Characins

## Basic Characin

Characins are a guild with 1674 builds which could be found in the American and African servers,of which includes some of the best DPS freshwater fish builds in the entire game.

## Tier List

### F-tier

Tetras-A horrible build that wastes all evolutinary points into aestethics, thus getting bodied way too hard by most freshwater builds. Despite its schooling behavior, it does not make good use of it at all.

### B-tier

Pacu-A build which speccs away from DPS in favour of an increased Health stat. Like the Piranha, it too has spread to other servers. Two great builds exist, the Tambaqui (counters the Candiru build) and the Pirapitinga (a decent mid-game mimicing a Piranha build.)These builds rely on nuts, a hard to access but rich EXP source, which it accesses using its human-like teeth.

Piranha-The most overhyped build in the game. This build has the [Bloodsense] ability, as well as good Power and Mobility. This build also has the [Feeding Frenzy] activated during the dry season event.However, using this ability cost a huge amount of EXP which means you have to find a build from the higher weight classes to grief, otherwise your "teammates" will body you.This event also leaves you vulnerable to gankers who will get you bodied. What makes it worse is that there is actually a build made specifically to counter this build's [Feeding Frenzy] ability,the Arapaima. However, it is still a high-tier build, having spread to other servers, thus placing their posistion at high B-tier.

Trairas-A build which takes advantage of builds looking for a drink in the Amazon River, and uses its signature ability, [Modified Swim Bladder] to grief players looking for a drink.It is held back from the higher tiers by their poor matchups against Otters and does not use any form of team strategy, hindering it from A or S tier.

### A-tier

Dogtooth Characins-With its powerful toothy jaws allowing it to deal some of the highest damage in the game and snap a fish player in half,and a good matchup against Piranhas and decent way of using pack hunting strategies that does not utilize teamkilling as often as Piranhas, this build has successfully utilized the Viper Fish for the freshwater servers and added some tweaks.

Bicudas-A glass cannon schooling/predatory build which can hide inside in-game obstaclesand ambush fish players. Held back from S-tier by its low Health.

Golden Dorados-A build with decent Power and Health.It is a pack hunter, often bodying schooling Sabalo players.In many servers, they are apex predators.However in some servers, they have to deal with Otters, who can body them.However, this matchup is not excessively in favour of the Otter, and many Golden Dorado players have bodied Otters.

### S-tier

Goliath Tigerfish- A build which takes the characin guild to the extreme. It speccs into tough scales, giving them high Defense.It also has decent Mobility, enough to exploit turbid water which would incur a Mobility penalty for most fish builds as well a very great Power stat. Aside from this, it retains the pack hunting aspect of the characin guild. It can body Crocodiles and Humans and is one of the only builds able to take down a Nile Perch.

## Refferences

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