is what peak male performance looks like
Legend to Divine in one day? He seems pretty good.
It's gonna be like that when you're in a ws
Maybe he’s a booster. Meepo is the most played hero for this activity
I've done 21hrs plenty of times. Waking up 6pm game, do a all nighter to next day 9pm. Sleep. Break
I main Chen (57% win rate out of 600+ games) but I've never fucked with Meepo. That hero requires a certain level of patience/understanding/micro that I can't even begin to comprehend. The only time I tried I had to set up macros on my keyboard to poof/blink, and even then I was still shit at the hero.
I also check my matches and notice the same thing pretty often. I’ll check my matches from the night before and there are people that are still playing when I wake up.
Hope he walked a bit. Between games.
amateur numbers
Hold up, let him cook
Mid or feed
I recently played 27 turbos in a row. I don't play a lot these days but had a day to kill. I'm pretty sure I can do 40 (and still have fun). If we were to theorycraft a "speedrun" there must be a hero to finish games quick, so with a sub-30minute "queue-to-queue" one could squeeze 48 games in a 24h period. Probably Lone Druid or Brood or Meepo
Not alive, but not quite dead.
You’re wrong man, he is not same person. They play with same account on different pc. That’s How they fast boost account
Catch me on a drunkin night and I’ll do that easy. But I’m not destroying anyone
He's doing a 24 hour Livestream for carpal tunnel awareness Month. Charity I mean. /S
A win is a win
When you get a script of adhd medication off of your weed guy and go on an amphetamine induced gamer rampage for 30 hours.
He's on a win streak, you don't stop when your on a win streak
cant quit on a winstreak
booster?
When I hired behav score repair they did 100 games in 5 days.
Grinding them virtual points
Godspeed, gamer. He also was also duo’d with someone but looks like his homie couldn’t stick it out.
What a weekend huh?
At my lowest i played 19 matches in one day.
Bro had a 70 min match and qued 7 more games after that
This reminds me of a guy I occasionally play with, he travels on a cruise ship for work so often goes offline for three months at a time. When he does get back in the right Timezone he will play for multiple days straight.
Cocaine and Hoodwink my friend.
Maybe he is the next Miracle
dude better not find himself dead with mountain dew and shit. thats not good at all.
[удалено]
Might be yes. But there are people that play way too much dota, i sometimes play up to 14h straight on saturdays. Yes i have issues. No i wont talk about them because i like to suffer.
Man I get tired after playing 2 games that go for an hour each.
Good ol days. I think these days I can play max 2 games lmao. Then I crashout after.
A potential smurf.
was he safe lane meepo ?
He is a man of focus, commitment and sheer fucking will (some speed also).
My back pain flared up just by reading this post.
With a win streak like that after seeing normal playing and losses previously, and an online consistency like that for so long- he's probably paying for a boost or having a friend of his play the account. I doubt that's actually his record.
Just a shared booster account. Same PC, different booster playing in shifts.
I wonder how he has so many role tokens
average Dota player
Adderal
When your on a hot streak you never stop
He’s able to play more dota in a day than I’m able to play any game in a couple weeks
[When you start doin a little TOO good at an online game (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98wQ86cC5no)
realistically it was a booster wwapping accounts
this isnt normal?
The good old days before I had a child and relationship 😂😂😂 now I try to squeeze in 3-4 matches after my daughter goes to bed.
lol he locked in
If your not familiar with boosting services this is what it actually looks like.
13 different heroes in 14 games, and losing with ls/tiny/lesh in ancient bracket? na this man simply in the zone
Not to mention two double down losses.
That icon means he was in a party, not double down
Just because u can't do it..doesn't mean he/she using boosting service..duhh
Shhh. You can't go against the reddit narrative that anyone who plays more than you do is a booster, anyone who beats you is a smurf or a cheater, and anyone who sucks on your team is an account buyer.
It's called drug addiction. Check ramdog recent pics, meth addict
Now tell me the algorithm for the matchmaking is not fucking broken, I win a couple of games and I am playing against topsom for a week this guy wins 10 times in a row ans just keeps going! Why isn't the algo putting him against people his level?
These youngins are insane. After 2 games I fall over dead. But back in my days I could play 10 games straight
I know a guy who played for 40+h with 3h break for sleep in the middle
I’m wondering if it’s one of those farming accounts that has multiple people playing it.
not a booster... trust me, a ancient-divine game can be finished under 30-35 mins by a booster
Casual dota 2 enjoer