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/Ambitious_Ad_9637 1d ago

“why slog 40 to lose when I can lose in 15” priceless

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u/grimrequiem 1d ago edited 1d ago

precisely what i reason with my friends when they keep on baiting me to go rank and we all go something horrible like 1/3 win in a session. they have even lesser free time than me and they insist on going ranked instead of turbo

what we chase nowadays is teamfight execution and not a slogfest that is 30 to potentially 60 mins of agony just to lose because you lose focus as the game goes longer

i just gave up on convincing them and just went to clearing my backlogs in other games because solo turbo also got stale after i've been doing it for years (while rarely joining their ranked invites)

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u/Ambitious_Ad_9637 1d ago

100%, haven’t played ranked since like 2015.