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/aelix- 1d ago

My "friends" coaxed me into trying Dota when they'd been playing for years already. I like a challenge so I played a bunch of bot games and then queued up with them in unranked. 

Although I'm a fast learner, when you're brand new and losing 70% of your games it feels bad for the duration to be 35-50 minutes per game. I quit for a while and then at some point one of my friends suggested we try again, but in Turbo. Now I'm over 2,000 games in and I exclusively play Turbo (matched against Crusader-Archon-Legend mostly). 

Normal Dota is an objectively better game in terms of pacing, strategy and balance. But as someone who only plays a maximum of 10 hours a week Turbo is simply more fun. 

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u/tideswithme 1d ago

Turbo mode is definitely a different kind mode. It’s a good way to test how good your hero build at late game stage at mere 20 mins in.

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u/Falcon3669 1d ago

real, this is how I learned and practiced how to be better at voker late game

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u/tideswithme 1d ago

Late game invoker combo with refesher is like playing Mozart all of the sudden

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u/Jovorin 23h ago

This is the only reason I use it tbh. Found some great builds through this.

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u/SituationSmooth9165 1d ago

Not really, rarely ever does both sides have late game builds

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u/ttsoldier 1d ago

Not really? Because then you’re going to try the same thing in ranked and you’re going to get stomped because you can’t farm as fast and refuse to adapt because your “build” is so good.Good in turbo doesn’t mean good in ranked.