Let me start by saying I really like this game and I am by no means a great player, I do make tons of mistakes, but at least I try to improve my game by learning from them. I have been playing since beta almost everyday, at least to do the quest, so 1-3 games (QM) a day since then. This season I decided to focus on playing HL , just to see what I can acomplish... and all I acomplished was getting salty and angry.

I always try to pick a hero that fits the map, one that counters the other team, or at least I try to not pick a weak hero that is easily countered, meaning I have a basic understading of map and hero dynamics. But all I see people do is pick whatever the hell they feel like, the team be damned. It's like that in every single game I participate, ppl first picking Morales, TLV, Aba, Murky. Also I noticed people don't want to communicate in Draft or pre pick their heroes most of the time. If I try to help and say "Please don't first pick Morales, we don't know their comp or ours yet", the guy goes on and pick her anyway and just says "STFU".

I ended up in Gold 3 after horrible placement games (3W-7L). I managed to climb all the way to Gold 2 and the promotion game to G1, which I lost and have been losing ever since. I am now in Silver 1 (Edit: 38% Win Rate right now). I mean, HL nowadays doesn't seem that different from QM, taking all that into account.

I'm writing this to vent, of course, but also to try and get some insight as what to do to try and improve my odds. Any constructive help is welcome.

I'm also not a native english speaker, so I apologize for any bad grammar.

Thanks in advance!