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S tier

They are generally the most powerful builds currently in the game. S tier builds are noted to be a must-have for any serious competitive players. However, they can be too demanding for more casual players.

If a build becomes too successful, it will be banned by the devs. A rather famous example of this is the non-avian dinosaurs, which TierZoo talked about with The Devs in "Should Dinosaurs be Unbanned?" where they talked about how the dinosaur meta was becoming uncontrollable. S tier builds can also be nerfed (ex. Sloths in previous expansions were OP)

## Note

This only includes builds that TierZoo mentions in his adult videos. To find out more (but not all) of the S tiers

## Notable S Tier Builds include:

* African Painted Hound (The Dog Tier List)
* Alligator (Are Crocodilians OP?)
* Bees (Standard Tier List)
* Billfish (The Fish Tier List)
* Black Bear (What Kind of Bear is Best?)
* Cane Toad (Are all Amphibians Low Tier/ Secret Top Tier)
* House Cat (Cat vs Dog, Best Human Support Class)
* Corvids (The City Animal Tier List, The Bird Tier List)
* Crocodiles (Best Build for Griefing at Watering Hole, Are Crocodilians OP?)
* Domestic Dog (Cat vs Dog, Best Human Support Class)
* Dolphins (Are Dolphins OP?, The Whale Tier List)
* Elephants (Are Elephants OP?)
* Gorilla (The Primate Tier List)
* Great White Shark (The Shark Tier List)
* Hammerhead Shark (The Shark Tier List)
* Common Hippopotamus (Are Hippos OP?)
* Human (Are Humans OP?, What if Humans were Nerfed, How Humans Broke the Game)
* Jaguar (The Cat Tier List)
* Kodiak Bear (What Kind of Bear is Best?)
* Moray Eel (The Fish Tier List)
* Monitor Lizards (The Lizard Tier List)
* Orca (Are Dolphins OP?, The Whale Tier List)
* Osprey (The Raptor Tier List)
* Parrots (Are Parrots OP?, The Bird Tier List)
* Porcupine (The Rodent Tier List)
* Sea Otter (Are Honey Badgers OP?)
* Secretary Bird (The Raptor Tier List, The Bird Tier List)
* Walrus (Surviving the Arctic Meta)

### Extinct builds

* Anomalocaris (When Earth was in Beta)
* Cave Bear (The Ice Age Tier List)
* Giant Ground Sloth (Sloths Used to be Overpowered, The Ice Age Tier List)
* Haast's Eagle (The Raptor Tier List)
* Mosasaurus (How Mosasaurus Broke the Game)
* Sauropods (The Dinosaur Tier List)

### Cryptid Builds

* Loch Ness Monster (The Cryptid Tier List)
* Sand Monkey (The Cryptid Tier List)
* Mokele-Mbembe (The Cryptid Tier List)
Shrew

The shrew is a mammal build that is known for being in a very small weight class and having the Venomous bite ability.

## Abilities and Skills

### Venomous Bite

One of the shrew's best skills is its venom. Able to eliminate builds in below its weight class, this is a powerful ability. Unfortunately, it does not work against larger builds.

### Small Size

The shrew's small size can be very important. This, alongside its stealth and mobility, can help it escape from builds in a larger weight class.

### Echolocation

Some shrews are able to echolocate. However, they only use this in order to sense their servers, instead of also usuing it to find loot (which would be very helpful).

## Weaknesses

### High EXP Cost

The shrew has a VERY high EXP cost. Tierzoo (OP) mentioned this in his video on the Worst Build Designs. Shrews have to gather 3 times their body weight in loot, or their gameplay will end.

## Tier Placement

Shrews probably are D tier. Their abilities are very good, but due to their huge weakness, they are only D tier.

## Outside hall of fame

A shrew has been in a movie called Zootopia he is settled as the stereotypical mob boss.

Level 10 Crook —-> Level 30 Hitman —-> Level 100 Boss (THAT’S HOW MAFIA WORKS)
Mobility Tree

The mobility tree is a tree that allows the user to be more mobile wether it's on land, the air, in water, underground, or in the arboreal zone.

## Tree

* Skeleton
* Basic Musculature
* Legs or Fins or Wings or Burrow or Magnet Hands or Glider
* Legs to Prehensile Tale or Jump or Bipdedal
* Fins to Sail
* Wings to Jungle Wings or Mountain Wings
* Jump to Leap
Milkfish

The milkfish is the only playable member of its guild,playable since the Cretacous Expansion. This build is often spawnkilled by Human mains.

## Tier Placement

D-tier. Basically, this build is to fish as Hadrosaurs are to the Dinosaur builds. Their playstyle is simple, look at the predator and get away. These builds can communicate with chemicals, giving other players the signal to hide. These builds can also tolerate varying salinities due to their [Adaptive Gills] ability. Arguably, their playstyle is similar to the Baitfish, which are low-tier trash. However, they have the Health required to shrug off hits that would normally defeat groups of Baitfish players.They are also playable in shallow waters, whereas Baitfish are playable in the Open Ocean, a server home to very dangerous builds.They are low-tier, but better than the Baitfish.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://www.fishbase.se/Summary/Chanos-chanos.html
2. ↑ https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/gonorynchiformes-milkfish-and-relatives
3. ↑ https://thefishsite.com/articles/cultured-aquatic-species-milkfish-chanos-chanos
4. ↑ https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Chanos\_chanos/
5. ↑ http://www.fao.org/fishery/affris/species-profiles/milkfish/milkfish-home/en/
6. ↑ http://bigfishesoftheworld.blogspot.com/2013/07/milkfish-chanos-chanos.html
7. ↑ https://animals.net/milk-fish/
8. ↑ https://www.flickr.com/photos/wwarby/9638207825
Sea Goldie

A small oceanic build that is found in the western Indian Ocean including the Red Sea. It is also found in the Pacific Ocean as far east as Japan and southeast Australia.

## Overview

Sea Goldies have way below average stats. With mediocre speed and intelligence, and even lower for the rest of the stats, this build is very weak. Sea Goldies stay in large groups formed of mainly females and a dominate male. Male players are territorial and chase off other males. If approached by a high level player, Sea Goldies retreat into cracks and holes in rocks.

## Abilities and Skills

### Gender Change

Female Sea Goldies can change their gender into a male if the current dominant male is dead, or if there is no male to begin with. This only happens to the largest female player in the group. All Sea Goldies are born as females, and some become males when they are adults.

## Tier Placement

Sea Goldies sit in D tier. Their low stats drag this build down, the only saving grace is the intelligence and speed of this build. The gender change is useful if the male dies, and it makes the bulkiest female's genes pass on. But the reliance on rocky area for protection can be ignored by fish with the suction ability or slender fish that can easily fit through the cracks.
Gharial

The Gharial is an Indian Crocodillian build. The Gamertag for this build is derived from the Indian word for "pot" (*ghara*) and is a few steps away from being totally banned. This build, along with the false gharial, belongs to its own superguild, Gavialoidea.

## Overview

Gharials are some of the tankiest Crocodillian builds around. It makes up for its specialization on Fish builds by speccing a lot of points into its [Snout] ability, allowing it to be used as a Spacing weapon. It also is the best adapted to the aquatic meta, having the lowest terrestrial Mobility of all Crocodillian mains. And lastly, it also specced into Defense with their Osteoderms.

## Skillset

**Snout Swipe (Active, Attack)**-A Spacing-Grappler hybrid move effective at eliminating lightweight targets.

**Snout Sense (Passive, Misc.)**-Builds within range of snout have their Stealth drop to 0.

**Osteoderms (Passive, Defense)**-Creates nearly indestructible hitboxes.

**Rudder Tail (Passive, Mobility)**-1.5× higher aquatic Mobility.

## Tier Placement

A-tier. Good stats, but too specialized on Fish players. Probably the only reliable counter to Goonch build.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://www.wwfindia.org/about\_wwf/priority\_species/threatened\_species/gharial/
2. ↑ http://www.edgeofexistence.org/species/gharial/
3. ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50464471
4. ↑ https://www.mindat.org/taxon-P96627.html
5. ↑ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/g/gharial/
6. ↑ https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Gavialis\_gangeticus/
7. ↑ https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/asia/where-weird-things-are-gharial-croc-knobbly-nose-2197346.html
8. ↑ https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/84778/11-toothy-facts-about-gharials
9. ↑ https://kids.sandiegozoo.org/animals/gharial
10. ↑ https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Gavialis\_gangeticus/
11. ↑ https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=BUPcAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA81&lpg=PA81&dq=gharial+prey+on+goonch&source=bl&ots=AJDt7stms5&sig=ACfU3U0P7PmlrAi48n3ElyiJkYKh8aDX5w&hl=xx-bork&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjL5sWN64nuAhXwyIsBHV44AgUQ6AEwGXoECCoQAQ#v=onepage&q=gharial%20prey%20on%20goonch&f=false
Mountain Goat

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The mountain goat build is a Goat build that lives on mountain servers.

## Abilities

### Climbing

Unusually for a build with hooves, the Mountain goat build is good at traversing mountainous servers.

### Horizontal eyes

This ability grants the user the ability to see behind them and they can turn there eyes so they won’t get ambushed by predators.

### Cranial cushion

This is an offense and defense move. This gives a high defense as Long as the user is using there heads. This ability is great since that they have enough force too one-shot builds that are above there weight class. However, it only protects them from the front and not on the sides or behind
Quinkana

Quinkana was among the last terrestrial Crocodile builds in the game. It was an Australian build that lived in Queensland which were playable along with Megalania and Marsupial Lions.

## Tier Placement

This build is A-tier. Most Crocodiles are aquatic builds.However, this one specced into a terrestrial playstle. It had great Mobility and traded their bite force for serrated teeth, which inflicts the [Heavy Bleed] debuff. Due to poor matchups against Human mains, they are held back from S-tier.

## Referrences

1. ↑ http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/q/quinkana.html
2. ↑ https://www.fossilhunters.xyz/disappeared-species/quinkana.html
3. ↑ http://www.australasianscience.com.au/article/issue-april-2016/ice-age-lizards-oz.html
4. ↑ https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/group/amphibians-reptiles/crocodile/
5. ↑ https://enhm.com.au/museum/megafauna/quinkana/
6. ↑ https://www.abc.net.au/science/ausbeasts/factfiles/quinkana.htm
7. ↑ https://markgelbart.wordpress.com/tag/quinkana/
Megalochelys

Megalochelys was a banned Turtle build playable from the Miocene to the Pleistocene.It was playable in the Indian subserver, but unlike playable giant tortoises, which are playable only in private servers, this one was public-domain, able to hold its own against the hyped Mammal mains.

## Megalochelys

Showdown between the epynomous turtle main and a Dinocrocuta main

## Overview.

This build has some of the highest Health stats among Turtle mains. While still really low on the Mobility side, it was still surprisingly mobile for a Tortoise main.And it does this without sacrificing its shell and ability to retract into its shell.

## Tier Placement

This is one of the few Defense-based builds that could sneak their way into Low S-tier. Its [Shell Defense] makes attacks from most gankers very laughable, even from top-tier ones.It managed to get to this ranking even with Mammal mains around. Later, it was dropped down to A-tier by Human mains.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.mindat.org/taxon-8541947.html
2. ↑ http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150519-the-truth-about-giant-tortoises
3. ↑ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/letters-from-the-world-of-turtle-evolution/
4. ↑ https://reptilis.net/2016/05/08/t-u-r-t-l-e-power-part-4-the-little-known-paleobiology-of-the-worlds-largest-tortoise/
5. ↑ https://hoa.farm/docs/45c633-megalochelys-atlas
6. ↑ https://smpnbungkal.blogspot.com/2019/02/megalochelys-atlas-worlds-largest-turtle.html
7. ↑ https://prehistopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Megalochelys\_atlas
8. ↑ https://carnivora.net/colossochelys-atlas-t956.html
9. ↑ https://twilightbeasts.org/2017/04/11/on-the-shoulders-of-giants/
Moves

**Moves** are actions a build can perform in-game based on which Traits and Abilities they have. The majority of moves are damage-based, and are mostly normal or poison type. Some elemental moves do exist, though.

* Slash
* Thrash
* Bite
* Sting
* Trample
* Tail Smack
* Charge
* Crush
* String Shot
* Stab
* Skull Bash
* Grip Close
* Crunch
* Kick
* Punch
* Headbutt
* Stomp
* Horn Attack
* Thagomizer stab
* Tail Club
* Throw
* Slap
* Bullet Punch
* Death roll
* Spit
* Bark
* Roar
* Trumpet Blast
* Hiss
* Faint Charge
* Shout or Yell
* Square Up
* Fang Showcase
* Sense Surroundings
* Mating Display
* Mating Call
* Dig
* Burrow
* Swim
* Flight
* Venom Spit
* Secretion
 Electric
 * Discharge
* Shockwave
* Team Wave
* Sonic Blast
* Surface Launch
* Overheat
* Peck
* Sky Drop
* Wing Attack
* Flight
Pleco

Hypostomus plecostomus (echo fighters:Pterygoplichthys multiradius, Pterygoplichthys disjunctivus and Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps) are build commonly known to the playerbase as "pleco" These builds are notorious from becoming invasive builds and causing powercreeps.

## Unique Abilities and Traits

### Facial Armor

Type:Defense

Effect:Reduces XP gained by getting defeated. Also reduces damage taken from the front.

### Barbels

Type:Utility

Effect:Creates a dsjointed hitbox where any build that makes contact with it lose their Stealth bonuses.

### Suckermouth

Type:Utility

Effect:Minimizes the Mobility penalty and allows the user to farm algae spawns, wood spawns and microorganism players for free EXP.

### Burrow

Type:Utility

Effect:Increases Stealth, protects fellow Pleco players and allows the player to grief riparian players.

### Modified Swim Bladder

Type:Support

Effect:Allows the fish player breathe air and survive on land.

## Tier Placement

These abilities as well as their good Defense and Health makes this build B-tier, also allowing it to easily invade new servers.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/114927
2. ↑ https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/08/freeing-pet-catfish-can-devastate-ecosystems
3. ↑ https://www.amazonxtremefishing.com/bodo-pleco
4. ↑ https://fish.mongabay.com/species/Hypostomus\_plecostomus.html
5. ↑ https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/ais/other-ais/suckermouth-catfish/
6. ↑ https://www.harcresearch.org/features/HARC\_develops\_scorecard\_to\_rank\_aquarium\_species\_hazards\_if\_released
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 https://animals.mom.me/habitat-plecostomus-3481.html
Pufferfish

The pufferfish, otherwise known as the puffer, blowfish, sea squab, blowie, balloonfish, globefish, honey toads, toadies, sugar toads, swellfish or toadfish, are marine fish builds in the guild Tetraodontidae. The Tetraodontidae guild is so named because of its teeth, which are useful for bypassing the defense stat of the Crustaceans, their favourite loot source. The Pufferfish is a variant on the basic fish class, that spends all of its points unlocking not one but two separate high-level defensive abilities and one offensive ability.

## Abilities

### Armor Crusher

Type:Attack
Effect:Negates most Defense that Armor gives to opponents, busts Tanks

### Spiked Ball

Type:Defense
Effect:Deals damage on physical contact, makes bite and grab attacks less accurate
Drawback: Reduces speed

### Neurotoxin

Type:Debuff
Effect:Paralyzes any player (including higher weight classes) if other defenses fail to work

## Tier Placement

The top-tier resident of the reef meta is the pufferfish build. The Pufferfish's impressive blend of defense (inflation, toxin) and offense (armor-crushing teeth) makes it one of the best fish builds in the game and easily the top tier of the reef server.
Echolocation

## In General

Echolocation is one of the many abilities that is used to detect stealth based creatures and help navigate if they are blind. Echolocation is used by making a sound and listening to the sound frequency and loudness to dertermine what is around them and how far away they are. That is active echolocation but there is a second type of echolocation, passive echolocation. Passive echolocation is were the player listens to the surrounding noises to

   know where things are.

 Active Echolocation Users

* Bats
* Cetaceans
* Shrews
* Humans
* Aye-Aye
* Oildbirds
* Swiftflies
* Tenrec
* Hedgehog
Parabuthus transvaalicus

Parabuthus transvaalicus is a venomous scorpion build from the Africa server, This build posseses many offensive abilities aside from the basic [Brood Care] and [Venom Sting]. They stand out due their extreme optimization of their [Tail] and [Sting] functions.

## Unique Abilities

### Pre-Venom

Type:Attack

Effect:An additional, cheap-to-produce, fast acting venom that is relatively weak. This venom is secreted before the [Lethal Venom] and allows the player to subdue small prey without wasting any precious [Lethal Venom]. It is a highly energy-efficient venom, but not powerful enough to deter large vertebrates.

### Lethal Venom

Type:Debuff

Effect:The venom in this build is particularly powerful, and reserved specifically for large, vertebrate predators. It is one of the very few number of scorpion builds capable of killing a human player, or similarly-sized opponent, with its [Sting] attack.

### Venom Spray

Type:Attack

Effect:A highly unique ability, and one of the most powerful for this build; this allows the player to utilize an additional ranged attack, which inflicts multiple debuffs if it hits a vulnerable area on the target.

### Enhanced Tail

Type:Attack

Effect:The muscular strength of the tail is greatly increased, which increases the [Armor Penetration] stat of its [Sting] attack more than other scorpion builds. In addition, the tail is more heavily armored, and adorned with a higher concentration of sensory hairs compared to most other scorpion builds. This tail can be used as a valuable tool for both defense and offense in a PvP match.

### Stridulating Sting

Type:Utility

Effect:The player can rapidly rub its sting against the granulations of its armor, producing an audible noise that can act as a warning to unwary players and has a chance to inflict the [Startled] debuff in potential predators.

## Tier Placement

With great stats and all of these unique abilities aside from the basic Scorpion abilities and [Burrow], the Parabuthus transvaalicus (Transvaal thick-tailed scorpion) build deserves a good argument for S-Tier.
Overworld forces

Forces from the overworld (better known by the community as natural disasters) are events brought on by the devs in order to challenge players and nerf some of them in that region. Some of these types of events can be reduced to a specific biome but most are found all over the earth server.

Examples include:
Sambar Deer

Sambar Deer (Cervus unicolor) is a Deer build found in the Indian, southern and southeast Asian servers. It is the third largest playable Deer build behind the Elk and the Moose. These builds can also be found in the Australian servers.

## Overview

This build has some of the highest Health stats of any Deer build. It also has a good Power stat to match this. This build also has a good Mobility stat, good for running away from predators. It also has an unusually high Defense stat. Lastly, it can live in herds, giving it a nice Intelligence stat.

## Moveset

**Charge (Active, Attack)**- A charged (no pun intended) attack and provides an Intimidation bonus.

## Tier Placement

Top B-tier. Unlike most other Deer builds, they are capable of defending early-game players and themselves as BOTH genders. This, alongside their main stats, are important as they are usually the main loot source of predators like Tigers, Asiatic Lions, Dholes, feral Dogs, Leopards and Crocodiles.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/89947
2. ↑ https://www.thainationalparks.com/species/sambar-deer
3. ↑ https://www.austdeer.com.au/sambar-deer#:~:text=Sambar%20Deer%20(Rusa%20unicolor)&text=Sambar%20are%20the%20largest%20of,all%20the%20world's%20game%20animals.
4. ↑ https://invasives.org.au/our-work/feral-animals/feral-deer/feral-deer-in-victoria/
5. ↑ https://www.softschools.com/facts/animals/sambar\_deer\_facts/694/
6. ↑ https://www.rekoforest.org/field-stories/wildlife-of-rer-sambar-deer/
7. ↑ https://kidadl.com/animal-facts/sambar-deer-facts
8. ↑ https://animals.net/sambar/
9. ↑ https://www.deerworlds.com/sambar-deer/
10. ↑ https://www.watatunga.co.uk/malayan-sambar/#:~:text=(Rusa%20unicolor%20equinus)&text=Despite%20their%20lack%20of%20antlers,which%20is%20unusual%20among%20deer.
11. ↑ https://thewebsiteofeverything.com/animals/mammals/Artiodactyla/Cervidae/Cervus/Cervus-unicolor.html
Port Jackson Shark

Port Jackson Sharks are bullhead Shark builds playable in the current meta. In fact, they are the larget playable members of their guild. These builds are playable in coastal servers in Australia. Many former hybodont mains like to play this build. In fact, these builds are previously thought to be related to hybodonts but are now considered the sister group to other galeomorphic Shark builds.

## Overview

This build only has slightly less than mediocre Health due to its medium size. It speccs into a combination of pointed teeth and crushing teeth, similar to the Hybodus mains it is copying, giving it a good Power stat. Its Defense stat is easily augmented by their [Spines]. It is a rather sluggish build that specced into camouflage for decent Stealth. Lastly, despite being solitary, this build has a good Intelligence stat.

## Moveset

**Heterodonty (Passive, Attack)**- Allows for strategies agaist both Mobility and Defense based builds.

**Spines (Passive, Defense)**- Returns 10% of damage back to the attacker.

**Electroreception (Pasive, Utility)**- Motion shown on minimap.

**Bloodsense (Passive, Utility)**- Builds with less than 90% HP lose all Stealth bonuses.

## Tier Placement

B-tier. With spines, heterodonty and camouflage, this build sure is a force to be reckoned with. However, the early game is threatened by other bullhead shark mains. Great White Shark mains and Broadnose Sevengill Shark mains also pose a threat, too.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://www.sharkwater.com/shark-database/sharks/port-jackson-shark/
2. ↑ https://www.sharksider.com/port-jackson-shark/
3. ↑ http://www.allfiveoceans.com/2016/04/port-jackson-shark.html
4. ↑ https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/heterodontiformes-bullhead-or-horn-sharks
5. ↑ https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/species-profiles/heterodontus-portusjacksoni/
6. ↑ https://www.sharkwater.com/shark-database/sharks/port-jackson-shark/
7. ↑ http://species-identification.org/species.php?species\_group=sharks&id=246
8. ↑ https://planetsharkdivers.com/port-jackson-shark/
9. ↑ https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Heterodontus\_portusjacksoni/
10. ↑ https://www.forbes.com/sites/melissacristinamarquez/2020/04/08/yes-sharks-can-learn-stuff-really/?sh=14b4d5a76a0b
11. ↑ https://planetsharkdivers.com/crested-bullhead-shark/
12. ↑ https://welovesharks.club/species-profile-port-jackson-shark/
Osprey

YASS

Ospreys are some of the best bird builds. They easily win the medal for the best air to water match up. Fish players have even been starting to call for nerfs to the osprey. No matter what the Fish players try nothing can work. Stealth builds can be seen from the sky and the osprey's claws ignore armour and scales entirely. If you try to escape from an osprey's grab, you're basically trying to punch your way out of a box made of iron. The only place to hide is the poles as they provide protection because of the sheets. You can't even spawn in a place where there are no ospreys because they are dominant in every server except for Antarctica this results in an easy S tier.
Pliosaur

## Basic Pliosaur

Pliosaurs were a removed guild that also belongs to the Plesiosauria mega-guild. These builds opted for a larger head for increased Power and Health instead of a long neck, which could have a long-range attack but exposes their weak spot.

## Tier Placement

Neverethless, this new body plan was more viable. With the extra Power and Health, these builds were very good at griefing fish, sharks ichthyosaurs, and other plesiosaur builds. A-tier for most of them. They mysteriously vanished when the Late Cretaceous balance patch (2.3.2) was released.
Pantherinae

The pantherine subclass is a cat subclass like felines. It contains the panthers(genus panthera) and the clouded leopards(genus neofelis).

## **Differences between pantherines and felines**

What separates pantherines from felines are the builds, and base stats. Pantherines are more strong and bulky than felines at the cost of mobility. Panthers also have two more tricks up their sleeve, Roar and Growl(Only growl in the case of clouded leopards). Lions and Tigers use roar and Leopards and Jaguars use growl. Roar is a panther exclusive, although bears have unlocked a weaker version of roar called bear roar.

## Builds

The panther subclass are home to high to top tiers like Leopards Lions Tigers and Jaguars
Kaibabvenator

Kaibabvenator (Swift's Kaibab hunter) is a banned ctenacanthiform Shark main which is playable in marine survers during the Permian expansion. The Kaibab Formation is a diverse server for ctenacanthiform shark mains. This server is located in the current meta's Arizona. It is also related to Saivodus, which is an echo fighter of this build.

## Species

### Relatives

Saivodus, Dracopristis, other Ctenacanths

## Overview

This build had good Power with its teeth. It had a humongous Health stat for most "actual Sharks" during its time. Like other ctenacanthiform mains, it also specced into spines, despite hardly needing them for Defense due to the absence of gankers. Lastly, it had great Mobility thanks to its active strategy.

## Moveset

**Serrated Teeth (Passive, Attack)**-Attacks inflict the [Heavy Bleed] debuff.

**Fin Spike (Passive, Defense)**- Returns 20% of damage back to the attacker.

**Electroreception (Passive, Utility)**- Motion shown on minimap.

**Bloodsense (Passive, Utility)**- Players with less than 90% HP lose all Stealth boosts.

**Streamlining (Passive, Mobility)**-Increases Mobility by 80%.

## Tier Placement

Low S-tier. This build lived with builds like Helicoprion. However, they were really unable to outcompete each other due to the latter's specialist diet, a phenomenon known as niche partitioning. Its decent stats ensure its viability in the game.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://frankensaurus.com/Kaibabvenator
2. ↑ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08912963.2012.683193
3. ↑ http://fossilworks.org/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon\_no=244571
4. ↑ https://species.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ctenacanthiformes
5. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254237970\_Ctenacanthiform\_sharks\_from\_the\_Permian\_Kaibab\_Formation\_northern\_Arizona
6. ↑ https://carnivora.net/kaibabvenator-swiftae-t277.html
7. ↑ http://pagan-space.blogspot.com/2011/12/prehistoric-shark-species-found-in.html
8. ↑ https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna48645176
9. ↑ https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=5f4oCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA139&lpg=PA139&dq=kaibabvenator+shape&source=bl&ots=UhKQZ61TVe&sig=ACfU3U1vXkUoOCJB86uCNg7OAYfBFVjbmQ&hl=xx-bork&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjkj9uznOfwAhWUP3AKHWk2BpkQ6AEwE3oECCEQAg#v=onepage&q=kaibabvenator%20shape&f=false
10. ↑ https://www.thoughtco.com/overview-of-helicoprion-1093671
Siphonophore

The Siphonophore is a Hydrozoan build that uses team strategy to hunt in the Bathypelagic Zone. There are over 175 species of siphonophore.

## Guide to Siphonophores

Hydrozoans are typically seen as bottom-tier, as they are all-around useless when it comes to... everything. However, one of these hydrozoan races decided to use team strats. Not by having a complex social structure, but by turning into a colonial organism and literally attaching like Legos. Siphonophores are about a millimeter long, and use jet propulsion to move around. They lure in prey using a beautiful bioluminescent glow, and impale them with a curtain of tentacles filled with toxic needles. As for reproduction, siphonophores are sexless, but use the gonophore to produce gametes, similar to the way a plant does.

Siphonophores are somewhat mysterious as they inhabit the abyssal region, but unlike the other animals, don’t die from pressure-related tissue damage when at the surface (instead, they just fall apart). However, they are so fragile that hardly any players have encountered an active siphonophore main (as opposed its deceased form), and those who do usually fall prey to the toxic spines. This gives them an abysmal defense rating against everything except microscopic copepods and whatnot. This puts them at the border of B and C tier.

## Portuguese Man o’ War

The standout Portuguese Man o’ War (and its echo fighter, the Pacific Man o’ War) is an A tier. It is the longest animal by a long shot, and the largest siphonophore. Being much more robust and powerful, it can mitigate the overwhelmingly weak defense level all siphonophores have. Also, it is the most studied siphonophore, as it is the most accessible and conspicuous.
Shringasaurus

Shringasaurus (horned lizard) was a banned stem-archosaur from the Indian server during the Triassic Expansion. It was an allokotosaur, a guild of herbivorous reptiles that were large browsing herbivore builds before the true Sauropod builds are present, and it also had 2 horns on its head like a ceratopsid.

## Overview

Shringasaurus was a tank build with high Health and its Intelligence stat was only high enough to make it live in herds. And as usual when you were trying to copy a Sauropod build, your Mobility wasn't going to be your best stat of them all. Only the males have any semblance of a decent Power stat and still, with the way the horns would look like, they were quite short-ranged.

## Moveset

**Horns (Passive, Attack)**- A disjuncted hitbox that allows you to use [Charge] and [Horn Rush] attacks.

## Tier Placement

This build had the weird combination of horns and a long neck and lived in a server relatively chock-free of predatory builds. With that being said, a long neck inhibits really using your horns to your advantage, and it only got by because its server had no griefers large enough to target this build, so it only gets a C-tier at best. Sorry Shringasaurus mains, but there's a reason why Ceratopsians, Dinoceratids, Embrithopods, Brontotheres, Rhinoceroses and Bovines have nearly nonexistent necks.

## Referrences

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5567049/
2. ↑ https://bioone.org/journals/palaios/volume-36/issue-11/palo.2021.013/TAPHONOMY-AND-DEPOSITIONAL-SETTING-OF-THE-SHRINGASAURUS-INDICUS-ARCHOSAUROMORPHA/10.2110/palo.2021.013.short
3. ↑ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2021.2010740
4. ↑ https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jzo.12035
5. ↑ https://www.google.com/search?q=New+biological+insights+into+the+Middle+Triassic+capitosaurs+from+India+as+deduced+from+limb+bone+anatomy+and+histology&client=tablet-android-samsung-ss&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
Mesoarchean

Reconstruction of Map of Overworld during this Subupdate

**Mesoarchaean** is a Third Subupdate in the Archean Expansion, spanning 3,200 to 2,800 million years ago, which added first modern-style plate subduction and expansion of microbial players.

## Tectonics

The Mesoarchean Subupdate is thought to add modern-style plate subduction, based on geologic evidence from the Pilbara Craton in western Australia.

## Environmental conditions

Analysis of oxygen isotopes in Mesoarchean data has been helpful in reconstructing Mesoarchean surface temperatures. These data led researchers to draw an estimate of an oceanic temperature around 55-85°C  while other studies of weathering rates postulate average temperatures below 50°C.

The **Pongola glaciation Event** occurred around 2.9 Ga, from which there is evidence of ice extending to a palaeolatitude (latitude based on the magnetic field recorded in the rock) of 48 degrees. This glaciation was likely not triggered by the evolution of photosynthetic Cyanobacteriacyanobacteria, which likely occurred in the interval between the Huronian glaciations and the Makganyene glaciation.

## Early microbial Playerbase

Microbial life with diverse metabolisms expanded during the Mesoarchean era and produced gases that influenced early Earth's atmospheric composition. Cyanobacteria builds produced oxygen gas, but oxygen did not begin to accumulate in the atmosphere until later in the Archean. Small oases of relatively oxygenated water did exist in some nearshore shallow marine biomes by this subupdate, however.

## Timeline

**Due to the game's history corruption, what is shown here is just speculation from game dataminers so this information may be outdated, if that is the case, please update this page.**
 Pongola Glaciation event
 end of this subupdate

## Fun Facts

The Mesoarchean atmosphere contained high levels of atmospheric methane and carbon dioxide, which could be an explanation for the high temperatures during this subupdate.

A supercontinent, Vaalbara or Ur, may have existed in the Mesoarchean.

## References

1. ↑ https://doi.org/10.1130/G31219.1
2. ↑ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1342937X06000669
3. ↑ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2005.11.020
4. ↑ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2005.11.020
5. ↑ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1183582
6. ↑ https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.earscirev.2020.103296
7. ↑ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-017-0036-x?error=cookies\_not\_supported&code=54e99c94-9890-439d-a813-c26d056ce863
8. ↑ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2005.11.020
9. ↑ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301926809001429
Projectile

Projectile attackers are what the name suggests, they use a projectile. Projectile attack fire at range making it easy to stay out of range. Projectiles cost a lot of evolution points, not necessarily on the move it self but on other abilities like aim and the what projectile you want to use. Some fish mains also use it to combo into their grappler moves, like Wels Catfish and Lionfish. The best stat for a projectile user is Intelligence, since these builds have to determine the correct trajectory of their projectiles.

## Base Stats

### Stealth

10

Projectile attackers struggle against rushdowns, as they have high mobility to get close and dish out a lot of hits while the attacker has no time to use their projectile. Projectile attackers are good at dealing with grapplers because they can fire at the grapplers from far away and have time as grapplers usually have low mobility.

## Notable Projectile Builds

* Archer fish

* Velvet worm
* Cobra
* Wels Catfish
* Net-Winged Insect (Antlions, to be exact)
* Lionfish
* Bombardier Beetle
* Skunks
* Some ants
* Horned Lizard
* Some spiders
* Primates (Humans use projectiles in combat the most compared to other primates)
Russia

**Russia**, although a sub-server itself, is bigger than the Europe and Australia servers combined and is therefore very diverse with its wildlife. However, it's quite sparsely populated.

## Geography

Within the colossal sub-server of **Russia** are many different habitats, however, **Russia** is mostly a very cold place to be in. To the north are the coldest points of **Russia**, with all the tundras. In Asia is a big region of **Russia** known as Siberia, where Humans in the Soviet Union would be punished in concentration camps known as Gulags if they opposed the Soviet government. In Europe is where most of the Human builds in **Russia** live.

## Builds

• Eurasian Brown Bear (national animal)

• Lynx

• Wolf

• Wolverine

### Arctic

• Seal

• Walrus

• Polar Bear

• Narwhal

• Beluga Whale

### Siberia

• Siberian Tiger

• Siberian Husky
Sinotherium

Sinotherium (Chinese beast was a banned build from the Milocene to Pilocene Expansion. This build is related to the Rhinoceros, but it had a long unicorn-like Elasmotherium horn. This build was the second largest prehistoric rhinoceros, after the Paraceratherium.

## Abilities

### Megafauna

Type: Utility Effect: Only vulnerable to prehistoric elephants or prehistoric rhinoceroses the same weight class.

## Tier Placement

Due to these builds size and health one thing could stop them in the late game, the Elephants and Other Proboscideans. So these builds deserve their spot in A tier.
Meiolania

The Meiolania is a removed Turtle build which lived in Australia. This builds was among the largest Turtle builds ever, only dwarfed by Megalochelys, Archelon and Protostega. This build resembled glypodont and ankylosaur builds.

## Overview

This build had great Health for a Turtle build. It still specced into a shell for Defense. However, it cannot retract its head and has to rely on horns. This build had a tail club for Power, useful when encountering gankers. It had low Mobility.

## Moveset

**Shell Armor (Passive, Defense)**-It can still use its shell to fend off attacks. However, [Shell Defense] and [Horn Hat] are incompatible.

**Horn Hat (Passive, Defense)**-Deals 10% of damage back to the attacker once targeted.

**Club Smash (Active, Attack)**-A A Spacing move that can hit enemies from behind and deals a lot of damage.

**Shell Float (Active, Mobility)**-Allows the build to use terrestrial Mobility options in water with 75% efficency.

## Tier Placement

B-tier. This build is able to hold off against several gankers. However,they may face certain difficulties since their tail was not long enough to attack a predator in front of it, similar to the Stegosaurus. Still, it was a highly viable build playable in island servers.

## Summary

### Pros:

* Great Health
* Great Defense
* Good Power
* [Horn Hat] deals damage to gankers.
* Can switch between island servers at will.
* Shell still blocks gankers.
* Can damage gankers with [Club Smash].

### Cons:

* Very low Mobility.
* Low Intelligence.
* Average Stealth.
* Tail is too short to attack predators in front.
* Cannot retract head into shell.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4818919.html
2. ↑ http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/m/meiolania.html#:~:text=%E2%80%AD%20%E2%80%ACThe%20larger%20specimens,biggest%20known%20land%20living%20turtle.
3. ↑ https://carnivora.net/meiolania-spp-t946.html
4. ↑ https://prehistoric-fauna.com/Meiolania-platyceps
5. ↑ https://www.wired.com/2010/08/last-giant-land-turtle/
6. ↑ https://lightfutureart.com/meiolania-armored-turtle-with-spikes/
7. ↑ https://www.fossilhunters.xyz/disappeared-species/horned-turtle.html
8. ↑ http://research.amnh.org/~esg/meiolania1.html
9. ↑ https://lightfutureart.com/meiolania-armored-turtle-with-spikes/
10. ↑ https://www.fossilhunters.xyz/disappeared-species/horned-turtle.html
11. ↑ https://austhrutime.com/australia\_first\_settlers\_found.htm
12. ↑ http://palaeos.com/vertebrates/chelonii/meiolanoidea.html
13. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328734180\_THE\_ECOLOGY\_OF\_MEIOLANIA\_PLATYCEPS\_A\_PLEISTOCENE\_TURTLE\_FROM\_AUSTRALIA
14. ↑ http://palaeos.com/vertebrates/chelonii/meiolanoidea.html
River Shark

The Ganges shark (echo fighters:Speartooth shark, Northern river shark, Irrawaddy river shark) are rare Shark builds referred as the "river sharks" (not to be confused with the Bull Shark build.)

## Tier Placement

B-tier. These builds specialized to play purely in freshwater servers, unlike the Bull Shark build which has the [Adaptive Gills] ability.It uses turbid water, where the accuracy of most fish players is reduced and can easily body them due to its Electro-Reception. It also has the [Spear Teeth] ability, allowing it to grip other fish builds easily.It also has the [Top Eyes] ability, allowing this build to see from above. However, due to its specialist playstyle and loot source of fish, they are held back from higher tiers.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Glyphis/classification/
2. ↑ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5637769/Lost-mysterious-species-Ganges-shark-seen-decade-Mumbai-FISH-MARKET.html
3. ↑ https://www.environment.gov.au/marine/marine-species/sharks/river
4. ↑ https://www.synchronicityearth.org/thinking-big-on-freshwater-conservation/
5. ↑ https://blog.nature.org/science/2018/07/23/meet-the-worlds-10-most-endangered-sharks/
6. ↑ https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/08/the-mysterious-river-sharks-of-the-world/
7. ↑ https://www.wwfindia.org/about\_wwf/priority\_species/lesser\_known\_species/ganges\_shark/
Lion's Mane Jellyfish

The lion's mane jellyfish is a jellyfish build located in the Arctic, northern Atlantic and northern Pacific servers. Jellyfish builds are known for their [Transparent] trait, which increases Stealth, an ability the lion's mane jellyfish does not have.

## Tier Placement

These jellyfish builds are most likely B-tier, having a few bad matchups. This build uses a jack-of-all-trades playstyle, with fairly damaging venom and good amount of Health.
Mutualism

Mutualism is a co-op playstyle where two or more species benefit from interacting with each other. Inter-species team usually forms from their structural perks that covers each other's weakness like Sea Anemones and Clownfishes. It is not limited to animals as animals and plants benefit each other like Bees and flowering plants.

## Examples

### Physical Appearance & Behaviour

Refer to Charisma

* Relationship between Domestic Dog with the **[Good Boy]** ability or other domestic support mains and human mains.

### Beneficial Biological Structure

* Mutualism between Sea Anemones and Clownfishes are one of the famous examples. The clownfish finds a safe shelter that is poisonous to other creatures that did not spec into poison resistance. The Sea Anemone benefit from the nitrogen and parasite cleaning from Clownfish. Clownfishes may also lure its predator to the Sea Anemone, providing it a meal.
* Dogs and Pigs have excellent olfactory reception and recognition, good mobility and intelligence to maintain loyalty. This can help aid police officers and detectives during a crime scene or investigation.

### Niche

* Oxpeckers are one of the best support mains that helps cleanse parasites from large mammals like Bisons. The large mammal would deter the predators of Oxpeckers with its size and strength.
* Aphids provides Ants with sugar-rich honeydew as nutrients while Ants with Aphids with protection and hygiene services.
* Dotted humming frogs protects Tarantula (Xenesthis immanis) eggs from ants and the predators of the frogs are warded off by the Tarantula.

## Gallery

Bee feeding on nectar as it pollinates the flower.Tarantula and Frog's mighty stance.ANEMONE SPOTTED
Shantungosaurus

Shantungosaurus (Shandong Lizard) is the largest build ever able to pull off bipedalism successfully. It was one of the last playable non-avian Dinosaur builds in the meta, being playable during the Late Cretaceous expansion in the Chinese server. It was playable along with Tarbosaurus, an Asian variation of the Tyrannosaurus rex build.

## Shantungosaurus

Shantungosaurus compared to Palaeoloxodon antiquus.

## Overview

This build retains the herding behavior of typical Hadrosaur mains, still having decent Intelligence. While it seems like it has no obvious weapons, its tail does make it decently powerful, thus the high Power. It also has a very high Health stat, being the largest bipedal build as described above. However, the drawback for this is below-average Mobility.

## Moveset

**Tail Whip (Active, Attack)** - A powerful Spacing move that has a chance to stun.

**Stomp (Active, Attack)** - A super powerful move that has a high chance to stun.

**Tooth Battery (Passive, Utility)** - EXP gain scales slightly according to toughness of plant material.

## Tier Placement

Low A-tier. Its massive size makes it a much more viable build than most Hadrosaur builds, especially when you play in a dangerous server like China. It managed to grow this big without pneumatic concessions or sacrificing bipedalism. It pays off to do this when one of your enemies is literally just a Tyrannosaurus Rex but Asian. Best of all, its [Tooth Batteries] ability allows it to get even more EXP.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/shantungosaurus.html
2. ↑ https://blog.everythingdinosaur.co.uk/blog/\_archives/2016/04/30/giant-duck-billed-dinosaur-is-a-record-breaker.html
3. ↑ https://dinosaurpictures.org/Shantungosaurus-pictures
4. ↑ https://animals.howstuffworks.com/dinosaurs/shantungosaurus.htm
5. ↑ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-new-giant-tyrant-zhuchengtyrannus-174872582/
6. ↑ https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=LowWDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=shantungosaurus+herding&source=bl&ots=zBZM1lz4xl&sig=ACfU3U13Qxoj46VHDJ5E\_EoSQtyTR6AqgA&hl=xx-bork&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjUw7ys\_6DxAhViNKYKHf2nAZsQ6AEwFHoECA8QAg#v=onepage&q=shantungosaurus%20herding&f=false
7. ↑ https://www.yourdinosaurs.com/mesozoic-era/cretaceous-period/shanguntosaurus/
8. ↑ https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Shantungosaurus/390682
9. ↑ https://nayturr.com/the-top-10-slowest-dinosaurs-ever/
10. ↑ https://fossil.fandom.com/wiki/Shantungosaurus
11. ↑ http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/s/shantungosaurus.html
12. ↑ https://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2014/11/24/a-population-of-shantungosaurus-the-largest-ornithischian/
13. ↑ https://medium.com/prehistoric-tales/move-on-from-t-rex-these-theropods-were-equally-terrifying-69b1a6069199
14. ↑ https://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/G104/lectures/104ornithop.html
Shark Ray

The Shark Ray, Also known as the Mud Skate, is a Ray build playable in the Indo-Pacific servers. They are currently critically endangered, just a few steps before this build gets banned.

## Overview.

The Shark Ray specced into streamlining, increasing its Mobility. Itis also fairly tanky, reaching 135 kg, and specced into armor-crushing teeth, increasing its Power stat. It specced into spines, giving it good Defense. It can also use its spines to attack potential gankers. Lastly, the also specced into decent camouflage, giving them good Stealth.

## Moveset

**Horn Ram (Active, Attack)**-Hit the opponint with your thorns, dealing slight to moderate damage.

**Streamlining (Passive, Mobility)**-Increases Mobility by 80%

**Armor Crusher** **(Passive, Attack)**-Attacks ignore 80% of Defense.

**Color Change (Active, Misc.)**-Changes color according to environment, increasing Stealth heavily.

**Spines (Passive, Defense)**-Return 10% of damage taken back to the attacker.

## Tier Placement

This build has good stats, but is B-tier, since their stats are not too high and they get bodied by Tiger Sharks.

## Referrences

1. ↑ https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/3271
2. ↑ https://www.oceanpark.com.hk/en/education-conservation/conservation/animal-and-plant-guide/bowmouth-guitarfish
3. ↑ http://seatizens.sc/species/rhina-ancylostoma-bloch-schneider-1801/
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 https://www.georgiaaquarium.org/animal/bowmouth-guitarfish/
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 https://www.sharktrust.org/Blog/creature-feature-bowmouth-guitarfish
6. ↑ https://www.masterliveaboards.com/uncategorized/bowmouth-guitarfish/
7. ↑ https://aquariumworks.org/2016/06/20/six-amazing-facts-about-shark-rays/
8. ↑ https://www.thainationalparks.com/species/rhina-ancylostoma