The story of a boy and a fixed 50% winrate.

Once upon a time, there was a boy. His name was John and he was 24 years old. John was your average Dota 2 player with a total playtime of around 5000 hours. Just like the average player, his MMR was also stuck in the same place in the last few years. John believed in forced winrate. When he would win a games in a nice streak and gained some nice MMR (+300), he would slowly lose that MMR.

John usually didn't notice when he won games because the enemy team had feeders and ruiners. But he would be very emotional when had gotten bad teammates. He would usually explain that he is stuck in MMR because of these bad teammates. He never told about free MMR which he gained because of bad enemies.

John was your average player, he would sit down to play in the morning. Only for one game before studying. Sometimes he would win that game, and he thought that it's a good day for Dota and he can climb MMR today, so he played all day and didn't study. Sometimes it was really a good day for Dota, so he kept playing all day. He would win a lot of games, end up with nice KDA. He felt good about himself. Easy +3300 MMR.

The following day, he played his morning game and he lost it. He was angry, he wanted his MMR back. And so he lost all the MMR that he has gained the day before. Easy – 300 MMR.

Then John mad a screenshot and made a thread on Reddit about the forced winrate.

John is 4000 MMR for 3 years straight now.

The story goes on.

John was sad and frustrated. He wanted to dominate. So he bought a Herald account for 20 Euros.

It was nice at start. He had a 85% winrate overall. (He didn't ask himself, why is the forced 50% winrate gone). Soon, he ranked up to Guardian, then to Crusader, then to Archon.

His winrate wasn't 85% winrate. As he got better enemies in Archon rank, his winrate was slowly dropping. It was about 65%. He ranked up to Legend. He was now very close to his MMR on his main account which is 4000.

A few days after, there he was on 4000 MMR.

One strange thing happened. He was on 50% winrate again. The awful and cursed 50% winrate. He knew that the whole world is conspiring against him.

He was 100% sure that Gaben sits in his office chair and is laughing about John. He knew that he is a victim of 50% forced winrate.

He went to sleep angry and frustrated. He hated everything. The bad teammates especially.

When he woke up the following day, he couldn't believe his eyes. It was Yatoro sitting in front of his PC. Yes, you read it correctly. YATORO. The TI Winner.

Yatoro told John, that he needs to sit next to him and watch.

So Yatoro did what he does best. Out of the next 20 games, he won all of them. John's account gained 950 MMR (15×30 for 15 wins, then 5×100 for being in smurf pool).

John didn't understand how is it possible. It must have been bad enemies and good teammates. There is no way Yatoro is winning because he is actually better. It can't be.

John asked Yatoro to play 20 more games. Yatoro listened and won 19 out of them. It seemed so easy. Like a knife cutting butter. Almost as if Yatoros right clicks were stronger than Johns.

They went to sleep. The following day, after John woke up, Yatoro was gone. There was no sign of him anywhere. John has hoped that Yatoro settings are still on John's PC. But everything was set up for John to play.

Yatoro gained around 2000 MMR in 2 days on Johns account, and John was now a 6000 MMR player.

The rest of the story is simple. John has lost 38 out of 40 games on carry position. He was back to 4000 MMR.

The truth is, Gaben has a secret camera in every home. When you win a lot of games, Gaben will match you with bad teammates and good opponents.

Don't believe in anything else. Yatoro won 40 games (and TI) because the system is rigged. He is not actually better than you are.

John, if you are reading this, don't believe anyone who is trying to suggest anything else than what you believe.

When boosters win 20 or 40 games on your account (while you can't), it's external factors. Valve simply gives the boosters bots to play against and always give them good teammates.

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