You are stuck in a MMR hole? Give me one of your replays and I will try to help you improve!

[[MNI]l34Um1]

Hello Training Grounds, my name is Baumi and I am a german HoN commentator. I have seen a lot of "I am stuck at XXXX" threads and want to offer you my services to try and help you out.

How?
Through a video. If you leave me one of your average replays I am willing to take a look at it and then create a video afterwards, pointing out your mistakes and telling you how to improve on those. The video would look like this or this. But please keep in mind that this can only work if you give me one of your average replays. You going 15/0 in 10 minutes is worthless and I won't even take a look at it. Pick a replay where you think you did kinda well but still lost.

Why would you trust me?
I don't know. I am not at a high MMR (I was at 1850 before the reset but didn't bother with trying to get back up there since then) and I am by no means an amazing player. But I do know a lot about this game, I am huge fan of eSports in general and always keep up with the competitive scene of Heroes of Newerth. I am a smart guy and I believe that I can help out, but in the end it's up to you.

If there are more submissions than I have time to create videos for I will try to choose replays that cover mistakes of other players as well and will link it to you. Anyways, maybe some of you are interested.

Greetings, Baumi

Update:

It's going great so far, I will post every video I create with the matching quote right here. I also included some additional links to some of my older videos down below, just in case anyone is interested in those.

Hi baumi, i watch all your videos and have done so for a while now. I have played hon maybe an year and half.
In that time I feel comfortable with basics, although I keep winning a game then losing a game and have done so since the beginning.
I want to improve and I feel like you could help me with that as you do play nearly all the different roles in HON.

In this game I play suicide hag, which was unusual for me to do as I often play bubbles suicide (which I nearly always goes good), although I find it difficult
to suicide with hag, can you help me out?

Match ID: 109246075 I play against a nymphora and moonqueen on lane, the whole game just seems to go bad for me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZTWTRpGbKw

Hey!

This sounds very cool. I would hope you have some time to review my recent blacksmith support game. I feel like I got too greedy early game and that their team was too strong for our team, but maybe I missed some gameplay mistakes I made.

97556540

Thanks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-d3yza6SeE

Hi, first i just want to say im a long time fan and i love your videos. :]

I was hoping you could watch this game "97749469" I play Dampeer and my team wins kinda easily but i still think it's a good example of how i play when i play as i normally do. I end up 10 and 2 but the reason i pick this game is because it's a game where i play like to my full potential and i do what i can. I was going to link a game where i lost but i just feel like this is a game where i do my best and dont make mistakes that i know that i shouldn't do if you know what i mean.

I hope you'll look at this game, thanks in advance. Believing

http://youtu.be/UuGZw2MV4f8

I was Parasite, they had an Engineer mining 3 camps and it just ****ED UP my jungling, ofc retarded teammates do not understand it OR try to help anyway, what could I have done to get a better farm and start being useful? I even tried a gank in all lanes, but my team just couldn't see the opportunities in 50% of the cases, Kraken was the only one with some greater game sense.

The other jungle had a Legionnaire, but when I went into his jungle he was already fat enough for it to be dangerous for me because of EW, who was mid.

I generally do not go jungle, and if I'm disturbed it really ****S my farm up to the point I'm useless.
Match ID: 97857451

http://youtu.be/YRwGZpZKVJA

this seems to be cool.. okay here is mine.. im stuck at 1650-1700.. i usually go support players and stuff.. i usually went for survivality build instead buying a lot of wards and stuff.. well in this game i wanted to b support like i usually do.. i felt like im gonna support this team the entire game about the warding stuff and that.. i usually get steamboots grave locket and pk on ws.. but when i do that my team lack of wards i tried this different build.. striders power supply and wards.. as u saw i warded and tried to counter ward a lot there was a moment that my team started to throw even if we were winning.. and some situations that i didnt know what to do bcuz some targets had shrunken head.. i had no position bcuz i didnt get my pk so i tried to replace it for a tablet bcuz i had no gold cuz i kept warding entire game.. i honestly wanna know if i shud keep warding like that or tryin to be some kind of selfish person and get some core items instead warding.. please ignore the chat XD i really got mad at the end ty

PD : i dont speak english i did my best tryin to write that î

97870136

http://youtu.be/7qTCiP6vixk

On that note, funnily enough, this was my first game of today when I got home from work. I picked parasite because they had legio. I totally trashed his early game and harassed + helped set up kills in the long lane, and did my bit in terms of pushing, too. I was very actively ganking so I didn't spend a lot of time farming, but I was doing decently and dampeer appeared to be doing very well and snowballing. However, scout appeared to get very farmed very fast, and we ended up losing. Just wondering if you'd watch the replay and see where it went wrong, and tell me if/how I could have made a difference or if it was mostly my team's lack of co-ordination and pesti countering scout far too late.

98110337

I created a video for you BUT I would recommend skipping the first 20 minutes, the analysis starts at around 19:20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGkxwa-pGPQ

yes sir I'm stuck in the 1300 - and hope to avoid 1200 - for the rest of my life
so I quit normal and stay at mids
some most recent matches

97131051

97117572 > this we won cuz they CC , don't know why

http://youtu.be/P9Hq_Xt8yBY

98343373

Idk what went wrong. I did pretty well in lane against a suicide bubbles. We lost maybe because silho didnt mid and hag didnt go bot. Idk can you have a look. Its a 1700-1800 game btw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfCjPHZ1PIo

hey mate! gidday from australia!

Im stuck in the 1500-1600 bracket and play alot of TMM. Was just wondering if you give a review on one of my games.

99143915

thanks very much!

http://youtu.be/2EPbAqxZj5o

Hey hey! Would really love some help with my Andro play. It's a char I enjoy alot and I like the support role which is good since I'm usually solo queuing and I try to pick what would help the team (which often ends up being support.) This is about an average game for me I'm afraid to say. I've watched a good amount of your other bids and I try to keep some of your tips in mind when I play but I will admit in the middle of it I forget things. Any help would be appreciated and no matter what keep on making your videos. They are damn informative.

99647289

http://youtu.be/3kzFQCj0Sc0

match id: 102767066
not the best match to show off my skill, but id really like to ask about the early game, first maybe 25 mins or so. me (bram) and draco got owned on lane by nomad and rhap, and im wondering what were our biggest mistakes, why did they win it and what should we have done to win that lane.
late game doesnt bother me that much, i know most of my mistakes there, but if you want to you obviously can comment it too ^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSKaTCtqK18

#1: Electrician Solo Mid
#2: Pebbles&Nymphora
#3: Pebbles
#4: brized Cthulhuphant P2
#5: basic early game positioning
#6: Warbeast
#7: Dual Jungle

[[E]Clytemnestra]

zephyr owns me mid but i still manage to farm after laning phase.i do a bit more ganks than he does(tremble is a ganker duuh),and let him farm mid.he outlevels me and then kills me easy.probably because they start pubtraining?not sure about my item choices,yet without them i would have been dead.we manage to win after winning a few teamfights,and i do believe it is because of their pubtrain.have i carried my team or they carried me?(ignore the chat please XD)
ok lost mid against a zephyr,but still managed to win the game.i am not sure if barrier idol was a good itemchoice for me,but since we had no other "tank",it really helped my team against all that magic damage,not to mention that being hellflowered by vindicator is a pain >.< .Daemonic was another choice i made since i saw zephyr make it so i had to counter that,and it is also a nice item for me(atk speed,-armor on towers or the other squishy heroes).After that,another funny item choice:FFP.i believe that adding more armor would make me very tanky,the bonus mana would solve all my mana problems and the aoe slow is really good for me,my team and my friend's riftwalker+maliken combo.i even manage to get my last kill on vindicator at the maximum range with ffp lol.
97545874

[Katieeee]

I'll vouch for l34Um1. He's beaten me twice (once on the account before reset and once on another mid-1600 account). Someone to look out for if you're Q'ing in the mid-1600's-lower-1700's because of pretty good lineups and solid play. Also have heard a lot of nice things about his vids and his knowledge of the game. +1. :3

[GrandSlammah]

Hey!

This sounds very cool. I would hope you have some time to review my recent blacksmith support game. I feel like I got too greedy early game and that their team was too strong for our team, but maybe I missed some gameplay mistakes I made.

97556540

Thanks!

[[MNI]l34Um1]

zephyr owns me mid but i still manage to farm after laning phase.i do a bit more ganks than he does(tremble is a ganker duuh),and let him farm mid.he outlevels me and then kills me easy.probably because they start pubtraining?not sure about my item choices,yet without them i would have been dead.we manage to win after winning a few teamfights,and i do believe it is because of their pubtrain.have i carried my team or they carried me?(ignore the chat please XD)
ok lost mid against a zephyr,but still managed to win the game.i am not sure if barrier idol was a good itemchoice for me,but since we had no other "tank",it really helped my team against all that magic damage,not to mention that being hellflowered by vindicator is a pain >.< .Daemonic was another choice i made since i saw zephyr make it so i had to counter that,and it is also a nice item for me(atk speed,-armor on towers or the other squishy heroes).After that,another funny item choice:FFP.i believe that adding more armor would make me very tanky,the bonus mana would solve all my mana problems and the aoe slow is really good for me,my team and my friend's riftwalker+maliken combo.i even manage to get my last kill on vindicator at the maximum range with ffp lol.
97545874

This is exactly the kind of replay I am NOT looking for. What do you need me for? I watched it and the biggest mistake you made was missing a lot of lasthits and I can't teach you how to do that, lasthitting takes practice and patience. Other than that you had 2 poor choices early in the game where you underestimated the power of Zephyr and creeps but other than that you played better than anyone else in the game and your description of the replay is pretty much accurate. I am sorry but I just can't work with a replay like that, you went 1/3 and then got 8 kills in a row. Again, what do you need me for?

[[E]Clytemnestra]

This is exactly the kind of replay I am NOT looking for. What do you need me for? I watched it and the biggest mistake you made was missing a lot of lasthits and I can't teach you how to do that, lasthitting takes practice and patience. Other than that you had 2 poor choices early in the game where you underestimated the power of Zephyr and creeps but other than that you played better than anyone else in the game and your description of the replay is pretty much accurate. I am sorry but I just can't work with a replay like that, you went 1/3 and then got 8 kills in a row. Again, what do you need me for?

well you just told me to not underestimate zephyr,a very important tip imo .that is something i do most of the time(underestimate opponents).other than that,the kills i got weren't really deserved.why did you said i played better than anyone in the game?my team also did a very good job supporting.
then what can you call an "average game"?it should be a lost game or a 1-15 score game? sorry if i haven't understood the therm.

[[f13]zstarkey42]

If you have some time please take a look at this. 97030733. It really bothers me that we lost this because even with -1 player in the team I feel we should should have been able to win... What do I need to do better to win this kind of games? I even tried pimping TDL with my own items but to no avail.

[[MNI]l34Um1]

Hey!

This sounds very cool. I would hope you have some time to review my recent blacksmith support game. I feel like I got too greedy early game and that their team was too strong for our team, but maybe I missed some gameplay mistakes I made.

97556540

Thanks!

Here you go, tell me what you think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-d3yza6SeE

If you have some time please take a look at this. 97030733. It really bothers me that we lost this because even with -1 player in the team I feel we should should have been able to win... What do I need to do better to win this kind of games? I even tried pimping TDL with my own items but to no avail.

I don't have the time to take a look today but will do so tommorrow

[SHJordan]

I liked the video Baumi... are you accepting casual games as well? I'm stucked in the 1550 pool xD

[[xBM]Ackwell1]

zephyr owns me mid but i still manage to farm after laning phase.i do a bit more ganks than he does(tremble is a ganker duuh),and let him farm mid.

Zephyr is one of the strongest mid heroes especially against an other melee. He has those cyclones hurting you when ever you want to farm, he can heal off of them and he has insta kill mechanism at lvl 6 against heroes w/o blinks/pseudo-blinks.
I would also fall zephyr into ganker category, because he really wont outcarry anything later. He shines early and mid game thanks to the huge tankiness which should be easy to obtain because of the awesome farming ability. And when zephyr really gets the farm, few kills, few towers, crazy amount of creeps and those arent even hard to obtain he becomes a total monster. I've had mock, helm, ghost marchers and vestments before 20minutes easily many many times. At that point zephyr can literally go 1v5 and get a couple of kills + escape (Cant remember how much they nerfed the cyclone heal but even now I think it is possible). He is a bit like elec you have to man up with that hero.

He is one of my favorite and one of the easiest heroes to solo win games. I dont like him because he is so easy, I started to solo stomp games with zephyr before he was considered very strong. He was nerfed "too hard" for many ppl and they completely forgot the hero while I accidently had to play him mid and realized he is very strong.

[[MNI]l34Um1]

I liked the video Baumi... are you accepting casual games as well? I'm stucked in the 1550 pool xD

I am sorry but I really don't know anything about casual mode and probably can't help you with that.

[[E]Nombringer]

This sounds great I'll edit one in when I find a decent one

[[MNI]l34Um1]

If you have some time please take a look at this. 97030733. It really bothers me that we lost this because even with -1 player in the team I feel we should should have been able to win... What do I need to do better to win this kind of games? I even tried pimping TDL with my own items but to no avail.

You didn't have a chance to win that game at all. The enemy was ahead in Gold and Experience at all stages of the game and as it kept going for long enough they eventually just started throwing money at you. There really wasn't anything you could have done.

[[EGmL]`Kung]

Big + helping people out and helping them improve! Especially good is how much time you put into each replay, keep up the good work!

[Theburned]

I am sorry but I really don't know anything about casual mode and probably can't help you with that.

Tell him to learn normal mode, it will learn you to play decent in casual mode too.

[[MNI]l34Um1]

Tell him to learn normal mode, it will learn you to play decent in casual mode too.

I am not ignorant enough to think that I know enough about casual mode to teach him anything about it.

[Believing]

Hi, first i just want to say im a long time fan and i love your videos. :]

I was hoping you could watch this game "97749469" I play Dampeer and my team wins kinda easily but i still think it's a good example of how i play when i play as i normally do. I end up 10 and 2 but the reason i pick this game is because it's a game where i play like to my full potential and i do what i can. I was going to link a game where i lost but i just feel like this is a game where i do my best and dont make mistakes that i know that i shouldn't do if you know what i mean.

I hope you'll look at this game, thanks in advance. Believing

[[MNI]l34Um1]

Guys, I just want to tell you that I sadly can't do any analysis on any of your replays for the next week or so. I currently am in a hospital with a crappy laptop and a crappy internet connection and can't take a look at your games. But please keep the replays coming, I will look at them as soon as I get home. I am really sorry but this wasn't my choice and I will get surgery tomorrow.

[[Faso]Hitokkiri]

i really like whay you doing baumi i even want to send you my own match id replay ! hahaha

i just get out from 1200 mrr to 1550 mmr actual now, and uping, (in 1 month)

I made a post on forums, some one add me , and we become great friends
he is 1700++ normal mmr, but use some free account to play with me (he was playing with moonmender) yesterday
and Cerris, we found him playing, we add him to the next game, and is allways great to have it in ur queue group he is 1660++ and allways do a great job carryng.

So Add Me "Hitokkiri" maybe u want to say "!hey guys i wanna play X char" then if it's a carry we pick 2 support 1 tank, or 1 tank 1 support 1 range carry and gg

[Spankle]

Well that sucks. I wish you a speedy recovery.
Whenever you get the time I think this is a perfect replay of me doing well throughout the game but still losing. There were certain parts of the game where i think scout threw very hard but I know with the stellar start I had I could have done more to win the game. I play Monkey King mid and start the game 9-0-2 game goes to 55 minutes and we lose.
Match ID 95002700