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Mekong River

The Mekong River is one of the largest river servers in the entire world covering 4,909 km of area. The server has a great variety of available builds available, about 830 builds, which is rivalled by the Amazon River server's 5600 available builds.

## The Four Heavyweights:

### Mekong Giant Catfish

The Mekong Giant Catfish is a catfish build which belongs to the shark catfish class, speccing away
from [Barbels] in favour of increased Health. It is a peaceful filter-feeding build has low Mobility. Despite this, the tanky build had no predator builds, making it B-tier.

### Giant Barb

A build similar to the Mekong Giant Catfish but for the Carp guild, the Giant Barb also speccs into a high Health and low Mobility. The Giant Barb also has no predators, like the other contenders in this list. Despite its playerbase name, the Giant Barb build has no barbels. It also has scales, giving it extra Defense. All of these make this build B-tier.

### Giant Pangasius

A build known by its playerbase name, the dog-eating catfish, so named because it loots defeated Domestic Dog players,This build's playstyle allows it to loot defeated heavyweight players. It can also grief lightweights when defeated players are rare. It also has decent Mobility.

### Giant Freshwater Stingray

A build known to damage aquatic mounts and has great Power, Health and Stealth. It has decent Electro-Reception and Armor Crusher abilities. Unlike the other builds in this list, the Giant Freshwater Stingray poses an actual threat to Human mains, making this build S-tier.

## Other builds

### Irrawaddy Dolphin

The Irrawaddy Dolphin is a whale build that can switch between freshwater and saltwater servers similar to what bull sharks do in other servers. The dolphins have decent intelligence allowing for team strategies. These builds are in A tier kept out of S tier due to problems with humans and low power and defense

## References

1. ↑ http://www.mrcmekong.org/mekong-basin/
2. ↑ http://archive.iwlearn.net/mrcmekong.org/Catch-Culture/vol15\_2Aug09/fishes-of-the-Mekong.htm
3. ↑ https://www.livescience.com/57266-amazon-river.html
4. ↑ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/m/mekong-giant-catfish/
5. ↑ https://worddisk.com/wiki/Giant\_barb/
6. ↑ https://www.fishbase.in/summary/12060
7. ↑ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/g/giant-barb/
8. ↑ https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2010/07/27/dog-eating-catfish-other-river-giants-threatened-by-mekong-dam-plan/
9. ↑ https://www.whatsthatfish.com/fish/giant-pangasius/3685
10. ↑ https://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/fishkeeping-news/seven-fish-best-left-in-the-wild/
11. ↑ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/g/giant-freshwater-stingray/
12. ↑ https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Himantura\_chaophraya/
13. https://tier-zoo.fandom.com/wiki/Irrawaddy\_Dolphin
Pelican

Pelicans are a water Bird build. They are an interesting build because they feed at the surface of the water, a dangerous spot to be. These builds, thus go for the Glass Cannon playstyle by using their [Flight] ability to escape.

## Abilities

### Swallow Whole

Type:Attack

Effect:An AOE grab attack that can hit a lot of Fish players.

### Flight

Type:Utility

Effect:Allows the player to fly

### Parental Care

Type:Team Play

Effect:Protects players while on the character selection screen as well as early-game players.

### Fish Breath

Type:Debuff

Effect:Emits an AOE projectile Resolve-lowering cloud.

### Fowl Play

Type:Support

Effect:Intimidation scales with opponent's size

### Fowl Play

Type:Support

Effect:Extremely high Resolve.

## Tier Placement

**General**

B-tier Glass Cannon.They have abnormally high Resolve, thus giving them very high resistance to Intimidation. They also have a powerful Resolve lowering AOE and powerful Intimidation tactics. However, they have disadvatages. B-tier Glass Cannon. While the [Swallow Whole] attack can AOE PK lower weight classes, the ability does nothing to even or larger weight classes. They, despite having [Flight], have low Mobility, thus allowing Shark and Human mains to easily grief them. This ability also allows kleptomaniac troll builds like Gulls to easily troll them. Their Resolve-lowering AOE also reduces its Stealth.

**Compared to Other Birds**

However, when compared to other birds, this build ranks in A+ tier. Because they are the only build that has the "grappler" ability, usually they are using this for fishing but also they can eat other small animals like rats, frogs, and smaller birds. But this has limitations. They also have resistance to intimidation, meaning they can stand their ground against build like high tier canines.
Orodus

Orodus (Mountain Tooth) is a banned Holocephalid build playable from the late Carboniferous to the early Permian Expansion. playable in current meta North America.

## Overview

This build is rather large for Shark builds of its own meta. This build is a cestraciont main which means that it is specialized for dealing against Defense-based builds like shellfish. Its tachypelagic playstyle gives it an above-average Mobility.

## Moveset

**Mountain Bite (Active, Attack)**- A version of the [Bite] ability that does 50% mor damage against armored builds.

**Streamlining (Passive, Mobility)**- Increases Mobility by 80%.

## Tier Placement

B-tier. Due to its stats, it can hold itself well against other builds of its time. However, it is still vulnerable to other gankers of its time as it had no real defensive capabilities other than Mobility.

## Referrences

1. ↑ http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/88277-translate-latin-names/
2. ↑ https://www.mindat.org/taxon-P390145.html
3. ↑ https://palaeopedia.tumblr.com/post/54656195997/the-mountain-teeh-orodus-1838-phylum
4. ↑ https://en.linkfang.org/wiki/Orodus
5. ↑ https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/orodus/m03ym31b?hl=en
6. ↑ https://www.wordnik.com/words/orodus
7. ↑ https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Cestraciont
8. ↑ https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=BGHxCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&dq=orodus+tachypelagic&source=bl&ots=LrmjnRajLP&sig=ACfU3U3aY-GkQcGUmtPPzUx1oOagTHIdTw&hl=xx-bork&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjZ\_JjQ4P\_wAhXbyYsBHUocDaIQ6AEwAnoECA4QAg#v=onepage&q=orodus%20tachypelagic&f=false
9. ↑ http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/topics/de\_ecomorphotypes.htm
10. ↑ https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=j--XRbVl2DoC&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=orodus+durophagous+teeth&source=bl&ots=eZaS7i3nOr&sig=ACfU3U00BI0Zjozyd3GZVlNn2nOEbgm30Q&hl=xx-bork&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiC4Ib73IHxAhWKdXAKHQkyC5oQ6AEwDnoECBUQAg#v=onepage&q=orodus%20durophagous%20teeth&f=false
Mongoose

## Overview

Mongoose are a guild that includes meerkats and most surprisingly, hyena mains. However, unlike the hyena, which specialises in bite force, they specialise in griefing cobra mains, including the highest ranked snake: the Cobra. Their stats and special abilities make the matchup against snakes completely one sided.

## Tier Placement

Low B tier. Their ability to take down snake mains in their home server in Africa is quite impressive. However their fragility makes them susceptible to most other players in the region.
Seriema

a little baby terror bird

Seriemas are the last surviving member of the order Cariamiformes, which were known for the terror birds, who terrorized the meta after the dinosaurs were banned. Seriemas are also called by some of the playerbase as the South American Secretary Bird.

## Overview

Seriemas prey on small vertebrates, mainly on snakes, lizards, birds, and rodents that populate the grasslands of South America
This build has a great intelligence, allowing it search for rocks to smash small animals on. They have high power and speed need to quickly grab poisonous snakes and smash them on a rock or on the ground. This build is best played on the ground, where you can utilize the height and speed to the fullest. These builds can travels in pairs, which allows them to spot potential threats easily.

## Abilities and Skills

### Long Leg

This build like most builds in the grassland spent points into longer legs. It increases perception in the tall grass which helps spotting prey and predators. It also increases the speed of the animal, and decreases the chance of shorter builds from hitting the user.

### Sickle Claw

If the build killed is too big to swallow, this build has a sickle claw used to cut flesh into smaller pieces. It also increases the damage of foot attacks.

## Tier Placement

This build does very well in its server. The long legs help this build avoid counter attacks and detect other players, its intelligence is quite high for a bird, and the mobility is great on the ground. If there is any major threats this build can easily fly away. This build, like the Secretary Bird, gets into S tier.
Platypterygius

Platypterygius is one of the last icthyosaur builds,playable during the Cretacous metain the Australian server.A fossil with bite damage to the snout was found in the Australian server.

## Species

### Location

North America, South America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand

## Tier Placement

B-tier. The reason Platypterygius was able to last in the Cretacous meta, where they are able to compete with Sauropterygians and Sharks is because of its ability to body larger players,which it easily dispatched by shaking them side to side. It also had good Mobility. It was not high-tier due to the already existing Kronosaurus build, but it was still good anyways. Later, icthyosaurs (including this build) became F-tier due to the already existing Mosasaurus, but that theory had been largely debunked, citing the low rate of Evolution Point gain as the reason icthyosaur mains dropped their build entirely.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/2/2/11/htm
2. ↑ http://prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2017/02/platypteregius-beast-of-week.html
3. ↑ https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/platypterygius-australis/
4. ↑ https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/05/sea-monster-battle-preserved-ages
5. ↑ http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/p/platypterygius.html
6. ↑ https://www.thoughtco.com/ichthyosaur-pictures-and-profiles-4084173
7. ↑ https://www.kronosauruskorner.com.au/museum/collections/platypterygius#:~:text=It%20is%20possible%20that%20Platypterygius%20dispatched%20such%20small-bodied%20prey,bite%20marks%20from%20other%20Platypterygius.
8. ↑ https://www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/35789523805
9. ↑ https://www.livescience.com/14022-ichthyosaur-ancient-sea-creature-fossils.html
10. ↑ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4786747/
Redtail Catfish

Range: 50

The redtail catfish is a fairly heavyweight catfish main from the Amazon server, but has also leaked into other freshwater servers.

## Tier Placement

B-tier. A build with a long [Barbel] hitbox, allowing it to easily detect other players to grief. Also a decent tank with low Mobility and good Stealth shown above. In fact, they have even spread to other servers. However, due to their large size for a fish main, aggressiveness and ability to body smaller tankmates, this fish build is D-tier as support.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://www.tnaqua.org/our-animals/fish/redtail-catfish
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://www.megafishingthailand.com/fish-species-in-Thailand/introduced/redtail-catfish-phractocephalus-hemioliopterus/
3. ↑ https://www.hookerspattaya.com/our-fish/amazon-redtail-catfish/
4. ↑ https://animal-world.com/encyclo/fresh/catfish/redtailcat.php
5. ↑ https://www.fishkeepingworld.com/redtail-catfish/
Pilandok

The pilandok build is one of the smallest hooved animal builds. It is found only in the Balabac lobby of the Philippine server. This build has an overall brown and black coat coat with three white stripes down its throat towards its chest.

## Tier Placement

This build does not really have superior Intelligence that those memes suggest. In reality, the only saving grace this build has are its protection recieved from pythons and its nocturnal playstle. While it does have canines for a little bit of Power, it has specced into small size, making it deal nearly no damage to many predator builds. Other than that, its mostly low stats and skill ceiling brings it down to mid D-tier.

## Referrences

1. ↑ http://philmuseum.ueuo.com/nm\_museum/nmtreasure/zoo/pilandok.html
2. ↑ http://mgahayopsapilipinas.weebly.com/pilandok.html
3. ↑ https://www.fondazioneslowfood.com/en/ark-of-taste-slow-food/philippine-mouse-deer/
4. ↑ https://hariragat.blogspot.com/2015/04/introducing-pilandok.html
5. ↑ https://www.pressreader.com/philippines/tempo-9gc1/20180827/281741270281237
6. ↑ http://www.ultimateungulate.com/Artiodactyla/Tragulus\_nigricans.html
7. ↑ https://environment.elnidoresorts.com/2015/11/16/creature-feature-philippine-mouse-deer-2/
8. ↑ http://www.nationalmuseum.gov.ph/nationalmuseumbeta/Collections/Zoology/Tragulus.html
Quokka

Our lord and savior, Quokka.

The quokka build is a herbivorous marsupial that is mostly nocturnal. They are part of the macropod guild.

## Overview

Overall the Quokkas stats are pretty bad except for intelligence. With awful power and defense and bad health, mobility, and stealth they are not very good in the stat department. They mainly speck into abilities.

## Abilities

### Pouch

A Quokka’s pouch can house 2 babies at once, a premature baby, and the hopping new player. Mom also has 2 different milk types for both.

### Abandonment

Mother Quokkas will a distract predator with a new player, her baby, for an easy get away. The new player makes noises to attract the predator, and usually can get away, too. However, this is not being used as much, as quokkas have very few predators.

### Nocturnal

This ability means that it is only active at night. This ability is nerfing the quokka because diurnal playerbases aren't uncommon.

## Tier Placement

Quokkas are probably C tier for a few reasons. Firstly, all their stats are low except for intelligence suprisingly as it is a marsupial. It also is Nocturnal and has the Abandon ability which means that more quokkas reach it to the late game because if it didn't have the abandon ability, both the low level player and the parent will get a game over on their screen.
Ocean

Ocean is the largest server of the game. Although it does not contain the largest amount of builds, it contains the largest amount of different factions.

## Ocean

The ocean can be divided up into six sub-servers with completely different biomes and ecosystems

* Atlantic ocean
* Pacific ocean
* Indian ocean
* Southern ocean
* Arctic ocean
* Abysssal Depth

### Difficulty

The ocean can be one of the most dangerous servers in the game, however if done with the right builds in the correct Sub-servers it can be a breeze, Humans have made multiple of species extinct from The Indian Ocean or Atlantic Ocean but hardly any species ever from the Abyss server or the Arctic Ocean server. The Apex Predators are considered "better" than those of other servers like Europe or Australia .

### Notable Ocean Builds Include:

* ~~Plesiosauria~~
* ~~Megalodon~~
* Sea Turtle
* Great White Shark
* Most Other Sharks
* Octopus
* Orca
* Whale
* Squid
* starfish

###
Oviraptor

Oviraptor was a dinosaur build that played in the Asia server during the Cretaceous known for their parental care abilities.

## Overview

Oviraptor had a high intelligence stat for a dinosaur being able to properly care for their young. They also had a very good mobility stat having a mobility stat close to an ostrich. However their other stats leave more to be desired, they had bad power, defense, and only slightly above average stealth. They had a diet of plants, seeds, and smaller animals

## Abilities

### Eyesight

Oviraptor had good eyesight due to their larger eyes, this gave them stereoscopic vision

### Feathers

Oviraptor had feathers that gave them insulation and gave a speed boost to hatching eggs

## Tier Placement

The Oviraptor was in high D tier. They had some good things going for them like high intelligence, feathers, and good eyesight. But they had almost zero defenses if a build like Tarbosaurus or Velociraptor attacked them. This only results in high D tier but still a great class to play for experienced players.
Pacu

The pacu is a build related to the Piranha build. These are basically normally vegetarian, having nuts as their primary loot source but can also switch to fruits and other lightweight builds when nut loot spawns are rare.

## Tier Placement

These builds are a Tank version of the famous Piranha build that specs into a herbivorous playstyle. All Pacus are B-tier, but the best builds are the Tambaqui (minmaxed for Health as well as an easy counter to the Candiru build) and the Pirapitanga (bright colors to resemble the fearsome Piranha build, lowering Resolve for many builds while at mid-level). These builds have spread to a lot of servers and had caused powercreeps.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://everywherewild.com/pacu-fish/
2. ↑ https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/black-pacu
3. ↑ https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Vandellia\_cirrhosa/
4. ↑ https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Piaractus\_brachypomus/
5. ↑ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/06/150624-pacu-fish-new-jersey-lake-testicle-eating-myth/
Olm

Olms are one of the more famous cave builds. Due to their pale skin and slender bodies. They are exclusive to the Dinaric Alps.

## Overview

Like most cave builds, Olms have terrible stats. The best being Intelligence, and Power. Which it uses to locate prey, and catch smaller builds. Olms have very thin skin as threats are very rare. Stamina is the thing Olms mastered, being able survive years without food. Olms are carnivores and the apex in the Cave biome. They target light weight builds, like crustaceans, snails, and insects.

## Abilities and Skills

To survive the harsh cave biome the Olm has many abilities to help it survive.

### Gills and Lungs

Unlike most amphibians the gills of the Olm are the primary way Olms breath, but if the water has low oxygen, Olms can use their lungs to breath air.

### Greater Hearing

Olms has great hearing for an aquatic build. It uses it to detect the slightest vibrations, this helps it locate prey, or rival males.

### Jacobson's Organ

This build has spent points into the Jacobson's Organ. This allows them to detect chemical changes and allows it to detect prey.

### Electroreception

Oddly enough this build has spent points into electroreception. This helps it find prey in the dark waters of the caves it lives in.

### Photoreceptors

This build has photoreceptors used to detect light. If it does it will swim away from it, as the light does damage to it's body, and means that outside predators could detect it.

### Energy Conservation

Like most cave builds, the Olm has great energy conservation allowing it to conserve its energy without food for years.

### Low Metabolism

This build has one of the lowest metabolisms of all vertebrates. This allows it to have one the longest playtimes of all amphibians.

## Weaknesses

### Light

This build is extremely sensitive to light, so sensitive that it takes damage from sunlight. This is because of the extremely low defense, even for amphibian standards its very low.

### Low Stats

In the cave biome the Olm is the best build their, but when outside its easy pickings for every other build. This is because of the Olm's terrible stats.

## Tier Placement

### **Cave**

In the cave meta Olms reign supreme. Their stats are quite high for most cave builds, they have abilities that can detect any other player in the server, and if prey is not available it can go AFK for years till the next encounter. Olms are A tier in their server, cause most of the game time of this build is doing nothing. And it is restricted into a small server range.

### **Outside**

Of course if any cave build leaves it's server they are basically screwed. Their low stats are enough to get them bodied by other builds. Olms are F tier outside of the cave.

**Wetlands**

In the wetlands like the swamp, they can hiding using their stealth because the swamp is hard to see. But, they get bodied by other builds that are still better than them. Because of that, they rank in D tier.
Parasite

Parasite builds are builds that have specialized into gaining EXP from griefing other builds, usually from builds with much bigger weight class. Parasites have a natural ability to cause debuffs and can remain in the hosts for years, even decades.

## Notable Parasite Builds

* Viruses
* Tapeworm
* Roundworm
* Pinworm
* Toxoplasma
* Blood Fluke
* Ticks
* Lices
American Mastodon

The American Mastodon was a banned mastodon build that played throughout the North American server. Despite having similar aesthetics, it was not related to the Woolly Mammoth. In fact they weren't even Elephants.If anything they where more related to gomphotheres, than Elephants.

## Abilities

### Trunk

The trunk was a useful thing because it worked as a fifth appendage

### Tusk

This granted a disjointed hitbox and a massive intimidation bonus.

## Tier Placement

Short A tier. The mastodon was a good build for its time. It could reach loot that other builds couldn’t, and could body the Sabertooth and Short-faced Bear mains, rivaling the Ground Sloth. However, it was not as OP and oppressive as the Woolly Mammoth that later crossed into the North American server. It also failed to adapt to the changing climate, diseases nerfed them and was struggling with fending of against Humans, so it can only achieve short A tier.

Looks like a Mammoth but in fact is not.
Millipede

The Millipede is a scavenger tank class, commonly confused with the centipede. These were the first builds to venture onto the terrestrial servers.

## Overview

The Millipede is a diverse class full of herbivorous arthropods that eat decaying plants and wood, unlike the centipede which is a predator. The millipede has a exoskeleton that is able to shrug off hits from smaller players but is useless against any build that is larger than it, this defense can be crushed easily. Millipedes are also known for maximizing the ‘leg’ attribute granting it the most legs in the game which can range from 40-750 (Illacme plenipes).

## Abilities And Skills

### Ball Role

This allows the millipede to roll into a circular shape, boosting their defense and protecting their soft underbelly.

### Poisonous Glands & Fluids

Glands in some of the millipedes allow it to produce odors and poisonous fluids that can deter predators.

## Tier Placement

Millipedes on average are D Tier, being saved from F with its defense. Builds with higher intelligence like Meerkats and Lemurs can cause lots of trouble for millipedes. Even though their current build is far from impressive, Arthropleura, a Millipede that dominated the meta of the Carboniferous when oxygen levels were very high, were definitely the highest that a millipede had ever gotten.
Secodontosaurus

Secodontosaurus (cutting-tooth lizard) is a banned pelycosaur build which was playable during the Late Carboniferous to the Early Permian meta. It had a specialized snout, adapted for sniping out burrowing players.

## Overview

This build had a moderate Health stat. It would also had good Mobility. Its jaws would give it an average Power stat.It likely had low Stealth due to its sail but other than that, relatively little is known about this build.

## Moveset

**Sail (Passive, Utility)**- Provides thermoregulative abilities and increases Intimidation by making it look like a higher weight class.

**Snipping Bite (Active, Attack)**- Less bite damage in exchange for being able to pick off builds from holes and crevices.

## Tier Placement

B-tier. Just an average pelycosaur build specialized for sniping off burrowing players.

## References

1. ↑ https://palaeopedia.tumblr.com/post/49671034372/secodontosaurus
2. ↑ http://palaeos.com/vertebrates/synapsida/sphenacodontidae.html
3. ↑ http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/s/secodontosaurus.html
4. ↑ http://www.reptileevolution.com/secodontosaurus.htm
5. ↑ https://sites.google.com/site/palaeocritti/by-group/eupelycosauria/secodontosaurus
6. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227670876\_The\_cranial\_anatomy\_and\_relationships\_of\_Secodontosaurus\_an\_unusual\_mammal-like\_reptile\_Synapsida\_Sphenacodontidae\_from\_the\_Early\_Permian\_of\_Texas
Remora

Remoras are fish builds that play in the Atlantic Ocean server, known for their hitchhiking of larger animals

## Overview

Remoras don't really have much in the stat department. They have low power plus low mobility due to their lack of a swim bladder. Their intelligence isn't very good either similar to most fish and their defenses are not good either. Lastly their stealth is only average however, remoras don't use stats very much but instead speck their evolution points into abilities. They have a play style similar to cleaner shrimp and cleaner wrasse where they clean off parasites and dead skin off other players in most cases builds like sharks, sea turtles, and whale

## Abilities

### Sucking Disc

This sucking disc is a modified dorsal fin, remoras use this to latch onto larger animals to clean them, it is also essential that they latch onto another build because if they don't they can't breathe

### Thousands Of Teeth

Remoras have thousands of teeth used for getting parasites of other players

## Relationship With Humans

Humans use remoras to help with fishing. Fishermen will attach the line to the remoras tail and wait for them to latch onto another animal

## Tier Placement

Remoras are essentially Cobia done worse. While cobias swim behind and pick off parasites Remoras hitchhike onto animals, they also have weaker stats and no poison resistance ability. They also are sometimes preyed upon by sharks when they believe the remora is a threat, overall they get a high C tier.
Pucker Jaw

Pucke Jaw is an Attack Ability used by Teleost mains. They specced into a special jaw structure that allows them to do this ability. Bowfins have a transitional form of this ability available. The physics engine ensures that moving your character towards a loot source also pushes said loot back, making it hard to acquire. This issue is exactly what this ability is made to solve. Alligator Gars, which are not teleosts, have to find alternative ways to solve this problem.

## Effects

When this ability is cast, it grants a mini-magnet to your mouth to suck up players and loot. This ability is also what makes Teleosts successful. It now requires less stamina and landing a grab will now be more successful with this ability. Certain builds, like the slingjaw wrasse, spent even more Evolution Points into this ability, allowing it to snipe off players hiding in crevices.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://fishionary.fisheries.org/tag/protrusible-jaw/
2. ↑ https://quizlet.com/68304728/lab-1-nomenclature-flash-cards/
3. ↑ https://blog.hmns.org/2010/05/jurassic-puckering-kissing-fish-and-salt-water-evolution/
4. ↑ https://news.uchicago.edu/story/how-living-fossil-fish-north-america-vacuums-its-prey
5. ↑ https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/biological-sciences-articles/alligator-gar-finds-surprising-ways-to-catch-its-prey
6. ↑ http://dponthefly.blogspot.com/2010/12/pucker-up.html
7. ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/1445030
8. ↑ http://www.realmonstrosities.com/2016/01/slingjaw-wrasse.html
Phages

**Phages** is a virus that, unlike any Viruses, teams up w/human. They do so by infecting the bad bacteria (there are good bacteria (those that help the human body)) instead of the body cells. Although discovered in the 1920s - 1930s, many of us still don't know about the **phages**. To learn more about **phages**, click this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage

A typical virus, which isn't what phages looks like
## Tier placement

S tier. Being an S tier virus is something. But being a virus that teams up w/humans is a whole new level. This means a lot, because it means that humans will try to keep it alive, as the Human & **phages** form a mutualism relationship. Thus they earn the S tier ranking.
Rebellatrix

Rebellatrix, the "Rebel Coelacanth" is a banned Mesozoic Coelacanth build with a radically different playstyle to playable Coelacanth mains, which are previously thought to be old but reliable builds. It has a different playstyle, instead being a pursuit predator build.

## Overview

This build sacrificed some Defense to ake up for its mobile playstyle. This build has a decent Power stat, judging from its playstyle as a predator. It also had a good amount of Health. Lastly, it had a lot of Mobility, in contrast to the low-Mobility playstyle of playable Coelacanths.

## Moveset

**Streamlining (Passive, Mobility)**- Increases Mobility by 80%.

## Tier Placement

D-tier. While having a higher Mobility may look practical on paper, Coelacanths are known for having a low EXP loss rate, thus this build is actually poorly equipped for its playstyle, and has been replaced with Mobility-based builds with higher EXP loss rates, like Sharks.

## Referrences

1. ↑ http://www.earthtimes.org/scitech/rebellatrix-rebel-coelacanth-killer-fish-fossil/1961/
2. ↑ https://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/geol431/lectures/10stegocephali.html
3. ↑ https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna47269181
4. ↑ http://sciencythoughts.blogspot.com/2012/05/novel-coelacanth-from-early-triassic-of.html
5. ↑ https://raptorcivilization.tumblr.com/post/190902732867
6. ↑ https://alphynix.tumblr.com/post/176202147395/the-wonderfully-named-rebellatrix
7. ↑ https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/05/scienceshot-corvette-coelacanths
8. ↑ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120502162441.htm
9. ↑ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/120502-killer-coelacanth-new-species-rebel-fish-animals-science
Orca

**Orcas** (Killer Whales) are an S tier aquatic cetacean build, well-known for both its incredible power and its placing as the second most overpowered build in the game right behind humans. Humans are the only land build that can challenge them.

## Overview

Orcas have very high stats, their only average stat being Defense and second lowest being Stealth, which is essentially a dump stat for a cetacean, giving them both immense power and tankiness along with the health to shrug off nearly any direct assault.

Orcas have the intelligence to use physics against their prey, such as by using their tail up-throw to smack seals into the air and give them plenty of time to contemplate their impending doom. They are also able to abuse the physics engine by swimming in unison to knock prey off the ice sheets with a wave.

Orcas notably have made no known fatal attacks in the wild on humans, likely aware of their uncontested first place, knowing that messing with the build group will only result in making an unbeatable enemy.

## Tier Placement

Thanks to their team strategies, powerful attacks, intelligence and immense stats outside of their Stealth, which is a dump stat, combined with great matchups with a lot of powerful builds, there is little room to doubt the second-place ranking of the orca in the entire game.

They have been known to attack baleen whale calves, and even adult whales. They require strategic hunting, and make full use of Pack Hunting perks to ensure best success while farming for xp. The biggest sharks tend to avoid Orcas for these reasons.

## Summary

**Pros:**

* Incredibly high INT.
* Very good PWR.
* Good MBL.
* High HP.
* Has access to **[Echolocation]** to reveal the location of hidden players and stun them via sonar.
* Hunts in large resident pods that use team tactics.

**Cons:**

* Low DEF.
* Moderate STL.
* Culture mechanic restricts some of your loot and leads to some specializations, some of which are among the worst.
* High INT and huge size means high food cost.
Rattlesnake

The Rattlesnake is a popular snake build known for its famous ability to rattle its tail when threatened, they’re also one of the most feared builds in the snake faction. They’re characterized by their rattle and long tongue.

## Species

### Location

United States, Southern Canada and Northern Mexico

### Relatives

Gaboon Vipers, Cottonmouths & Other Vipers

## Overview

The rattlesnake is a Pit Viper build that specs into stealth abilities and its own unique ability the rattle. The rattle is a huge intimidation buff that is used when the rattlesnake is threatened, its also used as an intimidation buff for their main greifers, coyotes and birds of prey. These builds specced into long fangs and hemotoxic venom that while not being as lethal as cobra or black mamba venom it still is very powerful. On rare occasions being able to end the game for high-level human players. Aside of its power stat its stealth stat is one of the highest in the snake faction, having specced into a coloration that can be undetectable for builds that don’t have any sensory abilities. The Rattlesnake also has a sensory ability Thermal Vision! This allows the rattlesnake to create thermal maps of the players around them in low visibility situations. This sensory ability make them good at spotting out stealthy players, like mice or rabbits. Like most vipers they are glass cannons which make their matchup one sided against birds of prey or coyotes. Rattlesnakes are also incredibly slow moving, making it easy for predators to spot out the Rattlesnake if they weren’t in stealth mode. Rattlesnakes usually prey on rabbits and rats, since these builds are obviously more faster than the Rattlesnake is the Rattlesnake will use their Thermal Vision to find their prey and then do an ambush attack on them. Using their sensory abilities they will follow the prey until they succumb to the venom.

## Abilities And Skills

### Rattle

A unique sonic AOE move that can intimidate other builds. Greatly reduces stealth.

### Thermal Vision

An ability that makes thermal maps of players that are nearby in low visibility situations.

## Tier Placement

Rattlesnakes are A+ Tier and are a very high tier build compared to other snakes. What sets it back from S Tier is it’s horrible matchup against Coyotes and Birds of Prey. They are still a overall great build and have great sensory abilities and one of the best intimidation AOE moves in the game.
Placozoa

Placozoa

Placozoa is one of the oldest and simplest animal guilds. They are found in the ocean server. Trichoplax is the most well-known build of placozoa.

## Abilities

* **Regeneration extreme**: Can fully regenerate from even very small parts of itself.

## Pros

* Very high regeneration
* Multiple methods of reproduction

## Cons

* No defensive or offensive capabilities
* No intelligence
* Relatively low mobility

## Tier placement

Placozoa belongs to D tier. It has very weak base stats. Its only saving grace is its amazing regeneration ability that allows it to withstand attacks that are game over to almost all other builds.
Seeing Eye

**Seeing Eye** is a high-level ability that can be learned by the Dog build. With this ability, you can mitigate the blindness debuff of another player, most commonly a Human in the urban biome.

While it won't prevent the dog from receiving blindness, it effectively negates it for the other player despite them still having it.

## Notes

* You typically will only get this ability if you are attempting to support someone (Almost always Human) who has the permanent Blindness Debuff.
Roadrunner

Roadrunners are birds that prioritized most of their Evolution Point into Mobility, clocking in at 20 - 27 mph. Roadrunners occasionally fly, but their flight ability is rather weak, only enabling them to fly for short distances. They hunt Snakes, Birds, Insects, & other small animals. They're also opportunistic generalists & omnivores.

## Pros & Cons

### Pros

* Opportunistic generalists
* Omnivores (can eat basically anything small enough)
* Good MBL on land (20 - 27 mph)
* Nocturnal (decent for desert biome)
* Peck ability does decent damage
* Smack ability does good amount of damage
* Venom resistant

### Cons

* Basic Flight ability
* Griefers often win in a fight w/**roadrunner**
* The sprint ability uses lots of stamina
* Low HP

## Tier Placement

A tier The roadrunner is venom resistant since it can eat a rattlesnake (since rattlesnakes have venom). Another perk is that they're opportunistic generalists & omnivores, meaning they don't need to grief other builds for EXP. Roadrunners can either run away using their good MBL/fly away. Both use lots of stamina. Roadrunners can peck/or smack their prey. Smack ability does a slightly better job than pecking.

But the real problem is that their Flight ability only allows for short distances. Hawks, Coyotes, & Bobcats are all griefers of this build. Although they can run fast, hawks can catch up with them, meaning it's most likely a game over if a hawk player sneaks up on them. But because they didn't make the same mistakes as the duck, they sit comfortably in low A tier.
Sea Cucumber

Sea Cucumber vibin'

### Order

Apodida, Arthrochirotida, Dendrochirotida, Elasipodida, Holothuriida, Molpadida, Persiculida, Synallactida

### Species

N/A

Sea Cucumbers are Echinoderms that have both bilateral symmetry and five-fold symmetry. This can be seen once they release their feeding tentacles from their body. This build can be found in marine environments throughout the world from shallow waters to deep sea.

## Tier Placement

Most often C Tier. They have low mobility with tiny tube feets to tread on the ground or rocks, instead of specialised swimming appendages. They make up for their low HP with high regenerative factor, able to regrow organ systems within several weeks. Some species can undergo **[Evisceration]** and expel their insides to confuse, scare and slow down their opponents with some specced into poison. This does mean it has a really long cooldown and would be left defenseless to another predator. Most of the times, they are ignored by potential predator builds due to the toxins they possess. They can also eject a cluster of tubes with many times their own length from their anus to immobilise and ward off predators with the toxins. They also piss dogs off. Since they are omnivorous filter-feeders, they are not capable of dealing significant damage with their mouth. Some builds ingest nematocysts (stinging cells) to envenomate their foes.
Scutosaurus

Scutosaurus is a banned armored reptile main from the Permian Expansion. This build was a pareiasaur main, which banned build analysts have conflicted on whether they or the procolophonids started the Turtle guild.

## Tier Placement

A-tier. This build is a step above most pareiasaur builds by speccing into upright legs, which made this build move with very little stamina loss. It also had the [Amphibious] trait. This build had heavy bones supported by strong framework of muscles which gave it high Health. Surprisingly, it also lived in herds, giving them an advantage in avoiding gankers such as Inostrancevia. Not only does it has powerful armor, it also had spikes for great Defense. Held back from S-tier by its low Mobility.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4818551.html
2. ↑ https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/anapsids/pareiasauria.html
3. ↑ https://blog.everythingdinosaur.co.uk/blog/\_archives/2009/07/27/4273135.html
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://www.dinosaurjungle.com/prehistoric\_animals\_scutosaurus.php
5. ↑ http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/s/scutosaurus.html
6. ↑ https://www.newdinosaurs.com/scutosaurus/
7. ↑ https://www.yourdinosaurs.com/paleozoic-era/permian-period/scutosauros
Marsupial

A mammal of an order whose members are born incompletely developed and are typically carried and suckled in a pouch on the mother's belly. Marsupials are found mainly in Australia and New Guinea. Marsupials average around C or D tier as they're not that good on defense and also have no tank varient or DPS variant(currently, as there were DPS variants like Marsupial Lion and tanks like Diprotodon which Human mains have forced to quit). They mostly opt for the fragile speedster or the avoided playstyle. The only marsupial that finds its way to relevance in the meta (and is commonly talked about in the community) is the Kangaroo. They have a high enough attack and defense to put up a fight and they are more mobile than other marsupial, being able to use the jump move very effectively. Other builds that aren't more talked about have had a spot higher on the tier list.

## Notable Builds

Kangaroo

Sugar Glider

Quokka

Koala

Marsupial Lion (Banned)

Tasmanian devil
Myriapods

## Myriapod

This is and arthropod Faction that contains centipedes and millipedes. They are usually defeined as tied for the most creepy with arachnids although arachnids are more common so they are a more common phobia. They are pretty diverse group with 16,000 playable classes. They are mostly terrestrial and have up to 1300 legs. Like insects, they have antennae. They also possess venom that isn't like the game-ending power of the box jellyfish but will still hurt/sting. In addition, they have access to Wall Climb ability like most arthropods do.
Nautilus

## Nautiloid

statistics hehe

The **Nautiloid** is a Cephalopod class and a Tank playstyle build type. The main reason players like to play Nautilus is its resemblance to the Ammonite, another build that for some reason was deleted during a previous expansion. They were added during the Cambrian beta expansion. Nautili are one of the few Cephalopod-class builds to have low Eyesight skill and instead rely on Hearing and Smell to navigate.

## Abilities

### Weak Pressure Resistance

This strange ability allows Nautilus players to survive at the bottom of the Twilight server, but not quite in the Midnight server, at approximately 800 meters below sea level.

### Shell

This improves the defence of the nautilus.

## Tier Placement

F-tier. Nautiluses lose everything of what makes cephalopods good like Intelligence and Mobility, the stats around which the current meta is centered around today. Due to its small size, a lot of builds can easily destroy its shell. Due to the climate change balance patch, its Defense stat is slowly decreasing, making this already unviable build even more so, additionally Human players kill them for jewelry which is something that the human playerbase invented. The only reason to play as this build is for nostalgic purposes but don't.
Ophiacodon

Ophiacodon (Snake Tooth) was a banned synapsid belonging to the family Ophiacodontidae. It was one of the first playable synapsids in the game, a dynasty that would later ascend twice as the dominant faction of the meta. Ophiacodon was once thought to be playable as a semi-aquatic build, but recent datamining of the vertebrae and feet has remade it into a terrestrial buid. It was discovered in 1878 by Othniel Charles Marsh.

## Overview

Having a large head and a sprawling posture, this build would have a low Mobility stat. However, its Health stat would have been moderately high. It would also have a moderate Defense stat due to the scutes from its stomach. Lastly, while it has a lot of small teeth, its jaws have a strong Power stat.

## Moveset

**Heat Echange Circulatory System (Passive, Utility)**- Higher Stamina and cold resistance at the cost of losing cover for heat vision and higher food cost.

**Apex Eyes (Passive, Utility)**- Ignores all Stealth bonuses.

## Tier Placement

Mid C-tier. It can only hunt in shallow water, and is specialized in it, as not only does it lack the terrestrial Mobility required to take down large terrestrial build, it is also a terrible swimmer. Additionally, it would also have poor swimming Mobility as well. Additionally, compared to other synapsids, it had weak teeth and must swallow its targets whole. However, it is a decent and powerful shallow-water camper and apex predator in its meta, which is what makes it viable.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4975474.html
2. ↑ http://paleoexhibit.blogspot.com/2015/01/first-among-synapsids-ophiacodonts.html
3. ↑ https://fossil.fandom.com/wiki/Ophiacodon
4. ↑ http://www.reptileevolution.com/ophiacodon.htm
5. ↑ https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=M37gDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA219&lpg=PA219&dq=ophiacodon+hunt+prey&source=bl&ots=3szML5YQdJ&sig=ACfU3U0kij0mexEMXHjjg3\_DhVNtS2-roQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwixluvc6Jz0AhXYsVYBHe6ACF4Q6AF6BAg5EAI#v=onepage&q=ophiacodon%20hunt%20prey&f=false
6. ↑ https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=hCg71-cYFQMC&pg=PA246&lpg=PA246&dq=ophiacodon+230+kg&source=bl&ots=pphEOvhxN2&sig=ACfU3U0SVUQw1TzO68LRr1Ig7qqgAvVefA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi7k56u7Jz0AhXDc3AKHZWmA4k4ChDoAXoECAcQAg#v=onepage&q=ophiacodon%20230%20kg&f=false
7. ↑ https://tanystropheus.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/week-of-wonders-ophiacodon/
8. ↑ http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/o/ophiacodon.html
9. ↑ https://eartharchives.org/articles/dimetrodon-relative-shows-warm-bloodedness-is-older-than-we-knew/index.html
10. ↑ http://wwwmidgetonfire.blogspot.com/2009/12/
11. ↑ https://palaeopedia.tumblr.com/post/49672801979/ophiacodon
Orthacanthus

Orthacanthus is a removed Shark build from the Carboniferous and Permian Expansions very similar to the Xenacanthus build. This build sported an unusual head spike and an eel-like body.

## Abilities

### Adaptive Gills

Type:Support

Effect:No penalty for switching between freshwater and saltwater.

### Electroreception

Type:Utility

Effect:Motion shown on minimap.

## Tier Placement

Unorthodox Shark build with a head spike. But still worth it with good Power. The head spike of this build can easily fend off attacks to the head. Its shape also allows it to hide among debris, giving this build a good Stealth stat. However, the head spike can be countered by attacking from below or attacking the body instead. A-tier.
Rainforest

Rainforests are a tropical biome that is humid and experience a lot of rain. This is where 50% of the builds in Outside

   live. There are main types of rainforests, one temperate rainforest and the other tropical rainforest. This article will be talking about more of the tropical rainforest. There are 4 main layers of the rainforest each with their own sub-biome. These layers are formed by trees

## Different Layers

### Floor

This is where most arthropod players play and a few plant players that don't require much XP to sustain. This is also where you'll find many amphibians and reptiles. This is where you will also find fungi stealing XP from the larger tree players. Many of the players that are up in the higher levels come down here occasionally for stuff like going to the bathroom, finding food if there is none and many other things.

### Understory

The understory contains some of the smaller tree players and low-level tree players. This is where most reptile and amphibian players are lurking and some occasional arthropod visits as well. A few mammals are also here like the jaguar, monkeys and bats.

### Canopy

The canopy is the roof of the rainforest and contains a lot of trees. This makes it hard to navigate unless you have some arboreal climbing ability which pretty much all of the builds here have. You'll find toucans, a lot of mammals and even some tree frogs if you're lucky enough.

### Emergent

This is where the tallest trees in the rainforest stand. It contains most birds (like parrots and eagles), butterflies and mostly nothing else. If a player doesn't have the flight ability, they're most likely not going to be found here as the emergent layer doesn't contain many trees.
Megalania

The Megalania is a removed Lizard build very similar to the Komodo Dragon build. This build was the largest venomous build that ever existed in the history of the meta and was otherwise known as Varanus prisca.

## Tier Placement

S-tier. Megalania was an even stronger Komodo Dragon build with exactly the same pack-hunting strategies and abilities.