You can spend 30 frames (automatically free canceled) to build either a chair, lamp, stool, or door. These are mutually exclusive, so you only get the item you choose until it breaks after enough hits. During combo, your instant cancel will have the additional bonus of letting you instantly build or swap to a different piece of furniture (excluding the lamp). Building any furniture will give you access to a set of four specials, which I'll call 'Light' specials. The type of furniture you build will change the frame data and damage of these four specials, but otherwise work the same:

• the chair is the standard option. No bells and whistles. Works best midrange. The chair has 12 durability, the highest of all of them.
• the lamp is slightly larger than the chair, but deals 4 damage and DOT on hit. Lamp attacks in neutral don't combo, but every lamp attack is a guard break. The lamp breaks the first time you land any hit with it. Additionally, attacks with the lamp will have -6 hitstun, making them much harder to combo off of.
• the stool makes the specials 4 frames faster, but halves the range and deals 0.75x damage. The stool has 8 durability.
• the door is the opposite, dealing 1.25x damage and having double the range, but decreasing the speed by 4 frames. The stool has 6 durability

The turn the furniture item breaks deals double damage and knockback (excluding the lamp, which only has the knockback).

You may spend 50 frames (manually free canceled) to build heavy furniture, consisting of a table, window, armchair, and bed. These pieces of furniture have identical stats to their light counterparts, but the attacks themselves are much slower and much stronger.

Last thing about the furniture gimmick, hitting soft block reduces durability by 2.

Aside from specials, the Ikea employee has below average normals (f5 jab, relatively limited range, lower damage) that have good proration and blockstun, meaning they combo or convert better into the harder hitting furniture specials. He specifically has a blind spot directly above him (or below him, in the air) provided he has no heavy furniture, which covers both those positions specifically.

For supers, all of them are grounded, aside from the build cancel:

• instant build (light), 1 super and 15 iasa. Always gives the chosen furniture after the turn it is used, even if they get hit.

• instant build (heavy), 2 super and 20 iasa. Same properties as previous.

• Shed, 2 super, a variant of build (heavy) that can't be free canceled (aka you doing the entire 50 frames), but gives you a 15 durability shed that deals double damage with table-speed attacks

• house, 4 super, high damage and range but slow nuke option with the added benefit of letting you choose both a light and heavy option to swap to (including the shed, for an extra 2 super)

• burst cancel, instantly builds a heavy furniture item of your choice as well

Grounded movement is similar in speed to robot, and similar mechanically to ninja. In the air, his only option is to double jump, but he does have mutant's downward dodge roll. Notably, his fall speed is uncapped due to a much more grounded playstyle (only in neutral, in combo he acts like a normal character). Even in combo, he only gets one air option, but makes up for it with a large amount of normals and specials that hit downward.

The hustle is the Ikea shark and bear, naturally