he wasnt even inconsistent, he won champs when he had a good team, and was still top 3 american duelist with a shit team, next year maybe he can be the best american duelist who knows
he was inconsistent before in 2022, and before eg 2023 was resurrected he was very very inconsistent, and again 2024 he had couple of really good performances and others were just meh or just straight up bad
also he was NOT TOP 3 LAST YEAR