Team Spirit carry Illya "Yatoro" Mulyarchuk revealed a humorous lifehack for getting better at Dota 2. He claims that playing on a bad PC helps to perform better when you switch to proper hardware in tournaments. The carry experienced this himself, as he claimed in the latest team vlog, preparing for ESL One Raleigh 2025.
Why am I so unhappy? Because the last two days I played with 70 FPS and 100 ping. My ping was higher than FPS. It was a little bit annoying. <...> These weren't just bad PCs but the worst in the world. But now everything is fine. Have you watched Naruto? [Does it work like Rock Lee and ankle weights?] Of course. No joke. You play with 20 FPS, 100 ping, and a 60 Hz monitor. If you play like this for a month, and then come to a tournament where you have 360 Hz, 400 FPS and zero ping, then you just see everything. Because you have dropped all the debuffs. It's like you were under Repel in real life.
ESL One Raleigh 2025 is held from April 7 to 13 in the USA. Teams are playing for a million dollars and EPT points, crucial for qualifying for Riyadh Masters 2025. On the opening day, Team Spirit finished matches against Liquid and Parivision with a 1:1 score.
Team Spirit's CS2 star Danil "donk" Kryshkovets may be the prime example of the described approach to training. He was born in Tomsk in eastern Russia and had to play with a very high ping on European servers. As the young gun admitted, he developed a certain playstyle to compete on par with others despite the latency. Last year, he won Shanghai Major, established multiple new records, and became the player of the year.
Earlier, Yatoro played against donk in 20 different games. You can check the results of their competition below.
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ESL One Raleigh 2025
| Start Date | 2025-04-07 |
| Prize Pool | $ 1,000,000 |