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*GameBoy startup sound*
*ding*
*Kirby Super Star - Gourmet Race*
*sounds of animals fighting
*big dino roar*
After the dinosaurs were nerfed, a lot of niches were left wide open.
The power vacuum created a lot of pretty janky builds
most of which ended up getting nerfed in the in the final ice age balance patch.
But nonetheless
some of the most interesting and unique builds of all time
were part of the Quaternary meta
and so I think it's time to finally create the Ice Age tier list.
It's tough to make a fair tier list simply because
just about every build that went extinct
can directly or indirectly blame humans.
Humans unlocking projectile weapons gave them
such an oppressive advantage over large mammals,
that they became totally unstoppable in
any server that lacked the proper counters.
But since you should already be fully aware of
how OP humans are, we're gonna kind of
skip past them in this tier list
and talk about the other great builds from the Ice Age meta.
As always we'll start from the bottom of the tier list
and move up from there.
In F tier we have the Megaloceros
aka. the giant deer build.
This build holds the record for
most evolution points put into the antlers ability.
Now I've talked about the concept of diminishing returns before on this channel,
for example discussing how the poison dart frog having
toxins that are strong enough to drop an elephant,
is probably a bit of overkill.
But in that case it's not that being too poisonous is a problem,
it's just that some of those evolution points
probably would have been better spent somewhere else.
But in the case of the giant deer,
not only is this level of antler growth excessive,
it's generally detrimental.
First of all antlers have a significant equipment load cost
Sprinting, fighting, or really just any everyday action
costs more stamina when you're
weighed down by heavy antlers.