Sportacus (LazyTown)

Sportacus, the defender of LazyTown and health effecianodo, enters the fray!

Sportacus is a rushdown character that relies on his movement and quick attacks to keep his momentum going until he can land his final blow. He’s so strong because he keeps fit and stays healthy, and he can maintain that with a combination of his incredible athletic ability and his once-per-stock sportscandy install.

Neutral Special: Sports Candy.

By pressing Neutral Special, Sportacus will take out an apple and eat it. Once consumed, he will enter his "healthlusted" state for a few seconds. During Healthlusted, Sportacus will have a massive speed and jump boost, and all of his attacks have a 1.2 damage multiplier plus a 1.3 knockback multiplier. Certain moves also have changed properties, like down throw becoming a plunge move (aka, the opponent is sent down and gets buried upon contact with the ground) and others.

Be aware, when Sportacus is out of Healthlusted, he cannot eat another apple until he either loses a stock or reaches 300%, so do not plan to abuse sportscandy too much.

Neutral Special (Hold): Sportscandy Homerun/Batter Up

By holding down Neutral Special, Sportacus will change his actions and take out his bat. If you haven’t eaten your apple yet, Sportacus will toss the apple into air and launch it with his bat after a massive wind-up. Opponents hit by the apple take a decent amount of knockback. With this rendition, only the apple and the start of its trail have a hitbox.

If you’ve already used your apple, Sportacus will use the bat to attack the opponent themselves. This does very good damage and knockback at the cost of a long (albeit slight shorter) windup.

Down Special: Active Flurry

Sportacus hops into the air and unleashes a flurry of kicks in a straight line. This move forces the opponent in front of you on hit.

Side Special: Front Flip

Sportacus does a front flip, dealing damage to anybody in his way. When this move hits an opponent, the player can cancel into any other move.

Up Special: Rising Uppercut

Sportacus’ DP. Sportacus rises through the air as he perfoms a hard-hitting uppercut.

Other things to note:

-Down strong is a backflip, and because it is a strong you can release it as he’s being launched through the air. It still has gravity, so if you fall off make sure you know how you’ll get back.

-Holding attack during forward air will cause him to do a small bounce.

-Holding attack during back air will make him continue to slide without falling for a short amount of time.

Keep in mind I made this in 3 days, so if there are any bugs please let me know. Weiss should be finished shortly in the meantime, but I thought this would be a fun challenge to see how fast I could make this.

Credits:

Sportacus and LazyTown created by Magnus Scheving

Sportacus Sprite Edit: Randy Bighead

Sportacus MUGEN Character: Pizzahead

Link to Original Mugen: https://mugenarchive.com/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=66461-sportacus-beta-pizzasause-and-randy-bighead-sprites-