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 GC
Research	1 required

Grants Buff

Buff	Vampire Frog(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
Buff tooltip	The vampire frog will fight for you

Projectile created

• Vampire Frog
  

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 4273 (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Internal Buff ID: 214 (Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)
• Internal Projectile ID: 758

 Obtained from

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Entity	Qty.	Rate
Wandering Eye Fish(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) Wandering Eye Fish(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)	1	12.5%
Zombie Merman(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) Zombie Merman(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions)	1	12.5%

The Vampire Frog Staff in action.

The Vampire Frog Staff is a pre-Hardmode summon weapon that spawns a Vampire Frog minion that follows the player and attacks enemies by dealing contact damage, as well by 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, cancels the buff, or leaves the world. The Vampire Frog Staff has a 1/8 (12.5%) chance of being dropped by Zombie Mermen and Wandering Eye Fish, both of which spawn while fishing during a Blood Moon.

Its best modifiers are Ruthless, Mythical, Masterful, Godly, Demonic, or Furious, which all raise its base damage by the same amount due to rounding.

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 are prone to getting stuck behind blocks. For more agile minions that can target airborne targets, the player can use the Flinx Staff.
• It can do relatively high damage at this point of the game, especially when paired with the Shark Tooth Necklace.
• Because the Vampire 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.

Trivia

• The Vampire Frog may be a reference to the Vampyrius vampyrus, also known as the vampire tree frog or vampire flying frog, an endangered frog species endemic to Vietnam.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.1.2: Damage decreased 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.

 Console version

• Console 1.4.0.5.4.1: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.4.0.5.5: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.4.0.5.0: Introduced.