Smasher:MVD

MVD is a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate player from Manhattan, New York, who is currently residing in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is considered one of the best Snake players in the world. MVD is currently ranked 41st on the Wi-Fi Warrior Rank v7, 2nd on the Las Vegas Ultimate Power Rankings, 33rd on the OrionRank 2022 North America, 53rd on the UltRank 2022, and 60th on the OrionRank 2022; he was also formerly ranked 1st on the Oklahoma Ultimate Power Rankings. He has defeated players such as, , , , , , and.

In Smash 4, MVD was a player, and was considered one of the best Diddy Kong players in the world after 's retirement (along with ). MVD was ranked 2nd on the final Oklahoma Smash 4 Power Rankings and 31st on the Panda Global Rankings 100; he was also formerly ranked 1st on the South Florida Smash 4 Power Rankings. He has taken sets off of top players such as, , , , , , , and.

In Brawl, MVD is a player, and was considered one of the best Snakes in North America later in the game's life. MVD was formerly ranked 9th on the 2018-2019 SSBBRank and was ranked 1st on the final Florida Brawl Power Rankings (right below ESAM, who held the 0 spot).

MVD regularly teams with ESAM in doubles, and the pair are considered one of the best Doubles teams in the world.

MVD has joined and left a couple of esports teams throughout his career, including and. He signed with Stride Esports on September 8, 2023.

Playstyle
MVD plays Snake differently from other notable Snake players. He tends to use aggression by setting up as many grenades and C4s as possible and consistently looks for opportunities to frame trap his opponent or lead them into his C4 planted on the ground. MVD also is known to combo off of the grenade’s explosive knockback, leading into high damaging confirms and sequences. MVD frequently uses snake’s tilts, aerials, and dash attack as burst options to throw his opponent back in disadvantage whenever they try to approach or punish him. His defense is also noted for being one of the strongest among Snake’s in that he creates a tough wall of projectiles for his opponents to think about while at the same time think about approaching him. MVD is also known to memorize various character’s effects after down throw so he can confirm down throw forward tilt on them or when they are at 160%, he can guarantee an up tilt after down throw.

However, MVD tends to struggle when he is in disadvantage or when his opponents find a way in. His predictable grenade out of disadvantage or air dodge is often called out by opponents, allowing his landing to be hard punished by most players, such as, , , and more. He also struggles against other players who tend to use his grenades against him or other projectiles that interrupt his gameplan.

Controversy
On July 2nd, 2020, amidst a wave of sexual harassment allegations in the community, a girl named Kaitlyn, going by the Twitter handle KTDominate, posted in a Twitlonger that D1 had raped her while she was drunk during and told all of his friends about the experience. Around the same time, would come out with a screenshot from anonymous user who not only claimed that D1 had sex with KTDominate, but that MVD provided her with alcohol. Both KTDominate and MVD have denied this, although MVD admitted he knew KTDominate was intoxicated but stated that he tried to stop her.

Trivia

 * MVD is known for his presence on social media:
 * He is known for defending Lylat Cruise as a stage, popularizing the phrase "Lylat is beautiful and perfect" in Twitter, which he posts almost on a daily basis as a response to the stage's mixed reception.
 * During Brawl's lifetime, he was also known for popularizing the hashtag "#SnakeSucks", which he used on several Facebook statuses, even those unrelated to Smash.
 * His heavy and creative usage of Rocketbarrel Boost at CEO 2015 earned him the title of "The Barrel Technician".
 * MVD was an employee at Arcade Odyssey, where he participates at local smash tournaments held at the arcade, and is currently known as the face of the arcade.
 * MVD initially started a gaming channel on Youtube called "Games Over Easy" alongside fellow Smash professional ESAM, but has been largely inactive since 2019 after rebranding it to be his own channel.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

 * Set vs. Ally at SKTAR 2