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Bovine Tier List

This is a short tier list of Bovine builds that TierZoo mentioned.

## B tier

### Cattle

The basic Cattle comes in at a solid B-tier. Not a weak build, but it has a lot of weaknesses. They excel at milk production due to selective breeding by Human mains, thus making level-ups extremely easy. However, there is a chance that Humans wil leliminate you once your playthrough ends. Still a beginner friendly build though.

### Yak

A mountainous variant of Cattle with lower base stats but higher cold resistance and icy/rocky Mobility. Its cold Himalayan habitat allows it to avoid most predators experienced by other Cattle, but it still experiences the same weakness as those builds.

## A tier

### Bison (post-gunpowder)

At the bottom of A-tier is the Bison, a build that traded Power for more Health and Defense, using shorter horns and padded fur on their head, thus allowing them to tank more damage in exchange for not dealing as much. This can be really problematic, as being able to one-shot Wolf mains can discourage their aggressive teammates from attacking you. Since they cannot oneshot them, some Wolf players can get pretty brazen on their attacks on Bison. Still, they are among the premier tanks of North America alongside the Moose, and have good matchups against Brown Bears.

### Water Buffalo

Next in A tier is the Water Buffalo. A build similar to regular Cattle but with more Power and a Mobility boost in shallow water which is a good ability to have. They can fight off Tiger mains pretty well, and Human mains in the Indian server are much friendlier towards builds like the Water Buffalo.

### Cape Buffalo

At the top of A tier is the Cape Buffalo. Africa is a really tough metagame, home to some of the most dangerous builds in the current game like Lions, Hyenas, Rhinos and Elephants, the Cape Buffalo managed to reign supreme as one of the most dangerous builds. As a part of the Big 5, and the second most abundant out of all of them and the safest from the banhammer, thus cementing their position as the best bovine build currently.

## S tier

### Bison (pre-gunpowder)

While there are no bovines today that crack S-tier, due to Cape Buffaloes being overshadowed by the Wildebeest in the African savanna. The Wildebeest (actually an antelope) trades Power and Health for Mobility, allowing it to escape ambushes easily and punishing mistakes from their griefers, making it more successful. Prior to the Human main's utilization of gunpowder, the Bison would once be S-tier. While most of them were annihilated, their playerbase is starting to improve.
Chicken

Chickens are the most common bird kept in captivity for human players. Some human players have found that chicken is the healthiest meat and as well as delicious for human players.

## Overview

The chicken is a support class that was domesticated for their meat and players that could not spawn correctly. The chicken is the most common bird in captivity and in outside.

Chickens have an access to limited Flight.

## Abilities

### Egg

Egg-lay is an ability that allows the user to lay eggs which can protect their offspring. Chickens, unlike their wild counterparts, have the most powerful egg-laying ability in the bird guild. It comes with high EXP requirement to sustain.

## History

The history chicken isn’t really interesting but basically 2 human players found a chicken in the Asian server add saw that chickens give birth to players that haven’t spawned correctly so they find an easy way to get EXP.

## Tier Placement

Chickens are useless as a support class, unless they are in farm servers. Their gameplay is cut short mainly because of human players killing them off for EXP. Alternatively, their extremely high egg ability can be another source of EXP for human players. Chickens are useless as a support class because they have a high intelligence stat meaning they need more care then the average support class. This puts them firmly in D tier.

### Compared to Other Birds:

Often compared to the Tyrannosaurus Rex to exemplify how far the Dinosaur faction has fallen. While he (Patrick, the original Tierzoo) disagrees with the implication, he agrees that **Chicken**s are indeed a low-tier build. While they aren't anywhere near as totally helpless as the Kiwi or Kakapo, they're still a barely average stated bird that lacks the ability to fly for any extended distance. They can certainly hold their own against most similarly sized opponents, but with poor escape options and no unique abilities, this build faces an uphill battle against most opponents. Their fast respawn rate kind of backfired on them due to Humans using the factory farming strategy.

## Other Builds

Humans have used selective breeding to alter the stats of the chicken. Two more viable variations of the chicken came out from this. Bantam chicken players have traded size and power for better flight ability. They are worse for pvp than the normal chicken build but they can escape any bad matchups by flying away. Gamefowl were bred for pvp and have higher power mobility and heath than the normal chicken build. Male gamefowl players have better matchups against players in city servers. They would normally fit in C tier. Most gamefowl mains that spawn as a male are pvp nerds and fight each other on sight. Because of this they kill each other or leave each other on low health when they are on any server other than the farm servers. Most gamefowl mains have quit or switched classes.
Atlantic Torpedo Ray

The Atlantic Torpedo Ray (Tetronarce nobilana), also known as the Atlantic Torpedo is the largest playable Electric Ray build in the game. It can create a voltage of 220 volts.

## Overview

This build has an above-average amount of Health. It also has a good Power and Defense stat, but not as much as Electric Catfish or Electric Eels due to their lower voltage.It is solitary, possessing a low Intelligence stat. It also has a low Mobility stat, having to rely on a moderately high Stealth stat.

## Moveset

**Electroreception (Passive, Utility)**- Movement shown on minimap.

**Discharge (Active, Attack)**- An AoE electric attack that can do moderate damage and combo into [Cardiac Arrest].

**Fin Grapple (Active, Attack)**- A grappling attack that allows electric attacks to be more accurate.

## Tier Placement

A-tier. Uniquely, this electric build is a decent tank, able to defeat players larger than itself and absorbing loot half its size, while at the same time being formidable enough to hold itself in a fight. It is not S-tier due to their Mighty Glacier nature.

## References

1. ↑ https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m09gmsfn?hl=uk
2. ↑ https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search\_topic=TSN&search\_value=160834#null
3. ↑ http://www.backtothesea.org/blog/guest-post-electric-torpedoes
4. ↑ https://fishspecies.dnrec.delaware.gov/FishSpecies.aspx?habitat=2&species=85
5. ↑ https://eol.org/pages/8900/articles
6. ↑ https://www.mantarayinn.com/rays/atlantic-torpedo-electric-ray/
7. ↑ https://dbpedia.org/page/Atlantic\_torpedo
8. ↑ https://alchetron.com/Atlantic-torpedo
9. ↑ https://diveclubmaldives.com/fish/torpedo-rays
10. ↑ https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/species-profiles/torpedo-nobiliana/
Fan content

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## Bulbasaur

Bulbasaur is a well rounded camping oriented build that lives in open servers, mainly plains.

### Stats

#### Intelligence

Suprisingly, it specced heavily into the Memory Skill Tree.

#### Power

It never really specced heavily into this stat as it mainly eats Pidgeys & Tailows, which have flimsy defenses at best.
California Condor

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California condors are Birds that play on the North American server. They are one of the largest Raptors, but they are not predators. Instead, they are scavengers similar to most other vultures and condors.

## Tier Placement

Recently they almost quit due to lead poisoning and pesticide usage but they are beginning to make a comeback. Nothing can really grief them in the late game but during the early game, many builds can. They take longer to complete the early game compared to other birds plus all their problems with humans only puts them in B tier.

## Abilities

### Sharp Beak

The condor’s beak protects them from other builds that want to eliminate new players like Cougars.

### Soar

Have high Aerial Mobility without using much Stamina
Billfish

Billfish are large predatory fish builds that include the swordfish, marlin, and sailfish builds. These builds include the fastest marine build, the sailfish. These builds could either be the Isiophoridae billfishes (Marlin and Sailfish) and the Xiphiidae billfishes (Swordfish) These builds feed on smaller Tuna builds. Their immense Power makes them popular with Human mains, who use their [Fishing Rod] item to start a matchup with them. Dataminers have also conflicted on whether their bill deals Pierce-type damage or Slash-type damage. It has finally been revealed that the latter is the correct conclusion.

## Abilities

### Sail Fin(Sailfish exclusive)

Type:Mobility

Effect:Further increases Mobility aside from the [Streamlined] trait.

### Aggression (Marlin/Swordfish exclusive)

Type:Resolve

Effect:Very high Resolve (resistance to Intimidation)

### Streamlining

Type:Mobility

Effect:Greatly increases Mobility and decreases stamina cost for Mobility

### Sword Slash

Type:Attack

Effect:A swipe attack that deals a lot of damage.

### Warm Blood

Type:Support

Effect:Same stamina gain 24/7. Also increases stamina gain.

### Group Hunt

Type:Team Play

Effect:Band together with your teammates to take down schools of fish.

## Tier Placement

Billfish is another S-Tier group that includes Marlin, Swordfish and Sailfish which have similar playstyles with the highest swimming speed. Their large dorsal fins made it easier for them to quickly change direction. Their bill is effective at slashing and stabbing multiple targets simultaneously which capitalises on the "safety in numbers" strategy often adopted by small fishes. Not only that, they also hunt in packs for a fatal combination that would rival dolphins.
Giant Stinging Tree

The Giant Stinging Tree (*Dendrocnide excelsa*) is an Australian Tree build, closely to *Dendrocnide moroides*also known by salty Human mains as the suicide plant. It is a rainforest plant build.

## Tier Placement

A-tier. This build is one of the the few Tree builds with an actual power stat. These builds specced into a powerful neurotoxin which can also inflict the [Insanity] debuff.Its weakness of only having a seemingly weak trunk are negated by these toxins that are placed everywhere in this build. Its only bad matchups are the giant stinging tree beetle.

## Referrences

1. ↑ http://capetribresearchstation.blogspot.com/2010/03/stinging-trees-and-new-treatment-for.html
2. ↑ https://www.childrens.health.qld.gov.au/poisonous-plant-stinging-tree-dendrocnide-excelsa/#:~:text=Botanical%20name%3A%20Dendrocnide%20excelsa%2C%20(,also%20known%20as%20Laportea%20moroides).&text=General%20description%3A%20These%20species%20are,edges%20or%20in%20disturbed%20areas.
3. ↑ https://www.discovery.com/nature/Suicide-Plant
4. ↑ https://www.lfwseq.org.au/stinging-trees-plants-that-make-you-go-hmmm/
5. ↑ http://www.naturalhistory.org.au/tmsite/biodiversity/knowledge/nature-notes/175-stinging-trees#gsc.tab=0
6. ↑ https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2009/06/gympie-gympie-once-stung-never-forgotten/
7. ↑ https://www.blueswami.com/articles-and-fun/stinging-trees
8. ↑ https://www.sassafras.id.au/dendroex.html
9. ↑ https://www.seekingsymbiosis.com/new-page-1
Clownfish

The clownfish is one of the most well known fish builds in the game. They team up with sea anemone which benefits both of them as the clownfish feed on the dead scraps of the anemone. They also cover the anemones bad matchups like sharks,killer whales and even the most OP build the human.

## Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork!

### Clownfishes' role

The clownfish has specked into low stealth serving basically as bait so that the anenome can use their death touch ability. They also can deal some damage because they are pretty skilled rushdown fighters.

### Anenomes' role

Anenomes protect the clownfish from outside dangers with their death touch ability.

## Outside Hall of Fame

The clownfish has been shown in 2 of the most well known Disney movies in the world; Finding Nemo and Finding Dory.
Cobra

Base statistics

Cobras are similar to the viper build the main difference is that cobras are more well rounded. Cobras can handle both defense and offense. Cobras carry a venom that inflicts paralysis. Cobras are one of the best builds for intimidation as by flaring up their cap and hissing at the same time is enough pretty much every time.

## Overview

With good base speed to chase down preys, it would have more successful lethal strikes as paired with impressive striking speed. Its neurotoxic venom is faster-acting than other snakes, able to paralyse its targets quicker. Large animals like Elephants can be taken down by a well-placed Cobra bite. Cobras have hood to intimidate and advertise their deadliness. Some cobras learned how to use a projectile attack with high accuracy, which inflicts permanent blindness if it connects with the eyes. King cobras are separate build from cobras with more evolution points spent on intelligence.

## Tier Placement

S Tier. Cobras are offensively capable enough to battle an entire team at once and competitively one of the most viable in its faction. The diversity in specced abilities also help further their success.

## Abilities

### Liquifying Venom

Effect: liquifies the innards of a target, allowing the user to save the nutrients for later consumption.

### Neurotoxin

Effect: Paralyzes any player if other defenses fail to work

### Venom Spit (Only some)

Effect: Blind players' eyes with high accuracy
Bonnethead Shark

Bonnethead sharks are fish builds that play in tropical waters in the Atlantic Ocean servers. Known for looking similar to the top tier Hammerhead shark

## Overview

The Bonnethead sharks highest stat is their power with their sharp teeth. Their mobility is also pretty good but they are not the fastest swimmers, their defense is decent and their intelligence is not the greatest. Lastly their stealth is not good due to having a swim bladder hinders them. They mainly eat fish, squid, and other invertebrates and they mainly travel in groups

## Abilities

### Electroreception

Similar to Hammerhead sharks Bonnethead sharks have special electroreception due to their heads being wider than other shark species. Electroreception helps them detect stealth builds easier

### Body fluids

To communicate with other sharks Bonnetheads secrete a fluid from their bodies to warn other sharks

### Omnivory

Bonnethead sharks are the only sharks that can also eat plant matter.

## Tier Placement

These builds get a low A tier. They have many things going for them like their very good electroreception, their safety in numbers, and their diet however, they do have more predators like Tiger Sharks and Lemon Sharks and they don't have as good as an electroreception as hammerhead sharks. Overall a good beginner shark to play as
Corvid

Corvids are a guild of bird known for their high intelligence rivaling parrot's. This guild includes crows, ravens, magpies, nutcrackers and others. There are 120 playable classes in the guild. They range from B tier and up, this is because of their high intelligence in combo with flight. They are especially S tier in the city biome where big rushdown players are not commonly seen. Flight also helps them to dodge obstacles, get to hard to reach spots and outsmart opponents.

The Corvids intelligence allow them to access problem solving capabilities, speech, tool use and cooperative team strategies.

## Parrots vs Corvids

Corvids and Parrots are often compared and a lot of players want to know if parrots or corvids are better.

### Corvid Pros & Cons

#### Pros:

* Intelligence
* Speech
* Higher stealth
* Ability to actually understand what they say
* Better Team Strategies

#### Cons:

* Short Lifespan
* Lower Defense & HP

### Parrot Pros & Cons

#### Pros:

* Intelligence
* Speech
* Better Intimidation
* Higher Defense & HP
* Longer Lifespans

#### Cons:

* Mimicry
* Low Stealth

In general they are very equal, Corvids are more adapted to the city meta and Parrots are more adapted to forests and woodlands. It all depends on how you play the game.

## High Intelligence Downsides

The main downsides of high intelligence is that you need a lot more food to sustain your play through. And that you have to minimize your other stats in order to go into more intelligence abilities. This is why Corvids are known as glass cannons with their pretty low defense & HP.

## Notable Builds

* Crow
* Raven
* Magpie
* Rook
* Jackdaw
* Jay
* Treepie
* Chough
* Nutcracker
Ankylosaurus

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Ankylosaurus (Echo Figher: Euoplocephalus) is one of the most famous banned builds of all time. It is mainly well known for having max defense, and having the very intimidating tail club.

## Overview

Ankylosaurus has amazing defense, great attack, and health. Which shows how far the dinosaur player base have dominated the game. Oddly enough it has high stealth for a large tank. But makes up for these high stats with very little intelligence for a bulky build.

## Abilities and Skills

With these high stats this build formed special abilities out of those high stats.

### Osteoderms and Plates

Ankylosaurus and other similar builds opted for thick hard osteoderms and plates. It was so thick that bite attacks on this build was an actual jaw-breaker. This thick defense covered the back, head, and tail.

### Club

Out of the osteoderms formed a thick club. This drastically increases the power stat. Its so strong that it can shatter Tyrannosaurus’ leg bone.

### Back

To combo with its signature Club attack, it specced into a back that can bend backwards. This allowed for a safer attack option when facing an opponent.

### Nostrils

Due to the thick plating, breathing heats up easily. To compensate Ankylosaurs and other similar builds placed some points into their nostrils. With the new nostrils Ankylosaurs can cool down or heat up the air.

## Weakness

### Belly

Like as we all know Ankylosaurus as a very weak belly. Simple slash attacks can pierce the belly. Besides the belly being very weak, when flipped over it can't really do much. The opponent could use the front leg of the ankylosaur to flip it over, so crouching to cover your belly and to always have you back to your opponent is advised.

## Tier Placement

Just from the stats alone places ankylosaurus into a nice spot in mid A. Even Tyrannosaurus players won’t attack a fully levelled up ankylosaurus unless it’s completely sure it will flip it over. If it’s flipped, it’s completely helpless. For that, it is in A Tier, because S Tiers won’t have such a big flaw.
Deer

## Basic Deer

The deer is a build found across most servers. Most deer aren't the tankiest builds and they get bodied by wolves, bears, and leopards, but they have good movement speed. Their stats are only average, but their good movement speed puts them at B tier. The deer also avoids the same mistake as the cheetah specking into other things like health, stealth, and defense. But in the city they can't make secret tunnnels like mice do or fly like birds having, no way of navigating and getting bodied hard by human mains when crossing roads, putting them at F tier. Their code is also prone to Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). They also piss dogs off.

## Ability showcase.

### Charge

* The deers attack increases when the charge is activated.
Dense Fur

Dense Fur is a defensive ability found in Mustelids build. It negates frost damage and provides immunity to temperature elemental attacks, as well as defence to attacks like fangs and stingers since it's difficult to pierce the defensive fur and thick hide under it. This gives some indirect venom resistance as well as the other resistance abilities it provides.
Barreleye

Barreleyes are fish builds that play on Mesopelagic servers in the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian ocean servers. Mainly known for their telescoping eye used to see in the dark Abyss server.

## Overview

This build has terrible stats like most Abyss builds. Only good on is health which is medicore. They make it up with their amazing perception, able to see targets in the dark waters of the Abyss. They have toothless mouths, forcing them to target zooplankton as their main food source and they only grow about 20cm.

## Abilites and Skills

### Telescoping Eyes

These builds feature large telescoping eyes that protrude from the head and are contained in a transparent dome-like structure. Their eyes generally gaze upward but can be directed forward. This build has superb eyesight because their dome-like head structures collect more light plus using their retinas which carry lots of rhodopsin they can distinguish actual light and bioluminescence.

### Ventral Lights

This build produces a small amount of light which breaks the user's outline, allowing it to blend in with the surface light, and makes hits harder to land.

### Pressure Resistance

This build has spent points into [Pressure Resistance], which allows it to inhabit the Abyss server.

### Weak Venom Resistance

This dome-like head protects its head from damage, which makes its head immune to venom attacks.

## Tier Placement

These builds are not the ideal build because larger builds can pose a threat and their lack of offensive capabilities so they are in C tier kept out of lower tiers because of their superb vision, their matchup with Siphonophores, and their high evasive use.
Caecilian

Caecilians are a group of amphibians that decided to copy worms with (almost) having no eyes, no legs and can dig pretty well. This amphibian is the optimal amphibian if you're looking for a terrestrial playstyle as (previously mentioned) it can dig. Unlike worms, caecilians are at a disad

   vantage as they have a larger hurtbox than the worm because they can reach up to 1.5 metres long. They also have a pair of tentacles witch is used for smell and also for oflacation. They were added into the game in the late cretaceous. Eocacelia was said to be the first caecilian added to the game and at that point they still had legs.

## Digging

We briefly explained it in the first paragraph but this paragraph will go into more detail.

### Skull

Caecilians have a strong skull that allows them to dig really effectively. Their skull shape also has a pointed snout which also helps with digging. They tuck thier head into the soil and in sort of a wavy maneuver, dig.

### Tentacles

The previously mentioned tentacles also speed up the process.

## Lower Classifications

Ichthyophiidae

Rhinatrematidae

Scolecomorphidae

Caeciliidae
Calymmian

Screenshot from a player from Volyn biota with multiple filaments with claw-like ends growing from a common center

### Version

0.3.6

**Calymmian** (From Ancient Greek- Cover) is the first Period of the Mesoproterozoic Subupdate. Lasted from 1.600Mya to 1.400Mya. This Dates do not mark any Major events.

## Events

At the time Devs didn't add much so Playerbase started calling time from 1.800 - 800Mya Boring Billion.

* Some minor updates to Platform Covers mechanic were happening.
* ~1.500Mya Columbia Superserver starts to break.
* Volyn Biota is added. ~1.500 Mya

## Volyn Biota

Name for a Playerbase from 1.500Mya Due to game history corruption we only know them from screenshots and Fossils. We Found them in Volyn Ukraine. This biota provided evidence of the presence of fungi-like builds and Precambrian continental deep biosphere. Some fossils eastereggs give evidence of sessility (Lack of mobility stat by itself), while others of free-living gameplay.
Flying Fish

Flying fish are open ocean osteichthyian builds that play on ocean servers worldwide. They are known for their ability to glide.

## Overview

The flying fish's mobility stat is excellent. With a high swimming speed and the ability to glide which makes a very mobile aquatic build. Aside from that their other stats are not good. They mainly feed on plankton and travel in large schools. Contray to their name, flying fish do not have powered flight and are at the mercy of the winds that carry them, which could either lead them to successfully escaping a predator or leave them careening headlong into another predator's jaws.

## Abilities

### Glide

To escape predators flying fish leap out of the water. This requires lots of momentum and they can do it for over 600 feet and can leap 4 feet high.

### Streamline Body

The flying fish has a streamline shaped body for very good aquatic mobility.

## Matchups

### Plankton

The Flying fish uses plankton as their food source so they completely counter them.

### Swordfish, Mackerel, Tuna, And Wahoo

For a time, Flying Fish can escape these predators with the glide ability. However, they can just intercept the Flying FIsh.

### Seabirds

This may be the flying fishes worst matchup. Birds can be more mobile than them sometimes and can strike from above.

### Humans

Humans use flying fish as a food source and they sometimes accidentally land on human boats. They are also attracted to light so humans use this as bait for flying fish.

## Tier Placement

The flying fish is D tier. They have excellent mobility, but the rest of their stats are terrible, and they get griefed hard. Speccing into powered flight and higher air resistance may put them in mid tier, but where they are now, they're stuck in low tier.
Cephalopod

**Cephalopoda** is a Faction of Outside players found in Ocean biomes.

## Overview

Cephalopods are one of the most interesting choices a player can make. The main 4 options you have when selecting to play as a cephalopod are the more well-known Octopi and Squids, and the more uncommon Cuttlefish and Nautili.

In general, cephalopods have strong builds. They (with the exception of Nautili) forsake the customary

   Mollusc shell in favor of their high and easy movement. They have good matchups against most things in the Ocean Server, their only caveat being their horrible defense. The ultimate glass cannon, if you will.

## Overall Playstyle

Cephalopods play fast and loose-- they have the option to pick their encounters but have the escape options to disengage from an unfavorable PvP. They usually won't have trouble getting loot, but if caught, they often go down due to their low defense.

## Cephalopod Subclasses

* Octopus
* Squid
	+ Giant Squid
	+ Bobtail Squid
* Cuttlefish
* Nautilus
* Ammonite(extinct)
Desert

The Desert biome consists of a dry region of land, usually mainly sand, that receives low levels of precipitation. It is a very challenging and hostile environment and thus, has few plants and animal players that can adapt well to this server. There are many types of deserts. Deserts are found on every continent and cover about one-third of the land surface of the Earth.

### Hot Deserts

* Sahara desert - Largest desert
* The Arabian desert - occupies most of the Arab server
* The Thar desert - in the western Indian subserver
* Sonoran desert, Mohave desert, The Chihuahuan desert and Okanagan desert - both in North America.
* The Great Victorian desert and Tanami desert - in Australia
* Accona desert and North Siberian desert - in Europe

### Coastal Deserts

* The Atacama desert and Patagonian desert - in South America
* Great Sandy - in Australia
* Namib desert - in Southern Africa

### Cold Deserts

* Great Basin desert - in North America
* Gobi desert and Taklamakan desert - in Asia
* Tibetan Plateau - in Asia
* North Greenland/The Arctic desert
* Antarctica
American Eel

The American Eel (echo fighter:European Eel) is a build which can reach 4 feet in length. These builds reverse the playstyle of Salmonby starting in freshwater and entering the ocean server to complete the main quest.

## Tier Placement

D-tier. These builds can burrow,have the [Adaptive Gills]] ability,can easily climb obstacles, and is capable of doing the [Death Roll] ability.However, like the Salmon build, they lose their playthrough after completing the main quest. They also get bodied by builds Salmon can easily evade.

## References

1. ↑ https://environment.bm/american-european-eels
2. ↑ https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/great\_lakes\_migrants\_more\_than\_just\_salmon
3. ↑ https://www.britannica.com/science/migration-animal/Catadromous-fish#ref497196
4. ↑ https://norwalkriver.org/american-eel/
5. ↑ http://factsanddetails.com/world/cat53/sub340/item2193.html
6. ↑ https://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.aspx?SpeciesID=310
7. ↑ https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=gB0IzF0WgmUC&pg=PT143&lpg=PT143&dq=death+roll+american+eel&source=bl&ots=8QfwJ1kDem&sig=ACfU3U3KbPvP4WDiPx0m8tsrpvCOZrvgOw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjrrI6F857pAhVZIqYKHdpKBe8Q6AEwFXoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=death%20roll%20american%20eel&f=false
8. ↑ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/10/151027-american-eel-migration-animal-behavior-oceans-science/
9. ↑ https://www.chesapeakebay.net/S=0/fieldguide/critter/american\_eel
Common Skate

The common skate build, which is actually two builds, the flapper skate and the blue skate, is a large skate build in the Atlantic Ocean server. It is also some of the largest skate builds in the game. Despite its name, it has only a small playerbase and is considered "Critically Endangered", being a few steps towards switching mains.

## Species

### Relatives

Skates, Rays, Electric Rays and Shovelnose Rays.

## Overview

Like all Skates, it has an above-average Stealth stat. Its thorns also provide a mediocre Defense boost. It has a mediocre amount of Health. Lastly, this build is quite fast, possesing above-average Mobility. Overall, most of its stats are mediocre, with Mobility being the highest stat.

## Moveset

**Spines (Passive, Defense)**- Returns a small amount of damage back to an attacker.

**Electroreception (Passive, Utility)**- Motion shown on minimap.

## Tier Placement

Mid C-tier. These builds are just your average Skate build, with some predators and mediocre stats all around. It does ot make much of an impact on the meta that it lives in.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://www.mcsuk.org/goodfishguide/ratings/wild-capture/9/
2. ↑ https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/marine/fish-sharks-skates-and-rays/common-skate
3. ↑ https://www.ospar.org/work-areas/bdc/species-habitats/list-of-threatened-declining-species-habitats/fish/common-skate
4. ↑ https://www.fisheriesireland.ie/species/common-skate-dipturus-batis
5. ↑ https://www.nature.scot/plants-animals-and-fungi/fish/sea-fish/flapper-skate
6. ↑ https://shark-references.com/species/view/Dipturus-batis
7. ↑ http://www.mesa.edu.au/fish/fish03.asp
8. ↑ https://planetseafishing.com/species/common-skate/
9. ↑ https://kidadl.com/animal-facts/skate-fish-facts
10. ↑ http://londonfishmonger.blogspot.com/2009/11/skating-on-thin-ice-plight-of-our\_02.html
11. ↑ https://marinedimensions.ie/flapper-skate-fact-file/#:~:text=Diet%3A%20Other%20species%20of%20skate,Critically%20Endangered%20by%20the%20IUCN.
Bryozoa

Moss animal

Bryozoa a.k.a Moss Animal is one of the AFK guilds. They are often overshadowed by Coral players. Moss animals are most common in ocean biomes but some also play on freshwater servers.

Only very low level players have any significant mobility. They have to go through Metamorphosis to advance their playthrough.

#### Pros

* Requires little attention after metamorphosis check
* Good stealth
* Good Regeneration capabilities
* Colonial trait allows them to share resources

### Cons

* Low intelligence
* They get bodied by more mobile builds
* Little defense and almost no attack
* Almost no mobility
* Low skill ceiling
Clown Featherback

The clown knifefish is a bony tongue build often kept as support class. This build can often be found in the Mekong River server.

## Tier Placement

B-tier. This build is a build made to body fish builds. Like the entire Bony tongue guild, it has the [Bony Tongue] ability, allowing it to earn more EXP from player kills.It also has sharp gill rakers designed to inflict damage, but does not provide much Defense. It can also resort to air-breathing once oxygen spawns are rare. In the Philippine server, it easily bodies Tilapia and Bangus players, making them S-tier in the Philippine server.

## References

1. ↑ https://animal-world.com/encyclo/fresh/Knifefish/ClownKnifefish.php
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://bie.ala.org.au/species/37091751
3. ↑ https://www.fishlaboratory.com/fish/clown-knife-fish
4. ↑ https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/do-clown-knives-have.21579/
5. ↑ https://lbtimes.ph/2017/04/29/eliminating-pest-knife-fish-from-laguna-lake/
6. ↑ https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/01/16/1543458/imported-invasive-species-threaten-philippine-fishery-industry
Chimaera

Chimaeras, also known as rabbitfish or ghost sharks, are playable builds in the subfaction Holocephali. The Holocephali subfaction was, in the legacy meta, much more diverse, having builds like eugenodontids. These builds specced into tooth plates instead of actual teeth. These builds are also playable in The Abyss.

## Species

### Relatives

Helicoprion, Stethacanthus and other Holocephalians.

## Overview

Being solitary, it has a low Intelligence stat. Its tooth plates also give it an above-average Power stat. It has spines, giving it a good Defense stat. However, it has a low Health stat, with the largest weighing up to 25 kg. Lastly, it is rather sluggish for a cartilaginous fish build.

## Moveset

**Electroreception (Passive, Utility)**- Motion shown on minimap.

**Pressure Resistance (Passive, Support)**- Allows you to play in The Abyss.

**Venomous Spine (Passive, Defense)**- Returns 30% of damage, along with dealing moderate Poison damage, to an attacker.

**Mini Chomp (Active, Attack)**- A slightly heavy attack that deals piercing damage.

## Tier Placement

Like most abyssal builds, this one canoot be truly ranked. However, with all this available information, it would probably be B-tier. As deep-sea generalists, it has a decent and viable playstyle, along with a spine to protect itself. However, there are some griefers of this build and this build does not really make an impact in its meta.

## References

1. ↑ https://saveourseas.com/update/chimaeras-the-sharks-forgotten-cousins/
2. ↑ https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/60450-Holocephali
3. ↑ http://www.seawater.no/fauna/chordata/Holocephali.html
4. ↑ https://blogs.millersville.edu/news/2013/04/04/fossil-shark-similar-to-ratfish/
5. ↑ https://experiment.com/projects/tooth-plates-in-chimaeras-and-their-relationship-to-teeth-in-sharks
6. ↑ https://www.britannica.com/animal/chimaera
7. ↑ https://www.fishbase.in/summary/Chimaera-cubana.html
8. ↑ https://www.sharktrust.org/chimaera
9. ↑ https://www.allthingsnature.org/what-is-a-chimaera.htm
10. ↑ http://www.nhc.ed.ac.uk/index.php?page=493.470.475.474
11. ↑ https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=cu9ADwAAQBAJ&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=chimaera+sluggish+swimmer&source=bl&ots=F3S1GBPZ9k&sig=ACfU3U3TbJYZORj7MUATTuzaw7zBdd-17w&hl=xx-bork&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjVgoefk4PyAhVEu54KHT8LDo8Q6AEwDXoECCMQAg#v=onepage&q=chimaera%20sluggish%20swimmer&f=false
12. ↑ https://fishionary.fisheries.org/tag/electroreception/
Colour Change

Great for stealth CHAMELEON PLAYERS...NOT SO MUCH

This ability allows the user to change colours and being able to change colours is the number one most powerful stealth perk in the entire game which is why Cuttlefish are the best stealth build of all time. Camouflaging, especially with any environment is extremely useful when you are trying to catch prey from short distances or hiding from predators

Cuttlefish main have the ability to use both "Colour Change" and "Shape-shift" in combination to achieve an unparalleled level of undetectability. They could also use it also for "Hypnosis". By using colour change and rapidly cycling through colours over and over, you can actually mess with the graphics engine and cause other players games to crash, resulting in a free win

Chameleons, on the other hand, most commonly use this for **FREAKING EMOTES** and reaction to temperature. A useful ability that is totally wasted.
Deepsea lizardfish

Deepsea lizardfish are fish which live in the abyssal server. These lizardfish are the apex predators of the abyss. They lay on the sand with their heads tilted upward ready to snatch at prey. They devour prey with their razor-sharp teeth and have tough skin. these builds just make it into low S tier being kept out of high S Tier because of their relationship with Sleeper Sharks.
Chalicothere

Range: 50

Chalicotheres are a banned group of builds most notable for their [Claws] gear used to collect EXP.

## Tier Placement

Chalicotheres are not in a high spot on the tier list. They could have used their claws to defend against gankers, but they said, "Nope! We're going to use them for collecting EXP only, and we'll get bodied hard by all those Hyaenodont, Bear Dog, Dinofelis, and Hell Pig mains!" They were also dependent on trees, and when forest servers were replaced with grassland servers, Chalicotheres fell out of their already small viability.
Bison

The **American Bison**, also known as the **buffalo** for its resemblance to the Old World builds, is the premier build of the Great Plains. It is known for being the national mammal build of the United States. This build survived The Ice Age balance patch but is increasingly being bodied by Human mains in the present meta.

## Overview

This build has a massive Health stat, being the largest playable Mammal main in North America. It is has a high Intelligence stat, high enough to form complex herds. It is surprisingly agile, despite its heavy build, having a decent amount of Mobility. Lastly, it could protect itself using its horns, thus having a high Power stat.. Once they reach full size, they are pretty much unstoppable.

## Moveset

**Never Leave a Man Behind (Active, Team Play)** - All herd members will attack if one gets injured.

**Ruminant (Passive, Utility)**c- Allows you to gain EXP from any plant loot, and increases their potential EXP gain twofold.

**Cold Resistance (Passive, Support)** - Allows you to take less damage from the cold.

**Snow Plow (Active, Mobility)** - Removes snow movement penalty. Also creates a pathway for other builds to move without incurring the movement penalty.

**Head Padding (Passive, Utility)**- Reduces damage dealt as well as damage taken through the head.

## Tier Placement

At the bottom of A-tier is the Bison, a build that traded Power for more Health and Defense, using shorter horns and padded fur on their head, thus allowing them to tank more damage in exchange for not dealing as much. This can be really problematic, as being able to one-shot Wolf mains can discourage their aggressive teammates from attacking you. Since they cannot oneshot them, some Wolf players can get pretty brazen on their attacks on Bison. Still, they are among the premier tanks of North America alongside the Moose, and have good matchups against Brown Bears. Prior to the Human main's utilization of gunpowder, the Bison would once be S-tier. While most of them were annihilated, their playerbase is starting to improve.

## References

1. ↑ https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/news/its-bison-not-buffalo-and-other-american-bison-facts
2. ↑ http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.pe.010
3. ↑ https://www.nps.gov/articles/bison-bellows-5-12-16.htm
4. ↑ https://www.timesrepublican.com/news/outdoors-today/2021/04/big-beasts-past-and-present/
5. ↑ https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/05/the-buffalo-killers/482349/
6. ↑ https://www.theanimalfiles.com/mammals/hoofed\_mammals/bison\_american.html
7. ↑ https://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/five-things/the-great-american-bison/8950/
8. ↑ https://www.fws.gov/refuge/National\_Bison\_Range/Sections/right\_col/bison\_facts.html
9. ↑ https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Mammals/American-Bison
10. ↑ https://carnivora.net/bison-antipredator-defences-and-behaviour-t4175.html
11. ↑ https://www.nps.gov/articles/bison-bellows-12-31-15.htm
12. ↑ https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/how-bison-survive-winter-in-the-northern-great-plains
Aesthetics

**Aesthetics**, also known as **cosmetics**, is a mechanic that allows players to look more striking.

Spending points into cosmetics can have variety of effects such as reduced Stealth but increased Intimidation.

Lately, investing lots of points into aesthetics have become useful for builds with small playerbase as they attract certain Human players setting house rules designed to protect them.

## Builds notable for spending a lot of points into aesthetics

* Parrots
* Peafowl
* Bird-of-paradise
* Giant Panda
* Many frogs with Poison abilities.
* Various fish, such as mandarin fish.
* Portugese Man 'o War
* Butterflies
* Various Ctenophora
Bothriolepis

Bothriolepis was a removed Placoderm main playable during The Devonian Expansion. It was one of the most widespread placoderm mains playable, available in every server except Antarctica.Unlike the arthodire main Dunkleosteus, Bothriolepis was an antiarch, a build normally known as bottom feeders.

## Overview

Being a detritivore, it likely had low Power. Intelligence was not a problem for this build, as many other builds playable during its time did not need Intelligence either. It has a deceptively high Health stat. While many versions of Bothriolepis were small, Bothriolepis rex was the largest antiarch ever in the game. It had a low Mobility stat. It specced into thick armor, able to protect itself from many gankers. Lastly, it had a surprisingly above-average Stealth stat, being able to dig up sediment to camouflage themselves.

## Moveset

**Dust Cloud (Active, Stealth)**- Reduces accuracy to 0 and provides a moderate Stealth boost.

**Adaptive Gills (Passive, Support)**- No penalty for switching between freshwater and saltwater servers.

**Spiky Fins (Passive, Mobility)**-Provides a slight buoyancy boost.

**Bony Plating (Passive, Defense)**- Negates critical hits and provides a boost to maximum EXP and stamina.

## Tier Placement

C-tier. This build is made for being a forager and has high Defense. This build can channel [Dust Cloud], a Rock move that is about throwing up a sediment cloud at the target which reduces their accuracy to zero. However, if these fails, then these builds are basically just sitting ducks due to low Mobility.

## Summary

### Pros:

* Euryhaline
* Above average Health and Stealth
* High Defense
* Dust cloud makes gankers inaccurate.

### Cons:

* Low Intelligence, Mobility and Power.
* Is a bottom-feeding build.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.britannica.com/animal/Bothriolepis
2. ↑ https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m0c4184?hl=ro
3. ↑ http://palaeos.com/vertebrates/placodermi/placodermi.html
4. ↑ https://quizlet.com/261226267/fossils-8-flash-cards/
5. ↑ https://www.stitcher.com/show/strange-animals-podcast/episode/episode-214-armored-fish-and-the-late-devonian-mass-extinctions-82207640
6. ↑ http://www.prehistoricstore.com/item.php?item=1298
7. ↑ http://www.fossilmuseum.net/fishfossils/Bothriolepis-canadensis/fish-fossils-61.htm
8. ↑ https://www.paleozoo.com.au/bothriolepis.php
9. ↑ http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/b/bothriolepis.html
10. ↑ https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=3nWIDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA209&lpg=PA209&dq=bothriolepis+anadromous&source=bl&ots=gasDcMmSVv&sig=ACfU3U1jKhYvg5s1LzrX9rzhQu6oS7mMaw&hl=xx-bork&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjB1-66tK\_xAhVCIqYKHfK4DCoQ6AEwEHoECB4QAg#v=onepage&q=bothriolepis%20anadromous&f=false
11. ↑ http://palaeos.com/vertebrates/placodermi/Bothriolepis/bothriolepis.html
Ankylorhiza

Ankylorhiza (Fused Roots) was a banned stem Odontocete that also became one of the first Whale builds to become a BM main. Its playstyle was unsurprisingly similar to Orcas, even down to their ramming attacks.

## Ankylorhiza

Now I wonder what the stats for Perucetus are like.

## Overview

Despite being notably one of the largest odontocete builds in the Oligocene, its Health was notably mediocre at best. But what it lacked in health, it made up for it in Power, allowing it to ram down and DPS other players with ease due to how its jaws were specced. It had decent Mobility and above-average Intelligence with the development of a melon.

## Moveset

**Ram Bite (Active, Attack)**- A [Charge] attack that inflicts [Heavy Bleed] and deals a lot of damage.

**Echolocation (Passive, Utility)**- Allows the user to detect a player far away and removes Stealth bonuses.

## Tier Placement

This build was among the first Odontocete builds playable, and it quickly became a popular build for griefers to use, easily bodying nearly everything despite its small size, allowing it to secure an A-tier in the early Oligocene seas before Megalodon and macroraptorial sperm whales were even playble. This build would later pave the way for builds like Squalodon and Livyatan and eventually, the Orca to finally have Odontocetes become top-tiers of all time, easily beating even large Icthyosaurs in that department.

## Referrences

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://novataxa.blogspot.com/2020/07/ankylorhiza.html
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/giant-extinct-dolphin-may-have-hunted-other-whales-180975302/
3. ↑ https://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/a/ankylorhiza.html
4. ↑ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200709113518.htm
5. ↑ https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/prehistoric-dolphin-the-terror-of-primeval-seas
Kodiak Bear

## Overview

Kodiak Bears are a guild of Brown Bear players. They are the strongest of the guild. Like their A Tier relatives, they are absolutely amazing at griefing Salmon mains. They don’t have to eat salmon for Xp though, as they are omnivores, which means they can eat berries, herbs, deer and even clams, they are also usually peaceful.

## Abilities

### Paw Swipe

Deals large amounts of Slash type damage.

### Hibernate

Reduce Mobility to 0, but in exchange buff Cold Resistance to 1000%. If not enough loot is gained, HP will drain.

## Tier Placment

Low S Tier. They are literally stronger Brown Bear players. They dominate every other player in that region.

## Species

### Location

Kodiak Island (cmon what were u thinking)
Deinosuchus

You might be looking for the echo fighter, Purussaurus.

Range: 30

**Deinosuchus** was presumably the largest Crocodillian build ever, rivaled by the Purussaurus. It was playable in the North America server during the Late Cretaceous Period.

## Overview

**Deinosuchus** reached a length of up to 14,12 meters and a weight of 15.4 metric tons. Generally, **Deinosuchus** has similar stats to the Crocodile. It maximised its Power stat by reaching an insanely high biteforce, which the Data Miners haven't estimated to this day. **Deinosuchus** also has high Defense because of its heavy osteoderms.

## Tier Placement

Overall, **Deinosuchus** was an OP build, that was probably banned by the Devs for that reason. OP enough to get a high spot in S tier.
Item Throw

YA YEET!!!!!!!!!

Item throw is an ability. It allows the user to throw items effectively, opening the range of tools they can use.
Item throwing can only be truly achieved if a build has shorter arms and longer legs, instead of vise versa for most mammals. Stronger legs allow for more support, which prevents humans from falling over while throwing tools.

Many builds like chimps and elephants have this ability, but humans really make use of it. Because of their stance, this ability is completely OP on humans, but just another bad ability for most other builds.
Clam Shrimp

Clam shrimp are ocean builds who are pretty much just bivalves who accidentally chose the crustacean class instead of bivalve but are too lazy to change it back so they just mimic clams. They have all the same problems bivalves do and more. They have zero mobility, no attacks against predators, and very low defense compared to other bivalves. They just hope that their armor does the trick and have other players just think it's a clam. But that rarely works because many builds in the ocean server speck into armor piercing abilities. This build is nothing but F Tier.