5 players in contention right now:
- LOUD/LEV/MIBR Aspas
- GMB/FNC Chronicle
- FNC/VIT Derke
- LOUD/VIT Less
- GUILD/FNC Leo - sickness weighing him down though
6th: Alfajer
7th-8th: prob Sacy & MaKo
???
Derke has been top 7 player minimum every year since 2021. you know that right????
Alfajer has been the 2nd best player of 2023 and one of the best in 2022 and 2024
Chronicle was 2nd best player of 2021, and top 3-10 in 2023 and 2024
Leo is the goat according to anyone that has played with him or uses braincells (Also the #1 player of 2023)
all of 2021??
bro it was only Reykjavik. he was average-sometimes good at best after that and his team wasnt performing either
thas like saying Demon1 was the best player in 2023 (when Leo and Alfajer were CLEARLY gods the whole year)
meanwhile Gambit attended 2 finals in a row (nAts invented like 80% of Sentinel setups people use today and Chronicle was always getting 3ks and 4ks with Vandal against teams like Envy)
also ur forgetting about Chronicle on Initiator vs Chronicle on Flex
here are my non-biased lists for top 20 every year: https://www.vlr.gg/371303/top-20-players-vlr-edition/
TenZ:
2x masters winner, 2x finals, 6 international appearances
#4 player of 2021 (after nAts, Chronicle, cNed)
-did ABSOLUTELY nothing in 2022
-did ABSOLUTELY nothing in 2023
#8 player of 2024 (after T3xture, Zekken, Meteor, RieNs, Aspas, Karon, Derke)
and now retired...
not enough for being considered a GOAT
also no coaches/players have genuinely been referring to him in GOAT player conversations. However, 90% of EMEA pro scene (coaches & players) refer to Leo as the GOAT.