Did Dota Just Get Harder?

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Did Dota Just Get Harder?

Publish Date: October 7, 2019

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Is it just us, or did Dota just get harder? Specifically talking about the new 2019 ranked season. Perhaps, to some, nothing has changed, but to others, their ranked calibration has left them a lot lower than they were last season.

Here’s a look into the issue to try and make sense of the new calibration. Maybe, along the way, we’ll find out why Dota feels harder all of a sudden?

New Season, New Calibration

As discussed in a previous article, the

new season is now live . This means that all ranked players needed to re-calibrate their MMR for support and/or core roles. In previous calibrations we feel like the change in ranks from one season to the next was pretty consistent.

For example, we went from Archon I to Archon IV after calibration. Seems fair. And yes, feel free to let us have it in the comments for our embarrassingly low rank. Although you might want to reserve your abuse until you see where we’ve ended up this season…

In this most recent calibration, we went from Archon IV to Crusader II. CRUSADER II! What madness is this?! To be fair, all of those games were played as either support or hard support, so perhaps there’s a chance to catch up during core calibration.

With that said, Crusader II feels like a real kick in the teeth. Reddit user Anakronistick said it best with his