Editing Toad (move)

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'''Toad''' ({{ja|キノピオガード|Kinopio Gādo}}, ''Toad Guard'') is [[Peach]] and {{SSBU|Daisy}}'s [[neutral special move]].

Peach pulls out Toad and holds him out in front of her. Upon being hit, Toad will emit a damaging shower of spores. Unlike most other counterattacks, which increase in damage when countering stronger attacks, Toad's spores do the same damage (3% each for a total of 18%) and knockback regardless of the power of the blocked attack. The spores themselves can be [[absorb]]ed, and the move is in fact the only [[counterattack]] that fires [[projectile]]s when activated; this can be exploited by characters who possess [[Reflection|reflectors]] with damaging hitboxes, such as Mario, Zelda or Fox, who can hit Peach with their reflectors in order to trigger her counterattack, causing her to get hit by the spores as a result of the reflectors continuing to remain active after initially hitting Peach. When using this move in midair, Peach will float upwards upon the first use, which can be used to surprise an opponent.

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Toads appear in a variety of colors, blue included. {{s|supermariowiki|Blue Toad}} is playable in ''{{s|supermariowiki|New Super Mario Bros. Wii}}'', ''{{s|supermariowiki|New Super Mario Bros. U}}'', and ''{{s|supermariowiki|New Super Luigi U}}'', and a separate blue Toad only named Toad is playable in ''{{s|supermariowiki|Super Mario Bros 2}}'' and ''{{s|supermariowiki|Super Mario 3D World}}''. Toads do not have any known direct affiliation with Daisy outside of her close friendship with Peach, but Toads can be partnered with her in various spin-off games, and if she defeats Bowser in ''{{s|supermariowiki|Super Mario Run}}'', she rescues Toad instead of Peach. Blue Toads were the color of Toad that supported Daisy on her team in ''{{s|supermariowiki|Mario Strikers Charged}}''. Blue Toads are also among the various Toad colors that can be seen piloting Daisy-themed hot-air balloons on N64 Royal Raceway in ''{{s|supermariowiki|Mario Kart 8}}'' and ''{{s|supermariowiki|Mario Kart 8 Deluxe}}'', alongside ones themed after Peach and [[Rosalina]].

*This is the only counter move that is not a [[down special]]. However, the animations for the attack in ''Melee'' name it as "SpecialLw", implying it was originally going to be (with [[Vegetable]]'s animations being named as "SpecialN").

**As such, this is the only counter that [[Kirby]] can [[Inhale (Kirby)|copy]]. Kirby's animations, curiously, still name the attack as "SpecialLw".

*Interestingly, Toad is referred to as "he" in Peach's Move List, but is referred to as "it" in Daisy's. The reason for this may be that the main Toad has developed his own identity, but other colors of Toads are not as significant in the series, and are seen as a species rather than their own character.

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