Woolly Mammoth

## Overview

The Woolly Mammoth was an Elephant build that was playable during the Pleistocene. It is now banned. Woolly Mammoths had the highest HP of any Ice Age build. They also had powerful gear, just like modern elephants. Like any elephant, mammoths had a trunk and long tusks. Trunks are a huge advantage, especially for quadrupedal builds. They can pick up objects and/or grab them without unlocking bipedalism.

## Base Stats

Mammoths and Asian Elephants split off during the Neogene Expansion. At first, they were hairless, but as The Ice Age arrived, they moved north and specced into more hair. Woolly Mammoths had stats similar to other elephants. They had high HP, Intelligence, Defense, Power, and Game time. Their Mobility was decent, but their Stealth was low. Luckily, Woolly Mammoths didn't need Stealth, as they lived on treeless steppes and tundra, didn't need to hide, and were already too much predators like Wolves and Cave Bears. Woolly Mammoths also developed cold resistance since ice damage was a huge threat.

## Tier Placement and History

Woolly Mammoths weren't immediately banned but rather became unviable after the developers significantly raised the global temperature around the time of the Holocene balance patch. Coupled with disease and predation from the growing Human player base. Mammoth mains declined until they could only be found in the Arctic Server, stranded on the island match called Wrangel. Mammoths were huge targets, worth so much XP, and they had low mobility. Furthermore, Mammoths, like their kin, had long spawn periods and naturally-occurring low spawning rates, which only hastened their demise. In the Wrangel lobby, Mammoths persisted until finally vanishing altogether about 4,000 ingame years ago due to inbreeding. Mammoth mains were S tier /OP before humans. That might be confusing, due to their large required intake of XP, but the mammoths' source of XP was extremely common before the Holocene balance patch. Grass only began to decline there when the Holocene balance patch arrived and the grassland Steppe and freezing Tundra had large swaths of their area replaced with the tree-filled Taiga. This, along with Humans ganking them, downgraded the Woolly Mammoths' tier to A tier before their eventual ban from the game. Ganking by humans for ivory and the destruction of habitats is also leading to a decline of the Asian and African elephant player bases(though Asian elephants have better match ups against humans but still). The mammoths' ban led to a large number of game overs for a lot of other player bases. Data miners fear that this will be repeated if African and Asian elephants are banned. For now, we can only hope for the best and work for this not to happen again on a different server. Woolly Mammoths used to have decent matchups against humans, but after the Holocene balance patch they became vulnerable which led to their demise.

For more information about the extinction of the Woolly Mammoth build check out these article: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/climate-change-knocked-mammoths-down-humans-finished-them-off

## Risks of playing Male

As said by TierZoo himself, if you want to play as a male mammoth, there was a high chance you weren't going to make it. That's because they leave the group after it has a high enough level, they are more likely to ambushes and environmental hazards because of this, they also engaged in a lot of combat. However, this has been seen more commonly in Columbian Mammoths, than the woolly ones, so you had to choose your species carefully.

# Are They Really Bringing It Back?

In version 20.24 or 20.27, the woolly mammoth will be unbanned if it does come back. But the breaking news systems say yes, it will be coming back from the extinction events. So yes, they are bringing the woolly mammoth back, and I can explain. Scientists believe that they will cross an Asian elephant aka Indian elephant (Elephas Maximus) and the Mammoth, which will make a possible Mammophant. This is not only to save elephants from extinction, but it is to save the world from climate change.