Smash Bros legend Leffen goes undefeated in Guilty Gear Strive at EVO 2023 EVO | TwitchThough he put himself on the map as a Smash Bros player, Leffen has managed to take the EVO 2023 title for Guilty Gear Strive in decisive fashion. William \u2018Leffen\u2019 Hjelte has been competing for a long, long time. Though much of his career saw him being a competitor in Smash Bros, he\u2019s been able to transition over to Guilty Gear and, after a great deal of practice, managed to take home a win at EVO 2023. Leffen\u2019s been an incredibly strong Guilty Gear player since 2021 and managed to take the EVO 2021 online title. However, at in-person tournaments with international representatives, he\u2019s always fallen just short. With a third-place finish at both EVO 2022 and Combo Breaker 2023, he was hungry for a big international win. Not only did he get that win at EVO 2023: He dominated on his way to the trophy. Leffen dominates Guilty Gear Strive at EVO 2023 Though Leffen made a name for himself across several Smash Bros. titles, his transfer to Guilty Gear Strive has been a successful one. These two games are completely different but Leffen\u2019s wealth of stage experience with Smash seems to have served him well in getting to the top of Guilty Gear. Cloud9\u2019s Joseph \u2018Mang0\u2019 Marquez, a longtime rival of Leffen\u2019s, was jokingly praying on Leffen\u2019s downfall through the entire tournament, cursing him in an attempt to throw him off. However, Mang0\u2019s attempts to throw Leffen off of having an extremely dominant winner\u2019s bracket run in Guilty Gear Strive weren\u2019t successful. He didn\u2019t drop a single set. This also makes Leffen one of few players to ever have taken an EVO title in two different games, making him a legendary competitor within the scene. He had some choice words for Mang0 following his win. With how dominant Leffen\u2019s win was, it\u2019ll take some serious practice for another competitor to come close to beating him if he maintains this form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Smash Bros legend Leffen goes undefeated in Guilty Gear Strive at EVO 2023 EVO | TwitchThough he put himself on the map as a Smash Bros player, Leffen has managed to take the EVO 2023 title for Guilty Gear Strive in decisive fashion. William \u2018Leffen\u2019 Hjelte has been competing for a long, long time. Though […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}