They nearly got it with their current roster, but their DPS line-up is lacking.
Losing Undead is a hard blow on it’s own, but man… his replacement, Daemin, is really, really not good. His pressure play is abysmal, and the Fuel were just able to do whatever they want because of it. I really hope he’ll step up something fierce, because right now, he is sadly bringing the rest of team down.
That’s not really a fair assessment of Daemin considering the language barrier, lack of practice with the team, and it was his first time in OWL. Give him time to develop before writing him off. Look how much better sinatraa looked this week compared to his debut.
Edit: For the record, Diya is now back in the US, probably jetlagged so we will likely see Daemin again tonight
I bought a Dragons skin yesterday. It’s hideous but I genuinely want to support them. I feel so bad for them.
Except Geguri, Fearless, and Ado are Korean as well. And the three were mostly fine in their first series, with Ado popping of on his Genji. But as you say, maybe he just need to get in the groove of thing, and I really hope he have it in him.
You forgot to add in Sky along with him. They both were playing bad against Fuel. The funny thing is, Sky was picking Ana and keep switching in and out, Ana hardly works at the moment. Sky heals with Zen was not good either, kept on dying over and over. Postions were bad and kept drifting away from the team.
Sky and Daemin needs to work it out. I will miss Undead, despite the controversy surrounding him. He really was a great DPS player.
Geguri, Fearless, and Ado were excellent additions. Dragons will probably get their first win with Altering/Fiveking/Freefeel, Fearless, Geguri, Ado/Undead, Diya. Though I do trust that Daemin just needs warmup. He almost 1v1’d Effect (so did Geguri out of mech lol) until Effect got his Mercy to back him up.
Undead is gone mate. He ain’t coming back. Got kicked out because of the controversy.
Oh, didn’t know he was gone gone. Then just Ado and Diya. Daemin is good, I’m just not sure he can take Diya’s place.
If Daemin can improve or Diya can link up with Ado well, Shanghai will be in Florida’s position, only a month behind in development: Support play being their weakness, but strong enough overall to give some teams a real challenge. I mean look at Florida since week 3 of stage 2. 3-4 record, only being 4-0d by NYXL in a match that could easily have gone to map 5. That could be Shanghai soon.
What controversy? I’d google it, but “Undead controversy” doesn’t seems like it would yield results.
EDIT:
Nevermind, found it, and sweet lord, the word controversy seems rather weak.
I have mei dragons skin. Also zarya as support to geguri.
Come on dragons! Take my energy! 
I had a hard time finding it too. I will link some stories but as far as I know…
He had three girlfriends, cheated multiple times, left two of them after they had an abortion, left third girlfriend because she kept the baby, and went back to second girlfriend while telling third girlfriend how much he loves her and they should get back together. Pretty sure there was more.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OverwatchTMZ/comments/84t3q0/shd_undeads_exgirlfriend_clarifies_herself_and/
https://www.reddit.com/r/OverwatchTMZ/comments/84k528/shds_undead_accused_cheating_multiple_times_by/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/87yw6f/shanghai_dragons_release_undead/
They’re facing the Valiants tonight, right? Man, talk about pressure about their match against Seoul yesterday. Let’s go Dragons, let’s go!
I was amazingly disappointed in Daemin. He did not show well at all against a team he should’ve been able to do something with.
I wouldn’t argue language barrier either-- Sayaplayer isn’t versed in English put was still able to have his moments for mayhem.
Maybe he’ll shape up but… yeah.
Gotta feel a little bad/worried/anxious for Geguri. So much pressure on her being on a team with no wins so far on top of being the first female in league.
Luckily most of the comments in chat are extremely supportive of her, though I saw a few people trying to be edgy saying she looks like a dude, so on and so forth. But as a fellow female competitive gamer (#2 prog guild on server in WoW, top 200 solo monk leaderboard player in D3, so on and so forth, working on it here in OW), I can fully imagine the pressure she is feeling to perform.
I hope she doesn’t crack on the pressure though i think expectationa on sinatraa is bigger. 
Might be, but he was really performing last night, so it doesn’t seem to be doing anything but encouraging him.
Hopefully they get themselves situated and win a few maps. I’ve been doing team pvp for a long, long time (25+years), and every new addition sets your team back a little until you learn to synergize. Sometimes they fit right in, right away, and play really well, but even then it takes some time to get to know your teammate’s thought processes.
The best pvp of my life was with teams I managed to keep together for several years, because it would come to a point where we could almost read each other’s minds and knew how each individual would respond to any given situation.
Hopefully the Dragons get to that point. I’ll be rooting for them the entire way.
TBH, playing for Shanghai given their abysmal track record so far probably takes a little of the stress out for anyone new joining the team, can’t drop any farther when the team’s already at rock bottom.
I saw a lot of hate hurled Geguri’s way during the game, saying she was underperforming. Never mind that it was a complete roster overhaul, but you know. Absolutely her fault. TT
I only saw a little bit and it was immediately shouted down with people saying she was performing the best she could given the circumstances.
I mean really, what did they expect, for her to solo the entire enemy team as D.Va?