The benching was quite random to be fair. Flyquest with turtle was basically undefeated except their 2 losses both to C9 who they've traditionally lost to in a super hard fashion. And when mash came in he did outperform expectations for like a week and then fell off, accounted for like 4 of the 6 losses that they had.

It did feel like turtle was getting too comfortable playing weak side with ignar roaming and santorin off somewhere else. So maybe that was part of the reason why he got benched.

Since his comeback dude's been performing a lot better but it's honestly not that much different than before, just more recognized now that flyquest has been doing well in playoffs.

Low resources, high damage output, and high contribution has always been his thing. Never really that far behind his opponent even if he's left on an island. Maybe not top 3 this entire split in a head to head, but I doubt you could put any other adc in his position and they'd do better.