Biography
Ilya “Lil” Ilyuk is a professional Dota 2 player of Ukrainian origin. Lil is one of the most famous representatives of the CIS region in the field of games and media. During his career, the player managed to play for almost all the top teams in the region and prove his skills more than once. We present Lil ‘journey as an esports player.
Carier Start
Like most esports players, Lil started his journey to the scene long before he entered the professional organization. From a young age, Lil liked computer games, most of which were competitive. This paid off and helped him build a successful gaming career.
The first club Lil played for was the NVMI team. Lil played there in September 2014, after which Virtus Pro signed the squad almost immediately and was named Virtus.pro Polar.
VP.Polar, ASUS.Polar, Virtus.pro.
With VP.Polar Lil participated in various small championships and often showed good results. One of them was the second place at StarLadder StarSeries – Season 11 in January 2015, and in the same month Virtus.pro Polar became an autonomous ASUS.Polar team.
In April, the team qualified for ESL One Frankfurt and DreamLeague – Season 3, and similar results contributed to the transition of ASUS.Polar to Virtus.Pro’s main roster.
With VP Lil, first place at ASUS Play It Cool Dota 2 Invitational, 5-6 place at joinDOTA MLG Pro League – Season 2. However, this was just the beginning.
In June, the team wins in DreamLeague – Season 3, then takes 3-4th place in ESL One Frankfurt 2015. In July, the team takes 1st place in the Esportal Dota 2 League and 3rd place in the Dota Pit League – Season 3.
In August, Lil will debut at the main tournament of Dota 2 – The International 2015. There, the team takes a sensational 5th-6th place, which is a great success.
VP’s results were later shaken, but that changed in 2016.
Era VP
In 2016, VP’s squad is rebooted, but Lil is still an important part of the new team.
In 2016, the team gains momentum. The team wins BTS Europe – No. 4 , qualifies for The Summit 6, Dota Pit League – Season 5 and Esl One Genting 2017. In November 2016, the team takes 2nd place at DreamLeague – Season 6 League Play and 1st place at Summit 6….
In the first major tournament, Boston Major 2016, the team placed 5th to 8th.
In January 2017, the team finished 3-4th at ESL One Genting 2017 and 5th-6th at Dota Pit League – Season 5.
In April, VP stopped one step short of winning the Kiev Major 2017. In May, the team wins Mr. Cat Invitational Europe, takes 4th place in DreamLeague – Season 7 EU Division and first place in Russian Esports Cup 2017.
At the EPICENTER 2017 home championship, the team finishes 5th-6th, after which they rehabilitate at DOTA Summit 7. The team is well prepared for the upcoming TI 2017. At TI7, Lil repeated the result of 2015 and placed 5th to 6th there. After TI, the team continued to show top performance.
In October 2017, the team won ESL One Hamburg 2017, but this was the last tournament Lil won with VP.
In January 2018, Lil leaves VP with a scandal and goes to NaVi.
Find yourself
The performance for NaVi can hardly be called successful. Lil and his team made their way to major tournaments, but the results there were not very good, to say the least. The best performance was Bucharest 2018, where the team finished 9-11. After failing in almost all the championships, Lil approached the qualifiers for TI as captain of NaVi, which failed completely, dropping out in the 5-8th row of the open qualifiers.
Lil’s next club was Odium. After starting his own club, Lil stayed there for only a month, after which he moved to the Flying Penguins, where he also didn’t last three days.
In May 2019, Lil joins the Winstrike team. The player stayed there for 5 months and the most successful tournament can be considered as StarLadder ImbaTV Dota 2 Minor – Season 2, where the team finished 7th-8th.
Lil later became a player in aggressive mode. The best result of the performance for AM was the 5th to 6th place in WePlay! Dota 2 Tug of War: Mad Moon.
The former desire for the game returned after playing for VP.Prodigy. Then Lil managed to reach the finals of OGA Dota PIT S3: Europe/CIS.
In September 2020, Lil will become a HellRaisers player. With HR, he finished 5th-6th at BTS Pro Series – Season 3: Europe/CIS and 12th-14th at ESL One Germany 2020.
Lil has earned over $920,000 in prize money during his career.
Dota 2
Dota 2 is – unlike other big MOBA titles like League of Legends – free to play with all heroes. However, game items can be purchased in the Dota 2 store, but all of them have no effect on the gameplay. Only cosmetic items like different skins for the heroes can be purchased. Just like in Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Portal 2, it is possible to create your own content via the Steam Workshop.
Dota 2 is a multiplayer online battle arena title from Valve. The successor to the extremely popular Warcraft 3 modification DotA (Defense of the Ancients), Dota 2 was the company’s first strategy game and was released on the download platform Steam on July 9, 2013. The game is a free-to-play title that can be played completely free of charge and is financed through in-game micro-transactions, similar to Team Fortress 2.