Short-tailed River Stingray

The Short-tailed River Stingray is a river stingray build playable in the Rio de la Plata basin server in South America. It is one of the largest playable freshwater Fish builds in South America, only rivalled by the Arapaima and Piraiba builds, which are both part of the Actinopterygii faction, making this the largest playable elasmobranch and Cartilaginous Fish build that can only play in freshwater servers. It is also known as the Giant Freshwater Stingray (no, not this one, which is playable in the Mekong River server).

## Overview

This build has a decent Health stat, allowing it to shrug off hits from the several builds playable in its server. Its tail has poisonous barbs in it, allowing it to deal decent damage. It specs into a decent camouflage and flat hitbox, having high Stealth stats while having below-average Mobility. Like with other builds from the Chondrichthyes faction, this build has thick cartilaginous skin, giving it a good Defense stat.

## Moveset

**Barb Stab (Active, Attack)**- A decent Spacing attack which can deal moderate damage and inject venom to a target.

**Armor Crusher (Passive, Attack)**- Attacks ignore 80% of armor.

**Pancake Camouflage (Passive, Utility)**- Provides a good Stealth boost in the bottom of the aquatic server. Also, makes it harder to land an effective grab.

## Tier Placement

A-tier. This build is easily viable in its home server, being able to body builds like molluscs, Crustaceans and other Fish builds. It can remain undetected by most players thanks to their [Pancake Camouflage] ability, which also makes it more difficult to land a grab on. It can also chew its loot, potentially earning more EXP from exoskeletons and lessening the risk of choking. However, its short tail means that it is a bit riskier to use the tail without opening yourself up for counter-attack and also means you would attack with your tail slower. Stingrays are meant to have a long tail for quick, easy attacks, but this build cannot perform that just as easily. Losing the tail also means that you are pretty much screwed. Still a pretty solid build, though.

## Hall of Fame

The Short-tailed River Stingray is seen in the episode of River Monsters, "Deadly Assasin" where beastmaster Jeremy travels to the Parana River to investigate the death of a girl (early-game female Human player) by this main.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/short-tailed-river-stingray/m0h638wl?hl=en
2. ↑ https://www.finsunited.co.nz/bite-blog/short-tailed-river-stingray
3. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282354324\_Geographic\_distribution\_of\_the\_short-tailed\_river\_stingray\_Potamotrygon\_brachyura\_Assessing\_habitat\_loss\_and\_fishing\_as\_threats\_to\_the\_world's\_largest\_obligate\_freshwater\_elasmobranch
4. ↑ http://wikipedia.us.nina.az/wiki/Potamotrygon\_brachyura
5. ↑ http://www.fishing-worldrecords.com/scientificname/Potamotrygon%20brachyura/show
6. ↑ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2068140/Battle-deep-Angler-snares-20-stone-deadly-stingray-hour-standoff.html
7. ↑ https://en.linkfang.org/wiki/Short-tailed\_river\_stingray
8. ↑ https://worldwidescience.org/topicpages/s/stingray+genus+potamotrygon.html
9. ↑ https://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/features/definitive-guide-to-south-american-freshwater-rays/
10. ↑ https://utsc.utoronto.ca/news-events/archived/it-turns-out-these-freshwater-stingrays-chew-their-food-just-goat
11. ↑ https://carnivora.net/giant-freshwater-short-tailed-river-stingray-potam-t2100.html
12. ↑ https://river-monsters.fandom.com/wiki/Short-Tailed\_River\_Stingray