'Smash Bros' Community Rolls Its Eyes After Top Player MKLeo Hacked By NFT Shillers

It's been a relatively difficult past month for Super Smash Brothers champion MKLeo. After two years in which he almost never finished less than second in a major tournament, Leo came in 4th and 3rd place at the previous two Smash Ultimate majors, Summit and Glitch.

This led the typically hyperbolic Smash community to wonder what was "wrong" with Leo. Had players finally figured out the counterplay to his beloved main, Byleth? Should he pick up a new character? Or perhaps return to his old one, Joker?

Yesterday, he appeared poised to answer those questions when he teased, "Big announcement coming…" With fans ready to see how Leo would shape the future of Smash, he instead appeared to deliver this:

As it turned out, MKLeo was not using his Twitter account to shill NFTs. In reality, he was hacked by a group of scammers posing as the Possessed NFT group, hijacking his account to direct people to mint NFTs from the actual Possessed NFT project.

It seems like very few people, if anyone, in the community took the bait. As arguably the most widely known professional Smash Ultimate player right now, Leo has never come across as a "crypto guy" on his Twitter account or his Twitch and YouTube channels. Mostly, he just talks about the game and his love of K-Pop group Red Velvet. His coach L4ST also quickly got the word out that his account was compromised.

Hey guys, Leo’s twitter got hacked

Please ignore anything that he says on here for the time being :)

(Also RT for awareness) https://t.co/HAM8Ixa30V pic.twitter.com/vu77AOVdo8

— LIQUID L4st (@L4st_v1) March 28, 2022

With the scam nearly instantly blown up, the Smash community took to good-naturedly memeing on the situation.

The hacker threatened to leak my DMs with MkLeo so I'm going to get ahead of the curve here and leak them myself pic.twitter.com/mWbe2WaMBd

— Haz (@HazmattRules) March 28, 2022

>crypto company infiltrates the Smash community
>Hbox gets mindcontrolled into shilling the crypto company
>MKLeo’s acct gets hacked pic.twitter.com/sKs2vrDeVF

— Parappa (@Parappa_GANG) March 28, 2022

whoever hacked mkleo’s twitter is FOUL😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/IMNAXkqXsH

— KUSARI 🌸💘 (@kusaribruh) March 28, 2022

This who hacked mkleo pic.twitter.com/ICSSaZ9V0A

— Arion (@arionArion_) March 29, 2022

Earlier today, Leo got his account back and set the record straight.

Hello there, this is mkleo speaking, just wanna say FUCK NFT and fuck whoever did this, finally got my account back, if you dont believe ask me something only the real Leo would know. Thank you for spreading the word, love you all ❤️

— T1 | MkLeo (@Mkleosb) March 29, 2022