If you say that the most disappointing LPL team in the new season, I believe many people will choose TES. Because they were named S-class teams at the beginning of the season, after five games in the regular season, they are currently temporarily ranked 11th in the LPL Spring Season regular season standings. Interestingly, however, there is a team at LCK that is facing a similar situation to TES. That's right, this team is the runner-up team in the 2021 World Finals, DK.
So why are the teams DK and TES so similar? First of all, there is the lineup configuration of these two teams. The two core players in the TES team are naturally the double C composed of "sailor combination" Knight and Jackey Love. The DK team also has two absolute cores, they are the Nakano combination of Canyon and ShowMaker. That is to say, from the core of the team, although there is a different position, it is a reconstruction around these two players in the new season.
Second, it is the strength of these two teams on paper. TES introduced Zoom, Xiaotian and Xiaopeng while retaining the "Sailor Combination". We will leave aside their performance in the new season for the time being, because from the perspective of paper strength, if Zoom and Xiaotian can play at the level they should have, TES's paper strength is indeed very strong. In fact, DK is also the same, in addition to the single, deokdam and Kellin's two-way combination is currently recognized as one of the strongest two-way LCK.
Finally, the two teams, TES and DK, each have an unstable factor. The unstable factor of TES is naturally the auxiliary player Zhuo, and the unstable factor of DK is on the road. So, whether it's transfer, strength, performance or instability, the current situation between DK and TES is indeed very similar.
However, compared with TES, the adjustment ability of this team is undoubtedly faster. In particular, the growth rate of Burdol, a newcomer player on the single, is still very fast. Because in the just-concluded LCK Spring Regular Season, DK beat HLE with an aggregate score of 2-0. Among them, Burdol not only won the POG in the first set. At the same time, Akali also had a very eye-catching performance in the second set.
I have to say that when we questioned the DK newcomers, we didn't actually give them enough time. After all, not all newcomers are "debut is the peak". In particular, some of the more introverted players need more time to get through the tense period of the time when they first played. So, from the current point of view, with the growth of Burdol, DK is finally slowly waking up. And if Burdol can continue to grow, I believe that DK does not actually need Niu Bao.
Guys, do you think Burdol can grow into a top player?