Editing Smasher:Leffen

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'''Leffen''' is a professional smasher from Stockholm, Sweden. He is currently considered to be one of the best ''[[Melee]]'' players in the world and the best player in Europe. He started off as a {{SSBM|Falco}} main<!--Leffen has stated multiple times that he has never mained Yoshi-->, but later switched to {{SSBM|Fox}}, and is now known as one of the best and most technical Fox players in the world and one of the best {{SSBM|Sheik}} players in the world, using Sheik as a counterpick to {{SSBM|Marth}}. He is the first of only two players in competitive ''Melee'' history to have taken a set off of each of the [[Five Gods]] (the other being {{Sm|Plup}}), and has often been called a god himself since his ascent in 2014. Leffen is currently ranked 1st on the [[Swedish Power Rankings|Swedish Melee Power Rankings]]. He is also an honorable mention on the [[SSBMRank 2023]] and [[EURank 2023]].

In February 2013, a group of prominent TOs and community members (led by Armada) announced that [[#Ban from European tournaments & Evidence.zip|Leffen was banned]] was from many European tournaments due to his conduct. As a result, he only attended three tournaments for the rest of year. His most significant result was at {{Trn|EVO 2013}}, where he defeated {{Sm|PewPewU}} before losing to Hungrybox and {{Sm|Shroomed}} in losers to place 9th, his strongest placing at an American tournament to date. He and {{Sm|Ice}} scored an upset victory in doubles against eventual victors {{Sm|Mew2King}} and {{Sm|Hungrybox}}; the European team went on to place 5th.

Leffen's visa was finally accepted on October 3rd, 2016, allowing him to compete in the US again.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230808025130/https://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/17705825/leffen-receives-visa-allowed-return-usa-compete-smash-tournaments|title=Leffen receives athlete visa, approved to compete in the US}}</ref> Leffen's first tournament back in the US was {{Trn|The Big House 6}}, where he elected to [[sandbagging|sandbag]] with secondaries, placing 17th. He ended the year ranked 5th on the [[SSBMRank 2016]], largely due to his lack of attendance compared to the other top players.

After finally returning to full-time competition, Leffen was unable to replicate his dominance of 2015. While still regarded as a tournament threat, he failed to win a major throughout 2017 and the first half of 2018, ending 2017 ranked 6th on the [[SSBMRank 2017]]. Leffen additionally began competing in other fighting games at this time, including ''{{iw|wikipedia|DragonBall FighterZ}}''.

Leffen was one of the top players most heavily affected by the [[COVID-19]] pandemic, due to his location in Europe. He was unable to enter many North American online events, as they were often region-locked for European players due to high ping issues. During this time, Leffen was perceived to be a top three player in the world, alongside Zain and Mang0, but it was difficult to compare his skill against other players due to a lack of results.

He received an automatic invite to {{Trn|Smash Summit 11}}, the first post-pandemic LAN major, but was unable to attend due to further visa problems.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230808025905/https://dotesports.com/fgc/news/leffen-unable-to-attend-smash-summit-11-due-to-visa-issues|title=Leffen unable to attend Smash Summit 11 due to visa issues}}</ref> As such, in 2021, he attended only one tournament in North America: {{Trn|Smash Summit 12}}, where he placed 5th.

Leffen began entering more North American events starting in 2022; by this time, he also had picked up another fighting game, ''{{iw|Wikipedia|Guilty Gear Strive}}'', and competed in that title full time alongside ''Melee''. Despite splitting time between the two titles, Leffen still proved that he was capable of winning a major and defeating the best players in the world. His first post-lockdown victory came at {{Trn|Battle of BC 4}}, where he beat {{Sm|aMSa}}, Hungrybox, and Zain twice. In 2023, he won {{Trn|Ludwig Ahgren Championship Series 5}}, where after losing to {{Sm|Joshman}} and {{Sm|Cody Schwab}} in pools, he managed to make it out of the Swiss bracket and into winners' top 16. He beat Hungrybox 3-0, Zain 3-2, Cody Schwab in winners' finals, and Zain once again in the runback.

Upon ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''{{'}}s release, Leffen often streamed the game and offered his own opinion on the meta. He was one of the early pioneers of using {{SSBU|Pokémon Trainer}} and has since used the character successfully in tournaments. Leffen briefly dropped Pokémon Trainer in favor of {{SSBU|Roy}} and {{SSBU|Pichu}} in April 2019, citing that Pokémon Trainer was not worth the effort, but he would eventually return to the character. Leffen also began labbing Joker upon his release and discovered an [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFDh3c_6JmI infinite lock technique] performed by repeatedly using short-hopped {{Mvsub|Joker|SSBU|up aerial}}s under the opponent while the opponent is on top of a platform. The technique has since been named "Leffoble" in honor of him.

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On 9th February 2013, Leffen was banned from Swedish ''Smash'' tournaments following extensive evidence of abuse towards various players in the scene.<ref>[https://smashboards.com/threads/leffen-is-banned.333990/ Original ban post]</ref> Alongside the ban, {{Sm|Armada}} provided a large "Evidence.zip"<ref>[https://archive.org/details/evidence_202009 Original Evidence.zip (Posts Only)]</ref> featuring three documents; one 54-page Word document archiving numerous [[SmashBoards]] posts, one 14-page document of Swedish forum posts, and a miscellaneous archive compiled by {{Sm|Mike Haggar}} including SmashBoards and SmashFinland posts.

# Freezing people out of conversations through ignoring them, standing in front of them in conversation, and talking over them when doing so; the person this was done against was notably disturbed by this behaviour. Made fun of this individual's hearing disabilities.

The discussion group announcing his ban compiled a significant amount of evidence of his poor behavior into a downloadable archive, and demanded that Leffen create a lengthy apology about all of his wrongdoings and how he would change his behavior in the future, should he return to the community. On March 21st, 2013, [http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rjbt3e Leffen made his public statement asking for forgiveness]; despite this, he was not immediately unbanned, and ended up missing almost one year's worth of local tournaments.

In January 2024, alongside a ban appeal,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR9A70YKxf4&ab_channel=Hax%24Archive Hax$'s January 2024 Ban Appeal]</ref> {{Sm|Hax$}} leaked the 2013 Evidence.zip testimonies.<ref>[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YgdxjDbB1nN8lxghXrrBP2oxAmaDGQGC Evidence.zip Testimonies]</ref> This was done under the justification of being the only remaining community member still holding them, and seeking to preserve the archive. Out of the nine testimonies, seven were revealed, with two being held back due to their particularly sensitive natures.

In December 2020, {{Sm|Samox}} released a documentary titled [[Metagame (documentary)|Metagame]], compiling the history of the ''Melee'' metagame and following up from [[The Smash Brothers]]. In this documentary, Evidence.zip is mentioned when discussing Leffen, but was cut from later releases following criticism from Leffen himself. To make up for it, in June 2021, a bonus episode titled "Godslayer" was released, which portrayed Leffen in a more positive light. This move was blasted by Hax$, accusing the Metagame documentary of being "censored" due to manipulation from Leffen,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msy4E3ScZVk "evidence.zip 3"]</ref> in addition to numerous other allegations against Leffen's character. He evidenced this with the unusual timing of the situation, given Leffen's tweets blasting the Metagame documentary on his end.

In January 2024, Samox released a statement.<ref>[https://twitter.com/_samox_/status/1750634235461865944 Samox's Statement regarding Metagame's portrayal of Leffen]</ref> He notes that the Evidence.zip mentions total 20 seconds, that his portrayal of Leffen was hardly positive, and, most notably, that someone threatened to sue him for the use of the Evidence.zip content. He specifically noted that Leffen wasn't the party who threatened to sue.

Despite focusing on ''Ultimate'' for a year, Leffen has been openly critical about the game, even going as far as to say that playing top-level ''Ultimate'' "is just pure fucking torture to me."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/TSM_Leffen/status/1200853073935159301|title=Leffen's Tweet before DreamHack Winter 2019}}</ref> As a result, he has butted heads with several other ''Ultimate'' professionals. Most notably, on September 26th, 2020, he argued with {{Sm|Rickles}} that streaming ''Ultimate'' was painful to him, that he would "rather flip burgers at [sic] mcdonalds if it paid the same amount," and that streaming ''Ultimate'' was harder than holding a minimum wage job.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/TSM_Leffen/status/1310010198002728961|title=Flipping Burgers Tweet}}</ref> This Tweet was met with backlash and mockery from the community: users noted the difficulty of minimum wage jobs especially during the COVID-19 pandemic while several Smashers such as {{Sm|Axe}} recounted how they hated working at their minimum wage jobs before they went professional. The Tweet eventually caused "Leffen" to trend on Twitter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/iamrickles/status/1310586002747076609|title=Archived Minimum Wage Tweet}}</ref> Leffen would later delete and apologize for his minimum wage Tweet.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/TSM_Leffen/status/1310482233170579456|title=Leffen apologizing for his Tweet}}</ref>

On July 2nd, 2020, amidst a wave of sexual harassment allegations in the community, artist Jisu posted a tweet where she called out ZeRo for showing her hentai and explicit Craigslist ads when she was 15.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/JisuArtist/status/1278843558401675264|title=Jisu's statement}}</ref> ZeRo later responded, admitting that he looked at hentai but denied that he had shown it to her, nor would he show it to an entire room of people. He also denied showing her the ads.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQJpUoVhxCgh9_75K8WAYN56d5yvxINwy3c3fPFCMkoEnThJs4qSIk0GY0T8AJ0T_ySDGxhrixCs0ng/pub|title=ZeRo's response to Jisu}}</ref> Following this defense, many people started to target Jisu for "clout-chasing." Leffen however would defend Jisu's claims by claiming that he saw ZeRo show people hentai in public, a statement that was backed up by a screenshot from an anonymous user later sent to Leffen.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sra9ee?new_post=true|title=https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sra9ee?new_post=true}}</ref> ZeRo would later confirm this and many other allegations made about him to be true several days later. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sraama|title=ZeRo's final statement}}</ref>

On September 9, 2022, ZeRo would release a video where he accuses Leffen as the biggest instigator during the allegations made against him, as he claimed Leffen lied about a story regarding ZeRo sharing hentai with Leffen and Japanese players when they housed together for {{Trn|Apex 2013}}, and also accused ZeRo for exchanging hentai with fans without verifying their age. A fan that ZeRo sent hentai to would add an addendum to their statement saying while ZeRo had sent her hentai without confirming their age, they were an adult at the time and also requested ZeRo send it to them.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/SHSLRuby/status/1408539105743474692|title=Clarification on Leffen accusation from fan}}</ref> ZeRo ultimately accused Leffen for profiting off the drama while tarnishing ZeRo's name in the process.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADUYFK-KJng|title=THE LAWSUIT IS OVER}}</ref>

**Leffen has also been compared to {{iw|bulbapedia|Gary Oak}} from the ''Pokémon'' anime due to their similar personality and appearance.

**At {{Trn|DreamHack Winter 2015}}, where he defeated {{Sm|SFAT}} in a money match 5-1.

*Outside of ''Smash'', Leffen has competed in both ''Dragon Ball FighterZ'' and ''Guilty Gear: Strive'' events. He is currently the only ''Smasher'' who was invited to a non-''Smash''-related Summit event (''DBFZ''{{'}}s [https://start.gg/tournament/summit-of-power/events Summit of Power]), as well as the only player to win an official EVO event for both platform and traditional fighting games (having also won [https://www.start.gg/tournament/evo-2023/details EVO 2023] for ''Guilty Gear: Strive''). He has since retired from ''Dragon Ball FighterZ'', citing Toei's meddling in tournaments, and Arc System Works's way of patching as the two reasons he does not enjoy the game anymore.

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