Optional frog boss is most annoying boss

[Reaptor]

Seriously.
It has a pure bs tongue attack that is homing, so even if you dodge it, unless you dodge at the last possible second, the frog will turn on a dime mid animation to shoot in your direction. To make things worse, this attack is a one shot.
Then it just spams these range closing bites.

I almost threw a party when I killed this thing. Stupid frogs. This is the frog Alex Jones warned us about.

[Drake Ravenwolf]

Wait till you find the followup fight where you have to fight two at once

[Loci]

skill issue

[Reaptor]

Originally posted by david_soule:

skill issue

>...when I killed this thing.

So what's the skill issue here? That I killed it? I have too much skill?

[Tiasmoon]

Yeah, its a pretty stupid fight on multiple levels.

Not only is its main attack homing, it also has a massive hitbox that isnt accurate to its animation.

[iambear.]

TBH all of the wildlife fights are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and pointless

[Dowzii]

It's definitely the most aggravating enemy design I've encountered so far. It's able to combo its normal bite attack into literally any other attack it has and it will do so at random with absolute impunity, requiring you to have a serious reaction time if it decides to suddenly use one of its unblockable attacks (which are almost always a one-hit kill at this point in the game on grand master difficulty). Oh and I've seen it spam the unblockables multiple times at this point and boy howdy is that a hoot.

The Rancor I could manage over time by learning its moveset, but this damn frog just does whatever it wants and you have only tiny windows to punish it on grand master. If this thing attacked maybe a little slower it would be less rage-inducing, but I'm no game dev.

Oh and if you're having trouble dodging the tongue attack, jumping is your friend. Just don't land on the tongue though, it'll hit you and it'll look really weird.

[kmansp]

This is why I just dropped it to story mode for the frog and other boss fights. I don't know who actually enjoys dying over and over again, but screw that nonsense.

[Warmy]

you can not only jump to easily evade the the tongue attack but also the charge

[LazyAmerican]

Why do people complain about the tongue attack? It's super easy to jump over to avoid....can't stand his two red attacks up close...you need to be close and him changing between close range and the lunge is annoying as ****. And yea I said **** that will wait till I'm fully upgraded before fighting him and he'll still pry kill me lol.

[Reaptor]

Originally posted by Tiasmoon:

Not only is its main attack homing, it also has a massive hitbox that isnt accurate to its animation.

These two things right here were the most annoying thing about it.
It wasn't that his moveset was incredibly difficult, it's that I would get hit by the tongue when clearly out of the way. Like it's hitbox is larger than the tongue itself.

[Reaptor]

Originally posted by Warmy:

you can not only jump to easily evade the the tongue attack but also the charge

Why is "jump" marked as a spoiler? lol

[Tiasmoon]

Maybe so they could avoid getting called out on it? Idk. I didnt read that spoiler or I would have. Jumping doesnt do anything against the tongue, seeing how its homing after all.

They prolly didnt want to spoil an easy solution but really, it doesnt work.

[Reaptor]

Originally posted by LazyAmerican:

Why do people complain about the tongue attack?

Because it requires a perfect dodge, because he will turn last second, even pull a complete 180 and snap you up unless you dodge at the exact moment before the attack.

Also, if you decide to jump over it, you can still be in it's hitbox while not actually touching the tongue. One time I jumped over it and I got stuck in the grab animation (mid air) and was teleported into his mouth.

[dustin1280]

Originally posted by Stalking Reaptor:

Originally posted by LazyAmerican:

Why do people complain about the tongue attack?

Because it requires a perfect dodge, because he will turn last second, even pull a complete 180 and snap you up unless you dodge at the exact moment before the attack.

Also, if you decide to jump over it, you can still be in it's hitbox while not actually touching the tongue. One time I jumped over it and I got stuck in the grab animation (mid air) and was teleported into his mouth.

The tongue is actually one of the easiest moves to dodge...
Double jump to the side of the tongue, and you are good.

You can also double jump over his jumping charge (where he puffs up his cheek)
You sidestep his quick unblockable where he raises up and attacks down right away.

I beat this boss on grandmaster before I even had the other two styles available to me.

He is super tough and his recovery/chain unblockables are overtuned, but he is beatable.

FYI if you want to try cheese him you can do the following:
Pull both of the big hammer guys (that will appear above the level the frog drop is on) into the frog pit. They will generally take him down anywhere from 50% - to even potentially killing him on their own.

[Reaptor]

Originally posted by dustin1280:

It's not actually difficult at all...

Originally posted by dustin1280:

He is super tough

What?