Frog

Shotgun Froggy guide by Inkk_412

Here's a quick guide to "shotgun Froggy", which is a fairly common build among advanced players.

Personally my buy order is as follows:

Piggy>Dash>Thornfish>Boots>Health>Damage>Damage>Attack Speed>Attack Speed>Health>Tornado>Shield>Tornado Speed>whatever is left

I buy piggy and dash then run around collecting enough solar for Thornfish before the game starts and buy it before I head down to push.

While pushing, because you are so fragile, the idea is to get as many attacks off with the double damage from Thornfish from behind creeps as possible - keeping dash ready so you can stun and set up kills with your team mates.

Save up enough solar for boots/health then go buy them. Now you can play a bit more aggressively due to your speed and extra survivability. Farm the neutral creeps often for gold/health. This is pretty important but be aware of the other teams movements so you aren't ganked.

As you add damage to your gun you will be able to push towers more and more easily, especially with creeps, this leads to early game map control against most teams. Keep stacking your damage and attack speed and you can both get a lot of kills with stun/attack and push towers with ease.

Late game as you start investing in tornado you will find you can run into a tower and pop the shield tornado, then jump up and down firing shots (so you take less tower hits) and do roughly 30% of the towers health just by yourself whenever you like (backdooring is particularly effective). Also as you upgrade tornado speed you will find it surpasses your movement speed, which makes for great quick attack combos by dashing in getting a few shots off then using tornado shield+speed for a quick, protected escape.

Don't be scared to fight Leons by jumping around them while they try and get melee hits, your large jump combined with your high damage often confuses them into feeding.

With this playstyle you can both push aggressively and get a fair amount of kills, and aslong as you are somewhat decent at moving around the map you shouldn't be killed very often if at all (unless you get greedy). Using your dash to help your team mates is also pretty key, time that stun to perfection and you can both save lives and take them with ease.

And yeah thats basically shotgun froggy in a nutshell.