Let's face it: yay is a shell of his former self without the broken agent and top 3 IGL to babywalk him and control him like a puppet. FNS was right when he asked if yay missed him and he should.
You aren't really a world-class player or at least the best player in the world if you need a top 3 IGL, setup, broken agent to succeed. Also, I know he earned his appellation as el diablo on Jett but that's way back then, ancient times, when meta was completely different, players were new and yes, Jett was also broken at the time. I see a pattern. He only succeeds with broken agents. His skillset is uniquely catered to broken agents, that's his real talent. Being good with broken agents. He's not flexible and naturally good in game sense and aim like derke, aspas, less, leo, alfa, mako, etc. He's a good player. Great player. But nope, not the best player, nope not top 5, nope not even top 10, nope not even top 15. That's the bottomline rational deduction.
His real skill levels were exposed after he got diff'd and destroyed in Tier 2 scene and now he is kicking up a fuss about his teammates too.
Now I can already anticipate objections. His team was bad. Yes. The team chemistry was bad. Yes. But you can't really say his teammates hijacked and tinkered with his hardware because he was missing a lot of shots he should've hit as a tier 1 player or at least the supposed best player in the world. Derke and Aspas would hit them and I see them performing better.
There are scenarios where the impact from his teammates is minimized or non-existence and it's all about individual factors, and he was a REAL let down in those. His mechanical skills and gamesense were iffy but they are obscured by his team being bad, which is true, but still doesn't extenuate his individual bad performance. And they are also not given attention because he's a wholesome bear or something.
Yay is a good player, maybe even a tier 1 player perhaps, but I wouldn't put him in top 10 or even top 20 for that matter.
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