Dukalis Says His Form Has Fallen Since TI

Published October 13, 2026

PARIVISION support Andrey “Dukalis” Kuropatkin says he feels well below the individual form he had at The International 2026. In an interview before the end of the team's BLAST Slam VIII run, he rated himself around eight or nine out of ten at TI and around two now. Those are his own impressions, not a statistical performance score. He said he is working with coach Puppey and teammate 9Class to improve, and that he has not yet identified a single reason for the dip.

Dukalis was notably candid about the uncertainty. He said he feels he is playing poorly and is trying to find out why. Asked who helps him, he named Puppey, with whom he reviews replays and discusses better decisions. He also said 9Class encourages him, sometimes through teasing about their relative ranked positions. The relationship described is supportive, not evidence of a public conflict. Readers should not turn the player's rough self-rating into an independent measurement of his matches or diagnose a cause that he himself says he does not know.

Replay review and teammate support

Puppey's help is practical: Dukalis says they watch replays together and the coach points out ways he can play better. That is more concrete than a generic promise to practice. Replay review can expose positioning, spell-use or communication questions, though the interview does not specify which errors they are addressing. Dukalis also named 9Class as a teammate who tries to lift his spirits. He joked about 9Class's place near the top of the ranked ladder and his own usual position around the top two hundred. The anecdote illustrates how he experiences his current form; it should not be repackaged as a verified ranking comparison on the day this article is read.

His remarks about the rest of PARIVISION also need their conversational context. Dukalis praised 9Class, Satanic and No[o]ne, and described a running joke about Noticed teasing teammates and affecting the mood. He did not make a formal allegation that Noticed caused the team's losses. The group was still competing at BLAST when the interview was reported and later finished third after losing to Spirit in the lower-bracket final. That placement is a team result, not proof that Dukalis's self-assessment determined the outcome. The interview is most valuable as a direct account of how one player is approaching a difficult period.

What the player is actually trying to change

Dukalis said he continues to put in maximum effort and hopes a future patch, or a better understanding of the current one, may help him find a more comfortable approach. That is a possibility he raised, not an announcement that he will change teams or roles. His TI comparison refers to a period when he felt confident; it does not offer a map-by-map explanation for the BLAST result. Support play can be hard to reduce to a single public stat, which makes careful attribution especially important here. The reliable report is that Dukalis feels a gap in his own level and is actively reviewing his decisions with people around him. There is a human distinction between admitting poor form and assigning blame. Dukalis described his own experience and credited people helping him; he did not claim that a teammate was the sole reason PARIVISION struggled. The remarks about Noticed were relayed as a team joke. Reporting them as a serious accusation would distort the tone and unfairly change the subject from self-improvement to a supposed dispute. Likewise, his ladder comparison was part of an informal conversation, not a certified measurement of professional match value. The verified competitive result and the player's subjective account can be placed side by side without pretending one automatically explains the other.

• Dukalis described his TI 2026 form as roughly eight or nine out of ten, and his current feeling as roughly two.
• He specifically named Puppey's replay review and 9Class's encouragement as help in working back toward better form.

Part of his account	What is established
Form rating	Dukalis's subjective assessment
Coach's help	Replay review with Puppey
Team result	PARIVISION finished third at BLAST Slam VIII

The striking numbers in Dukalis's interview describe how he sees himself, not a certified decline in skill. The more actionable detail is the work already under way: reviewing replays with Puppey, taking support from 9Class and looking for ways to adapt. PARIVISION's next matches will provide new evidence of the team's form, but the interview should remain a player-attributed account rather than a verdict on his teammates.