I think platchat ranking him so high for best players at shanghai was kinda unfair to benjy. He is really good, but I think heretics dominance in stage 1 was mostly due to the fact they have 0 weak points as a team in terms of firepower, even Boo is pretty solid . Benjy had a few stand out performances and everyone just decided he was the best on the team at the time, when that really isn’t the case. Hes pretty much in a 3-way tie between him reins and miniboo. All elite players in their own rights

Would be unstoppable… anyone else agree?

I can’t what i really want to say since im a DRX fan but i agree

get a new igl, or coach or something bruh. A falloff like this is actually insane. You don’t just get this much worse if there isn’t some issues with igl or coaching. They obviously have the talent so it’s gotta a gameplan/strat issue

edit: I understand Leo was probably their best or 2nd best player. But Hiro is solid enough. There have been worse teams that have performed better with a sub. They are so reliant on pop off games now.

guler gets benched by bellingham on a weekly basis. They literally play for same club

They are not too far away from each other, but bellingham still clears

Only if the pistols are 1-1 or 0-2. If you win 13-8 after winning both pistols, it’s not that convincing. Most of the time it basically gives you 4 free round given you don’t mess up.

let’s put it this way. In the upper final and the grand final of madrid. Karon total combined acs was 168. Yes ypu can argue gen g had a dominant win in both series even though grand finals went to 5 maps. MaKo never had a team good enough to do that and actually win so please stop nitpicking and actually look at the broad scale. Karon has never had stats anywhere near as good as MaKo’s but his team. Winning a masters don’t mean you have the best players in every role. A players skill is determined by individual performance, not team performance. so stop weighing team success into this debate when he isn’t even the best player on gen g

more than half the list he showed aren’t domestic. If this is your argument, that also means you think angel or boaster or zellsis is better than MaKo because they won a trophy, don’t confuse team success with individual success. If Karon was the best player on his team, his team would be lower to mid table in apac region alone. He’s the 3rd best player on his own team, insane how you can make such a dumb argument and defend it with an even dumber claims

https://x.com/rocketbullets/status/1803120788549071154?s=46&t=UpfWlpoVx8lr8dEqUmQyxw

DRX top 3 in pacific while being the youngest team… nice

in terms of success meL and alexis but individually they aren’t better than mini, they just get carried

mimi is the goat.

Vania gonna get there one day tho

i just realized that they are probably not gonna make playoffs… wtf

I common trait for all people that dislike/ are annoyed at DRX for making these changes is that they have selective memory.

Nobody ever said these players were bad. But the whole problem (same problem with DRX for years) is inconsistency. They can go from looking insane to looking horrible in the span on days. And people only seem to remember the good, not the bad.

do me a favor and check his stats at champs real quick

okay bro, what’s done is done. No point in playing a guessing game. Also, Rb’s replacement is flashback not foxy9. Zest’s replacement was foxy9

whatever you opinion is on the situation is, it’s doesn’t change anything. what’s done is done. No need to keep critiquing them, DRX are still in it for the long run, and korea has some of the best talent in esports in general. Whatever happens, happens, that’s it.

^

3rd year in a row getting hard carried. 2022 it was bob on c9w now its flor. How do they keep getting away with this.

he’s a PR merchant, this doesn’t count

never seen someone say she was tier 1 level. Not a single person thinks that

Winner: Portugal
Runner-up: England
Underdog: denmark
Golden boot: Ronaldo
Player of the tournament: Ronaldo

they went to reddit

Icebox, Bind, Split, Ascent, Lotus

Aside from the match against Gen G in kickoff. DRX have won all of there map picks across all of the maps above. This is a testament to termi’s preparation and planning. Never losing your map pick is a great way to start a young team. Looking forwards to the rest of the year.

#DRXWIN

how do stage 2 playoffs work?

This is the correct argument. Like Karon has had games where he played average or bad and his team still wins easily. The teams are not the same at all

Leo?

that’s true, i didn’t actually look into it. Guess that subset really isn’t his map. Also another example of how dependent DRX are on MaKo playing well

only 1 of the 5 players were consistent. That’s literally what everyone knows and says, how don’t you know that

Seems like his omen and viper are night and day this year. All of his worst performances are on omen. Tbh you can look at any Cobtroller in the worlds stats on omen even Karon and it’s nothing to write home about but do you think someone else should take that omen role and have Mako stick to viper and astra maybe

not to mention that fact that the best teams of last year have all gotten worse due to a massive shift in the meta. This thing always comes down to long term consistency, so i agree, it’s always best to just wait and see.

The classic VLR overreaction rage bait

Just a few days ago, ppl were debating if Karon surpassed MaKo all time, and most people said no because he hadn’t had an individual performance at a masters close to MaKo YET.

But now a good performance in week 1 of stage 2 pushes him past MaKo

Karon can def do it if he keeps it up and DRX don’t do well tho

Leo, eeiu, david. Winning masters don’t mean you have the best player in every role. It’s a team effort, which includes coaching and

In fact i would guess having a top 5 player in every role is enough to be the best team itw. That’s not the case with gen g bc i think they have the best duelist and senti but you get the point

sure, but also, don’t lump in team success with individual performance.

They way to do these comparisons is to but both players in the other’s shoes and think about how well they would do in the others situation.

ie. imagine how well Karon would do on DRX from 2022-2024

and how well MaKo would do on Gen G 2024

if that’s the case, that means lakia is the best initiator in the world

Tbh, with MaKo igling right now, i’ll give Karon the edge.

Aside from that, this argument is annoying because people holds team success over individual performances. However, MaKo without the burden of being igl is better

doing stax dirty would be benching him and keeping him on the roster and in contract jail since his contract was supposed to end in 2026. They let him go and now stax is doing fine on another good team

he was playing flex(he played dueslit and initiator in stage 1 as well). And he still isn’t igling, that means you can’t just look at one game(first game btw) and make a judgement. He had a bad map 2. But good map 1 and 3, however it was overshadowed by other players having great maps so his stats weren’t up there. Yet again, you can’t make a judgement so early on. Also, nobody ever said that stax can’t play or aim anymore, I even said he deserves to still be in tier 1. It’s just that when stax plays bad, it’s nearly impossible to win against any decent team. And as time goes on, he’s having more and more “bad” games constantly

too early to say tbh. Just like last stage, they were a very on and off team. Wait until after group stage 2 make a solid uudgement

well if you wanna make comparison, just look at BeYn and Stax’s stats in stage 1 a compare

BeYn 1.14 rating 200 acs
Stax 1.00 rating 174 acs

probably

bruh, ur under so many posts hating on DRX, your opinion doesn’t matter anymore

1 game. First match of stage 2. Atleast wait until group stage ends before making judgement. We saw him play really great stage 1, don’t forget so quickly about that

Flashback did great :(

i’m starting to feel like this whole sites hate DRX. There’s a random DRX stray under every post

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I feel like we are/can get close to them in terms of player talent. Obviously they are better for now.

But i feel like long gone are the days where there is consistently 1 or 2 players that aren’t performing well, and the carrying has to be done by MaKo or Rb/BuZz.

Having someone as good as MaKo as igl is pretty good when you have lots of greater shooters around you. His stats will fall off probably but, it won’t be too significant since his individual skill is obviously still there.
Outside of MaKo. I think he’s better than munchkin individually(not as an igl)

Flashback can or probably already is our best player
I genuinely think he can be the best player in the world

BeYn can be a secondary caller and has looked good since he started(I think he’s better than Lakia although you can disagree if you want, i won’t argue)

Foxy9 struggles with consistency and that may be a problem when you compare him to ppl like meteor however, i do think he has the ability to take over a game like meteor has.
BuZz is really good, can keep up with t3xture at his best
struggles with consistency but i think it’s really a precious team problem. As we all know, inconsistent teams leads to having inconsistent players. I think it’s the case with him not the other way around.

#DRXWIN

BuZz was probably DRX’s 2nd worst player in playoffs

0.75 rating with 184 acs on duelist

except they aren’t changing their identity and giving the igl role to someone who just joined the team. MaKo been with the team for 3 years, foxy9 almost 2. Beyn for 2 years and flashback or 1 year. Losing an igl isn’t that big of deal for them

so why hate on a perfectly nice team for no reason

literally not a single person has ever called DRX the best team in the world. I cope all day about DRX, and i will hype them up to no end, but even I haven’t called them the best team itw. You literally made this up just to make your cringe drx hate seem reasonable