The Shark Tier List

[Music] [Music] innovations made by players have been the main driving force behind the biggest meta shifts in the entire history of the game and today i want to highlight one of the most important the implementation of the move bite there's actually a fair bit of debate on which guilds can take credit for pioneering this move but there's no question that one of the first to really perfect it to the point of being meta-defining were none other than the sharks and since then they've been holding on to that top spot tighter than ice climber players hold on to a wobbling victim they've been extremely relevant in every expansion since the silurian something very few guilds can claim so today i'll go over the tier list of the sharks and highlight the main attributes and abilities which have made them such fearsome builds overall sharks are at a pretty good spot in the meta averaging around b tier the main benefits of playing a shark build include high mobility high damage and most importantly the ability to sense any player near you due to special abilities like blood sense and electro reception main drawbacks include lacking swim bladder an ability which allows the user to control their buoyancy at will and also lacking gill flaps gill flaps passively regenerates stamina and is an ability unique to bony fish so sharks can only regenerate stamina if they're moving now let's talk about individual shark builds as always we'll start from the bottom of the tier list and work our way up in bottom tier we have nothing there are genuinely no shark builds i could justify as being bottom tier most sharks don't deviate too far from the base shark concept which is good because it's a great guide for success with that said not all sharks are created equal and in deterio we have two builds which don't really capitalize on any of the benefits of the shark class first is the nurse shark low mobility sedentary play style and a really weak bite instead of abusing the powerful kit available for shark classes nurse sharks rummage around the ocean floor looking for easy xp however they do have the strongest suction force of any fish and since they don't have many terrible matchups they're definitely no f-tier second indeed here we have the sawshark sawshark players what are you doing teeth are some of the best weapons in the game and the only drawback to using them is that breaking them can ruin your playthrough but sharks have replaceable teeth so that weakness is completely nullified so why did you opt for this goofy cumbersome impractical weapon setup swinging that thing around uses way too much stamina for what it nets you and isn't very useful for defending yourself whatever you do you i guess in seed here we've got all the sharks that decided they'd rather afk their entire game instead of making use of the best tools available to sharks this includes the basking shark whale shark and any other shark who thought filter feeding was a better idea than being a swimming doom machine yes it may be easy if you make it to the late game but without good weapons and low mobility the majority of your playthrough is a huge risk with mobile fish players like the marlin and sailfish having no problem taking you out now we're in b tier and we're almost to the shark builds who know how sharks are meant to be played almost but first we've got two more unorthodox builds some of my personal favorites actually the first is a shark who decided that despite being one of the smallest of its kind it would attack the largest builds in the game the cookie cutter shark cookie cutter sharks are unorthodox in that instead of going for the predator play style they function as a parasite they simply latch onto a whale or other massive player and by twisting themselves back and forth they steal a cookie-shaped bite right off this doesn't do much damage to players but interestingly this build was a secret among the shark guild up until a few cookie cutter players accidentally attacked human submarines and actually caused their sonar to malfunction this was during the cold war so the russians and americans assumed that the other was somehow sabotaging their submarines until eventually a soviet sub surfaced with a shark player still latched on in b we have a shark which uses one of the only aoe stun moves seen in the entire game the thresher shark attacking a school of fish is difficult and due to their advanced evasion and diversion tactics you have to be fast lucky or clever in order to even catch a single fish that is unless you can hit them with a flashbang which is essentially what thresher sharks do threshold sharks have tails as long as the rest of their body and they use them as a whip creating shock waves which stun small groups of fish negating their normally excellent evasion abilities they do all this without deviating too far from the great base stats of the shark build so they retain decent mobility and attack power while wielding this weapon in eightier we finally get to those famous core shark builds everyone knows loves and fears it's hard to rank these in relation to each other because they're all just so darn great we'll start with the tiger sharks tiger sharks have higher stealth than most of the well-known shark builds and also have uniquely shaped teeth that make them more effective at cutting through armor and bone similar to actual tigers the main strategy of a tiger shark is to get close to its target with stealth and then use a quick burst of speed to snatch it before it can react on the opposite end of the spectrum from this strategy we have the mako shark which has the highest mobility of all the sharks and uses this to chase down its targets this playstyle requires a lot of stamina so this build breaks the mold and opts for warm blood instead of being cold-blooded like most other fish this gives the mako shard the benefits of fast stamina regeneration allowing it to keep up a pursuit longer than most other hunters since the speed comes at a cost to size it doesn't quite have the monstrous weight advantage over its targets and so mako players need to be careful and not get too greedy the ocean's other premier speed demons the swordfish and marlin can be tough matchups for them at the top of atr we have the bull shark which has two unique and powerful abilities the first is that they have the highest bite force of any shark meaning that even though they have pretty average teeth in terms of slicing and cutting utility they can still deliver an extremely potent bite the second ability is that bull sharks can enter fresh water servers without receiving the energy sapping and damaging debuff that obligate salt water builds do this allows them to travel into rivers and streams where they have no real competition this makes bull sharks the best build for griefing low level players and judging by the bull shark's reputation for being the most aggressive shark it's clear that this is exactly the type of player that this build attracts and here we are the head honchos of the shark guild there's two builds here that occupy low s tier and honestly i can't place one above the other they're both just awesome what makes them so excellent is how well they use their tracking abilities blood sense and electroreception the great white shark is no doubt the most feared ocean built in the current meta and the closest thing to the god tier megalodon still in existence they pretty much just take everything that makes sharks so strong and push all of those things to their limit they don't have as high bite damage as the tiger or bull shark but the force of a great white's charge attack slamming into their target more than makes up for it and usually takes the stock no problem hunting steel players is difficult because they're clever and try to avoid putting themselves at risk when they don't need to this is why the great white's ability to see above water is so crucial because they can see which islands and reefs their targets are hiding on and camp them out their blood sensibility is through the roof and their electro reception ability is quite polished as well but nowhere near to the extent of the last build on my list the hammerhead now if you aren't a hammerhead player i'm willing to bet that when you look at this build you think the player fell asleep during character creation and accidentally set eye width to the max but if you think this option is purely aesthetic and not intentional you couldn't be more wrong hammerheads have the best most well optimized sensory abilities in the game they have full panoramic vision and have binocular eyesight ahead and behind them which gives them a massive accuracy bonus on the attack and a huge evasion bonus if they're being chased with the chemo and electro receptors on the front of their face they essentially have 3d smell and 3d electro reception putting their spatial awareness almost as high as dolphins and bats their snout shape also lets them turn on a dime which makes it so their attacks almost never miss furthermore while they don't hunt together they do travel in schools providing safety in numbers and causing an intimidation debuff on pretty much the entire surrounding area so that's the tier list for the sharks as you can see they're an amazing class with a lot of useful abilities and strengths to play around with they have only a few bad mashups like dolphins orcas and a few other top tier fish like swordfish and marlin

Channel: TierZoo

Views: 6,184,928

Keywords: Shark, hammerhead, great white, whale

Id: OZ5kXgYW5cE

Length: 8min 33sec (513 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 30 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/olivicmic]

hammerheads edited the config file for max FOV

[u/UUD-40]

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[u/TheLousyZoot]

forgot to mention the Greenland shark build, it put all its points in longevity and only kills players in murky water where they cant be seen, also they dont really bite so much as saw in a circle.. def would have been S tier for outlasting the competition.

[u/Finished_Now]

Fun fact: Sharks are older than trees

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I saw many repeating Old School Runescape themes in this video. Much appreciated.

[u/si3rra_7]

r/videos mods joke @5.54 LOL

[u/Lord_of_the_Dance]

I appreciate your use of "My Shiny Teeth"

[u/green_lemons]

Well shit, didn't think I'd learn so much about sharks today. Great video