The best thing I've learned from playing DotA/DotA2 for almost 10 years now is that, never do solo ranked; it is not helpful at all; and if you really have to? Don't try too hard. As a wise man named N0tail once said: "When the game is going full retard?
You can only go with it.
If you start going against it; if you start going half retard?
You're fucking done for."
RE: Dota 2 Journey - How a Juggernaut became a Phantom Assasin towards the end of the game