Vampire Frog Staff

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Vampire Frog Staff

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	11 (Summon)
Knockback	5 (Average)
Mana	10
Use time	36 (Very slow)
Velocity	10
Tooltip	Summons a vampire frog to fight for you
Rarity	03*
Sell	1
Research	1 required

Grants Buff

Buff	Vampire Frog
Buff tooltip	The vampire frog will fight for you

Projectile created

• Vampire Frog
  

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 4273
• Internal Buff ID: 214
• Internal Projectile ID: 758

The Vampire Frog Staff in action.

The Vampire Frog Staff is a ground melee summon weapon. It spawns a Vampire Frog minion that follows the player and attacks enemies using its tongue. Like other minions, the summoned Vampire Frog is invincible and follows the player for an unlimited amount of time, unless the player dies, summons a replacement minion, or cancels the buff. It has a 12.5*1/8 (12.5%) to be dropped by a Zombie Merman or Wandering Eye Fish, both of which spawn while fishing during a Blood Moon.

Its best modifier is Ruthless. The Mythical modifier provides the widest array of stat bonuses, but these primarily affect the initial summon rather than the resulting minion. Additionally, minions cannot deal critical hits. The only lasting advantage a Mythical Vampire Frog Staff has over a Ruthless one is knockback.

Tips

• This minion can be obtained earlier than the Hornet Staff and is fairly useful for close-range defense and clearing out enemies in open areas. However, Vampire Frogs do not fly, are prone to getting stuck behind blocks, and are strictly close-range.
• It can do very high damage at this point of the game when paired with the Shark Tooth Necklace.
• Because the frog deals damage on contact rather than with a bespoke attack pattern, the vampire frog is one of the few minions that can be tested on target dummies without an enemy onscreen.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.1.2: Damage reverted from 13 to 11.

• Desktop 1.4.1:
  • Damage increased from 11 to 13.
  • Enemies can now be damaged by their entire body, not just the tongue, when they are attacking.
  • Now use independent immunity timers.
  • Drop chance increased from 1/24 to 1/8.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.4.0.5.0: Introduced.