Zweih: “Spirit’s structure isn’t centered around donk”

Former Team Spirit CS2 player Ivan zweih (Ivan Gogin) believes that Danil donk (Danil Kryshkovets) is not the foundational player of the team.

“I don’t think much would change if Donk were replaced by some Russian-speaking FlameZ (Shahar Shushan). Donk is simply the strongest player in the world in his role, which allows him to turn many rounds through pure skill.

But Spirit’s structure isn’t built around Donk, it’s just harder for them when he doesn’t fulfill his role, which is getting three kills. Because of his skill, everyone got used to calling him the world’s number one player and saying that without him Spirit would be a tier-2 team. But that’s not true at all. If you replace him with the second-best player in the same role, nothing really changes.

[Question: “So there’s no strong dependency on Donk?”]

No, no, not at all, despite what people in the community say.”

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Earlier, James Banks also commented on donk. The host noted that many top teams have learned how to counter Kryshkovets, which is why he can no longer consistently show the same level of performance he had in previous seasons.