Frinos Vs Toula

[wyatt]

Which pet is better in your opinion

[lyravega]

Frinos. Don't have to play that stupid mini-game, just enjoy your free Psyche.

[Mazdaspeeding]

Frinos. Dance around him for free blocks and like above, enjoy your free Psyche

[hewittlemming]

Frinos, he can block shoots and I need more immediate health more than another death defiance. I can get up to 3 with DD with just the card and the skeleton keepsake, 4 if I upgrade the card again.

[LaChouette]

Frinos, for one reason that nobody's given yet: he's the cuter of the two.

[guts' theme (Cut & Looped)]

Frinos 100%, even before I learned that you could upgrade the Arcana meter using Psyche.

[Auzzy]

Frinos, but i still use Toula time to time cause 300~ damage can be nice sometimes when im playing with a range build. increases damage. but that's more so a personal preference. objectively frinos is better

[Forblaze]

I don't think either of them contribute enough to combat for that to matter. It's just a question of if you want psyche or bones. So frinos until you get 30 grasp, then toula.

[spice_]

I think initially when you need green fluff Frinos is S-tier no doubt (especially post-patch) then when you will need bones take cat.

[Lionheartwolf]

Froggo. I hope they adjust the cat. I think it's funny the same way I think not being able to pause the Chronos fight is funny, but the gimmick gets old super quick, then its just an annoying mechanic. The cat isn't balanced well enough to justify that gimmick.

[Nikolaus]

Originally posted by Forblaze:

I don't think either of them contribute enough to combat for that to matter. It's just a question of if you want psyche or bones. So frinos until you get 30 grasp, then toula.

Pretty much this. Once you're done with grasp 30 farming you need soooo much bones for different stuff that you might as well have the cat equipped at all times since fish sell for bones only and every bit helps.

[Auzzy]

well frinos gives extra hp, and toula gives extra death defiance. you can upgrade them via treats. with frinos maxed he makes the base of 30 hp to 70 hp. really helps when you go no arcane runs. with toula i not sure how many death defiance she gives at max. im maxing her out second.

[Fringehunter7719]

Originally posted by Auzzy:

well frinos gives extra hp, and toula gives extra death defiance. you can upgrade them via treats. with frinos maxed he makes the base of 30 hp to 70 hp. really helps when you go no arcane runs. with toula i not sure how many death defiance she gives at max. im maxing her out second.

Frinos gives +40HP max, Toula gives one death defiance which restores 40HP when maxed.

If you have 3 standard death defiance that means Frinos returns 40+16+16+16= 88HP total. Whereas Toula gives you 40HP + any overkill damage for that final death defiance, which tends to be less.

The higher HP total also interacts with various boons and arcanas, like higher crit chance when below 30HP, or more damage when above 80% HP. There are far more of those that favour HP over death defiance (The only thing that scales with death defiance that I am aware of is the Hades boon to deal 10% more damage per missing death defiance, which has minimal value).

[wwwJam]

I like bones.
Toula catches fish quickly, which give me lots of bones.
Toula also actually does a bit of damage. She killed Chronos for me once while I was panicking avoiding hourglass balls, that was cool.
Toula is also a cute kitty.
I like Toula.

[J.]

Frinos by far. Toula's damage is too annoying and weak to make use of and Frinos is the better defensive option with being able to block projectiles reliably. Toula's defiance is ok but Frinos giving you Max HP essentially results in the same thing if not better