Shaggy

This article is about the Fighter. For other uses, see Shaggy (Disambiguation).

Shaggy
Official Render
Physical Description
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Background Info
Universe	Scooby-Doo
First Appearance	Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! - “What a Night for a Knight” (1969)
Real Name	Norville Rogers
Fighter Info
Archetype	Bruiser
Unlock	Complete the Beginner Tutorial 1,500 1
Other
Voice Actor	Matthew Lillard

Norville Rogers, better known by his nickname, Shaggy, is a Fighter from the Scooby-Doo Universe in MultiVersus. He was revealed alongside the game itself on November 18th, 2021.

Origin

Norville "Shaggy" Rogers is one of the core, swaggy members of Mystery Inc., the amateurish crime-solving group of friends from the Scooby-Doo franchise. Shaggy, alongside other members of the Mystery Gang, was inspired by the four protagonists from the 1959-1963 sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gills, with his character being influenced by Maynard G. Krebs, though changed to be a more hippie-like character, rather than Maynard's beatnik archetype. Shaggy's overall moveset and personality in MultiVersus is heavily influenced by the famous Ultra Instinct Shaggy meme that began spreading across the internet in 2017. The memes featured Shaggy going "Super Saiyan", a reference to Shueisha's popular manga and anime series Dragon Ball. The meme itself was primarily uses scenes from the 2011 direct-to-DVD animated movie Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur, in which a hypnotized Shaggy manages to beat up an entire biker gang all by himself.

Shaggy is a lanky, somewhat of a hippy, laid back and cowardice teenager with a monstruous hunger and love for Scooby Snacks. He's also well known for using the word "like" during his speeches a lot, being the owner and best friend of the titular Scooby-Doo, the talking Great Dane, and shouting "ZOINKS!" whenever he's scared.

Official Biography

Just a normal sandwich-munching, mystery-solving guy with limitless power of unknown origin.

The last thing Shaggy remembers before The Change was exploring another spooky old mansion with his pal Scoob, just like any other day with the gang. He found a strange glowing crystal and, thinking it was rock candy, went to take a bite. There was a FLASH… and then blackness. When he came to, he found himself in possession of incredible powers. He doesn’t know where they came from or how they work, but he’s vowed to use them to vanquish evil and protect the little guy. As soon as he gets some lunch, that is.

Default Variant

Shaggy's default appearance seens to be based on his "dot-eyed" design he had in the Scooby-Doo shows made in the 70s and early 80s and in most Scooby-Doo movies and shorts created by Warner Bros. Animation from the 2010s onward.

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  Shaggy's "dot-eyes" design as seen in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!.

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  Shaggy's "dot-eyes" design as seen in LEGO Dimensions' Scooby-Doo Game-Play & Cartoon Short Trailer.

Lore

• According to Eric Stirpē, the main lead writer for MultiVersus, Shaggy's portrayal in the game comes from one year after the events of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! happened.
• Shaggy's website bio states the he gained his super-human powers after undergoing a process known as "The Change": while exploring an undetermined spooky old mansion (possibly Scooby's Haunted Mansion) alongside Scooby-Doo he came across a "strange glowing crystal" which he mistook for rock candy and, upon taking a bite from the gem, was blinded by a flash of light and collapsed. When he woke up, he found himself in the possession of his current powers, and has vowed to use them in order to protect Scooby and vanquish evil.
  • It has been theorized that the mysterious crystal that Shaggy ate was actually a Gleamium gem, as they somewhat resemble rock candy.
  • It is currently unknown if Uncle Shagworthy has gained his powers the same way his nephew did.
• If the events depicted in the "You're with Me!" Cinematic Trailer are to be taken as canon, than Shaggy seems to have been one of the Fighters teleported to Trophy's E.D.G.E. in the "Heroes Convergence" phenomenon, before engaging in a fight against Bugs Bunny and Arya Stark with Batman as his ally thanks to a misunderstanding. They all than jump on Bugs' ACME rocket and accidently interrupt a fight between Garnet, Jake the Dog, Taz, and Harley Quinn, starting a fight cloud between all of them. The end of the trailer shows Shaggy posing heroically with the rest of the Fighters teleported on Trophy's E.D.G.E., implying that the misunderstanding has been cleared up.
  • The trailer implies that he has been caught in the "Heroes Convergence" phenomenon after gaining his powers.

Gameplay

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Skills

ATTACKS	GROUND	AIR
NEUTRAL J	KNUCKLE SANDWICH CHARGE up a powerful straight punch. While CHARGING Shaggy has ARMOR.	FLURRIOUS FEET Shaggy does a flurry of kicks below him that hit multiple times.
SIDE 🡆 + J	COMBO MEAL A COMBO of punches ending in a strong headbutt.	LIKE, KNEE STRIKE A fast knee forward attack that can be CHARGED.
UP 🡅 + J	LIKE, OVERHEAD SWING! CHARGE an overhead swing.	FLYING SLACKER SMACK A sweeping swing above Shaggy.
DOWN 🡇 + J	POWER STOMP CHARGE an ARMORED stomp that BREAKS ARMOR. After hitting an enemy, press input again to COMBO into a clap attack that applies SLOW to enemies.	GET DOWN, MAN Shaggy uses a two-handed pound attack to knock enemies downward.

SPECIALS	GROUND	AIR
NEUTRAL K	ZOINKS! CHARGE to build up Shaggy's rage. After fully charged, Shaggy gains RAGE and applies ENRAGED to allies. He also drops a Scooby Snack that slightly HEALS the fighter who picks it up. If RAGED, Shaggy will dash to his ally, making them ENRAGED and releasing a blast that knocks away enemies.	ZOINKS! Same as ground.
SIDE 🡆 + K	CHILLER INSTINCT KICK Shaggy does a flying kick forward. The RAGE version is faster and travels further.	CHILLER INSTINCT KICK Same as ground.
UP 🡅 + K	POWER UPPERCUT Shaggy does a flying uppercut launching himself into the air. The RAGE version hits multiple times, is faster, and travels further.	POWER UPPERCUT Similar to ground, but RAGED attack does not hit multiple times.
DOWN 🡇 + K	LIKE, FEED THE HUNGER Shaggy equips sandwich. Once equipped, input again to throw the sandwich as a PROJECTILE. Can HEAL allies it passes through. If RAGED and holding a sandwich, the sandwich will become a large HEAVY PROJECTILE that BREAKS ARMOR and deals more DAMAGE. If not holding a sandwich, Shaggy deals a slam attack similar to his Aerial Down Special.	LIKE, C'MERE MAN! Shaggy launches himself towards the ground gaining ARMOR and hits nearby enemies upon landing. If RAGED, Shaggy will create a shockwave that hits multiple times. If sandwich is equipped, then Shaggy will throw sandwich PROJECTILE instead.

PASSIVE ABILITIES IT'S, LIKE, OFF-THE-CHARTS
Shaggy's RAGED special attacks hit harder, move further, give him ARMOR during the attack and apply maximum STACKS of WEAKENED to hit enemies. RAGE is consumed after a special attack.

Allies who become ENRAGED will apply maximum STACKS of WEAKENED on their next MELEE attack, but ENRAGED will be consumed afterward.

Shaggy starts each match with a sandwich, because he's Shaggy.

Levels

TIER 1	TIER 2	TIER 3	TIER 4	TIER 5
Default: Default	Perk: Lumpy Space Punch	Toasts: x5	Perk: Kryptonian Skin	Gold: x100

TIER 6	TIER 7	TIER 8	TIER 9	TIER 10
Perk Ability: Equip Ally Perks	Perk: Last Stand	Signature Perk: One Last Zoinks	Perk Ability: Perk Training	Signature Perk: Hangry Man

TIER 11	TIER 12	TIER 13	TIER 14	TIER 15
Perk: Snowball Effect	Perk: Retaliation-Ready	Perk: Speed Force Assist	Profile Icon: Shaggy	Badge: Shaggy Wins

Update History

FestiVersus! Patch

• - Air Neutral Attack
  • Removed armor break from individual hits
• - Air/Ground Neutral Special
  • Re-added 15 second rage timer that was removed in a hotfix due to a bug
• ! Sausage Nunchuk Taunt
  • Fixed issue that was preventing this taunt from being equipped on other Variants besides Shaggy’s Default

Season 2.02 Patch

• - Ground Side Attack
  • Increased whiff recovery by 4 frames on jab 2
• - Ground Up Attack
  • Increased whiff recovery by 3 frames
• - Air Down Attack
  • Increased whiff recovery by 6 frames
• - Air Side Attack
  • Increased whiff recovery by 5 frames
  • Land cancel window delayed by 5 frames
• - Ground Up Special
  • Land cancel window delayed by 6 frames (Air version unaffected)
• + Rage Air/Ground Down Special (Sandwich)
  • No longer consumes rage buff on use

Season 2 Patch

• ! Aerial Side Attack
  • Allowing ground momentum movement even when charging the knee. This should allow movement to carry and not get halted for better feel.

Season 1.05 Patch

• - Ground/Air Down Special
  • Using Raged Sandwich removes rage buff

• - Air Down Attack
  • On Hit, Dodge and Jump branch pushed 4 frames later

Season 1.04 Patch

• - General
  • Set dodge meter return to 6s from 3.5s

Season 1.03 Patch

• - Air Side Special
  • Recovery increased by 3 frames on whiff (miss).
• - Air Neutral Attack
  • No longer breaks armor on first hit

Season 1.02 Patch

• ~ Rage Air/Ground Down Special:
  • Super sandwich now classified as a Heavy Projectile.
• ~ Air/Ground Side Special:
  • Bug Fix Correctly branches to other attacks on hit for non rage side specials.
• - Ground Down Attack:
  • Armor removed from the attack and knockback angle pushed to be more horizontal.
• - Weight:
  • Lowered to 68 from 76.
• - Ground Up Special:
  • Jump cancel in ground up air special is delayed to prevent a true combo into Air Up Special because it was killing at unexpectedly low damage.

Season 1 Patch

Shaggy’s Side Special felt a little too unpunishable, so we’ve added a bit of Whiff Recovery.

• - Rage Air Side Special - Recovery increased by two frames; now better matches rage ground side special
  • Addressed an issue where Shaggy could perform two rage specials
• + Rage Ground Down Special - Shaggy’s shockwave will launch fighters into a final hit that applies Weakened debuff.
• - Ground/Air Side Special - Added 4 additional frames of whiff recovery

Open Beta V0

• + Passive: Shaggy now starts with a Sandwich with each life.
• + Down Air Special: Has armor when starting descent.
• + Grounded Up Attack: Has earlier on hit cancel frames and knockback pushes the opponent up and forward to help Shaggy follow up and combo.
• + Grounded Down Attack: has faster startup.
• - Base Movement Speed: Shaggy movement speed reduced from 2300 to 2225.

Closed Alpha, May 19th 2022

• Shaggy was a playable fighter in the Closed Alpha.

November 18th 2021

• Shaggy was revealed to be a playable fighter in MultiVersus.

Trivia

• Shaggy's silhouette is used for the Random slot on the character select screen and for the Default Announcer Pack's icon.
• Prior to the Season 1.03 Patch, Shaggy couldn't be unlocked via completing the Beginning Tutorial (as it was Wonder Woman who'd be unlocked instead). However, he could've been bought with 700 Gleamium.

External

• Shaggy Rogers on Scoobypedia.