dalul

Abdalla "Dalul" Putra Afemi (born August 17, 2002) is an Indonesian professional Dota 2 soft support currently playing for REKONIX. At 23 years old, Dalul is the second youngest player on the REKONIX roster—a position 4 player who started grinding Indonesian regional circuits in 2021 and ended up at tier-1 LANs four years later as part of the most successful all-Indonesian team in recent memory.

Early Career

Dalul began competing in November 2021 with The Apes E-Sport—the same team where Jikroy, his future REKONIX carry, also started out. That connection from the very beginning of both their careers is one of the tidier threads in the REKONIX story. The early years were the standard SEA grind: Patriots, Army Geniuses, and SPAWN Team, rotating through Indonesian and Filipino organizations while results came slowly. With Army Geniuses, he made it one step from ESL One Malaysia 2022 but was eliminated in the qualifier stage. With the SPAWN team in 2023, he played in the DPC SEA Division II, which was the first real circuit-level experience.

What kept dalul improving through all of it was his individual ceiling. He hit 11,000 MMR in January 2024 — at 21 years old. Then 13,000 in February 2025. Then 14,000 in September 2025. That last milestone came while REKONIX was already in the middle of their best run as a team. The trajectory was pointing in one direction from the moment he started.

REKONIX

When REKONIX formed in July 2025, Dalul was named the soft support—a natural fit given his history with several of the same players from earlier in the SEA circuit. The team's results speak for themselves: four consecutive EPL World Series Southeast Asia titles, a 20-match win streak, and two tier-1 LAN qualifications in their debut season. Dalul's STRATZ profile lists Rubick as his signature hero, which tells you what kind of soft support he is—one who steals spells, punishes greedy spell usage, and turns the enemy team's mechanics against them. That requires fast thinking and deep hero knowledge. It's not a hero you play passively.

The BLAST Slam VI qualification, the ESL One Birmingham 2026 appearance, and now DreamLeague Season 29 under MinD_ContRoL as coach—Dalul has gone from regional SEA circuits to playing in front of European crowds in under four years.

Playstyle and Reputation

Dalul is a playmaking soft support who looks to create impact through hero mechanics rather than positioning or vision alone. Rubick as a signature says it all—he watches the draft, watches enemy spell patterns, and finds the moments where stealing one ability changes the entire fight. In a roster that generates a lot of chaos through Fbz's offlane aggression and inYourdreaM's mid-tempo, Dalul's job is to translate that chaos into advantage. The MMR climb—from 11K to 14K in under two years while competing professionally—indicates someone who hasn't stopped developing even as results improved around him.

Fun Facts

Dalul and Jikroy both started their careers with The Apes E-sport in 2021. They now play carry and soft support for the same tier-1 team. That is a rare case of two players from the exact same developmental starting point arriving at the same destination together.

He hit 14,000 MMR on September 4, 2025 — right in the middle of REKONIX's breakout season. Posted the milestone on social media. The caption was "Pinkman Indo"—a low-key celebration from someone who clearly doesn't need the attention.

At 23, Dalul is the second youngest player on a roster whose oldest member (Varizh) started competing when Dalul was in middle school. That age range—2002 to 1996—across five players who all grew up in the same Indonesian Dota 2 ecosystem is a genuinely interesting cross-generational story.