Like it or not, behavior score in Dota 2 play a significant role in your matchmaking. Much like how MMR determines the average rank of your games, behavior score places you in a match of similar behavior scores too.
As such, having a low behavior score would often match you in more toxic players, who also have low behavior scores. Luckily, we have a guide for improving your behavior score!
Behavior Score on Player Behavior Summary page. Image Credit Valve
Behavior score is Valve’s system of evaluating each player’s toxicity. It’s a numerical metric from 1 to 10000, with the highest score meaning very good behavior.
Valve is a big advocate of positive mental attitude (PMA) in Dota 2 games, in hopes of creating a safe space for all players to enjoy. We witnessed how seriously Valve dealt with toxic players, such as when Valve gave out temporary bans in the form of “a toxic lump of coal” to toxic players during Frostivus 2023.
As such, maintaining good behavior score is crucial in ensuring you have quality games to play.
To check your behavior score, you can visit your Profile in your in-game Dota 2 client. Then, click the Conduct Summary tab, where a popup will display your “Overall Conduct”. This will show your current behavior score, high scores are usually in green font with a smiling emote or vice versa. Additionally, you also get to see other stats that affect your behavior score, such as the number of abandons, reports, and commends.
Your conduct summary is updated every 10 games, so that’s something to keep in mind too, especially when boosting your scores.
Behavior Summary page. Image Credit Valve
More often than not, a player’s behavior can be vague and difficult to understand. Hence, this blurs the line between what’s considered good or bad. For instance, tipping was intended to be a feature to celebrate but it’s considered toxic these days to tip a player after they fail.
Regardless, here are several sure-fire methods of how to increase behavior score Dota 2 quickly.
Not many players go out of their way to be absurdly positive to strangers in a Dota 2 match. This can be real-world acts of kindness, such as showing gratitude to your supports or tipping your teammates after a great fight. The extra effort goes a long way in getting others to like you and hopefully commend you.
Getting commends likely boosts your behavior score since it’s a strong indicator that the players who played with you, enjoyed your company. Even if you aren’t very expressive, simply commending your teammates after winning the match will often prompt them to commend back.
Getting reported is the last thing you want to happen when attempting to increase your behavior score in Dota 2. As players often report another account for griefing, using slurs and insults as acts of toxicity.
Of course, in some cases, players also report you for not playing well, getting caught by the enemy team or lose a fight. In such cases, getting reported is inevitable but make sure these are merely occasional reports and not frequent. Getting 1-2 reports from a game out of ten games won’t be world-ending to the point where you lose your behavior score.
The same applies to abandons, which in most instances, have more severe repercussions than reports.
Low behaviour Score. Image Credit: Valve
If your current behavior score is low and you need a quick way to regain your behavior score, consider playing multiple turbo games, or even with bots.
Turbo games are still considered an actual match, but last half the duration of a normal match. Yet, the same scenarios can be applied here, such as being positive and don’t get reported. Turbo games are also taken less seriously, so players in this match type are often more casual and easy-going. Take this opportunity to enjoy the game and commend one another after the match too.
For the truly toxic players who can’t change their ways, the least you could do is to just stay silent throughout the game and just play. You can even take it one step further by muting everyone, both ally and opponent alike. Having no conflict also indicates that you are not toxic, so this is also not a bad way to boost your behavior score without much effort.
Rest assured that it takes many instances of bad behavior to drag your behavior score to a concerning score. So, just enjoy the game and try not to be toxic to others.
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