Brother, they are the same rating with zekken sporting way higher ADR, ACS, FK/FD ratio, etc on a far higher sample size. Zekken also outperformed Less on both of their match-ups against each other. There is no way that Less is "a mile away" from zekken; they're on the same level.
edit: Forgot to mention zekken even trolled two maps (vs. G2). Without those the rating would have been something like 1.20.
if you remove less's worst series (grand finals) less has a 1.25 rating, while if you remove zekken's worse series (g2) he has a 1.20 rating.
head to head does not matter(via head to head Russ and koldamenta were better than prime yay in 2022) , especially given #19 (how rematches work)
edit: ADR, ACS, FK/FD are all stats that duelists should be higher in than a lurker/anchor. i can bring up stats that less is higher in too(less has better CL%, KAST, APR, and K/D) it serves no purpose
You're the one saying they're a mile away from each other when the stats don't show it. I'm not saying zekken is better; I'm showing you you're wrong. Additionally, you're removing 5 maps from a series that mattered (vs. SEN, btw) to get that rating; zekken's two worst maps were completely inconsequential after they won the first against G2.
Head-to-head does start to matter with increased sample size. Less and zekken played 7 maps against each other this year, with Loud 4-3 against SEN, and zekken's performance was still much better than Less'. OpTic got 2-0'd by Guild.
What is your actual argument for why Less is better? It's not stats.
i never meant to say less was a mile better at Kickoff, just that he was better at kickoff. My original statement of "less and saadhak are a mile better than zekken" includes more than kickoff. Zekken did nothing of note last year(im not including lock\in, its too far away but it was easier to word it like this)
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