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Better finish this before the series end so I don't end up being called a fan or a hater.

First of all, I am not a Kuroky's hater. You can check my previous comments, I defended him sometimes, especially against the drafting blame. I will repeat it again, drafting is always the whole team's idea, everyone has the right to suggest a hero they want to play, or they think it's good against the enemy. Noone gets to dictate the whole draft. I don't know why people always blame Kuroky (a player) for Nigma's draft, Bulba (a coach) for EG's draft, Mushi (another coach) for Boom's draft, etc. Were any of you in their boothcamp when the teams are drafting and hear kuroky/bulba/whoever it is, refuse to let the players play what they want? Sometimes it is the captain, sometimes it's the coach that you blame, like, you are not even consistent of your opinion, you just want to blame whoever you and the community think is at fault. In TI9 True Sight, we could see that the whole team thought Meepo was a legit pick while W33 didn't think so. The other 4 persuaded W33 to play it and Kuroky apologized to him for that. Yet somehow Kuroky is always the one to be blamed. If there is someone who dictates the draft, ATF might be the closest to it. According to Ceb in the major new OG won with him, if you want to play a hero, you had to show ATF that you have at least gold tier on that hero. Otherwise, he won't pick it for you.

Now onto why people hate him, and I cannot disagree with them, is that he shows signs of being lazy. He might not be, I don't know, but he refuses to play pubs to catch up with the metas is not acceptable. Who else refuses to play pubs and has bad result? Taiga and Nikobaby. The meta is not only about what to draft, but also how he should lane, the match up and the items. Same match up but different starting items and spells may end up with different result. Remember the game where Nigma has to rematch and Miracle- on Puck went from winning to losing/tying his lane? And there was a game where Nigma lost to the stupid jungle creep that provided insane vision, next game Kuroky did nothing but rushed Helm of Dominator and running around the map, wasting a lot of time to find the creep.

In the latest interview, he said "it is just a stupid video game" and he wanted to "support his family". Well, I don't know about his contract with the sponsors but I don't think it is good for a sport brand to keep losing and being bashed by its fans (or antifans) on social media. If he is so burnt out and fed up with the game but still want to support his family (I guess he means earning money), he can follow his rivals, Notail and Ceb, to completely step aside from the game, just manage the organisation. If he still wants to compete at the highest level, he should step up his game. Ceb and Fng (or funnik? I don't rememver) both agree that the current Kuroky does nothing to help his lane, sometimes even make it worse. Btw, I find it funny when ppl call him outmeta, cannot draft then told him to retire and move to coach position. Do you even listen to yourself? You blame someone for being outmeta and want him to be the coach?

As for Nigma's current result, it's hard to say because ATF is still new but Kuroky kinda admits what we all know, his hero pool is limited and he is still learning new heroes, though it is weird to play sven in 2023 lol. And he makes lots of mistakes like when I am writing this, his sven jumps into fights without bkb and gets stunt to death. He is playing with another pro team where everyone's reaction time is insane, saving 0.5s of bkb won't win him games. But this is their problems to solve, not mine to give my monke idea.

At the end, all I want to say is the downfall of the team is not entirely someone's fault, but not everyone is performing well either. Offlaner is the most important position early/mid game this current meta and MC doing badly also costs Nigma a lot. Win 1 series against Secret and Redditors begins their "look at ATF's godlike no death performance", lose 1 series and it is MC/Kuroky's fault blah blah.