DSG Steel

I think steel is an okay IGL but he is a floor raiser not a ceiling raiser. Give this guy 4 ranked players and enough time and they will be good enough to qualify for tournaments against instacart pushers but he is too weak mechanically and tactically to propel a team into league championship contention. I think maybe with some big firepower on his team they can be a contender. Anyway DSG is a bottom 3 team in the league either way, especially since SR picked up vanity.

anyway I think dsg should drop everyone but steel (sentinels) and genghsta (smokes) and try to pick up two legitimately talented fraggers + a strong initiator player if they want to make ascension this year.

He fell off hard after masters berlin

He is a floor raiser for sure. I think he fits in the role of academy where he can home grown some talents but not enough for actual important tournaments.

I believe if DSG needs to improve, unfortunately steel is the one to go solely because of this reason. His strat and set play is not as strong as people think. For example, he is still using his classic ascent leave mid open strat where even in 2021 has proven bad against what was known as 'good team' by then (Gambit and Ascend). Now where are those teams, nowhere as successful in tier 1, and he still uses that strat in 2023 where teams will layer util like crazy compared to Reyna being meta. That itself said how much changes it has been.

His later maps are somewhat better with Pearl and Fracture. But still far from the igls of valyn or zander when the huge development of strats boomed in 2022. These new igls came to life while we all know what happened in T1 (the valorant team when they are in NA)

give clear some time and exalt was good too