Behavior Score & You

[AIR]

TL:DR

I had a real behavior problem during my whole life playing Dota 2, for personal reasons - life altering reasons - that just happened. I've climbed MULTIPLE TIMES from very low - from under 1k, and capped to max - 10k, multiple times, over the years. The changes to behavior score made it more stable - 75 games of turbo would give me +2500 Behavior, now it barely changes 50.

I've managed to work on myself and with some help from friends and family, got me back on track. I consider myself a decent player, so yes, I have a lot of experience with Behavior Score - from countless conversations with Support and even some Devs on Steam Support.

But none of this matters.

I am just here to make a list of 7 things that, if you do, you will increase your behavior score constantly.

Afteral, who is more qualified to talk about than a "Reformed"* player?
*Work in Progress

Behavior Score is HARSH. These tips help diminish, not solve, the problem.
And this go without saying: NEVER ABANDON.

As of 2024, February, the System is not as harsh as it used to be during the start of the experiment.

Be social, dude.

Volleyball players are not allowed to chat to rival players not even cheer facing the opponent during the games: High testosterone leads to open discussions and fights. So why in hell would you say things in /all, specially discussing with random people? Using /all makes you sound like a child complaining. The game chat communications must be kept clean, instead of personal issues. You can always TIP, Taunts, Sprays and Chatwheel to horse around, use those! You will reduce the toxicity of your team by 20% (one less toxic person). Prime directive.

Like & Commend players you would like to play again. Dislike players you did not like. Mute in game those who talk much to your taste. Report for comm abuse those who do in excess. Avoid list if you can. Report the profile of person you believe is cheating, smurfing or being abusive in a way that is "over and beyond".

Slow ride: Take it easy.

You are not that actor from Braveheart. You won't rally the troops to deal your bidding as you wish. Respect your team and they will respect you (and if someone doesn't, just don't reflect. Ignore). Your team, the players that matter: You should not care about a random kid talking smack on the other side, or even on your team? Just mute and be the real G owning the conversation by not talking to someone who is trolling.

Also, you don't need to humiliate anyone by spamming and saying obvious things: you don't need to remind people of their failures when they have not already forgotten about. You can suggest, using shift click mostly, Hero and Item picks. Try doing that instead of writing an anime speech every time you are dead.

Be a friendly teammate instead of an angry loser - doesn't mattter who are playing with.

Assault the Fridge: Abuse Consumables!

Just to mention the current patch: SMOKES, DUST OF APPEARANCE, INFUSED RAINDROPS, SHARING TANGO, MANGO, PLANTING A TREE TO DOUBLE A TANGO, CLARITY, TOWN PORTAL SCROLLS, FAERY FIRE, BLOOD GRANADES, OBSERVER AND SENTRY WARDS. REFILL BOTTLES, USING AND SHARING SALVE: Dota is filled with great consumables that you can use to not only raise morale, but increase performance.

OpenAI figure out that buying and sharing lot of regen items was actually the best strategy and no human team can beat it anymore. That is one of the reasons Healing Salve got nerfed so hard, because Supporting 5 was basically a mule for that.

If you don't carry a dust with open space - or gods sake, don't have TP READY, you are a monster: EVERY POSITION.

CAVEMAN MENTALLITY: Enemy dead means gold for you and your assists, and XP. 80 Gold for Dust and Sentry, if you don't carry it, can define a TF win or a loseit in. You monster. Just... Monster. Swap your backpack, use all slots. Your team will thank you.

All consumables are extremely important and you should always use those items to dominate and assure your game with your team. And always, always carry a TP have the cooldown ready for when your team needs you: good behavior and good advice.

Smoking with Teammates is Fun.

If you always use a smoke when the game starts, and every smoke possible, you are not only moving faster, but coming close to people, provide so many opportunities to not only gather players towards goals - literally "around the fire", attemping to create plays, and that even in bad games or when they fail, it creates interaction, even if it is for Warding: makes it fun with so many possibilities.

Be Prometeus. Carry that fire.

• "<" for "Get Back" and ">" for "Push Now";
  
• "?" For Missing, works on all lanes and triggers "survival mode" on people.
  
• ":, ;" For "Help".
  
• Well Played/Thanks/Sorry/Don't Give Up! are great to dimish toxicity.
  
• As long as you are not a prick with those, you will see improvement.

If you look at your keyboard, you will see those keys are akward "LOCATED", but your brain knows precisely where they are, all the time. Those are great when spammed, specially by multiple people. And are understand regardless of language barries. You can make yourself heard without even speaking, and it's faster too.

You gotta to understand the Timers.

As I write this post, you got multiple timers in game, and you will always have. I won't write what they are, but just as day and night mechanics, lots of things have a timer, so you get to understand how they work and share the information, instead of just wasting time about to yourself or other teammate. Link Cooldowns, telling your team about those timers, from xp, item timers too: it is YOUR OBLIGATION to "Click Communicate" those to people you play with, as it theirs to you.

Remind people this fact, RESPECTFULLY if necessary. RESPECTFULLY.

In doubt, wear protection: Black King Bar and You.

Look at each opponent hero and how his disables by magic or debuffs can mess with your hero, damage wise and control wise. Now you look at your hero, and see what his role in the fight is, and what your team mate offers. If "to tank a little" is theme, than just buy it. 9 Seconds of freedom offers you a lot in fights, gets more survival and actually you get to do something instead of being controlled all fight. You won't be blamed for not having when needed.

Casual x Ranked.

If you are tilting in Casual and Turbo you have a problem and need to address that before playing Dota ever again. You are the toxic one. Those games don't matter, they are not result oriented, they are fun oriented, and if you act any other way about you, you are in need of help.

Now, when it comes to Ranked play... Always keep in mind you have thousands and thousands of games ahead of you, and small sampling is biased. Always consult your end game graphs instead of blame-gaming with a bunch of randoms.

Just learn how and where you are improving. To check yourself in the console, developer_1 and then dota_game_account_client_debug for social aspects and more.

My Recent Bulletin Updates

Date; Excessive Reports; Excessive Abandons; Match Count; Positive Matches; Reported Matches; Abandoned Matches; Reports; Reporting Parties; Comms Reports; Comms Reporting; Parties Commends; Behavior Score.

2024-02-18 No No 15 14 1 0 1 1 2 2 22 9175
2024-02-07 No No 15 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 9116
2024-02-01 No No 15 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 34 9011
2024-01-24 No No 15 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 43 8766
2024-01-15 No No 15 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 40 8511
2024-01-11 No No 15 14 1 0 2 2 0 0 26 8304
2024-01-09 No No 15 13 2 0 2 2 0 0 25 8359
2024-01-05 No No 15 13 2 0 5 3 0 0 22 8373
2024-01-03 No No 15 11 4 0 7 5 0 0 15 8475
2023-12-30 No No 15 12 3 0 4 4 0 0 22 8666
2023-12-28 No No 15 14 1 0 1 1 0 0 17 8763
2023-12-27 No No 15 12 3 0 4 3 0 0 15 8730
2023-12-16 No No 15 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 8781
2023-11-22 No No 15 14 2 0 2 2 1 1 15 8673

[Absche]

Yes, for everybody to read. Usually when people ask here at the forum how to increase their scores they ask for a trick, a short cut. But the truth is, just do what the system/your co-players ask you do: be more positive and get better. Applies to behavior/ communication as well as to mmr.

[Grimmz]

another good way to troubleshoot behavioral problems is to download replays and dissect what went wrong and why was a report issued. if one cannot tell by themselves, then they may share the match id with others who may know, get a secondary opinion.

[LeGeNdArY NooB]

Nice guide.
Also playing with friends is the fastest way i found. you play with a party of friends and you all do your best and commend each other in the end. try it for 15,20 game and watch your BS increase.
How to find friends?! just add people from games. people who you liked playing with in solo matches. and accept friend requests.

[ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN]

And then you will still get reported by your overly aggressive support who wants to fight when you have 60%hp and want to farm then dies. l0l good guide though? This is basically just a guide on how to play the game lmao

[ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN]

The real TLDR:

1. Mute EVERYONE in a communication based game.
2. Be a good teammate(wow shocker)?
3. Pray to god you don't get someone unhinged on your team reporting for any reason.

[Paradise]

XD

[Absche]

Originally posted by |I|I|I|I|I|I|I|I|:

Nice guide.
Also playing with friends is the fastest way i found. you play with a party of friends and you all do your best and commend each other in the end. try it for 15,20 game and watch your BS increase.
How to find friends?! just add people from games. people who you liked playing with in solo matches. and accept friend requests.

For sure the way to go. It is what Dota2 is about.

[Vinegar]

just go play with 5 friends and tip each other...

[Gin]

MUTE ALL and buy wards cuz these animals dont know how to wards.

[Grimmz]

Originally posted by ♠:

MUTE ALL and buy wards cuz these animals dont know how to wards.

i don't get why the cores can't ward even when they have room in their inventory.

they're free... but for some reason they would rather spam need wards.

[SamSavvir]

reporting other players raises your rating..

[Си́нтез]

I always commend all 9 other players. Start your match with hello let's aĺ have fun and support each other. If someone is being criticized tell them it is ok and that everyone in this fame can fail at any time. Or better tell them they are doing the best they can at the time

[Lemdoran]

Can only agree with op, i barely go below 11800 from time to time cause you can't prevent humanity to report for every single mistake. But overall staying at 12k is largely feasible. Thing is most ppl complaining about the system are so toxic that they don't even know that thei're acting wrong.

On the other side, most of them are like 10k hours ingame. wich is more than a whole year. Imagine the state of their bain and the place that this GAME take in their life.

The best advice i can give to those kind of people is just, stop dota, focus on your rl life, it goes fast. I lost ppl i cared for few years ago, dota and other games was a hideout to flee rl issues. When i finaly pulled my head out of the game, few relatived were, litteraly, dead.

I lost few of the better years of my life, and it was just worst when i quitted than when i started.

Fix your RL life, fix your RL issues, then play. Dota don't worth wasting your early years guys. It's a good game, with the gooid mindset. But it's not important.

[MovingTargetTez]

I see what you're trying to do with the thread etc but alot of these points have nothing to do with the subject. I feel you're mixing the basics of dota in with how to be a good team mate and unfortunately both of these don't really have much impact on increasing behaviour score.
The basics are:
# To be understanding of team mates.
# Avoid causing conflict (allies and enemies).
# Be civil.
# Think about what you're saying before you say it.
# Don't be a sore winner/loser

I mean overall it isn't hard to not be a bellend, you just have to refrain from the internal voices and move forward. Most players will understand humour vs harassment and know when you're having a laugh vs being caustic.

What it all boils down to is how your conduct yourself. I am 12k and have been in the high end of the behaviour score pool throughout my time playing Dota.

[76561198164658792]

Let me make it simpler..

Don't be toxic troll or griefer and both report and commend all ten players after every single game.

That way you have all your bases covered. You have the highest chance of raising your score while reporting anyone that may have reported you.