Moray Eel

The Moray Eel is a family of eel which can be found in both tropical and subtropical seas. They are infamous for camping in the cracks of rocks and attacking fish builds that hide there.

## Overview

The Moray Eel has high Power for a fish build. Which allow it to be able to take down most reef builds such as octopus players and medium fish. They have little bulk and mobility, though they cover it up by hiding in cracks and crevices in rocks. They hunt prey hiding in the cracks of rocks and coral. They have a good defense due to being covered in mucus, therefore making grabs hard to land.

## Abilities and Skills

### Teeth

Like most carnivorous fish, they specked into plentiful teeth, mainly to hold down prey. This increases the damage of bite attacks.

### Second Jaw

This build has spent points into a second jaw, which increases the grip of the build, and makes it harder for prey to escape, and it also helps this build consume larger prey.

### Mucus

This build is covered in mucus, allowing it to slip out of grab attempts and travel through tight cracks easier.

### Slender Build

This build has chosen a slender body type. This allows it to fit in cracks and slide through.

## Partners

### Healers

These builds are mainly paired with Baned Shrimp or Cleaner Shrimp. The shrimp pick at and clean this build from gunk and parasites, which may remove some debuffs the Moray could have sustained.

### Hunter

This build will sometimes join a Grouper on a hunt. First, they will travel to a suitable hunting spot. Then, the Grouper will force fish to retreat into the rocks and coral in the area while the Moray then scares them out of the coral. The ones that flee the Grouper become prey to the Moray, and the ones that flee from the Moray fall prey to the Grouper.

## Tier Placement

The Moray Eel is one of the most uniquely powerful fish in the game, with a set of strange yet highly functional abilities and well placed base stat alocations, while the highest aquatic power rating falls to Sharks and Whales, a close runner-up is the Moray, their teeth resemble broken glass, and can do similarly brutal damage in combat, their mobility is surprisingly high for a fish that lacks pectoral and pelvic fins, but in addition to having great maneuverability in the tight spaces of a Reef, they are capable of some preety impressive bursts of speed too, their stealth might seem low due to their vibrant colors, but honestly are everywhere in the reef servers, so they don't stick out too much, in fact their ability to contort and fit into crevices gives them a preety huge advantage for ambushing other players, where things get interesting tho, is with their defenses, the Moray has a slime based special ability which, it protects them from taking abrasion and puncture damage while passing through sharp coral and jagged spaces within the reef, but more surprisingly, its great at deflecting from things like teeth and spikes, not only does this give them a great matchup against sharks, but it also makes them one of the only builds in the game capable of taking down the Lionfish, this excellent matchup spread makes placing the Moray Eel in S tier an easy decision.