Sugar is an enemy introduced in Streets of Rage 4. She is a member of the Red Demon biker gang, who serve the new Y Syndicate. Sugar and the other members of the gang can mostly be found at the Bar of the Rising Sun near the old pier. She first appears on Stage 5.
Overview[]
Sugar is a large and stout woman with a dark complexion, wearing a thick biker helmet with a mohawk styled adornment, as well as a feathered letterman jacket, a tank top, tiger stripe pants and high heel boots.
Sugar's signature attack is a powerful headbutt lunge forward that covers large distances. She also kick players at close range. Sugar always appears in groups alongside her variants, which adds to her deadliness, as they'll often coordinate the headbutt attacks in quick succession.
Variants[]
Sugar has three variants, each having increased health and some differences:
- Honey, wearing a yellow and green outfit, just has more health than Sugar.
- Caramel, wearing a white and brown outfit, has a much stronger headbutt lunge, that covers much more distance and can be angled diagonally. She also has super-armor upon getting up after being knocked down. Caramel is also capable of performing a piledriver grab that deals heavy damage. Much like other grab moves, she'll charge up for a second and then move towards the player at fast speed.
- Candy, wearing a purple and pink outfit, has the same attack pattern as Caramel, in addition to gaining armor while charging her headbutt. She's very dangerous as she can charge her headbutt off-screen, not triggering any sound cues. She only appears as a mini-boss in Stage 12.
During the boss fight against Barbon on Stage 5, if the player breaks the bikes nearby, Sugar and her variants will appear, one per bike destroyed.
Move List[]
- Headbutt Lunge: used by all variants. They wind up while yelling, and after around 2 seconds, charge forward at full speed, delivering a powerful headbutt that launches the player. Caramel and Candy's version covers more distance and track the player, moving through the Y axis instead of just forward.
- Kick: used by all variants. They perform a quick kick that briefly staggers the player. Often used when the player is near them when getting up.
- Piledriver: used by Caramel and Candy. They flash red for around 2 seconds, and move fast towards the player; if connecting, they grab their opponent, turns them upside-down, and drops into a sitting position, driving the player head-first into the ground, dealing heavy damage.
Strategy[]
Candy and her variants are very dangerous as they're always fought in groups, launching barrages of headbutts on the player. Isolating them can pose more of a threat as they'll flank the player and use the headbutts. Challenging the attack directly on the ground is difficult unless using a Special Attack or Blitz move with a lot of invincibility frames (such as Shiva's Flying Kick); however, the headbutt is easy to intercept with jumping attacks.
Against Sugar and Honey, the player can just move up and down in the Y axis, as their headbutt only moves forward; against Caramel and Candy, however, jumping to avoid is advised as they move through their headbutt moves through the Y axis as well.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- The bar stage reveals that they are members of the Red Demons Motorcycle Club.
- They replace the Rider as biker themed-enemies, even wearing the same tiger stripe pants as them, though the difference is that Honeys wear feathered Letterman Jackets.
- Like most enemies with "themed" names, all variants are named after sugar foods.
- Unlike their male counterparts, they are never fought on motorcycles and always fight on foot (the motorcycle stage was planned to be included before it was nixed due to the amount of work needed to implement one).