Black Oyster

## About

With its extremely high stats, the Black Oyster is a contender for best attacking ship in the game with the Flying Dutchman and Night Wind being the others.

## Design

The ship's design looks like a militarized Queen Barb's Justice, due to their shared brig rigging and similar superstructure design. What sets the former different from the latter, however, is the fact that the former is a sloop-of-war, built for piracy, agility, command of the sea, and sheer, brute force brought about by its high krew capacity.

## Technical

This ship has the second highest health, the third highest regeneration, and decent speed, making it one of the most fearsome ships to sail the seven seas. However, it is not really suitable for trading, given its 1500 cargo space. The ship upgrade items that are mostly suggested are the Drifter or Steel Reinforced Planks.

## Strategy

### With the Black Oyster

* Due to the high stats of this Ship, you can beat any non-Big mama in the game (provided that you can get close enough).
* Stay away from large fleets of ships, as you will be a prime target to take down due to your huge hit box, hit is almost guaranteed.
* With high regeneration, you can recover faster than some other ships, so temporarily retreating when extremely low on health and then reengaging will give you a huge advantage over some other ships. (see other ship wikis for their regen rates)
* Use this ship's speed advantage to go after Traders with lots of cargo.
* This ship is not ideal for traders as it has less cargo than a trader 1, instead, use this ship for pirating.
* Pair with Nitro Peg or Steel Reinforced Planks for one of the best ships in the game.
* Try to gather a numerous krew with good builds and upgrades such as Pegs, Planks, Advanced Toolkit, and Cannon and Hybrid items. Congregate with other Black Oysters and Night Winds to make the most out of its potential for the application of sheer brute force with the combination of speed and regeneration.

### Against the Black Oyster

* You will need a fleet of ships or another Black Oyster in order to take down a Black Oyster.
* If you have a large, skilled krew and a fast ship, you may be able to take down an unskilled Black Oyster.
* The Queen Barb's Justice with reinforced planks, Flying Dutchman, Night Wind, Baby Fancy and Silent Dragon are all great counters, due to higher HP regen rate of the first, and the speed of the later.

## Recommended Builds

For the Black Oyster, use a sniper build like 0-50-0 with Demolisher, or 27-23-0 with Titanium Barrel. Alternatively, the krew members can use one of those and the captain can use 20-10-20 or 30-0-20 with Drifter or Nitro Peg for higher speed. If you have 3 or more krew members, having at least one krew with a high Fire Rate build like 30-0-20 with Sinker's Gloves or Demolisher would be helpful.

## Gallery

Ships
**Raft** | Raft

**Boats** | Boat 1 • Boat 2 • Boat 3

**Traders** | Trader 1 • Trader 2 • Trader 3

**Destroyers** | Destroyer 1 • Destroyer 2

**Big Mamas** | Queen Barb's Justice • Night Wind • **Black Oyster** • Fortune Trader • Flying Dutchman • Queen Anne's Revenge

**Others** | Baby Fancy • Silent Dragon • Raider • Junkie • Echelle • Calm Spirit • Royal Fortune • Battalion • Pinta