You little shit I fucking watched VCT since 2020 I fucking know how dogshit every single Japanese team was until NTH's LCQ run in 2021 and ZETA at Master Reykjavik 2022.
I watched this region for over 4years and part of the problem why JP teams were so bad is because they relied on washed players like Zepher who got absolute crushed against X10 and Version1 in 2021. Even in his 2021 days at Crazy Racoon he was absolute astrocious and averaged a 0.95 rating for that qualifier to the first international event. He always struggled on every team he played so far and rarely had great games.
I know my stuff about the Japanese scene because I vodreviewed hundreds of hours of their matches still to this day and will continue to do it afterwards. If you don't scout and always go back to old talent you won't be able to find success, Zepher is no Cned, no Derke or was he ever praised as one of the best players in JP, those were Laz, Meiy, Neth, Dep, Syouta, Popogachi, Anthem and Feez in 2021. There is a reason he didn't have much success since 2021 and wasn't part of a good team until today with Scarz, if Medusa didn't advocate for him he wouldn't be even part of this roster.

I will believe in Zepher for the time being because he played a great qualifiers and had a great match yesterday, if you by stats those were his best matches in his career, he is playing unbelievable rn but I also am realistic and want to have bigger sample size until we can say for sure he is a great player.