Reptile

The **Reptile** Faction is an expansive faction encompassing snakes, lizards, crocodiles, & turtles. They have their default scale attribute and build traits which can be adjusted in the later game. They usually have common weaknesses and their intelligence is usually subpar but they boast decent to high Defense stats. This Faction ranges from greater low tier all the way to top tier in Tier placements, averaging around mid-tier. Reptiles are typically ectotherms and have scales, tails, four limbs and most of them are egg-laying. They can unlock the same skills and abilities of other reptiles like **[Autotomy]**, **[Regeneration]**, **[Venom]**, **[Cling Pads]**.

## Factions

### Lepidosauria (Snakes, Lizards and Tuataras)

#### Pros

* Unique Movement Option
* Venom
* Unique Abilities
* Access to most zones of the game

#### Cons

* Low Average Base stats (All lizard mains except Iguania, Anguimorpha and Mosasauroidea)

### Pantestudines (Sauropterygians and Turtles)

#### Pros

* Very High Defense
* Amphibious
* Access to omnivory
* Above-average Power

#### Cons

* Terrible Mobility (Turtles, Plesiosaurs and Placodonts).
* Easy weak-spot (Plesiosaurs and Side-necked turtles)
* Not much defense against builds that can crack their armor.

### Pseudosuchia

#### Pros

* High Attack
* High Health
* High Stealth
* High Mobility in water
* Amphibious
* Access to the Marine Server (Saltwater Crocodile, Thalattosuchia)
* Solid Intelligence

#### Cons

* Reliance on water (Tethysuchia, Thalattosuchia, Eusuchia sans Mekosuchinae)
* Mostly locked to the Carnivore playstyle (except Aetosauria)
* Can be Interrupted during Death Roll
* Unable to Deal with Teams unlike most other Mighty Glaciers

## History

### The Carboniferous Update

    The Class Reptilia, more commonly known as Reptiles, is an ancient Class first appearing In Patch 1.1.5, known as the Carboniferous Update. After separating from gymnotherians , they were largely preyed upon by the still dominant Arthropods at the time. After hiding From the Top Tiers for Years, The Devs Put in Patch 1.1.6, Known as the Permian Update, which caused the fan-named event "the Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse" which rapidly caused the Arthropod Players to either change their strategy or quit. This was what the Reptile and Gymnotherian players needed to gain a footing.

### The Permian Update and the Early Triassic Update

The Reptile and Gymnotherian playerbases loved this update. After years of hiding, they where finally able to claim servers from the former dominant arthropods. However, the Reptile playerbase still was being oppressed, this time by the new dominant Gymnotherian Faction with their differentiated teeth. Gymnotherians would be dominant for a long time, but things would change in the late Triassic.

### Late Triassic and Jurassic Update

Soon after ousting the old favourites, the dinosaur Faction Quickly diversifying with builds like Coelophysis, one of the first Therapod Sub-Faction builds, and Coloradisaurus, A build close to the Sauropod Sub-Faction. and although this was the beginning of the dinosaur Factions rise to dominance, not much happened other than an arms race between the non-avian dinosaurs, avian-dinosaurs and Mammals, with the Mammals not succeeding. But then, The Devs rolled out patch 1.2.2, and while not as much of a big hit as patch 1.2.1, it was still quite a massive update, but unlike the last patch, it only cemented the non avian-dinosaur builds, leading to a massive variety for the non avian and avian dinosaur mains, and thus everyone tried to become top tier as fast as they could. The first Sauropod, Ceratopsian, and Tyrannosaur build coming into the fold, and tanks like Stegosaurus and Diplodicus becoming popular. The reptile faction also took to the air in the form of Pterosaurs, and to the water as Icthyosaurs and Sauropterygians (Plesiosaurs, Pliosaurs and Nothosaurs)

### Cretaceous

This is where the reign of the non-avian dinosaurs began, Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Various Sauropods and many more started in the Cretaceous expansion. Nothing could compete their pure size and strengths. In the marine servers, Plesiosaurs wiped out most of the fish players and Pterosaurs patrolling the air. During the late Cretaceous, Mosasaurus, evolved from Monitor Lizards or Snakes, had risen to dominance in the aquatic servers with sheer size and offense capable of taking down a Tyrannosaur. At the end of the Cretaceous, most reptiles where banned. Only Crocodillians, Squamates, Turtles, and other animals like Mammals and Birds made it to the Paleogene.

## Notable Builds

### S tier

* Saltwater Crocodile guild: A Crocodile Build that uniquely (for crocodilians) lives on Beach servers.
* Nile Crocodile guild: Like the Australian counterpart, this crocodilian is also very powerful
* American Alligator guild: A Crocodillian that specs into mild Cold Resistance to survive the winter session of the North America server
* Komodo Dragon guild: The Lizard that has wrecked the Indonesian server.
* Monitor Lizard guild: A Lizard that can easily steal niches and break into new servers. Also has a venomous bite. (Includes Komodo Dragon)
* Sauropod guild: One of the most dominant builds in the history of the game due to its high Health stat and powerful Spacing moves
* Cobra guild: The highest ranking Snake in the current meta due to its Neurotoxic Venom.

### A tier

* Pit Viper guild: A unique Snake build that specs into hemorrhagic toxins.
* Titanoboa guild A Constrictor with way higher stats in all categories
* Sea Turtle guild: A Turtle that specs into heavy venom resistance that can deflect Box Jellyfish venom.
* Snapping Turtle guild: The Turtle with the highest power stat but has low to medium Mobility similar to vipers
* Tegu guild: A powerful Lizard that specs into the [Autotomy] ability
* Troodon guild: The most intelligent dinosaur build
* Ceratosaurus guild: A horned lizard from the Jurassic!
* Carcharodontosaurus guild: A build that looks like T. rex but has serrated teeth
* Ankylosaurus guild: The Dinosaur that is an extreme version of the Stegosaurus build
* Dromeosaur guild: A build that sacrificed Health and Defense for Mobility and Power

### B tier

* Constrictor: A Snake build that is a Tank. Cannot deal with groups of enemies, but has an extremely strong grab
* Tortoise: A terrestrial turtle build with Defense through the roof
* Chameleon: A Lizard with a lot of special abilities
* Iguana: One of the higher ranking lizards, with a stunning tail whip attack
* Gharial: A Crocodillian that specialises in catching fish
* Tyrannosaurus Rex: A dinosaur build that has minmaxed for pure Power
* Triceratops: A powerful Dinosaur but has low intellegence
* Therizinosaurus: The build with the best claw slash attack in the entire game

### C tier

* Gila Monster: Has one of the most devastating bites due to its venom, but doesn’t have a variety of attack moves.
* Anole: An agile Lizard with cling pads and can shift from green and brown at will
* Gecko: A Lizard that has powerful cling pads
* Stegosaurus: Has a weapon that has an extremely high crit chance
* Allosaurus: A dinosaur that uses its bite attack like a human axe because of its low bite power

### D tier

* Softshell Turtle: A turtle that has above average mobility but below average Defense
* Skink: A brightly coloured lizard
* Basilisk: The lizard with the Water Dash move
* Coelophysis: Basically a weaker Raptor build. In the Triassic tier list they are S Tier
* Spinosaurus: A build that specs too much into the fishing skill tree
* Hadrosaur: A Camptosaurus with higher mobility and health

### F tier

* Snake Neck Turtle: A turtle that exposes its crit spot when threatened
* Camptosaurus/Dryosaurus: Above average intelligence for a dinosaur, but absolutely destroyed when out in the open

## Trivia

* Most reptiles are diurnal animals. Their vision is typically adapted to daylight conditions, with the Color Vision ability and more advanced Visual Depth Perception than in amphibians and most mammals.