There are good performances in Counter-Strike, and then there’s whatever Danil “donk” Kryshkovets just did. During Stage 2 of the IEM Cologne Major 2026, the Team Spirit star posted a 2.27 HLTV rating across four maps, the highest individual rating of the entire stage and one of the most dominant stretches in Major history.
To put that number in context, BetBoom’s Magnojez finished second with a 1.47 rating. That’s a gap of 0.80 points, which in HLTV rating terms is less “slight edge” and more “different sport entirely.”
A masterclass in every sense
HLTV ratings function as the primary statistical measure of individual Counter-Strike performance. A rating of 1.00 is average. Anything above 1.30 is considered elite. Donk nearly doubled that threshold.
His peak came on Nuke against 9z, where he recorded a single-map rating of 2.76. He went 23-7 in kills-to-deaths on that map.
