EMEA is the kryptonite of NA too
acend vs envy 2-0
fnatic vs c9 2-1
fnatic va v1 2-0
liquid vs sen 2-1
liquid vs c9 2-0
gambit vs envy 3-0
g2 vs sen 2-0

After watching them throughout KR challengers in early 2021 to now i have noticed a couple issues. Dont get me wrong, DRX is a phenominal team but I just wanted to analyze a couple of weaknesses that have lead to their downfall every single time on the international stage.

The most obvious issue is mental. Whenever things stop going there way, their mental goes through the gutter, especially on important elimination matches. They have the mental to make comebacks, there are numerous examples of this in the KR challengers however in the most important games where they face elimination a couple of players always make impulsive mistakes, especially when they are down. A prime example of this would be Rb's plays on split. He constantly would dash into fights impulsively and get killed which would place DRX is a disadvantage. The overall team needs to work on performing at their best in these kinds of high pressure matches.

Secondly, their ability to freestyle in matches. DRX is an extremely strategic team. They go into each match with a game plan and each round with a game plan. The only issue is they are often times a team that has to play a significant amount of matches which gives time for their opponents to vod review and prepare and anti strat. A good example of this would be on the icebox game vs optic. Optic knew what DRX would try to do going into the round based on their research which gave them a lot of opportunities to counterstrat. Realistically, DRX should have been able to adapt and adress the issues, such as marved's lurks. However this is soemthing I have noticed, they are unable to adapt on the fly. This might be partially due to their mental, however it is crucial for teams to adapt and it seems like DRX is unable to adapt when needed, and when they are getting read. This leads to redundant plays and strategies that are less effective than they are usually. This is in part due to the amount of games DRX plays and the amount of vod teams are able to do but DRX has to adress this issue.

Thank you all for reading, I thought this topic was interesting as I really wanted to see DRX succeed this masters. Hopefully they can adress these issues next masters.

optic barely beat the guard too

Loud will expose optic
optic got too lucky with the seeding

Optic will be an easier match for Loud for sure

only FPX
gambit peaked at masters 3 now theyre washed

every team G2 and Liquid lost to made it top 4
imagine if they had better seeding like Optic

lol people still believe in M3C

FPX is better than prime gambit actually.
Prime gambit lost to 100T and got 13-0ed by Acend

show me a team that never lost a single match

FPX is the only good CIS team

with better bracket they would be in top 2

G2 will win the whole thing

cus its valorant

still a fluke run

optic doing the krü run
not zeta

at this point im pretty sure he is viewbotting

why so many downfrags?

G2 will send PRX home

copium

In Loud we trust
2-0 loud
optic overrated

Nerfed Europe*

FPS in EU will never die
they will always comeback

you’re laughing at Europe cuz Putin attacked them basically

EMEA is still the best
just wait for the war to end

the winner of this event should give the trophy and the money to FPX
just to be fair

seeding match

FPX and the original Fnatic would 13-0 all these teams

should have been FPX here not G2
G2 replaced them and got their 1st seed

nerfed EMEA*

just becase they played a close game doesnt mean they are good
there are close games in bronze too

mad cuz its true?

bro they barely beat a korean team🤣🤣🤣
no way they beat G2

Bias take
they just both shit

the winner of this game gonna get giga clapped by the winner of LOUD G2 match no cap

stopped reading at “optic does good”
it was literally a fluke win

USA talking

only with riot help

drx is not favourite at all
they only played with minor regions so far
krü had fluke run in champions too

overreacting so hard just because they beat Optic🥱

just wait till drx plays with a real tier 1 team
G2/LOUD gonna expose the shit out of them

1 dog and the entire team rotated

choking like always

optic not gonna beat DRX
they barely even the gourd

this is worse than platchat power rankings

“chloeburbank”

he tweets something like this everytime when NA get eliminated🤣 but he is right
WasonW

???
rare issax L?

who are you?

bro optic almost lost to gourd
u think they can get past drx?