Diamondprox

Danil Reshetnikov (Данил Решетников, born 24 December 1992 ), better known by his in-game name Diamondprox, is a Russian professional League of Legends player who is the jungler for Team Spirit.

He is best known for his time playing as the jungler for Gambit Esports (formerly Gambit Gaming).

He previously played for Team Empire, Moscow Five, the Unicorns of Love and Apex Gaming.

Diamondprox hails from Saint Petersburg and is one of the world's most well-known junglers, known for his prowess on champions such as Lee Sin in Season 2, and innovating the popular Season 3 jungle play of Nasus and Xin Zhao.

Diamondprox became known in the high elo ladders of League of Legends around the end of Season 1 and start of pre-Season 2.

He started making headway though in the scene when joining Team Empire as their jungler in October 2011 after being invited by friend Edward, who made a large splash at IEM Season VI Qualifiers, winning it to be invited to play at IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Kiev but also due to making a now famed highlight vs SK Gaming, which gave birth to the meme and saying of players shouting "EMPIRE!".

Diamond with the rest of Team Empire were recruited by organization Moscow Five in December 2011.

Their first major appearance would be at the IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Kiev on 19 January 2012.

It would be here that Moscow 5 would make a name for themselves internationally, as they had little fame prior to IEM Kiev.

At the event, Moscow 5 would show a dominant performance, going undefeated in group stage against Dignitas, against All authority, and Sypher.

Taking first by going 3–0 in the group stage, Diamond and team would advance to the playoffs where they would take the series 2–0 against SK Gaming.

Moving to the finals, Moscow 5 would defeat North American powerhouse Team SoloMid 2–1, dropping their only game of the tournament against Team SoloMid.

On 31 January 2012, Diamond with company would compete in the online Kings of Europe tournament.

Once again showing their strength, they would go undefeated in the group stage, defeating SK Gaming, exGBT, and Team Mistral.

Advancing to the playoffs, they would go on to defeat French team Sypher 2–1 in the semifinals.

In doing so, Moscow 5 would face off against European favorite Counter Logic Gaming EU in the finals, where they would fall 1–2.

On 10 March 2012, Danil with his teammates would attend the IEM Season VI - World Championship in Hanover.

Reproducing their results from Kiev, Moscow 5 once again went undefeated in group stage 5–0, defeating SK Gaming, Curse Gaming, Team SoloMid, Sypher, and EHome.

Diamond would play a crucial role in the jungle to assist his team and continue their win streak in the playoff bracket, beating Counter Logic Gaming Prime 2–0 in the semifinals and defeating Dignitas 2–0 in the finals to take home first place.

This tournament would mark a high point in Moscow 5's history, as they were able to come out of the tournament not only victorious, but were able to do so while not dropping a single game throughout the entire competition.

His team's next high placing at a major tournament would be at the online Corsair Vengeance Cup.

Coming out of the group stage of the tournament 2–1, Moscow 5 had a strong run in the playoffs, defeating Hauteur 8, Intent Gaming, TeamRedbyteItalia, and Meet Your Makers in the first four rounds of the playoff bracket, before falling to against aAa 0–2 in the second phase of the winner's bracket, knocking the Russian team down to the loser's bracket.

Moscow 5 would face off against Team SoloMid in their first match of the loser's bracket, in which the Russian team would come out victorious 2–1.

Danil then faced and defeated SK Gaming 2–0 in the next round of the loser's bracket, which put them up to face against aAa once again.

This time the team would come out victorious, defeating aAa 2–0, which put the team up against Counter Logic Gaming EU in the grand finals of the Corsair Vengeance Cup.

Unfortunately, Moscow 5 would fall short to CLG.EU 0–2, losing to the team once again in a finals setting, taking home second place.

On 16 June, Diamondprox and comrades would attend DreamHack Summer 2012 after taking second at the online qualifiers.

Moscow 5 would take second in group stage going 2–1, defeating Absolute Legends and Mebdi's Minions, but losing to Counter Logic Gaming EU.

Advancing to the semifinals, Moscow 5 would face off against Curse Gaming EU, where the Russian team was able to come out ahead 2–0, advancing them to the grand finals of DreamHack Summer 2012.

At the finals, Moscow 5 would play against familiar opponent, Counter Logic Gaming EU, where they would fall 0–2.

Diamond and Moscow 5 attended European Challenger Circuit: Poland after qualifying online with a 2–0 victory over CLG.EU sending them to the loser's bracket.

This would mean that the teams shall meet again in the group stage, where Moscow 5 took second place going 2–1, defeating EloHell.net and Ocelote World while losing a game to CLG.EU.

In the semifinals, Moscow 5 had a strong showing defeating Curse EU 2–0, going with a perfect 15–0 score in the second game.

At the finals, Moscow 5 would meet their rivals CLG.EU once again.

After having a 0–4 record against them in lan events, Diamondprox with his team were able to claim their revenge with a commanding 2–0 victory making them the ECC Poland champions.

As one of the eight European invitees for the Season Two Regional Finals - Cologne, Moscow Five would fly out to Germany for a chance to qualify for the Season 2 World Championship.

Matched up against the recently formed Polish team EloHell, Moscow Five would take a 2–0 victory to advance to the second round of the playoffs.

There, Moscow Five was able to come out victorious against Fnatic in a close 2–1, qualifying for the Season 2 World Championship in Los Angeles and advancing to the grand finals of the tournament.

Continuing their dominant performance, Diamond would help win the finals 2–0 against SK Gaming.

At the Season 2 World Championship in October, Diamondprox with his teammates were considered by many analysts and professionals to be the favorites coming into the event.