"he wasnt top 5 in 22" literally one of the highest rated players in 2022 season, grand finals in his first ever international and champions grand finals MVP in his rookie year.
"sure as hell not in 2023" top 2 lockin droping a 30 bomb in the last map, first ever VCT americas champion and MVP, Top 3 at Champions being top 3 stats in playoffs. Also top 1 highest rated duelist in 2023 and top 3 player overall. Top 4 was: Less, Aspas, Alfajer and Leo.
2024: highest rated player across all leagues playing with an initiator that went triple negative in 95% of the season and the first two time americas champion and MVP. Top 3 at Champions AGAIN. FIrst player to reach 1000 kills at champions.
Aspas dropping 47 kills on raze against prime Sentinels is just one of his many accomplishments and it made a lot of noise cause Sentinels were the recent Master Winners and a single player destroyed them.
Thats why hes "been the best" since 2022. Many players falloff after one good tournament or one good season, but Aspas dont. 3 years at the top of the game individually and with the teams he played with since he started. The only revisionism is pretending that his GOAT convo only started in the middle of 2024.