Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl/Michelangelo

Story

Cowabunga!!

Who knew toxic ooze gave you a taste for pizza? From the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Michelangelo is the "party dude" of the team known for his sick skate tricks and sicker nunchuck skills!

Gameplay

Michelangelo has a very unique moveset and combo-game relative to the rest of the cast. His up-special is a tether that can be used as an anti-air or combo-tool, his down-special is immune to most projectiles and is jump cancellable and doing so makes the move plus on block. He is capable of killing most characters off of a single opening, but such conversions require precise execution and constant situational awareness.

One of the highest skill-ceiling characters in the game, Michelangelo is an extremely difficult yet rewarding character to play.

Michelangelo


Franchise	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Weight Class	Middle
Character Discord	Michelangelo character discord
Home Stage	Technodrome Takedown

Strengths

Weaknesses

Combo Openers: Many of Michelangelo's moves can easily combo into one another. His nair, dair, up-special, down-special, and pizza all have enough hitstun to reliably start a combo or find a grab.
Robust Combo Trees: Alongside the many ways Mikey can start a combo, Mikey also has many ways to convert an opening into a kill. The top hit of his dair is an amazing tool in specific.
Edgeguarding: Mikey's light and strong dairs are incredible edgeguarding tools thanks to their devastating launch angles and disjoints. His down-special can also be used to chase opponents offstage and convert into one of his dairs.
Reversals: Because his dair and up-air send backwards, these moves can rob your opponent of their stocks at extremely early percent if they are not careful when attempting to edgeguard Mikey.
Option Coverage: His up-special is a very powerful cancellable, unchallengeable combo-starter that covers a large space in the air and is also plus enough on block to lead to a grab. If your opponent is not able to outrange or avoid this move and are found without resources, it can lead to a deadly punish.
Pressure: Disjoints and plus moves can lead to raw conversions or mixup situations.

Combo Food: Being big and heavy is a horrible defensive combination in Nick Brawl. While Mikey has access to deadly combos against most of the cast, they also have the same privilege against him.
Poor Frame Data: Mikey's fastest grounded option is his low-range frame 7 up-tilt that has extremely low hitstun. His second fastest option is his frame 8 down-tilt that's negative on hit. His nair, his main neutral tool and combo starter, is frame 9. Most other characters in Nick Brawl have frame 5 or 6 options in the air and on the ground.
Hurtbox Extension: Michelangelo's limbs often extend before his attacks become active and are vulnerable to counter-attacks or grabs.
Intercept-able Recovery: While not having to think too much about how to recover is nice since his up-special (usually) automatically snaps to ledge, it completely lacks a hitbox and the path that Mikey takes is quite predictable.
Poor Raw Kill-Power: While he has many ways to find potentially deadly conversions, his strong moves lack some strength and are pretty difficult to land without some other move confirming into them.
Difficult: Mikey's unique hitboxes and move properties are hard to grasp at first and he requires some creativity as well as good execution to find kills.

Moves List

Light Attacks

Nunchuck Strike
5L / Neutral Light

Teenage Mutant Disjoint Hitbox

Sends at a semi-spike angle.
Disjointed.
Pretty slow for a forward-light being frame 10.

Fist Pump
8L / Up Light

Fastest grounded option at frame 7.
Sorta combos into his other aerials, but has so little hitstun that Mikey can easily be reversal'd by a character with better range or framedata.

Air Guitar
2L / Down Light

Don't use this move

Actually a horrible move. Might have some niche use when edgeguarding, certain characters, but not much use beyond that.
Recommend using light down-air or simply grabbing instead if you need a quick option with similar range.

Skateboard Ram
66L / Run Light

Turtle Hawk Pro Skater 3

A pretty good dash-attack. Decent burst speed and range.
Hits pretty high on his body. Most commonly used as a conversion off of the top-hit of his light dair to combo into strong dair offstage.