Now that Team SoloMid failed to make it out of worlds yet again...

Pretty much this. And I think that goes for any degree of a noteworthy champion at their time. I can't imagine Faker being on another team and boom - instant World contenders. It doesn't work that way. Didn't work for Piglet, Impact, Easyhoon, especially Bengi. Where players are and go definitely matters in the long run of things.

You're right. The level of NA players and infrastructure is nowhere near those of KR. It may be hard to compare the two with the sheer difference in the two teams. And I'd also wager that not even Faker could solo carry TSM to the world finals. That being said, I want to point these things out:

1. Faker had one of the greatest possible teams around him, but among it he was always the best member, always carrying his team one way or another in ways his team needed him (ex. pure damage, amazing assassinations, 5 man shockwaves etc.). He was always the biggest part of his team's success, or at least one of the parts.
2. SKT was never directly involved with TSM's failure in worlds while they had Bjergsen. And he and his team failed to achieve internationally, where a lot of their direct competition had EU/LMS teams with similar levels of infrastructure and players. Sure his team may have held him back a lot, but it's also unfair to say that Bjergsen is 100% fault free, since they choked multiple times. So is Bjergsen a great player, one of the best in NA? Yes. But should he be hyped as much as Faker and inflated this much? Not in my opinion.

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I don’t agree or disagree, I just wanted to say this: Faker has always had the best team in League assembled around him. Faker is an outstanding player, but it’s hard to compare him to Bjergsen in a one-on-one case when the skill level of the teams as a whole just aren’t even close.

Dude, PLEASE Faker didn't always had the best players in the world in the other roles as teammates, SKT stayed consistently on top because Faker is the best player in the World

Bjergsen in the latest seasons has not played bad, but never gave TSM the extra push they needed at international level vs teams TSM could have been able to beat.

Faker vs Bjergsen comparison are absurd, Bjergsen is just not as dominant even when you look only at Western midlaners pool

To be fair, at least DL showed some aggression on his team. While I'm not going to say that bjerg was the reason they didn't make it out of groups (I'm blaming the entire team and their inability to have any proactive early games), I will say that their heavy reliance on their midlaner makes their games incredibly predictable. Much like C9, if their mid isn't 4-5 kills deep pre-20mins then they usually lack a win condi outside of 50-50 barons and punishing awkward mistakes by enemies.

I think I very clearly acknowledged that his team may very possibly hold him back, and that he's one of the best players in NA. This post is clearly not meant to lambaste him. You misunderstood the point of this post. I'm saying that while Bjergsen is a very good player, he doesn't deserve the incredibly inflated rating and hype that the lol esports staff gives him, putting him in equal grounds with Faker and calling him one of the absolute best players in the world. If anything its lambasting the lol esports staff, not him.

We hated him being called NA Faker back then too.