When you're low elo like me, there's two ways of thinking: a) I'm stuck because I'm bad and b) I'm stuck because my teammates are bad.

I'm the first. I always blame myself for dying. Like, Bind, I pass through the teleporter and die and I instantly think I've made a huge mistake and I was dumb and shouldn't have done that.

So, I hired this radiant coach. He got top 20 in Radiant. He's a pro player. He played unrated in my account. In the mini map, he saw Brimstone peeking hooka. No one there. He asked if hooka was clear. Brimstone said yes. He passed through the tp. Phoenix was there behind a corner waiting to kill him. This phoenix was like, silver and killed a radiant (if only he knew lol)

Viper kept placing her wall in a very, very bad way, that prevented him from getting info and kept giving the enemy advantage. He told her not to put it there, told her where to place the wall to help the team, and she kept doing for a while. He died more than once because of that wall.

The game was very, very tight at first, even with a radiant playing against people who were clearly not higher than gold, winning 95% of his duels.

I think it's important to keep this in mind. Sometimes your play doesn't work because of your team, and it doesn't mean it's a bad strategy and you shouldn't do it anymore. However, you're not stuck because of your teammates, because regardless of these bad teammates, he still managed to work with his team and play with them, he communicated with them, managed the game, told them how to correct what they were doing, and in the end the game became so much easier. Of course this comes from a pro player, but nothing he was doing was out of this world, he wasn't playing like he does in his games.

So yeah, sometimes your teammates are lost. Help them or you're also a bad teammate lol

Edit because people think it would take a radiant to win this: he wasn't playing radiant level. He was teaching me positioning, skill use, etc. He wasn't playing to win the game, he was showing me stuff I could do with my level of skill (he watched me play a few games and he knew how good I was). If he was trying to win, he'd have done over 50 kills easy. He was also trying to teach me how to play WITH the team, telling me how I could talk to them. It wasn't "a radiant who struggled because of his teammates", it was a radiant showing me how I can work with any teammate.