Spinosaurus

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Spinosaurus is one of the largest theropods in the history of the game. Its also known for having a diet based around Fish. Recent data-miners found out that Spinosaurus was semi-aquatic.

## Overview

Spinosaurus has very high health for a theropod, allowing it to take hits from other strong builds. Unlike other Spinosaurids, Spinosaurus had relatively short limbs, which were needed to improve swimming. Spinosaurus had great Power, which was needed to catch Fish and ward off predators. It had a massive sail that increased its Intimidation but lowered its Stealth. This made this build non-viable for terrestrial hunting.

## Abilities and Skills

### Croc-like Snout

The snout of this build was similar to crocodiles, although being much more elongated, this allowed Spinosaurus to grab hold of struggling Fish.

### Sail

Having a sail drastically increases the intimidation stat, but it increases the hitbox and lowers the animal's overall stealth.

### Claws

This build has large claws to help catch or rip apart Fish. This also increases the amount of damage and the chance of the Bleeding debuff to its victim.

### Short Legs

With short legs, Spinosaurus had its drag reduced as it swam in the rivers of Africa, but it lowered its mobility on land.

### Electroreception

This allowed the Spinosaurus player to spot enemies from afar and also catch Fish even in Stealth mode.

## Weaknesses

### Water Reliant

This build is very reliant on the rivers to get a reliable source of food. So when the rivers dried up, this build could not get any source of food anywhere else. So it became non-viable and then banned.

### Sail

This build was great for what it was used for. Drastically increasing the intimation, but it was very weak and particularly vulnerable to critical hits.

## Tier Placement

### Early Cretaceous

This build was pretty viable for its time. Due to the abundant amount of large fish in its server, Spinosaurus was great at catching fish in a niche no dinosaur in its server could do as effectively. Its intimidation was high enough to drive off most predators, and if that didn't work it had the bulk need to tank hits, as it either fought off the aggressor or retreat to the rivers. They were too large for the other aquatic builds to challenge. It is only brought down due to the over-reliance on the water for food. This build received an A tier.

### On Land

Spinosaurus mains aren't fully aquatic, and still have tio spend time being a terrestrial build. Unfortunately for them, they get bodied pretty hard by the other carnivore mains in the Cretaceous Africa server, like Carcharodontosaurus, fortunately their brittle skins means that match up is no means unwinnable which in one case, human data miners found a broken sail (which meant game over because that's a stat modifier). They also get outsped by herbivore build like Ouranosaurus. Their stats are ok so that results in D Tier.

### In Water

Spinosaurus mains were way better off in the Aquatic Meta. Their special ability [Fish Tail] boosts aquatic mobility, which meant even if it didn't succeed in an ambush, it could probably chase down its prey, such as the Mawsonia. Some other prey, like Onchopristis, were much more dangerous. But, Spinosaurus knew how to kill the fish, by grabbing it out of water. B Tier.

## Hall of Fame? Shame? I don't even know

A Spinosaurus main was featured in a movie called 'Jurassic Park III'. Not many dinosaur builds make it here and the most well-known classes are the ones that are usually shown; the Spinosaurus was shown bodying a T. rex player, dealing a fatal claw swipe to its weak point. The majority of the fanbase was disappointed by the defeat of the T. rex, and many accused the Spinosaurus main of hacking the game in their favor due to how implausible the matchup would be if it took place in an actual playthrough of Outside. What's funny is that none of these builds would have lived with each other and even if they did, why would they need to compete?! Both had different niches and diets.