Bear Dog

Bear Dogs are a build known by dataminers as the Amphicyonids.They have two classes, the Daphoenid bear dogs, which are more dog than bear, thus having lower Power and Health in exchange for higher Mobility., and the Amphicyonid bear dogs, which were at the other side of the dichotomy between dog and bear, exchanging the Health and Mobility stat of the Daphoenid class bear dogs along with increased power.

## Base Stats

### Tier

C (Daphoenids)A (Amphicyonids)

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F (Pliocene)
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## Rise and Fall

The first bear dog build playable was Daphoenus, which were playable 40,4 million years ago. A little later, the first Amphicyonid bear dog builds like Cynodictis and Guangxicyon were playable in the Eurasian server. However, during the Oligocene patch, many bear dogs were lightweight and could be defeated in one hit by builds like the Hyaenodonts and Sarkastodon. As time passed, good news for the bear dogs but bad news for the creodonts, Tree spawns decreased due to cooling. Many herbivore builds developed greater Mobility. Because of the lack of Trees to use as cover, the Creodont strategy became unviable. Amphicyonids however, had a generalist diet, allowing it to sustain itself when it couldn't succesfully PK a player. Along with large size, the Amphicyonids also had the ability to crush bones, allowing it to easily steal kills and earn a lot of EXP from looting defeated players. It also had better Mobility, allowing it to easily outrun builds creodonts often struggle at. The Miocene expansion also gave amphicyonids better base stats. However, at the end of the Miocene and at the start of the Pliocene, amphicyonids were outcompeted. But instead of generalists beating specialists, it was ths other way around. Hyenas can effectively gain more loot from scavenging, Bears had even better adaptations for looting plant material, Dogs had even better Mobility and Cats dealt higher DPS. All of this spelled a ban for the amphicyonids.

## Tier Placement

### Daphoenids

C-tier. It was a build good for griefing lightweights. Basically a dumber Fox build. However, there are many more builds good at defeating them in one hit like the Hyaenodonts. The only advantage this build had was greater Mobility and generalist diet. However, its low Power stat means that its only good matchups were lightweights.

### Amphicyonids

A-tier. It had great Power and the [Bone Crusher] ability, which allows them to get more EXP from looting defeated players. It had great Mobility among non pursuit builds, allowing it to easily body builds that would be too fast for the creodont builds such as the Chalicotheres. They only builds that were better than them were the Hell Pigs and Paraceratherium. When this fails too, it could stick to the plant loot spawns normally unavailable to the Hyaenodonts. Later, during the Pliocene, Amphicyonids were F-tier due to the devs introducing better specialists like the ones in the previous headline. The devs had also buffed the herbivore mains by increasing either their Health or Mobility, preventing the amphicyonids from bodying them.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.livescience.com/56795-bear-dog.html
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/5948
3. ↑ https://www.livescience.com/56795-bear-dog.html
4. ↑ https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4833388.html
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/articles/bear-dogs-of-the-amphicyonidae.html
6. ↑ http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/a/amphicyon.html
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-vertebrate-fossils/species/amphicyon-longiramus/
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 https://www.esconi.org/esconi\_earth\_science\_club/2019/12/pbs-eons-the-forgotten-story-of-the-beardogs-paleontology.html