The Jellyfish Tier List
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Which Jellyfish do you think deserves the top spot? Let me know in the comments!
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I remember encountering one of them back when I was just a level 8 human.
Worst experience of my playthrough, specially because I didn't know how to handle the matchup.
Skill based match making they said
Yknow, I was on a jellyfish playthrough and I stung a level eight human.
@@tonvonius Yeah, I dared you to do it lmao. Damn land fish.
Yknow, I was on a Sea Turtle playthrough and I ate a jellyfish that stung a level eight human
@@tonvonius you bastard, I thought you were AFK!
I was on a jellyfish playthrough and stung a level eight human.
Did you get a kill?
@@jesusramirezromo2037 Nah, still alive, but the victim said it was his "worst experience"
I don't kow how long this will hold up, so I'll just put it out here. Right above this comment read another comment that reads:
"I remember encountering one of them back when I was just a level 8 human.
Worst experience of my playthrough, specially because I didn't know how to handle the matchup."
Did you guys plan this? Lol
Hilarious if you see the other comment
@@whiteblade798 Got them back to back XD
I actually encountered a jellyfish at a beach when I was like 13. I was playing in the waves when I saw a “plastic bag” floating towards me. I stared at it briefly and realized it’s not a fking plastic bag, it’s a completely transparent jellyfish swimming towards me. I sprint out of there instantly, felt like I’ve never ran that fast in water before. I later did some research and I’m like 50% sure it’s a box jellyfish. The other 50% is a moon jellyfish, but I’m glad I didn’t risk that 50%
Where was this encounter? Location is an important factor in differentiating those two.
@ I don’t remember too clearly, either Bali or Tahiti I think
@@tommywang948
Okay, those are each within the overlap range of both the moon and the box. Each can be found in those places, with numbers and concentration varying based on ocean currents and temperatures. So yeah, definitely better safe than sorry there...
@ damn
@ Can box be found on shallow shore too?
Never thought we would get a jellyfish tier list. Next Ant tier list
I've been asking for an ant tier list for years
Fire ants are S tier
7 hour long video
We really havent had an ant tier list before?
thats what i want
"Brainless and venomous"
I think I've met some humans who haven't adapted from their previous jellyfish playthroughs
Allat of these hoes be in there jellyfish era😂
People who say Goku solo fiction and people with gen alpha brain rot I assume
People who play league of legends
People who think SBMM is bad
419th 👍
🐟: "Nooo! you dont need venom to kill 60 human at your size"
🪼: "HAHA BIG NUMBER GO BRRRR"
It's one of those annoying min-maxxers
@@Synes-vj8xd But... but the big number!
People usually overstate how dangerous Australian wildlife is - most of what can hurt you bad is either rare (e.g Cassowaries) or far away (Taipans) or generally disinterested in hurting you (most spiders).
The Box Jellyfish is the real deal. If you live on the coast up north you were raised on horror stories about these guys. How their venom is the most painful thing you can possibly experience, how to deal with stings, why we shouldn't go swimming in the open ocean like ever. If you want to go swimming up here you do it in specially designated jellyfish nets, and leaving them is considered extremely stupid.
It's the scariest thing Australia has to offer and it's not even close.
I thought the scariest thing in Australia are Magpie.
I thought it was Vegemite
Second scariest, after Australians.
"generally disinterested in hurting you (most spiders)"
Conveniently left out the giant man eating spiders huh.
@@uss-dh7909 he did say "most"
LMFAO Putting a clip of Steve-O putting a jellyfish on his head while you say, "....Most competent players avoid jellyfish...." fucking CRACKED. ME. UP.
That plus the sparking zero reference got me really good hahaha.
I like that he has the absolute max health stat possible.
Thing is, Steve-O isn't actually an incompetent player. In fact, I'd say that his ability to both consistently survive his stunts and get paid to stream his antics indicates that he's remarkably capable at speccing his build.
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My marine biology professor's colleague was the one who discovered hiw moon jellies reproduce, and it was totally by accident! They had several of them in a tank they studied to see what their life cycle was like. A film would build up that the janitor would clean on the weekends, but one day he forgot, and when they came back, they found that there was a bunchs lsrticles floating around in the tank. Turns out that these were baby jellies! And the film? It was the polyps!! I love science 💚💚💚
where did you study and how it was (im interested in takeing marine buiology course at university)
@@Jakisss_Ktosss I studied at Cabrillo College! It's in California. The class was the best one I ever took, I highly recommend it!
@@CalypsoTheWanderingStar great news, how would you rate job opportunities after studying oceanology/marine biology
@@Jakisss_Ktosss I had to stop college admittedly to help fam w/ finances
As a school janitor, I hope that I, too, can contribute to science by not doing my job
10:10 now I'm imagining a giant of crab outfitted with anemone armor, and a bunch of clownfish hiding inside that armor and they work as one big megazord where the crab can send out a group of clownfish to attack or scout etc
Yes please
ubisoft finna get some hungry shark evolution boss update after seeing this
Somewhere in the entire ocean over the history of these three species existing the chances that this has happened at least once is greater than zero.
That's a pleasing thought.
hope to see it in the sequel to Another Crab's Treasure
@rickengle7208 if you can find a crab that's big enough
Fun fact: Some Anemone do actually have limited swimming ability. IIRC it's mostly used to find a more ideal spot to "plant" itself and start camping, but it is worth noting they have more mobility than a mature coral.
Yep. I love the way they swim
@@jerungbiru55 It's so cursed, I love it.
@@jerungbiru55some do the funny “sit ups” to swim but others swim in the same way jellies do
GARY!!! I was just looking for the sports channel
Quite literally, vids of them running from starfish are unreal.
Honestly, I think the biggest takeaway one should get from the Jellyfish class is just how effective it can be to keep build costs down. While, yes, more advanced and specialized builds produce much flashier, more engaging, and more interesting playstyles, you can still get amazing return-on-investment by playing cheap, efficient builds with decent synergy in the few points you do spend, and I think that's the primary reason this super-ancient build has endured. Return on investment is the name of the game, and when you can get so much while spending so little, it's not hard to see how such a basic-yet well-sorted-build has outright thrived for so, so very long.
13:27 Small disclaimer: One of the reasons jellyfish became more popular is because sea turtles are having trouble with humans.
Damn. This is actually sad. We need our turtle homies to come back
Well the turtles would have better reputation if a certain 999 year old turtle stopped dealing drugs with some old coot in the middle of the Pacific.
Jellyfish boomer: this is how i started my playthrough and i ain't paying for a respec. I dont need the noob doodads
That nervous system is just a gimmick sonny, all I need is my trusty stingers and Ive been getting by just fine
The restart life cylcle perk is kinda OP ngl. I still regret not taking it before i got locked out of it.
@@mikilgene3851 we really gave those trilobites hell back in 'cambrian i'll tell you!
@@Fummy007 Right? These noobs never would have survived during the beta. Trilobyte mains rise up!
You know what they say, if it ain't broke don't fix it
I want to make something clear. It’s really not TearZoo’s fault. This is just my favorite animal. That’s really the main reason why I know this. 7:03 it’s called man o’ war because it’s actually three organisms in one, it’s literally “the men of war”
I’d say that I’m upset that it is not the best JF subclass to play as when you start, but I’m happy it’s not F tier. (by the way for those of you starting to play tier zoo, every jellyfish subclass makes you stay in third person mode.)
If I recall correctly, it's not even under the jellyfish group! It's actually under the lesser known Siphonophore category.
This has caused a lot of confusion players trying to select the Man O' War species for a playthrough, as most members of the Siphonophore category have builds with vastly different appearances to those of the Jellyfish group.
I've seen a lot of players asking to change the species select screen to categorization based on "build-types" (as in how similar builds are) instead of the current one based on the genetic relation of builds.
Personally, I often find myself gravitating to the less "jellyfish-y" looking members of the Siphonophore group.
The playstyle is very confusing though. Even now, while playing as a member of the Human subtype of the Mamalia group, despite the extreme neural increase of Humans, I'm still not sure if I was playing as a whole colony or a single cell or some part or what during my Siphonophore playthroughs. I've heard that even the devs are confused about it!
If I recall correctly, it's not even under the jellyfish group! It's actually under the lesser known Siphonophore category.
This has caused a lot of confusion players trying to select the Man O' War species for a playthrough, as most members of the Siphonophore category have builds with vastly different appearances to those of the Jellyfish group.
I've seen a lot of players asking to change the species select screen to categorization based on "build-types" (as in how similar builds are) instead of the current one based on the genetic relation of builds.
Personally, I often find myself gravitating to the less "jellyfish-y" looking members of the Siphonophore group.
The playstyle is very confusing though. Even now, while playing as a member of the Human subtype of the Mamalia group, despite the extreme neural increase of Humans, I'm still not sure if I was playing as a whole colony or a single cell or some part or what during my Siphonophore playthroughs. I've heard that even the devs are confused about it!
@@happy_amoeba I think that's the same with the box jelly. I've heard that it's not truly a jellyfish, but it is obviously very closely related.
In the Australian server, they're called bluebottle jellyfish.
They were named Man o’war because they resembled (and had their “firepower” compared to) the Man o’war warship used by the British Navy in the 16th-19th century. It wasn’t identified as a colonial organism when it was named.
As someone who has been stung by a Portuguese Man-o-war, it's venom may not be deadly but boy howdy did that burn for DAYS. I still don't grow hair on my leg in that spot.
What happened, did you swim into it and get entangled? I can't imagine that was very fun...
Girls everywhere after reading the last sentence: how much to fully sting both my legs?
When I was a kid I had a book that mentioned them, and going off the name I guess I assumed they were incredibly deadly.
@kamikeserpentail3778, they can be quite deadly if you are swimming and touch their transparent tentacles.
Quite a few people have died, the pain can make someone panic and get even more wrapped in the tentacles, then the combination will the pain, panic and poison can make them drown.
If you find one at the beach and touch it, it can be painful, but will probably not be letal.
@@kamikeserpentail3778 alex rider ?
All those meta SHEEPS have moved on to intelligence builds, but we OGs know that the jellyfish is still the best build even without things like "a nervous system" or "the ability to perceive" 😤
Common misnomer. Jellies actually have the "nervous system" and "perception" abilities although both are capped at level 1. They can see obstacles and learn to avoid them which is all they really need. Jelly mains are known to value efficiency above all else after all :3
Senses are overrated, best to dump all your evo points into the toxin tree.
I think only a small portion actually play the ovine build right now. It's not as popular anymore as wool drops have lost a lot of value lately. (Yes, I got the joke)
@@liveinamber1307 you did not need to put the cat face there bro
Sheeps?
1:33 The use of the "Psyche Locks" from the Phoenix Wright series to show how jellyfish can't do anything that has to do with a brain is quite fitting
Yet another weird Australian build with a ridiculously large amount of power for no reason. I don’t know what the chefs of the Aussie servers are cooking but they certainly are cooking something
Ain't the Irukanji a Japanese meta development tho?
they understand power fantasy is more enjoyable than pure balance. If everyone's overpowered, no one's overpowered
@@gratedshtick"They inhabit the northern marine waters of Australia, and cost the Australian government $AUD 3 billion annually through tourism losses and medical costs associated with stings."
They are named after the syndrome their venom causes in humans, which in turn is named after the native Irukandji people, whose region stretches along the coastal strip north of Cairns, Queensland.
Nothing to do with Japan
I still would really love to see a proper Aussie tier list. Also still baffled that emus and cassowaries were D or F tier like they can kick a hole through your chest bro
stupid game admins are so biased towards australia, like they literally get some of the tankiest heaviest and most creative arachnid builds, while all of us are stuck having to pick the said "op" int build, up until you see all the damnn debuffs that human int build has.
Can't believe this wasn't mentioned: Irukandji venom has the odd side effect of *making players want to uninstall.* Whether this is a bug in how the game calculates the resolve stat or just the shame from being owned by a build this tiny is still hotly debated.
There's a few builds that do that. I thought the man o war did. I got bored of the ocean meta early on and opted in on intelligence; no more ocean for me even after all this time.
Just looked that up. Very interesting. Remind me not to swim in those parts of Australia
It's a sting attack with the maximum fear enchant coupled with poison's built in resolve shred.
@@ageishyena3035 I don't know about the man-o-war, but there's an Australian plant build known as the gympie gympie that's also rumored to, although for different reasons. Some say that when the plant scores a critical hit, the pain debuff it leaves behind is so severe and crippling that affected characters can become nearly unplayable for very long periods of time, leading to people opting to simply delete their characters instead of dealing with the debuff. It's probably an urban legend, but I certainly wouldn't want to find out for myself.
@@astuteanansi4935 It's not an urban legend. Those trees do exist.
1:10 looking at those jellyfish makes me hurt inside because I’ve been stung by them multiple times
Stings doesn’t it
Honestly, as an Australian, nothing scares us more than an Irukandji. We may deal with spiders, snakes, crocs, sharks, boxing kangaroos, but the Irukandji is the king of them all. They terrify us.
I mean what a man fears the most is the unknown.
A predator which you can't see and can be anywhere in broad daylight....yeah.
Tell that to Kanjiclub
don't worry, i'll take care of them
We don’t have the Irukandji here in Hawaii but we do get other types of jellyfish like the Box. And honestly I agree, they’ve always scared me more than any other animal including sharks
You know its bad if an Australian is scared of it.
I say: "you have no brains, nerves, or eyes, you are hopeless"
Jelly response: "Not hopeless: immortal."
I truely love your channel! I wish you posted content more often, as i have already viewed all of it at least once! Great vid!
I remember in my old sea turtle playthrough, jellyfish players were basically free kills for me. This one time I had just finished taking down a solo jellyfish player who had stung a level 8 human in the water when I saw a 2nd jellyfish player for more free XP. As I went in for the kill I realized to my horror that this was actually a cleverly-disguised piece of plastic that the nearby level 8 human had dropped after being stung, and got the Choking debuff for nearly an hour before finally managing to dislodge it. Really memorable encounter, nearly lost my entire run there
I love seeing this storyline continue 😂
@@Dantprime I agree!
Humans and that plastic patch smh. It must suck to be a sea turtle main these days, suddenly a hazard that looks exactly like food.
I love seeing some random guy up-top’s comment about being stung at 8 years old (level 8) continue into an entire story
@@WilliamLund-o1d I really don't understand why human mains have started leaving bag traps all over the ocean. It's not even beneficial for them, it's just being toxic for no reason. I had a really good seagull playthrough going when I died to suffocation damage from a bag.
One correction: the box jelly is absolutely not the only one with eyes, in fact almost all mobile jellyfish have eyes, although in most cases they're very rudimentary and are used mainly for basic navigation. The box just has slightly better eyes.
Also didn’t really say everything about corals dying with global warming. Could’ve included their symbiosis with zooxanthellae that just disappears with the heat.
@@goatyqt4553 Including all the caveats would make the video too long. People can find out on their own too.
@@goatyqt4553the coral global warming angle is briefly mentioned in the Nebula version
@@SilverionXI agree; but I think Rhizostomid jellyfish (like the upside down jellyfish or the lagoon jellyfish) would've been an important addition. They've mimicked the coral +anemone playstyle but... Pelagic-ally
Also! This is also true, but Tierzoo's video is still correct (at least semantically)
Hydrozoan jellyfish contain ocelli (light sensing organs) and statoliths (a stone to gauge vertical orientation).
Scyphozoans contain a rhophalia, which is just those 2 structures combined.
Cubozoans jellyfish contain a rhophalia as well, but have like, 1 or 2 true eyes on the top of those structures. It's freaky.
W tier list, I remember asking for a jellyfish vid bro, while I doubt that’s the reason you did it it’s still amazing to see it!
Finally, has a jellyfish main I’m always getting grieved by sponge and starfish mains
At least you usually don't get killed by them.
@ no but u do get chase and trolled by them. Imagine being chased by a smiling sponge going “bwahaha!!!” Every weekend
If you're getting chased by a sponge you're playing wrong @@henrymendoza8160
Don't worry, I occasionally play octopus builds to fend them off
Getting caught by the sponge and starfish mains only cause slight annoyance
The one jellyfish players should worry about is one greedy crab player that hunt them to extract their jellies until dry
Though if you can manage to allied yourself with the sponge main, you can turn the tide
Jellyfish and Humans are polar opposites. Humans are op try hards, and jellyfish are afk grinders.
I resent the implication that I am not, indeed, an afk grinder IRL.
Have you seen the special ability of the immortal jellyfish, the only reason for Minecraft isn't Opie is because it's on a bill that cannot do anything with it
Both have the capacity to do their thing to great effect
They don't AFK grind nearly as good as sponges and coral 😂, edit: just got to the part where he added corals 😂
@@RetroletsplayGBA Omg I realized, the corals are the real afkers and the jellyfish are the afkers who like to flex all their abilities and points like a menace
the fact earth was made by a single dev is insane... god is doing good work
Still waiting for the next devlog. Hear it's gonna be lit, and involve vineyards.
Hi, Man o war jellyfish main here. Just wanna say, shoutout to all the others on this grind with me, weve lasted a whole year together so far, and are going strong. One time we encountered a level 7 human and stung the shit out of them. This class is awesome and so collaborative, highly reccomend
Co-op gameplay isn't usually my thing, since it's hard to coordinate with friends. It amazes me that some builds are co-op only.
As a horse fly main I love tormenting low level humans too! Keep grinding brother.😊
I've played as a moon jelly a few times, and honestly, it's pretty chill! Not high tier as you mentioned, but honestly part of the fun is learning to automate things without a nervous system! If you're trying to actively play it can get kinda tedious, but it's honestly a really unique playstyle! would really recommend it to those who missed out on past game patches, and want to experience what it was like in the early days! really chill community as well, and the high respawn rate means you don't gotta worry so much about getting a game over! just drift along, see where things go, check in every so often. more experienced moon mains will offer automation advice if you ask, but tbh part of the fun is working out how to eat and such
I am struggling with my "hurt your first human" quest. You don't realize until too late how few of them are actually in the water.
A human player playing another class? A likely story.
Moon Jelly is actually one of my favourite classes. I love the low stakes of the high respawn rate + not having to grind to get back to where I was before I died. it does get a little boring at times (hence why I'm testing out the new human build) but I've been playing them since the Cambrian expansion so I doubt I'll stop any time soon
"moon mains" has me dying 👏👏👏
What an interesting tier list on my favourite creature. It taught me more than I already knew about them. I never thought about the weakness Man o’ Wars have to birds or the existence of those small jellyfish which share the same venom as box jellyfish.
I fundamentally disagree with putting an extremely common build in F-tier. I'm not saying it has to be in the top tiers; S-tier would imply that it's oppressive to many other builds, and even an A-tier placement suggests that the build grants an individual player a high chance of success on any given play-through. But to me, F-tier implies that the build is almost entirely non-viable and has serious difficulty attracting any significant player base. I don't think I would rate an extremely common build any lower than C tier, especially if it's the most common build on the tier list being discussed. Sure, maybe a large part of its popularity is due to the high respawn rate that gets players out of the "waiting to respawn" screen almost immediately; but that is a form of viability and a path to some measure of success.
But are they common when you adjust for the fact that high spawn rates is their only perk?
For instance the peccary.. all over a very specific part of the world due to their prolific spawn rate. But as a world wide animal, by no means "common"
To be clear: that's just to make my population point, unlike the low tier jellyfish, a peccary has many perks besides high spawn rate
@@capatheist High spawn rate is all you need to avoid extinction, which is the only thing that matters in determining if a build is viable or not.
@@therexyogaming not really, I would argue that a lower spawn rate isn't necessarily worse than a higher one if the former species is much harder to kill and has less trouble keeping itself alive
Idk man sounds like cope to me. Git gud bruh /s
The high spawn rates is absolutely a plus to them, making them easily adaptable to new enviroments when they're teleported to new maps, but rather than C i think they would place better in a D-tier. While high spawn rates may help ensure longer playthroughs and they have high regen ability (alongside resistance to microplastic poisoning), that doesn't compensate enough for the high kill count of other builds predating on them. Maybe, on the future, they could place better in C-tier if they outlasted other builds better as everything tries to adjust to the climate change update, but their perks don't compensate enough for the depredation nerfing
Ideas for future episodes
- How Paraceratherium broke the game
- The Mustelid Tier List
- The Pinniped Tier List
- The Ant Tier List
- Are Wolverine's OP?
- Are Gorilla's OP?
- Are Tigers OP?
- Are Polar Bears OP?
- Are Raccoons OP?
- Are Muskox OP?
- Are Moose OP?
- The Crocodilian Tier list
- The Marsupial Tier List
- The Theropod Dinosaur Tier list
- The Sauropod Dinosaur Tier list
- The Ceratopsian Dinosaur Tier list
- The Hadrosaur Dinosaur Tier list
- How Megalodon broke the game
- How Tyrannosaurus broke the game
- How Paleoloxodon Namadacus broke the game
- Remake of the cat tier list
- Remake of the Dog tier list
- Remake of the primate tier list
- Human character class tier list (basically just a list ranking different jobs lol)
- Domestic Dog Breed Tier list
- Mythological animals tier list e.g Dragons, Griffins etc
All of these are pretty good ideas. I feel like a skunk video would be good, too
I'm not sure how much megalodon broke the gane per se...
@@virajl5754 It had the strongest bite force in the game's history and was basically top tier for millions of years they were next to unbeatable the only thing that could stand up to them were Macroraptorial Sperm whale's like Livyitian and even then the Meg outmatched it in terms of sheer size and bite force so that matchup was by no means unwinnable for the meg. The meg also hard countered Bayleen whales for millions of years they essentially ran scared of the meg until it was wiped out due to balance patches now whales are basically uncontested in the meta especially the blue whale the meg was the only thing keeping them in check and countering them
@@Martiancookiehunter365You are right, but humans are so OP they still decimated the whale player base despite not being an aquatic build. The "technology" perk is too OP I wonder when the devs will patch it
Where therapsid tierlist?
I gotta say, I’m really glad your videos have stayed mostly the same over the past several years. The humor is always great!
One jellyfish player I'm surprised wasn't talked about is the immortal jellyfish. Like the name says, they are biologically immortal due to a unique regeneration ability they have that basically allows them to "restart" their life cycle. Despite this, they can still suffer game overs due to their smaller size leaving them vulnerable to predators and they can still suffer from disease. I'd probably rank them either lower C or upper D tier since they're smaller builds with an amazing ability not seen in any other player.
Such thing ability to be added, and it's been completely wasted it's almost as bad as the tardigrade
Bro these jellyfish mains really wanna grind forever
Definitely a gimmick build. The looping trick is a clever gimmick, sure, and I would have loved to see it at least briefly touched on, but in practice most playthroughs end before the first loop.
@@kennethtraver7628 was the sanity debuff carried by the Euro kanji gelly, I heard I can drive human players to early game over
I love it when the devs leave some bugs in the game that are fun but not broken. They should do that more often instead of endlessly patching things in favor of the human meta...
You forgot to add the mandatory "Not an actual Jellyfish, but a siphonophore" during the Man'O War part of the video, which a lot of people already know, but still, there's always someone who doesn't know, and this is their first video learning about this animal.
Bros counting coral and anemones as jellyfish, it wouldn’t make since to bring up the classification of siphonophore at this point
He’s actually making a Cnidaria plus comb jelly tier list.
@@Minkfangthey are all Cnidaria
@@Minkfang Most people already understand that jellyfish and coral are not the same, but a lot of people still think man o' wars are a type of jellyfish.
Love the shoutout to irukandji! They've baffled me ever since I've heard of them because as a human main, it feels like there is no counterplay except covering every inch of my hitbox with armour. Sounds easy enough, but I can totally imagine missing a handful of pixels somewhere and getting hit for a crit by this thing
Two really neat things that I would have loved to see mentioned in the video:
1. There are microscopic parasitic Cnidarians! Instead of using their neumatocysts to poison other players, they use them to grip onto their hosts. These parasites (called Myxozoa) are the smallest animals in existence (not counting contagious cancers), having single-digit cell counts and even single-celled life stages in some cases. There are even some that don't have the ability to perform aerobic respiration!
2. You kind of alluded to this, but Cnidarians are known from fossil evidence to have originated in the Ediacaran period, before the Cambrian explosion. They are the only major group of Ediacaran biota known to have living descendants, and also the only ones known definitively to be animals. Not counting sponges, but they originated even earlier, in the Cryogenian or possibly before.
Both very interesting facts, and a reminder to never play Scrabble with a biologist.
I know he included it but comb jellies are also from the edicarian despite not being true jellyfish. Some people believe they are even older than sponges meaning possibly 700 million years or older
69th 👍
6:57 the climate change balance patch actually kills a symbiotic playstyle with zooxanthellae that allows the coral to benefit from their photosynthesis ability. Temperatures rising make the polyps (coral player base) push away the zooxanthellea which causes the polyps to basically die because they lack food.
Jellyfish are among some of my favorite animals you have no idea how much joy this brings me.
10:45
Look at that old man kneel down and scoop a nearly invisible pile of venom, an put it in a bucket like it's just another Monday. I don't know who that is, but that's impressive.
Jellyfish be surviving for 500 million without a brain. There's hope for me yet.
Longer, no way in hell was the jellyfish only introduced in the cambrian update.
These fuckers MUST have been around since the Ediacaran patch right after the game's release
Fantastic video, but I do need to point out that anemones are not sessile. They _usually_ stay put, but if the circumstances are dire enough, they can just leave.
Looking forward to the sea slug video! I love mollusks
All of em taste great so I wouldn't be able to choose
Are you a sea turtle
Sea Turtle gamers be like:
@thekeegmeister2706 no they're from the Bikini Bottom server.
Sea turtle main
Nudibranch posting
Check out the Monterey Bay Aquarium if you’re curious to see some of these builds in person
If you're able to book the behind the scenes tour (which fills up; book ahead of time since it's usually fully booked if you try to book while you're there), you can even touch one...on the bell (obviously not the stingers; that would hurt and then liability waivers would need to be signed).
@@CSXIV moon jelly stingers are generally too weak to penetrate/hurt human skin but yes i love monterey
Watching your videos always make me want to ply runescape while also playing GBA pokemon games. You're the goat!
Hell yeah, sea slug tierlist!
Also, incredibly niche, but maybe a video, or maybe even a TH-cam short on planaria?
I took a few freshwater brown planaria home from my high school zoology class after we did some basic experiments on them (cutting them to see them regrow, watching how they move, etc) because I had a few tanks and the little guys were just going to be thrown away, and they have done super well despite me being told they wouldn’t. I’ve fallen in love with how cute they are - their little cheeks and big old cartoony eyes, and their squiggly little worm-like bodies, and I’d love a video on them.
They most definitely wouldn’t score very high on any sort of tier list, but they still are a great, adorable, niche little aquarium cleanup crew (they’re detritivores, meaning they eat dead things, and their thin, flexible bodies work especially well for cleaning in really tight spaces that other cleaners can’t reach)
I second that! A video on planaria would be appreciated. I think they're the cutest 'worms'.
Being a potential support build for human mains automatically qualifies them for B tier at least.
in 2023 there was a study that showed that jellyfish have more thoughts than previously thought
where they found out that box jellyfish can learn from previous mistakes when hunting and adapt accordingly
which would require both memory and thought.
10:13 finding nemo reference hehe. I saw that from a mile away when you mentioned clown fish
The box jelly is terrifying it’s just a living insta kill spike.
It is like how rock fish were designed by one of the biggest arse holes. Camouflage to hide from predators makes sense, venom/poison to deal with threats or become one makes sense, BUT WHY ACTIVELY GRIEF PLAYERS UNAWARE OF YOU?!? What animals besides mammals in water stepping on the ground would trigger the venom barb on top of them?
1:37 That part is way funnier than it should be. 😂😂
What causes that weird circular water bubble?
I loved this especially the little comments like WHERE IS MY SON and EYES ARE USELESS WHEN THE MIND IS BLIND
As a turtle main we love to chomp em jelly fish like Chinese noodles
As a turtle main myself fr it's just Chinese takeout floating in the sea
Careful with annoyingly jellyfish-shaped plastic bags, though
@@PeamThePanda yea seems those things give us a huge debuff
When I Was a Level 31 Human , one of them stung a level 8 human beside me.
I hope the human's wounds have healed.
LOL
We need a Platyhelminthes tier list. I love flatworm builds, they’re so fascinating!
7:07 Slight correction: corals and Man O' War aren't the only colonial cnidarians. Some hydrozoa are capable of clonal reproduction and colony forming.
So true! Siphonophores as a whole are quadi-colonial iirc.
And if you include colonial salps in the mix (even though their chordates) then that's quite a few colonial-ish organisms
True also, Portuguese Man O' Wars are Hydrozoans in the Siphonophorae order
Jellyfish:
I’ll sell you spicy noodles after you swim :)
make jelly fish build in terra
@@UruSxs9how tf did u find me😭😭😭????
Lol
@@Exernor9867 all terra players are forced to be a tierzoo fan
@@UruSxs9 💀
That jellyfish getting spun around by that water ring is the most amazingly cartoon like thing i've ever seen.
Might I ask about the absence of siphonophores? While they are not related to jellyfish directly, they still have a massively similar gameplan, and you included the coral playerbase as well. Please give us siphonophores a shot and tell how you feel. Sincerely, a siphonophore main
The Portuguese Man of War is a siphonophore.
They are just as related to jellyfish as corals, sea anemones, or box jellyfish (which are actually a separate group from true jellyfish)
@@adamwu4565 that is true but TierZoo didn't mention or differentiate that the man o' war are siphonophores
@@adamwu4565 man o' war are different than all other siphonophores in that they float on the surface, which is part of what made them score so low. Most siphonophores have dozens of bells and swim like jellyfish, and some even anchor to the sediment
Jellyfish are unironically my favorite animal
I am thrilled to see content on them
I like giraffes
I once got my leg stung by a jellyfish while swimming in some deep water. It felt like a fish bite, but then the pain became more and more intolerable until I finally went out of the water to see whats up. On my left calf had a tattoo-like sore imprint of a jellyfish. The damn thing landed on my leg butt-first and stung me with every single tentacle it had. I had a jellyfish-themed spiral on my leg. It was every bit as beautiful as it was also painful. Thankfully the doc said it's nothing to worry abt and the injury faded like 3 days later. Amazing experience, would get stung again.
Box Jelly Fish is my second Main 🗿
Hope it got a good ranking
thanks for watching!
Wat is your First main?🤔🤔
@@robertomartinsvalero6097 wasp 🗿
Most goated channel I've ever come across. I wish you were running when I was a kid on school. This makes learning increasingly fun.
After watching this ima change my class to a sea slug and see if I can find a box jellyfish. Thanks Tier zoo!
I think corals may be undersold. They can actively defend themselves with digestive enzymes against other corals, eating their competitors from the outside to free up space. They're also ecosystem engineers (by being the ecosystem). Tropical coral reefs support (25%, a quarter) of all marine animal players, which is why them bleaching is such a critical issue.
Even then, corals have been observed using a defense strategy against bleaching by using fluorescent colors as a temporary sunblock for their damaged algae companions. They can also switch back to predator mode like their jellyfish/anemone kin if photosynthesis isn't an option.
Corals may take things slow like plants, but they (along with plants, sponges, and fungi, for that matter) are no less active players.
Exactly! Was coming to make a similar comment!
Maybe, but they're extremely vulnerable to changes in temperature, and thanks to climate change update, vast majorities of coral is dying off, not making it a viable build for long term. I think the vulnerability to temperature drastically lowers their effectiviness, and while some human builds have tried to co-op w corals to make them more temperature resistant, they're still to frail to the changes in sea temperature
@skry6373 by this logic, all mammals over 100 pounds should be a solid F tier because they are highly vulnerable to guns/harpoon and their low spawn rates make it easy to kill them all
@@skry6373It’s not Coral players fault, it just that Human players are using their carelessness to slowly making this game unplayable for every player (including themselves). The devs really need to tone down humanity “brilliance” before the game dies because everyone else gets fed up with it and quit.
@@insectilluminatigetshrekt5574 No, what I meant was that the rising sea temperatures are causing massive die-offs in corals all around the world, like, this is an actual thing happening all over the globe, it's called coral bleaching and it's very hard for corals to recover from this. There's on-going research to discover ways to make corals more resistant to the temperatures, but as it is right now, even a slight raise in °C is enough to kill massive reefs (not mentioning that higher temperatures are making more prolific a lot of infectious diseases that target corals specifically). I didn't mean to sound too negative sorry, I am just very passionate about wildlife and i like sharing the info :(
Aww the lil pikmin ghost for the box jellyfish 😭 12:40
So happy you're content exists, tysm for the wonderful videos over the years 🎉🔥
Yesssss
A tier zoo vid
S tier zoo vid
13:08 Can we harness sea turtle immunity from jelly venom???
You can certainly try
Not from a Jedi.
human mains have been trying to unlock the semi-mythical midgame respec system for ages, so maybe, but doesn't seem likely to happen particularly soon
Maybe if we can isolate the gene(s) for it and successfully splice it into human DNA, with crispr
Crabs with sea anemone is my new favorite combination in "the Outside". That's just TO awome! 🤩
Top tier edits as always
I can’t believe we just got COCONUT MALLED at the beginning of the video!
Fun fact: Sea anemones actually do move, just that it's incredibly slow (like inches every few years kind of slow), but some can detach and aggressively wiggle their way around.
This is great to know as I was about to go for my monthly jellyfishing outing with my friend who lives under a rock
🪨🗿🍍
@10:08 the crab actually nerfs the build by putting it on its claws. scientists have taken them off and they go back the the size of their ordinal build. when the crab comes back it cuts reverts them back to the mobile build with significantly less hp for the anemone
What happened to my reply?
If you search it up, (some) anemones CAN run away from things, like hungry starfish.
@@bensoncheung2801yeah where they detach and flop around lol its funny to look at, but really cool for an anemone to do
@@Big_Bonfire Yeah, helps them to remind us that they ARE in fact animals.
@@bensoncheung2801 right lol thats a great point. I wish everyone was as interested in our fellow creatures as some of us
Apologies if you've already made a video about this, but I would love it if you covered the difficulty of human-nonhuman team-play tactics in the North and South American servers! Like talking about why Buffalo builds would have been almost impossible to work with or why the Llama playerbase managed to avoid whatever balance patch wiped most American megafauna players
(In real life terms, 1. Why was most American livestock unable to support typical agrarian-urban centers around 12kya and 2. Why did Llamas seem to be the only remaining viable livestock)
He always return when people need him
At first, I thought jellyfish is afk low-tier because of abyssmal intelligence, poor defense, and no unique playstyle But with this video, they're quite interesting
I absolutely love Jellyfish, they are so underappreciated. Despite their flaws, they look really cool and just wobble on
Seeing a clip from one of my favorite human mains, Steveo, was not something I was expecting to see on this channel, but man I forgot how many insane things he’s done over the course of his play through.
9:57 so you mean to tell me that crabs can just casually rock some kickass poison armor?! That’s hard
The jellyfish is literally the amoeba playstyle and kit as a multi cellular organism. Really goes to show how little the meta had evolved back then.
I love how they use the eye witness theme music. Used to read those books and watch the videos. Nostalgia unlocked
My pet slug is excited for the sea slug tier list, but wants to know when he is gonna get his moment of fame.
Love the shout out for one of my favourite animals: _Glaucus atlanticus._
Jellies are so funny because they are literally just living trash bags with no sentience, no speed, no power, and zero defense against getting bashed tf out of by pretty much everything, yet they put the fear of absolute god into the all mighty human. Firstly just on sheer weirdness for being gross alien looking freaks, and secondly because the box jelly decided to be a squishy jihad against all other living things for literally no reason.
How much should investigate whoever runs the Australian server, I think they might be moding
Did you seriously use the word "jihad" referring to a world like oppression and offence? Do you even know what the word means? Or did you just take some random website definition for it and started using it like this?
@NoxHelios chill out
@@NoxHeliosI think they just meant "Holy war"
@@NoxHelios If you are curious about what jihad means then how about this?
_Qur'anic exhortations to jihad have been interpreted by Islamic scholars both in the combative and non-combative sense. Ahmed al-Dawoody wrote that there seventeen references to or derivatives of jihad occur altogether forty-one times in eleven Meccan texts and thirty Medinan ones, with 28 mentions related to religious belief or spiritual struggle and 13 mentions related to warfare or physical struggle._
and
_Of the 199 hadith references to jihad in the Bukhari collection of hadith, all assume that jihad means warfare._
and
_Tradition distinguishes the "greater jihad" (inner struggle against sinful behavior) from the "lesser jihad" (military sense). Early Islamic thought considered non-violent interpretations of jihad, especially for those Muslims who could not partake in warfare in distant lands. Most classical writings use the term "jihad" in the military sense. The tradition differentiating between the "greater and lesser jihad" is not included in any of the authoritative compilations of Hadith. In consequence, some Islamists dismiss it as not authentic._
If we go by modern and western definitions of Islam then jihad then the primary meaning of jihad is struggling with a praiseworthy aim with the goal of pleasing Allah, while the violent interpretation is mostly a extremist side definition.
If we go by the traditional sources then the primary definition is struggling with a praiseworthy aim with the goal of pleasing Allah through violent means. The non-combative definition is also possible, especially if you are not capable of doing it, but it is sometimes taken that it should instead support the violent one through financial means or other such methods.
Since we are on the internet we have to go by the simplified meme version and according to that definition it is what terrorists do. And since they want to oppress non-Muslims, this is not the worst word he could use.
I knew the green sea slug stole chloroplasts from algae and used them to photosynthesize, but other sea slugs also steal jellyfish venom??? They’re pirates, the thieves of the sea. What neat little animals!
I honestly think jellyfish dominate the current meta, they have little to no food requirements and get to float around without worry of predators most of the time
They never worry because they lack the brain capacity to worry.
One of the most weird and alien creatures on earth. Saw the notification and knew it was an instaclick.
Oooo just realized I hope Man-o-war is in here for a breakdown of their weird eusociality thing
Mustelids would be a fun tier list :)
Hell yeah mustelids
@@TrueWolves whoops good spelling catch
Man-o-war is a group of cells cosplaying as a yellyfish.
But they are incredible good at they job.
@molybdaen11 aren't all multicellular organisms just cells cosplaying as stuff?
They're roetty cool that they do so as microorganisms
I had to heal a level 8 human player from a jellyfish attack. It was the worst experience of his playthrough.
I was doing a playthrough on a level 10 seagull and saw a box jellyfish sting a level 8 human, it was pretty funny.
God’s ultimate Troll.
Swim in water when suddenly a real life Mario trap electrocutes you.
LMAO I recently just finished a sea turtle playthrough, in fact one of my best runs across the board, after the game over screen I checked my stats, I was only 4 months short of the “death by old age” achievement, those later levels were tough btw, but spamming easy exp from these jellyfish scrubs was what got me there. I actually briefly was in a guild with the crab in this vid with the anemone boxing gloves, but hat guy was a min/maxing champ btw, SHOUTOUT TO YOU DARREN! But yeah, big respect to jellyfish players, lot of us couldn’t get the achievements we do without you guys.
I remember that time when I went to a beach as a level 8 human.
There were dead jellyfish on the beach and people were throwing them like water bombs on each other.
Ohhh! So that’s why in Finding Nemo, the clownfish live in an anemone.
Well that, plus the rent is cheap considering the location.
9:03 yoooo wtf is that thing 😂
Nudibranch I think
Piggybacking off of the guy that said make an ant tier list, a new game called Empire of the Ants just launched.
First, see if you can get some sort of sponsorship from the game devs because we all want you get that bread.
Second, I think this gives you a really unique situation where you could actually have your rankings for the real world and the game. I did some research and it looks like there's not multiple ant species to select from (at least yet), so maybe this list can help lay the groundwork for them to implement other ant species with different buffs and weaknesses (like some ants have smaller hives with bigger and more dangerous ants, while others have weaker ants, but at greater volume).
Outlining how those different ant species would matchup with one another could set the foundation for a cool collaboration with the developer, but I know what I just said is simpler said than done to setup (and if the developer is even interested). Personally, I think this is like the perfect target audience for the game (which is getting mixed reviews, but the bones are there for it to be really fun if they make some changes and add more content) and could lead to a new way for your community to engage with you and one another.
Anyways, just food for thought from someone that is a marketing analyst in real life that sees some real crossover potential here.
11:17 That fish was throwing shade 😆
I LOVE the new tier lists and exploring different builds, but honestly I'd love if you revisited/added on to some of the previous (more popular build) tier lists.
There are so many birds, fish, insects (and so on), that need more recognition in my opinion.
Maybe alternate tier lists, or even 2 new to 1 revisited.
Much love 🧡🫡
He has returned!
And before GTA6 and Shenhe's rerun, even