Kakapo

The **Kakapo** is the heaviest parrot currently playable. And are exclusive to the New Zealand server.

## Overview

Due to giving up the ability to fly, Kakapo players had to pour points into stealth and bulk to evade eagles, and falcons. They still retained the intelligence and power of the parrot, but had to sacrifice the speed to retain climbing and improve its stealth.

Kakapos werre herbivores, eating fruits, and seeds. These builds searched the forest floor, or the trees for their food. If spotted by a threat they freeze, this increases their stealth, but forces them to stay still.

## Abilities and Skills

### Strong Claw

Like most parrots they have the strong claw ability. This improves power in the foot, and allows this build to climb trees much easier. But it lowers the walk/run speed of the user.

### Slow Metabolism

This build has a slow metabolism, which increases the play time of the build.

### "Whiskers"

It is unknown what the "whiskers" do, but some data miners claim it helps them sense vibrations on the ground.

### Greater Smell

This build unlike most birds has a great sense of smell. Allowing them to detect loot or predators more easily.

### Wings

This build can't fly, but it does not mean their useless. They use their wings to balance themselves and slow down their falls from trees.

### Breeding Rage

When breeding season starts, males gain a power, resolve, and intimdidation. Combined with the bulk allows this build to body other birds that tresspass their breeding territory.

### Fat Reserve

This build can build up fat to survive cool tempertures, and increases this bird's stamina.

## Weaknesses

It seems that kakapos are pretty good builds, but why are their player base lowering? It's all because of their weaknesses.

### Smelly

This build is pretty smelly, this is to make it easier for kakapos to find other kakapos. And their natural predators could not smell well so they became for smellier to find mates. But later mammal builds were introduced and with their better smell detection they could easily spot Kakapo players.

### Freeze

Freeze is a great stealth move to evade predators, but when protecting young it sucks. When Stoats raid their nest, Kakapo mothers freeze leaving the young vulerable to attacks.

## Tier Placement

### Present

Kakapos would be a great build is it wasn't for the fact stoats, dogs, and cats were dumped in New Zealand, because of that the population droped from being one of the best build in all of New Zealand to bottom tier trash. They get a high F tier. But theres a few changes this build can do to improve its playstyle.

### Pre-Mammals

But if we ranked Kakapo before any dogs, cats, rats, humans, or stoats were aviable in the server this build would get High B. It's high stealth and forest home allowed this build to easily evade Eagles. Its long life span allowed it to have many chances to complete the Mating Side quest. Because of this the Kakapo had a large range and population due to the many forest biomes that covered the server. The only issue they had during the time was that they really did not have a good way of self defense, but their stealth stat was high enough that attacks with eagles were uncommon. Sadly humans entered the server, they introduced dogs and rats, while burning way the forest biomes which made Kakapos very vulenralbe. And even worse human mains hunted them down like of the dodo. This forced the Kakapos to populate island servers and the moutianous forest.

### Improvements

#### Offensive Potential

Kakapos have great bulk and decent power, but they only use it in the breeding season. Kakapos should've spent points into [Parental Rage] or just being aggresive to smaller builds. This would allow this build to cover up one major flaw of being spawn killed by stoats and rats, and I'm pretty sure a raging Kakapo would have a fair matchup or even body Stoats.

#### Smell

It may help you find each other, but now that dogs are here, its best to start removing those points, and invest them into to [Parental Rage]. You already have the move [Boom Call] a great move can be heard and felt from miles away.