Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl/CatDog

Story

HI-HO-DIGGITY!!!

You know what they say, two heads are more than one! From the series of the same name, CatDog are two brothers joined at the hip; where one goes the other has no choice but to follow, even into a fighting game!

Gameplay

CatDog is a midweight all-rounder character with a unique stance mechanic that lets them switch between Cat and Dog with the press of a button. Certain attacks change based on whether Cat or Dog is being controlled: Their projectile becoming either Hairball or Bone Boomerang or the hitboxes on both their Strong Upwards Arials and their Strong Mids radically altering in size and reach. With this capability, your opponent will never be too sure what you're about to throw out until it's too late!

If you're a fan of tricky characters with an wide assortment of unique moves for every situation, then these brothers are for you!

CatDog


Franchise	CatDog
Weight Class	Middle
Character Discord	CatDog character discord
Home Stage	CatDog's House

Strengths

Weaknesses

Large Hitboxes: CatDog has some great moves with deceptively large hitboxes such as Double Dance, Fierce Flex and Feline Fist. The latter two being great kill options.
Projectile Pressure: Hairball and Bone boomerang are good for keeping the opponent on lockdown and make for tricky setups respectively, Which can turn the tables on the match in their favor quickly. For example: Dog's Bone Boomerang can be sent flying back at an opponent if you strike it as it comes back towards you!
Combo Game: CatDog has an incredible combo game, mainly centered around pillar combos (hitting an oponent upwards with an up move, back down with a down move, then back up again, down again, etc). CatDogs grounded up light, air up light, grounded down light, and air down light, all have great speed to allow for effective combos, such as ground up light, into air up light, into air down light. Having a powerful combo game allows CatDog to make some great comebacks, even if you're down a lot in a game you're never out as CatDog!
Strong Kill Power and Confirms: Catdog has multiple moves that kill confirm into Fierce Flex that cover most di, kill early, and have large confirm windows. Even if you dont confirm directly, Springy Headbutt can be used as a safe option to throw out in neutral to fish for kills while Fierce Flex can naturally cover a huge amount of space above them as you juggle the opponent.

Less than stellar recovery: The Mighty does not reach very high and is very linear, which hurts them from going too deep with edgeguarding and makes recovering fairly predictable.
Long: There's more CatDog to hit than most other characters, which makes CatDog easier then most to combo, and harder to escape combos.
Not great defense CatDog has great offense, but not great defense. Strong Air Down Air is an extremely commital option making it diffcult to RPS air and grounded mid strongs. Additionally, CatDog has no disjoints or moves that help to effectively counter attack, making it difficult to gain stage positioning and advantage in a match if you lose it.

Moves List

Light Attacks

Take This Seriously!
5L / Neutral Light

You eediot- wait, wrong character.

Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
5%	4	4 - 5	22	-9
Cat begins choking out Dog out of frustration. Can cancel into itself as early as frame 14. 5 frame punish window when canceled into itself. Best in class get-off-me move, quick, huge, and sets up tech chases on hit

Uppercut
8L / Up Light

Electric Wind Dog Fist

Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
8%	5	5 - 6	20	-5
A simple uppercut from either Cat or Dog. Character defining move. Loops into itself or light dash attack into itself at low percent. Massive kill confirm window into Fierce Flex or Feline Fist at mid to late percents on DI in and No DI.

Head Whip
2L / Down Light

Now that's using your head!

Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
8%	5	6 - 7	20	-5
low to the ground sweep that pops the opponent up. Mostly outclassed by up light as it does the same thing but an overall worse hitbox, but still very good

Gotta Chase!
66L / Run Light

Oooh look, a mailman!

Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
8%	5	5 - 12	35	-29
Premiere ldash, fast, big, and goes far. great for tech chasing, damage loops, and kill confirms

Jumping/Air Light Attacks

Streeetch!
j5L / Jump Light

Longest nairs in the business.

Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
8%	5	5 - 6	20	-6
get off me tool and decent combo breaker. Can cover Di out at mid percents out of up light.

Twin Spin
j8L / Jump Up Light

Stairway to Heaven.

Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
8%	6	6 - 8	20	-6
The upwards half of catdog's pillar combos. Can cheese out a kill into dog's Strong Up Aerial if the opponent is asleep at the controller.

Double Dance
j2L / Jump Down Light

DONUTS

Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
10%	6	6 - 7	34	-6
A fast and large U-shaped spike, the down half of the pillar combo. Workhorse of a move Easy space coverage during edgeguards and can combo into itself offstage at certain percents for early kills Sets up tech chases post pillar combo or on its own.

Strong Attacks

Heavy Punch / Little Punch
5S / Neutral Strong

big

BIG

Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
14%	18	18 - 22	45	-10
Dog's mid strong is a massive, high knock back punch. Hits from slightly behind to in front and slightly above him Has 4 frames of full hurtbox extension
Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
14%	14	14 - 18	35	-4
Cat's mid strong trades power and size for speed and safety

Talking Stone
8S / Up Strong

"Talk to the rock!"

Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
13%	15	15 - 19	40	-8
Disjointed move with decent speed and kill power.

Golden Hydrant
2S / Down Strong

16 karats of pure pain!

Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
15%	16	16 - 21	40	-7
Catdogs go to option for on stage edgeguards. Good disjoint and attack sends out and down.

Fight Cloud
66S / Run Strong

The first rule of Fight Cloud is: you do not talk about Fight Cloud.

Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
13%	16	16 - 18	48	-22
A slow strong dash that is almost entirely outclassed by light dash. Only notable confirm that ldash doesn't have is onstage confirm into Dog's mid strong.

Jumping/Air Strong Attacks

Springy Headbutt
j5S / Jump Neutral Strong

Look Ma, I'm playing Neutral!

Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
14%	16	16 - 30	40	-7
A big long lasting hitbox with good kill power, later frames are safe or up to +2 on block

Fierce Flex / Feline Fist
j8S / Jump Up Strong

At last we finally know what "Updog" is...

Then would that make this... Upcat?

Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
13%	17	17 - 21	40	-7
Dog's Up Air Strong (Gigantic move with absurd kill power, has 4 frames of full hurtbox extension.
Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
13%	14	14 - 18	40	-7
Cat's Up Air Strong Faster and goes higher than fierce flex, but with less horizontal range and knockback.

Bouncy Bickering
j2S / Jump Down Strong

Bouncy bouncy!

Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
15% / 15%	17 / 27	17-End / 27-	- / 75	-59 / -10
Stall and fall attack Will bounce once upon hitting the ground, allowing the opponent to RPS with an up strong on reaction. Can be jump cancelled on hit or RPS if you have your jump available, this includes your own or the enemies projectiles! Can be used as a high commitment spike offstage, just don't miss.

Special Attacks

Boomerang Bone / Hairball
5P / Neutral Special

Yum

Ew

Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
10%	12	12 - 191	41	17
Dog's projectile that goes forward a short distance before curving to go up and backwards. slow enough for you to grab it.
Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
10%	12	12 - 191	41	17
Cat's projectile that bounces along the ground, slow enough for you to grab it.

The Mighty
8P / Up Special

Quick, play the theme song!

Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
4% / 10%	13 / 1	13-50 / 1-End	60 / -	-65 / -
Catdog's recovery option, doesn't go very fast or far, lackluster hitbox, laggy ending, and can't snap ledge. The number 1 thing hat holds catdog back as a character. If you have to use this move chances are you are already dead. shifts Catdog into a special state upon hit where they cannot input any moves, can snap ledges but has lengthy landing animation which you can move during.

Tag Team!
2P / Down Special

Switch it up!

Damage	Startup Frames	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
4%	14	14 - 18	30	-7
Attack that switches between cat and dog attacks, not worth using the attack portion for most cases but it has such high hitstun it can chain into itself offstage and kill opponents with weaker recoveries