Goat every year

how else did TH come back then

your stats are missing key details like the fact that t3xture played double the rounds kangkang did (328 vs 154, 2 times more rounds), and h2h doesn't mean anything lol. if someone is dropping 25+ kills every map but dying to only one person on the other team, that doesn't make them a worse player.

your shanghai analysis of KK's stats are based off of 78 TOTAL ROUNDS compared to t3xture's 388!
that's a difference of 310 rounds, in other words t3xture played FIVE TIMES more rounds than KK
of course it's easier to have inflated stats when you play less games. Over time, performance averages out.

When it comes to key stats in defining a duelist, t3xture has KK beat at most of them during playoffs
higher K/D, equal ACS, higher KPR, higher FKPR, and barely worse FDPR
and this is with almost 200 more rounds played

it's no coincidence then that t3xture won the stats game at Champs with 155 rounds played to KK's 449

in terms of peak performance of course KK was the best player of 2024, he broke the kill record and won Champs with it.
in terms of overall performance over the year then t3xture was just the better player. KK has had inflated af stats that you use to justify a better performance but you cannot deny that KK's sample size was at the very least half, to 1/5th at most of t3xture's. If we want to compare players that way then it's fair to say that primmie was actually one of the best players at Champs even though he only played 85 rounds.

you are putting too much importance in team performance and not individuals.
also you:
keep in mind Zmjjkk had no good support utility because half of his players were off role
Reminder besides smoggy, everyone else on EDG was bottom 12
Reminder both of EDG intiators were bottom 6 players

you are also putting too much importance in team performance. just because the rest of kangkang's team had, according to you, no good support utility, does not cover for gaps in kangkang's own individual performance. In fact, ironically, when EDG's players started to have better support utility like at Champs, KK's individual performance barely changed, and if it did, it mostly went down. This actually suggests that the reason EDG didn't do well at Madrid or Shanghai wasn't because they were failing to set up KK properly, it was more likely that they couldn't hold their own while trying to set up KK.
KK's performance stayed the same or got slightly worse as his team's utility got better. so i don't understand the "his team had poor support utility and t3xture's had good support utility and that's why KK is better" angle.

In fact, when t3xture's team crumbled and KK's team got better, t3xture's own individual performance was comparable to KK's when KK's team was doing bad.

t3xture vs KK (i'm going use Shanghai since I think we can agree that was when EDG were at their lowest during the entire year) when their teams are shitting the bed:
rounds: 155 > 78
ACS: 242.6 = 243
K/D: 1.17 > 0.91
ADR: 157.2 > 154
KPR: 0.84 > 0.81
FKPR: 0.18 > 0.17

so as you can see the two are pretty similar when it comes to how well they do when their team shits the bed.

As for regionals, EDG during 2024 literally farmed China. They won Kickoff, Stage 1, and Stage 2, and they did it 2/3 times from the upper bracket. And you could tell that China (minus EDG) still had to catch up considering they got first rounded at every event except Champs, when the narrative finally started to shift. It's not exactly difficult to win your region when you're on the most dominant regional team of all time.

Maybe its agent pool, the better player that can flex around more
Zmjjkk: Raze, Jett, Kayo, Neon
T3xture: Raze, Jett

this is also a non argument because both KK and t3xture have different teams with different players and the way roles and offroles work is different. There's a reason players like Aspas don't get compared to players like f0rsakeN because of their ability to flex. it's about who does their job better and more consistently. KK and t3xture are both duelists, so compare how they do as duelists. Idk where this team hype merchant stuff came from. Zellsis the goat then or what lmfao

Well if T3xture has better supporting utility, while still doing statiscally worse than Zmjjkk both regionally and domestically, as well as losing h2h against Zmjjkk, as well as a worse peak performance, as well as less outside benefits towards the team, as well as a worse agent pool than Zmjjkk. What exactly makes t3xture the better player? Just because he got signed to a better team that got better performances?

Well if t3xture performed to a similar level over more rounds and matches with a good team compared to KK with significantly less rounds and a bad team, and then performed BETTER than KK over less rounds when KK had a good team, what exactly makes KK the better player? Just because KK had roughly similar stats when he had a worse team and played to a 5th amount of rounds compared to t3xture? KK got his good team, got a guy with 0.49 APR (the 2nd highest APR in the tournament) and ended up performing worse than t3xture at the stats game.

So are we serious? What else?

bro the entire team was ass at Shanghai you don't have to be a genius to see that a 9-26 loss to heretics and a 17-26 loss to PRX is a pretty bad performance. alternatively you can watch the games, i'm not saying kangkang was the worst player on the team but he wasn't exactly performing super well either.
kangkang and his entire team performed poorly at shanghai, especially after they had just won regionals. kangkang was underrated at madrid and he was good at champs, although i personally believe chichoo was the real standout player at that tournament