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Unfortunately, the following season saw MkLeo's performances become inconsistent once again. Starting on a positive note, there were a few highlights his season: he started it off the year with a good performance at {{Trn|Luminosity Makes BIG Moves 2024}}, where he defeated Sparg0 to place 4th. In addition, his saw his best performance of the year at {{Trn|King Con}}, where he defeated Raflow and Sparg0 twice to win the event, marking his first major win since GENESIS 9. Finally, he saw additional strong runs at the superregional {{Trn|Bonito Harbor}} and the supermajor {{Trn|Collision 2024}}, events where he was able to claim some solid wins. | Unfortunately, the following season saw MkLeo's performances become inconsistent once again. Starting on a positive note, there were a few highlights his season: he started it off the year with a good performance at {{Trn|Luminosity Makes BIG Moves 2024}}, where he defeated Sparg0 to place 4th. In addition, his saw his best performance of the year at {{Trn|King Con}}, where he defeated Raflow and Sparg0 twice to win the event, marking his first major win since GENESIS 9. Finally, he saw additional strong runs at the superregional {{Trn|Bonito Harbor}} and the supermajor {{Trn|Collision 2024}}, events where he was able to claim some solid wins. | ||
However, these positives failed to balance out MkLeo's lows, some of which were arguably | However, these positives failed to balance out MkLeo's lows, some of which were arguably the worst performances of his entire ''Ultimate'' career. He followed LMBM with a disastrous performance at {{Trn|GENESIS X}}, where he was infamously upset in pools by {{Sm|Titan}} 2-1. Despite making a strong Loser's run, he was ultimately eliminated by {{Sm|Gackt}} 3-1 to place 25th, the first GENESIS event where he failed to make Grand Finals, much less win the event. Further hurting his season was his second-ever trip to Japan: although he arguably performed better than his last trip, he still failed to make top 8 at both Golden Week supermajors, placing 9th at {{Trn|DELTA 8}} and 25th at {{Trn|Kagaribi 12}}; yet another infamous set took place at the latter event, where MkLeo saw himself get reverse three-stocked twice against his set against {{Sm|Snow|p=Japan}}, leading many to question the decisions he made during the set. Finally, his performances in North America remained incredibly mixed, as he had underwhelming runs at the major {{Trn|Battle of BC 6}} and the superregional {{Trn|Diamond Dust}} and a relatively poor run at invitational {{Trn|The Luminosity Invitational}}, where he ultimately went 2-3 defeating only Dabuz and {{Sm|Hungrybox}}. Diamond Dust notably saw the debut of MkLeo's {{SSBU|Roy}}, which initially impressed players due to MkLeo's quick mastery of the character. However, subsequent usage of Roy after Diamond Dust fell short, as he has yet to win a set with Roy since. With MkLeo's overall record against the top 10 remaining abysmal, with Sparg0 being his sole top 10 win, hope for an MkLeo resurgance dwindled once again, with some players questioning whether MkLeo was even top 20 that season. | ||
==Rankings== | ==Rankings== | ||