Edmontonia

Edmontonia (echo fighter: Panoplosaurus) was one of the best nodosaur builds in the history of the game. This build populated the Canadian region.

## Overview

Like most Ankylosauria, Edmontonia has the max defense stat in the game. Paired with high health and power, and this build is gonna shrug off hits from most players. Edmontonia spent a bit of it's health for more speed. The only low stat is intelligence, and even then it doesn't hold it back.
Edmontonia plays a solitary play-style, being territorial over its area. Edmontonia was a selective eater, eating a short variety of plants due to the many herbivores in the region.

## Abilities and Skills

### Osteoderms and Plates

Osteoderms and plates cover the head, top, and sides of this build. This helped this build tank hits from attacks of the many carnivores of the time. The Osteoderms also covered the tail, which slightly increased the damage of the attacks from the tail.

### Spikes

Spikes cover the shoulder of the build, preventing attacks of the front legs. The spikes were long enough for viable use of the move charge. With the spikes this build has coverage for the back (tail) and front (spikes).

## Weaknesses

### Belly

The only weakness this suffers from is the belly. This build ran out of point to cover the whole body, so if flipped over this build will be pretty helpless. But the spikes make up for it by covering the front legs which could be used to by grabbed and flipped over.

## Moveset

### Charge

The user rushes forward, dealing damage based on power, speed, and weight. If the player has spikes, drastically increase the chance of a critical hit, and apply bleed damage.

### Tail Swipe

The user swipes it's tail at the attacker, dealing damage based on power and defense. May cause flinching. If the user has osteoderms on the tail, increase the damage and flinch rate.

### Crouch

User lowers it's body. Decreasing hit box and speed, while increasing defense. This also increases the start up lag of most moves.

## Tier Placement

### General

Generally in its server Edmontonia was amazing. Its role as a tank was great, as it had the power needed to defend itself. It had shoulder spikes to prevent grab attempts on it's front legs and head, and a tail covered in osteoderms to protect its back, which provided great coverage compared to Ankylosaurus. The biggest threat in its server was Gorgosaurus and Albertosaurus, which generally avoided this build prefering Hadrosaurs, due to Edmontonia being too hard to take down, and the potential of getting a run ending injury from it's spikes. Overall in its server Edmontonia is an easy low S tier, as the belly weakness is well covered with this build's coverage.

### Compared to Other Dinosaurs

Edmontonia gets a very high A tier when compared to other dinosaurs. It sacrificed some of its health and points for spikes and speed to patch up some of it's weaknesses. The only thing that holds it back is the unarmored belly, but personally I think its S tier worthy, and makes it a better overall choice over Ankylosaurus . Yeah the club tail lets you deal more damage, but that's not going to protect that front leg that can be used to flip you over.