History of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Leaks

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"EVERYONE IS HERE"? more like, EVERYONE IS LEAKED!...
Cause yeah... pretty much every character was leaked...

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Links and stuff:

0:00 - Intro
1:53 - Pre-reveal
7:35 - Pre-launch
21:43 - Post-launch (DLC leaks)
33:32 - Post-DLC
34:32 - Vergeben Lightning Round
36:40 - Outro, consider subscribing! :)

#SmashBros #SmashUltimate #SSBU

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Music used:

1 - "Cranky's Theme" (Donkey Kong Country)
2 - "Cranky's Theme" (Donkey Kong Country Returns)
3 - "South Province (Riding)" (Pokémon Scarlet & Violet)
4 - "Levincia" (Pokémon Scarlet & Violet)
5 - "Mesagoza (Riding)" (Pokémon Scarlet & Violet)
6 - "Montenerva" (Pokémon Scarlet & Violet)
7 - "Cascaraffa" (Pokémon Scarlet & Violet)
8 - "Los Platos / Cortondo" (Pokémon Scarlet & Violet)
9 - "Battle! Eastern Pokémon" (Pokémon Scarlet & Violet)
10 - "Pokémon Center" (Pokémon Scarlet & Violet)

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Giant list of Sources:

[PJiggles]

13:37 - WHOOPSIE I completely misread "aerials" as "specials" lol, so the leaker was 100% right. Guess I can be as blind as Nintendo sometimes

[MoonGhostDoodles]

Pretty sure the Spirits poor blurring thing was intentional. When people were able to decipher what it said it was a major topic of discussion for a while there. It’s common for companies to leave breathing room for speculation like that. Especially here since the name didn’t reveal much outside of what the mode was called.

[ODISeth]

A lotta folks hate fake leaks, but tbh I’m so happy that fake leaks exist because they make us doubt and not care about leaks that wind up being real. If it weren’t for fake leaks, we never woulda thought that the piranha plant leak was fake, and likely woulda had that spoiled for us

[HeyoImKaGo]

Man the Grinch leak was an interesting character

[declanmcsherry]

At like 13:50 the leaker said Isabelle’s aerials we’re the same as villagers, not her specials.

[FletcherReedsRandomness]

I am so glad Sephiroth never got leaked, because that was easily the biggest “holy crap NOBODY expected that” moment in the game for me. Ridley, Banjo and Sora were all great surprises, but people requested them so much that they were mostly shocking in that they actually happened. I only ever heard Sephiroth mentioned in passing like “yeah he’d be cool”, so him actually showing up completely caught me by surprise.

[BlackCatCards]

Little known fact: files pertaining to a ponytail were leaked before Joker came out. Joker obviously doesn’t have a ponytail and it’s not Morgana’s tail either. At the time, Kasumi (a character exclusive to the then-upcoming Persona 5 Royal) was teased. People speculated at the ponytail was a Kasumi alt for Joker and that Kasumi was meant to be a female protag for P5R

[Ludvix]

i remember when everyone lost their crap when they saw sora in the code but its just sakurais company lmao

[skorie]

I'd love a video on fake leaks as well, even though they're random BS I like looking at them like this alternate universe of what people thought Smash Ultimate would be

[MyPamn]

To be fair on the Golden Sun thing, the growth icon you showed is for the third game. The original one is closer to the healing sprout
Also that's not Isaac, that's his son

[AgentKyo]

To this day, I am so glad that Sephiroth never got leaked.

It made his reveal one of the best, if not the best, character reveal of all time.

[thisbox]

Awhile back, for some odd reason, the Smash Ultimate page briefly had 12 DLC slots instead of 6.
I don't have any surviving images back when it happened, but as far as I'm aware, it was a pretty brief bug, probably leaking the 2nd Fighter's Pass by accident.
I'm not aware of a single other person who did see it happen, sadly.

[mrcool]

i find it hilarious that the more famous Ken leak was the one that was fake and then the real one was just in the shadows

[HaitaniMasayuki]

10:30 about the "Spirits Leak" - the main issue that was going on here was, that the whole menu was scrolled into frame, but the pixelation effect was lagging like two frames behind the scrolling animation. So, essentially when it was scrolling in you could clearly read the un-censored text "Spirits" for two frames at the edge of the screen.
The pixellation effect itself was good, it was just rendered too late :D

[TheLobsterCopter]

Sometimes I forget that World of Light is even a thing in Ultimate because it left so little an impact on me compared to the Subspace Emissary. So thanks to this video for reminding me of it I guess...

[hylianmono]

Sora being the last fighter was such a YouTube Moment

[StickMaster]

Whenever Smash 6 gets announced, it’s going to be interesting to see what kind of leaks people will spread whether they’re real or fake

[GlorySnowstar]

Man this takes me back, this was FIVE YEARS AGO! FIVE!
I remember listening nonstop to Grinch Leak stuff while decorating for Halloween, fully buying all of it because of that green pixel near Isabelle… or was it Little Mac? Funny enough I originally thought it was fake, THEN became convinced it was 100% real.
Ever since then I’ve had a little Grinch plushie in my room, and he once had a leaky water bottle beside him wrapped in tinfoil. Memories :)

[WhimsicottFanatic]

I don't know for certain if it was _The_ original post, but I do recall once seeing a screenshot of the Ken post which actually had the text

It just said 'ken'
Genuinely the best leak as a result, comedically but respectably straight to the point

[OddDuck]

1:50 I didn’t believe the leak that said *MARIO* would be in smash ultimate, but it actually turned out to be TRUE! 🤯