Who are the top 5 controllers of all time?
I feel like that for every role there is at least 2 players that are clearly top 1 and 2, and we also have a good idea of who is in the top 5, its just the order that changes depending on personal opinion
But what about the Controllers? I think the most popular name for #1 is Mako, but who is next up? Is anyone close to him? Mako is not #1? Marved is the GOAT?
mako and karon are locks, no one else is. marved wasn't even that good for most of his career, his zeta game is hard carrying his reputation
Marved is carried by hype moments and aura, but honestly, at his prime in Optic days i thought he was more >impactful< than yay, at least in the games against LOUD
Karon is a good name, but would you put him ahead of Mako because of trophy? Pancada also won Champions with insane stats
what about boaster? plays controller and won 2 trophies and infinite domestic trophies. whether or not its because hes a great igl or because hes a great controller is indistinguishable.
Demon1 if you even consider him a controller player (he ain’t a duelist player)
idk who to put so
prime year > consistency over the years? The goat controller list feels so empty, the only one at Champs right now is Mako and the other one is a 30 year old british tiktok dancer
i was really considering 2023 mindfreak and 2025 keiko over tenz but i still think hes slightly better
you can use prime years too. I was just asking if you take more into account having higher peaks or playing consistently better for more time, in these goat lists. Individual performance (Mako) or trophies (Boaster)
i'd rather have a consistent player than 1 good player even though it contradicts what I originally said
I feel like a lot of flex and senti players have a decent number of games on controller as well, mainly viper but I assume you don't want to count players like Less, nAts, Chronicle, f0rsaken, etc. for this though (if you would all of those guys would be decent shouts imo)
only considering people who are or have for a long time been permanently on controller I would suggest the following names:
could definitely go with different names, Karon hasn't been in tier 1 super long but he's had 2 excellent seasons already so I thought wth why not
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