WARNING: 🗣️allat ‼️‼️
Personally id like to differentiate between GOAT (igl) and GOAT (player)
Goat (IGL) is a debate between FNS and saad, legit no other real argument. If you say boaster look at the man when he doesnt have mini coaching 💀
Goat (player) has a few options from ur list and 1 more
Aspas: consistently mechanically amazing, great placements in tournaments, great at his role, and great even when with different teams/different players. Really no need to go in depth
Yay: idgaf what you think of him, and even though he has fallen off recently, the OAT in goat means OF ALL TIME. Regardless of opinion it is simply the truth, the fact of the matter, that yay was HIM during the chamber era of valorant. During his peak it was nothing but absolute nukes of performances, only RARELY doing poorly or getting diffed, all over the period of a TON of matches since the team usually ran deep in tournaments
TenZ: Similar situation as Yay but with (surprisingly) less contrarians/haters. Also the added bonus of doing really well rn (even tho there was a big period of dog performances between now and the first masters win). Like yay, in his era, TenZ was him. simple as 👍. issue is that tenz era of goat tier performances, was a lot shorter than Yays or aspas’s
Less isnt an option YET i think, he needs a bit longer to cook imo idk. Def could be argued to be goat though in the future
Now i will reject other ones you listed as goat contenders:
cNed: low-key a fluke champs run, diet Yay (except neither of them have been on a diet i think), he wants to be nats so bad with his prism op, fell off HARD with jett nerf, and was never really THAT good with rifles/pistols/jett knives, good sure but nowhere near yay tenz or aspas in their primes.
Chronicle: good, consistent, multiple nationals wins, yes, good util, yes, smartish player, yes, but never stand-out performances, never hard carry like yay/tenz/aspas (or even Less), just good, maybe great, but not goat. Just does his job consistently at an above average level, but, never more than that
Forsaken: kinda like chronicle but better aim and flashier but slightly “dumber” (riskier) but thats also just apac. Tbh maybe all he needs is one or two international lan wins
Carp 💀