Long time poison dart frog player here. There's a few reasons we're so heavily invested in the aesthetics/poison combo, and we went through some pretty wonky theorycrafting to reach this point. We never specced in to poison production - instead, we went heavy on the poison resistance tree. The RES opened up a few important prey options, namely ant players and others from the arthropod guild, while a couple heavily customized storage traits let us steal their poison and concentrate it almost indefinitely. Alongside that, we went heavy on aesthetics - the only way for most builds to prey on us is to invest almost as heavily in poison resistance as we did, and that goes so far off template that not many players have even figured out how. The flashy cosmetics mean we get to engage in PvP during the day, 'cause we want to be seen clearly by anyone who targets our weight class, and that's a whole part of the day/night cycle we'd otherwise be locked out of due to poor matchups. So, yeah. We used resistance traits and alchemy to jury-rig some of the deadliest poison in the game. B tier is right, though. All that poison RES means we specced out of disease and environmental RES. It's a weird, fun, and effective build, but the sacrifices hurt, especially over the most recent patches.
I heard frogs have a small chance of switching builds to a top tier human after kissing a human player I hope the devs will fix this bug cus it's kinda creepy and weird
No no this rumor comes from the player base spreading around the story and distorting the details. When that happened it was because the player was originally a top tier human who got nerfed into a low tier frog. Then when he made special friends with another human the devs reversed the nerf. Players who started life as a frog have no chance of upgrading to top tier human status so there isn't a bug to fix.
@@chriswhinery925 That sucks, I've been a frog main for years and I've been trying to upgrade to a human. I'm glad you cleared up this rumour because I was just about to jump inside a female humans den, you potentially saved my life.
This was a bug during the medieval update when a human prince fought a witch class human who turned him to a frog devs noticed the witch class and immediately removed after them being op and wanted to do an April fools joke about having the prince (A common troll in game due to his riches and on forums) have to be kissed by a human which did occur but took a while
@@iwannaseehowlongyoucanmakethis not really. they're mostly inferior in basically every way in comparison to large weight classes unless they take the parasite feat.
Something about poison that goes overlooked a lot is this: Poison isn't something that the individual player takes advantage of, its that players whole class who does. Once enemy players get OH-KOed enough times by eating Dart Frogs, they learn their lesson, and keep away. So while you may have died and taken out only one player with you, all your fellow and future players will thank you. And your future runs will be much easier. It's like a rougelike in that respect.
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actually, its the threat of "if I'm going down you're going down with me", due to their coloration and poison level, they only have one preditor, and that build literally dumped just as many evo points into toxic res.
I think a honey bee suits that better, cause at least the dart frog can get spat back out alive by the predator. The honey bee just straight up kills itself
Something tells me that TierZoo once loved the frog build and absolutely wanted to try it out, but his experience was so terrible that he ended up despising them as low-tier trash.
1:13 Whenever TierZoo says an animal has a "fun gameplay style" or something along those lines I get alittle scared he wants to reject his humanity one day to become a tadpole
6:40 I respect your knowledge Tierzoo but that sequence was not so much about build as it was just an example of the scorpion getting grossly outplayed
I don’t know... the toad player clearly took some hits, he/she just tanked them. Scorpions aren’t a speed class, and if you can poise through their stab and jab they’re basically out of options.
I heard that one time, a frog player glitched the game and switched to a max level human build after he kissed a human player, idk what exploit he used but the devs might've patched it up already
Can confirm that's an urban legend-- been going through the patch notes and I've never seen reports of in-game transformations like those with properly cited sources.
shrain Lmao,dragons were never in the full game,they were just a mod added to give the old dinosaur players a sense of nostalgia while also griefing human npc's.
Can you imagine you're having a lovely hike in the forest just outside town, there's no large predators so you feel pretty safe, and then out of nowhere boom, poison dart frogs have evolved fangs. It leaps out at you and just barely manages to pierce your sock. It injects 5ml of venom and you die in 30 seconds. The damn frog doesn't even get to eat you, because it immediately gets ganked by a crow
4:10: two dragonflies mating, and a frog suddenly appears and noms them. It's like an insect slasher movie. 4:18: lol at the way the frog just reaches up and shoves it in with its hands.
Sadly no mention of some frogs Scream ability. It's a pretty substantial intimidation effect against lower intelligence builds. Though human players' humor perk often inverts this effect.
I have seen images of those, they seem nightmarish. Like, a habit to swallow stuff, combined with teeth pointed inwards to ensure it doesn't get out, feels like a surefire way to piss off ppl who main higher weight-class builds. And those people can end up seriously maimed, even incurring permanent damage (usually cosmetic, but I am referring to the potential infectious kind), ruining their run for at least the short-term and potentially actually griefing them so hard they rage-quit. Only high intelligence build with solid coop-strats (or symbiotes of them like cats and dogs) can properly deal with this kind of griefer for minimal effect.
You see, technically the poison frogs don't ever have to worry about attacks due to players with even a low intelligence level to know not to attack the poison frogs. So they can just chill and farm exp.
That Let's Play was legendary. Whodathunk a party with a melee pig, piano playing dog, bard bear and whatever Animal is could have worked, but that entire series is one for the ages. (That "weirdo" even got a one shot of his own! Evolution points well spent, team Muppet.)
Kermits only GET their intelligence from pairing with a Human Companion, and it really only helps if they spec'd into Comedy, a rather useless skill in anything but the current social meta. Kermits also have no way to reproduce without the assistance of the Human companion, and would likely go extinct should humans ever forget about this poor green frog. Never forget
I’m a dart frog build and I’m thinking for my next level up I’ll get the teeth upgrade and then try to get fangs. Paired with my poison ability, I could absolutely destroy
As a tree frog, I can say that grip strength, climbing and stealth stats are perfect for survival mode. While water is not the best for my build, the arboreal realm of the tropical biomes my class calls home is both luxurious and offers a fair amount of defense in the form of camouflage. TierZoo also underestimates my fellow tropical class the dart frog. The dart frogs' poison strategy is useful due to their bright coloring, while TZ considered it a negative trait. The coloring warns off predators by informing predators that they are indeed toxic. So by sacrificing stealth, they gain intimidation perks. Not many players will attack dart frogs. Finally, due to egg clutch bonuses, the frog faction is expanding at a rapid rate. While some members of the faction are rare or seeming to die out, others like the Coqui frog and various bullfrog builds are expanding the faction rapidly. The Coqui specifically is helping us invade and even conquer the Hawaiian realm. The frog faction rivals both fish and invertebrates in terms of faction size, and due to build invertebrate builds are often incapable of harming us. Perhaps the underestimating of the frog faction is what makes us so powerful.
its invasive, it was introduced to get rid of a bug that was destroying pond reeds but due to its poison almost nothing can prey on it. the australian government is trying to get rid of them :)
@@niyebread3033 u dont accelerate to infinity. The drag will keep you to a manageble levle. But i dont believe it survives a fall onto a rock. Or asphalt.
@@David-eh9le if it's terminal velocity isn't lethal, then in most circumstances (falling in a normal pattern ie. Not up side down etc) it will survive, concrete, glass, steel, rocks, whatever. I don't know much about frogs falling, though, but that is what a non-lethal terminal velocity means
You talked about the cane toad being so high-tier, but as you pointed out, not only can some predators resist its toxin, but high intelligence predators can avoid it. This is not the case with poison dart frogs. Their toxin guarantees safety, as no amount of poison resistance or HP is enough to prevent death. It doesn't resist counterplay, it straight-up stops it dead in its tracks.
This plus the fact that they spec a lot into appearance to thwart predators who know that the matchup is lethal for both of them. If it looked like any other frog the poison would be useless, but since they distinguish themselves with their bright colors any intelligent predator will stay away.
You didn't mention the bullfrog's ability to delay the tadpole-frog transformation for years, allowing for a huge time period to grind for size in the beginner level allowing for the tadpole to reach a pound or more before venturing to the hostile land environment. This ability prevents mice, large bugs, and some birds from killing newly transformed frogs on entry to land, something which most frogs suffer from on top of an already large tadpole mortality.
James Wesson it’s makes sense tho, take out a big predator that can kill multiple of your own species. So you indirectly cause your species to have a positive increase
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I myself played a Buddhist monk before all this advanced technology business, and yes, it in fact does. It also gives a tiny intelligence boost for the next game only. I tried abusing the system by continuously playing a Buddhist monk for the hopes of an almost infinite intelligence for any build, but it was patched when the devs saw what I was doing.
Ahh, yes, I've encountered the rock/crystal bug before... It was pretty fun to use the intelligence boost when the devs turned me into a rock, I was able to trick a low-level group of humans to worship me as a god as I spoke to them. I have other bugs I'd like to share for the pure fun of using them, and most are small enough for the devs not to care. As a treat, here's one I like doing as a giant sequoia (which should have gotten at least a mention in the tree tier list), When starting out a save as a giant sequoia, you have the ability to decrease your size to be around the fungal level as long as your last save was as a fungus. At this size, the physics engine decides you have the weight of a giant sequoia, with the size of a mushroom. This makes being a giant sequoia somewhat bearable, as no one is trying to cut down a tree the size of a mushroom... I was stepped on a few times, but otherwise, I was able to complete the main quest line pretty easily. I did immediately delete that save after getting my achievement, just to be sure the devs can't pry into my business. It was sad seeing my efforts were in vain, looking at one of the smaller patch notes, they made my exploit meaningless by decreasing giant sequoia spawn rates by a ton.
No but you get access to the sequal of the game if you spec into Christianity. Supposedly the Heaven meta is random generated landscape so it’s infinite and it is also an MMO. Kinda like no mans sky but polished.
Cane toads are easily the most broken and most used Amphibian build. Idk in other countries, but they're so invasive here that every person in where I live have probably seen more toads than frogs and cane toads comprise the most roadkills in contrast to other roadkills in other countries.
I wonder how some of the more…unconventional frog builds would rank, like the wolverine frog’s self damage to make claws out of its bones and the pebble toad rolling down mountains to avoid spider players or the greening’s frog (one of 2 frogs that are venomous and can inflict the debuff by head butting)
Good old African Bullfrog. Could be said to stand in S Tier due to being the apex of bullfrogs, but it lives in Africa, everything there is the apex of something, so competition is quite fierce. It would slam America though.
@@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574 oof ow anybo- wait I'm home alone....ow that hurt.......i guess I'm just gonna stay here for a few minutes *20 minutes later*....i think i wanna have food now...*40 minutes later ok i think i'm Going now 2 hours later* okay i feel energized now I'm gonna be up now *walks to bedroom and goes to sleep cuz it's 10 AM*
I really hope that the devs nerf the overpowered Florida man build, even though it has a lower intelligence stat than the human, the higher power stat and overall high intimidation resist more than makes up for it.
It's true that the poison dart frog could've used its stat points more effectively. However, their reduced camouflage has a very obvious and unique side-effect: intimidate/warn-skill. The bright standing out colors actually tell predator players to stay away thus mitigating the need for being attacked first to benefit from the poison skill. Its colorful skin literally warns any predator in advance of its presence and "one-shot those who eat me" poison protection.
True but he sucks at melee. If you have seen Muppets Treasure Island he has maximum stats for swordplay but can get disarmed easily by a distract due to the amphibian's "Slippery Hands" trait
Without the parasite build, certain virus and bacteria builds wouldn’t be able to spread, which would cause a whole range of problems. While we are working on lowering the amount of different types and some of the more... _questionable_ abilities, it’s proving difficult. Give us one or two more updates, we just need time.
As a human intelligence build, I can confirm that frogs can be outsmarted even with their great stealth. All I need to do is walk in an area where I know there’s a lot of frogs and watch for movement as I go. When I see one move, I instantly lock on to it and track its every move. Frogs will also think there camouflaged even tho I can clearly see them, so once I spot one I inch closer and closer till I strike and catch one with my two hands👏. I’ve performed this move many times and it has around a 50% success rate on regular frogs but a much lower success rate on bigger frogs like a bull frog, but I’m sure those numbers would go up if I used tools such as a net. Of course being an overpowered human build I don’t need to consume my catches for extra xp, but it’s still fun to test my abilities sometimes.
Sometimes you require the big words to describe complex ideas. Language is a precision tool after all. Simple words from everyday life are not necessarily suited in academic contexts and the rigors science requires, indeed demands.
@@ABHINAV-bo2ls ya no.complex words most of the time just increases the accuracy of the words meaning by less than 10%.it just makes the textbook prices look .ore realistic.
Recently, I've been looking into the weird cheek pouch ability that hamsters and squirrels use to expand their inventory, and I find it really interesting. Could you make a video explaining how this ability works and how these builds use it? Thanks.
no better feeling than a new tier zoo upload can you do a beetle tier list they are quiet interesting. for exmple the bombardier beetle wich in my opinion is absolute top tier
@@AbbyGail123 That is just a lie spread by some human players. Originally it was said that you would have to kill the frog either with beheading attacks or a whole body throw against a wall. This was later replaced by kissing because of censorship towards younger players. It probably originated with Ceasar Nero, who was called a frog by other players and was part of the prince class.
I think that the poisonous dart frogs deserve a higher place on the list as evasion tanks. Because of their toxic coloration, almost nothing would ever even try to eat one, so environmental damage would be the main thing they need to mitigate. Being able to reasonably ignore predators is a huge advantage over most species
@@holyknightthatpwns Humans by default absolutely body any and all meta-defining builds they encounter. They don't count when factoring in all the variables for most of these listings.
@@toreadum8ass that's apart of the advantage of being a ladybug main, being safe from most humans. Some humans even put us in places full of easy prey.
ֈ dart frogs only get poison from special ants they eat. No ants, no poison. So their entire evolution can be taken away by a diet change. Then they’re just tiny bottom tier frogs that can’t swim and don’t have toe pads or camouflage.
I like how canonically, in the TierZoo Universe, Outside is such a big game that people make entire documentaries that you have to pay for about the lore.
I'd like to mention that they did find a venomous species of frog, and it's venom is incredibly potent, about 25 times that of a pit viper Edit: the species is the Brazilian hylid frog
frog species really do overdo everything. and it's not teeth, more like nearly invisible spines on its skull. The guy who collected the less-lethal species had pain in his arm for five hours and no idea why.
7:45 I think there is a big misunderstanding here. The poison dart frog did not give up the Stealth skill. It intentionally dropped it to warn potential predators. Because, and this is crucial, being poisonous is not about killing the predator who bites you, it's about warning the predator that you're not to be trifled with and so being able to go on with the game. So you should revise your opinion about poison strategy which seems to assume, erroneously, that it's about postmortem revenge.
Exactly. The Poison Dart Frog dropped stealth to almost entirely opt out of the combat meta save for it's necessity to maintain HP and Stamina. Any combat a poison dart frog build is involved in basically guarantees at minimum a trade and the only build that gives the poison dart frog build any trouble is humans with their ranged abilities but even then the amount human players that engage on poison dart frog players is miniscule. The fact that poison dart frog builds basically guarantee trades in most combat scenarios almost pushes them into a support role for for their fellow poison dart frog players by making sure other builds learn to not engage with them.
I mean, to a point it is. It's not the entire point, but it does allow a fun interaction in the respawn lobby. "Dude, what the hell? I swallowed you, I won, why am I respawning too?" "It's the poison you idiot. I gave you every warning I possibly could not to eat me and what do you do? You eat me anyway. You're just getting what you deserve."
So another thing about the poison dart frog, they don't actually generate any toxins internally. they eat toxic plants and then excrete the toxins! They actually make great pets because of this, they are brightly coloured and pretty chill about being handled, but without the toxic plants in the diet are completely harmless.
I'm pretty sure he didn't fail to acknowledge that. The matter of the fact is, Stealth DOES provide advantages. And with the color scheme the Dart Frog opted for, Stealth has, in fact, been forgone. Sure, he has reaped other benefits, and whether those benefits outweigh the benefits of stealth, who is to say? But Stealth IS a nice thing to have, and The dart frog spec'd out of it in the opposite direction. So saying he "gave it up," isn't at all an incorrect way of putting. And I think the point he was trying to make, is that, if Warning predators is the playstyle he's going for, then there's little benefit to having a poison any more powerful than one that simply causes severe discomfort, because it accomplishes essentially the same thing, with much less evolution points: Dissuade predators from predating you. Hell, if you used those leftover points to spec into thicker hide, then not only Do you have a higher chance to survive the occasional fool that chooses to attack you, but they will then learn their lesson, and not attack you again. Once you spec your poison to the point where it can kill herds of Elephants, Your playstyle starts to become more about postmortem revenge, than dissuasion. Trading is not really THAT great of a strategy (though it IS capable of providing benefits to your species as a whole, provided that your species has a high enough spawn rate), because your goal isn't to take down your opponents. It's to SURVIVE. And, funny enough, it's not the poison itself that plays a part in increasing your chances of survival, but the "making you predators believe you're poisonous." As long as the warning (color scheme) is loud and clear, and convincing enough, there's actually not even a need to ACTUALLY even wasting any points in poison at all. It's good to have enough poison to change the mind of those that DO attack you out of foolishness, just in case. But more than that, is overkill. It's like speccing into 1000 Attack points, and 0 defense, when the Tankiest enemies in the game have 200 Hp, and 50 Def. Why even bother having more than 250 attack?
@@KaizerHuter But they don't get the poison because they specced into poison. They are poisonous because they specced into safely ingesting and storing alkaloids in the ants they eat. They don't actually produce the poison themselves. They eat prey normally and instead of excreting all the extra bits as waste, they simply store some of it in their skin to become incredibly poisonous. There's no actual compromise they have to make to become that poisonous. Thinking of it as speccing all your points into poison is misunderstanding them. It's more of they used one talent point for a useful dietary function that had the hidden bonus effect of making them incredibly poisonous. And we can debate the stealth versus warning colors pretty easily. Frogs have a lot of predators: birds and snakes mostly. More accurately, frogs that opt for stealth have lots of predators. Anywhere there are frogs trying to sneak about, there are snakes and birds to eat them anyway. However, in the jungle, where there are plenty of snakes and birds, the frog that uses bright colors to scare off would-be hunters only has a single snake as it's predator. (the snake that developed immunity to the poison dart frog's poison) Plenty of animals have warning signals to scare off predators, many that can't back that up, but to have really effective defensive coloring, you need to be able to back it up. A brightly colored lizard with no poison quickly gets found out by a hungry predator desperate to test them a bit. A hungry predator that gives a poison dart frog a lick learns immediately that animal is not food and to leave it be.
Specking into max level poison is a very smart strat because it prevents any player from leveling up their poison resistance high enough to be able to ignore or tank the damage. They should be high a tier for that
Yes, when i saw the video i was like: is this a reupload? I swear he made frogs already, but i guess that was just him trash talking frogs in other vídeos. Interesting trash, so they are like a trip to the thrift shop or garage sell, everybody loves some street market action.
@@dantheman9750 I don't think so, ever since the technology patch for humans we've seen a great debuff into intelligence everywhere across their servers. And some even going so far to dropping it completely.
@@astupidlylongnamethatstoolong There's also been a lot of emotional problems with humans, I've seen a couple of humans that have ended their own game because their happiness level was too low, good thing I'm a hippo main lol
@@astupidlylongnamethatstoolong, perhaps it's a perspective problem. Rather, it's not that the modern day human build has lowered intelligence, but that the lower IQ human builds just have a louder voice in the forums
I would argue that if you're so toxic that other players would never dare try to eat you, you don't need to be that stealthy or tough or strong or smart. Indeed, clearly sign-posting your deadliness is an advantage, since you reduce the risk of being attacked by mistake. When you have no predators, putting points in other stats intended to protect from predators is just a waste.
But the problem is that you don’t need to use so many evolution points to have the same effect(driving predators away) and you can use those points somewhere else
@@blakechow8294 True, but some people are content with a simple, easy game rather than dominating the tier list. And that should be okay. Not everyone has to define the meta to be a good choice.
@@blakechow8294 Not necessarily: they could spec into poison resistance. And it’s important to remember their their home server has some serious competition and threats on all sides. If there’s a _possibility_ of something being edible, at least one player is going to try for it. Poison Dart Frogs bypass this by going SO poisonous that there is no way to obtain enough poison resistance to EVER make it safe to eat them, and players who try it anyway don’t just get a debuff, they suffer an immediate game over, preventing them from completing the main quest to allow new player spawns, and thus preventing them from passing on any skills that would incentivize hunting PDFs
I am going some feline next. Don't get me wrong, human mains are op and can have some of the most successful, long playtroughs. Feature creep also made them one of the most frustrating, needlessly overcomplicated builds. And that is before we go into how fucked up and unbalanced the mating questline is for them.
Another point in the bullfrog's behaviour is that some of them (such as the African Bullfrog) have developed fang-like bone protrusions in their mouths to augment their bite force like teeth would. Also, the male African Bullfrog exhibits parental care for their tadpoles (which is incredibly important considering how weak tadpoles are) by both defending them from predators as well as digging a small pool for them to develop in first away from aquatic predators, only digging them a channel to the main body of water once they become too big for the main pool.
*Me on my death bed while my family cries.* Me: "I hope I'm a frog in my next life. They offer...a...a...a unique playstyle." *Dies.* Edit: Guess you could say I....croaked.
Ewan Macdonell who wouldn’t be? Dying was just an opportunity to be able to run a unique play style. You’d family should be supportive of that new opportunity.
They lay in wait, camouflaged, until something crosses their path then STRIKES. I'd say they have a high stealth stat, given how successful this strategy is.
Amphibians: sorry, *devolved.* I’ve lived longer than all of y’all. I reproduce so fast i cause problems higher up the food chain. Who cares if y’all are ‘stronger, faster, specialized?’ Y’all go mad even when given food, water, and a home in captivity. That’s how weak you are.
Sorry, devolved. You other factions reproduce very slowly while we amphibians do it fast enough to cause problems higher up the food chain. We breathe in both water and air, making us far more versatile in a wide range of habitats compared to your specialized builds. Our reproductive capabilities are only matched by the crustaceans and insects we eat for a living, and we are absolutely everywhere. Y’all have so many flaws, you can’t live off of just food, water, and air.
Oh look another meta complaint. You dont have to be a meta slave to be successful I'm currently playing a boa snake build and having a wonderful time griefing bird and rodent players
Biologists: Evolution is a process that takes thousands if not millions of years to take effect TierZoo: I made a video 3 years ago, but the meta has shifted since
I get that it was an attempt at a joke but evolution has nothing to do with it, invasive species and adaptation to them isn't evolution in and of itself, even if it drives evolution in the long term. A species in a new environment that has little to no natural predators can dominate, but that doesn't always last as other species can be introduced which counter it, or current species can adapt somewhat to deal with it, or its population may implode on itself, stripping its environment of resources such that it doesn't allow for long-term survival.
DarkStorn Literally no biologist says that. Evolution doesn’t come out of nowhere once enough time passes, it’s a gradual process, and can be observable even within a few generations
@@ProfX501 Intelligent adaption isn't a sign of evolution in progress. Evolution is to do with gene expression and propogation. Intelligent adaption on the other hand is only gene expression in so far as they have the genes to code for an intelligent enough brain to find a solution to a new problem. The intelligence was already there, it is just being made use of more notably due to the introduction of something that tests that intelligence. This display of intelligence isn't a sign of increased intelligence, and even if it was, it wouldn't be inheritable, just in the same way if someone works out a lot, they don't produce a really swole baby. That's just not how evolution works.
@@heyimanameheyimalastname This. Also, intelligent animals do tend to "figure out" over time how to get through certain defenses. Think Eagles (or is it hawks?) dropping turtles from high altitudes to crack them... or even the example in this video, where the Magpie (or was it a raven? - I'm terrible at identifying birds) is avoiding contact with the skin of the frog and eating it from its mouth.
@@whyamihere555 I'd agree that that could help, but I think they are actually an amazing intimidation build, and should have been higher on the this tier list. Pretty much all builds with a matchup vs poison dart frogs are programmed to avoid them completely. Sometimes they will get griefed by a build with a low intelligence stat, or an inexperienced player. but not often, I think they could actually be an extremely scary s tier if they used their poison offensively simply by purposefully jumping on players, then taking the insane yield of free experience. Of course they'd need bigger teeth and different strats for this, but I think it could work out very well.
@@onlynow8386 id say they should be A tier If they do find a way to inject this venom, they will most likely go straight to S tier At least until the devs realise whats happened, theyll probably just nerf their venom
" 9:23 cane toad addiction is a bitch, I know I need to stop, but the cravings are just too much for me :s All my self respect is gone and I just want to escape. I just need another cane toad..." - Self Sufficient Me's dog.
Bonus S tier suggestion of the Colorado River Toad, they can use their special venom to send an attacking player to a blank white dimension, making them cease to exist, for 5-15 minutes allowing them plentiful time to escape
I feel like beelzabufo would easily knock the cane toad out of S tier, while not a playable class anymore, it clearly shows the amphibians’ true potential
Unfortunately Pacman frogs werent included on this list, but I'd estimate them A tier at least, it's sad Beelzabufo had to be nerfed in such a way though.
The Poison Dart Frog is an exploiter. They bio-accumulate and sequester environmental alkaloids. Storing them up, mainly sourced from their food, but will get it elsewhere. Basically they took: Immunity(Alkaloids) + Store(Alkaloids). Which gave them the Effect of Toxic Skin (Alkaloid).
@@CrimsonBlasphemy Hmmmm. The last stat I could drop for more poison points is my intelligence. Sounds good. *Later* "Oh hey Arrow Frog. How ya likin' your new character?" Me have killing skin!!!!
It's an arms race. Their opponents develop poison resistance, so they have to double down just to break even. That's the problem with poison, you're committed to escalating.
Limey Lassen then what predator was so poison resistant it drove them to that extreme? I think it is more likely the poison it happened to evolve was so effective there was no longer evolutionary pressure to improve other catagories
if no one can touch them then they'll have no predators and that's 1 thing less to worry about, especially knowing how easily hunted frogs generally are
Poison Dart frogs gain basically a reputation among most predators, who see that colorful design and decide it's not worth it. This does come at the cost of the Poison Dart Frog requiring a very specific diet in order to maintain it's toxicity along with the general stat cuts it has taken for it to maintain one of the most deadly toxins. At least that is what scientist currently believe anyway.
Also for poison dart frogs, poison isn't as an expensive strategy as you would think, one disadvantage of poison/venom is that it takes a lot of energy to produce. But the dart frog's poison is second hand and they get it from the insects they eat, so being so poisonous becomes a more viable strategy.
Long time poison dart frog player here. There's a few reasons we're so heavily invested in the aesthetics/poison combo, and we went through some pretty wonky theorycrafting to reach this point. We never specced in to poison production - instead, we went heavy on the poison resistance tree. The RES opened up a few important prey options, namely ant players and others from the arthropod guild, while a couple heavily customized storage traits let us steal their poison and concentrate it almost indefinitely. Alongside that, we went heavy on aesthetics - the only way for most builds to prey on us is to invest almost as heavily in poison resistance as we did, and that goes so far off template that not many players have even figured out how. The flashy cosmetics mean we get to engage in PvP during the day, 'cause we want to be seen clearly by anyone who targets our weight class, and that's a whole part of the day/night cycle we'd otherwise be locked out of due to poor matchups. So, yeah. We used resistance traits and alchemy to jury-rig some of the deadliest poison in the game. B tier is right, though. All that poison RES means we specced out of disease and environmental RES. It's a weird, fun, and effective build, but the sacrifices hurt, especially over the most recent patches.
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Caleb Palappillil he became a king fisher
Also when you get to golden dart frog you can troll so easy due to toxicity
Caleb Palappillil yes
omg is that for homework or are you a scientist
I heard frogs have a small chance of switching builds to a top tier human after kissing a human player
I hope the devs will fix this bug cus it's kinda creepy and weird
No no this rumor comes from the player base spreading around the story and distorting the details. When that happened it was because the player was originally a top tier human who got nerfed into a low tier frog. Then when he made special friends with another human the devs reversed the nerf. Players who started life as a frog have no chance of upgrading to top tier human status so there isn't a bug to fix.
@@chriswhinery925 That sucks, I've been a frog main for years and I've been trying to upgrade to a human. I'm glad you cleared up this rumour because I was just about to jump inside a female humans den, you potentially saved my life.
Yeah idk if I’m into that
This was a bug during the medieval update when a human prince fought a witch class human who turned him to a frog devs noticed the witch class and immediately removed after them being op and wanted to do an April fools joke about having the prince (A common troll in game due to his riches and on forums) have to be kissed by a human which did occur but took a while
Idk why they would patch it, it's a very small bug that only happened once, its kinda a meme in the frog and human playerbase.
“Pretty serious fall damage” as he shows a frog that is immune to fall damage due small size and a shock absorbance adaptation
Over powerd frogs smh
yeah fall damage really only matters for high weight classes. kinda disappointed tier zoo doesn't know this smh.
@@starduststriker8792 it feels unbalanced that micro weight classes are basically immune to fall damage.
@@iwannaseehowlongyoucanmakethis not really. they're mostly inferior in basically every way in comparison to large weight classes unless they take the parasite feat.
Dude, some small builds do efficiency way better than bigger builds. Just look at hymenopterans.
Something about poison that goes overlooked a lot is this: Poison isn't something that the individual player takes advantage of, its that players whole class who does. Once enemy players get OH-KOed enough times by eating Dart Frogs, they learn their lesson, and keep away.
So while you may have died and taken out only one player with you, all your fellow and future players will thank you. And your future runs will be much easier. It's like a rougelike in that respect.
Just be sure to unlock the Danger! cosmetics after maxing out the poison our other players will start PvP against your character
😮
That's a fair argument.
No
your lives! your lives! God is calling you back to his arms! answer his calling✝️
vos vies ! vos vies ! Dieu vous rappelle dans ses bras ! réponds à son appel✝️
“That all you got?”
“Yes :(“
;(
poe_slaw noob
Feels bad man
F in the chat
noob
Poison dart frog is basically the epitome of: "If I'm going down you're going down with me"
actually, its the threat of "if I'm going down you're going down with me", due to their coloration and poison level, they only have one preditor, and that build literally dumped just as many evo points into toxic res.
I think a honey bee suits that better, cause at least the dart frog can get spat back out alive by the predator. The honey bee just straight up kills itself
I don;t think thats entirely correct, most intelligent predators will avoid poison dart frogs, that's a huge buff.
Basically a class with martyrdom perk
"And your entire family"
Tadpole: breaks all odds and becomes a frog as 99.5% of his siblings die
Tier list boy: Is that even worth it?
Tadpole:
Frog: I'm finally an only child.
This makes sense cause tadpoles cant speak English
ThatGuyYouveKnown they speak Swahili
Zinara
ThatGuyYouveKnown swear. I never knew that
Something tells me that TierZoo once loved the frog build and absolutely wanted to try it out, but his experience was so terrible that he ended up despising them as low-tier trash.
Are you using black magic? I gotta go sorry I can’t be near someone using black magic
once you game over go for it
1:13 Whenever TierZoo says an animal has a "fun gameplay style" or something along those lines I get alittle scared he wants to reject his humanity one day to become a tadpole
The Sparrow “I reject my humanity, JoJo!”
@@EndreaiYT mood and also WRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYY!!!
Goes back to legacy server: Reject human, main ankylo.
whale: reject land, return to sea
I’d do it. How can I?
Mosquito mains hear boss music whenever they meet frog mains.
Inb4 this gets top comment
Y do i see you everywhere
your more commpn than justin y these days
Just Some Guy without a Mustache how are you everywhere?
Just Some Guy without a Mustache are you a bot?
I love that Tierzoo analyses the meta but still supports casual playstyles.
Hi
0:08 I love how the frog says "long live the king" but if you slow it down, he's the one falling! 😂
He tried to attack me never could
@seniorpug9563 nm oki know that i
6:40 I respect your knowledge Tierzoo but that sequence was not so much about build as it was just an example of the scorpion getting grossly outplayed
He/she would only have so much better gameplay if they had high intelligence stats
111th like
I don’t know... the toad player clearly took some hits, he/she just tanked them. Scorpions aren’t a speed class, and if you can poise through their stab and jab they’re basically out of options.
Scorpion: _fucking dies_
Us: “Haha learn the matchup noobster”
But they weren't really playing the build right, I like playing scorpion every once and a while
I heard that one time, a frog player glitched the game and switched to a max level human build after he kissed a human player, idk what exploit he used but the devs might've patched it up already
That's a mod.
Can confirm that's an urban legend-- been going through the patch notes and I've never seen reports of in-game transformations like those with properly cited sources.
They fixed that bug a few patches into the medieval expansion. It was right after the dragons got patched out, so no one really noticed.
It's just an in-joke some dev added into old patch notes after a human player told a fictional story in the forums. Sort of like Herobrine removed.
shrain
Lmao,dragons were never in the full game,they were just a mod added to give the old dinosaur players a sense of nostalgia while also griefing human npc's.
Can you imagine you're having a lovely hike in the forest just outside town, there's no large predators so you feel pretty safe, and then out of nowhere boom, poison dart frogs have evolved fangs. It leaps out at you and just barely manages to pierce your sock. It injects 5ml of venom and you die in 30 seconds. The damn frog doesn't even get to eat you, because it immediately gets ganked by a crow
Which proceeds to die...
@@keithwinget526 Enemy can't win if everyone loses.
This post was made by dart frog gang
Everybody gangsta unt AAGAGAGGGHGHYGFHFFRRFRFFFF
@@callusklaus2413 "If i'm going down, i'm taking everybody with me."
I mean, It can just leap at you to kill you right?
I love how he describes mass extinction events as “balance patches”
Honestly it's not that far off
Same😂
4:10: two dragonflies mating, and a frog suddenly appears and noms them. It's like an insect slasher movie.
4:18: lol at the way the frog just reaches up and shoves it in with its hands.
I shoved that dragonfly into his mouth Cookie Monster style.
We see all.
Sadly no mention of some frogs Scream ability. It's a pretty substantial intimidation effect against lower intelligence builds. Though human players' humor perk often inverts this effect.
That ability is only available on certain players, and only on Wednesdays, my dude.
@@trollking6315 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
@@trollking6315 Why
@@froglover4203 There's a meme about a picture of a fancy toad saying "Toaday it is wednesday"
@@benner1320 It says "Its wednesday my dudes"
"frogs have no teeth"
African bullfrog's bone razors: bruh.
Laughs in Pac-Man frog
Budgett's frog has fangs too!
I have seen images of those, they seem nightmarish. Like, a habit to swallow stuff, combined with teeth pointed inwards to ensure it doesn't get out, feels like a surefire way to piss off ppl who main higher weight-class builds. And those people can end up seriously maimed, even incurring permanent damage (usually cosmetic, but I am referring to the potential infectious kind), ruining their run for at least the short-term and potentially actually griefing them so hard they rage-quit. Only high intelligence build with solid coop-strats (or symbiotes of them like cats and dogs) can properly deal with this kind of griefer for minimal effect.
Edit it to say hold my flies
Many frogs have teeth, smaller ones as well.
You see, technically the poison frogs don't ever have to worry about attacks due to players with even a low intelligence level to know not to attack the poison frogs. So they can just chill and farm exp.
Nah, their ridiculous level of poison is the result of an arms race with their only predator, a snake that developed a resistance to their toxin.
4:10
This shit is so funny. The way he shoves the two dragonflies in his mouth made me laugh so hard.
And then he turned into a fucking pickle.
@@oil588 Funniest shit I've ever seen
Ikr
Quoth the froggo: "NOM"
I really can’t believe that Kermit was never part of the meta, despite his higher intelligence
That Let's Play was legendary. Whodathunk a party with a melee pig, piano playing dog, bard bear and whatever Animal is could have worked, but that entire series is one for the ages. (That "weirdo" even got a one shot of his own! Evolution points well spent, team Muppet.)
Kermit relies too heavily on a human main to get by.
Kermits only GET their intelligence from pairing with a Human Companion, and it really only helps if they spec'd into Comedy, a rather useless skill in anything but the current social meta. Kermits also have no way to reproduce without the assistance of the Human companion, and would likely go extinct should humans ever forget about this poor green frog. Never forget
@@ninjathis3009 how doe a baby muppet exist you idiot
Frogs may not be the best in outside, but they'll always be S tier on the memescape and inside
praise kek
This might be the cringiest thing I've ever read in my entire life.
@@antipsychotic451 shut it normie
@@Colby_0-3_IRL_and_title_fights god, the fact that you just said normie 🤢
@@alexi4082 Ah, just an average day on the internet.
Just saved stat points and unlocked a unique skill, “Human Speech”, lets me speak English as a frog, pretty cool ngl
That the next Stat im getting
I may become a bird after my death tho
I’m a dart frog build and I’m thinking for my next level up I’ll get the teeth upgrade and then try to get fangs. Paired with my poison ability, I could absolutely destroy
As a tree frog, I can say that grip strength, climbing and stealth stats are perfect for survival mode. While water is not the best for my build, the arboreal realm of the tropical biomes my class calls home is both luxurious and offers a fair amount of defense in the form of camouflage.
TierZoo also underestimates my fellow tropical class the dart frog. The dart frogs' poison strategy is useful due to their bright coloring, while TZ considered it a negative trait. The coloring warns off predators by informing predators that they are indeed toxic. So by sacrificing stealth, they gain intimidation perks. Not many players will attack dart frogs.
Finally, due to egg clutch bonuses, the frog faction is expanding at a rapid rate. While some members of the faction are rare or seeming to die out, others like the Coqui frog and various bullfrog builds are expanding the faction rapidly. The Coqui specifically is helping us invade and even conquer the Hawaiian realm. The frog faction rivals both fish and invertebrates in terms of faction size, and due to build invertebrate builds are often incapable of harming us.
Perhaps the underestimating of the frog faction is what makes us so powerful.
Damn, not even frogs are as harmless as they seem in Australia..
They cane toad was actually an introduced species and is considered a pest
Australia is like the boss stage of nature
its invasive, it was introduced to get rid of a bug that was destroying pond reeds but due to its poison almost nothing can prey on it. the australian government is trying to get rid of them :)
don't worry we smack em with golf clubs the bloody pests
They aren't as danguerous, more durable if anything with multiple layers of conditional defenses
Playing a low tier amphibian is a lot like playing Spore on the hardest difficulty, but only the first two stages.
Give them a few hundred thousand years and it'll be all five stages.
You aren't ambitious enough! Get the other stages yourself!
Imagine playing a genocide route in creature stage while having to use the amphibian mouths...
@@kikiretzorg1467
Frogs are carnivores (usually insectivore), so that's pretty viable of you can get the rest working.
One problem: most frogs don’t take fall damage because their terminal velocity is not high enough for the impact to inflict damage on them.
So what would happen if you dropped a frog from a plane
@@niyebread3033 It'd probably die of cold
@@niyebread3033 u dont accelerate to infinity. The drag will keep you to a manageble levle. But i dont believe it survives a fall onto a rock. Or asphalt.
@@David-eh9le if it's terminal velocity isn't lethal, then in most circumstances (falling in a normal pattern ie. Not up side down etc) it will survive, concrete, glass, steel, rocks, whatever. I don't know much about frogs falling, though, but that is what a non-lethal terminal velocity means
When a tornado moves over a pond frogs would get sucked up into the stratosphere and then fall back to Earth with little to no injuries.
You talked about the cane toad being so high-tier, but as you pointed out, not only can some predators resist its toxin, but high intelligence predators can avoid it. This is not the case with poison dart frogs. Their toxin guarantees safety, as no amount of poison resistance or HP is enough to prevent death. It doesn't resist counterplay, it straight-up stops it dead in its tracks.
And in exchange, it’s likely to die from any attack. The toxin isn’t good enough on its own to make the Poison Dart Frog good.
This plus the fact that they spec a lot into appearance to thwart predators who know that the matchup is lethal for both of them. If it looked like any other frog the poison would be useless, but since they distinguish themselves with their bright colors any intelligent predator will stay away.
And the poison dart frogs are some of the smartest frogs in the frog kingdom as well
"Frog builds are based around leaping at a target and grappling"
Ah, so they're a meme based build
Pretty much CoD MW shield players.
Sounds like a trolldier
Sounds like the kind of person how picks up shirld and kills you with the knife in CS 1.6
wat?
30 frame start up and like 50 frame recovery on whiff? Ha no
"if the poison dart frogs spec into fangs and use their poison for venom.."
STOP GIVING THE DEVS IDEAS WE DONT NEED FANGED FROGS
YES GIVE US FANGED FROGS THAT EAT GIANT SPIDERS DEVS, GIVE THEM TO US
@@IdontKnow-nm8bz THAT SOUNDS COOL AS FUCK
Imagine how busted they would be. That species would be an instant s-class.
For best use of the venom I would put a sharp barb on the tip of the tounge.
Pixie frogs be like ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ
Poison dart frog: Call an ambulance, but not for me
The one snake that can eat them: UNO reverse card
they would also need an ambulance
Hippity hoopity now your poisoned
Its more like call an ambulance but for both of us he won but he's gonna die to my poison
@@starlight0313 no creatures have successfully made a counter othet then humans gloves.
You didn't mention the bullfrog's ability to delay the tadpole-frog transformation for years, allowing for a huge time period to grind for size in the beginner level allowing for the tadpole to reach a pound or more before venturing to the hostile land environment. This ability prevents mice, large bugs, and some birds from killing newly transformed frogs on entry to land, something which most frogs suffer from on top of an already large tadpole mortality.
Poison dart frogs use destiny bond every time they get attacked
Hey, at least it works big time
It's more like using Counter
James Wesson it’s makes sense tho, take out a big predator that can kill multiple of your own species. So you indirectly cause your species to have a positive increase
One frog at the beginning: climbing
Other frog: I’m about to do what’s called a pro gamer move
The frog climbing was the one that held on if you watch closely
GAGAGAGAGAAGAG this is wonderful! PRANK! It is terrible! I looked in the mirror and saw something UNPRETTY: my face. GAGAGAGAG! But I am happy again because I have TWO HOT GIRLFRIENDS and I make cool YT videos with them! Good evening, love and peace, dear cam
LEEEEROY JENKINS!
Imma end this guy's whole career
Now do a pro gamer move and go back to Reddit.
Is it true that specking into the Buddhism religion gives faster loading times in the create new character menu?
I myself played a Buddhist monk before all this advanced technology business, and yes, it in fact does. It also gives a tiny intelligence boost for the next game only. I tried abusing the system by continuously playing a Buddhist monk for the hopes of an almost infinite intelligence for any build, but it was patched when the devs saw what I was doing.
There is a bug to do with this that could make your loading times much longer as you suddenly become a rock or crystal build as a ban
Ahh, yes, I've encountered the rock/crystal bug before... It was pretty fun to use the intelligence boost when the devs turned me into a rock, I was able to trick a low-level group of humans to worship me as a god as I spoke to them. I have other bugs I'd like to share for the pure fun of using them, and most are small enough for the devs not to care. As a treat, here's one I like doing as a giant sequoia (which should have gotten at least a mention in the tree tier list), When starting out a save as a giant sequoia, you have the ability to decrease your size to be around the fungal level as long as your last save was as a fungus. At this size, the physics engine decides you have the weight of a giant sequoia, with the size of a mushroom. This makes being a giant sequoia somewhat bearable, as no one is trying to cut down a tree the size of a mushroom... I was stepped on a few times, but otherwise, I was able to complete the main quest line pretty easily. I did immediately delete that save after getting my achievement, just to be sure the devs can't pry into my business. It was sad seeing my efforts were in vain, looking at one of the smaller patch notes, they made my exploit meaningless by decreasing giant sequoia spawn rates by a ton.
The Buddhist monk build, allows you to acquire enough KPs (Karma points) in one game, so you can cash out and retire from competitive gaming for ever.
No but you get access to the sequal of the game if you spec into Christianity. Supposedly the Heaven meta is random generated landscape so it’s infinite and it is also an MMO. Kinda like no mans sky but polished.
Cane toads are easily the most broken and most used Amphibian build. Idk in other countries, but they're so invasive here that every person in where I live have probably seen more toads than frogs and cane toads comprise the most roadkills in contrast to other roadkills in other countries.
“A frog is basically a mouth with enough leg to launch the mouth at food”
-tumblr
Fööd
I'm in this post and I don't like it
baha altamimi This is true and i dont like that
Nice
so... a Squig?
"biggest jump relative to distance only rivaled by the grasshopper"
Flea: "Am I a joke to you?"
That was a note in the corner
Magnification 10x:
Magnification 100x:
Magnification 1000x: …ah, now I see it.
Kangaroo rats: am I joke to you?
jumping spider: "am i also a joke?"
Others: Frogs are low-tier trash
Poison Dart Frog: *Laughs in one-touch kill*
African Bull Frog: *Laughs in trash-compactor gobble*
Cane Toad: *LAUGHS IN GENERALIST PLAY STYLE*
*Laughs in French*
Cane*
Sorry, somebody would!
Kermit the frog: *LAUGHS IN BILLION DOLLAR WORTH*
@@VetusDea Thanks for the correction, man
Cane toad: *Laughs in having completely overrun the Australian server, killing all of the native animal builds that spawn there*
I wonder how some of the more…unconventional frog builds would rank, like the wolverine frog’s self damage to make claws out of its bones and the pebble toad rolling down mountains to avoid spider players or the greening’s frog (one of 2 frogs that are venomous and can inflict the debuff by head butting)
I've evolved perfectly to know when exactly you're transitioning into the advertisement at the end of your videos. Its gorgeous
Oh damn you really do need to be nerfed
time to commit another genocide i guess
Wait, wasn’t there like a massive african frog that can eat mice and can literally break you fingers with a bite?
Frogs on steroids be like
@Devilslayer101 guess I'll just get a cane toad then
Wolf frog
Good old African Bullfrog. Could be said to stand in S Tier due to being the apex of bullfrogs, but it lives in Africa, everything there is the apex of something, so competition is quite fierce. It would slam America though.
@Devilslayer101 they are S T R O N G
Flies exist
Frog: *looks like a job for me*
Excellent "MeMe" friend! So funny!
I really appreciate you didn't do the overused "I'm about to end this man's career" meme
0:15
Me falling down the stairs like:
@@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574 oof ow anybo- wait I'm home alone....ow that hurt.......i guess I'm just gonna stay here for a few minutes *20 minutes later*....i think i wanna have food now...*40 minutes later ok i think i'm Going now 2 hours later* okay i feel energized now I'm gonna be up now *walks to bedroom and goes to sleep cuz it's 10 AM*
You again..... :3
When people start making significant genetic modifications to animals he's probably gonna make a mod showcase
Tier Zoo can you make the Tier list or Build analysis about Microorganisms like Virus, Bacteria, etc. That's gonna be awesome.
viruses arent organisms my dude
That’s more of a buff/debuff breakdown.
please dont say virus
I have heard those morons that are running Human builds are getting stomped by a virus right now, so I think that would be fun.
Here's what he said about that skip to 42:30 ruclips.net/video/33kAg_fXxAI/видео.html
I would like to see how you would place the Carnivorous Plants in the tier list.
Edit: Thanks never gotten this many likes before!
Yes, please!
Yes, please!
Yes, please!
Please, yes!
I really hope that the devs nerf the overpowered Florida man build, even though it has a lower intelligence stat than the human, the higher power stat and overall high intimidation resist more than makes up for it.
"That all you got?" "yes :(" "noob" *leaves sullenly*
A well-recorded, appropriate conversation.
It's true that the poison dart frog could've used its stat points more effectively. However, their reduced camouflage has a very obvious and unique side-effect: intimidate/warn-skill. The bright standing out colors actually tell predator players to stay away thus mitigating the need for being attacked first to benefit from the poison skill. Its colorful skin literally warns any predator in advance of its presence and "one-shot those who eat me" poison protection.
I would argue that when Kermit the frog started using iced tea in his primary weapon slot it really solidified his spot as a top tier amphibian
Why does this only have 10 likes
That's a fictional server build, this tier list is about the actual game's frogs
U N D E R R A T E D
Well. He’s one of the pro amphibians now
True but he sucks at melee. If you have seen Muppets Treasure Island he has maximum stats for swordplay but can get disarmed easily by a distract due to the amphibian's "Slippery Hands" trait
“... ever evolve fangs”
SNAKE FROG
This was an interesting video, but the uploader should have used the in-game music from Frogger for this. That was, and remains, an awesome game.
Vampire Flying Tree Frogs
SROG!
SNEK FROG
Snog
“There jump is second only to the grasshopper in terms of relative distance.”
*Cries in flea*
Look at bottom right of that frame
jumping spider, * laughing *
their*
Cries in cave cricket
Cries in bird that can jump and not land for hours even days
"Second only to the grasshopper"
Fleas: Are we a joke to you? >.>
Perhaps it's distance jumping instead of height jumping.
also cicadas and springtails
He corrected it. You can see in the bottom right corner that he mentions the fleas.
Uh duh! All arthropods are wimps!
"if it ever evolve fangs...."
African Bullfrog: Am I a joke to you, TierZoo?
The bullfrog with virus:
ruclips.net/video/lCl7I7png08/видео.html
if you call those weak little bumps "fangs" idk what to tell you
@@TierZoo lol
@@TierZoo They're made of bone! And you know frogs need anything they can get for biting.
@@TierZoo look up what their bites can do tho
I can't wait for the expansion pack where the frogs become humanoid, speak English, use slingshots and fear toads
I understood that reference
There’s a reference here, I don’t get it
@@thefrontline1 its a reference to the show amphibia
You didn’t get that pack? Oh yeah you’re missing out.
I heard that it’s a special dlc that also unlocks a new server zone.
We need to talk more about players who choose parasites, they are so annoying to deal with and some are lethal to other classes.
@Stellvia Hoenheim what
Parasite players are the worst, just camping and stealing loot from better players who have to work for it.
CrownRock1 true the devs shouldn’t have introduced that class my brother nearly got a game over from one of those players
Without the parasite build, certain virus and bacteria builds wouldn’t be able to spread, which would cause a whole range of problems. While we are working on lowering the amount of different types and some of the more... _questionable_ abilities, it’s proving difficult. Give us one or two more updates, we just need time.
David Weigard they’re referencing the movie Parasite-
As a human intelligence build, I can confirm that frogs can be outsmarted even with their great stealth. All I need to do is walk in an area where I know there’s a lot of frogs and watch for movement as I go. When I see one move, I instantly lock on to it and track its every move. Frogs will also think there camouflaged even tho I can clearly see them, so once I spot one I inch closer and closer till I strike and catch one with my two hands👏. I’ve performed this move many times and it has around a 50% success rate on regular frogs but a much lower success rate on bigger frogs like a bull frog, but I’m sure those numbers would go up if I used tools such as a net. Of course being an overpowered human build I don’t need to consume my catches for extra xp, but it’s still fun to test my abilities sometimes.
Okay haha funny but man’s calling himself intelligent 💀
@@Jesus-vi4it haha funny but man calls himself jesus 🤣
@@chillibomb my real name is Jesus 💀🗿🗿🗿
@@chillibomb It's a real name. Tell me you never learned about Hispanic people without telling me you never learned about Hispanic people.
Bullfrogs are strong and broke out of my hands
I've heard there was a modded "Jurassic" server where they tried bringing back saurian builds by adding code from frogs.
Don't you mean adding saurian code to frogs? And why frogs, since birds are more closely related?
SardonicHarlequin r/woosh?
I've seen the reviews of the server not verry realistic.
dude, can i get the IP i wanna join
good one
Ah yes education in the best form:
gaming language and without any big words.
Sometimes you require the big words to describe complex ideas. Language is a precision tool after all. Simple words from everyday life are not necessarily suited in academic contexts and the rigors science requires, indeed demands.
@@ABHINAV-bo2ls ya no.complex words most of the time just increases the accuracy of the words meaning by less than 10%.it just makes the textbook prices look .ore realistic.
Mfw Khan writes all of that while butchering the English language like it’s a pig
*Top Tier Frog:*
1. That Villain from Kung Fu Hustle
Duchi yoooooo
Yay Duchi!
you forgot god damn dps lucios
You forgot the villain in Flushed Away.
And you forgot about Tsuyu from MHA
Recently, I've been looking into the weird cheek pouch ability that hamsters and squirrels use to expand their inventory, and I find it really interesting. Could you make a video explaining how this ability works and how these builds use it?
Thanks.
Imagine an actual RPG with every living being
this will be my goal while i learn code
Why imagine? Just go fight your local pond
Humans OP af.
@@SuperNintendawg but u need the power of friendship
You mean real life?
no better feeling than a new tier zoo upload
can you do a beetle tier list they are quiet interesting. for exmple the bombardier beetle wich in my opinion is absolute top tier
I was a frog main once, but then the chemicals in the water turned me gay.
You said quiet instead of quite
Tiger beetle is another good high tier choice. Highest mobility of any insect
@@manitobant6738 Dragonfly says hello :] But also yes, tiger beetles are awesome .
@@e-goose2473 Brooo, I can relate 😭😭😭😤😤😤👌👌👌
You forgot to mention a bug that causes some frogs to turn into humans when a human uses the kiss emote on it
U forgot the human player gotta have the “princess” trait or the bug turns the human player into a frog themselves. Have they fixed it yet?
@@AbbyGail123
That is just a lie spread by some human players.
Originally it was said that you would have to kill the frog either with beheading attacks or a whole body throw against a wall. This was later replaced by kissing because of censorship towards younger players.
It probably originated with Ceasar Nero, who was called a frog by other players and was part of the prince class.
That's a scam invented by perverts who are trying to get free kisses. Don't fall for it.
#meToo #believeAllFrogs
TODADDUFO
I'm surprised that he did not mention the "hibernate inside a rock" exploit that some frogs and toads have used to avoid nerf patches.
Devs should decrease the strength of rocks during patches. It makes smaller factions able to avoid nerfs while larger factions are unable to escape.
'The Cane Toad'
Australia: [shivers]
Druggies: 👀
I love the RuneScape sounds, it's like getting an IV of straight nostalgia.
I think that the poisonous dart frogs deserve a higher place on the list as evasion tanks. Because of their toxic coloration, almost nothing would ever even try to eat one, so environmental damage would be the main thing they need to mitigate. Being able to reasonably ignore predators is a huge advantage over most species
Well they do have the problem that resourceful human players sometime harvest them for their poison, which is a pretty rough predator to have
@@holyknightthatpwns Humans by default absolutely body any and all meta-defining builds they encounter. They don't count when factoring in all the variables for most of these listings.
Doesn't that always fail against opponents whose screens are stuck in dark mode, though?
@@toreadum8ass that's apart of the advantage of being a ladybug main, being safe from most humans. Some humans even put us in places full of easy prey.
ֈ dart frogs only get poison from special ants they eat. No ants, no poison. So their entire evolution can be taken away by a diet change. Then they’re just tiny bottom tier frogs that can’t swim and don’t have toe pads or camouflage.
I like how canonically, in the TierZoo Universe, Outside is such a big game that people make entire documentaries that you have to pay for about the lore.
I'd like to mention that they did find a venomous species of frog, and it's venom is incredibly potent, about 25 times that of a pit viper
Edit: the species is the Brazilian hylid frog
A frog with teeth...
frog species really do overdo everything. and it's not teeth, more like nearly invisible spines on its skull. The guy who collected the less-lethal species had pain in his arm for five hours and no idea why.
Thank you for the information, I've been playing in this server for a while and constantly interact with toads and frogs, I'll be carefull from now on
Bruh they got the most venomous spider class as well. That server is something else
Normies: invasive species
TierZoo: top tier
*New Game +
7:45 I think there is a big misunderstanding here. The poison dart frog did not give up the Stealth skill. It intentionally dropped it to warn potential predators. Because, and this is crucial, being poisonous is not about killing the predator who bites you, it's about warning the predator that you're not to be trifled with and so being able to go on with the game.
So you should revise your opinion about poison strategy which seems to assume, erroneously, that it's about postmortem revenge.
Exactly. The Poison Dart Frog dropped stealth to almost entirely opt out of the combat meta save for it's necessity to maintain HP and Stamina. Any combat a poison dart frog build is involved in basically guarantees at minimum a trade and the only build that gives the poison dart frog build any trouble is humans with their ranged abilities but even then the amount human players that engage on poison dart frog players is miniscule. The fact that poison dart frog builds basically guarantee trades in most combat scenarios almost pushes them into a support role for for their fellow poison dart frog players by making sure other builds learn to not engage with them.
I mean, to a point it is. It's not the entire point, but it does allow a fun interaction in the respawn lobby. "Dude, what the hell? I swallowed you, I won, why am I respawning too?" "It's the poison you idiot. I gave you every warning I possibly could not to eat me and what do you do? You eat me anyway. You're just getting what you deserve."
So another thing about the poison dart frog, they don't actually generate any toxins internally. they eat toxic plants and then excrete the toxins! They actually make great pets because of this, they are brightly coloured and pretty chill about being handled, but without the toxic plants in the diet are completely harmless.
I'm pretty sure he didn't fail to acknowledge that.
The matter of the fact is, Stealth DOES provide advantages. And with the color scheme the Dart Frog opted for, Stealth has, in fact, been forgone.
Sure, he has reaped other benefits, and whether those benefits outweigh the benefits of stealth, who is to say? But Stealth IS a nice thing to have, and The dart frog spec'd out of it in the opposite direction. So saying he "gave it up," isn't at all an incorrect way of putting.
And I think the point he was trying to make, is that, if Warning predators is the playstyle he's going for, then there's little benefit to having a poison any more powerful than one that simply causes severe discomfort, because it accomplishes essentially the same thing, with much less evolution points: Dissuade predators from predating you. Hell, if you used those leftover points to spec into thicker hide, then not only Do you have a higher chance to survive the occasional fool that chooses to attack you, but they will then learn their lesson, and not attack you again. Once you spec your poison to the point where it can kill herds of Elephants, Your playstyle starts to become more about postmortem revenge, than dissuasion.
Trading is not really THAT great of a strategy (though it IS capable of providing benefits to your species as a whole, provided that your species has a high enough spawn rate), because your goal isn't to take down your opponents. It's to SURVIVE. And, funny enough, it's not the poison itself that plays a part in increasing your chances of survival, but the "making you predators believe you're poisonous."
As long as the warning (color scheme) is loud and clear, and convincing enough, there's actually not even a need to ACTUALLY even wasting any points in poison at all. It's good to have enough poison to change the mind of those that DO attack you out of foolishness, just in case. But more than that, is overkill.
It's like speccing into 1000 Attack points, and 0 defense, when the Tankiest enemies in the game have 200 Hp, and 50 Def. Why even bother having more than 250 attack?
@@KaizerHuter But they don't get the poison because they specced into poison. They are poisonous because they specced into safely ingesting and storing alkaloids in the ants they eat. They don't actually produce the poison themselves. They eat prey normally and instead of excreting all the extra bits as waste, they simply store some of it in their skin to become incredibly poisonous.
There's no actual compromise they have to make to become that poisonous. Thinking of it as speccing all your points into poison is misunderstanding them. It's more of they used one talent point for a useful dietary function that had the hidden bonus effect of making them incredibly poisonous.
And we can debate the stealth versus warning colors pretty easily. Frogs have a lot of predators: birds and snakes mostly. More accurately, frogs that opt for stealth have lots of predators. Anywhere there are frogs trying to sneak about, there are snakes and birds to eat them anyway. However, in the jungle, where there are plenty of snakes and birds, the frog that uses bright colors to scare off would-be hunters only has a single snake as it's predator. (the snake that developed immunity to the poison dart frog's poison) Plenty of animals have warning signals to scare off predators, many that can't back that up, but to have really effective defensive coloring, you need to be able to back it up. A brightly colored lizard with no poison quickly gets found out by a hungry predator desperate to test them a bit. A hungry predator that gives a poison dart frog a lick learns immediately that animal is not food and to leave it be.
Specking into max level poison is a very smart strat because it prevents any player from leveling up their poison resistance high enough to be able to ignore or tank the damage. They should be high a tier for that
Before
Tier zoo: "amphibians are trash"
After
Tier zoo: "amphibians are absolutely garbage, but their roleplay is Nice, I guess..."
Amphibians are interesting trash
Yes, when i saw the video i was like: is this a reupload? I swear he made frogs already, but i guess that was just him trash talking frogs in other vídeos.
Interesting trash, so they are like a trip to the thrift shop or garage sell, everybody loves some street market action.
@@fernandotrevinocastro1018 He just rips apart Toxic Dart Frog's play style while talking every venom/toxic user
amphibians are for top tier players that have gotten bored after maxing out the game and want interesting gameplay
tsundere tz
"Your human build is low tier trash" is a valid insult, change my mind.
No were litterraly the most op build in the world
@@dantheman9750 I don't think so, ever since the technology patch for humans we've seen a great debuff into intelligence everywhere across their servers. And some even going so far to dropping it completely.
@@astupidlylongnamethatstoolong There's also been a lot of emotional problems with humans, I've seen a couple of humans that have ended their own game because their happiness level was too low, good thing I'm a hippo main lol
@DaFoRk_Zen 16 if you’re going to comment on a thread about human intelligence please use a proofreader.
Your comment burns
@@astupidlylongnamethatstoolong, perhaps it's a perspective problem. Rather, it's not that the modern day human build has lowered intelligence, but that the lower IQ human builds just have a louder voice in the forums
Parents: Life isn't a video game, grow up
TierZoo: *Hold my Switch.*
Underrated comment.
Well Hello there.
Life isn't just a video game. Life is an audio-video-olfacto-tactilo-gustatory game and this is already a simplification.
It's more like this:
Wife: "Life isn't a video game"
TierZoo: "Hold the switch that your boyfriend bought me."
I would argue that if you're so toxic that other players would never dare try to eat you, you don't need to be that stealthy or tough or strong or smart. Indeed, clearly sign-posting your deadliness is an advantage, since you reduce the risk of being attacked by mistake.
When you have no predators, putting points in other stats intended to protect from predators is just a waste.
But the problem is that you don’t need to use so many evolution points to have the same effect(driving predators away) and you can use those points somewhere else
@@blakechow8294 True, but some people are content with a simple, easy game rather than dominating the tier list. And that should be okay. Not everyone has to define the meta to be a good choice.
@@blakechow8294
Not necessarily: they could spec into poison resistance. And it’s important to remember their their home server has some serious competition and threats on all sides. If there’s a _possibility_ of something being edible, at least one player is going to try for it.
Poison Dart Frogs bypass this by going SO poisonous that there is no way to obtain enough poison resistance to EVER make it safe to eat them, and players who try it anyway don’t just get a debuff, they suffer an immediate game over, preventing them from completing the main quest to allow new player spawns, and thus preventing them from passing on any skills that would incentivize hunting PDFs
Imagine dying and seeing a choose next player screen
A Person or you are just on a gaming console and realize that your entire lifetime was just a multiplayer game that lasted a second in reality
You have to wait in a queue first
What if you get hit with an error while choosing your next character?
I am going some feline next. Don't get me wrong, human mains are op and can have some of the most successful, long playtroughs. Feature creep also made them one of the most frustrating, needlessly overcomplicated builds. And that is before we go into how fucked up and unbalanced the mating questline is for them.
-New game
-Continue
-Save & Quit
Us: Consistent Uploads Please
TierZoo: *YOU GET THEM WHEN YOU GET THEM*
Zach Johnson true. so true.
Can't rush quality 😌
inconsistent Uploads for quality content, a small price to pay for salvation..
You can't rush videos like these
Next video after Coronavirus Ends
Tier zoo makes me wonder if when we die, instead of going to heaven, we just see a street fighter choose your character screen but with animals.
Another point in the bullfrog's behaviour is that some of them (such as the African Bullfrog) have developed fang-like bone protrusions in their mouths to augment their bite force like teeth would.
Also, the male African Bullfrog exhibits parental care for their tadpoles (which is incredibly important considering how weak tadpoles are) by both defending them from predators as well as digging a small pool for them to develop in first away from aquatic predators, only digging them a channel to the main body of water once they become too big for the main pool.
*Me on my death bed while my family cries.*
Me: "I hope I'm a frog in my next life. They offer...a...a...a unique playstyle."
*Dies.*
Edit: Guess you could say I....croaked.
If your in the half a percent of frogs that make it to the adult stage
@@bradenwelch3261 only If this rate keeps that way with the ongoing patches
Hold this W. Funniest comment I've seen yet
My family wouldn't be crying. They would be happy
Ewan Macdonell who wouldn’t be? Dying was just an opportunity to be able to run a unique play style. You’d family should be supportive of that new opportunity.
*Top Tier Frogs:*
- Tsuyu Asui (Froppy)
- The Beast (That villain from Kung Fu Hustle)
- Kermit
Duchi what about PePe
Kermit can easily counter both frogs, you noob
@@ioqplays5366 pepe ascended long ago
Duchi are you joking? Kermit and Pepe are ten times better then your “floppy”
John Plushyverse you must be high Kermit can 1v1 any frog build using its new perk called “gun”
He should’ve talked about the burrowing builds like Pac-Man frogs
Jizz true
Pac-Man frogs are MEAN!
They're like smaller bullfrogs they eat everything!
They lay in wait, camouflaged, until something crosses their path then STRIKES. I'd say they have a high stealth stat, given how successful this strategy is.
I think they would be in A-
Other factions: Amphibians are so weak!
Amphibians: But you all evolved from me
Other factions: _exactly_
Amphibians: sorry, *devolved.*
I’ve lived longer than all of y’all. I reproduce so fast i cause problems higher up the food chain. Who cares if y’all are ‘stronger, faster, specialized?’ Y’all go mad even when given food, water, and a home in captivity. That’s how weak you are.
Sorry, devolved. You other factions reproduce very slowly while we amphibians do it fast enough to cause problems higher up the food chain. We breathe in both water and air, making us far more versatile in a wide range of habitats compared to your specialized builds. Our reproductive capabilities are only matched by the crustaceans and insects we eat for a living, and we are absolutely everywhere. Y’all have so many flaws, you can’t live off of just food, water, and air.
I stopped playing after humans were added to the game
coward
I usually play the abyssal servers to avoid them but they’re spreading there too
Were you a terror bird main?
Oh look another meta complaint. You dont have to be a meta slave to be successful I'm currently playing a boa snake build and having a wonderful time griefing bird and rodent players
Some humans are afraid of disgusting slimy things like bugs or frogs so you can play as a frog it's a terrible match up for humans so use the frog man
Biologists: Evolution is a process that takes thousands if not millions of years to take effect
TierZoo: I made a video 3 years ago, but the meta has shifted since
The Climate Change Balance Pack that the human main weirdly glitched into the map has been speeding up the competition for best build
I get that it was an attempt at a joke but evolution has nothing to do with it, invasive species and adaptation to them isn't evolution in and of itself, even if it drives evolution in the long term. A species in a new environment that has little to no natural predators can dominate, but that doesn't always last as other species can be introduced which counter it, or current species can adapt somewhat to deal with it, or its population may implode on itself, stripping its environment of resources such that it doesn't allow for long-term survival.
DarkStorn Literally no biologist says that. Evolution doesn’t come out of nowhere once enough time passes, it’s a gradual process, and can be observable even within a few generations
@@ProfX501 Intelligent adaption isn't a sign of evolution in progress. Evolution is to do with gene expression and propogation. Intelligent adaption on the other hand is only gene expression in so far as they have the genes to code for an intelligent enough brain to find a solution to a new problem.
The intelligence was already there, it is just being made use of more notably due to the introduction of something that tests that intelligence. This display of intelligence isn't a sign of increased intelligence, and even if it was, it wouldn't be inheritable, just in the same way if someone works out a lot, they don't produce a really swole baby. That's just not how evolution works.
@@heyimanameheyimalastname This. Also, intelligent animals do tend to "figure out" over time how to get through certain defenses. Think Eagles (or is it hawks?) dropping turtles from high altitudes to crack them... or even the example in this video, where the Magpie (or was it a raven? - I'm terrible at identifying birds) is avoiding contact with the skin of the frog and eating it from its mouth.
Community: Tanks are the best builds in the game! They are nearly impossible to KO!
Poison dart frog: I'm about to end this man's whole career
They really need to spec into a way to apply their toxin offensively (fangs or maybe something like the "jellyfish method").
@@whyamihere555 I'd agree that that could help, but I think they are actually an amazing intimidation build, and should have been higher on the this tier list. Pretty much all builds with a matchup vs poison dart frogs are programmed to avoid them completely. Sometimes they will get griefed by a build with a low intelligence stat, or an inexperienced player. but not often, I think they could actually be an extremely scary s tier if they used their poison offensively simply by purposefully jumping on players, then taking the insane yield of free experience. Of course they'd need bigger teeth and different strats for this, but I think it could work out very well.
@@onlynow8386 id say they should be A tier
If they do find a way to inject this venom, they will most likely go straight to S tier
At least until the devs realise whats happened, theyll probably just nerf their venom
Those are counter types
It counters some builds in the game
@@onlynow8386 human mains can use them to add a poison debuff to their weapons
A fanged-tree frog would be terrifying. One small bite from a small leaping boy and you're absolutely done.
" 9:23 cane toad addiction is a bitch, I know I need to stop, but the cravings are just too much for me :s All my self respect is gone and I just want to escape. I just need another cane toad..."
- Self Sufficient Me's dog.
Theory: we actually live in a video game, and tier zoo is a dev that’s joined the game to monitor and give us tutorials.
Does this mean he is God? 🤔
Person1 he’s just one of the devs
Person1
No, but he is the angels tho
@@basiccanadian3229 no
He just reads many ecology articles and studies a lot
r/wooosh and to myself:r/thisisnotreddit
**Sees new TierZoo video and clicks**
**Immediate Lion King Reference**
- One of the many reasons I love this channel
Bonus S tier suggestion of the Colorado River Toad, they can use their special venom to send an attacking player to a blank white dimension, making them cease to exist, for 5-15 minutes allowing them plentiful time to escape
I feel like beelzabufo would easily knock the cane toad out of S tier, while not a playable class anymore, it clearly shows the amphibians’ true potential
I was saying that in my head the whole time lmao beelzabufo would be broken in today’s meta
Unfortunately Pacman frogs werent included on this list, but I'd estimate them A tier at least, it's sad Beelzabufo had to be nerfed in such a way though.
even if it's my spirit animal and my pfp, it undoubtedly would've gotten bodied by dinosaurs
@@bigchungus6853 Sus jerma?
Maining the dart frog is hard at times, but killing an overconfident human build is so satisfying.
When that black ops music comes on, you know we getting into high tier business.
That eyewitness discovery music just unlocked a brief segment of the 90s I nearly forgot about. Thanks for that
Creator: How many poison points do you want?
Poison dart Frog: YES
The Poison Dart Frog is an exploiter.
They bio-accumulate and sequester environmental alkaloids. Storing them up, mainly sourced from their food, but will get it elsewhere. Basically they took: Immunity(Alkaloids) + Store(Alkaloids). Which gave them the Effect of Toxic Skin (Alkaloid).
@@CrimsonBlasphemy
STILL SUCKS LOL
@AleNoConstancy why is your comment so funny to me? Why
@@CrimsonBlasphemy Hmmmm. The last stat I could drop for more poison points is my intelligence. Sounds good.
*Later*
"Oh hey Arrow Frog. How ya likin' your new character?"
Me have killing skin!!!!
AleNoConstancy humans are too pay to win
I prefer: "What are you doing my son"
"succeeding you, father"
Ah, I see someone's a warcraft fan
The hunt was over before it had begun.
Bread boys?
The hyper-toxicity of poison dart frogs seems like an interesting evolutionary quandary. What do they gain in the scheme of natural selection?
It's an arms race. Their opponents develop poison resistance, so they have to double down just to break even. That's the problem with poison, you're committed to escalating.
Limey Lassen then what predator was so poison resistant it drove them to that extreme? I think it is more likely the poison it happened to evolve was so effective there was no longer evolutionary pressure to improve other catagories
if no one can touch them then they'll have no predators and that's 1 thing less to worry about, especially knowing how easily hunted frogs generally are
Poison Dart frogs gain basically a reputation among most predators, who see that colorful design and decide it's not worth it. This does come at the cost of the Poison Dart Frog requiring a very specific diet in order to maintain it's toxicity along with the general stat cuts it has taken for it to maintain one of the most deadly toxins. At least that is what scientist currently believe anyway.
Also for poison dart frogs, poison isn't as an expensive strategy as you would think, one disadvantage of poison/venom is that it takes a lot of energy to produce. But the dart frog's poison is second hand and they get it from the insects they eat, so being so poisonous becomes a more viable strategy.
"Specing into an ability for its secondary use is bottom tier"
Meanwhile, frogs casually starting to evolve flight: 🤣