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Paprika

Paprika, the Champion of Foenum's Highlands from Them's Fightin' Herds, joins the fight in Rivals!

Paprika is a middleweight, somewhat quick bruiser. She has a good set of relatively hard-hitting moves, and quite the handful of ways to string them together.
Paprika's gimmick is her magic meter. This meter allows her to use her Forward and Down special moves. It starts with her maximum 6 stacks, and unlike Velvet, it doesn't refill upon landing hits. Instead, it only refills on 3 conditions: losing a stock (refills it completely), parrying an opponent's attack (refills one stack), or having your own projectiles parried back at you (also refills one stack).

Paprika's Home Stage, Alpake Highlands, can be found here: https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2680913396

SPECIAL MOVES



Neutral Special: Kiss!
A command grab. Paprika reaches out in front of her, and if an opponent is within range, she goes in for a kiss. Once this kiss lands, it puts opponents into a temporary stagger state, making them completely vulnerable to follow-ups from Paprika for about 2/3 of a second so long as they're on the ground. It's not quite as useful when used on a foe that's in the air.

Forward Special: Gift Toss (Uses 1 Magic Stack)
Paprika tosses a flowerpot forward. A fairly standard projectile with decent damage and KO power.

Up Special: Basket Burst
Paprika retreats into her basket, and then pops out of it a split second later. While in the basket, she is completely intangible. For the first few frames after popping out of the basket, the move has a powerful, decently large hitbox.

Down Special: Rolling Gift (Uses 1 Magic Stack)
Paprika bounces a cinnamon roll off her nose. It then rolls forward on the ground for about 2 seconds. It causes a weak spike on contact, which usually results in a groundbounce.

OTHER NOTABLE MOVES

Down Strong: Belly Flop
This is Paprika's most devastating strong-- and that goes for both Paprika and her foes. If you use it off a platform or the ledge, it continues falling down. You can cancel it with a walljump to avoid plummeting to your doom, but of course, that's only if you're close enough to the wall before it's too late...

Back Air: Hip Check
This move originated as Paprika's pushblock animation in TFH. In Rivals, it acts as her Back Air instead. In reference to it's original nature as a defensive animation, the move has soft armor (about 2/3 the amount of armor that Etalus has on his Forward Air) throughout the duration of the move.


Paprika is compatible with the following workshop items:

Final Smash Buddy
Amber
Pit
Kirby
Dialogue Buddy
Greenflower Zone
Dedede Stadium