Kinda shocked I had to scroll down this far to get to this level headed response . <| sep |> How exactly has he done this ? <| sep |> You ' re correct . The map cannot sustain 5 cores on the same team . Here ' s the caveat though , they have to be even remotely efficient . The thing is , at low skill levels , nobody is acting efficiently . Watch any replays of players in 2 k games . There are always jungle camps unfarmed , there are frequently lanes with no heroes in them for minutes an a time . There are frequently standoffs where 5 heroes stare down 5 heroes in the mid lane and nothing is getting farmed for minutes at a time . Nobody is stacking camps . If you have 5 heroes all trying to farm the jungle , yes , you will have no camps for anybody . The thing is , there are 3 lanes , a main jungle , and a side jungle to farm , not including the enemy jungle . Even when your team has a dedicated jungler , they ' re still not going to be farming the entire jungle ever . There are always camps you can farm elsewhere or lanes you can farm . I ' d like to look at some of the recent replays I ' ve coached recently in that bracket and see exactly how many map resources were actually used , because I guarantee you the team is absolutely nowhere near 100 % of utilization of farm , even in games that have 5 cores . The reason this doesn ' t work at higher skill brackets is because cores know how to farm multiple places at once and do it much quicker . A carry or mid can get far ahead very quickly and dominate the game because their enemies are all under farmed and don ' t have the tools to ever kill them . In sub 2 k , and even up into high 2 k 5 core lineups tend to have a surprisingly high success rate because everyone is able to find some semblance of farm somewhere and it ' s rare to see anyone farm quickly enough to actually take over a game and know how to push that advantage , unless they are playing a hero like storm and constantly killing enemies around the map , which then opens up more space for other cores to farm . Games tend to go later , which inherently favors the team with more cores . I would urge you to go watch games in low 2 k with 5 cores . There are always places that go completely unfarmed , I guarantee you will be surprised .