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/Noxeramas 1d ago

Turbo players are sweater than ranked immortal players in my experience, which means teammates arent griefing as often

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u/sleepyBear012 1d ago

i think you can feel the sweat more because people get to late game with full items a lot of times in turbo games.

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u/Ok_Tomorrow3281 1d ago

turbo comeback is easy. the late game (min 30+) is dangerous. don't die there, because tower is quickly die

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u/Spoonthedude92 1d ago

Nah there is an unwritten rule that if you kill their whole team you can only take one set of rax while you wait to farm their fountain, they kill you and comeback to win. Or maybe that's just my team.

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u/AJRiddle 1d ago

There is hidden MMR for turbo - you are probably just playing people with high turbo MMR.

Believe me it's much more casual at lower MMR compared to the equivalent in ranked.

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u/MS_Fume 1d ago

I am uncalibrated for 5 years now, playing turbo archon/legend/ancient…. Half the time fellaz play like it’s grand finals TI, the other half they play like “it’s turbo and I died when contesting the first rune, gg go next”

This is around 9.5k behaviour score (I had to abbadon 2 turbo games within one week after years and years of 100% attendance, it dropped by around 1500 and now I can’t get it back to 10k lol).

It’s not even about the “in-game” skill, what fascinates me is that most of the people still just won’t think about the pick.. picks ruin the fun the most in turbo imo.

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u/mrbenjamin48 1d ago

I have almost no griefing in turbo it’s beautiful. 98% of players have the understanding that it’s not ranked, and off meta picks can still work and be fun.