Ocean Sunfish

Ocean Sunfish is one of the heaviest bony fish builds currently playable. Early-game sunfish resemble Pufferfish players. This build is part of the Teraodontidae guild which also includes Pufferfish.

## Species

### Relatives

Pufferfish, Boxfish, Filefish and Triggerfish.

## Overview

The Ocean Sunfish has the best bulk out of all the ray-finned fish builds. In the outdated overview, it had thick rubbery skin skin for extra Defense. Its unorthodox control scheme also gives it surprisingly high Mobility, even being able to leap from the water. It has low Intelligence, exemplified by its pewee brain. It formerly has a higher Power stat due to its beak, but this as been lowered recently. Lastly, its Stealth is low due to its bulk.

## Moveset

These builds are recent addtions, but they get so much exp that they get to go for many abilities

**Mucus (Passive, Utility)**- Makes flesh less appetizing towards predators and slightly increases Defense.

**Gentle Giant (Passive, Utility)**- Increses resolve in smaller fish to approach this build. Key in getting the parasites removed.

**Greater Growth (Passive, Misc.)**- Increases the growth rate of this build. This makes it get out of the vulenrable juvinile stage quickly.

**Rubbery Thick Skin (Passive, Defense)**- Provides decent protection against jellyfish stings and most gankers. (outdated)

**Greater Spawning Rate (Passive,Misc.)**- Allows this build to spawn the most amount of eggs for any Fish build.

**Bask (Active, Utility)**- Allows you to gather up temperate and also makes cleaner Bird and Fish builds help you in cleaning the parasites.

**Speed Burst (Active, Mobility)**- If in danger or spots prey you gain a speed boost for a short time.

## Tier Placement

### General (but Outdated)

This build, previously known to be a pure jellyfish specialist, is actually able to body a wider range of builds than what was once believed. It has a high Health stat, being immune to most gankers because of this. However, these builds have poor matchups against Sea Lions, Sharks, Orcas and are spawnkilled by Tuna and Billfish players easily due to their large hitbox. It avoids most of its gankers by playing below the thermocline in open ocean servers most of the time. For early-game gankers, this is where [Greater Growth] and [Greater Spawning Rate] comes to play. The former allows players to get out of the early-game pretty quickly. The latter allows it to spawn millions of new players so that one defeated player does not mean much for the entire playerbase. With its high size, a lot of parasite players can easily sap out the HP points of this build.Therefore, it has many anti-parasitic abilities and moves, since it needs all the help it can to clean off parasite players. However, it has no offensive potential, so its ~~bullet sponge~~ Stone Wall nature prevents it from going any higher

### Compared to other Fish (Recent)

The ocean sunfish has one highest HP stat, but their other stats are awful, and because of this, the sunfish gets bodied hard by other builds. Another PRO is their hiht defense. The sunfish defense is hight and they don't have the classic fish attribute, scales. So, their player base is mainly an easy target for sweats and parasites. They mainly rely on support builds to heal them. Because of this, this build gets into high C tier compared to other Fish builds.

## Summary

### Pros:

* High Power and Defense (outdated)
* Very high Health.
* Above-average Mobility, especially vertical mobility.
* Plays below the thermocline, avoiding many gankers.
* Practically immune to Jellyfish stings.
* Can team-up Bird and Fish players to clean itself of parasitic debuffs.
* Great respawning rate.
* Fast rate of levelling up.
* Actually capable of speed bursts to escape gankers.

### Cons:

* Low Power, Defense, Stealth and, Intelligence.
* Vulnerable to Tuna and Mahi-Mahi early game.
* Late game players can be targeted by high- tier Shark players, Orcas and Sea Lions when they have to go to certain servers to cleanse themselves from parasites.
* Plagued by parasites.
* Is endangered.
* No offensive capabilites against bigger builds.

## Ocean Sunfish Rant response

A player posted a rant on the web about why this build is the worst build in the game, only staying viable because of constantly spawning millions of new players. However, it is essential to know that the rant is inaccurate and this build has far more potential than you realize. For one, along with the Leatherback Turtle, this build is one of the only hard counters to the Jellyfish build. They are essential for preventing Jellyfish players from becoming too overpowered.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/facts/ocean-sunfish
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20. ↑ https://www.twofishdivers.com/2017/10/mola-mola-parasites-lembongan/
21. ↑ https://www.boredpanda.com/useless-ocean-sunfish-scout-burns/?utm\_source=google&utm\_medium=organic&utm\_campaign=organic
22. ↑ https://www.buzzfeed.com/bradesposito/i-hate-sunfish
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