

The Hunger Meter can be filled by doing attacks where Hungern eats the opponent the less meter Umbrella has, the more actions Hungern can perform during some of them. With the meter decreasing as time passes by, Umbrella must pay attention to Hunger's state to avoid getting into troubling situations. There are four states that affect the properties of Umbrella's attacks: Satiated (The default form), Ravenous (Her moves come out faster), Overstuffed (Her moves hit harder at the cost of speed), and Starving (Her moves become slower, but not powerful like Overstuffed). The key factor for Umbrella's fighting style is the Hunger Meter. She has a flashkick move where she attacks the opponent multiple times and slams them down leading into follows ups if guessed correctly. She also has float like Parasoul but her being inexperienced, falls over and causes her to be on the ground. The move also bounces the foe off the wall allowing for follow ups. Fighting styleĪ Umbrella alpha teaser trailer revealed Hungern to have a long tongue like grab that can counter zoners like Peacock, making her intangible until she spits out Peacock. Hungern prefers spicy food, but really it would eat anything. She is somewhat of a carefree, albeit spoiled child. Role Skullgirls 2nd Encore Story Mode Parasoul's story Fukua's story Robo-Fortune's story Skullgirls Mobile Origin Stories No Shelter Personality Due to Umbrella seeing Hungern as her best friend, Hungern is protective of her. Umbrella has so much power that she can use Hungern without any ill effects whatsoever, a feat so shocking that Samson claims that he's never encountered a "monster" like her before. He's in Umbrella's possession ostensibly for her protection, but in truth, she has him because his ability to siphon life energy just by being near him is supposed to be suppressing her dormant Skullgirl power, which she inherited from her mother while she was going through a slow transformation. At some point he fell into the hands of the Renoirs. Hungern is a Living Weapon, implied to have existed back in Eliza and Samson's time, with Samson calling him an insatiable devourer of people, armies, civilizations and everything in-between. It is likely a muted version of the red hair color of her father. According to Hidden Variable developer Sairus Delaney, Umbrella’s pink hair color is a nod to her being a Skullgirl as far as they know. Its products feature a young girl in a yellow raincoat wielding an umbrella in the rain. Umbrella's design was inspired by the U.S. This fits with the theme of the Renoir family's Living Weapons being named after the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Hungern, the name of Umbrella's living umbrella, is the German word for "starve" and the Swedish word for "famine". She was announced as a Skullgirls 2nd Encore DLC character on May 6th, 2021. It has been stated that she is one of the characters who would need to be made playable for the canon Skullgirls storyline to be revealed. She was initially supposed to be a part of the launch cast alongside Squigly, but was moved to be a first-round DLC character because the team needed villains for the story. Umbrella was the first possible DLC character to be revealed in the Keep Skullgirls Growing Indiegogo campaign, at $20,000. Īn old live journal by Alex Ahad stated that Umbrella had "raw magical talent, psychic powers, spirit of Aesil." She was also nicknamed as Umbrella-chan and appeared in a comic along with other Ahad's original characters. Umbrella was originally one of the mascots that former Skullgirls creative director, Alex Ahad, made and used for his old personal website "PuG's PuB" since at least October 2001. 7.2 Keep Skullgirls Growing Indiegogo campaign.
