It ' s just confirmation biasYou feel like the rates are lower because you open more scrolls compared to when you were F 2 P . <| sep |> You have a few mid heroes with 60 % winrate . Play those more and become good at playing mid . Eventually you will be able to carry your team . I don ' t know how bad things are at 1 . 3 k because I calibrated to 3 k , but I can ' t imagine people plaing their role effectively or making good desicions . You actually have a good amount of games , probably more than me when I calibrated . So game experience and lack of hero isn ' t a lacking factor here . What I did in order to get from 3 k to 4 . 2 k was limting my hero picks , go offlane or mid often we lost both those lanes when I played support regardless of my efforts . When you limit your hero picks , try some heroes that people really don ' t know how to counter at lower MMR . For me I went necro mid or centundying offlane . If you take a look at my dotabuff I have 70 % winrate with undying went back to 45 pos after i reached 4 k and have managed to climb another 200 rating mostly playing those roles . I ' m still trying to improve and will soon make a tryhard attempt to climb further up to 5 k . Edit I also tried to play all the carries in order to find one that fits me Some cases I had to play carry . Ended up with Jugger and I have 82 . 14 % winrate on him with 28 games played .