Top 5 Worst Animal Designs - Summary

Summary

The speaker discusses common pitfalls and strategies for a game involving the evolution of bills (a type of bird). The speaker emphasizes the importance of adapting abilities wisely as misuse can lead to reduced effectiveness. The speaker also warns against overuse of energy-consuming abilities, such as hovering in place or having full 360-degree motion, which can drain stamina and lead to game over.

The speaker then presents a detailed analysis of various bills, highlighting their unique abilities and the intelligence required to use tools. The speaker criticizes players who invest points into nocturnal abilities to avoid challenges, arguing that this approach wastes evolution points and limits growth.

The speaker also delves into the game mechanics of teeth, explaining that the ability to regenerate teeth is crucial for players who rely on teeth as a primary source of damage. The speaker advises players to choose the agent Burke as an ability to prevent damage debuffs from broken teeth.

The speaker concludes by discussing the importance of mastering techniques that require high intelligence, emphasizing that such skills are best learned from other players. The speaker also warns against the pitfalls of choosing perks that are not suitable for a player's build, such as having a high tooth regeneration ability for non-DPS players.

Facts

1. Players have a lot of choices when spending their evolution points.
2. Adapting in the right ways can significantly enhance the gameplay.
3. Choosing the wrong abilities and stat combos can reduce your build's effectiveness.
4. There are many traps that players can fall into.
5. The speaker wants to discuss the five most common pitfalls in the builds of today's meta game.
6. Mobility costs energy and overuse can drain your stamina to a dangerous level.
7. If your stamina gets low, your HP will start to decrease, potentially leading to a game over.
8. The hummingbird needs to find an energy source every 10 minutes or it's game over.
9. The shrew has to eat up to 2 times its own body weight per day just to not burn out.
10. All other land builds have this ability, but it has an extremely long cooldown.
11. When it's used, it burns through a ton of stamina and generates a lot of body heat.
12. Cats can't sweat this heat and cannot dissipate it on the move like humans can.
13. The speaker thinks this style of gameplay is extremely risky but also high-risk high-reward.
14. Hummingbirds have agility that can match that of a dragonfly, cheetahs have record-breaking speed, and shrews have a venomous bite.
15. Tool use is one of the most broken abilities in the game.
16. Humans can use tools to ascend to the top tier and dominate the meta.
17. Other builds can use tools too and can mitigate the shortcomings of their stats and abilities.
18. Chimpanzees can't dig particularly well but they can still access termites by using tools.
19. Cephalopods have horribly low defensive stats but they can block attacks using tools.
20. There are a lot of builds that have the intelligence required to use tools but can't due to a lack of dexterity.
21. Builds like dogs, dolphins, and pigs all fit that description.
22. Players often fall into the pitfall of investing points into nocturnal abilities instead of continuing to evolve and develop a counter strategy.
23. In most servers, the day lasts longer than the night, so daytime players have much more time to gain experience.
24. Teeth are one of the most common weapons in the game and there are a lot of special perks teeth can have.
25. If you rely on teeth as your main source of damage, be sure to choose the agent Burke as one of your abilities to ensure you don't incur a devastating damage debuff by breaking your teeth.
26. On the other end of the spectrum, if you're playing a non DPS build, you may want to think twice before choosing the tooth regeneration perk.
27. The techniques that a high intelligence grants you access to are the most broken techniques in the game but they require time to master.
28. If your bill has a short lifespan, it's very difficult to gain the experience required to perfect these techniques.
29. Bills like the crow and octopus, although just as smart as parrots and elephants, can never hope to achieve the same level of knowledge and wisdom.
30. A build with an extremely long lifespan but low intelligence is equally wasteful of their potential.