Well, yeah. Xinrithil also didn't use potions, so he died alot. And no offense to Xinrithil, but he's not Nep. Then again, are we really going to say Nep totally outclasses Twist when it comes to player skill, and that that's the reason Queliryon was able to beat Hunsobo? Or, similarly, that current-dagger-stsf guy's "victory" over current-fire-sword-guy was due to a big difference in player skill?

Now you can certainly argue that head-to-head matchup is a sort of meaningless metric, since maybe fire-sword-guy matches up better against all his other enemies than dagger-stsf-guy would against those same builds. I'm not entirely sure I'd agree (would have to think about it), but if true, that would mitigate the head-to-head thing.