The Jellyfish Tier List

[@diversquid4793]

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.

[@Lelouch-Vi-Britannia-]

Skill based match making they said

[@tonygriggle5569]

Yknow, I was on a jellyfish playthrough and I stung a level eight human.

[@Imperfectcelll]

​@@tonygriggle5569 Yeah, I dared you to do it lmao. Damn land fish.

[@OrangeStone-Os]

Yknow, I was on a Sea Turtle playthrough and I ate a jellyfish that stung a level eight human

[@diversquid4793]

​@@tonygriggle5569 you bastard, I thought you were AFK!

[@rainpooper7088]

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.

[@ageishyena3035]

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.

[@AxeMain]

Just looked that up. Very interesting. Remind me not to swim in those parts of Australia

[@cringeonmain5653]

It's a sting attack with the maximum fear enchant coupled with poison's built in resolve shred.

[@astuteanansi4935]

@@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.

[@ageishyena3035]

@@astuteanansi4935 It's not an urban legend. Those trees do exist.

[@tonygriggle5569]

I was on a jellyfish playthrough and stung a level eight human.

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

Did you get a kill?

[@skywanderer]

@@jesusramirezromo2037 Nah, still alive, but the victim said it was his "worst experience"

[@peepeevs]

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

[@whiteblade798]

Hilarious if you see the other comment

[@plipplop3792]

​@@whiteblade798 Got them back to back XD

[@mariacyr6494]

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" 😤

[@liveinamber1307]

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

[@aircraftcarrierwo-class]

Senses are overrated, best to dump all your evo points into the toxin tree.

[@guus19900]

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)

[@ChumBucketlNC]

@@liveinamber1307 you did not need to put the cat face there bro

[@nikhiliyengar]

Sheeps?

[@eezygange4kE]

Never thought we would get a jellyfish tier list. Next Ant tier list

[@carlossssssss5492]

I've been asking for an ant tier list for years

[@Superficial_Intelligence]

Fire ants are S tier

[@A-MultiFan]

7 hour long video

[@AshBlossomWorshiper]

We really havent had an ant tier list before?

[@bobtherobot-gb5jf]

thats what i want

[@spyro2002]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="610">10:10</a> 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

[@lahlybird895]

Yes please

[@ladybroaden]

ubisoft finna get some hungry shark evolution boss update after seeing this

[@rickengle7208]

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.

[@Aloysius2113]

hope to see it in the sequel to Another Crab's Treasure

[@lahlybird895]

@rickengle7208 if you can find a crab that's big enough

[@comlitbeta7532]

Jellyfish boomer: this is how i started my playthrough and i ain't paying for a respec. I dont need the noob doodads

[@mikilgene3851]

That nervous system is just a gimmick sonny, all I need is my trusty stingers and Ive been getting by just fine

[@SaltyGamer41]

The restart life cylcle perk is kinda OP ngl. I still regret not taking it before i got locked out of it.

[@webbowser8834]

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.

[@jerungbiru55]

Yep. I love the way they swim

[@webbowser8834]

@@jerungbiru55 It's so cursed, I love it.

[@PlasticGhoul]

@@jerungbiru55some do the funny “sit ups” to swim but others swim in the same way jellies do

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

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.

[@capatheist]

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

[@therexyogaming]

​@@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.

[@rajkanishu]

​@@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

[@fun_police8011]

Idk man sounds like cope to me. Git gud bruh /s

[@skry6373]

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

[@azuquirtle]

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

[@gratedshtick]

Ain't the Irukanji a Japanese meta development tho?

[@Madjenta]

they understand power fantasy is more enjoyable than pure balance. If everyone's overpowered, no one's overpowered

[@hashbrown777]

​​@@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

[@jaebebifi]

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

[@skinon45]

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.

[@JH-ty2cs]

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.

[@benrex7775]

I thought the scariest thing in Australia are Magpie.

[@Greg-t1u]

I thought it was Vegemite

[@tomriddle8933]

Second scariest, after Australians.

[@uss-dh7909]

"generally disinterested in hurting you (most spiders)" Conveniently left out the giant man eating spiders huh.

[@pighunter247]

@@uss-dh7909 he did say "most"

[@onibarubary]

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.

[@nathangarner3986]

🫡

[@ageishyena3035]

What happened, did you swim into it and get entangled? I can't imagine that was very fun...

[@carsonthebee1521]

Jellyfish and Humans are polar opposites. Humans are op try hards, and jellyfish are afk grinders.

[@Loctorak]

I resent the implication that I am not, indeed, an afk grinder IRL.

[@lahlybird895]

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

[@kennethtraver7628]

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.

[@lahlybird895]

Such thing ability to be added, and it's been completely wasted it's almost as bad as the tardigrade

[@Some_guy_iguess]

Bro these jellyfish mains really wanna grind forever

[@ShiniesAreCool]

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.

[@lahlybird895]

@@kennethtraver7628 was the sanity debuff carried by the Euro kanji gelly, I heard I can drive human players to early game over

[@Doinia]

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...

[@henrymendoza8160]

Finally, has a jellyfish main I’m always getting grieved by sponge and starfish mains

[@Toonrick12]

At least you usually don't get killed by them.

[@henrymendoza8160]

@ no but u do get chase and trolled by them. Imagine being chased by a smiling sponge going “bwahaha!!!” Every weekend

[@lahlybird895]

If you're getting chased by a sponge you're playing wrong ​@@henrymendoza8160

[@Some_guy_iguess]

Don't worry, I occasionally play octopus builds to fend them off

[@Player-1313]

Jellyfish be surviving for 500 million without a brain. There's hope for me yet.

[@moritamikamikara3879]

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

[@Martiancookiehunter365]

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

[@denzr1238]

All of these are pretty good ideas. I feel like a skunk video would be good, too

[@virajl5754]

I'm not sure how much megalodon broke the gane per se...

[@Martiancookiehunter365]

@@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

[@user-lq5yx1ke5k]

@@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

[@hyperspades]

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

[@felixdogan6776]

All of em taste great so I wouldn't be able to choose

[@thekeegmeister2706]

Are you a sea turtle

[@LDSG_A_Team]

Sea Turtle gamers be like:

[@phoenixcoleman3256]

​@thekeegmeister2706 no they're from the Bikini Bottom server.

[@mishka1138]

Sea turtle main

[@scatteredleavess]

Nudibranch posting

[@Magic_Ice]

Jellyfish terrify me. They have no thought but kill so many things just by existing. Just like the most intelligent species.

[@Clavix_and_Bob]

Just as Cars or Viruses

[@Horny_Fruit_Flies]

Or bacteria

[@kdevelopergw]

dont humans technically do that too

[@gabusdeux]

​@kdevelopergw humans have thought though

[@Veilure]

@@gabusdeux at least humans can like, feel bad about it

[@greenapple9477]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="97">1:37</a> That part is way funnier than it should be. 😂😂

[@eltonbokgren3398]

The box jelly is terrifying it’s just a living insta kill spike.

[@alexanderrobins7497]

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?

[@Lelouch-Vi-Britannia-]

As a turtle main we love to chomp em jelly fish like Chinese noodles

[@limaonenjamir6222]

As a turtle main myself fr it's just Chinese takeout floating in the sea

[@PeamThePanda]

Careful with annoyingly jellyfish-shaped plastic bags, though

[@squiddiot5477]

Hell yeah, sea slug tierlist! Also, incredibly niche, but maybe a video, or maybe even a KZbin 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)

[@Exernor9867]

Jellyfish: I’ll sell you spicy noodles after you swim :)

[@UruSxs9]

make jelly fish build in terra

[@Exernor9867]

@@UruSxs9how tf did u find me😭😭😭????

[@cloudunknown]

Lol

[@UruSxs9]

@@Exernor9867 all terra players are forced to be a tierzoo fan

[@jazzycat8917]

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.

[@lahlybird895]

How much should investigate whoever runs the Australian server, I think they might be moding

[@NoxHelios]

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?

[@lahlybird895]

@NoxHelios chill out

[@Doinia]

​@@NoxHeliosI think they just meant "Holy war"

[@benrex7775]

​@@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.

[@danksonic]

SpongeBob watching this

[@KyleWallPuncher]

“Write that down! Write that down!”

[@tec-jones5445]

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.

[@Jeikobu]

Exactly! Was coming to make a similar comment!

[@skry6373]

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

[@insectilluminatigetshrekt5574]

​@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

[@ultimatewinfestation7194]

@@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.

[@skry6373]

@@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 :(

[@devilkera]

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.

[@stress1300]

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

[@adamwu4565]

The Portuguese Man of War is a siphonophore.

[@teqqqie8991]

They are just as related to jellyfish as corals, sea anemones, or box jellyfish (which are actually a separate group from true jellyfish)

[@Zwelly101]

​@@adamwu4565 that is true but TierZoo didn't mention or differentiate that the man o' war are siphonophores

[@Topic_Yo]

Yesssss A tier zoo vid

[@yomammasaurusrex9571]

S tier zoo vid

[@jackdias9263]

Fun fact: sea sponges and starfish enjoy capturing jellyfish but always release them. Crabs may attempt to confine jellyfish indefinitely as a food source.

[@o_o8203]

Aww the lil pikmin ghost for the box jellyfish 😭 <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="760">12:40</a>

[@Blishui]

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

[@benrex7775]

They never worry because they lack the brain capacity to worry.

[@Staticsheep28]

Top tier edits as always

[@Supergolem12345]

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

[@carthagegaming5545]

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

[@carthagegaming5545]

Mustelids would be a fun tier list :)

[@TrueWolves]

Hell yeah mustelids

[@carthagegaming5545]

@@TrueWolves whoops good spelling catch

[@molybdaen11]

Man-o-war is a group of cells cosplaying as a yellyfish. But they are incredible good at they job.

[@carthagegaming5545]

@molybdaen11 aren't all multicellular organisms just cells cosplaying as stuff? They're roetty cool that they do so as microorganisms

[@lucacaccamese3417]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="427">7:07</a> Slight correction: corals and Man O' War aren't the only colonial cnidarians. Some hydrozoa are capable of clonal reproduction and colony forming.

[@Walter-vq3vm]

I've heard jelly fish mains are immortal

[@WizzleTeats69]

If tier zoo uploaded, it’s going to be a good millennium.

[@Panda-wv3ng]

Check out the Monterey Bay Aquarium if you’re curious to see some of these builds in person

[@tritiper4188]

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

[@quinnmorgendorffer531]

My pet slug is excited for the sea slug tier list, but wants to know when he is gonna get his moment of fame.

[@reverendnon5959]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="130">2:10</a> and that's a problem for me, I hate Jellyfishes, not that I want to harm them, but I kinda suddenly stumbling upon one while swimming

[@hedobewaterbranding]

humans are weird and unique. they have to unlock the skill in their intelligence skill tree “fighting techniques” to use their combat, and upgrade the combat skill tree, and they have to unlock the skill in the combat skill tree “strength building techniques” to upgrade their strength, eventually into crafting, cooking, and pretty much EVERY skill tree ever.

[@navydave5238]

Show me a human who has gotten anywhere on the poison skill tree

[@DrPumpkinz]

@@navydave5238 Oh, there are plenty of toxic people out there.

[@ultimatecalibur]

@@navydave5238 The Chemist, Exterminator and Cook subclasses?

[@momon969]

@@navydave5238 They don't have to individually. Using that whole (insanely op) technology system, they can collectively fill their bodies with pollutants, microplastics and radiation. So far it's not enough to deter predators, but the game isn't over yet!

[@hedobewaterbranding]

poison dart frog tipped spears/arrows actually exist, the tribesmen just extract the poison from the poison dart frog with the right tools, and tip it on the blade of the spear/arrow, and done.

[@fatalserenity9917]

"It embodies every feature of the archetype, yet excels at non of them and doesn't really have any additional unique ability " I felt that.

[@SnensQ]

I absolutely love Jellyfish, they are so underappreciated. Despite their flaws, they look really cool and just wobble on

[@rusty4790]

No ranking for the immortal jellyfish? Was hoping it would at least get a highlight for breaking one of the game's core rules...

[@ofirbenezra1915]

Shame.

[@awall1831]

My ex was a jellyfish main. They didn’t have a heart or brain either.

[@ceeemgee03]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="597">9:57</a> so you mean to tell me that crabs can just casually rock some kickass poison armor?! That’s hard

[@nicolascaraballo1534]

This is great to know as I was about to go for my monthly jellyfishing outing with my friend who lives under a rock

[@kaotic300]

🪨🗿🍍

[@Veik_Reikis]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="645">10:45</a> 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.

[@mazeofgray]

Jellyfish are unironically my favorite animal I am thrilled to see content on them

[@piralos1329]

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

[@japanesespidercrab132]

Irukanji is biggest glass cannon ever

[@teqqqie8991]

@TierZoo the crab at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="567">9:27</a> is carrying a jellyfish (looks like maybe an upside-down jellyfish), not a sea-anemone Edit: the point made at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="683">11:23</a> about only box jellyfish having eyes is not exactly true. Other types of jellyfish do have rudimentary eyes as part of their sensory organs, called rhopalea. These eyes can't do much more than detect light, however. Box jellyfish are unique in that they have a more developed nervous system, which includes more complex eyes, granting them the ability to see basic shapes, avoid obstacles, and actively swim toward prey

[@josetomascamposrobledano4618]

God’s ultimate Troll. Swim in water when suddenly a real life Mario trap electrocutes you.

[@EvilSnips]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="175">2:55</a> Actually, Jellyfish might go back as 600 million years ago or more. They've been found before the Cambrian.

[@First-Name--Last-Name]

By whom? Time travelers?

[@Toonrick12]

​@@First-Name--Last-NameData miners.

[@Brown95P]

I genuinely do not understand how australo-pacific human builds even enjoy their runs; how does one even endure the constant hot weather and land-based dangers in there without even being able to enjoy the beach waters thanks to such absolute freaks of marine nature? I'd genuinely much sooner spawn in Antarctica than anywhere even remotely close to that region. 🗿

[@Loctorak]

Oh trust me. I am not enjoying this playthrough at all for aforementioned reasons. The heat most of all. I've rolled a class better suited to cold climates on a server tailored to the opposite. Major debuff to mood when it gets above certain humidity levels.

[@molybdaen11]

Just spect into efficiency rather then strenght when designing your muscles and stay out of the midday sun. As a beginner, i advise to invest in burowing. It may cost a lot of points but in return you can use the claws as tools and for defence too.

[@dorongrossman-naples9207]

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 Myxoxoa) 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.

[@smeatlovers5207]

I’ve heard sea sponges with the net tool can hard counter the jellyfish build.

[@dtay8913]

Cant wait to see where the dreaded box jellyfish lands.

[@runningoncylinders3829]

Top of the heap

[@megasean3000]

Ohhh! So that’s why in Finding Nemo, the clownfish live in an anemone.

[@Loctorak]

Well that, plus the rent is cheap considering the location.

[@andrevivier3783]

was NOT expecting this video

[@The_Darke_Lorde]

He has returned! And before GTA6 and Shenhe's rerun, even

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

Irukandji are downright SCARY man.

[@filipe_paixao]

Box Jelly Fish is my second Main 🗿 Hope it got a good ranking

[@TierZoo]

thanks for watching!

[@robertomartinsvalero6097]

Wat is your First main?🤔🤔

[@filipe_paixao]

@@robertomartinsvalero6097 wasp 🗿

[@davidbluestein6984]

As a coral preservationist PLZ do a coral/ anemone tier list!!! Can go over common SPS/ LPS/ soft corals as well as some of the really cool anemones. Also if you were interested in how similar corals and jelly’s are, look up upside down jelly fish. They are pretty much indistinguishable from an anemone as they photosynthesize and will stay on the substrate vs water column 😊

[@davidbluestein6984]

Oh gosh and a sea slug/ nudibranch list!!!! They are some of the COOLEST animals in existence. I used to breed berghia nudibranchs for the reef hobby and it was so much fun

[@Maskeroff.]

What on earth is the thing at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="556">9:16</a>???

[@afedupdialga168]

That’s a nudibranch or sea slug. They commonly feed on anemones and jellyfish, taking in the venoms/toxins and incorporating it into their own bodies to make their own venomous defences

[@tostupidforname]

Yeah im wondering the same thing. Absolute nightmare fuel wtf. Reminds me of a thing from the anime shinsekai yori so maybe they based it on that

[@memerson420]

Fr

[@chasesturmer8854]

YEAH WTF

[@jumbojimbo41801]

Looks like a sea slug of some kind? Maybe? No idea which one of it is tho.

[@Eli-db9ml]

Finally, some love for my favorite animal, and my favorite species too! The Lions Mane Jellyfish, also known as the Arctic Red Jellyfish, or just the Giant Jellyfish. They're just so cool, and deeply underrated.

[@denzr1238]

I heard that jellyfish builds in the Bikini Atoll server had spent evolution points into electrical stings rather than venom

[@SillyMegalodon]

I want to point out an error: Man o' Wars are not jellyfish! They're Siphonophores. Although still in the Cnidarian bit of the tree, the way they play is really interesting. Like coral, they are a colony of clones, but instead of them all sharing the same skills and doing the same thing, there's different units specialized into different tasks. The 'baloon' is one unit, the tentacles are a different kind of unit, even the reproductive organs are carried by special units entirely dedicated to that role. One kind of deep sea Siphonophore is technically the longest species in the game, since there's been observed 'links' (this type strings their units in a long-ass line) as long as 150 feet (or a bit over 45 meters), which is kind of impressive for a playstyle that is more hitting the slots and praying to RNGesus than actual involved gameplay.

[@Szymonux626]

Definetly do the Sea Slug video 😃😃

[@benad3576]

@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="608">10:08</a> 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

[@pangolimazul6055]

A couple of years back I was playing a Human (yes I know, I'm abusing the meta) and sudenly got a game over while at the beach. Searfhing online I discovered it was probably a box jelly. Those annoying ass AFK players are so annoying, they should be banned. I got so agry that now I'm a Sea Slug main and I can say, it is so satisfying to kill all of those afks.

[@Loctorak]

Hey you may have rolled human, but at least you weren't playing with finance/economy hacks or abusing asset duplication glitches.

[@ethanemerson4862]

I can’t believe we just got COCONUT MALLED at the beginning of the video!

[@zacharygroysman279]

So many movies about sharks, crocs/gators, squids, yet the Jellyfish is ripe for monster/horror movie exploitation cause Jesus are they frightening

[@jazzycat8917]

There's a YA book called Jelly about a community of people who live on top of an enormous basking jellyfish because their town was attacked by sapient sea creatures, and the center of the jelly is the only safe place (though it also means they can't leave or the jelly will immeadiately kill them)

[@Zeyek1]

thanks for covering my favorite sea life creature 😅

[@inkysplaters9326]

I like jellyfish. Also, at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="381">6:21</a>, what's the purple stat after STL (Stealth)?

[@Azeer1]

I think it’s perception

[@EricHuang-c9g]

It’s a recent addition added really after the cat vid and it is perception

[@kavangallagher30]

You should do a Isopod tier list. And keep up the grate work

[@victorgomes103]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="557">9:17</a> What is that animal eating the anemone?

[@Fingolfinnnnn]

I watched a video of that guy coyote Peterson or something being stung by the man o war and saying that it is one of the most dangerous ones, it's not even an S tier...

[@ChauNyan]

Jelly Fishing

[@Springdude11]

Can't say I expected a list like this, but I welcome it happily.

[@Shadow-e6b]

Nice video, but at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="493">8:13</a> I don't think that's a blue whale, maybe a small editing mistake??

[@inonknow5215]

Yeah, it's a humpback whale. It's not as big, but you get the idea.

[@wumboworks]

I was not ready for <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="558">9:18</a> 🤣

[@justinjacobson7495]

Such a PERFECT second screen video while I grind in Leagues. I bet TZ is doing the same thing. The real question is what relics he picked.

[@davialmeida4442]

I feel like playing jellyfish is like playing those satisfaction mobile games

[@jairizard]

When you're supposed to be working, but TierZoo has the gracious audacity to drop a new video.

[@kumquatgaming1727]

Hi, Moon jellyfish main here. It hurts being at the bottom of the list but I get it. Honestly, I feel like I have to play moon jelly though. Whenever I spawn, I always get hammered by microplastics. I know I should git gud, but I shouldn’t have to play moon jelly if I don’t want to play an ocean game without the microplastic debuff. It’s so annoying.

[@destrygriffith3972]

You said the other week in an interview that you don't see this channel as sustainable and I immediately agreed. This vid is the perfect demo of that premise. I don't envy trying to find good clips to dramatize the Grass Tier List. I find the palms and the banboos exciting, but a heads up is going to be about as visually appealing as another Tyson fight. Maybe go all Microcosmos on it? The Water Bear Tier List!

[@Sebboebbo]

DA ZOO KING IS BACK BABY HE NEVA MISS WE'RE EATING GOOD TODAY Y'ALL

[@GSBarlev]

I'm super excited for the sea slug tier list. Nudibranches are awesome, including ones that can *literally photosynthesize* (leaf sheep).

[@OwenByrne-w8e]

Easily fave tierlist youtuber ive watched your vids since 2022 and made a book based off your vids

[@doughboyy3]

This is for sure one of my favorite tier lists youve made, super interesting creatures. On a human playthrough and have encountered a few but never been stung.

[@crowlsyong]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="43">0:43</a> you taught me a new word today: eusociality

[@Brambrew]

Aw man no honorable mention for the Hydra?

[@grine6966]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="300">5:00</a> Interresting, so it's not necessarily the biggest one that eat the small one. It's just the first to open it's mouth.

[@greenapple9477]

The music choices for this vid are top tier themselves! Emerald Coast from Sonic, the partner music from Paper Mario 64, the Mario Sunshine music. I normally don't pay too much attention to the music in your vids, but I love the music choices here!

[@conwaysquest6961]

Sea slug Tier list when? They have some of the funkiest builds in the entire game and NOBODY TALKS about it. Some of them, like the blue glaucus seen in this video, can feed on cnidarians and steal their venom. Others have unlocked an ability called kleptoplasty, which allows them to steal the chloroplasts of algae and use them for themselves. Others just can just straight up synthesize chemical weapons from basic molecules or produce acid. There are even a few that can just remove their own heads. I just think they're neat.