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General Discussion"How long would it take me to gain MMR"

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Stentorian

    Gaining MMR is a function of net games won. Depending on whether your win rates is equal to, at, or greater than 50%, your MMR will decline, stay the same, or rise.

    The key variables to gaining MMR are as follows:

    1. Your win rate
    2. The number of games you play/day
    3. Your target MMR to gain

    As an example, if your current MMR is 4K and the target is 5K MMR, and you play about 4 games on average/day and the win rate is about 55% of your games averaging about 25 MMR per win (and 45% of losses where you lose 25 MMR), you'd need = 1000/(4 X .1 X 25) = 100 days of dedicated game-play.

    In other words, with a 55% win rate, every game your expected MMR gain is 2.5. If you play 4 games a day, you can expect to win 10 MMR/day on average. To close a 1000 MMR gap, you'd need to play at that rate for 100 days.

    Days needed = MMR GAP/ ((Win rate - Loss Rate) X games/day X 25).

    If you could bump up your win rate to 60%, you'd reduce the number of days needed from 100 to 50 (because you've essentially doubled your expected daily MMR gain from 2.5 to 5).

    There's a cap on your win rate, because a % of your games will be beyond your control:

    a. Bad team draft
    b. Throw/tilt
    c. Bad luck/Bad play
    d. Disconnect

    I'd say about 40% of games are like that where it's autoloss (2/5). That means you have a fair shot of winning around 60% or 3/5 games. If you're really good and truly deserve to be in a higher bracket (either due to skill or spamming some cheese shit), you can convert some of the 40% autoloss to wins as well, and end up with a >60% win rate.

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    Dire Wolf

      what is this like a psa?

      Jack__Attack

        I believe he's basically trying to answer a commonly asked question so people can have a proper perspective. However, unless he's planning on doing the math for everyone it still won't answer the question.

        My party ranked games I win about 67% of the time. I'm currently 3.9k how long will it take me to get 5k at roughly 7 party ranked games a week or 1 a day?

        Solo queue i am currently 3k and win about 55% of the time at roughly 2 games a day since you did the math for me it seems I will achieve 4k solo in about 200 days.. lol

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        Stentorian

          Yea just plug in your numbers to that formula and find the number of days and set your expectations.

          Days needed = MMR GAP/ ((Win rate - Loss Rate) X games/day X 25).

          ^ 200 days isn't bad considering you only play 2 games/day.

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          Hatrið mun sigra

            lol just a couple hours ago I was trying to calculate how many days I need to get to 5k from 4k, with a 55-60% winrate, by playing 4 games a day on average. Magic.

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            one syllable anglo-saxon

              psa 4 u people: the sky is blue and the grass is green!

              Stentorian

                ^ not if your win rate is 50.05%, in which case you'll be playing this game through retirement.

                🍩🍪Cookie🍪🍩

                  realistically, only 5-15% of matches are not winnable under 6k due to any other fault other than your own (teammates feeding, enemy smurf, lag)

                  this number will only drop in higher than 6k+ mmr due to team play actually being mandatory, meaning that a loss can occur out of team mistakes that aren't intentional.

                  now, i haven't personally seen any boosters above 75% winrate while boosting in the 6-7k brackets, but there could be.

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                  Stentorian

                    ^ if you win all the "winnable" games under 6K, i.e. 85% of your games, you really deserve to be out of that bracket.

                    Those with 55-60% win rate have a lot of room to improve.

                    At the end of day, I'm okay with having a lower win rate if that allows me to play some "fun heroes" like Sandking than spamming the same boring pitlord every game for a 70-80% win rate.

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                    A

                      i prefer playing boring pitlord every game in ranked to get 70-80 %wr.
                      why u play your fav hero(in my case is invoker) and get 50%wr when u can spam winning heroes??
                      u stop play or play unrank if u bored spamming hero

                      basement :)

                        I would say 30% of losses are unavoidable. 70% could have been played better.

                        Shou

                          Every loss is avoidable.
                          If a 5k was playing instead of me he wud have won almost every game I lost given they knew the position.
                          My ranked Winrate is 60% and climbing. I want to reach 2k and think I can do it in the span of 2 weeks. How many games I need?

                          StanceWorks

                            Psa: Quit Dota, do something useful with your life.

                            evy

                              @idc mmr
                              Some people still want to have fun while trying to win
                              Some people simply play ranked to increase some number

                              A̶𝖘𝖍𝖊𝖘

                                Psa: Quit Dota, do something useful with your life. SERIOUSLY GUYS

                                The Quantum

                                  Cookie are you ever re-releasing the RIKI MMR guide 1-5k ?

                                  Jacked

                                    Cookie are you ever re-releasing the RIKI MMR guide 1-5k ?

                                    the people have spoken.

                                    too bad cuki doesnt know how to roam anymore ayy lmao

                                    Jacked

                                      just came here to say that

                                      The key variables to gaining MMR are as follows:
                                      1. Your win rate

                                      is kinda wrong.

                                      evy

                                        He never knew how to roam 🌚
                                        Can't win in 3k smh

                                        cartel

                                          idk man...i just play everyday till i get 25 mmr...once i get it i stop playing ranked for the day and watch replays...i reaaaaaaaally hate losing what i just gained....works out wonders for me...no tilt and no playing with the same retard twice...overall very slow progress but its guaranteed success... i get around a guaranteed 200 mmr per week which is 1000 mmr every month and a week ...not impressive but i get really scared of losing when i play too much in one day..the more games i play in a day the higher the chance i lose...i think of dota in ranked like a mountain...the higher you climb the harder it becomes so you have to rest during your climb...if you get way too tired you just slip and falll...im not talking like im a 5k player who wouldnt get tired from destroying 2k players...im talking like im a 2k player who wants to climb to 3k this month and is so far having no issues with that using his way... maybe when im actually better at the game i will stop being such a pus.sy..but till then 25 mmr a day is my trick...i have 70% winrate on sk so i only play him in ranked....i did learn alot not only about him but about the offlane in general...so i highly doubt cheesing my way to higher mmr will result in an mmr drop since i try to improve on the position not on the hero

                                          The Quantum

                                            the people have spoken.
                                            too bad cuki doesnt know how to roam anymore ayy lmao

                                            Not the CM one Cookie released another guide under the account RIKI which basically explained, well... everything ( mechanics, last hitting etc.)

                                            Jacked

                                              He will when sem returns from sushi

                                              TNL.Jolly_Hotdog

                                                sooner than expected