Danil ‘donk’ Kryshkovets has been put forward as contender for GOAT status for CS2. With himself winning best player for 2024, he is also in the running for winning best player again for the 2025 season. m0NESY and Zywoo are also fighting for their ability to brand the title for the 2025 season.

As we can see by the statistics below (matches between top 20 teams at big events in 2025, up to May 29th), donk ranks relatively greater from even the likes of Zywoo and m0NESY in all aspects of Counter-Strike.

Kills Per Round: (Top left quadrant)

Realistically, one of the most important aspects of the game, one of the ways to secure a round is by killing the enemy roster. donk, as shown, is quite a bit further than the likes of Zywoo and m0NESY in this aspect. Zywoo is 2nd in this department, still boasting an incredible KPR with m0NESY 3rd and Complexity’s Grim coming in 4th!

Kills Per Round Win: (Top right quadrant)

Another aspect of the game that makes life a lot easier when trying to lift trophies and claim best player of 2025, is kill per round win. This really means, how many kills does the likes of donk acquire to get a round win. As we can see, Spirit rely heavily on donk’s KPR as whenever they win a round he gets roughly about 1.25 kills per round win and damage per round of 120 dmg per round! This time m0nesy follows as a close second with Zywoo and Grim roughly around the same kills per round win.

Opening Kills Per Round: (Bottom left quadrant)

donk, as a rifler and entry fragger, is realistically always going to beat m0NESY and Zywoo in this statistic however: donk outclasses all other entry fraggers and riflers in the whole competitive scene! He is much much further ahead statistically as shown on the graph.

Eco-adjusted Multi-kill Points: (Bottom right quadrant)

donk again is a lot lot further ahead in this category of the game also by a mile! The other candidates for best player of 2025 are all bundled up together, with donk leading the pack.

Conclusion:

In conclusion, for 2025 so far, donk seems to be the leading contender of claiming another best player of the year award if he keeps playing the way he is this year so far!