23savage makes savage comments in a ranked Dota 2 match

Everyone gets angry from time to time. And for a few seconds, it’s hard to have complete control over your actions. If you’ve been playing Dota 2 for a long time, you know that its community can be quite toxic. People scream at each other, write the most horrible things in all-chat, and are constantly fighting with their teammates.

Recently, 23savage, the famous Dota 2 player who was the first in the world to reach 13.000 MMR, got into a trashtalking match with Gabbi, another high-ranking SEA player who was on the opposite side and winning.

The two of them threw slurs at each other for 30 seconds in all-chat, with 23savage calling Gabbi ugly and being called a monkey in return. From the outside, this kind of dialogue seems quite savage, but the players likely understood it as a joke.

One thing is certain: many of the remaining players were laughing the whole time, so the atmosphere wasn’t exactly tense.

Why toxicity ruins games

Even though it’s just a game, everyone wants to win. But you cannot win by being toxic. It’s a lesson that we all learn after hundreds or even thousands of games. The moment you start yelling at people or using aggressive language, they either mute you or simply ignore you.

In the process of doing this, you lose a lot of focus and they can also get distracted. Team cohesion is lost, people stop caring about the result, and chaos ensues.

The more you want to be, the higher your expectations tend to be from everyone on your team. The secret here is to have higher expectations from yourself but lower expectations from other players. That way, if something goes wrong, you can always stay calm and focus on what you need to do to win.

One of the hardest things in Dota 2 is accepting the fact that you’re just 20% of the team. You don’t have complete control over what is happening and can simply play your part to perfection. And even then, you will still lose a lot of games because one or more of your teammates will make critical mistakes.

In many cases, you will not perform very well either but you won’t notice it unless you’re introspective and stop blaming others for your failures. The goal is to improve one game at a time, not to win every time. Not even smurfs don’t win every time.

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