If the crystal caves area wasnt so cramped and was darker, with only light source being mainly the crystals reflections and the shadow leviathans spots, with some smaller fish to help disguise it, i could see the shadow leviathan being much higher. I can imagine suddenly seeing the bright blue mouth out of nowhere and freaking out once you realize that's just the mouth. Hopefully subnautica 2 fixes a lot of the drawbacks of below zero.
Would've also been amazing if when the Shadow Leviathan saw you and became aggressive, it would light up fully with bioluminescence, revealing the creature itself and its size.
"If you can hear it, it can see you." This one sentence not only sends chills down the spine, it also makes hearing a Reaper's roar even more terrifying.
Fun fact: below zero was originally supported to feature the baby sea emperors from the first game all grown up as a kind of random encounter. For what I know, they didn't do too much, but you could find then occasionally swimming around, and I think there was supposed to be warpers too
@@thereisnowayyouareforreal5156actually it would have. In the original story, Robin could have talked to one of the emperors to get enzyme42 sent to the vesper because they lost their supply after getting hijacked by Jeff (Robin's coworker who goes missing at the start). You later find out that he also stole the kharaa sample that Robin sent earlier and released it onboard before going back to the planet and enabling a planetary shield from the mountain alien base where Robin first meets Alan. Btw the emperors had finished and recorded voicelines too in the final version of the original story, so I suggest looking it up if you have never seen it. I am still mad that they had to scrap every single cool aspect of the original story.
@@thereisnowayyouareforreal5156 well below zero originally had a completely different story line. Instead of going down to the planet to find out what happened to your sister, you sister is up in a space station orbiting the planet. Your goal was to collect stuff like enzym 42 and send it up there, and you eventually find the frozen leviathan. The story was a lot better and I think it would have been a lot better had they stayed with thay version of the story
Thats it. YOU CANT JUST SLANDER MY BOY LIKE THAT!!!!! The glow whale is my favorite creature because they love to dwell in groups and you can raise your own glow whales in the alien containment chamber. ITS WAY TOO CUTE TO LAND ON LAST PLACE
one thing I do appreciate about the ice worm is that it hunts, something that most other leviathans don't really do. Imagine if the first time you saw the sea dragon it was dragging a Reaper away. makes it feel more like a real ecosystem to me when stuff does its own thing, like what you said about the sea treader.
I don't know about you, but I've seen plenty of Reapers hunting, as well as Crabsnakes, Crabsquids, and even the Squidsharks on occasion. I guess those last three don't really count. But I get what you mean. The Sea Dragons don't really do anything but swim around and shoot fire at random creatures. Never seen a Shadow leviathan hunt anything other than me. Same for the Chelicerates. At least the Glow Whales DO something other than swim around, even if it's just breaching and interacting with the player.
I often go to the dunes to visit the base I made in that crater with a meteor in it. There’s an alien cache right there in the crater too, you just have to follow a tunnel of a cave
My poor boi sea dragon didn't deserve to be that low on the list, considering that the entire events of subnautica started with stealing a sea dragon egg and the mother just wanting to get her egg back, but accidentally causing the outbreak of kharaa, which in turn caused the construction of the quarantine enforcement platform, but an interesting list to say the least!
Compared to the ghost and reaper it falls pretty short tbh, also the lava zone isnt that impressive of a final location, especially compared to the lost river
I absolutely despise him. His lore isnt even that good and when you just come out to repair your PRAWN suit, warper teleports him to you and it oneshots your ass. Absolutely awful leviathan and its sad that he isnt on the 11th place.
Ghost Leviathans are the scariest I think because of where you find them. Going really far under water further then you should and it getting really dark then hearing one of thoes things then it coming at you out of nowhere is terrifying, and the big ones are even worse.
Nah I never found them scary lol they always look kinda goofy to me and I just laugh as he tries to hit me in the cyclops also you can see him coming from a mile away so there's no way you get jumpscared by him
The introduction is such an important part for leviathans and the reapers introduction to a lot of people is just perfect. Growling in the distance. Shadowy figure in the murky water. Trying to get to the arora and suddenly being grabbed turned around to see that face ripping apart your seamoth or just swallowing you whole.
Lwkey, all of subnautica wouldve been avoided if the architects didnt use this 2526b as a testing ground. From the lore, what we see between s1 and bz is only 1% of what 2526b USED to have. When riley crashed, the world was on the verge of extinction. On the other hand, if they didnt make all the leviathans extinct, id have to deal with gargantuan leviathans
@@WashingMachineYT988you mean to say 99% of what it used to have is gone. Your comment would say that only a tiny sliver of life on the world has gone extinct
i kind of agree with the sea dragon, but only because they are so unthreatening i have never been damaged by one so it just feels like it has more bark than bite
First time I beat this game in February, descending to the Lava Zone with the Cyclops was terrifying, especially when I didn't know what to do and when these two massive creatures just creeped up on me and I couldn't really do anything. But eventually I just put max throttle ahead and found a safe spot where the Sea Dragons never even went and it was basically a breeze after that. Now that I have the overall layout of the outside and inside Lava Castle and the underlying Lava Lake memorized, it's pretty easy to avoid the Sea Dragons with the Prawn and that really takes away the scare factor. However, I'd still be on my toes when going to the Crash Zone.
Personally don't get this. Guess I have a very different experience than a lot of people. At least when using the cyclops, I have to encounter the sea dragons, and generally, there's a kind of cat and mouse game that's played where I'm the mouse and it's the cat and I have to decide when to move or get out of the cyclops. With the reapers, their design is scary, but their range is so wide that I can easily avoid them. And their placement is in places where you don't have to actually go, with the one at the front of the ship being the only exception (maybe the mountains too), but as I said, the range is so wide that I can easily slip in and slip out without even seeing the reaper
My problem with the Sea Dragon is that it is the coolest to me. Its so cool that i dont fear its presence, i fear its POWER. The first encounter? Yeah its scary hearing a huge roar before you can see it but once you do its pretty much "Dont start nothing, wont be nothing." Ghosts and Reapers chase you but the Sea Dragon doesnt really care unless you get too close. Also i love putting an observation down in the Sea Treaders path. Its so peaceful.
once i was on a mushroom forest in my seamoth gathering cyclops part, i was happy, but a bone shark in the distance kept roaring and it was annoying. So after a moment i say oh shut up to myself while looking at the direction of the roar, and WHAT DO I SEE ??? A FRICKING REAPER LEVIATHAN 200 METERS AWAY FROM ME I DIDNT EVEN HAVE THE STASIS RIFLE AT THE TIME SO I JUST SHAT MY PANTS AND LEFT
the glow whale is one of my favorites so much so that i placed my base next to them and collected their eggs to incubate and release around the base you have made a powerful enemy today
I agree with the sea dragon completely. I think for me it feels more of a random mix between earth ish or earth derived creatures rather than something completely new
Same here; as much as I do really like its design, it's always felt strangely out of place compared to everything else. The sea emperor, despite having a similar design, manages to pull more weight in the 'looking alien' department, likely bc its face looks less 'outright fantasy dragon'. I think that's one reason why the reaper clicked so much with me, despite my love-hate relationship with it; it looks so alien and like it just _belongs_ in this place. It really hammers in the idea that this is a creature adapted perfectly to this environment and is just doing its own thing, and you are the one who doesn't belong there
I also just don't like the way it moves. It's got all those tentacles but never uses them? Just paddles slowly along with it's arms instead of the obvious and faster method it has access to? Don't get me wrong, they still lock on to me in game and mess me up, but they'd be so much better if they didn’t look so lumbering and goofy because of the way they swim. And yeah, a bit more of an alien look would help too.
@@bucketofsunshine6366 yeah and u would think the big paddles are a bit obsolete giving it has those massive tentacles to propel itself. Doesn’t make that much sense for it to have them over some more agressive clawed arms say
Well deserved first place. The Reaper Leviathan, no matter how many hours i have in this game, still terrifies me. With all other Leviathans i can dance around potential obstacles or out manuever them because some have the turning radius of a truck, but no matter what i just cant deal with Reapers.
I personally really enjoy the shadow, ghost, chelicerate, and the sea dragon. The sea treader is also quite cool. For me, the top spot is a toss up between the shadow, cheli, reaper, and the ghost. I do like the more realistic leviathans, the ones that feel like they could really exist on an alien planet. Subnautica combines my passion for astronomy with my love for zoology and it is amazing.
Thats the fun thing with this list, I don't think there really is any bad leviathans in the game, so the list could always change depending on how you feel at the time!
The Sea Emperor is my favourite because it is the ultimate gentle giant. A huge animal that has kept the whole world alive because it cares. This, at the end of the day, is not a creature but a lifeform worthy of recognition.
Nothing terrified me more than hearing the ghosts scream when I first entered the void. Just turning around and seeing come out of the darkness made me leave the game in fear
Totaly unbiased because of my pet bagel, no no. But in my book the Shadow Leviathan is one of the absolute coolest, maybe even my most Favorite from base Subnautica/Below Zero! Its just such a cool design. Also fun fact, in german the leviathan is called Thanatos! Which is the name of a god of death. Pretty cool!
I love how the shadow leviathan makes the crystal caverns feel since it likes to traverse the tunnels and makes it feel like it can come out of any crack or cliff.
Boy I ain't gonna check out those videos, but they wouldn't want to come after me. Leviathans, every second you're not swimming, me, my stasis rifle, and my prawn suit are only getting closer.
5:15 I remember seeing those for the first time. I was a kid, and i just watched that “Gorefield” thing, and when i saw those, my heart skipped a beat due to the cat like ears, weird posture and three pegs for legs
I gave up my playthrough because of the Reaper... It grabbed my Prawn Suit and ended up clipping me into the ground. I kept sinking until I reached an out-of-bounds box in the lava zone, and had to just sit and watch as my Prawn Suit got crushed and destroyed from the pressure, leaving me stuck and forced to reload my last save. I just sorta stopped playing after that.
Shadow is the most terrifying leviathan for me, because in classic subnautica, when you craft stasis rifle or cyclops, all creatures aint scary anymore. In below zero you dont have stasis rifle and cyclops + shadow notices you from a long distance + he deals a really high amount of dmg
Agreed with the sea dragon. First playthrough when I saw them I was in awe at this cool dude, but i definitely wasn’t scared like I was with the reaper or ghost. He was just a big fish to avoid, not something to be feared
I am so so soooo happy you put the reafback so high up the list. They are one of my favorite ( if not my favorite ) leviathan in the whole game. Hearing them always brings me so much peace and comfort, just knowing I am so close to such gentle giants gives me the strenght to keep exploring.
Wbile playing, every friendly leviathan is "interesting," and every other aggressive leviathan is "annoying," but the Reaper continues to be scary to this day. It absolutely deserved the #1 spot
i Love shadow leviathan design, its perfect, its amazing, its probably the coolest design for an undersea monster, alien or terrestrial, would be scary in anything related to water, movies, books, other games, whatever.
I've always been curious about this: Who draws the stuff we see in Aletho's videos? Does he draw them himself? Get them commissioned? Whoever does it, props to them.
My list: 11 - Glow Whale (just boring to me) 10 - Vent Garden (same thing, but i like what's happening inside it) 9 - Chelicerate (just feels small) 8 - Sea Treader (love that it gives diamonds but i just dont like its design) 7 - Reefback (just a material farm) 6 - Sea Dragon (fun, but super easy to avoid) 5 - Ice Worm ("wait why is my controller vibrati- HOLY THIT") 4 - Reaper (scary) 3 - Ghost (great design, a bit spooky) 2 - Shadow (best design imo. that hole tho...) 1 - Sea Emperor (rip. best character in all of subnautica. made everyone tear up)
I personally think the sea dragon is SOO cool because they build up to it with the sunken facility and the dead reaper leviathan. After that you suddenly hear the most spine chilling noise in the entire game (and then die pretty quickly probably)
I still remember the Below Zero beta when they had fully-grown Sea Emperors swimming around the void as placeholders. Didn't know they were there at the time and nearly pooped myself swimming into the first one lol
I still remember my first night at the open Grassy plateaus and hiding on their back for the whole night . Man i wish i could play this game for the first time again
I thought the ventgarden and sea treader would be higher as the sea treader is EXTREAMELY helpful and (from my knowledge) the ventgarden is necessary to beat below zero as its the only source of spiral plants for synthetic fibers for depth modules.
I genuinely called all leviathans danger noodles when I first started. His reference to danger noodle when talking about the reaper was amazing, I laughed out loud when he said that!
I will always remember my first encounter witb the Ghost Leviathan. I drove all the way towards the Dead Zone, and put of nowhere this giant horror came out of nowhere, and I ran all the way back to base. And then I had my first contact with the Emperor.
@UNDERHALLSMASKIN-R- technically yes they are when you read the pda it calls them a leviathan class creature but than don't add it to the leviathan class section with the other leviathan, they put it in the carnivore section for some reason, But I personally believe it don't belong in the leviathan class
My criteria for favourite leviathan can best be summed up as "Will it give me a heart attack?" The less they do the further up they go. For that reason the Vent Garden takes my # 1 spot for it being so benign, and I do like watching the juveniles floating around.
I have (NO JOKE) developed childhood trauma because of that goddamn reaper leviathan. I've recently been replaying Subnautica and everytime I see him patrolling around in that small little place at the aurora I have a mini heart attack. One time when I was but a small child, I was minding my own buisness somewhere around the mushroom place in my seamoth, and when i looked up I saw his terrifying blue buttchin, paused the game and fell out of my chair. I was just lying on the floor for about 5 minutes contemplating if I should lie there, on the floor, for the rest of my life.
I remember my first encounter with the reaper and the sea dragon and I will never forget them. I was pretty early on into the game and decided to test the limits. I figured there was no way the map was big enough to where I could swim to the ship but I wanted to anyway. I headed towards the side and didn't see a way to board, and figured maybe there was a spot on the back. This was before the explosion so the front wasn't open. As I head around to the back, I'm mainly above water so I didn't hear the roars of the reaper. I'm looking at the back of the boat when I dip underwater. I heard the roar but it was at the same time that the camera started shaking and the Aurora made noises so I figured it was just that. Like an actual predator though, the reaper waited until it was right up next to me to roar again and by then it was too late. I don't even remember if I escaped or not. The sea dragon was a bit different, I knew it was there before I saw it since the roars were to loud to notice. It was my first time in the lava zone. As I cleared the entrance to the big cave where the sea dragon lives, I saw him but just barely. I saw the tentacles only and thought maybe it was a jellyfish. I waited for it to come back and it did. I couldn't really tell the size of it until a few minutes of staring but once it clicked, I gasped and paused the game for a bit. I ended up being attacked by it later on and was very very close to dead before it gave up.
Ideas for Subnautica 3 New Tech Land Glide- A parachute that activates mid air to stop you from taking fall damage Seaweed Trap- A seaweed trap that can get even leviathans stuck for a few moments. Moondial- A device that allows you to see how long until day. Aurora Missile- A device that kills and dissolves the Aurora Leviathan. New Vehicles Aqua Fox- Allows you to dive up to 20 meters underwater and drive over the water. Extremely slow on land. Sea Explorer- Allows you to discover new depths. If you use this to go too close to a dangerous area, you will get an alert. Has a flotation device that can be used in case of emergency to be shot to the surface. Sea Bird- The beta version of the Seamoth that can fly up to 300 meters in the air. New Leviathans- Aurora Leviathan. A massive leviathan the size of the Aurora that sits in the shallow ocean, never moving. Get too close to its jaws, and it will accidentally make you its lunch. You can climb inside through its gills to see whats inside. Mesmerer Leviathan- Like a Mesmer, but takes the appearance of a massive version of different friendly creatures. The PDA will show it as a strange signal when your base begins to be built. Extremely fast. You might need the flotation device of the Sea Explorer to get away. New Creatures- Echo Fish- Repeats sounds of leviathans through the deep. Somewhat rare. Lumen- A glowing fish that is edible. Found deep in the ocean, as a quick snack. Can’t be cooked. Sea Hare- Based on the Sea Bunnies. Can be used as pets, but can be killed to get a new material called Sea Goop… New Areas- Forgotten Base. An eroded base that has drifted very far away. Uses your data from Subnautica (if there is any) to make it. Can be repaired. If no data, there will be the Bart Toragal base. Polluted Waters- The underwater trash dump used by Alterra. You’ll need a special diving suit to venture here due to the pollution. 0 meters to 120 deep. The Meadow- Filled with airtight coral. Can be used to make bases, if equipped with the correct materials. Most fish are docile, but live in hiding due to a nearby leviathan…
my first reaper experience was when my bf told me there were cyclops parts behind the aurora. It came barelling out of the murk and i screamed at the top of my lungs, abandoned my seamoth, and seaglided my entire way back to my base without turning around even once
My personal favorite is probably the Shadow Leviathan, it has my absolute favorite design in the entire series. Getting your ship caught in those claws and only seeing those teeth is also just extremely terrifying.
Reaper is and always will be the best leviathan and scary NPC in any game, if you played this game and didn't even know leviathans existed in this world, it's a different kind of feeling you get in your squishy little seamoth the first time you see this thing grab you and makes you wonder if it's gonna completely crush the vehicle you worked so hard to make and you forgot to save, just to leave you stranded to be next on the crushing list The look, the roar, the grabbing mechanic, it's just the perfect combo
The Sea Dragon actually had a very cool animation for grabbing the Seamoth, but it got removed since the Seamoth ended up not being capable of reaching the depths the Sea Dragon is located at to begin with.
I really remember memory when I first got Subnautica below zero I was in creative mode in my truck In the void me and my friend were playing and I remember hearing annoys behind me, and I turned around and all I saw was a giant leviathan zooming towards me and me, and my friend screamed at the top of our lungs. Those were the days.
see SL press perimeter only exit seatuck after being sure that its far away fabricator cavern is such a trash area that my only thought was "why so shit"
Oooooh, good list! I love the Glow Whales but I didn't even know they were Leviathan class until post-game. My biggest issue against the Below Zero aggro-leviathans is they caused me more fear than wonder. I loved skirting a Reaper's claws/bite while scanning it, but the BZ leviathans could all swivel on a dime it seems and insta-kill me. Reefbacks were a great early misdirection you learned to love. And of course Reapers are #1 cause even folks that DON'T know Subnautica know the Reaper
Considering the complaints about the other leviathans, it is amusing that the Reaper leviathan tops the list. the Shadow Leviathan at least are in a place you have to go though. I never had to encounter a Reaper leviathan to complete the game.
the ice worm is my favorite leviathan with the sea dragon as a close second. the sea dragon gives me the fear of losing my prawn suit with every good upgrade
I rather never encounter a reaper again. I stopped playing the game for a bit cause of the reaper. I beat the game some time later but man that reaper scared the crap out of me
On my 3rd play through of the game, Casper the Ghost Leviathan followed me into the lava zone and was camping the entrance where I had my halfway sub base. I got so mad avoiding this thing that I got into my prawn suit and grappled onto him and beat him to death with my drill. It felt sooooooo good when he died and I had 50% battery and 42% hull left.
Aletho, what did the ICE WORM do to you to end up so far down on this list???????????
It wiggled too much
@@iAletho relatable
Bro got in the vid
It wasn't the "Big Worm" sadly.
Damn even the pfp, nice dedication
If the crystal caves area wasnt so cramped and was darker, with only light source being mainly the crystals reflections and the shadow leviathans spots, with some smaller fish to help disguise it, i could see the shadow leviathan being much higher.
I can imagine suddenly seeing the bright blue mouth out of nowhere and freaking out once you realize that's just the mouth.
Hopefully subnautica 2 fixes a lot of the drawbacks of below zero.
That would be the ultimate jump scare, and definitely make it feel a lot cooler!
I honest to god thought the Shadow Leviathan was gonna have invisibility and/or bioelectricity but oh well
Would've also been amazing if when the Shadow Leviathan saw you and became aggressive, it would light up fully with bioluminescence, revealing the creature itself and its size.
@Snozzer that would be cool, trying to make the 'deer in headlights' effect in the player where your just in awe the first time seeing it.
I went to scrap zone behind the ship in darkness with seamoth, fkng scary experience
"If you can hear it, it can see you."
This one sentence not only sends chills down the spine, it also makes hearing a Reaper's roar even more terrifying.
Too bad it's lore-only and not an in-game mechanic. :(
Fun fact: below zero was originally supported to feature the baby sea emperors from the first game all grown up as a kind of random encounter. For what I know, they didn't do too much, but you could find then occasionally swimming around, and I think there was supposed to be warpers too
Unfortunately it would've added nothing to sub par sequel, as much as I wanted to love it :(
Thank god there weren't warpers
@@thereisnowayyouareforreal5156actually it would have. In the original story, Robin could have talked to one of the emperors to get enzyme42 sent to the vesper because they lost their supply after getting hijacked by Jeff (Robin's coworker who goes missing at the start). You later find out that he also stole the kharaa sample that Robin sent earlier and released it onboard before going back to the planet and enabling a planetary shield from the mountain alien base where Robin first meets Alan.
Btw the emperors had finished and recorded voicelines too in the final version of the original story, so I suggest looking it up if you have never seen it. I am still mad that they had to scrap every single cool aspect of the original story.
@averagekettleenjoyer474 what I meant was, that small detail didn't save sub zero from being mediocre
@@thereisnowayyouareforreal5156 well below zero originally had a completely different story line. Instead of going down to the planet to find out what happened to your sister, you sister is up in a space station orbiting the planet. Your goal was to collect stuff like enzym 42 and send it up there, and you eventually find the frozen leviathan. The story was a lot better and I think it would have been a lot better had they stayed with thay version of the story
"And the Reaper's just joining in for fun!"
Yeah, that sounds about right
GARGATUAN
*Trash talks the glow whale* You made some powerful enemies this day.
I have angered the great Glow Whale clan!
@@iAlethoyou will regret messing with the glow whale
Tbh, I love the whale simply because it was the only beyond loud creature I didn't have to worry about.
Trash take on the glow whale? My brother he put the Sea Emperor in #3
Thats it. YOU CANT JUST SLANDER MY BOY LIKE THAT!!!!! The glow whale is my favorite creature because they love to dwell in groups and you can raise your own glow whales in the alien containment chamber. ITS WAY TOO CUTE TO LAND ON LAST PLACE
one thing I do appreciate about the ice worm is that it hunts, something that most other leviathans don't really do. Imagine if the first time you saw the sea dragon it was dragging a Reaper away. makes it feel more like a real ecosystem to me when stuff does its own thing, like what you said about the sea treader.
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I don't know about you, but I've seen plenty of Reapers hunting, as well as Crabsnakes, Crabsquids, and even the Squidsharks on occasion. I guess those last three don't really count.
But I get what you mean. The Sea Dragons don't really do anything but swim around and shoot fire at random creatures. Never seen a Shadow leviathan hunt anything other than me. Same for the Chelicerates. At least the Glow Whales DO something other than swim around, even if it's just breaching and interacting with the player.
@@nooneofimportance2110reapers ABSOLUTELY hunt, I've seen them eating gasopods on more than one occasion.
“Don’t Fear the Reaper” heard in the distance, growing ominously louder
Lmao
*Reaper Fear intensifies*
What are all of these Blue Oysters doing here?
The explosive fish-
@StreetBikeIke, I reckon they’re in a cult
There is nothing like the first reaper leviathan ecounter!
Even after beating the game like 5 times i'am still scared to go to the dunes/crash zone
Its a right of passage tom!
try going to the wreck in the mountains...exactly between 3 reapers and ALMOST in their kill zones!!
I often go to the dunes to visit the base I made in that crater with a meteor in it. There’s an alien cache right there in the crater too, you just have to follow a tunnel of a cave
My first encounter was in dunes, from far away i thinked its cute LMAO when he geted close i just .... Exo suit destroyed reaper
@@Artutinkaplay
How? What did u do?
"And the reaper is just joining in for fun." Feels like you could use this quote for a number of situations.
when Pestilence, War, and Famine decide to start the apocalypse early:
My poor boi sea dragon didn't deserve to be that low on the list, considering that the entire events of subnautica started with stealing a sea dragon egg and the mother just wanting to get her egg back, but accidentally causing the outbreak of kharaa, which in turn caused the construction of the quarantine enforcement platform, but an interesting list to say the least!
From a story perspective its definitely interesting, especially the lore, I'm just not a massive fan in gameplay terms unfortunately! :)
@@iAletho that is true, design wise it's definitely amazing, but gameplay wise it's a bit lackluster which is unfortunate to say the least
Compared to the ghost and reaper it falls pretty short tbh, also the lava zone isnt that impressive of a final location, especially compared to the lost river
I absolutely despise him. His lore isnt even that good and when you just come out to repair your PRAWN suit, warper teleports him to you and it oneshots your ass. Absolutely awful leviathan and its sad that he isnt on the 11th place.
For some reason in my game one sea dragon is friendly
Ghost Leviathans are the scariest I think because of where you find them. Going really far under water further then you should and it getting really dark then hearing one of thoes things then it coming at you out of nowhere is terrifying, and the big ones are even worse.
Nah I never found them scary lol they always look kinda goofy to me and I just laugh as he tries to hit me in the cyclops also you can see him coming from a mile away so there's no way you get jumpscared by him
@@Cat36613that’s also the same for the reaper
"Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?"
Especially when you find them in blood kelp zones instead of the lost river because fuck the blood kelp zone
The introduction is such an important part for leviathans and the reapers introduction to a lot of people is just perfect.
Growling in the distance.
Shadowy figure in the murky water.
Trying to get to the arora and suddenly being grabbed turned around to see that face ripping apart your seamoth or just swallowing you whole.
The build up is great, most people never suspect a thing until its to late!
@@iAletho I first saw it through content creators who weren't major ocean game players. The sheer nervousness and anxiety was amazing.
Putting a reaper behind the aurora was such a genius move
@@ijneb1248 A reaper? Try three reapers😱
You're a Leviathan all right, just not a Super one!
Fun fact: the dead leviathan had blunt damage to her head because she tried to get her egg back from the aliens. That’s truly sad.
Lwkey, all of subnautica wouldve been avoided if the architects didnt use this 2526b as a testing ground. From the lore, what we see between s1 and bz is only 1% of what 2526b USED to have. When riley crashed, the world was on the verge of extinction. On the other hand, if they didnt make all the leviathans extinct, id have to deal with gargantuan leviathans
@@WashingMachineYT988you mean to say 99% of what it used to have is gone. Your comment would say that only a tiny sliver of life on the world has gone extinct
@@paytonallen1027 mb i didnt even notice
@@WashingMachineYT988 all good. ‘Tis why I’m letting you know
@WashingMachineYT988 Gargantuan Leviathan went extinct like millions of years before the Architects even showed up.
i kind of agree with the sea dragon, but only because they are so unthreatening i have never been damaged by one so it just feels like it has more bark than bite
I mean the idea is cool, I'm just not a massive fan of it overall, but hey ho!
I think the real problem is that it's not scary the reaper is the scariest obviously and then it's backwards getting less scary as the game goes on
First time I beat this game in February, descending to the Lava Zone with the Cyclops was terrifying, especially when I didn't know what to do and when these two massive creatures just creeped up on me and I couldn't really do anything. But eventually I just put max throttle ahead and found a safe spot where the Sea Dragons never even went and it was basically a breeze after that.
Now that I have the overall layout of the outside and inside Lava Castle and the underlying Lava Lake memorized, it's pretty easy to avoid the Sea Dragons with the Prawn and that really takes away the scare factor.
However, I'd still be on my toes when going to the Crash Zone.
Personally don't get this. Guess I have a very different experience than a lot of people.
At least when using the cyclops, I have to encounter the sea dragons, and generally, there's a kind of cat and mouse game that's played where I'm the mouse and it's the cat and I have to decide when to move or get out of the cyclops. With the reapers, their design is scary, but their range is so wide that I can easily avoid them. And their placement is in places where you don't have to actually go, with the one at the front of the ship being the only exception (maybe the mountains too), but as I said, the range is so wide that I can easily slip in and slip out without even seeing the reaper
I mean tbh the reaper is also very unthreatening
My problem with the Sea Dragon is that it is the coolest to me. Its so cool that i dont fear its presence, i fear its POWER.
The first encounter? Yeah its scary hearing a huge roar before you can see it but once you do its pretty much "Dont start nothing, wont be nothing."
Ghosts and Reapers chase you but the Sea Dragon doesnt really care unless you get too close.
Also i love putting an observation down in the Sea Treaders path. Its so peaceful.
once i was on a mushroom forest in my seamoth gathering cyclops part, i was happy, but a bone shark in the distance kept roaring and it was annoying. So after a moment i say oh shut up to myself while looking at the direction of the roar, and WHAT DO I SEE ??? A FRICKING REAPER LEVIATHAN 200 METERS AWAY FROM ME I DIDNT EVEN HAVE THE STASIS RIFLE AT THE TIME SO I JUST SHAT MY PANTS AND LEFT
Yo that happened to me too. But the difference is I was in the red grass area, looking for lifepod 6.
the glow whale is one of my favorites so much so that i placed my base next to them and collected their eggs to incubate and release around the base
you have made a powerful enemy today
I agree with the sea dragon completely. I think for me it feels more of a random mix between earth ish or earth derived creatures rather than something completely new
Same here; as much as I do really like its design, it's always felt strangely out of place compared to everything else. The sea emperor, despite having a similar design, manages to pull more weight in the 'looking alien' department, likely bc its face looks less 'outright fantasy dragon'. I think that's one reason why the reaper clicked so much with me, despite my love-hate relationship with it; it looks so alien and like it just _belongs_ in this place. It really hammers in the idea that this is a creature adapted perfectly to this environment and is just doing its own thing, and you are the one who doesn't belong there
I also just don't like the way it moves. It's got all those tentacles but never uses them? Just paddles slowly along with it's arms instead of the obvious and faster method it has access to? Don't get me wrong, they still lock on to me in game and mess me up, but they'd be so much better if they didn’t look so lumbering and goofy because of the way they swim. And yeah, a bit more of an alien look would help too.
@@bucketofsunshine6366 yeah and u would think the big paddles are a bit obsolete giving it has those massive tentacles to propel itself. Doesn’t make that much sense for it to have them over some more agressive clawed arms say
Well deserved first place. The Reaper Leviathan, no matter how many hours i have in this game, still terrifies me. With all other Leviathans i can dance around potential obstacles or out manuever them because some have the turning radius of a truck, but no matter what i just cant deal with Reapers.
Ganauntan Leviathan is the best
Reaper Leviathan mid
Ghost Leviathan better
I personally really enjoy the shadow, ghost, chelicerate, and the sea dragon. The sea treader is also quite cool. For me, the top spot is a toss up between the shadow, cheli, reaper, and the ghost. I do like the more realistic leviathans, the ones that feel like they could really exist on an alien planet. Subnautica combines my passion for astronomy with my love for zoology and it is amazing.
Thats the fun thing with this list, I don't think there really is any bad leviathans in the game, so the list could always change depending on how you feel at the time!
@@iAletho I agree. I also think that this list is not objective, everyone has a different list.
The Sea Emperor is my favourite because it is the ultimate gentle giant. A huge animal that has kept the whole world alive because it cares. This, at the end of the day, is not a creature but a lifeform worthy of recognition.
Design wise, my favourite has got to be the Shadow Leviathan.
Am I the only one who thinks that the vent garden is great? The concept was executed perfectly. Probably would be in my top 10
Nothing terrified me more than hearing the ghosts scream when I first entered the void. Just turning around and seeing come out of the darkness made me leave the game in fear
“Me and ghosty are now the best of friends”
Ghosty: *aggressively swimming and screaming at you*
Totaly unbiased because of my pet bagel, no no. But in my book the Shadow Leviathan is one of the absolute coolest, maybe even my most Favorite from base Subnautica/Below Zero! Its just such a cool design. Also fun fact, in german the leviathan is called Thanatos! Which is the name of a god of death. Pretty cool!
I think I prefer the German name now Kirby! xD
Thanos
I love how the shadow leviathan makes the crystal caverns feel since it likes to traverse the tunnels and makes it feel like it can come out of any crack or cliff.
The ice worm wears goggles 10:06
Boy I ain't gonna check out those videos, but they wouldn't want to come after me. Leviathans, every second you're not swimming, me, my stasis rifle, and my prawn suit are only getting closer.
5:15 I remember seeing those for the first time. I was a kid, and i just watched that “Gorefield” thing, and when i saw those, my heart skipped a beat due to the cat like ears, weird posture and three pegs for legs
the best thing about the ice worm IMO is mainly its behavior and animations it just looks so well done even if it does suck to deal with.
5:38 WELL I HAVE SOME NEWS FOR YOU!
Subnautica 2 is gonna be fire if they have some of the old leviathans from BZ and 1
@@BigHeaderTerrariathey already said it is on a new planet no old creatures
@@BigHeaderTerrariathey won't. Remember that subnautica 2 is happening on a new planet.
Bz and 1 who are they
@@penguinplays622below Zero and subnautica 1
10:00 the ice worm has a snorkel 😂😂😂😂
I gave up my playthrough because of the Reaper... It grabbed my Prawn Suit and ended up clipping me into the ground. I kept sinking until I reached an out-of-bounds box in the lava zone, and had to just sit and watch as my Prawn Suit got crushed and destroyed from the pressure, leaving me stuck and forced to reload my last save. I just sorta stopped playing after that.
i mean u could just use the console commants to teleport u back to the map
Shadow leviathan and ice worm are my fav, because of their unique, and the fact how they are terrifying worms.
Shadow is the most terrifying leviathan for me, because in classic subnautica, when you craft stasis rifle or cyclops, all creatures aint scary anymore. In below zero you dont have stasis rifle and cyclops + shadow notices you from a long distance + he deals a really high amount of dmg
0:33 seriously this is the greatest one in my opinion
Agreed with the sea dragon. First playthrough when I saw them I was in awe at this cool dude, but i definitely wasn’t scared like I was with the reaper or ghost. He was just a big fish to avoid, not something to be feared
I am so so soooo happy you put the reafback so high up the list. They are one of my favorite ( if not my favorite ) leviathan in the whole game. Hearing them always brings me so much peace and comfort, just knowing I am so close to such gentle giants gives me the strenght to keep exploring.
The Sea trader glaze is crazy
Wbile playing, every friendly leviathan is "interesting," and every other aggressive leviathan is "annoying," but the Reaper continues to be scary to this day. It absolutely deserved the #1 spot
i Love shadow leviathan design, its perfect, its amazing, its probably the coolest design for an undersea monster, alien or terrestrial, would be scary in anything related to water, movies, books, other games, whatever.
I've always been curious about this: Who draws the stuff we see in Aletho's videos? Does he draw them himself? Get them commissioned?
Whoever does it, props to them.
My list:
11 - Glow Whale (just boring to me)
10 - Vent Garden (same thing, but i like what's happening inside it)
9 - Chelicerate (just feels small)
8 - Sea Treader (love that it gives diamonds but i just dont like its design)
7 - Reefback (just a material farm)
6 - Sea Dragon (fun, but super easy to avoid)
5 - Ice Worm ("wait why is my controller vibrati- HOLY THIT")
4 - Reaper (scary)
3 - Ghost (great design, a bit spooky)
2 - Shadow (best design imo. that hole tho...)
1 - Sea Emperor (rip. best character in all of subnautica. made everyone tear up)
Chelicerate is the comeback king! Glad you came around on the Chelicerate it and the Void variant are my favourite Leviathan.
yeah he never mentioned the void variant
I personally think the sea dragon is SOO cool because they build up to it with the sunken facility and the dead reaper leviathan. After that you suddenly hear the most spine chilling noise in the entire game (and then die pretty quickly probably)
Seeing the Reefback getting all the way up to 4th place has just made my day, thank you!
I still remember the Below Zero beta when they had fully-grown Sea Emperors swimming around the void as placeholders. Didn't know they were there at the time and nearly pooped myself swimming into the first one lol
Nice job man, good to see you back
Thanks merkx! Glad you enjoyed it :)
I still remember my first night at the open Grassy plateaus and hiding on their back for the whole night . Man i wish i could play this game for the first time again
Aletho be like: Aquatic Bowser type thing? Meh. Oarfish with mandibles? Love it!
Reaper is not just a oarfish with mandibles, its a demon...
And he's right for that
The Sea dragon also just looks goofy with its arms just paddling about
I thought the ventgarden and sea treader would be higher as the sea treader is EXTREAMELY helpful and (from my knowledge) the ventgarden is necessary to beat below zero as its the only source of spiral plants for synthetic fibers for depth modules.
Ventgarden would be way cooler if it had more interaction BEYOND the spiral clippings, I wanted to interact with it MORE
It is not. Spiral plans also grow in the deep purple vents. You can beat the game without ever finding out that Ventgardens even exist.
@tjarkschweizer, that's why I said "from my knowledge" because I haven't player BZ yet
@@oreoninja197 That's why I replied. Too expand your knowledge.
@@tjarkschweizer good to know for my BZ run, ty
I genuinely called all leviathans danger noodles when I first started. His reference to danger noodle when talking about the reaper was amazing, I laughed out loud when he said that!
Summarizing every leviathan on this list in 5 words or less.
Glow Whale: Big glowing whale boi
Vent Garden: Self contained jellyfish
Ice Worm: Long horned worm
Sea Dragon: Fire spitting annoyance (Bowser)
Shadow Leviathan: Shadowy glowing mouth arrow head
Sea Treader: HAHA stomp goes brrrrrrrrrrrrr
Chelly: Funny shrimp tremors graboid thing
Reefback: Smaller Vent Garden that moves
Sea Emperor: REST IN PIECE.. err, water.
Ghost Leviathan: Phasmophobia looking friend :D
Reaper Leviathan: "Want a hug? Okay!"
The reefback also has barnacles on its back that you can break and it’s pretty much a limestone and sandstone rock combined
1:59 his hands are infected
I will always remember my first encounter witb the Ghost Leviathan. I drove all the way towards the Dead Zone, and put of nowhere this giant horror came out of nowhere, and I ran all the way back to base. And then I had my first contact with the Emperor.
He forgot about the Giant Squid Sharks. They are technically leviathan class.
They are not
GET OUT!!!
@UNDERHALLSMASKIN-R- technically yes they are when you read the pda it calls them a leviathan class creature but than don't add it to the leviathan class section with the other leviathan, they put it in the carnivore section for some reason,
But I personally believe it don't belong in the leviathan class
I didn't expect my boi the chelly to be ranked so high, thank you.
My criteria for favourite leviathan can best be summed up as "Will it give me a heart attack?" The less they do the further up they go. For that reason the Vent Garden takes my # 1 spot for it being so benign, and I do like watching the juveniles floating around.
You did my bois shadow leviathan and ice worm dirty my man😭
I have (NO JOKE) developed childhood trauma because of that goddamn reaper leviathan. I've recently been replaying Subnautica and everytime I see him patrolling around in that small little place at the aurora I have a mini heart attack. One time when I was but a small child, I was minding my own buisness somewhere around the mushroom place in my seamoth, and when i looked up I saw his terrifying blue buttchin, paused the game and fell out of my chair. I was just lying on the floor for about 5 minutes contemplating if I should lie there, on the floor, for the rest of my life.
The ice worm in the shadow leviathan are still my favourites
I believe the Squid Shark in Subnautica Below Zero is a leviathan class life form 🤔
Squidsharks are little bastards, I love them
Was about to say, is he about to put the squidsharl at second
I remember my first encounter with the reaper and the sea dragon and I will never forget them. I was pretty early on into the game and decided to test the limits. I figured there was no way the map was big enough to where I could swim to the ship but I wanted to anyway. I headed towards the side and didn't see a way to board, and figured maybe there was a spot on the back. This was before the explosion so the front wasn't open. As I head around to the back, I'm mainly above water so I didn't hear the roars of the reaper. I'm looking at the back of the boat when I dip underwater. I heard the roar but it was at the same time that the camera started shaking and the Aurora made noises so I figured it was just that. Like an actual predator though, the reaper waited until it was right up next to me to roar again and by then it was too late. I don't even remember if I escaped or not.
The sea dragon was a bit different, I knew it was there before I saw it since the roars were to loud to notice. It was my first time in the lava zone. As I cleared the entrance to the big cave where the sea dragon lives, I saw him but just barely. I saw the tentacles only and thought maybe it was a jellyfish. I waited for it to come back and it did. I couldn't really tell the size of it until a few minutes of staring but once it clicked, I gasped and paused the game for a bit. I ended up being attacked by it later on and was very very close to dead before it gave up.
Ideas for Subnautica 3
New Tech
Land Glide- A parachute that activates mid air to stop you from taking fall damage
Seaweed Trap- A seaweed trap that can get even leviathans stuck for a few moments.
Moondial- A device that allows you to see how long until day.
Aurora Missile- A device that kills and dissolves the Aurora Leviathan.
New Vehicles
Aqua Fox- Allows you to dive up to 20 meters underwater and drive over the water. Extremely slow on land.
Sea Explorer- Allows you to discover new depths. If you use this to go too close to a dangerous area, you will get an alert. Has a flotation device that can be used in case of emergency to be shot to the surface.
Sea Bird- The beta version of the Seamoth that can fly up to 300 meters in the air.
New Leviathans-
Aurora Leviathan. A massive leviathan the size of the Aurora that sits in the shallow ocean, never moving. Get too close to its jaws, and it will accidentally make you its lunch. You can climb inside through its gills to see whats inside.
Mesmerer Leviathan- Like a Mesmer, but takes the appearance of a massive version of different friendly creatures. The PDA will show it as a strange signal when your base begins to be built. Extremely fast. You might need the flotation device of the Sea Explorer to get away.
New Creatures-
Echo Fish- Repeats sounds of leviathans through the deep. Somewhat rare.
Lumen- A glowing fish that is edible. Found deep in the ocean, as a quick snack. Can’t be cooked.
Sea Hare- Based on the Sea Bunnies. Can be used as pets, but can be killed to get a new material called Sea Goop…
New Areas-
Forgotten Base. An eroded base that has drifted very far away. Uses your data from Subnautica (if there is any) to make it. Can be repaired. If no data, there will be the Bart Toragal base.
Polluted Waters- The underwater trash dump used by Alterra. You’ll need a special diving suit to venture here due to the pollution. 0 meters to 120 deep.
The Meadow- Filled with airtight coral. Can be used to make bases, if equipped with the correct materials. Most fish are docile, but live in hiding due to a nearby leviathan…
based purely on design and not gameplay influece:
1: ventgarden
2: shadow
3: reefback
I love how no-one mentions the fact that, by technicality, the Ventgardens are the biggest creatures currently alive.
my first reaper experience was when my bf told me there were cyclops parts behind the aurora. It came barelling out of the murk and i screamed at the top of my lungs, abandoned my seamoth, and seaglided my entire way back to my base without turning around even once
Boys will be boys
My personal ranking:
1. Reaper
2. Sea Emperor
3. Shadow
4. Ghost
5. Cherlicerate
6. Sea Dragon
7. Reefback
8. Sea Treader
9. Ice worm
10. Vent Garden
11. Glow Whale
I love the Sea Treaders! I always like to put up a base near their biome. They’re fun to watch and I love using their poop in the bio reactor.
My personal favorite is probably the Shadow Leviathan, it has my absolute favorite design in the entire series. Getting your ship caught in those claws and only seeing those teeth is also just extremely terrifying.
That end skit was so cute i loved it.
I love the big reefbacks, they are the some reason I usually build my base around the grassy plains
I think I only encounter 1 Chelicerae; like... ever
When that boop came up when talking about the sea treader I swear I could hear a pda voice in my head say oxygen
I was boutta throw hands with you about the ice worm but being land based is a fair point
Reaper is and always will be the best leviathan and scary NPC in any game, if you played this game and didn't even know leviathans existed in this world, it's a different kind of feeling you get in your squishy little seamoth the first time you see this thing grab you and makes you wonder if it's gonna completely crush the vehicle you worked so hard to make and you forgot to save, just to leave you stranded to be next on the crushing list
The look, the roar, the grabbing mechanic, it's just the perfect combo
Our silent heart void boy got no love, he wasn’t even MENTIONED
The Sea Dragon actually had a very cool animation for grabbing the Seamoth, but it got removed since the Seamoth ended up not being capable of reaching the depths the Sea Dragon is located at to begin with.
The shadow leviathan is peak and you can't change my mind.
He was also the ONLY leviathan to send me into a panic
I really remember memory when I first got Subnautica below zero I was in creative mode in my truck In the void me and my friend were playing and I remember hearing annoys behind me, and I turned around and all I saw was a giant leviathan zooming towards me and me, and my friend screamed at the top of our lungs. Those were the days.
I agree that the shadow leviathan should have been used more but to me, exploring those areas were by far the scariest moments of below zero
see SL
press perimeter
only exit seatuck after being sure that its far away
fabricator cavern is such a trash area that my only thought was "why so shit"
Oooooh, good list!
I love the Glow Whales but I didn't even know they were Leviathan class until post-game. My biggest issue against the Below Zero aggro-leviathans is they caused me more fear than wonder. I loved skirting a Reaper's claws/bite while scanning it, but the BZ leviathans could all swivel on a dime it seems and insta-kill me. Reefbacks were a great early misdirection you learned to love. And of course Reapers are #1 cause even folks that DON'T know Subnautica know the Reaper
Ur editing is SOOO good,keep up the good work❤
I was kinda sad seeing the shadow leviathan so low, but it’s your list so I won’t judge too much.
Considering the complaints about the other leviathans, it is amusing that the Reaper leviathan tops the list.
the Shadow Leviathan at least are in a place you have to go though. I never had to encounter a Reaper leviathan to complete the game.
Sea dragons are terrifying when they spot you and just kind of sneak up on you before absolutely wrecking your day.
I love your videos and as soon as I see your videos I want to watch them.I also love your art where did you get it? Did you make it yourself?
They can try to kill me while im vibin on the quarantine enforcement platform
The sea dragon still terrifies me to this day
There is nothing scarier than hearing one in the distance
the ice worm is my favorite leviathan with the sea dragon as a close second. the sea dragon gives me the fear of losing my prawn suit with every good upgrade
Probably the best subnautica listing i've seen. I agree with each one of the rankings
I think if there was an animation showing a sea dragon dragging a reaper down to the lava zone that would have made them seem way cooler.
5:35 a crab or a lobster. 4 months later:*a giant crab in Subnautica 2 teaser trailer* 💀 Aletho predicted the future
I rather never encounter a reaper again. I stopped playing the game for a bit cause of the reaper. I beat the game some time later but man that reaper scared the crap out of me
10:07 at the top right the ice worm has a snorkel 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I love the glow whale. Sure it’s a bit uninspired but you can hatch a pet whale. And interact with them. Better than reefback at least.
Criminal they cut baby reefbacks
Reefback ripoff lmao
On my 3rd play through of the game, Casper the Ghost Leviathan followed me into the lava zone and was camping the entrance where I had my halfway sub base. I got so mad avoiding this thing that I got into my prawn suit and grappled onto him and beat him to death with my drill. It felt sooooooo good when he died and I had 50% battery and 42% hull left.