I think that for a turtle to be considered S-Tier they should live in New York, love Pizza, and gain combat apprenticeship with a giant rat. They are also at their strongest during their juvenile state.
1Way Road But that involves taking a gamble on the super-rare mutation event. Most players avoid it because of its high difficulty and ability to cripple or even end a playthrough if you fail.
The mutant turtle build would be S tier. Especially during their teen years after some martial arts training. On a more serious note, great video. I'm loving this channel.
Well, this is why they work in teams of four. One is the leader. One is the muscle. One is the brains (higher base intelligence). Then, the last one is the goofball and the one that gets yelled at for screwing up. Thus, they make up for any shortcomings with a high-level stuff. Thus, they have unmatched teamwork skills. Though if any are caught alone or even separated from the others. They can still hold their own for a short time. All to either run away or rescued by the others. And if they can't. Well, they are beaten down and either get a GAME OVER or captured. Generally captured by Human Players...as they are so weird and they want to learn how to boost their own stats to become better. Basically, cheat the game. Which is a big no-no and the Devs swing in and bitchslap them. Thus the Turtles are saved and go off realizing Humans are weak. Though it is better for them to run and hide and steal their delicious pizzas. As really Humans are useful for something. They did build the sewer networks the Turtles use. So cannot conquer or wipe them out. It is counterproductive and really screws the balance of the game. Even if the Human players are rather awful player. Yet even PKers have their uses still.
I experienced a snapping turtle builds stealth early on in my playthrough, im a human build, and when i first started my build, I had been led to believe that all turtle builds went the pacifist route. When I approached the snapping turtle build I took serious damage, and had to be healed by older players who were helping me learn the game. I still have the [scar] debuff on my build today
@@infinitedark6158 can confirm, also some griefers were removing sections of brain from other players *while they were still alive* for a while. would totally destroy the rest of the target's playthrough.
@@3possumsinatrenchcoat Depends on the procedure really. Sounds like you're referring to the lobotomy procedure, which is now widely banned by other human mains. Other procedures involving the removal of sections of the human brain do exist, with some having little effect on the target's playthrough, and mostly exist to prevent player death due to tumors and other medical problems.
7:50 I’ve actually heard stories of human players guarding sea turtle spawn points. Something to keep in mind if you have friends playing humans and you want to try out the sea turtle build.
DeathbyPixels yea and some are bringing them in as a support character so maybe speck into the tortoise build and be smaller and also make sure you pick the captivity spawn point and either be with a human or be in a zoo either way you are very safe from danger
If you choose the Dog main, be careful to not select your region in China/South East Asia, as humans can use the move ‘Cage’ and ‘Neck Bash’, leading to a game. over and you becoming their meal. (Only some humans do this)
DeathbyPixels yeah yeah. One time I was using the human and I helped some sea turtle players get into the ocean so they wouldn’t get a Game Over and would have to wait a while before they respawn..
God yeah that would be awesome... But TierZoo is very good at condensating the info and not making it feel "less complete", like i mean if you want to know more about a species, you can easily check it, you know the info is really incomplete from the start (how could it be complete, every species would require several books to understand fully)
Don't forget the best S tier turtle main to exist. He had maxed wisdom and invented kung fu. He ended his playthrough in a petal shower, simply logging off instead of losing his character. A legend.
Honestly he's either the best player in the game or one of the best also if your a turtle and become order much a master of kung fu I heard you can meet him just a rumour though
i would take up on that offer if i didn't already have before elsewhere. i'm still in the 2 month subscription. unfortunately i've not been able to use it properly. i'm probably going to have to sign up full price when i finally get to it :\
giant desert tortoises actually have pretty high intelligence for reptiles, showing in some cases that their memory of learned behavior can persist even after months of not executing said behavior
true, even small ones arent as dumb as presented in the video, they can learn new tricks, learn their names, recognize people, have excellent memory, but their intelligence level in the video is shown to be the same as an insect's
@@arthur0023 indeed, it kinda triggered me. Some tortoises were tested in mazes and have been proven to be on par if not more intelligent than labaratory rats
Well, 3 years ago when this video was made, tortoise intelligence wasnt very explored so yeah this video is a misinformation atm. Lately a lot of tests have shown that they are in fact quite intelligent.
@@astra29_ctr27 which helps since wisdom is gained through intelligence ×time. He literally brought this up when talking about octopus and squid builds.
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This channel is freaking golden, such a cool idea, but more importantly, very, VERY well executed. Informative and educational, while being super entertaining with cool references to gaming. Man, I freaking love this
"Turtles are the first vertebrate to successfully incorporate a shell" Look what you've done! You made the placodonts sad. :( Well, sadder than they already were, given that they're all dead.
TierZoo is differentiating armor from a full shell, however. Placoderm's plates would count as armor, but not as a shell. Similar to how an Ankylosaurus's armor is different than the shell of their niche's successors: the glyptodonts and the armadillos.
All right I did some googling and I think there is a miscommunication. PLACODERMS, are animals like Duncleosteus, with a hard bony shell. They evolved around 430 Million years ago. PLACODONTS are marine reptiles without a shell, that lived in the Triassic Period. However, I was still wrong, because turtles only evolved in the Jurassic. I was thinking of Glypdodonts, which only evolved after the extinction of the dinosaurs. In summary, a bunch of people in this thread were talking about something they didn't know a lot about😂
I think your being a bit too hard on side neck builds. Their shells are stronger on average than cryptodirans and they are built to to negate their weaknesses. They can stay underwater for very long so they don't need to stay near the surface, and thus don't need to stay near to those who have a chance of harming them, waders. In large and deep bodies of water they are practically invincible. Fish player can't get their mouths around them and crustaceans players can't overpower them due to their size and speed, and when waders do manage to get them, they larger ones are to heavy to lift and can use their muscular necks to right themselves. They have free reign is large bodies of water and marshes and this has allowed them to be massively successful and as such are found on every server except Antarctica and North America due to absence of their preferred habitat and cold temperatures. Freshwater side necks out compete hidden necks in all habitats but small ponds and streams and North America. While on paper cryptodires have an advanatage , they other than the NA players(which have had room to experiment and try new things without side necks to compete with) can often be flipped and not be righted, and have smaller cloacal gills on average.
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I showed my 2 tortoise this and I’m like “look! Your in the B tier ,that’s still good “ -Edit:haven’t seen this comment in while I got a lot of liked and comments lol
Azrajin lol that's a myth, if you see it happen, call up your local scientists immediately. It's believed they do that because they're spotted around bushfires.
Tortoises may not be the best, but i got to give credit for that Galapagos tortoise player, Diego, that basically saved the entire G. tortoise player base by completing the main quest a bajillion times.
This is honestly my favorite channel on RUclips. I love nature, and learning about it, and you do a wonderful job putting it into easily understandable video game terms. On top of that, I'm a huge Runescape nerd, so that a huge bonus. Keep up the amazing work man.
yeah thought this too. Deserved, also no exaggerated ad, just a subtle but clear note that the video is sponsored. Video quality untouched as far as I can see. Just how I like it, a win-win situation for everyone..
this is from three years ago, but i definitely agree. there's a picture of a pelican having its entire beak torn open by a softshell turtle in a park in india.
Beaste Beat yeah, his content is so unfairly only geared towards only human mains. And even then, only those that invested into the [English language] skill tree can understand him.
White Easter the expansions are over time, the meta would still be the same. It'd probably be described as an update to the meta or dlc more then anything.
Depending on how the devs introduce the aliens and if we discover them or they discover us, the event could be similar to other ‘invasive species’ events we’ve seen befor.
White Easter I think you mean if our dataminers find out the new dev plans? :3 However, technically there are 'extra terrestrial' classes available for play. They're mostly microbic players subjected into nature's most extreme environment.
I have learned from my experience in the game is that turtles have The Secret ability to teleport but it only works when no one's looking at them particularly humans
I just found this channel, It was a good, in depth lesson on turtles, yet you made it fun to watch and interesting, rather than a boring video I have to watch for school, it treats real life as if it's some sort of MMO with stats and loot. I would love a game like this. I'm glad my teacher recommended this
The only issue is that for snapping turtle you used alligator snapping turtle,as the common snapping turtle goes for a more aggressive play style,chasing down kills.
Thank goodness someone said it. He kept labeling it just as a snapping turtle and I was confused because common snapping turtles arent ambush predators
Hey, TierZoo, I have a question. As you probably know, snapping turtle players can actually choose from two subclasses; the Common Snapping Turtle build, and the Alligator Snapping Turtle build. Would you say that one build is better than the other, or do they sit in the same place in the meta?
Common snapping turtles tend to be far more aggressive, and will fight other creatures even if out of their weight class, they absolutely body water birds with geese being grabbed pretty regularly. I’ve even personally seen one take down a great blue heron.
It's ruined once you realise he was scripting. Watch it frame by frame you can actually see that he reacts the moment the aggro range is triggered and goes automatically. Those guys ruin the game with their instinct bullshiit.
Yeah, that whole thing sounded super sketchy to me too. EDIT: I paused it at the exact moment that got mentioned, and the experiment was conducted in the 1600s! I don't think that that can really be viewed as a scientific source at this point...
Amy why? I didn’t know science was invented after the 1600s. There are a couple animals that can live without a head for a while. Only to die to starvation because they can’t eat.
This is one of the few channels I follow where I've watched every single video. And I'm so glad you've made this video, I was hoping to see Turtles on here at some point.
I disagree with the low mobility assessment of snapping turtles. While you gave a fair description of the large alligator snapper which is a very slow moving ambush predator, you said nothing of the high mobility of common snappers in comparison to other turtles. The common snapper sacrifices it’s bottom defenses for increased range of leg movement. They are quite fast in the water and very capable of traveling over land, even being able to scale chain link fences with their claws and strong muscles. They have a very long neck that they are capable of fully withdrawing into their shell, combing the range of motion of long necked turtles with the defensive abilities of hidden neck turtles. This range of neck motion is augmented by a powerful and extremely fast bite which can attack targets just over 180 degrees around the front of the turtle. Their high mobility, offensive power and attack speed is supplemented by their wide omnivorous dietary range and their ability to survive is sub prime water conditions. They are apex aquatic predators in much of their northern range due to their ability to survive cold and I believe their well rounded strengths both significantly differentiate the common snapping turtle from the alligator snapper and should place it above it in the tier list.
Agreed I just looked them up, they have mobility, a very fast bite like a snake, and will walk aggressively towards you as an intimidation tactic at times. These turtles are smart, and they seem to have the capabilities to match up with that intelligence. They certainly are preyed upon, but it doesn't look like as adults have very much to fear in terms of things like hawks. These seem like solid A tier turtles even getting recognized as an invasive species.
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Roque Dietrich I am one of the only people that main paramecium. If you want a good challenge, yet also get tons of exp off of bacteria, paramecium is for you.
Preston Alexander I prefer the neutralist Mosquito in a lower ranked country such as Africa. They don't have any defenses against it and you can get tons of XP for killing what is considered to be the highest tier in the game.
I think at the other end of the spectrum, micro-warfare also has an interesting tier to talk about. While I understand that this channel is predominantly animal tiers (hence zoo tier), they might be the one of the few (if not only) non-human organisms (not counting invasive species) capable of mass-wiping out entire species or ecosystems because of their ridiculously fast reproductive rate, overwhelming advantage in numbers, and their broken mutation skill to Auto-spawn new abilities at random. In fact, microorganisms might include the strongest survivalist species because of that. I actually wonder what the highest tier of bacteria’s are, even viruses, though some debate that they don’t count as actual living players but rather the absolute parasitic hacker class.
Virus players are crazy, they barely play the game and just run like 7 versions of a build at once using bots, and then they just constantly respec their builds with different "strains" after they get info from their simulations. Have you seen them play? It's like watching someone use a spreadsheet in order to beat Dwarf Fortress
AdrenalStorm microbes might be majorly op. If speced right even humans can't do anything about them. Even if humans find a new antibiotic some microbe player will find a way around it. Plus given the friendliness of the community and being able to tack on new abilities without sacrificing current abilities those new antibiotics become obsolete rather quickly. I think someone needs a nerf.
Virus's aren't even players. It's a term for fake accounts used to grief those just trying to play the game. Bacteria players can be pretty cool, even helping other players with digestion, but they have the highest number of troll players, due to how easily they're abilities can be used to fuck up even an S-tiers game.
Great video but you only talked about alligator snapping turtles, which are ambush hunters, and neglected to mention common snapping turtles, which actively hunt their prey.
Emma Kinzian I wonder why the snapping turtles were placed into two tiers. Aren’t they long neck turtles as well? How are they trash and good at the same time?
because compensate the exposition from at critical hit (neck attack) with a lighting strike attack ability and enrage ability. Basically Snapping have a free reaction attack for everything enter in his control area, and hits more faster and more hard than every averange player.
Darwis :3 dude the ebola build is nothing compared to the plague before the 1.350 patch, a guild that used that build almost wiped out an entire server
Drunk Joyless German yeah but ever since the 1.796 update disease builds have been kinda meh in damage over time effects and DPS, parasite builds are the new meta atm tbh
As someone who owned several common snapping turtles and one alligator snapping turtle, I must disagree as to their intelligence. They are omnivorous, highly intelligent that don't just lure but can actively take down players larger than themselves. Some of the larger ones retain molbility while weighing 200-300lbs or more.
Haha! Excellent breakdown! I love that you not only went for an herbivore on this one, but a very common, generally non-threatening herbivore. That break from the norm caught me off guard, made me comfortable, and really upped narrative payoff when you ultimately dived into the more exotic and dangerous ecosystem
Yup. Devs totally forgot about them. But I heard that very soon there may be new expansion pack called "meteor hit" some say that it will bring some revolutionary changes to the game.
I feel like snapping turtles should be slightly higher, specifically the Alligator snapping turtle variant. They are typically larger and stronger than regular snapping turtles and this lets them take on some of the top builds in their server. They can bully even young adult alligators around and their weight class and tendency to stay underwater also means no bird is going to try and teach it to fly, or they'll be taught to dive. Only the big max level gators can stand their ground.
There is one problem with the snapping turtle ranking being only A tier instead of S tier. Almost zero intelligence builds excluding humans would be able to use intelligence against them. Common snapping turtles are far too aggressive for anything except humans to even dare approach. Alligator snapping turtles can weigh up to 70 pounds, and most animals are unable to hold onto something that large due to their inability to grab heavy objects and keep a firm grip for extended periods of time or train arm strength the way humans can. This means the only predator for them is humans, which almost never try to attack them for resources because of how risky it is. Almost all snappers caught are released after scientific analysis by humans anyways, so their only predator is humans with godlike hunting abilities. And even if a human were to catch one and try to kill it, that would leave them vulnerable to one of the top 10 most powerful bite attacks in the case of the strongest snapper, the alligator snapping turtle. If you argue that humans are still a great predator and that reduces their tier, here’s 2 counters to that. One, every single living thing is prey to humans, whether it be hunting for sport, poaching, defense of territory, or any other reason a human would kill it. Secondly, humans almost never even hunt snapping turtles and they assist other turtles in tasks such as getting from place to place or taking care of them as pets, which some crazy people even do for the fearsome snapping turtles. Therefore I think all turtles have an argument for a raise in their tier besides tortoises, since humans are not intelligent enough to tell turtle from tortoise sometimes, as well as sea turtles since helping something tens of feet underwater is difficult. Snapping turtles would go up to S tier since they are helped by the most powerful build AND have no natural predators besides humans. If you read this entire thing, I am sorry for wasting so much of your play time as a human, but these things needed to be said. I love turtles and even though this tier list is good, it had a lot of huge flaws I couldn’t ignore.
But alligator snapping turtles can get much larger than 70 lbs. I've caught them hitting that 100 lb mark. Released of course. When you're fishing you can't control what you catch
Well it's their general class tiers. Specific turtles like the snapping turtle can reach s tier easily. They even got the special ability. Dominance that scare any weak creature around them.
Nice list! Only change i would make would be to bump up the snapping turtle to S tier due to their status as an Apex predator in their servers, and their ability to break into other servers. I would also bump down the sea turtles just a bit given how hard they are 99% griefed early game
No really, this is my favorite channel on RUclips - you reminded me of my favorite aspects of growing up - animals, biology, video game queues, RuneScape - each video nourishes my intellect but also makes my inner kid awake again.
Currently, that build hasn't been created yet. However, humans seem pretty close to gaining ∞ evolution points. Maybe you could give turtles some Nunja Turtle traits (bipedalism, high intelligence, very high power), and some special moves (knowing Karate).
Not viable because it needs a ridiculous amount of skill points and way too specific conditions. That's why there are only 4 reported cases of players actually going for this build. Maybe in a special about mutants or something.
Á:/ There was a ninja build back in the day but it was glitched. People did try to recreate it legitimately but most of the time the hp was just too low to actually be worth it
Thanks for using my music!
Thank you for making such a sweet cover!
i remember the music used
, can you tell me the title?
i think it's from Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess but i'm not sure.
i think it's the theme of the woods early in the game.
holy shit when i heard it nostalgia hit me like train. great cover.
Great ambient music!
I think that for a turtle to be considered S-Tier they should live in New York, love Pizza, and gain combat apprenticeship with a giant rat. They are also at their strongest during their juvenile state.
They invested in intelligence. Some more than others.
One of them primarily specced into the "Party Dude" class, but that seems to have worked out pretty well for him.
1Way Road But that involves taking a gamble on the super-rare mutation event. Most players avoid it because of its high difficulty and ability to cripple or even end a playthrough if you fail.
That would’ve been a pretty hilarious joke at the end, but not sure if it would’ve fit with the style of the channel.
Any build that can mop the floor with human mains* on a weekly basis must be doing something right.
And those two rare human Multiclass builds.
The mutant turtle build would be S tier. Especially during their teen years after some martial arts training. On a more serious note, great video. I'm loving this channel.
Kris Sisk wow
And they get a major powerful getting Pizza. Though they subclass into Pizza Thieves.
Kris Sisk but wouldn't they take hits from the lowered intelligence?
Hyperboy Theawesome true, true. But, they can make up for that in almost super human like strength
Well, this is why they work in teams of four. One is the leader. One is the muscle. One is the brains (higher base intelligence). Then, the last one is the goofball and the one that gets yelled at for screwing up. Thus, they make up for any shortcomings with a high-level stuff. Thus, they have unmatched teamwork skills. Though if any are caught alone or even separated from the others. They can still hold their own for a short time. All to either run away or rescued by the others. And if they can't. Well, they are beaten down and either get a GAME OVER or captured. Generally captured by Human Players...as they are so weird and they want to learn how to boost their own stats to become better. Basically, cheat the game. Which is a big no-no and the Devs swing in and bitchslap them.
Thus the Turtles are saved and go off realizing Humans are weak. Though it is better for them to run and hide and steal their delicious pizzas. As really Humans are useful for something. They did build the sewer networks the Turtles use. So cannot conquer or wipe them out. It is counterproductive and really screws the balance of the game. Even if the Human players are rather awful player. Yet even PKers have their uses still.
i think overall the hippopotamus is a better tank. what's lost in armor is made up in HP, and they can peel a frontline of cats much more effectively
They even have specialized support classes to maintain their [hygiene] stat up.
That bite, also. That bite is nice.
I fully agree. Turtles may have higher defense but there's no beating the Hippo's sheer power and HP. Solid mobility, too, especially in water.
Look who's here.
"This turtle decided to not opt for hard shell, this is what happened to it's survival".
Besides, i've never seen a bird drop a hippo from the sky
but without armor it takes longer to regain HP when very damaged
I experienced a snapping turtle builds stealth early on in my playthrough, im a human build, and when i first started my build, I had been led to believe that all turtle builds went the pacifist route. When I approached the snapping turtle build I took serious damage, and had to be healed by older players who were helping me learn the game. I still have the [scar] debuff on my build today
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As painful as the (scar) debuff is, it can be seen as a prestige point by some intelligent builds, so you may have debatably gained something from it
@@calamaribowl8683especially other human builds. The [scar] debuff gives you a hidden achievement called [MARK OF BRAVERY]
My question is who tf removed a turtles BRAIN
Human players get up to all sorts of weird stuff
Data miners with too much time on their hands.
Human mains also hooked out their own species brains during the after death ritual, sounds really weird, can someone confirm this?
@@infinitedark6158 can confirm, also some griefers were removing sections of brain from other players *while they were still alive* for a while. would totally destroy the rest of the target's playthrough.
@@3possumsinatrenchcoat Depends on the procedure really. Sounds like you're referring to the lobotomy procedure, which is now widely banned by other human mains. Other procedures involving the removal of sections of the human brain do exist, with some having little effect on the target's playthrough, and mostly exist to prevent player death due to tumors and other medical problems.
7:50 I’ve actually heard stories of human players guarding sea turtle spawn points. Something to keep in mind if you have friends playing humans and you want to try out the sea turtle build.
DeathbyPixels yea and some are bringing them in as a support character so maybe speck into the tortoise build and be smaller and also make sure you pick the captivity spawn point and either be with a human or be in a zoo either way you are very safe from danger
If you choose the Dog main, be careful to not select your region in China/South East Asia, as humans can use the move ‘Cage’ and ‘Neck Bash’, leading to a game. over and you becoming their meal. (Only some humans do this)
@@benzenehydrocarbon I have heard that attack of humans in that server has been banned by their clan leader
DeathbyPixels yeah yeah. One time I was using the human and I helped some sea turtle players get into the ocean so they wouldn’t get a Game Over and would have to wait a while before they respawn..
I'm dying for a video on social insects, especially colonies, due to their potential rts playstyle.
Just ants could be a 15 minute video. Beetles deserve a video too.
Or lobsters!
Keyshell Ants can be really cool.
God yeah that would be awesome... But TierZoo is very good at condensating the info and not making it feel "less complete", like i mean if you want to know more about a species, you can easily check it, you know the info is really incomplete from the start (how could it be complete, every species would require several books to understand fully)
Don't forget the best S tier turtle main to exist. He had maxed wisdom and invented kung fu. He ended his playthrough in a petal shower, simply logging off instead of losing his character.
A legend.
Oogway
Honestly he's either the best player in the game or one of the best also if your a turtle and become order much a master of kung fu I heard you can meet him just a rumour though
Classic Mistakes Oogway Moment
Legends tell of a legend
This channel is a gift to both entertainment, and education, truely
He’s got a skill share sponsorship! My baby’s all grown up!
and the first one thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven people get it at a discount. mr. zoo cant slip a leet past me.
i would take up on that offer if i didn't already have before elsewhere. i'm still in the 2 month subscription. unfortunately i've not been able to use it properly. i'm probably going to have to sign up full price when i finally get to it :\
Teir S is obviously Oogway.
Tier Z
and tmnt
Polnareff
Lil. Smallfry chariot requiem
Fadhli Sulisdianto he spent all his evolution points to get a stand
giant desert tortoises actually have pretty high intelligence for reptiles, showing in some cases that their memory of learned behavior can persist even after months of not executing said behavior
true, even small ones arent as dumb as presented in the video, they can learn new tricks, learn their names, recognize people, have excellent memory, but their intelligence level in the video is shown to be the same as an insect's
@@arthur0023 indeed, it kinda triggered me. Some tortoises were tested in mazes and have been proven to be on par if not more intelligent than labaratory rats
Well, 3 years ago when this video was made, tortoise intelligence wasnt very explored so yeah this video is a misinformation atm. Lately a lot of tests have shown that they are in fact quite intelligent.
@@astra29_ctr27 which helps since wisdom is gained through intelligence ×time. He literally brought this up when talking about octopus and squid builds.
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And we all know that tortoises can live for a very long time.
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1:22 that lion outplayed his opponent so hard 3000 hrs vs 200 hrs
Didn't catch that the first time, holy shit
He must be a spy main
@@sthenelos1 damn face stabs
Haha that wildebeest player is a n00b
200Iq
As a turtle myself,I can say this is accurate
Bruh aren't u a tortoise
@@Le-eu4bf all tortoises are turtles
@@Le-eu4bf but not all turtles are tortoises
@@lightninglances9178 i dont wanna be that guy but turtles are the ones in water and tortoises are the ones in land
@@ExtraRubble some turtles are both but scientifically speaking all tortoises are turtles
The turtle's only Kryptonite: Some dude who calls himself Shredder
That why they use their turtle power
Even in animal tier lists he's still here.
Go away
Or Kai😂
*Why must you show up every where*
This channel is freaking golden, such a cool idea, but more importantly, very, VERY well executed. Informative and educational, while being super entertaining with cool references to gaming. Man, I freaking love this
6:07 Toxicity level: “league of legends player”
Competitive Hanzo Mains
Well, he’s not wrong
My favorite is "Somehow, the comments on my videos
Angry K-pop stans work too
It's even higher than the Box Jellyfish, which isn't even an overstatement.
Can't beleive you overlooked the Diamondback Terrapin.
- Tough Shell
- Powerful Bite
- Can survive in salt or fresh water
- Can burrow for protection
Or the common snapping turtle
Intelligence is missing from all of them
I would say B tier they get along well in many eviroment , but they are not an oppressive force by any means ,
I wonder where musk turtles would land on the tier list cuz idk
@GamingMint right easily a S @TierZoo
"Turtles are the first vertebrate to successfully incorporate a shell" Look what you've done! You made the placodonts sad. :(
Well, sadder than they already were, given that they're all dead.
Underrated comment
TierZoo is differentiating armor from a full shell, however. Placoderm's plates would count as armor, but not as a shell. Similar to how an Ankylosaurus's armor is different than the shell of their niche's successors: the glyptodonts and the armadillos.
Also, turtles evolved before them.
@@franzkissel1369 From what I've read the first turtles evolved around 220 Ma, armoured placodonts ~240 Ma. But I'm not an expert.
All right I did some googling and I think there is a miscommunication. PLACODERMS, are animals like Duncleosteus, with a hard bony shell. They evolved around 430 Million years ago.
PLACODONTS are marine reptiles without a shell, that lived in the Triassic Period.
However, I was still wrong, because turtles only evolved in the Jurassic. I was thinking of Glypdodonts, which only evolved after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
In summary, a bunch of people in this thread were talking about something they didn't know a lot about😂
Your loyalty to Runescape is splendid! Never tarnish it.
I think you mean plagiarism
I can't express how in love with this channel I am. You do amazing and interesting work dude.
I think your being a bit too hard on side neck builds. Their shells are stronger on average than cryptodirans and they are built to to negate their weaknesses. They can stay underwater for very long so they don't need to stay near the surface, and thus don't need to stay near to those who have a chance of harming them, waders. In large and deep bodies of water they are practically invincible. Fish player can't get their mouths around them and crustaceans players can't overpower them due to their size and speed, and when waders do manage to get them, they larger ones are to heavy to lift and can use their muscular necks to right themselves. They have free reign is large bodies of water and marshes and this has allowed them to be massively successful and as such are found on every server except Antarctica and North America due to absence of their preferred habitat and cold temperatures. Freshwater side necks out compete hidden necks in all habitats but small ponds and streams and North America. While on paper cryptodires have an advanatage , they other than the NA players(which have had room to experiment and try new things without side necks to compete with) can often be flipped and not be righted, and have smaller cloacal gills on average.
1:21 -
Can we appreciate HOW GOOD this counterattack is?!
**Lion briefly enters God Tier**
Pro gamer moment
Thanks to this magnificent channel I now have "ostrich main" on my list of insults.
Bruno Follmann or tardigrade main, even worse!
Sunfish main.
Panda Mains was subhuman
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If there was actually a game like this, I would pay a full 60 dollars for it.
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Angel Tenorio wut
RSh-12 RuneScape 3 yes 😂😂 they ruined it you can legit do anything... but old school RuneScape is we’re it at bro’s 👌🏽👌🏽
RSh-12 actually Outside (this game he’s talking about ) only has animals. Plants and other stuff are AI that’s why it’s called Tier ZOO
@@imdumbbut1681 you clearly haven't seen tz's tree tier list haven't you
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Exactly, its almost like Vsauce's lut videos
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I showed my 2 tortoise this and I’m like “look! Your in the B tier ,that’s still good “
-Edit:haven’t seen this comment in while I got a lot of liked and comments lol
:)
Tortoise is like “int build lol nerd”
I love you tortoise lord
Says the human main
Yes this one sparks joy.
....Holy cow, some birds are smart enough to do a gravity drop on a turtle?! :o
That's just plain cool.
Aegix Drakan Theres a lot of birds that fo gravity drops on animals. Theres a bird in Africa that gravity drops mice on spikes on trees.
Then you have Australian hawks that light forests on fire to lure out prey.
Azrajin lol that's a myth, if you see it happen, call up your local scientists immediately. It's believed they do that because they're spotted around bushfires.
Birds are smart as hell, crows can use tools and communicate with each other, tbh crows are way smarter than anyone expects
Some of the best intelligence builds in the game are in the bird class. See the raven or the parrot specs, for example.
You should make a video on the plant metagame.
YESS
Venus Fly Trap and Bamboo meta
They're top tier campers whether they like it or not
@@kirbcake i heard some have a walking cactus
Why are you my lawyer
Side-neck play isn't nearly as risky as you make it out be. Just takes some getting used to.
Tortoises may not be the best, but i got to give credit for that Galapagos tortoise player, Diego, that basically saved the entire G. tortoise player base by completing the main quest a bajillion times.
That's what we call "play of the game"
Or maybe "game of the playa"
This is honestly my favorite channel on RUclips.
I love nature, and learning about it, and you do a wonderful job putting it into easily understandable video game terms.
On top of that, I'm a huge Runescape nerd, so that a huge bonus.
Keep up the amazing work man.
Forget the planet earth videos, we need full length tv/dvd episodes of this!
He made it, boys. He's sponsored.
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I want to like the comment, but, it's at 420
Broke is no more
2:46 power stat should be increased. Softshells have some of the most nastiest bites ever
this is from three years ago, but i definitely agree. there's a picture of a pelican having its entire beak torn open by a softshell turtle in a park in india.
I stopped playing as the sea turtle because humans started putting fake loot in the water that kills the sea turtles 🐢
I switched to mosquito after that to grief lol
"Fake loot" lmao
what game is this?
@@littletem3765 Outside all his viewers for the most part are human mains aswell which is stupid
Beaste Beat
yeah, his content is so unfairly only geared towards only human mains. And even then, only those that invested into the [English language] skill tree can understand him.
I swear, if we discover alien life, TierZoo is going to talk about a new expansion update
Or a rip-off game.
White Easter the expansions are over time, the meta would still be the same. It'd probably be described as an update to the meta or dlc more then anything.
Depending on how the devs introduce the aliens and if we discover them or they discover us, the event could be similar to other ‘invasive species’ events we’ve seen befor.
If the game is life on the whole planet, wouldn't encountering aliens count as a crossover?
White Easter I think you mean if our dataminers find out the new dev plans? :3
However, technically there are 'extra terrestrial' classes available for play. They're mostly microbic players subjected into nature's most extreme environment.
If continents are considered servers then planets would be considered platforms right?
I love this channel so much
Howard Wimshurst I whatch ur animations
any thing me too.
I literally just thought the same
Dude you’re like one of my favorite channels
I love this game so much
The game-terminology and especially the Runescape bits continue to make TierZoo super entertaining
I fcking love this channel, that sponsor is well deserved.
I never seen a side neck turtle before.
ziljin
Yeah they don't last long
Lyra Black I had one. Two days after all my fishes were death.
Never underestimate a turtle.
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What the frick did I just find
Thanks for the heart! :D
I didn't mean it negative, your channel is really nice!
@@windelritter i need your help is this a game?
@@leddoger5883 I am not sure. I think he talks about animals and their abilities and stuff like it's a game
Mrunaussprechlich, correct, in order to teach about biology
Amazing content
I have learned from my experience in the game is that turtles have The Secret ability to teleport but it only works when no one's looking at them particularly humans
I just found this channel, It was a good, in depth lesson on turtles, yet you made it fun to watch and interesting, rather than a boring video I have to watch for school, it treats real life as if it's some sort of MMO with stats and loot. I would love a game like this. I'm glad my teacher recommended this
Oh btw I'm subbed.
your TEACHER recommended this? Tell them I said thanks!
No, it was mandatory to everyone in the class.
WackySol13rBO3 As if it were an MMO? You roleplayers are pretty dedicated.
Roleplayer?
so glad you got a sponsor
The only issue is that for snapping turtle you used alligator snapping turtle,as the common snapping turtle goes for a more aggressive play style,chasing down kills.
Yeah kinda bummmed me out, the normal snapping turtle players are great hunters imo
Thank goodness someone said it. He kept labeling it just as a snapping turtle and I was confused because common snapping turtles arent ambush predators
Hey, TierZoo, I have a question. As you probably know, snapping turtle players can actually choose from two subclasses; the Common Snapping Turtle build, and the Alligator Snapping Turtle build. Would you say that one build is better than the other, or do they sit in the same place in the meta?
Common snapping turtles tend to be far more aggressive, and will fight other creatures even if out of their weight class, they absolutely body water birds with geese being grabbed pretty regularly. I’ve even personally seen one take down a great blue heron.
That lion kill was sweet! He juked the hell out of that wildebeest
It's ruined once you realise he was scripting. Watch it frame by frame you can actually see that he reacts the moment the aggro range is triggered and goes automatically. Those guys ruin the game with their instinct bullshiit.
It was incredible but but @vicario is right it's definitely some cheating bs
top 10 skill kills
C R O S S C O U N T E R
Lazy devs just keep pasting down+b counters on everything.
My boy got SPONSORED!!! Well earned man congrats.
"Had its head removed entirely and it lived for 23 days." o_0
probably only died cause it couldn't eat
6 months without a brain
Like cokroaches !!!
Yeah, that whole thing sounded super sketchy to me too.
EDIT: I paused it at the exact moment that got mentioned, and the experiment was conducted in the 1600s! I don't think that that can really be viewed as a scientific source at this point...
Amy why? I didn’t know science was invented after the 1600s. There are a couple animals that can live without a head for a while. Only to die to starvation because they can’t eat.
The common snapping turtle could be top tier...crazy mobility and speed, with a similar bite to the alligator snappers, while actively pursuing prey
This is one of the few channels I follow where I've watched every single video.
And I'm so glad you've made this video, I was hoping to see Turtles on here at some point.
Been watching this since 2nd or 3rd video. The change in quality is amazing! Keep up the awesome job!
Glad you got a sponsor! You earned it!
First time im actually ok with my youtube recommendations
1:22 can we just appreciate this lion and his mastery of his arts. Watch at x.25 speed
Never has a channel become one of my favourites so quickly, it's actually kind of scary... One video and I was hooked!
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I disagree with the low mobility assessment of snapping turtles. While you gave a fair description of the large alligator snapper which is a very slow moving ambush predator, you said nothing of the high mobility of common snappers in comparison to other turtles. The common snapper sacrifices it’s bottom defenses for increased range of leg movement. They are quite fast in the water and very capable of traveling over land, even being able to scale chain link fences with their claws and strong muscles. They have a very long neck that they are capable of fully withdrawing into their shell, combing the range of motion of long necked turtles with the defensive abilities of hidden neck turtles. This range of neck motion is augmented by a powerful and extremely fast bite which can attack targets just over 180 degrees around the front of the turtle. Their high mobility, offensive power and attack speed is supplemented by their wide omnivorous dietary range and their ability to survive is sub prime water conditions. They are apex aquatic predators in much of their northern range due to their ability to survive cold and I believe their well rounded strengths both significantly differentiate the common snapping turtle from the alligator snapper and should place it above it in the tier list.
Agreed I just looked them up, they have mobility, a very fast bite like a snake, and will walk aggressively towards you as an intimidation tactic at times. These turtles are smart, and they seem to have the capabilities to match up with that intelligence. They certainly are preyed upon, but it doesn't look like as adults have very much to fear in terms of things like hawks. These seem like solid A tier turtles even getting recognized as an invasive species.
Classic snapping turtle main
Evan Nickols
Sounds like we may have an S tier on our hands.
only in the later stages, otherwise its kinda meh
Renzo You just wish it wasn't A tier
Theres actually 2 types of snapping turtle, alligator snapping turtle is the one he mentioned and regular snapping turtles are aggressive
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My two favorite things! Wildlife and gaming! Thank you for all the time and energy you put into this!!
This video makes me wanna play real life
Saber wonderful game if you can bring yourself to not be salty over the character randomizer RNG
Saber , you all ready are.
What would you main?
Roque Dietrich I am one of the only people that main paramecium. If you want a good challenge, yet also get tons of exp off of bacteria, paramecium is for you.
Preston Alexander I prefer the neutralist Mosquito in a lower ranked country such as Africa. They don't have any defenses against it and you can get tons of XP for killing what is considered to be the highest tier in the game.
The common snapping turtle should have been a separate build as it actually hunts in its pond and is a top predator
I think at the other end of the spectrum, micro-warfare also has an interesting tier to talk about. While I understand that this channel is predominantly animal tiers (hence zoo tier), they might be the one of the few (if not only) non-human organisms (not counting invasive species) capable of mass-wiping out entire species or ecosystems because of their ridiculously fast reproductive rate, overwhelming advantage in numbers, and their broken mutation skill to Auto-spawn new abilities at random. In fact, microorganisms might include the strongest survivalist species because of that. I actually wonder what the highest tier of bacteria’s are, even viruses, though some debate that they don’t count as actual living players but rather the absolute parasitic hacker class.
AdrenalStorm this is genius
Virus players are crazy, they barely play the game and just run like 7 versions of a build at once using bots, and then they just constantly respec their builds with different "strains" after they get info from their simulations. Have you seen them play? It's like watching someone use a spreadsheet in order to beat Dwarf Fortress
Mason K hahaha that was an amazing comment
AdrenalStorm microbes might be majorly op. If speced right even humans can't do anything about them. Even if humans find a new antibiotic some microbe player will find a way around it. Plus given the friendliness of the community and being able to tack on new abilities without sacrificing current abilities those new antibiotics become obsolete rather quickly. I think someone needs a nerf.
Virus's aren't even players. It's a term for fake accounts used to grief those just trying to play the game. Bacteria players can be pretty cool, even helping other players with digestion, but they have the highest number of troll players, due to how easily they're abilities can be used to fuck up even an S-tiers game.
the gold scar had me dead
Great video but you only talked about alligator snapping turtles, which are ambush hunters, and neglected to mention common snapping turtles, which actively hunt their prey.
Solid point
also Coyote grabbed one it was like, screw this! , FTW!(snaps forward)
one thing though, also tierzoo, your'e self contradictory, the sea turtle was ranked as C in your old vids
Emma Kinzian
I wonder why the snapping turtles were placed into two tiers. Aren’t they long neck turtles as well? How are they trash and good at the same time?
because compensate the exposition from at critical hit (neck attack) with a lighting strike attack ability and enrage ability. Basically Snapping have a free reaction attack for everything enter in his control area, and hits more faster and more hard than every averange player.
7:20 Is no one gonna talk about how this bird is a genius and a psychopath at the same time ?
wow We are the least toxic. I know that the comments here are amazing, but still. very kind of you.
mstrblik Let me start instead.
You have nice eyes.
Can we see a disease tier list?
Drunk Joyless German Ebola build is OP!
Darwis :3 dude the ebola build is nothing compared to the plague before the 1.350 patch, a guild that used that build almost wiped out an entire server
AlpacaPunch 999 Lol, you forget about Smallpox. Best build ever. The Kommon Kold Klan has been pretty big since, well, always.
Drunk Joyless German yeah but ever since the 1.796 update disease builds have been kinda meh in damage over time effects and DPS, parasite builds are the new meta atm tbh
Darwis :3 *indistinctive clicking in the distance*
Well you've grown a lot in a short timespan. Well played, TierZoo!
Dang, snapping turtles (and other creatures that use this tactic) are real life d&d mimics aren't they
The way this is set out is brilliant
Awww you have sponsors now. As someone who was there when you had like 10k subscribers, I feel so proud
Thanks for sticking with me :)
Lmao the AGS bait, I'd fall for it
The lesson is: always bring some telegrab runes into the water and use them just to be safe!
Ahreta guess I’ll start splashing then get myself 33 magic
As someone who owned several common snapping turtles and one alligator snapping turtle, I must disagree as to their intelligence. They are omnivorous, highly intelligent that don't just lure but can actively take down players larger than themselves. Some of the larger ones retain molbility while weighing 200-300lbs or more.
Nobody noticed that league of legends player rankee number 2 in toxicity spectrum?
well it is true.
Our comments are the least venomous thing on the list lol
obviously you haven't seen Dota players
Ahem I’m pretty sure competitive Hanzos are more toxic than what teirzoo gives them
Whenever I see a video in my subscriptions I leave it till I have time, but when tierzoo uploads, I always have time
*Any AFK builds?*
any plant would be a good afk build, but i recommend poison plants.
plants are environmental things, also a REAL AFK build would be barnacles
I'm thinking sloths or sponge type guilds
Maybe an immobile build like coral and anemones :/
anemones can still move throughout their entire game sesh
also sponges, mussels, oysters and hydra
Wood turtles have invested a decent number of points into intelligence, although I'm not sure if they unlocked the parental guidance trait
Haha! Excellent breakdown!
I love that you not only went for an herbivore on this one, but a very common, generally non-threatening herbivore. That break from the norm caught me off guard, made me comfortable, and really upped narrative payoff when you ultimately dived into the more exotic and dangerous ecosystem
Hey what about the giant salamander meta, it has been 20 million years without evolution
...or modification
Yup. Devs totally forgot about them. But I heard that very soon there may be new expansion pack called "meteor hit" some say that it will bring some revolutionary changes to the game.
Jakub Mike I think you mean patch 1.9.9 aka nuclear war update, apparently they are gonna remove everything and restart
This is how you RUclips.
I feel like snapping turtles should be slightly higher, specifically the Alligator snapping turtle variant.
They are typically larger and stronger than regular snapping turtles and this lets them take on some of the top builds in their server.
They can bully even young adult alligators around and their weight class and tendency to stay underwater also means no bird is going to try and teach it to fly, or they'll be taught to dive.
Only the big max level gators can stand their ground.
I found this channel yesterday and have bingewatched all episodes.. this is now my favourite channel. Keep it up u beast!
Always a good day when i get that TierZoo notification
There is one problem with the snapping turtle ranking being only A tier instead of S tier. Almost zero intelligence builds excluding humans would be able to use intelligence against them. Common snapping turtles are far too aggressive for anything except humans to even dare approach. Alligator snapping turtles can weigh up to 70 pounds, and most animals are unable to hold onto something that large due to their inability to grab heavy objects and keep a firm grip for extended periods of time or train arm strength the way humans can. This means the only predator for them is humans, which almost never try to attack them for resources because of how risky it is. Almost all snappers caught are released after scientific analysis by humans anyways, so their only predator is humans with godlike hunting abilities. And even if a human were to catch one and try to kill it, that would leave them vulnerable to one of the top 10 most powerful bite attacks in the case of the strongest snapper, the alligator snapping turtle. If you argue that humans are still a great predator and that reduces their tier, here’s 2 counters to that. One, every single living thing is prey to humans, whether it be hunting for sport, poaching, defense of territory, or any other reason a human would kill it. Secondly, humans almost never even hunt snapping turtles and they assist other turtles in tasks such as getting from place to place or taking care of them as pets, which some crazy people even do for the fearsome snapping turtles. Therefore I think all turtles have an argument for a raise in their tier besides tortoises, since humans are not intelligent enough to tell turtle from tortoise sometimes, as well as sea turtles since helping something tens of feet underwater is difficult. Snapping turtles would go up to S tier since they are helped by the most powerful build AND have no natural predators besides humans. If you read this entire thing, I am sorry for wasting so much of your play time as a human, but these things needed to be said. I love turtles and even though this tier list is good, it had a lot of huge flaws I couldn’t ignore.
pretty good
But alligator snapping turtles can get much larger than 70 lbs. I've caught them hitting that 100 lb mark. Released of course. When you're fishing you can't control what you catch
Well it's their general class tiers. Specific turtles like the snapping turtle can reach s tier easily. They even got the special ability. Dominance that scare any weak creature around them.
Bump for a tier list revision
I don’t think that it’s intelligence that makes humans try to pick up alligator snapping turtles. It’s likely the opposite.
Nice list! Only change i would make would be to bump up the snapping turtle to S tier due to their status as an Apex predator in their servers, and their ability to break into other servers.
I would also bump down the sea turtles just a bit given how hard they are 99% griefed early game
Agreed.
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Both the zelda music and this music were parts of major stuff in my childhood my Nostalgia is through the roof
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"The venom of the jellyfi--" Reads the 2nd top Venomous: League of Legends Players.
*Spit my coffee*
LOL
LOL. Literally
I play league but I don't get this comment...
Lol I just saw that on the spider video and did the same
Grail
The ironclad beetle is one of the few classes I think that outdoes these turtles in sheer base defense.
Do you think a snapping turtle has ever bit its own tongue?
IDK maybe
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Why do you think they're so angry all the time?
If an intelligent species like humans can do this mistake casually. I’m sure some turtles in their super long existence on earth have done this.
As a snapping turtle main we do... It sucks.
Just stumbled on this channel and this is the most creatively funny stuff I've encountered in a long time!
My brother just showed me this channel today and I've been binge watching. Amazing content, I subbed after one video!
I think maybe a Box Turtle would be like in between S & A Tier since they have a hinge on their shells that can completely block their face off
Oh man, I wish I could really play game like that. You made something so great, I feel physical pain for not being able to play, great job
Sebastian Sebastian your playing it right now
You are playing as a human
Ummm..
has the second most op build complains about game
Did you just asume their species?
No really, this is my favorite channel on RUclips - you reminded me of my favorite aspects of growing up - animals, biology, video game queues, RuneScape - each video nourishes my intellect but also makes my inner kid awake again.
You forgot the Ninja Turtle build
Currently, that build hasn't been created yet. However, humans seem pretty close to gaining ∞ evolution points. Maybe you could give turtles some Nunja Turtle traits (bipedalism, high intelligence, very high power), and some special moves (knowing Karate).
That's a rumored build, like all ninja builds. No one has ever shown definitive proof it has ever existed.
Mods don't count
Not viable because it needs a ridiculous amount of skill points and way too specific conditions. That's why there are only 4 reported cases of players actually going for this build. Maybe in a special about mutants or something.
Á:/ There was a ninja build back in the day but it was glitched. People did try to recreate it legitimately but most of the time the hp was just too low to actually be worth it
You forgot C Tier which you clearly reserved for Box Turtles and Painted Turtles, the true Median Turtle Playerbase.