If an artist has one album that clearly better than the rest of their albums, does that hurt their discography?

For example, Gza and Ghostface are most commonly considered the two best emcees in Wu-Tang. Probably about 95% of people think Liquid Swords is Gza's best album, even though he has a lot of great albums. For Ghostface, people are usually split between Ironman and Supreme Clientele, or even Fishscale. Their discographies all together are both very strong, and I would say they're about equal in comparison to one another, yet whenever people argue why one or the other as the best member of Wu-Tang, for Gza it's primarily based on the strength of Liquid Swords alone, and for Ghostface the strength of his entire discography is usually brought up. If Liquid Swords was slightly worse, and one of his other albums was a little better, causing more debate over his best album, would Gza's discography seem better?