Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2/Garfield

Moveset

Combos

Matchups

Strategy

About

Fan of lasagna. Not a fan of Mondays.

Garfield is the title character of one of the biggest American syndicated comic strips of all time, running from June 19th, 1978 to the present day. An overweight, lazy cat who has a penchant for lasagna, TV, and kicking dogs, Garfield lives large both physically and metaphorically. He resides in a quaint Indiana town with his owner Jon Arbuckle, and fellow pet Odie, often getting into anything from usual cat activities to larger than life adventures.

Playstyle

Garfield, like fellow cat representative El Tigre, is a spacie-type character. Garfield likes getting in your face and performing tight pillar combos. His strong aerial game is what makes him the cat's meow, but what makes him really special is his install mechanic, Sugar Rush, performed by collecting food gained by performing Side Special and then initiating it using Down Special. This makes him faster and makes his combo game even more of a threat.

If you like a more traditional playstyle, Garfield is for you!

Metagame

Garfield is ranked 27th out of 29 on the current tier list, in the C tier. This is a significant drop from his 8th out of 25 placement in the first Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl.

Garfield's biggest strength is arguably his combo game. His aerials allow him to chain his attacks rather easily, and he also has pillar combos befitting his archetype. Garfield also possesses a meter install with Sugar Rush, allowing him to become blisteringly fast and deal large amounts of knockback, allowing him to take out opponents quickly if he overwhelms them. Lastly, Garfield has a particularly strong edgeguarding game thanks to his Aerial Down Strong.

However, Garfield also has some considerable flaws. His neutral game is not the best, with his Side Special being rather slow and predictable. His base mobility is also rather average, which worsens his pressure game further. Sugar Rush, despite also being a strength, also comes with it's vices: for all of the power it gives Garfield, it also makes him the lightest character in the game, and can be tough to control due to the increase in velocity it grants him. Above all else, however, Garfield is widely considered to simply be outclassed by other characters in the game. A lot of the benefits granted by his comeback mechanic are better on other characters or have less risk attached to them, and while he does have good moves on paper, in practice he ends up losing trades to disjoints or other far-range moves.

Garfield is perhaps one of the most, if not the most, controversial and debated characters in the metagame. In the early metagame, Garfield was considered to be a very good character, and was a popular early metagame pick. However, subsequent nerfs and changes to other characters largely hindered Garfield, drastically changing opinions on his viability. This caused Garfield to be very negatively received on the current tier list, having a bottom 3 spot at the very end of C tier. However, recent discoveries concerning Sugar Rush, as well as his overall good combo game with momentum, have caused widespread debate within the community on whether Garfield is actually much better than his current placement. As such, some members of the community believe Garfield's placement on the current tier list is no longer accurate. Despite these developments, Garfield remains a niche, if not unideal pick in tournament play, but has seen some success as a secondary or counterpick character.

Garfield


Franchise	Garfield
Home Stage	Food Dream
Weight	0.92
Fall Speed	1.2
Gravity	1.2
Run Speed	1.1
Air Speed	1.17

Strengths

Weaknesses

Sugar Rush: Garfield's Sugar Rush install makes him a speedster and able to overwhelm the opponent on a whim. It also opens up opportunities to combos not possible with regular Garfield, and is generally a flexible tool in any situations.
Strong combo game: Garfield has a very strong aerial game, typical of his archetype.
Spike Monster: Garfield's Down Air Strong has a deadly spike hitbox. He has a very strong edgeguard game due to this move, and being close to ledge while Garfield is comboing you can mean death.

Sugar Rush: Unfortunately, Sugar Rush is laden with glitches and collision problems, and Garfield will sometimes slip off of a ledge or platform by accident due to the speed multiplier. Sugar Rush also makes him lighter and thus easier to kill. Due to it's inherent risk, some Garfield players will opt to use it sparingly or sometimes not at all during play.
Recovery: Garfield has a very linear and exploitable recovery. It also has a nasty tendency to miss ledge completely on occasion.
Confirm-heavy: Garfield's kill routes are more combo-based and based on consistency than anything else. If you don't have a strong grasp on confirming into his strongs, you are going to have a difficult time killing your opponent most likely.
- Shine-heavy: Garfield also relies a lot on his shine Neutral Special for combos and pressure. If you are not familiar with shine-heavy gameplay, Garfield might be a difficult character for you.
Outclassed: Garfield has a lot of good, even great moves in his kit, but he is often beat out by characters who have stronger moves than him or are faster than him. In addition, his install can be a risk to use, compared to other characters who have more safe comeback mechanics. As such, he tends to have a difficult time dealing with higher-tiered characters.

Moveset

Ground Light Attacks

Lasagna Frenzy
Light

"Feed me"

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Forward Kick
Forward+Light

"Time to kick Odie off the table"

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Donut Bother Me
Up+Light

"What filling might you be? Jelly? Cream?"

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Tail Sweep
Down+Light

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Tap Dance
Light (Running)

"C'mon people... where's the love?!"

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Air Light Attacks

Happy Day
Light (Airborne)

"AAAAAAHHH!!"

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

This is Pooky
Forward+Light (Airborne)

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Dab Kick
Back+Light (Airborne)

"Fridays bring out the boogie in me!"

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Trashing Thoughts
Up+Light (Airborne)

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Spin Drop
Down+Light (Airborne)

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Ground Strong Attacks

Leg Slap
Strong

"I found a butcher who carries Allosaurus"

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Huge Yawn
Up+Strong

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Classy Shtick
Down+Strong

"Ladies and gentleman-"

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Air Strong Attacks

Chomp Chomp
Strong (Airborne)

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Air Scratch
Up+Strong (Airborne)

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Waste Disposal
Down+Strong (Airborne)

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Special Attacks

"That old school shine"
Special

"Now where could my shine be?"

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
Garfield turns himself into old school Garfield. He deals damage the moment he transforms and reflects projectiles.

Pie Party!
Forward+Special

"And pies of ALL SIZES!"

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
Garfield throws 3 types of pies. The first one does damage, the second has a lot of hitstun, and the third one has multi-hit properties.

Sugar Rush
Down+Special

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
Garfield depletes his food meter and goes into Sugar Rush mode for a set amount of time. While in this mode, he becomes faster and jumps higher.

Feral Cat
Up+Special

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
Garfield jumps like a feral cat, launching himself in an arc motion and dealing damage along the way. DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Grab/Throws

Grab
Grab

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Dash Grab
Grab (Running)

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Grab Pummel
Light (Grabbing)

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Up Throw
Up (Grabbing)

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Forward Throw
Forward (Grabbing)

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Down Throw
Down (Grabbing)

"I'll teach you to sleep in my bed!"

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Back Throw
Back (Grabbing)

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Super

Super
Slime+Light

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Taunts

Taunt
Taunt

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Down Taunt
Down+Taunt

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER

Up Taunt
Up+Taunt

Damage	Startup	Active Frames	Total Frames	Safety
00%	0	0-0	0	-0
DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER DESCRIPTION PLACEHOLDER