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| Flag: | South Korea |
| Registered: | December 28, 2022 |
| Last post: | August 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM |
| Posts: | 3209 |
usually not worth starting gacha games 1 year or more after their release; you'll be too behind and there's no way to make up the progression
most are very similar to each other so if you want to start one wait for the next big game
it's understandable to drop a guy if his mental affects the team environment
but then you can't go ahead and blame him for the team becoming worse and that's the issue
EDG with goat s1mon: wins champs
EDG with "cooked mental" s1mon: 3rd at bangkok
EDG without "cooked mental" s1mon: 4th in china region lol
and they still blame s1mon holy scapegoating
none of these are top duelists lmao
its 2:39 AM in SA you're not baiting anyone brođź’”
group C???? literally not even a single top 12 team in there imo
sen wasn't a mental issue lol
they were just ass and got a lucky draw
"Yeah life has no purpose" lmao u corny too
two retards fight
MaKo +23, RRQ 2-0 DRX
can't be superteam when Aut(istic)umn is HC
2-7 record and looked like a bottom tier china team at only ever int.
GENG 2-0 RRQ
well it was based on the fact that RRQ simply doesn't posses the player quality to be a top team and yet they won
turned out RRQ run was the flukiest fluke of all time though
my takes are good in general
the recent "pacific won't do well in toronto..." yeah that was bad though
oh man can you give me a digital prostate exam
one class on gastronomy and i was out of that shit you're a brave one
he said he was doing precalc so he's like a freshman/soph lol
even if it wasn't just winning team t3xture was better than him
MaKo emits pheromones that causes all to follow in his lead
makgoat got me pregnant; im just taking responsibility
tbh i just need something to link whenever some dumbass decides to defend t0rmi
damn this is genuinely really bad like no bait
TLDR: DRX is so ass and Termi is at fault for a lot of it!
All of these are 100% from memory so excuse me if I get like one or two facts wrong but I'm usually 99% spot on with DRX info.
Argument 1: Prelude to Lock//In (2023)
Coming out of 2022, DRX had just placed 3rd at Champions 2022, losing to the most heartbreaking Marved play of all time. Regardless, they were EXTREMELY close to the top, with only OPTIC and LOUD beating them out. Conveniently, however, both OPTIC and LOUD split up following 2022. And yet, Termi threw away this apparent advantage by practicing without Zest (and with Foxy9) up until a short bit (a week? maybe two?) before Lock//In. Risks aren't always bad, but when you can't follow through on it, it becomes exclusively a disadvantage.
Argument 2: "Training" stax (2023)
During the 2023 regular season, Termi wanted to "train" stax to become a more independent IGL, and as such practiced a rule for many games of not taking timeouts. Now I'm not saying stax was the greatest IGL, but he was SUFFICIENT, and had just come out of double top 3 placements. As a result, why Termi chose true, official matches to "train" stax instead of scrims is a baffling mystery. It was as if he had nothing else to worry about despite DRX's Haven being horrifyingly bad.
Argument 3: Subbing out Foxy9 (2023)
I'm not one to say anything positive about Foxy9, but subbing him out every single time he underperformed was horrible decision-making. Even under the security of having qualified to Tokyo, following a bad game against PRX Foxy9 wasn't given the chance to recuperate. Instead, Termi called up Zest, who had not been scrimming with DRX for an entire regular season. Unsurprisingly, they didn't look so great then, nor did they look so great when Termi did the EXACT SAME THING at Tokyo. So desperate was he to not give Foxy9 a chance that he pulled out comps from the 2022 KR STAGE 1 CHALLENGERS season during that event (Neon on Split vs. PRX, e.g.), running hard executes and lineup tactics during a meta that favored slow, FNATIC-esque utility baits. This decision resulted in modern DRX's worst ever performance at an international event.
Argument 4: Zest & Rb (2023)
All things considered, DRX had an excellent showing at Champions 2023—they beat some genuinely good teams and only lost to FNATIC in a decently close match and EG who won the entire tournament.
Zest looked incredible on Viper (a role that would’ve been extremely important come the early 2024 double controller meta), and had performed overall just really solid despite being taken off his comfort initiator role and being forced to play whatever Termi wanted. Speaking of which, Rb was also an insane flex player, who was at that point only behind Chronicle and f0rsaken for the very best in that category. Despite this, Termi decided that their poor performance at the mighty and esteemed “AfreecaTV League” was too much to bear—and so just abandoned them for Foxy9, who was objectively worse than both Zest and Rb.
Argument 5: Self Sabotage at Bangkok (2025)
In an echo to his very first big mistake, Termi decided to once again abandon what he knew worked. DRX won their first non-Korean regional tournament at Kickoff, and looked excellent doing it—the best they’d looked in a long, long time. Termi then proceeded to change every single one of their comps. At best, it’s questionable. At worst, I wouldn’t 100% doubt foul play.
Argument 6: IGL Swapping
A brief timeline of DRX’s IGL history since Stage 1 2024 appears as such:
Stage 1, 2024: stax
Stage 2, 2024 & Champions: MaKo
2025 Off-Season: free1ng
Kickoff 2025 & Bangkok: MaKo
Stage 1 2025: Estrella
If Termi truly cared about “training” an IGL, why is swapping the around like his two nuts?
Counterargument 1: “DRX Had Reached Their Peaks with Zest and Rb”
How exactly do you know that when Termi switches up faster than a homie with a new girlfriend? And if so, why doesn’t that same logic apply to TERMI HIMSELF? He’s been around just as long, if not longer than Zest and Rb, so why haven’t we ever stopped to consider that maybe Termi is the one holding DRX’s peak back?
Counterargument 2: “Termi’s Famous Set Plays”
I’ll admit, Termi can cook up a good set play once in a while. But while I, as an avid DRX watcher remembers all of those plays like the palm of my hand, I give at least an 80% chance you couldn’t name any of them outside of the ones from Vision Strikers (2021). Why? Because EVERYONE does set plays these days. It’s just not as special as it used to be.
When you think of 2023 Harbor-Viper, do you think of DRX? When you think of double initiator as an archetype, do you think of DRX? Probably not! Because if another team does it better than DRX, it doesn’t matter that DRX thought of it first. Termi’s impact on this game as a whole does not protect him from the fact that HE SUCKS!!!
yes it should've been obvious when sen lost 0-2 to DRX at bangkok
a little late but you have the spirit!
"hentaibasher21" yes we know Leo is the best grass is green
enacting my executive power over this site, this post be the last instance recorded of someone saying "DRX" on this site
all instances will now be replaced with "mako," "mako's team," or "t0rmi," depending on the occasion
examples:
this will help to prevent the spread of:
im sorry for being rude wunkey im just raealy losing mfy IFCKING mind arigth now please forgiv eme you r cool
shut it wunkey j0nggg just won a trophy im need to go commit sudoku
listen here you fucking twat of an algorithmic mistake. back in my day, mako carrie d the ENTIRE WEIGHT OF THE pacific region INSIDE OF HIS IMMOORTAL SOUL. fucking kid iwas WAtching mKAO WHEN HYUNMIN was still sppeling his name with a fucking crayon between my asscheeks. next you're going to tell me that the sun rises BEcause of Estrella's weiner. get outta here before i vacinnate you .
soooooooooo j0nggg fucking won toronto and a TROPHY, lieke the PHYSICAL OBJECT got given to that ONE TRICOK PONY OF FUCKING MIDNESS. riot-sponsored ocial expierment designed to test my mental stability 100% fucking losers i hate RITO RITO HFIOEWBFIOBWEVIOBQIO. there's no way he stole MAKO'S TROPHY like that. so while my mako, my stoic, beautiful, kindhearted strong broad armed controller is Pprobably sitting WITHOUT ME IN HIS BIG STRONG ARMS in Seoul wondering why it was t0rmi managing his team IN STEAD OF ME. if Mako was all of DRX we'd have world peace and won 28 LANs by now. all you fucking VLR losers just keep clapping for thAT fRAUD.
you trained fucking seals if mako whispered ONE WORD into commms he could evaporate all of you. meanwhile j0ngg satchel into asuna's ult (somehow even though asuna looked at the sky before shooting) hoping F0rksane drops 30.WHAT DO YOU GUYS KNOW. MAKO IS perfect. he's everyhting ever but you guys have the AUDJIACITY to cmopare him to KARON.and when the sun sets and the sky truns blue, i will froth upside-down shipering MakO's name because i bit my ethernet cable in half and tasted NOTHIGN. NOTHIGN BUT LIES. i SAW IT, the tear dripped down my legs instead of down My face (NOT HOW IT'S SUPPOED TO WORK, WE LIVE IN A SIMLUTIION). i am now several birds.
d4v4i is too good
f0rsaken is too good
j0nggg and something have too much clout
if anyone itll be patmen but i doubt that, he's pretty good
FNATIC only lost to prime GENG
PRX also only lost to prime GENG
pretty 50/50 imo
what if my legs never split up for MaKo
it's not that im bored of the match it was fun to see the new map; if i didnt want to i just wouldn't have watched
i just wanted to point out that val streamers are bummyahh
it's not even streamers atp lol, it's fkin "jacob" against "yvonne"
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