Despite everyone calling him this, he has never MVPed in a single international event or even gotten top 5 rating except in Masters 1 reykjavik. Tell me how this guy is the goat again?
Well yea Leo is really good and consistent, but he is on that highest level since last year really (yea Guild existed but noone cares really)
Aspas on the other hand feels like the best player in the world since he joined LOUD back in the early 2022.
While I feel like Leo, Chronicle and others are in the talks, I see aspas as the goat
Always Chokes in big games
👆🏻 = This
DRX 2022
OpTic 2022 (2x)
NRG 2023
NAVI 2023
Fnatic 2023 (2x)
EDG 2023
EG 2023 (He stepped up with Less, but the rest of the team was bad at that game + TuyZ didn't even slept that day due to fever)
100 Thieves 2024 (Kick-off)
Sentinels 2024 (Stage 2 - When they were the recent Masters Madrid winners)
KRU 2024 (Stage 2 - When they were 5-0)
Consistency.
Aspas has always been in the discussion for best player itw ever since his rookie year in 2022. He might not always be the absolute #1 on every given moment of his career, but he is ALWAYS up there (like, at least top 5 easily) and never really fell off in performance.
Players like TenZ and yay went from 100 to 10 over the years with roster and meta changes, while Aspas always kept an 80-90 without ever dropping so far.
Just look at his match history. Lightning strikes in a sunny day more often than Aspas has a bad individual performance in a series.
It's a forced narrative stemming from a mixture of a lot of things- Figures like Yay, Derke, Demon1 falling off gave a false perception about his consistency + fans regurgitating
extreme glorifying words + the sheer amount of fans that drown out valid criticism and lastly, just the sheer amount revisionistic opinions being thrown around that gets backed up by Aspas's humongous fan base contributes to it all.
Truth is the val is still too young to have a goat. The goat of val is probably too young to play tier 1 yet. Even Faker started solidifying himself as the goat after 3 years of 22' Yay level of consistency with a higher peak than Reykjavik tenz while revolutionizing the way the game was played. He only established himself as THE undisputed GOAT after having one of if not the greatest individual performance in worlds (a performance Aspas has yet to have in his career) ever.
I know it's unfair use Faker as the standard but even when compared to someone like Chovy, Aspas still seems premature.