DRX 2023

Route 1
Run It Back
Reasons why:

• drx is young and has room to improve (2nd youngest at champs and youngest at masters)
• top 3 run with only a couple months of practice of role swap and last minute changes to team comp showcases high potential of the roster
• drx's style is unique and new players may be unable to adjust to drx's coordination, util usage and team synergy
• already high synergy and will be better than most teams straight off the bat

Cons:

• with superteams forming due to franchising, it may be difficult for drx to keep up with the firepower coming from other teams
• same playstyle with same members means more predictability going into next year

Route 2
Roster Change (ie rb gets dropped :( )
Potential player 1: Meteor
Pros:

• biggest jett/chamber carry in east asia
• tier 1 and international experience
• strong operator threat (buzz is slightly inconsistent)
• highest first blood rate in masters 2 2022
• would allow drx to have flexibility in their team comp with buzz (i envision buzz on jett/raze/neon & meteor on chamber on certain maps and meteor on jett & buzz on killjoy on other maps)
• would eliminate the potential firepower advantage that other teams may gain from franchising

Cons

• sometimes overheats/not as disciplined potentially meaning a clash with drx's playstyle
• reliant on buzz learning to flex even more than he already has (filling rb's kayo role)
• adjusting to drx's playstyle could result in a degradation of his own performance and may not be as good as we are thinking it might be

Potential Player 2: suggest
Pros:

• tier 1 and international experience
• would fill rb's role almost perfectly (plays raze, jett, kayo and chamber; no doubt he can learn killjoy given hes demonic on other sentinels, his neon is unknown tho)
• high firepower (was annihilating japan, 1.4 kd 260 acs kayo, 2 kd 320 acs chamber, 1.5 kd 300 acs jett)
• consistent fill player
• carry of nuturn when lakia left on fill agents (2021 but still)

Cons:

• high stats doesnt equate the potential util usage and synergy loss that may occur
• his performance vs international competition is unknown as it has been a long time

Potential Player 3: mika
this is a bit of a weird one as mika has stepped up from the academy roster. it is unknown about drx's plans for him in the future but mika has shown a great performance in the utage season 5 tournament (many tier 1 jp/kr players competed) as a sentinel player with 2 kd 300 acs cypher, 1.6 kd 300 acs chamber and 1.15 kd 205 acs killjoy, thus potentially showing his ability to fill rb's sentinel role. however this is a small sample size and may not be reflective of his performance if he was to face against tier 1 and international competition and his kayo/neon performance is unknown.

Players I would like to see:
Estrella: high firepower on sentinel/controller and is at the same time a duelist main. in general good showing in lcq considering it was his first tier 1 experience and carried ONS on his back some rounds and games. however slightly lackluster on the kayo role and his inexperience has showed in some rounds. would love to see him get trained by drx at least as i believe he is one of the future of korean valorant.

What other players did I miss?

Surely they will win a title soon bro. In my opinion they should be more daring when playing, their style of play is very didactic and methodical, but very well performed. When a team has a proposal different from the standard, they always choke.

franchising teams will probably keep 2 or 3 subs, there is no need to drop rb, I think mika and rb could be sub but I do think they need someone like meteor. especially on breeze where rb is playing chamber. on fracture rb is probably the most impactful duelist in the world.

another player they could get is bazzi, but I don't think he is on par with buzz given how well he played in champs, but is a little more consistent.

Great post brother appreciate your analysis. Imo they should just stick to their own style that is the same roster because I feel this time everyone looked comfortable. Rb looked too strong, Buzz Stax Zest and Mako playing really well. Although it might be more predictable or like lesser firepower compared to the potential superteams that might be formed, the coordination or chemistry doesn't change right. That's why I feel that this roster should be there for 2023 too. Idk what happens but I just hope this roster reaches more heights than the current one

https://twitter.com/frandia125/status/1571058877353054209

This tweet?

Gonna start off by saying good work, I respect the work and commitment. Also, I really don’t think they need roster changes, the team finally clicked this tournament, Rb is finally back on the role he plays best at and it’s paying off for DRX. However, if they chose to add another player, like a duelist, since you were hinting at that, then why look any further than their own academy team. Beyn is a superstar in the making, ive mentioned him a couple of times before in VLR, I’ve liked this guy for ages, and he looks insane. He just looks like the type of player who would suite DRX’s play style perfectly, and his aim is insane

Nice one

I think you missed k1Ng but you might have a reason to not include him

i dont think they should make any roster changes but i do think rb needs a bit of help role wise. he played all 4 roles in the optic series and i wish one of his teammates (im looking at zest and stax) were a bit more flexible to help lighten the load a little bit. i feel like he will perform better that way

firepower is semi irrelevant IMO the only time they really got aim diffed is against LOUD. they all have great mechanics

im ok with mika as a sub tho

Still they really changed their mental towards game

How about Ssun? I'm pretty sure he's eager to learn other agents and he's one of the best F/A player you can get. But ive heard that he's already getting signed by another org so yep

ChokeRX never gonna win till team boot camps outside kr. Stop the cope

+forsaken- rb

wasnt mika picked up for the academy roster?