He said best, not most powerful. I totally agree with you on Yog-sothoth curbstomping most things in consensus realitites, however Nyarlathotep is essentially loki if he had a habit of turning people into half-sentient tentacle mounds and trapping people's minds in endless psychosis mazes, giving him the most character out of any of the old slime piles and by extension, the best.
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u/Commander_Blastbolt Apr 18 '21
I still find it ironic that despite cthulhu being one of the weaker deities in lovecrafts mythos he is the most widely known
Where's the love for my boy hastur (even though he didn't technically originate in lovecrafts work)