Zekken rookie year: On and off performance in most hyped and some even speculated to be the super team of na. The team didn't even qualified for a single lan event. Decent flex Duelist player but has too many inconsistency. Showed a promising signs after the team make changes to support him (putting tenZ on omen and bringing Zellsis), won the off season Mickymouse trophy beating DRX and PRX who were mainly experimenting (hindsight - they are also shit in their own region)
Demon1 rookie year: Carried the worst na team that was expected to be in the last standing to go on international lan. (Grandfinalist runner in Tokyo and Grandfinalist champion in LA) got MVP of champ with the highest Rating and Headshot rate, while also flexing on different kind of roles and still having positive impacts with the team. EG wouldn't able to beat Loud without Demon1 dropping 101 bombs. Defeated the PRX at their prime with jinggg last tournament buff. Talked a lot of shit and has backed it up. Owned an entire APAC's region.
Edit: Demon1 still clears Xset zekken so shut the fuck up about me not mentioning xset. Literally a low competition year for Valorant. Even high ascendent rank player today can play well then.