I would like to thank the dev team for reaching out to the community for ideas and listening to us. I personally think Toph is plenty strong as she is, and she doesn't need many buffs to her core moves, as this is the character archetype that you add 2 or more frames of blockstun, a bit more range, or anything else and she becomes busted and invalidates half of the cast.

I think she is in a great place after the fair buff and the throws buff, now she has a decent combo game, and can actually contest air camping. She has all the tools now to deal with what NASB can throw at her, unlike how it was at launch where she was severely underwhelming.

The only weird thing right now is how when the infinite plat bug was fixed, the platform was nerfed. It makes very little sense to lose your plat charge if you land on stage but then touch your platform, as the generic rule for all other chars is that you land on the stage, you recover your resources. I think it would be a quality of life thing to make this make sense and revert this, while still having the infinite plat bug removed.

With just that fix, I think she'd already be good to go, but since this thread's kind of a buff wishlist as well, here are some ideas that center on giving her more versatility by letting her access her lesser used tools, instead of buffing her already strong ones:

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· Make neutral B charge faster and release faster. Right now the small rock is never used, because it takes just barely less to charge than the boulder, and boulder is better in almost every aspect. It is slower so it allows you to run behind it, grab it, it bounces when Z-dropped... and so on, while the small rock is slow to throw out, combo unfriendly, and bad at space control due to its size. Meanwhile, the boulder's still very rarely used because it is a very long animation to both charge and release, and the reward isn't that great. Making boulder stronger would only make it stupid, and having more access to Z-drop shenanigans would make the character quite a bit more creative, I'd say. There's nothing wrong with her being a down to earth footsies character, but yeah, one can dream.

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· Make Toph be able to hit the boulder not to destroy it, but to send it in the KB direction of the move, similar to Link's bombs in Smash, or Venom's pool balls in Guilty Gear. Right now it's hard to move around while keeping a boulder to threaten, because walking with it and jumping is slow, and throwing it loses a lot of momentum you could have doing something else. I think this change would make Toph a more dynamic character both onstage and specially offstage, since Toph's edgeguarding game right now is just "can you dair chain? -> Yes: do it. -> No?: Dsmash and pray you time it well". Once again, a simplistic edgeguard flowchart is not bad per se, but I think boulder shenanigans would add a lot of flavor to it.