What if 100T remove As0na and get a real duelist for once?
I don’t think he clears Aspas, Zekken, Jawgemo, Demon1, or Oxy. He definitely has the longest history on the T1 stage though.
His Yoru is likely the best itw rn but his Raze falls behind Zekken and Jawgemo while his Jett is weaker than Aspas, Cryo, and Demon1’s. He was arguably not even the best duelist on FNC with Alfajer having a superior Raze and Iso. Not to mention that he doesn’t play Neon which is proven to be a top pick on Sunset and Haven with viability on Lotus and Icebox.
I think the only teams that would heavily improve from his pick up would be G2 or NRG simply because they lack star entries.
Oh he’s definitely world class but he’s also got one of the strongest supportive systems in the scene. His individual performance could be matched by more than just two other players if they had that same privilege, dude.
Jawgemo and Demon1 proved their peaks with the former refuting those consistency allegations this year. Oxy literally diffed Derke at Redbull Homegrounds and his team has been a mess since despite his attempts to hard carry.
Derke has never been in the conversation for best Jett, always a step behind Aspas and now T3xture while still lacking in the OP department compared to Cryo and cNed. His raze is also a step below Zekken, Jawgemo and Jingg’s. He’s for sure one of the most consistent world class duelists but he’s never been the best at any specific agent.
Even his Yoru which has the best argument is contested by Meteor.
well what ur saying here does make sense but in the end now that he's come out of the support system that FNC has built around him well be able to see his true performance. i still believe hell perform at his insane levels but only time will tell.
as for his agent comp derke has always been in the top 5 duelists conversation every year day in day out. aspas also has a great ecosystem behind him so attributing the majority of derkes success to FNC is in my opinion very wrong. as for carry derke carried FNC to most of their event before 2023 when they got the superteam. his performance dipped at the start of 2024 but so did everyone's except leo.
plus stats don't really lie and in this case derke as an entry duelist is certainly(to my knowledge) top 3 including aspas and maybe demon/something/jawgemo. oxy is good but you cant really decide on the results of one match and he's stuck in a shitty team so we cant really compare them cause they're both in different ecosystems. we'll see on how derke is able to adapt outside of FNC