I'm not trying to rant here, although it might come out as one. I just don't understand the mentality some people have on the game as a whole.
I don't understand why being a "tryhard" is a thing in Dota 2, or why people complain about picking strong meta heroes, or smoking / whatever.
Coming from a background in Starcraft 2 it just baffles me. I've never played a ladder game of SC2 and had someone be like "WOW HATCH FIRST WOW TRYHARD WHY DONT YOU JOIN GSL GEEZ" so why is it that when people try everything they can to get an edge in a highly competitive game, they try to ostracize the person as some sort of anomaly that needs to be removed from the face of the game.
I'd really like to see less of an accepting of this thought process as it stifles the chances of having that 70 minute back and forth game full of team fights, smoke ganks, mass buybacks, etc. THAT's the kind of game I play for, and I don't think I'm alone in this.
If that's not what you're out for and you just want to pick random heroes / do whatever, that's cool man. You do you. But don't rage at the guy on your team or the enemy team for doing his best to win the game. Besides, there's always AR or SD if you really want a diverse hero pool.
TL;DR; Dota 2 is a highly competitive game and I have no idea why people trying to learn / practice have this negative aura around them in the eyes of some of the community. Please stop this, it detracts from the quality of the game. :C