Has he beaten Serral yet? Serral has a 75% match score vs Maru. Innovation on the other hand took WESG from Serral before the brood/infestor/queen/creep nerfs.
He’s definitely #2, but Innovation is definitely #1. You can see that with this statistical test:
This chart also shows why Protoss don’t win tournaments. The best that Protoss has to offer is Zest, and he scores 2.6 compared to Dark’s 5.1, Innovation’s 4.2, and Maru’s 4.0. These are z scores which are exponential, so 2.6 is drastically lower performance than 4+. Zest has an ~8% chance to beat Serral. Yeah, Protoss are going to take a lot of second place trophies, which is exactly what happened the past 5 or so years.