Appearance:
Croaks is a brown frog with a white belly. He wears a brown belt, brown boxing gloves and red pants/leggings. Ribby is a green frog who happens to be shorter than his brother, also having a white belly. He wears red boxing gloves, a red belt and white pants/leggings.
Personality:
All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews. The slot machine is invulnerable until you activate the lever attacks. Last edited by very sketch; Dec 25, 2017 @ 1:31pm #1. Dec 25, 2017 @ 1:31pm You have to do a parry on the slot machine's pink boxing glove when it comes down. All Cuphead bosses have multiple phases, making each one a perilous fight that requires twitchy movements and keen pattern recognition. Now that Cuphead has been ported from Xbox One/PC to Nintendo Switch, we decided to rank the boss fights by difficulty, from easiest to hardest. For more on Cuphead, make sure to check out our beginner’s.
Ever since their childhoods, Ribby and Croaks have been tough fighters that are always looking for a good fight. According to their second phase’s death screen, they’re from the wrong side of the lily pad, which is why they act crude and bad.
Phases:
Phase 1
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In the first phase, the two frogs take turns attacking the players in a set pattern that is easily memorized and avoided:
Croaks will spit out seven fireflies (which are literally on fire) that will slowly inch closer to damage the players. These bugs are easily disposable by simply shooting at them. Because of this, Croaks’s attack is much easier to avoid than Ribby’s.
Ribby throws fist shaped hadoukens at the player in a set pattern: one close to the ground, one slightly higher off the ground and one high off the ground. The pattern reverses after the third pink glove (which can be parried). Due to how fast these punches travel, many players get hurt or even killed by Ribby’s attack.
Once taking enough damage, Ribby rolls to the other side, attempting to damage the players, crashing at something off-screen and comes back at other side. This commences the second phase of the attack.
In expert mode, both Ribby and Croaks do their attacks in unison, rather than individually.
There’s a secret knockout here. (at first phase).
Quote:
”We’ve had fightin’ souls since we’ve been tiny tadpoles.”
Phase 2
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In this phase, players are now surrounded by the two, with Ribby on the left and Croaks on the right. They will now attack simultaneously, altough Croak’s attack is a little bit longer then Ribby’s.
Ribby will throw ball-like projectiles bouncing up and down, while Croaks, by spinning himself rapidly like a fan, blows the players away and pushes them towards Ribby’s attack to damage them. Ribby’s attack can be avoided by dashing or smoke-dashing away, even while being blown away.
After taking enough damage, Croaks opens his mouth as Ribby rolls into him, attempting to damage the players again. After that, Croaks swallows Ribby and becomes a slot machine which commences the final phase of the battle.
If played on Simple difficulty, the battle will simply end with Croaks pounding his fist, and Ribby crying.
In expert mode, Ribby will be throwing hadoukens after finishing his first set of attacks, later changing back to his regular attack in his phase.
Quote:
”Crude and bad, ‘cause we’re from the wrong side of the lily pad.”
Final Phase
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How To Beat Frogs Cuphead
In this phase, the player(s) can not damage Croaks and Ribby, who have now fused into a slot machine, in any way until they hit the crank by parrying it.
Before players can hit the crank, the machine will spit out coins through a slot. By pulling the crank, the machine will turn through different symbols until all three land on a certain symbol, which signifies the attack that the machine will use. The machine will open a giant metal hatch in its bottom half which shoots out moving platforms with various properties changing between attacks. There are three possible attacks that can be performed:
Tiger: Orange platforms that have orange balls floating up and down on their centers, which must be dodged to not get damaged.
Snake: Smaller but faster green platforms that need to be jumped on continuously, or else you get damaged.
Bull: Red platforms appear at the middle of the screen that will have fire shooting above or below the players.
Once players pull enough damage, the slot machine is defeated.
In expert mode, the slot machine will spit out coins faster.
Quote:
”You went for broke and now you’re croaked!”
Cuphead: How To Beat Ribby And Croaks (Clip Joint Calamity)
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