Elephant

### Relatives

American Mastodons, Manatees, Hyraxes, Woolly Mammoths, Straight-Tusked Elephants

## Classification

### Species

Varies

**Elephants** are one of the biggest animals in the Animal Kingdom Server, Elephants are a family of tank builds that debuted in the Pliocene expansion. They alongside other proboscideans used to be much more common in the past, but today the only genera of the family left are the African (Loxodonta) and Asian (Elephas) elephants. Elephants are the largest existing land animals in the world, they are 13 to 27 feet tall and weigh 13,000 to 27,000 pounds.

## Overview

Elephants are widely considered to be among the best tank builds to have ever existed. They thrive in one of the most competitive servers: Africa. Elephants also thrive in Asia, where there is slightly less, but still a lot of competition. The griefing rate of newer players is usually very low and predator players don't want to mess with this build, as they most will only do very little damage to them, maybe not even enough to beat the passive regeneration the build has.

This builds have HP, strength, intelligence and defense, and decent mobility. The only potential weakness is low stealth, but elephants don't need stealth. In the African Watering Hole meta, they hard counter the top tier crocodile and hippo. Aside from their chatting which sounds like a human's trumpet, players can communicate through the earth itself.

The elephant build is known to have a long game time, comparable to some humans. Just like humans, elephant players have been known to use the Tool Use ability by using tree branches as flyswatters. Elephants can be both browsers and grazers, but they don't compete with Giraffes, Yet if Elephants due get in fights with Giraffes the always win. Because their prehensile trunk can't reach as high as giraffes can. Their high BST means they need a lot of resources to maintain a healthy amount of HP. Elephants are foragers, meaning that players can be allowed to literally, and just destroy trees and feed the bark off.

## Abilities, Skills, and Advantages

There are some abilities that would help the Elephant dominate the meta and the first one being their ears. Their multi-purpose ears are more sensitive to human ears to sound, particularly of low-frequency (infrasound) that they can normally make. That would mean that they could communicate over great distances via infrasound which could be critical for coordinating team strategies and warning the teams of incoming threats or another elephant herd is approaching their territories. Moreover, their ears also grant them a **[Heat Resistance]** buff. Their ears can be flushed with blood and flap around to lower their body temperature, inhibiting damage from over-heating. This buff is much more integral to gameplay in the African Server. However, the ears aren't as big in the Asian server, which has a cooler climate.

Their next and overpowered ability is their trunk as this ability is for main uses. The modified nose grants a bonus to all detection and search roles based on smell. This lets elephant players pinpoint which direction they need to head in order to find more food and water and lets them know if an enemy player is nearby. Smell is only a small fraction of what it can do. Trunk's core use is as a fifth appendage as the elephants' limbs aren't very versatile other than standing and walking. The most advanced move they can do is a pretty simple kick or stomp. The trunk, however, has multiple combat moves including a light flash attack and more importantly, their highly effective **[Grab]** attack. Their bash attack is actually worse than a kick in terms of damage but it does have better range. The [Grab] attack could make certain match-ups downright unwinnable for the other player. Grab also enables elephants to pick up and carry items, being the hallmark of a high tier character that can make use of tools. **[Tool Use]** allows them to utilise sticks as they usually do as a weapon, massively extending the hitbox of their trunk swipe attack. Additionally, they can throw items for a possible, far distance attack range but they aren't accurate with their throws yet but if they master this it would make them super OP . Elephants can also use their front-facing tusks as effective piercing weapons, parrying other attacks. The next skill it can perform is **[Intimidation].** They can execute the move, **[Trumpet Blast]**, and this AoE attack casts an intimidation debuff on surrounding players which is extremely effective in clearing an area. Control over a watering hole can mean the difference between leveling up or getting a game over, meaning the Trumpet Blast is essential for the elephant's success for driving away other players from control points without having to risk a physical battle. The move Bulldozer is the most powerful, because they will run at their top speed of 40 miles per hour and literally hit you with their tusks.

Some other moves are the [Ground Lifter], this will make a player lift their feet up and touch the ground hard. [Giga Typhoon] is another one which is also like the [Trumpet Blast] ability but it sucks up the opponent and releases it with some rocks and water that will suffocate the player. And finally their final extra move is [Megaton Slugger], which makes the player throw the other player into the air, pick u0 a tree and then stab it violently. Elephants do the most damage in the game, which is over 90K Damage when the [Bulldozer] and [Megaton Slugger].

Elephants are, unsurprisingly, slow swimmers that proves difficulty for them to cross large bodies of water. They aren't dense enough to sink to the bottom and gallop like Hippos. Although it might take them a while to cross, elephants have no reasons to fear drowning for they can use their trunks as a snorkel, negating the need to worry about their Oxygen Meter draining. Aside from humans, Elephants have no losing match-ups. While they are vulnerable during their first three levels of their play-through before they are bulky enough to shrug off most attacks, the elephants' team strategies are usually enough to protect the noobs. Elephants are actually excellent swimmers, they are basically the only animals without a plural space.

Also have Gaur muscle which makes them have full power

## Weaknesses

Even though it was just mentioned why the Elephant build is S tier and OP, it does have its drawbacks. First, they need an extremely large intake of EXP. With a warming server, this might become a problem. Second, they are ganked by humans for ivory, a very beautiful kind of loot, used by humans in the East Asian server, as crafting. If the ganking continues, Elephants might become A tier. Third, when making it to higher levels, the playthrough of the elephant player usually limited by teeth. Without teeth, elephants have great difficulty getting exp and usually starve to death.

The real weakness for elephants are bees. Elephants do not fear any mammal unless players are healthy.

# Evolution History:

The first species of elephants were Eritherium. It was the earliest base of proboscideans to ever debut in the game. Standing in about 1 foot in height, evolution has begun. Phospatherium was yet another species of elephant that debuted. Some other mammals were Moeritherium, which was an extinct genus of elephants that debuted 37 million years ago. They are semi-aquatic and had a body similar to hippos, but despite not having an elephant like trunk, it had an upper lip or nose like a tapirs on the jaw. Then Numidotherium debuted and so did Arcaninotherium and Daoutherium. Barytherium arrived there and so did its cousin, Omanitherium. The final species of plesielephantiformes was Chilgatherium and Deinotherium. Chilgatherium was smaller but big enough to dwarf a Neanderthal. Deinotherium though was from 13 to 27 feet tall and weighed over 30,000 pounds. The elephantiformes finally arrived and Palaeomastodon arrived, then came Phimoia which was famous for having a big mouth, and finally were two species called Eriterums and Hemimastodons, then came the Elephantimorpha, which included the famous American Mastodon, which was a popular species of elephant and gomphothere that was the second-biggest well known creature in North America, Losodokodon and Eozogodon and Sinomammut were also members of Mammutidae. Ambelodons and Platybelodons also made their game debut. Both had shovel like teeth and so did Serbelodon. Choeropholodonidae was another example, and then came the legendary Gomphotherium, Elephantoidea was later introduced which includes Anancus, Stegodons and Stegotetrabelodons. This later became Elephantidae, which included Primelephas. The African Bush Savanna Elephant was later introduced and the African Forest Elephant. Palaeloxodon Namadicus or the Asian Straight Tusked elephant debuted, which also debuted Mammoths which includes Woolly Mammoths, Columbian Mammoths, Steppe Mammoths and Imperial Mammoths. The final one was Elephas, which is known as the Asian Elephant. The largest elephant in the world was found in Angola and stranded an unbelievably 40 feet tall in version 19.56.

## Gallery

African Bush Elephant buildAsian Elephant buildWoolly Mammoth buildAfrican Forest ElephantStraight-tusked Elephant build