Friday the Toad day

Like many of us I picked up 7* Toad today. Given his nerf, is he still worth an R3 and/or an AG?

Thinking not based on what I’ve read, but curious as to what the community thinks.

Comments

ahmynuts

No he's pretty useless tbh

peixemacaco

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/413144/friday-the-toad-day

7 days to get one of the best mutants that spill acid and regenerates a lot if you dont even fight, but only dex haha

And the acid degen is superb

ItsClobberinTime

Nah he's just a filler mid champ, I literally used the 2-3 gem on Star Lord 🤣

NARWH4L

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2941416#Comment_2941416

Same. And also considered multiple other champs without Toad entering the thought process.

Chuck_Finley

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2941416#Comment_2941416

same… figured R3 will be useful in the final hurdle to get Doom if nothing else.

hurricant

nerf?

ItsClobberinTime

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2941417#Comment_2941417

Yeah he's just pretty meh compared to what we got in the mutant class already, really no reason to use him or rank him if I want a Nick counter both DPX and Cassandra are better and by a lot.

ItsClobberinTime

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2941419#Comment_2941419

That's also what I thought, he will eventually come in handy to get SF Doom who will probably be another D Thanos so it's worth it.

And even if that wasn't the case his damage fully ramped is nuts so he will be very good for long form content, rampant AQ,and Colliseum in general:

Squidopus

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2941428#Comment_2941428

In a sense. They sold what they did to him as a Buff, but I despise what they did to my boy.

They improved his ability to ramp Prowesses a bit and gave him a few other minor beneficial tweaks, but in exchange they took a crowbar to the kneecaps of his Poison Passives.

Old Toad had decent special damage that took too long to come online, but had a very unique niche against Skills, particularly Skills with their own Purify or Cleanse like Kingpin or Chee’ilth, for being able to stack a truckload of Poison Passives that dealt great damage while never having to consume his resources. He was really good at that niche, and it gave him a very unique playstyle unlike any other Mutant. Now, his Poison Passives absolutely suck, so he’s stuck relying on the generic big special hits that any other Mutant can give you, probably faster and stronger too; I did say they buffed Toad’s ramp, but it’s still not terribly fast or overwhelmingly powerful.

It’s a real shame. If they hadn’t “buffed” him, I would genuinely have been quite happy to r4 him once I got that 7*. As is, I think he’s just gonna warm the bench at r1. Maybe I’ll rank him up one day when I have a bunch of spare resources, but my heart certainly isn’t in it at the moment.