Leffen

Leffen
Leffen
	Leffen at the tournament Heir 5 in Oadby in August 2018
Current team
Team	Team SoloMid
Game	Fighting games
Personal information
Name	William Peter Hjelte
Nickname(s)	God Slayer; Villain of Super Smash Bros.
Born	16 October 1994 (age 29)
Nationality	Swedish
Career information
Games	Super Smash Bros. Melee ; Guilty Gear Strive ; Project M ; Super Smash Bros. Ultimate ; Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 ; Dragon Ball FighterZ
Playing career	2011–present
Team history
2015–present	Team SoloMid
Career highlights and awards
	Super Smash Bros. Melee 2× B.E.A.S.T champion (2014-2015); 2× Super Smash Con champion (2015), (2019); Community Effort Orlando champion (2015); HTC Throwdown Champion (2015); 2× DreamHack champion (2016), (2018); 2× Get On My Level champion (2016, 2017); EVO champion (2018); Battle of BC 4 Champion (2022); LACS 5 Champion (2023); Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DreamHack Winter champion (2019); Guilty Gear Strive EVO champion (2023);

William Peter Hjelte (born 16 October 1994), better known by his gamer tag Leffen, is a Swedish professional fighting game player and streamer. Although mostly known as a Super Smash Bros. Melee player, he has also competed in Dragon Ball FighterZ, Guilty Gear Strive, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. In Melee, Hjelte plays the character Fox, and is considered one of the best players in the world, having been ranked as one of the top seven Melee players in the world every year since 2014.^[1] A 2021 list compiled by PGStats ranked Hjelte as the sixth greatest Melee player of all time.^[2]

A Super Smash Bros. competitive player since 2009, he rose to international success in 2014, becoming the first player to beat each of the "Five Gods of Melee" —Armada, Mew2King, Hungrybox, Mang0, and PPMD— in tournaments over the course of his career (a feat only accomplished since by Plup), earning him the nickname of "God Slayer". He has won many tournaments ranked as majors in his career, starting with the Swedish tournament B.E.A.S.T 4 in 2014, which saw him become the first person other than one of the Five Gods to win a major since 2008. Since then, some of his most notable tournament wins include the 2015 and 2019 editions of Super Smash Con, CEO 2015, and Evo 2018.^[3] Since Armada's retirement in 2018, Leffen has been considered the undisputed best Melee player in Europe.^[4]

Although recognized as one of the best players in Melee history and having a dedicated fan base, Leffen has also been considered one of the most controversial and polarizing players in Super Smash Bros. history, due in part to accusations of aggressive and anti-social behavior— which resulted in a temporary ban from the Swedish competitive Melee scene in 2013. As a result, he has been referred to as the "Villain of Super Smash Bros."

^ Lee, Daniel (18 December 2014). "Melee It On Me - SSBM Rank 2014 (6)". Melee It On Me. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
^ "The Melee Stats Top 100: The Top 10". PGstats. 22 November 2021. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
^ "Ultimate SSBM Rank". 25 November 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
^ Baer, Bob (26 January 2021). "Valhalla Online a showcase for top EU Melee player Leffen, online software Slippi". Retrieved 9 December 2021.

[1] Lee, Daniel (18 December 2014). "Melee It On Me - SSBM Rank 2014 (6)". Melee It On Me. Retrieved 7 February 2015.

[2] "The Melee Stats Top 100: The Top 10". PGstats. 22 November 2021. Retrieved 22 November 2021.

[3] "Ultimate SSBM Rank". 25 November 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2017.

[4] Baer, Bob (26 January 2021). "Valhalla Online a showcase for top EU Melee player Leffen, online software Slippi". Retrieved 9 December 2021.

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