Smash Bros pro Leffen gives his secrets to improving at Ultimate TSMSuper Smash Brothers pro William \u2018Leffen\u2019 Hjelte provided his best tips to not just get good at Smash, but any game. The 24-year-old Swede, who recently came first in Melee at Super Smash Con, sat down with Team SoloMid to name tricks that have worked for him and should apply for any up-and-coming player. Given Leffen\u2019s long history of success in multiple games, it\u2019s clear that he\u2019s speaking from experience. \u201cReally these tips are for anyone trying to improve at any competitive game or sport or chess,\u201d the former Evo-winner said. \u201cI\u2019ve played a lot of different games and these tips kinda apply to all of them.\u201d The first tip Hjelte provides is \u201cplay a lot of games\u201d as in \u201cplay a lot of matches as often as you can and get that experience in.\u201d \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people who go to these types of videos that kinda look for a shortcut,\u201d the Dragon Ball FighterZ player explained. \u201cEveryone who gets good has been in a lot of matches. They\u2019ve put in a lot of time.\u201d The next tip Leffen gives is \u201cgo to tournaments.\u201d Due to Smash\u2019s weak online play, going to local tournaments is key according to the TSM legend. In order to get used to formats, stages and other rules, going to tournaments and putting yourself in that environment is a must. Leffen\u2019s next tip is to watch game footage. This is a more advanced tip to players who have played a lot and want to take their game to the next level. By evaluating footage, you can spot mistakes, learn from opponents, research habits, etc. \u201cSee what other people are doing better than you, watch your own matches after you lose, after you win\u2026no one is going to make you a good player. You\u2019re gonna have to learn by yourself and sometimes you destroy your friends, right and you think you\u2019re the best in the world. If you go to tournaments you\u2019ll quickly see that\u2019s not true. You\u2019re gonna have to look at your matches\u2026 the more you watch the more you actively try to think about what you\u2019re doing and why you\u2019re doing it.\u201d The Swedish pro\u2019s penultimate tip is to get your mentality in check and know how you deal with nerves. \u201cThis isn\u2019t a unique problem to Smash\u201d, Leffen explained. \u201cIt\u2019s a part of competition in general. People are always nervous. Even top athletes are nervous. People miss more free throws in the NBA finals than they do in practice. That\u2019s just how it is. Pressure will always be there.\u201d According to Leffen, understanding that everyone gets nervous and figuring out how to handle it is a must. Asking others how they deal with nerves, like taking a break or focusing before a match will give you an advantage. The final tip he gives is to get your shit and your life together. \u201cOnce you have all these other things you can clearly notice when someone is putting in the work\u2026 you\u2019re going to have to live a stable, pretty consistent lifestyle if you want to be one of the absolute top players.\u201d \u201cIf you want to make it long term and if you want to compete with the absolute best people, and even if you just want to live a better life, you\u2019re going to have to have set routines, you\u2019re going to have to make sure you don\u2019t burn yourself out, you don\u2019t look at social media too much after your loses\u2026you need to get your shit together and you need to work on your own weaknesses.\u201d Leffen goes on to add that sometimes your biggest problem holding you back could be your daily life. Sometimes your issues in-game are attributed to factors outside of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Smash Bros pro Leffen gives his secrets to improving at Ultimate TSMSuper Smash Brothers pro William \u2018Leffen\u2019 Hjelte provided his best tips to not just get good at Smash, but any game. The 24-year-old Swede, who recently came first in Melee at Super Smash Con, sat down with Team SoloMid to name tricks that have […]<\/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-66976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66976","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=66976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}