Mebi [#10]
This is just my opinion, while something looks to be the better player mechanically and has a lot more impact, I still think forsaken is a better player (overall in my eyes) just because he can play all the roles and agents when his team needs it. His Raze debut in Madrid still impressed me because he literally just picked it up and went nuts that game.
Something's willingness to be aggressive yielded a lot of success, but at the same time if he gets punished for it that's one valuable player down. From what I see, forsaken has been playing way more safe, letting Jinggg and something take the frags, but you can't really blame him for being more of a team player to support his teammates for success.
Every player on prx plays their part to contribute to their success, we can go all day arguing who's better than who, but ultimately we can just all agree they're a a team of cracked players who are very fun and heart attack inducing to watch (trolling optional)
if someone is playing better valorant then someone else then imo theyre just the better player. You can flex as much as you want but you actually have to be outperforming players who aren't to be considered better than them. Demon1 on smokes was only crazy as it was last year not because he was flexing a weird role as a duelist, it was crazy because he was literally the best smokes of the tourney.
I feel like a lot of these takes stem from the fact that something just has a lot more competition for his role compared to f0rsaken who only has Chronicle. It's easy to say that f0rsaken is better than something if we compare them to the top players in the roles they play (like aspas > something), but that shouldn't be the case.
For example, visualize Chronicle playing for PRX over f0rsaken, would you consider him to be better than something or worse? Chronicle has been just as much as a flex as f0rsaken with better stats the past two years + three titles (although one of them is kek//in), but I feel like a lot of people would still say something is the better player if they played on the same team.