PARIVISION TI 2025 team profile: A team with a vision

PARIVISON is set to bring a breath of fresh air to The International 2025 stage with a perfect mix between TI debutants and seasoned veterans taking aim at the Aegis.

They are a unique team that has already won the hearts of many and placed themselves at the very top of the Dota 2 echelon this year. The roster was formed in last year’s TI’s aftermath, with three former Cloud9 members looking for a new place to call home. Volodymyr "No[o]ne-" Minenko, Dmitry "DM" Dorokhin, and coach Filipe "Astini" Ribeiro were fresh off a top 6 finish at TI 13 when they started anew alongside Edgar "9Class" Naltakian and Remco "Crystallis" Arets under the PARIVISION banner.

They clicked instantly and ended the 2024 year with a dominant run from groups to grand finals at ESL One Bangkok 2024. That marked their first big victory, but immediately after lifting the trophy in Bangkok, they swapped out Crystallis for a young prodigy.

Alan "Satanic" Gallyamov has been by far the biggest revelation of this season. He’s been trained at Yellow Submarine, Team Spirit varsity team, since he was just 14 years old, with the idea of becoming the replacement for Illya "Yatoro" Mulyarchuk when he decides to retire. Satanic already got the chance to play with Team Spirit last year, when Yatoro took a short competitive break. When Spirit’s carry came back, Satanic was taken on loan by PARIVISION, and now he is set to make his TI debut with them.

Funny enough, Satanic and PARIVISION are now in the position where they are a top contender at the Aegis and a real threat to Spirit, who are looking to write history in Hamburg, Germany by winning TI for a third time.

PARIVISION roster

• Alan "Satanic" Gallyamov
• Volodymyr "No[o]ne-" Minenko
• Dmitry "DM" Dorokhin
• Edgar "9Class" Naltakian
• Andrey "Dukalis" Kuropatkin
• Coach: Filipe "Astini" Ribeiro

Fact: PARIVISION are the only team at The International 2025 to have all five players in the top 100 Leaderboards. Satanic sits in 4th place, while 9Class is on the 19th. This speaks plenty about how stacked this team is with individual skill. But, besides that, they also have someone to keep a moral compass and teach them discipline, respect and humbleness.

That person is coach Astini, who takes on various roles for the team. Dota coach, life coach, psychologist, friend, the bashing bag, he is there for them to solve, if not all the problems, at least most of them. Astini is built differently and has a different approach to coaching from his peers. He is vocal and open to talk about his drafts, about the psychological factors that lead to a certain result or another, or even about strategies, yet wherever he is, he brings the results.

This year, he has two unique players to work with. Besides Satanic, who is already building a legacy of his own, despite just making his TI debut now, PARIVISON also have the most creative support 4 player there is in the professional scene right now.

9Class entered the spotlight last year when he was playing with Tundra Esports. He made a name for himself by playing atypical heroes for his role and doing it successfully. He should have made his TI debut last year, but couldn’t secure his Visa and had to watch the event from home.

What is meta?

Even from his early Tundra days, 9Class showed that he’d rather go for weird picks than play the meta. He was one of the first to play Centaur Warrunner in the soft support position and if you look for someone responsible for the support Nightstalker, Clinkz, Gyrocopter, Morphling or Ember Spirit in your games, you can look at 9Class, who has occasionally picked them in professional games. He is also the one who normalised the support Terrorblade. This year alone, his most-played position 4 support is Slark, on which he boasts an 80% win rate in 20 official matches. However, through the last couple of tournaments, he toned down a bit his appetite for unconventional picks and went for heroes such as Ringmaster, Darkwillow or Batrider.

However, his approach seems to be infectious, as his teammates have also started to entertain the idea of bringing unconventional heroes to drafts. For instance, DM has embraced the offlane Ogre Magi, Dazzle, Undying, Phoenix and has even given a try to the jungle Venomancer, while No[o]ne-, at this point in his career, he can play pretty much anything in the mid lane.

No[o]ne- is the veteran on the team who brings stability and makes all the chaos work. Once a hotheaded player, in his prime Virtus.pro days, No[o]ne is now a reformed person and perhaps the most underrated mid laners of the moment. He’s done a ton of work to better himself, as he spoke about it every time he’s been asked, and he is now living a true resurgence of his career.

A resurgence so big that it could finally bring him what he chased for a decade now, the Aegis of Champions.

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