Hammerhead

The **Great Hammerhead** was the fifth Shark added to the game and is one of the two sharks to have a special way of inducing damage, making up for its low thrash damage.

The Hammerhead is a tanky shark, having almost the same amount of health points as the Great White. The Hammerhead has low stamina, and low thrash damage making it a bit difficult for newer players to play this shark if they didn't know about it's passive ability yet.

With it's passive ability, the hammerhead can kill divers faster than other sharks (as long as you keep thrashing that is)

The Great Hammerhead fights tooth and nail as she thrashes and bashes prey to a crimson pulp. Modest jaws are made up for by pinning prey behind the cephalofoil and crushing them to smithereens. The Hammerhead is a force to be reckoned with and may just put the final nail in your coffin.

The Hammerhead works best in locations with small rooms like Devil's Head, Stash, and Crude.

## Species Ability

**Relentless Force** is the Hammerhead's ability, it generates additional stamina while hitting hard surfaces (with or without diver in mouth). Level 3 also gives a minor health gain after headbutt, which is good for getting your health back. The ability has a short cooldown, allowing it to be used multiple times in a relatively short period of time. With level 3, you can regenerate health faster than you could via eating Seals or the Hemogenesis evolution.

### Passive

The Hammerhead also has a passive ability that compensates for its low thrash damage. Once grabbed you can slam divers to the ground, walls or anything solid in general for extra damage while holding them in your jaws. You can deal up to 75% of the diver's health, add some thrashing to it and you can nearly instantly kill them. It is more recommended to slam divers to the ground and wall than to a corner.

Also the bigger the momentum (speed of the shark) while grabbing a diver, the bigger the damage. So it is recommended to get Powerful Tail.

## Recommended build

### Early game

Save the 10 points for later.

The hammerhead is a great early game rusher along the Great White since most divers only have pistols. It can tank more damage compared to other sharks. When lunging towards a diver, use the longer lunge/right click on mouse. Use the ability while grabbing a diver. While grabbing a diver, try aiming for a wall or solid objects while thrashing and always press W+Shift while doing so to move the hammerhead towards the wall.

If you're low, don't get seals, keep fighting and keep pressure on the divers. Try getting atleast 1-2 kills before dying. When you do die, get Hangry and Nimble Finned to get back on the action faster.

### Core

The third evolution you should try to get is Powerful Tail, it allows the shark to lunge while grabbing a diver. Powerful Tail is the most useful evolution for Hammerhead, as it allows the shark to lunge into a wall while grabbing a diver, dealing **HUMONGOUS** damage to the diver. Also try thrashing while doing it for more damage.

After that, you can get Headstrong and max out the ability. Headstrong allows the shark to destroy walls with only 1 boost(when breaking a wall, try sprinting to it before lunging) and the ability makes the shark able to recover HP and Stamina while hitting a wall. Hammerhead with Headstrong can destroy S.T.E.V.E quite fast.

### Luxury

Get Adrenal Glands or Blood Rage, these evolutions can regenerate stamina allowing the hammerhead to perform multiple kills in one go. Also get Blood Feast to restore HP after killing a diver. Get Hemogenesis or Ignore Pain incase you got extra evolution points.

### Situational

As usual, get Placoid Scales if the divers use ammo modifiers.

## Unlock conditions

To unlock this shark you need to use the Thresher's Species Ability to hit at least two divers at once.

## Skins

Below is a full list of skins released for the Hammerhead.

* RAM
* Legendary
* Old Bones
* Exogel
* Hullbreaker
* Hellfire
* 金龍 (Jin the Gold Dragon)
* Tetra
* Holiday Lights
* Tribal (White)
* Nile
* Blue Lancer
* Bonehammer
* Battle Scarred
* Shimmer
* Isotope
* Bloodfin
* Albino
* Tribal (Black)
* Goliath