Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl/Helga Pataki

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Story

Move it football head!

With her great academics and being a rough and cynical young girl, Helga is the local bully of Arnold and friends around Hillwood. Despite this she secretly harbors a crush on Arnold to an obsessive point. You bet she can bully the competition in the brawl!

Gameplay

Helga is a glass-cannon who can hit hard, but at the cost of attack speed. Like any bully hounding you for your lunch money, Helga thrives on getting her opponent right where she wants them for a beatdown. This is accomplished by her Neutral Special Golden Magic Slingshot, which has the unique property of pulling a foe towards her if the projectile hits. She also possess a counter in Homerun that will readily punish anyone who tries to overextend, and a recovery that can potentially allow her to come back from extraordinarily low angles.

If you're a straight up scrapper who doesn't mind the tradeoff of speed for power, Helga's perfect for busting some heads!

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Helga Pataki

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Franchise	Hey Arnold!
Weight Class	Middle
Character Discord	Helga character discord
Home Stage	Traffic Jam

Strengths

Weaknesses

Where do you think YOU'RE going??: As mentioned above, Helga's Golden Magic Slingshot will send an opponent flying towards you should the projectile connect making it extremely potent as a move, this will allow you to connect some of her slower Strong Attacks or use it to combo. This allows you to threaten the opponent without having to rely on approaching with her sluggish movement. Any opponent trying to keep out of range of your damaging attacks will have to be on their toes. Recovery Mix-ups: Helga's Approaching Uppercut will halt her momentum in the air to ascend straight up, moreso if it's charged. This can be used to throw an opponent off who is trying to block your return to stage by suddenly changing direction. Counter: Homerun is a counter that acts as a unique defensive option to counteract Helga’s vulnerability and punishing mistakes. This also acts as an extremely rare midair defense option, allowing her to deal with people attempting to exploit her vulnerable recovery. Bully: Helga's moves have very strong knockback, which makes her very scary to approach up close. Getting hit with Lunch Tray can lead to a very early stock taken from you.

Linear Recovery: Despite her recovery having good mix-up potential, it has practically zero horizontal reach and only travels upwards. More often than not, you'll find yourself recovering low to take advantage of it, which an opponent will be quick to catch on to. Low survivability: With her (assumed) lightweight status and relatively vulnerable recovery, Helga’s survivability is poor compared to the rest of the cast.

Moves List

Light Attacks

Shove It!
5L / Neutral Light

"One side moron! I'm walkin' here!"

Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
8%	7	7 - 8	22	-6
Very high knockback, can kill by the ledge. Sets up for jablocks and down light chases at low percents.

Smasher
8L / Up Light

Poor Brainy's face

Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
8%	7	7 - 9	22	-6
Average up tilt. Can set up into juggle situations. Looks weird.

Perfect Catch
2L / Down Light

Sliding into Arnold's DMs like

Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
8%	6	6 - 10	32	-17
Her fastest grounded option. Good out of shield option. Can lead into down light chains or up light juggles depending on di. Hits below the ledge.

Hockey Tackle
66L / Run Light

Wait are there tackles in hockey?

Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
8%	5	5 - 12	35	-26
Hitbox is much bigger than it looks, even being able to hit behind her. Hits below the ledge. Key for setting up into down strong or jump up strong kills.

Jumping/Air Light Attacks

Straight Kick
Jump Light

• THE FOOT!
• Pretty high knockback.
• Can wall of pain to an extent in the neutral in some matchups.
• Great for edgeguarding and as a noncommital slingshot followup.

Backhand Slap
Jump Up Light

• Standard juggling up air.

Double Heel Kick
Jump Down Light

• Deceptively big hitbox.
• Good both off stage in the neutral.

Strong Attacks

Love Poem
5S / Neutral Strong

There's a joke about "hitting the books" here somewhere...

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Kicking Dust
8S / Up Strong

BOOT

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Lunch Time
2S / Down Strong

For today's menu, we have a knuckle sandwich!

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Boxing Swing
66S / Run Strong

Lights Out

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Jumping/Air Strong Attacks

Locket Socket
j5S / Jump Neutral Strong

Helga's the original tsundere

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Curse You!
j8S / Jump Up Strong

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Volleyball Spike
j2S / Jump Down Strong

What did the five fingers say to the face?

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Special Attacks

Golden Magic Slingshot
5P / Neutral Special

A way to kindly tell your retreating opponent "Please Hurry Back"

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Approaching Uppercut
8P / Up Special

The lengths one goes to for love, even defying gravity

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Homerun
2P / Down Special

"She's just standing there... MENACINGLY!"

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Taunt

Taunt
Taunt Button

Wait, this isn’t Nicktoons MLB

This is one of the taunts that can deal damage.