I mean surely this isn't a debate right ?
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boaster > mako
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He played with 4 chokers for 3 years. The chokers leave and then his team is plagued with roster shuffles for all of 2024 and 2025. Call it cope but this is why mako hasn't come close to winning. He has the skill to be on a roster winning team. If only he left DRX earlier, both T1 and GENG wouldn't have hesitated to pick him up. But now they are developing their own insane smokes players in sylvan and karon, so no chance of that anymore. What makes mako even more impressive in my eyes is his ability to pick up kills with relatively mid aim compared to other pros. His gamesense and ability to find timings and make the right plays nets him more kills than his aim does sometimes. Of course he has some pop off moments but would be more of a quietly consistent player on a capable team, instead of a hard carry controller, especially off the igl role.
No. Mako has been ridiculously good for far longer than boaster. 2022 and early 2023 mako is higher than any peak a controller has ever hit apart from maybe karon but I don't think you are ready for that conversation. He has been better than boaster for at least 2 and a half years and you are suffering from recency bias because mako's fragging suffered while he was igling. Now he is off igling and surprise, he is back to top fragging even when the team loses. You can argue that fnatic overall is better than drx but not that boaster is better than mako.
You can't merge talking about igling and talking about in game performance when it comes to players. Igling is something that cannot be measured with numbers but with overall team performance and by watching matches, while performance is shown through stats. Talking about both simultaneously is not appropriate. Also why are you changing your mind? You were arguing before to other people that mako is worse both as an igl and in performance. Boaster is definitely a better igl. I would expect that much after igling for 4 and a half years now, compared to mako's 6 months. But his performance is vetter
Yep. Sylvan and meteor carried them to the win. Especially buzz. Luckily they had great teammates who could cover for their weaknesses, but where was all of that when they were on DRX? It was just the mako show every international playoffs. So disappointing, and now that meteor isn't having a life performance they are not good at all. 3rd seed for masters winners is simply unacceptable. Their win is not reproducible.
The team always choked in the playoffs. The stats look good only because of the group stages. Rb was probably the worst choker but no matter who played duelist (whether it was rb or buzz), they never did well at all. I watched every single game that DRX played for the last 3 years and I can tell you honestly that the team just crumbled in international tournament playoffs. Buzz did it with T1 as well in the finals vs g2 but like I said, a life game from meteor gave them that win. Buzz is far too inconsistent to not be called a choker. I loved that drx team so it really hurts to admit this, but there was nothing else to blame for their loss apart from them just not shooting back and being antistratted. But even that shouldn't make you lose so badly in playoffs, no matter how hard your opponents try to punish your strats.
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