Lola Pop
| Height | 5' 8" (173 cm) |
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| Weight | 171 lb (77.7 kg) (inflated) |
| Age | 23 |
| Affiliation | Street performers worldwide |
| Stage | Via Dolce |
| Hobbies | Seeking applause, eating candy |
| Voice Actress | Soness Stevens |
| Signature |  |
| Size |  |
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| Arm Girth |  |
| Speed | |
| Jumping | |
| Inflatability |  |
| Sweetness | |
| Grab Damage | 150 |
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| Walking Speed | 110% |
| Dash Distance | 100% |
| Charge Dash Distance | 100% |
| Air Dash Distance | 105% |
| Girth | 100% |
| Max Charge Time | 1.9 seconds |
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Lola Pop is a playable fighter in ARMS, released in the Version 3.0.0 update on 2017-09-13.[1] Her fighting style is based on her ability to inflate herself like a balloon.
Appearance
Lola Pop appears mostly human except for her spiraled irises, her candy-like ARMS and orange and red lollipop-style hair. She wears yellow overalls with a stripe pattern on the left leg and a polka dot pattern on the right leg, a clown nose, a blue headband, purple ball-shaped earrings, a yellow mask that covers the top half of her face, a blue athletic shirt with her logo on it, and red sneakers shaped like oversized clown shoes. While she is inflated, Lola is as round as a ball, her legs enveloped so that only her shoes are exposed.
Backstory
"This sweet-dreamin' clown has traveled the world as a street performer. With her well-honed clowning skills, she's developed crowd-pleasing maneuvers that confuse and confound opponents! She hopes to one day open a circus of her very own, and the prize money from winning the Grand Prix could make those dreams come true!" —Official description
Abilities
Shield inflation: Lola Pop is able to inflate her body while shielding, which appears to provide added defense[2] and allow her to slowly move around the stage while blocking.
Fast-dash jump: While inflated, she can immediately cancel into a fast dash or high jump.
Air shield: She can also inflate in the air while holding dash, causing her to shield herself for a short moment before dropping quickly and bouncing on the ground.
Bounce: She can chain these bounces to change position while retaining charge. This also helps her keep a defensive position while moving, because Lola cannot move from side to side when guarding normally.
Playstyle
The mobility options when shielding give Lola Pop unique ways of pressuring, retreating, and mixing up opponents to create openings. Her shield-dashes and bounces provide a wide variety of options, that though each individually punishable, can answer any choice from the opponents.
She is especially dangerous at the mid-range where her massive option pool means she can threaten in ways completely unique to her. Unpredictability is key to success with the Candy Clown.
ARM Recommendations
She works well with ARMS that keep opponents at a distance, and on the back foot with as few options as possible. There, she can almost overwhelm opponents with the sheer volume of possible moves she can make, all of which require different reads and punishes. Some examples are:
In Competitive Play
Lola Pop is often considered to be near the middle of competitive viability, though some have considered her somewhere closer to low high-tier.
Notable Players
- Twinedfive0 - One of the best players in North America and often regarded as the world's best Lola Pop main. He placed 2nd at EVO 2018, 4th at Smash'N'Splash 5, and 2nd in the ARMS VTuber Open.
- Replicant - A Lola Pop main from the United Kingdom who is also the best Lola Pop in Europe. He placed 2nd in the FellowsTV Open Circuit 2 and 5th in both The Moshpit and The Moshpit 3.
- Poppy JR. (Inactive) - A Lola Pop player from the United States who previously played Min Min and Max Brass. He placed 1st in Wifi Never Sleeps 5 and 5th in 2GGP: ARMS Circuit 1.
- Jiko (Inactive) - A top Lola Pop main from the United States. He placed 4th at 2GG: Hyrule Saga, 1st in the Scrapstar Series - ARMS NA 14, and 5th in The Appetizer.
- Hamma (Inactive) - A Lola Pop main from the Midwest known for his commentary work. He placed 13th at Smash Out Hunger 2017, 9th at Summer Jam 12, and 1st in Outlaw Skirmish.
- Wa (Inactive) - A Lola Pop main from the United States known for using the Homie. He placed 7th in Bamboo Battles: Hibernation Arc, 9th in Quarantined Rapport 2, and 5th in the ARMS North American Open (August 2020).
Version history
| Version history | ||
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| 3.0.0 | Added to game. | |
| 3.2.0 | ▲ Increased movement speed during air dashes.
▲ Increased movement speed while high jumping. | |
| 5.0.0 | ▲ Increased max charge time from 96 frames to 114 frames (1.6 seconds to 1.9 seconds). | |
| 5.2.0 | ▲ Increased movement speed while jumping. | |
Related Badges
- Main article: Achievements
| Description | Reward | Design | Unlock Criteria |
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| You've been living the sweet life for 50 rounds as Lola Pop! |
 60
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Play as Lola Pop 50 times. |
| You've had 500 performances as Lola Pop, and the audience keeps coming back for more! |
200
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Play as Lola Pop 500 times. |
| You've won 100 rounds against Lola Pop! Nothing's gonna sour that experience. |
100
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Defeat Lola Pop 100 times. |
| Lola Pop's lost 250 rounds against you. She's puffing out her cheeks in protest! |
200
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Defeat Lola Pop 250 times. |
| You reached level 5 in the 4th Party Crash! Choosing Lola Pop really paid off. |
30
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Choose Lola Pop in the fourth Party Crash event and reach level 5 (no longer obtainable), or get it randomly from the random badges (levels 15-30) obtainable in future Party Crashes. |
| You made it to level 10 in the 4th Party Crash? Lola Pop would be so proud. |
30
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Choose Lola Pop in the fourth Party Crash event and reach level 10 (no longer obtainable), or get it randomly from the random badges (levels 15-30) obtainable in future Party Crashes. |
| You reached level 5 in the 14th Party Crash! Nice work, Lola Pop! |
30
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Choose Lola Pop in the fourteenth Party Crash event and reach level 5 (no longer obtainable), or get it randomly from the random badges (levels 15-30) obtainable in future Party Crashes. |
| You reached level 10 in the 14th Party Crash! Way to be, Lola Pop! |
30
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Choose Lola Pop in the fourteenth Party Crash event and reach level 10 (no longer obtainable), or get it randomly from the random badges (levels 15-30) obtainable in future Party Crashes. |
| You've fought in 10 rounds of Twintelle vs. Lola Pop! |
60
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Participate in 1-on-1 matches between Twintelle and Lola Pop adding up to a total of ten or more rounds. |
| You've fought in 10 rounds of Lola Pop vs. Master Mummy! |
60
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Participate in 1-on-1 matches between Lola Pop and Master Mummy adding up to a total of ten or more rounds. |
| You won a battle as Lola Pop using the Popper. Lola Popper! Even saying it is fun! |
30
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Defeat an opponent using Lola Pop equipped with the Popper on at least one ARM. |
| You've fought 10 matches using each Lola Pop color! | 60
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Play 10 matches for each Lola Pop's 4 color palettes. |
| You reenacted the Ver. 3 title screen illustration. Agility vs. grace! | 30
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Participate in a fight between Ribbon Girl wielding double Sparkys and Lola Pop wielding double Funchuks. |
Appearances in other media
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Lola Pop cameos on an electronic billboard in the background of Spring Stadium.
Quotes
Gallery
Costumes
 Lola Pop's Costumes | |||||
| Up | Left | Right | Down | ||
  Yellow and Blue |
  Purple and Rainbow |
  Orange and Green |
  Brown | ||
To select a costume, click and hold 
, then hold 
in the direction of the desired costume while confirming with 
. Simply choosing a character without tilting the stick will select the first costume not taken (in the order of up-right-down-left) and if multiple players tilt the stick in the same direction while selecting the same character, they will be the same costume.
In-Game Screenshots
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Lola Pop jumping against Master Mummy.
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Lola Pop's inflated form while blocking.
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Version 3.0.0 alternate title screen.
Promotional Art
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Lola Pop performing on Via Dolce as Biff tries to sell cookies.
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Official art of Lola Pop stretching while Twintelle, Ribbon Girl, Min Min, and Mechanica watch.
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Official artwork of a circus act featuring Lola Pop, Spring Man, Master Mummy, and Biff.
Grand Prix Ending
Trivia
- Lola Pop was first teased by the official ARMS twitter account in August 2017.[3] Her full reveal came with a trailer on August 22nd during Gamescom 2017.[4]
- She is the only character who has the ability to move while blocking.
- She is one of two characters able to block in the air; the other being Dr. Coyle.
- Her name is a play on "lollipop."
- There is an implied rivalry between Biff and Lola, as they each have bakeries right next to each other, and one of her promotional art photos shows Biff glaring at her while she performs in front of her bakery. However, Lola appears to respect Biff, as his logo is used for her Biffler. Biff also happily helps Lola Pop with a performance in one piece of art, indicating that their relationship might not be quite so hostile.
- As coulrophobia (the fear of clowns) is effectively non-existent in Japan, the development team was surprised to receive negative feedback on Lola Pop's concept art from Nintendo of America, stating that some of the employees found her appearance to be a little scary. This amused Kosuke Yabuki, who felt that he "learned a weak point of Americans" after the exchange.[5]
- Lola Pop has two different renders; one of them being derived from the Version 3.0.0 title screen and was used in the main menu and her Grand Prix opponent title card while the primary render isn't used anywhere. This similarly occurs with Byte & Barq.
Names in other languages
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Lola Pop
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The Sucker Puncher
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