Great White Shark

White Shark stats

The **Great White Shark** is an aquatic S tier shark Build. Although not having as high bite force as other sharks and predators like the Saltwater Crocodile, Bull Shark etc. Their charge attacks are powerful enough to One-Shot most things it comes across. This shark is one of the most viable and popular among the shark guild.

## Overview

Great White Sharks have very good stats and are a very powerful build. There mobility combined with their power allows them to deal massive damage to most mammals like Seals. It’s damage is so incredible that it is one of the very few builds capable of taking down an Elephant Seal in one bite. Since it is partially warm blooded like it’s cousin, the Mako Shark, its body is warmer than the surrounding area and therefore there is an increase in mobility but, at a cost, it has to eat a lot more than the usual shark would.

Great White builds weaknesses are there average health and stealth. This means it is slightly hard to sneak on prey without getting caught, or simply they have to rely on fleeing and swimming away rather than hiding. Luckily these sharks’ ability to see above water helps a lot. As they can see where their prey is and make plans to ambushing them.

Like other sharks they have access to electroreception. This allows them to detect the electric fields made by an opponent in a 360 field view.

Their sense of smell is almost unmatched as they can smell one drop of blood from about 5km away. Great White Sharks also have great hearing and can hear low pressure sounds from 800 feet - 2km. Their lateral line also feels waves and small pressure changes which aid them in finding opponents. Like it’s cousin, The Mako, Great Whites are very fast reaching 56 km/h.

Great Whites are good at taking down human builds due to their superior power, health, Defense and speed. Humans only have superior intelligence and sometimes that isn’t even enough.

Great white sharks have fantastic matchups against most marine builds, their only bad matchup like every other marine build is the Orcas, however interactions between both builds are rare.

## Strategies

### Charge Attack

A good strategy that a lot of Great White players utilise is to stalk their prey and get it into a position where it’s party members can’t be aware of what happens to them. From here the majority of players would aim for their opponents most exposed spot, ideally the stomach. The shark can accelerate at a decent degree usually reaching their top speed of 56 km/h in a few seconds. Utilising a Great White’s above average intelligence, veterans calculate the prey’s movements and when to attack. When ready the Great White will propel itself into its prey and launch out of the water with it’s prey hopefully in its jaws.

A drawback to this however is a Great White’s very small hit box. On some occasions you will miss.

### Avoid detection

More experienced Great White players spot prey and dangers (like Orcas) by utilising their very diverse set of sensory abilities such as their lateral line or extremely good sense of hearing and smell. Veterans will exploit weaknesses from other builds such as a Cetaceans need to breathe or a Seal’s small stature. Avoiding detection can work both ways. To avoid threats or to attack prey.

### Strategies against big builds

One experienced Great White player was able to take down a Humpback Whale player by severing its artery and drowning it by pulling it’s blowhole underwater. Attacking vital areas such as arteries will hinder another player’s movement thins allowing a Great White player to camp out it’s victim until they die of blood loss. If they’re builds who need to breathe air, this strategy becomes all the more effective. Good players usually use this against tanks like the Elephant Seal or Humpback Whale.

## Abilities

### Electroreception

Type: Support

Effect: Hidden player’s motion is shown on minimap.

### Bloodsense

Type: Support

Effect: Opposing builds lose all Stealth bonuses and their exact coordinates are pinpointed in mini-map.

### Heat Exchange Circulatory System

Type: Support

Effect: Faster stamina regeneration and faster, more agile movement.

### Breach Attack

Type: Attack

Effect: One shots builds with 60 or less HP, from below.

### Chase Down

Type: Attack

Effect: Gives a temporary speed boost and stamina boost when chasing opponents in close combat.

## Tier Placement

Because of their unique sensory abilities, their ability to one-shot most of its prey and their extremely terrifying speed and agility for their size Great White Sharks with no doubt are very powerful creatures and rank on S tier.

## Summary

**Pros:**

* Extremely good mobility and speed.
* Incredibly high attack power.
* Can One-Shot most prey.
* Partially Warm blooded.
* Have access to electroreception which allows them to sense the electric fields made by animals in the 360 field.
* Above Average Intelligence
* A wide array of Sensory Abilities to utilise.

**Cons:**

* Average Stealth
* Lacks Gill Flaps, essentially drowning them if they are held tail to the surface.
* Helpless when flipped on their back.

## Trivia

* It has been studied that all Sharks (including Great Whites) are surprisingly very smart and have similar intelligence to birds and mammals, and thus, their stats are outdated.
	+ With more faster and active Sharks like the Great White and Hammerhead being the more “brighter” sharks.

* Great Whites are most well known of all Sharks.
* One of the theories as to how Megalodon fell out of the meta was because the then-new Great White playerbase decided to declare war on the Megalodon playerbase and won because they had lower food costs and higher Cold Resistance compared to the Megalodon, despite having worse health and power stats than the latter.
	+ This essentially allowed them to outcompete Megalodon’s for their prey.
* Its has been proven that Great Whites attack human builds out of curiosity.

* Great Whites are a type of Mackerel Shark.
	+ This means they are warm blooded and they are part of the lamniformes family, together with the Mako Shark.
* Great Whites are the largest predatory fish reaching 21 feet (6.1m) in length.