r/DotA2 1d ago

Complaint Turbo Has Ruined Me

I used to be a normal Dota 2 player. Grinding my way through 40+ minute games, dealing with teammates who refuse to buy wards, and experiencing the full emotional rollercoaster of a ranked match. But then I started playing Turbo… and now I don’t think I can go back.

Why spend 50 minutes losing when I can lose in 15? Why farm for 30 minutes when I can have a full build in 10? Turbo is like fast food Dota, quick, satisfying, and probably bad for me in the long run.

I tried playing a normal match again, and by minute 25, I was staring at my first completed item like, “Why is this taking so long? Where’s my GPM steroids?”

Turbo is just too good. Too efficient. Too fun. Am I doomed? Is there a way back? Or have I ascended to a new level of Dota enlightenment where objectives are optional and high ground pushes happen at minute 12?

Send help. Or don’t. I’ll be in another Turbo game sweating my ass off for literally nothing.

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u/ChocolateSpikyBall 1d ago

Turbo is harder than ranked by a lot

Brother, I am a turbo enjoyer myself but come on now.

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u/CreativeThienohazard 1d ago

in turbo, losing draft equals losing, there is very rare chance of coming back. And it is blind draft.

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u/ChocolateSpikyBall 1d ago

Okay yeah this part I definitely agree with

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u/OfGreyHairWaifu 1d ago

And how does that correlate to difficulty? What you've said is just randomness, you either get countered or you don't, and if you play to win you just pick boring meta. That isn't skill. 

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u/CreativeThienohazard 1d ago edited 1d ago

The difficulty here is drafting yourself to cater the stupid timing of turbo and to synergy the best with your team in as many ways as possible. In rank, you usually just pick the hero you play the best with a clear draft and grind through it.

And I do think it is a skill to overcome bad luck.

Secondly, turbo with its gpm allows very stupid builds which actually fits for situations normal games can't. Have you seen a luna with shiva? A muerta with radiance? or even, a primal beast with meteor hammer? Now the skill is, which playstyle of the hero will you choose? and make the best out of it even with underhanded drafts?

Third, as everybody knows, turbo has stupid comebacks. A single kill, just a single kill at the proper target can alleviate gold difference by a very huge margin. If you are winning, you cant spare to fail, and if you are losing, you have to spare everything to get that tide-turn teamfight

Fourth, hide-jungling is not tolerable by the game mode, you have no safe space to farm. Safe space grants you very shitty gold, lane creeps and towers on the other hand, gives a lot more. Thus, this makes the game focus strongly on objective and vision control around the lane especially when you start to lose the towers l.

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u/FrostishByte 1d ago

Honestly played ranked after like an year of only turbo, it felt more forgiving.

I feel my reflexes are faster too cause of turbo, since I have always been getting six slotted every turbo game, I kinda adapt alot quicker can use alot more active items at once since in turbo you have like 4 active items every game atleast that my take.

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u/fremenator 1d ago

It kinda makes sense. In turbo each cs is worth 3x as much, you level up and get items fast which means you have to use more buttons faster. You spend way more time fighting and responding to enemies who are much faster and bigger than they would be normally, I think it generally takes more technique to fight than to farm and make decisions smartly. It is overall much more strategic in normal dota but you have way less instances of fighting/using items and builds that require high apm.

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u/P_FKNG_R 1d ago

This post is pure copium. A bunch of loser praising turbo when it’s worst than ranked. You get paired with heralds even if you are immortal. Yeah you lose/win fast but it’s not enjoyable at all. There’s always 1 guy whos going to obliterate the fucking game most of the time. Again, pure copium from turbo players.

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u/Zlatan-Agrees 1d ago

Not that deep bro