Ant

The average ant that you see everyday unless the ant you see everyday is not the average ant

## Base Stats

### Tier

F (solo or when isolated)
S+ (when in a party)

## Classification

### Family

Formicidae

Ants are players most of the players of outside have seen or at least heard of if they play on the polar servers. They are known for mastering the Eusocial ability.

## Overview

Since Ants are insects, they are unfortunately stuck in the lower weight classes. Ants have took notice and decided that the eusocial ability was a good idea. They are not the friendliest of creatures as they occasionally wage war. They use biting and stinging with venom as their main attack method.

The war feature is sort of like humans but unlike humans, mercy, surrendering, talking it out is a non-option. Usually they are split into attackers and dismembers. Attackers attack and dismember opposing ants so that it is easier for the attacker ants. They steal the larvae of the opposing side and feed it to their queen which in turn makes more ants and etc. Ants are an extremely popular guild, quite possibly the most popular guild in the whole game with over 12000 playable classes and all of them accounting for 20% of the entire terrestrial Outside playerbase.

Ants can't use the chat feature so they use chemical signals, smell and touch to communicate with other fellow ant players. They receive signals through their antennae so losing them could be a death sentence. Some ants are better at war than other ants and some knowing that meeting one of these other ants will mean certain defeat, some ants decided to go for a defensive playstyle.

Two ants will not attack the same species as this only harms the build enough to make all ant mains quit or uninstall. They also are the only non-mammal to have the teach ability. Ants rose to popularity because some ant mains accidentally found themselves on boats and when they arrived, they found nothing but easy matchups and free food to scavenge around with.

Only some ant players have access to Flight ability and even that for a limited period.

## Abilities

### Eusocial

With their lackluster base stats, a lone Ant player would easily be low-to-bottom tier as even a low-level lightweight player could easily kill an Ant player if it was ever isolated. But here's the key words: "if it was ever isolated", because they have one trick they have up their sleeve that easily shot them up to top tier and have remained in that spot ever since. The trick in question being Eusociality.

Ant players are one of the most if not the most social creatures on earth as they have the eusocial ability and really use it to the fullest. This allows them to acheive great things out of their limits by themselves. Ant players have a queen(s), workers and drones.

#### Hyper Specialisation

Eusociality also allows Hyper Specialisation as the colony can cover for the weaknesses of speccing into unique traits. Examples of specialised builds are Doorhead ants and Soldier ants. Some ants are able to cultivate agriculture in farming nutritious fungus or insect larvae as livestocks. It also facilitates the sharing of food, especially during famine and winter.

#### Megacolony

The Argentine ant is the most social ant as it has a megacolony of many queens all over the continents with all of them except for Antarctica but some say that some argentine ants dwell in the bases that human players make to understand the game's history and study the code of the game for answers to their curiosity. The Red Fire ant is also able to form Megacolonies.

### Builder's Silk

The Weaver ant builds multiple bases in the Arboreal zone. They use the silk of larvae like cement to stick leaves together.

#### Chemical Spray

Weaver ants can squirt toxic chemicals at enemy ants.

## Notable Builds

* Trap Jaw Ant
* Army Ant
* Leafcutter ant
* Fire Ant
* Argentine Ant
* Weaver Ant
* Pharoah Ant