How to Die Less as a Carry in Dota 2: Why Miracle's KDA is More Miraculous

Elevated breaks down a recent performance by Miracle- at the MDL Macau tournament to try and understand why he is such a successful carry player and why he dies less than everyone else in Dota right now.

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[SuperMcnap]

elevated and jenkins, thank you so much for the content, you rock.

[lazamal]

To me the biggest thing i learned from the video was counting the abilities that could pose a threat to you in the early rotations. And that the key to recognize it is the position of my camera during the fights. Its like i knew those things, but seeing it just shows the impact it could have on my gameplay. Ty.

[arizgaming]

Man you are the reason why i get legend medal from archon! More videos man! Great contents by the way!

[drhanky]

This is also great info for a support player, I notice I've been dying way too much sometimes in my games. And not only is it giving the enemy money, but it's very noticable in my levels (I'm often quite low compared to the others). Really need to play safer.

[omkarbharambe]

miracle didnt die in the last 4 games of MDL 2019 with boasting scores like 15-0, 19-0, etc.

[arafays]

please also add the match ID in the description of the replays you analyse

[lotterino_]

This video was on the spot, great job guys. Keep it up!

[wafflesandkarma]

this is the type of tutorial and explaining I've been looking for!! THANK YOU SOSOSOSO MUCH

[armironkurbalaj]

now after 3 months i properly use this strategy/way of playing and is soo effective especially on low ranks, and i dominate with am, jugg, wk and pa

[justrob]

can we also appreciate Liquids drafting this game. That viper pick was so devastating early. as always thank you for these contents. it is utmost important that we never stop learning in dota and in life in general.

[OldManTenno]

Back in the game after 3 years. Even playing against bots, knowledge of this playstyle was profound. You have another sub. 👍

[auroravortex]

thank you for the great video. a great analyse .

[sc]

Dunno why but this video in particular seemed really good. Good examples (I mean it's Miracle so not hard to find but still), good explanation, and particularly good explanation of the next-level component of the plays for more advanced watchers. A+

[flamingjob]

Awesome bro. Nice video. Could we have one by nisha

[MrLeva]

This is awesome lmao
These videos truly help me improve

[SunHunter]

At 2 minutes you make a good point about kda stats being super high on players that win a lot. Striving to get such a high kda can be detrimental to a pub player that will win about 50% of their games. In other words: kda isn't everything, which should of course be clear :)


I would love to see a video with pretty much the same subject, but from a losers perspective. Exploring why this cautious play style wasn't enough to win, or why it was still the best way to try and win the game.

[nyxdota]

To get the lane pull off you need a support who actually harasses, sadly thats not how it is in ancient and legend bracket.

[ByteMeuwu]

so youre telling me, his brain is bigger than mine

[jedsale]

This is how I usually play PA too bad I'm on the archon bracket and sea server, if you dont initiate fights or never goes with your team you are considered an idiot in the lower bracket and they are going to call you gay for not fighting like wtf is with this guys do they think that pa is an omnipotent hero that just right click an enemy and die, yeah it's easy to kill with pa but its easier to kill an idiotic pa that rushes and initiates all the time knowing that he has no bkb, (great vid man thumbs up for ya 👍)

[dallastuggle]

you know, I'm legend 6 right now despite being way too reckless regardless of what role I play. I bet I could get ancient pretty fast if I can learn how to not go off and die so dang often.