donk: Team Spirit's star rifler, his career, settings and crosshair

Danil "donk" Kryshkovets is the Russian entry fragger who carried Team Spirit to the Perfect World Shanghai Major in 2024, becoming the youngest Major champion and the youngest Major MVP. donk was HLTV's best player of 2024 and its second-best of 2025, and by October 2026 he had 13 HLTV MVP awards. This profile covers his career up to October 27, 2026 and the settings he is listed with, giving the source and date for each.

donk at a glance

From FACEIT to Spirit Academy

donk told HLTV that his older brother taught him Counter-Strike 1.6 when he was five, and that he later played CS:GO for up to 12 hours a day. After reaching 4,000 Elo on FACEIT he joined the CIS FACEIT League hub, where Spirit scout Aleksei "OverDrive" Birukov noticed him in early 2021. He joined Team Spirit Academy at 14; Liquipedia dates the move to December 28, 2021.

The first months were hard, by his own account, but by 2023 he was carrying the academy side. On July 5, 2023 Spirit promoted him to the main team with Myroslav "zont1x" Plakhotia and Artem "ArtFr0st" Kharitonov, and in December the AWPer Dmitry "sh1ro" Sokolov joined. That month donk won his first HLTV MVP award at 16 years and 320 days, which made him the second-youngest player to earn one.

donk in CS2: the 2024 breakthrough

Spirit's first big test was IEM Katowice in February 2024. They won it, beating FaZe Clan 3-0 in the final, and donk's 1.70 rating equalled the record for a Big Event at the time; Liquipedia notes that HLTV's later rating updates have since moved the figure. At the PGL Major Copenhagen in March, Spirit lost their quarter-final to FaZe on a deciding map that went to overtime. In June they won the BLAST Premier Spring Final, with donk as MVP again.

The year ended in Shanghai. Spirit beat FaZe 2-1 in the grand final on December 15, 2024, and donk was named MVP at 17 years and 324 days, the youngest player to win a Major and to be its MVP. His four aces there are also a Major record. HLTV then made him its Player of the Year, and gave him its Rookie, Opener and Highlight of the Year awards too. Our Shanghai Major article covers the final and its stickers.

2025 and 2026: new lineups, more trophies

In 2025 Spirit won BLAST Bounty Spring, PGL Astana, IEM Cologne and BLAST Bounty Fall, with donk as MVP at all four. The Majors went less well: a quarter-final loss to MOUZ in Austin and a 2-0 semi-final loss to Team Vitality in Budapest. HLTV ranked him second for 2025, behind Vitality's Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut, while calling his raw numbers the best of any year in the ranking's history.

The roster kept changing around him. Spirit benched Boris "magixx" Vorobiev for Ivan "zweih" Gogin in July 2025 and replaced zont1x with Andrey "tN1R" Tatarinovich in September. On December 18, 2025 they benched Leonid "chopper" Vishnyakov and zweih, bringing back zont1x and magixx, who took over as in-game leader. That lineup's 2026, per Liquipedia:

Falcons went on to win in Cologne, as our Cologne 2026 article describes. Valve's Regional Standings of October 5, 2026 put Spirit first in the world with donk, magixx, sh1ro, tN1R and zont1x; Sergey "hally" Shavayev is their coach. Invitations to the next Major, PGL Singapore, come from the standings Valve publishes on November 2.

donk settings

Pro settings change often, so read these as a snapshot. The main column is ProSettings.net's page for donk, last updated October 25, 2026 and read on October 27; Liquipedia's player-submitted entry from February 3, 2024 is there for comparison.

donk crosshair

ProSettings lists a Static Cross (style 4) with length 2, thickness 2 and gap 1, no centre dot, no outline, and pure green (red 0, green 255, blue 0) at full opacity. As console commands: cl_crosshairstyle 4, cl_crosshair_length 2, cl_crosshair_thickness 2, cl_crosshair_gap 1, cl_crosshairdot 0, cl_crosshair_drawoutline 0, cl_crosshaircolor_r 0, cl_crosshaircolor_g 255, cl_crosshaircolor_b 0.

Those values belong to the crosshair system Valve rebuilt in September 2026, which made crosshairs resolution independent. On September 30 Valve also changed the share-code format, so the code Liquipedia took from one of his Budapest Major matches in December 2025 is in the old format.

donk viewmodel

ProSettings lists viewmodel_fov 68, viewmodel_offset_x 2.5, viewmodel_offset_y 0 and viewmodel_offset_z -1.5. In the current game files, 68 is the widest viewmodel field of view CS2 allows and 2.5 the furthest right the gun can go, so his weapon sits as far out to the side as the game permits, and a little lower than the default height.

donk stickers and skins

donk has an autograph sticker from every Major he has played: Copenhagen 2024, Shanghai 2024 (with Champion versions), Austin 2025, Budapest 2025 and Cologne 2026, where Ranked versions followed. The finishes changed by event, with glitter in 2024, foil at Austin and embroidered at Budapest.

ProSettings also tracks the skins he uses in matches. On October 25, 2026 it showed an AK-47 | Wild Lotus, a ★ Karambit | Doppler in the Ruby phase, ★ Driver Gloves | King Snake and a Desert Eagle | Sunset Storm 弐 as his current picks, with an AK-47 | Gold Arabesque last used three weeks earlier. To find guns carrying one of his autographs, the sticker filter on Buy narrows listings to a single sticker.

Sources

• donk — Liquipedia Counter-Strike Wiki
• donk results — Liquipedia Counter-Strike Wiki
• Team Spirit — Liquipedia Counter-Strike Wiki
• Top 20 players of 2024: donk (1) — HLTV.org
• Top 20 players of 2025: donk (2) — HLTV.org
• donk CS2 settings, crosshair and config — ProSettings.net
• Global standings as of October 5, 2026 — Valve Regional Standings (GitHub)
• Counter-Strike 2 Update, September 30, 2026 — Counter-Strike 2 news (Valve)