It’s off-season again and as usual there are exciting names being thrown around. And while at the beginning everyone feels positive for DK’s rosters it’s getting worse as the time passes.

At the beginning while we were hopeful and excited with names like Thanatos, Lucid, Showmaker and a decent adc with a decent support. Now it seems like we are picking potentially even worse players or building a worse team than ever and since 2020 there is a huge downward trend that it feels like management doesn’t even care.

2019: most dominant team in scrims, at their first year made to worlds and the most talked up and coming team

2020: the most dominant and the best team the world has ever seen that has won the worlds

2021: dominant year only to fail at finals due to underperformance by Showmaker, Khan and Canyon

2022: above average team that barely made to worlds with questionable player pick ups like Hoya, Burdol and only to look decent with Nuguri’s return and then not ban Yuumi the most broken champion of the tournament and lose it for nothing

2023: Pick Canna for top lane be inconsistent whole year and not even pass the Swiss stage.

And finally

2024: Now we hear the rumors of player like Kingen, Lucid, Showmaker, Aiming and Kellin.

Although they are rumors and not certain so far it seems like no one is happy with this kind of roster. Considering how other teams look like this seems like a roster that won’t even make it to worlds. Lucid and Showmaker are exciting names. But not replacing Kellin after his performance at worlds and his champion pool issues seems insane. Even if there are money issues that still doesn’t explain why you go for fucking Kingen while you can promote Thanatos and save money and bring new blood to team and use that money for players like Teddy and Kael. Why not Aiming? Although I think he has great mechanics we saw that he has huge champion pool issues and T1 exploited that perfectly as we saw at playoffs.

So right now I’m very confused and annoyed that this team follows the downward trend considering how actually they can build a far better team. Like you can have Aiming but you can still promote Thanatos and buy a good shotcalling support or a good support like Kael or even fucking Beryl and experiment instead of investing in Kellin and Kingen seems like a very stupid decision to me by the org.

I know it’s still early and nothing is certain but the more we saw how the pool of good players is thinning it’s becoming more annoying and I really wanted to rant and call out the DK management for their shitty decisions throughout the last years.