Pinniped

The Pinniped guild was founded by high-level Bear mains that decided to spend their evolution points intoAquatic Mobility and survival skills. For Mobility, Pinnipeds specced into changing their paws to flippers. This was a huge sacrifice in terms of damage but gave them an enormous buff to Mobility in the water. The other major investment was diving abilities, the most important of which is their heavily reinforced respiratory system. Their lungs and trachea reinforced with extra cartilage and muscle to ensure their respiratory system do not get damaged by the pressure of deep diving. They are also immune to the debuffs Oxygen Toxicity and Decompression Sickness. With these changes, Pinniped players were able to bring the terror that is the Bear build to a playerbase totally unfamiliar with the matchup. They were extremely successful and dominant, being able to expand to servers all throughout the game world. Customization of the build led to the division between the Seals, the Sea Lions and the Walruses.

## Notable Pinniped Builds

### Sea Lion

Although they're much more mobile in the water, Sea Lions do retain the ability to run on land. This allows them to evade attacks from the water's edge and chase down targets on the beach. Their Mobility on land ensures that matchups between them and fully terrestrial players aren't horribly one-sided. Nevertheless, Sea Lions are some of the best swimmers in the game and are much more agile than Seals. They have a higher attack accuracy in the water because they can make sharper turns. In addition, their more powerful flippers can allow them to reach speeds higher than the Seal's top speeds, although only in short bursts. Sea Lions use teamwork for a lot of things, whether it be keeping warm, defending new players from raids, or trapping Fish players. Sea Lions belong in B tier.

### Seal

Seals have one of the lowest Mobility rankings on land and are forced to use less effective movement options such as bouncing, crawling, and scooting. As a result they are much more vulnerable to predators on land. In the water, it's a different story. Seals are excellent swimmers. They focus on efficiency rather than agility and can travel extremely long distances without having to rest. They can dive about four times deeper than Sea Lions and therefore, have much larger territories. They can access sources of XP that Sea Lions would run out of oxygen or stamina before reaching. On average, Seals are C tier. However, Seals do have a few specialist classes that outrank Sea Lions. The Leopard Seal is the only Seal which can outmatch the Sea Lion in terms of Power. It's also one of the only Pinnipeds that can survive that can survive the cold temperatures of the antarctic server, granting it free reign to terrorize the Penguin population there. There's also the Elephant Seal, a build so bulky that the only builds that can bring them down are the Great White Shark and Orca. Both of these builds sit far above other Seals on the tier list and likely would place at the top of B tier.

### Walrus

The best Pinniped build and the best arctic build is by far the Walrus. It has two tusks which are very useful for defense. While they admittedly have a bad matchup against Orcas, they can escape onto land where they can easily hold their own. Even Polar Bear players would only pick fights with a Walrus if they have literally no other option. And when they do it, it usually doesn't end well for them. Their insane size and thick blubber makes most attacks from predators laughably weak. Meanwhile their counter-attacks do enough damage to make any aggressor reconsider choosing the class they did. They are the only Pinnipeds that break into S tier.