I can't even imagine how long this took to make, S tier content for sure

@TierZoo

Жыл бұрын

Thanks man! It took about 3 months, hardest part was gathering all of the funniest/craziest/wackiest insect clips. I combed the depths of the internet to find some of these haha

@sionenjoyer9746

Жыл бұрын

S+*

@KingChocoo

Жыл бұрын

@@TierZoo 2 LEGENDS TALKING! I DEEM YALL 2 OF THE BIG 3 OF WILDLIFE CONTENT!

@chidaluokoro9104

Жыл бұрын

Tiktok guy

@TheB0sss

Жыл бұрын

@@TierZoo i always wonder where you get all of that footage lol, must be difficult to find relevant footage for a lot of it

The amount of frogs failing in the clips made me laugh a lot

@GreaterGrievobeast55

Жыл бұрын

It’s not easy being green, or any other color frogs come in for that matter

@TierZoo

Жыл бұрын

Watching a frog go full send only to completely miss it's target is my actual favorite thing 😂

@Theducknextdoor

Жыл бұрын

@Not gonna lie did you just know or did you search for it for a year?

@zoroasper9759

Жыл бұрын

@@TierZoo The look on their face afterwards makes me feel a little sad though

@PSdodo

Жыл бұрын

True... serves them right though... f***ing noobs that think amphibians are a viable class in the current meta...pfffh

Timestamps of frogs failing miserably: 2:36 17:23 17:56 19:19 Honorable mention: 13:05

@Adrian-qi3hi

Жыл бұрын

I needed this

@OweDalton

Жыл бұрын

What is the soundtrack at 19:19

@blazingchicken2740

Жыл бұрын

@@OweDalton dragon roost island from the legend of Zelda the wind waker

@leroil2525

11 ай бұрын

17:23

@minetruly

11 ай бұрын

MVP

I like how most of the early parts of this video is lower-tier insects progressively succeeding more and more against the praying mantis' vibe checks until eventually getting to the point where the mantis starts getting bodied

@MikeDindu

9 ай бұрын

To be the best, you have to beat the best.

@Ritacuore3

8 ай бұрын

Mantis is the low ceiling skill class who smurfs use to obliterate noobs but suck at higher ranks

@GamingChair420

7 ай бұрын

​@@MikeDindu"if you can dodge a mantis you can dodge a ball" "Wait- what?" *Fucking dies*

@GoodBoiStuff

6 ай бұрын

i fail every vibe check

@exalt2674

5 ай бұрын

And then the thing that killed the mantis couldn't crack the beetle's armor.

Can't belive I just got stick bugged by Tierzoo. what an honor.

@thegrimreaper9552

Жыл бұрын

An honor indeed

@imveryangryitsnotbutter

Жыл бұрын

The President is gagging on my gas bladder!

@aratherbritishdinosaur

Жыл бұрын

As well as that, the segway into sponsor segment was flawlessly executed. Truly a top-tier build in the KZread meta.

@mr.boomguy

Жыл бұрын

@@aratherbritishdinosaur I've seen smoother, but not a bad one either

@ZerglingLover

Жыл бұрын

@@mr.boomguy who said it was the smoothest?

Still can't believe the devs allow silverfish in the game, I never see anyone choose that class

@AGS363

Жыл бұрын

I saw several in my base just this day.

@josephmojo3465

Жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure a silverfish spawn point is in my bases shower. I noticed a pattern that almost exactly every two weeks a silverfish spawns in my bases shower. I was gonna turn it to an xp farm but they just don’t drop enough xp and nobody ever chooses them so I can’t farm them.

@thejinxedcat3616

Жыл бұрын

Bro they are all bots I swear

@whitejacket9725

Жыл бұрын

They should be banned simply for not being silver and not being fish

@waitingfortheequinnox

Жыл бұрын

For the longest time I thought they were a myth made by human players

26:28 🐜“Hey you feeling alright James” Holds up dead guy* 🐜🕷️”Yes I am sufficient comrade, what is the level 9 access code?”

@All_At_Once09

4 ай бұрын

Lol

@FraudulentOne.

2 ай бұрын

Rare L spiders, tricking my goat the Ant

@ehannasir8464

Ай бұрын

@@FraudulentOne. lives to regret it

@ethanemerson4862

Ай бұрын

(Among us music starts playing)

@thegamerFOX45

9 күн бұрын

SPY

You should've mentioned the Cockroach build's secondary effect during flight. It subjects the opponent, usually the human build, to an instant "terrify" status.

@kamilslup7743

10 ай бұрын

There's a problem with that: more aggressive builds will attack the opponent when terrified.

@gabenguyen1216

10 ай бұрын

So an immediate terrify effect with a 50% chance of frenzy? @@kamilslup7743

@difubao8882

9 ай бұрын

⁠@@kamilslup7743then I am a aggressive build

@Freeaviator

9 ай бұрын

That doesn't always work sometimes human mains spawn with a buff preventing the fear to most players below their weight class

@rohitchaoji

8 ай бұрын

That only works if the cockroach is the most terrifying flying insect the human has encountered in their room.

My editing software exploded just watching this

@HeadphoneYT

Жыл бұрын

Hello althisthub

@Briskyyy

Жыл бұрын

Lol time to step up the game… and uh put out that fire

@Spynmaster

Жыл бұрын

literally ragequit like: "fuck this shit I'm out"

@Theducknextdoor

Жыл бұрын

@@HeadphoneYT I read that like atheist hub 💀

@calvindear6316

Жыл бұрын

Makes me happy to know two of my favorite unrelated channels like each other's content

The fact that every time a bug's defense stat was brought up it was being attacked by a mantis truly shows how much of a badass those guys are

@ChasmChaos

Жыл бұрын

Mantises have an insane ape index. It's unfair.

@salvadorarreolarodriguez6165

Жыл бұрын

no venom, no societies, no armor... just kung fu

@erwannthietart3602

Жыл бұрын

@@salvadorarreolarodriguez6165 and the practice of eating you alive while seeking the fastest way to kill you

@colt1903

Жыл бұрын

@@salvadorarreolarodriguez6165 A true warrior

@jay-5061

Жыл бұрын

@@salvadorarreolarodriguez6165 the insect gigachad

The wasp and hornet also has a very high intimidation factor, allowing them to put intense fear into even some human mains such as myself

@pedromartins6810

11 ай бұрын

But if the human gains enough knowledge, the intimidation is reduced quite a lot

@Ayo_The_Pizza_Here.

11 ай бұрын

@@pedromartins6810 however for some players such as myself, the intimidation could be too high

@lucaswashington9285

10 ай бұрын

I personally think that the intimidation effect can backfire because human mains will find out where the hornet colony is located and wipe them from the lobby with crafted weapons like bug spray

@alberteinstein8862

10 ай бұрын

@@Ayo_The_Pizza_Here. If I remember correctly newer human players created a term for such condition called "Skill issue"

@AtomickPhoenix

10 ай бұрын

I had a yellow jacket nest in the wall of my bedroom and they ate through my drywall to get into my room. Yellow jackets suck

I fostered a wild green Mantis for about 6 months in my screened in porch. I kept it fed well and hand fed it water. One day it caught a wasp and ate the whole thing which ended up poisoning it. I thought my mantis was going to die but I mixed vitamin E into some water and fed it to it while it was sick from the wasp. It took about two weeks of nursing but she recovered. Eventually a male found its way into my port and they mated. She did not eat him but he did die after mating. I released her after they mated and now my back yard is filled with mantises. During summer it is impossible to walk a foot without seeing at least 10 mantises either jump and fly or flee to the under brush. I only cut my backyard 3 times a year and only when I know most insects and other animals will be dormant or visibly out of sight. This is in Annapolis MD

@JellypusStudios-uy5ei

24 күн бұрын

I think you found my dream Little Warzone (a Roblox game) server.

@Pugerino

22 күн бұрын

Post it or cap

@langcao3544

13 күн бұрын

You mean you carried a mantis build noob until it defeated a wasp build and looted it for EXP, only to be afflicted with the "poison" status. You thought the status effect was too much, but you saved it by mixing the "vitality" effect giving object with water? I'm so happy she managed to spawn new players!

The walking stick giving itself away while trying to look like a swaying branch might be the most hilarious thing I’ve ever seen

@azonnoza

Жыл бұрын

Whatchu mean, he's just vibin'!

@superdrummergaming

Жыл бұрын

Today I learned that I dance like a poorly camouflaged stick bug.

@jarrod752

Жыл бұрын

Nah man. I gotta give it to the bee getting hit by the hummingbird at the end.

@user-pr6ed3ri2k

Жыл бұрын

you got stickbugged

@gstvntt

Жыл бұрын

I felt bad for the lil guy

As an fire ant main, i can say you give us much credit, which I appreciate. As a construction worker, I have been responsible for many incredible ant bases. You are amazing with your knowledge of the game.

I get why Orthopteras may be mid-tier individually, but if you’re ever lucky enough to spawn during a population boom, you get to reclassify as a “Locust” for the entirety of the event, and you can do some real damage when you and your buddies swarm! Really cramped a couple of Human metas in particular! Don’t get me wrong, you’re all but guaranteed a game-over at the end of the event, but while it lasts, it’s the most fun you can possibly have playing *any* insect build!

@curious9904

Ай бұрын

Raid bosses are something this game is almost completely devoid of unless you play a usocial insect or a human build, so the rare chance you do get to do it as a build that normally wouldn't get the chance to is absolutely gratifying, better than sex (guaranteed for mantis mains)

This feels more like a frog humiliation video than a bugs tier list

@Epsilon-18

Жыл бұрын

Frog fails

@nhojcad7452

Жыл бұрын

😂

@Timewaster291

Жыл бұрын

😂

@Cub__

Жыл бұрын

Toads body

@jeghaterdegforfaen

Жыл бұрын

It's funny, but I disagree.

I absolutely love when the video moves to the s tier and the dung defender soundtrack from hollow knight kicks in as the camera shows a giant beatle in his shining black armor and when the hornet's theme sounds at the absolutely highest place, it is perfect.

This is the first video I've seen from this channel, and I just have to say, I love the concept of what you are doing here. It's a whole new brand of teaching that can reach the minds of an enormous demographic, who may not have otherwise understood these principles when explained in the conventional way. I have a huge amount of respect for the genuine educators in this world.

R.I.P to all those frog mains in this video who just could not catch the insects in this video. Wonderful video as always, this tierlist was one I was looking forward to so much.

@wolfshanze5980

Жыл бұрын

I'm so sick of the Devs always nerfing my Frog class... seems no matter how I swap talents I still end up with a low hit-chance. Ribbet.

@panzerschliffehohenzollern4863

Жыл бұрын

Lol Frog main garbo. Just play human lol

@kaimanthelizardwizard1248

Жыл бұрын

Feelsbadman

@Eugene_TEC

Жыл бұрын

At least he didn't feature the Epomis beetles lol

@user-sr4in6iq9b

Жыл бұрын

@@wolfshanze5980 ٩ط1خ111دخ

I will never get tired of hearing yoshi sounds when a lizard eats something. Makes me giggle every time

@globalbattleeng3300

Жыл бұрын

Thanks to the author for such interesting content, and if you save a video with a health scale, then there is such a thing on my channel kzread.info/dron/jM3h0WzL-jqwXDy4mE1cSg.html

Flies are great builds for casual players. Their campaign is rather short but it's a lot fun and they possess some very cool abilities that you can unlock very quickly.

I've grinded enough coins and mastery in the ant faction to become a queen, and omg its INSANELY op. You can easily destroy ANY try hard solo colony if you can start up a super colony with multiple queens. Rn me and 7 other queens are in a turf war with the BIGGEST fire ant colony we've ever seen. Rn were currently winning.

I once bisected a grasshopper with the antenna on my car. Completely accidental, but the "no idea where they're going to land" seems really applicable.

@kaja3932

Ай бұрын

It feels so weird how risky this move is when grasshoppers can use it as a quick startup for their flight. Songbirds are high tier because of how quickly they can weave around threats with their nearly instant flight, and yet Grasshoppers fumble when they have the same blueprint but with a powerful, combo breaking kick that on paper would set them apart from both songbirds and houseflies. Guess the silverfish must've gotten to that paper before the grasshopper could turn it in

Might be a bit of a weird request, but I'd love to see something like a Fungi tier list

@nerdywolverine8640

Жыл бұрын

YES

@liamday2147

Жыл бұрын

As a fellow Fungi enjoyer, I can tell that you are a pretty fun guy.

@Zeppelin.

Жыл бұрын

It’d be so easy to join a large fungi colony and just chill the entire time in a tree or something．

@thewhisper4269

Жыл бұрын

tier*zoo* so just animals

@nps86

Жыл бұрын

Yes yes yes!!!

i really appreciate how they added stick bugs as a reference to the meme

@jimmyboi8220

9 ай бұрын

cant believe i got stick bugged man smh

@4546Bean

8 ай бұрын

Good on the devs for embracing the fan culture

one of the coolest things ive ever done for the sake of curiosity was i grabbed a shovel full of a "army ant" colony took it to a black ant colony (cause i assumed they were the weakest) and dumped it on the side of their mound to see what happened... and it was crazy. so the black ants sent out scouts to see what the ruckus was, spotted the "invaders" and scrambled back inside at top speed, the army ants spotted the black ants as well and i shit you not, started fortifying then the waves started. all in all it was a afternoon well spent in my case because holy crap, the fight was legendary.

They may be some F tier insects, but in matchup against human mains they sometimes have so much intimidation that they win a battle, resulting in human mains run away

@Mr.BloxAlot123

Жыл бұрын

Exactly that’s why I main them

@crazyraptor2907

Жыл бұрын

@@Mr.BloxAlot123 kono insect da?

@AKseorangmanusia

Жыл бұрын

Yes the silverfish. I liked to open old books and suddenly seeing these silverfish mains moving like fast, short worms genuinely intimidate me to no end

@peggedyourdad9560

Жыл бұрын

@@AKseorangmanusia Eh, still not as terrifying as suddenly seeing a house centipede running on the floor/wall. If you haven’t seen one I don’t recommend looking it up unless you’re ready for a new fear because they look like if you took everything freaky about regular centipedes and cranked it to max capacity. The only reason I don’t kill them on sight is because they eat many common small pest insects in houses.

@jedichosenone4496

Жыл бұрын

I remember once in Texas, a spider main was just walking down the road like he was a human player, scared the heck out of me

When the beetle came in and the Dung Defender theme kicks in... Magnificent!

@Willmare_

Жыл бұрын

Doma , Doma Doma Doma

@PanchoPonceN

Жыл бұрын

FA FUUUNDAAAAAA!!!

@levesteM

Жыл бұрын

Also, Hornet's theme for the Hymenoptera section.

@eyaldl

Жыл бұрын

Shua

@hugoamkreutz2081

Жыл бұрын

Doma doma doma

Me: Has a Chess tournament today and needs to prepare Also me: *INSECT TIER LIST*

@ValChronification

5 ай бұрын

How did you do?

@ThatCzechMapper

5 ай бұрын

@@ValChronification Scored 3 out of 7. Not great, not terrible

@pizzatime4024

3 ай бұрын

@@ThatCzechMapperat least you didnt do terrible

Damn man, I just found ur channel and am freaking loving it! All your choices of effect-sounds and music makes me soooo happy und pumped. And damn! the Hornet Theme für the total Top-Tier, Ants, Bees and Wasps? I'm crying! Considere your channel as advertised from me :)

As a silver fish main, I am greatly offended. Sure we suck at pvp but we can survive years longer than most insects. On top of eating wood and paper, we can also eat our own shed skin, and with this can survive in a jar for years with limited resources. I've always been able to pass on my genes and complete the main story multiple times before dying off. Were definitely more of an rp kinda play style, just coz we can't build or pvp like the best I really think we're being overlooked ❤️🤗

@douglaspatterson9155

Жыл бұрын

I could see silverfish mains really thriving in farming simulator type games.

@MP-ri8ng

Жыл бұрын

Problem is, you silverfishes are near the end (Pun intended)

@KunjaBihariKrishna

Жыл бұрын

That's ok, food source

@Bonlaws

Жыл бұрын

Also, the silverfish meta was perfected very early on, they haven't recieved any nerfs or buffs since their first introduction, showing they're exactly as the devs want, so they are perfect in the eyes of the devs, making them S+ in my book

@prophecyrat2965

Жыл бұрын

He says he fisent base the tier list on population… but from the fact that Humans are top tier, its without a doubt that the tier list is based on organization, killing power, and the ability to change the environment.

i love how ants and bees were in S tier to the surprise of absolutely nobody

@blitz4779

Жыл бұрын

I think the biggest surprise was that beetles were put in the same tier No complaints here. Love beetles

@DJFracus

Жыл бұрын

@@blitz4779 beetles making up 25% of all ANIMAL species is a crazy stat too hard to ignore (although insects in general make up around 70% of all known species)

@DarthHoosier3038

Жыл бұрын

Man imagine if the atmospheric oxygen somehow got up to Carboniferous levels again and we had dog sized eusocial ants walking around! What could stop them?! They’d be the most broken build ever except for maybe humans…

@daydodog

Жыл бұрын

my big surprise was that ants and bees are together

@RealCesyB

Жыл бұрын

Have you ever played Cuphead? Bees can be scary

Loved to see Hemipterans getting some respect, they are easily one of the most underrated arthropod classes of the game! The model of wings some of them have, with membranous hindwings and forewings that are hardened at the base and membranous at the tip, also allow them to have greater defense stats without sacrificing too much of their flight maneurability stats (although I do agree beetles absolutely are S tiers).

First time in this channel and I loooove the concept ! Do a tier list of real life animals and call them "combattants" like it's a video game, I dont know if it was already made but I never seen that before, Gg dude 👍

“Dragonflies can’t walk” is my favorite bug fact of all time now.

@lifevest1

Жыл бұрын

Yes, but they’ll f*ck anywhere under the sun 🙄🤣🤣

@Vits2001

Жыл бұрын

For real, just like cows being good swimmers

@themobius5798

Жыл бұрын

@@Vits2001 Cows can swim?!

@Vits2001

Жыл бұрын

@@themobius5798 They can! And apparently they're actually pretty decent at it🤣

@oofialt

Жыл бұрын

@@Vits2001 i think ive heard that mooses are good swimmers too, not sure if its true or not.

I love how most of the time you want to show the agility of the insect we see them dodge a frog attack and watching the frogs fall is somehow really funny

@soulstitches9900

Жыл бұрын

Careful, you might trigger the frog mains :P

@casbyness

Жыл бұрын

I thought it was the same frog in every clip. Poor guy just can't catch a break. Or a fly. Or a beetle.

@vazzaroth

Жыл бұрын

It's their 'go stiff' technique!

20:24 Perfect timing on Dung Defender’s theme LOL, great job TZ

I didn't search for this, but I'm glad I found it. Very unique style of docu-style video! As a gamer I was instantly hooked!

12:54 Fun fact, there is a type of assassin bug that coats itself in the dead corpses of ants which works as a really good disguise letting him not get attacked by any of the ants around him, it can also spray the ants so that the other ants of that colony attack the ant

@Red-yt2dk

Жыл бұрын

... "spay" or "spray" :D Imagine a beetle going around castrating ants to get them ostracized by their peers

@barelyabear7956

Жыл бұрын

That's actually kinda sick

@seismic33

Жыл бұрын

@@barelyabear7956 Thats what I'm saying

@antonikudlicki1100

Жыл бұрын

Imgine spy in tf2 making enemies suseptible to friendly fire. That would be quite a mess :3

@snowboundwhale6860

Жыл бұрын

@@antonikudlicki1100 ngl that'd make for a pretty cool weapon.

it was definetly a better choice to spend more time on making videos and having higher quality videos than spending less time on them. This is absolutely amazing and editing is top tier

@zsyhan15

Жыл бұрын

When I first discover the channel, I binged everything. That means the channel videos are super well made. Just thinking out loud. No idea why I wrote this

Your content is such a creative way to teach people about animals. With so many different types of Hymenoptera I think it would be cool to see a tier list with them only!

So brilliant of you to make this youtibe channel. You literally can't run out of content, there are so many different species of these bugs that can get their own video

Whoever came up with this idea of describing insects like video game characters deserves a Nobel Prize! Great stuff!

@baronobeefdip8075

Жыл бұрын

The video "Casually Explained: Evolution" was TierZoo's big inspiration, from what I hear. Except TierZoo cranked the idea up to 15.

@CAT-astrophical

Жыл бұрын

This guy explain everything as a video game character so i guess he deserve way more than a nobel price

@Zutia

Жыл бұрын

If you check out the subreddit r/outside, they've been describing real life like a videogame for 14 years. I believe they were a major influence on TierZoo's first videos, as he used (and to an extent still does) a lot of the language common in that particular community.

@lukefrahn8538

Жыл бұрын

we always thought there might be a BRAIN BUG on planet earth

@Zutia

Жыл бұрын

@@HessianLikeTheFabric Trust me, I know the feeling. My own friends, younger than I am, have toddlers now and I'm just sitting here wondering how! I knew this guy in school and that image of him just never left!

A note on cockroaches: they have a chance to cause a passive debuff on Human players, sometimes procing to an Intimidate or Terrorize debuff. This effect gets a boost when in flight. Some cockroaches end up terrifying stronger Human players because of this. It's not enough to bump them up from C-tier, but it is a very useful perk

@lordbuss

Жыл бұрын

Many insects have the same effect on humans.

@leotamer5

Жыл бұрын

This is actually a major debuff as this same effect can taunt a human instead, and cockroaches have poor matchup against humans. While they can often times escape, or tank a few hits, a human equipped a boot can use a squish attack to overwhelm a cockroaches impressive defensive stats. And when significantly taunted, humans can become equipped with far more powerful chemical weapons that are more effective against groups of cockroaches. An insect player is far better off being ignored by humans, or by having humans thinking they are kind of neat.

@trevon5036

Жыл бұрын

This is true, although some of the Male Sub-Class of the human mains posess natural resistance to the debuff

@okene

Жыл бұрын

@@trevon5036 lies nigga I'm scared

@trevon5036

Жыл бұрын

@@okene Yes, some of the offspring naturally are more scared due to the way they were farmed, and their genetic makeup at spawn.

Microscopic wasps: I am so tiny that S tier isn't enough for me

That eyewitness theme is pure nostalgia to me. i remember watching those tapes at my grandma's house.

16:21 That footage was hilarious. The mantis player's reaction was absolutely comedic gold. Swinging their pincer frantically to try and dispell the stink debuff faster, then looking at the stink bug player in sheer confusion before cleaning the same pincer indignantly. I love mantis players, they always have such a comedic, charming look and personality to them.

@tentrix8505

Жыл бұрын

Bro was flabbergasted

@eldritchcupcakes3195

Жыл бұрын

Orchid mantis player here, thanks! We eat each other for lold

@corentinm.105

Жыл бұрын

This traumatized look of the spider at 20:42 is really relatable too

@okfine9077

Жыл бұрын

It's actually a bombardier beetle that sprays boiling liquid. If it was a stink bug, the mantis probably would have just eaten it anyways

@Th-tj6xv

Жыл бұрын

As a Liberty Cap main I see a lot of wired and funny things as being very limited in movement, I see a lot of weird things with humans too. I think it has to do with my special mind altering buff if they eat me or another part of me.

Honestly I really want to see an “F Tier Tier List”. Just a tier list of all major build in F tier with the builds in this F tier being genuinely the worst builds in the game right now with this S tier being build that are just barely not in normal F tier. This would also be cool for builds in normal S tier as well.

@sandychen1381

Жыл бұрын

yes

@lukehewko260

Жыл бұрын

That silverfish looks like a real contender.

@abadminecraftplayer

Жыл бұрын

The s tier f tier would be the best of the worst

@donaldjgumpofficial5754

Жыл бұрын

I think Cheetahs and Rattites would rank high. I think they're both hard done by and should be in D tier instead.

@Adrevenue1331

Жыл бұрын

Yes

I’d love to see sub tier lists for insects, like because there’s so many different kinds of ants, bees, beetles, spiders, and flies it would be super interesting.

Love how Hollow Knight soundtrack plays when beetles introduce themselves 😂

You know he's good when he puts the Hornet battle theme from Hollow Knight on the hymenoptera faction man. You finally did an insect tier list. Shoutout to all the Arthropod mains!

@leomllerloshak7446

Жыл бұрын

antother one who noticed : )

@milanelst5754

Жыл бұрын

also dung defender theme when talking about beetles

@aronianspigonian8589

Жыл бұрын

Γεια σου από Αμερική

@VulpineFox7

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@pambrewster3421

Жыл бұрын

Link to the clip: Thank me later kzread.info/dash/bejne/kYGMx5OOd6bShKw.html

I think it is important to note the impact non-social Hymenoptera have. Parasitoid wasps are one of the most important balancing forces on other high tier insects. Many insects that cause problems when they get ported other servers have populations on their native server mainly controlled by a species or two of parasitoid wasps.

@seanwhitman8353

Жыл бұрын

Seriously, have you seen the Hawk Wasp player base? Excellent 1v1 stats and strats, and every variant of the Tarantula Hawk Wasp has some of the most devastating venom in the game. And that leaves aside some of the other eusocial insect players.

@llsilvertail561

Жыл бұрын

Also without the role solitary bees play in pollination, just about every larger terrestrial and arial (and some aquatic tbh) builds quite literally wouldn't be playable. Like, recently, a lot of players in the North American servers (I think?) are being taken out by unknown causes, and it's causing so much havoc.

@hedgehog3180

2 ай бұрын

Parasitoid wasps are also the only build in the game to have unlocked the use of symbiotic viruses, though humans have been going down that crafting tree but they're solely using them as defense against bacteria, not in the offensive way that parasitoid wasps use them.

I love your style of video making them a gaming style but still being able to explain the anatomy of the animal. Love your videos

this is literally one of the best youtube videos ive ever seen and ive been watching youtube since 2008

"Technically termites are a variant of the cockroach build" made my inner entomologist very happy

@alphaundpinsel2431

Жыл бұрын

I always thought they were ants wtf

@aaronolson6736

Жыл бұрын

hearing and looking at them, they are very clearly ant-like and not ant-related

@YuiFunami

Жыл бұрын

mantises too

@laprankster3264

10 ай бұрын

@@YuiFunami yeah but I believe termites evolved from a group of wood eating cockroaches, while mantises split off from the roaches sometime before that.

@YuiFunami

10 ай бұрын

@@laprankster3264 they're still a variation on the cockroach build though like the termites

Butterflies and moths are squishy and often just food outside of being pollinators. But I can't believe you didn't mention the coolest most niche defence they have. If they get trapped in a spider web they're able to shed their very loose scales, making them be able to just tumble off to survive another day. That has to give them at least some bonus points.

@Mortablunt

Жыл бұрын

Reverse yoink

@davidbrickey8733

Жыл бұрын

I feel like having a good matchup against a specific class of predator isn't particularly important when you have really bad matchups against so many others.

@custardapplecat2902

Жыл бұрын

Tbh I feel like he was a little too hard on the evasion/stealth based classes. Like silverfish can shed their sales when grabbed, which can be much more effective than most other evasion abilities like dropped tails or ink.

@augustrempelewert4377

Жыл бұрын

I mean, he's gone on record before as not being a fan of defensive moves that involve sacrificing a body part.

@custardapplecat2902

Жыл бұрын

@@augustrempelewert4377 yeah but I wouldn’t consider silverfish as “sacrificing a body part”. It has thin scales that regrow and have no nerves, blood, or nutrient stores, so it’d be more akin to fur or a reptile molt than anything else.

It is also worth mentioning that insects faction is more suited for hardcore players who want to experience the most horrific parts but on the other hand have some broken abilities.

21:39 Only a few beetles have exceptionally high mobility, many of them are the slow, lumbering builds you'd expect. 23:57 Also, I think the acid horn perk is unique to only one or two species of termite. The rest all rely on mandibles.

Awesome. I’ve actually made friends with at least one mantis. Having a drink after work with my coworkers and they started freaking out because a tiny (like 1.5 cm) Mantis had landed on my shoulder. Not wanting to have my ear ripped into by scaring it, I provide it the old finger tip and it climbed from there to the edge of the patio furniture. Little weirdo just hung out for at least five minutes just looking at me, tilting its head back and forth like my pug. Never felt so much personality from a bug, definitely felt like “someone”

@molybdaen11

Жыл бұрын

Considering if she could eat you or not most of the time for sure.

@tonyattardo9350

Жыл бұрын

@@molybdaen11 can’t argue with that

@thomasmcelroy5785

Жыл бұрын

@@molybdaen11 pretty sure thats what my cat's doing when she looks at me too lol

@believeinmatter

Жыл бұрын

@King Longface nah, you’re desperate. Reported

@Coopersville

Жыл бұрын

An angel or a demon? Depending on what shoulder it landed on.

A 30 minute tier zoo video! That’s a blessing from the lord! Love it

@Zagiman72

Жыл бұрын

Only 30 min? He should just give us the 5hr uncut version and we’ll watch it anyways

@firstnext5482

Жыл бұрын

@it's about time You are a bot.

@schizopenguin

Жыл бұрын

@Don't read profile photo banner* the thing you see when you go to someone's channel is a channel banner

@Baddknewz

Жыл бұрын

@it's about time wouldn’t that be genocide?

@blobbybobby4104

Жыл бұрын

@@Zagiman72 true haha

Black ops music, RuneScape font, such nostalgia ❤ S tier content for sure 👌🏻

I love having this guy's videos on in the background while I'm doing work

26:36 I think this guy's insanely smooth transitions into the sponsor ads does not get enough credit. He gets me every. single. time.

@MrDibara

Жыл бұрын

He and Casual Geographich both being the real kings into sponsor transitions. 👌

@Shnarfbird

Жыл бұрын

Silence, plant

@Gluglos

Жыл бұрын

That was for sure the smoothest and smartest sponsor transition I've seen so far

@Hogaboga101

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I can usually sense sponsor segments form miles away, but this one caught me completely off guard!

@cyberjoy404

Жыл бұрын

He just said "something similar happens when" and played the ad, no shit youd get caught, theres barely enough time to react

I love how Silverfish have essentially one point in life: Run.

@Theturtleowl

Жыл бұрын

I will remember that is an ancient species next time I introduce one to my shoe.

@claysoggyfries

Жыл бұрын

They exist just to give other players free xp

@gsimon123

Жыл бұрын

@@claysoggyfries no. R U N .

@JubioHDX

Жыл бұрын

this video made me realize some of the super creepy bugs i saw on the wall only to go get a show and return to find it nowhere to be found was just a silverfish and not anything that was gonna eat my brain in my sleep, i feel comforted

@erickg667

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, and they are weak af. They're the only insects I've seen dying after falling from short heights.

hi, im in school pursuing a degree in entomology!! a couple things i wanted to note: -leps are totally d tier (unfortunate, because moths are some of my favorites lol.) however i think it's important to note that leps, specifically caterpillars, are most of the basis for our entire food web!! they're the main consumers of plants, which directly take energy from the sun and convert it into usable food energy. caterpillars then are the majority of things that eat plants, therefore transferring that energy to most everything else in the food web. basically, almost everything eats insects or eats things that eat insects. so in terms of viability they are mostly low tier, but in terms of ecosystem importance, they're up there with pollinators. (also there's some cool crypsis in moths, plus some cool defense mechanisms like arctiidae moths which can confuse bat sonar by making high frequency vibrations). -orthopterans (grasshoppers, crickets, katydids). under normal circumstances i agree with c tier. however. if there's a lot of these guys in tight quarters, they'll enter a gregarious form that literally changes how they look and how they act. these are locusts, and this is how we get locust swarms. i think orthopterans when they swarm like that deserve a or b tier honestly because the amount of deleafing they can do is crazy. -i love you neuropterans, trichopterans, plecopterans, and all other bugs that spend 99% of their life as OP larvae before growing into a shitty adult form that lives for a week to fuck and die -dragonflies (+ mayflies, also in odonata) have more primitive wings! they literally have different musculature structures to other winged insects. the tradeoff is thay they can't fold their wings like, say, beetles can, so their wings always have to be sticking up like that. i love them. they are so cool. -thank you for acknowledging the power of the termite. termites do agriculture. termites have architecture. termites strong forever. i love these guys. why did wood roaches have to ruin them having their own order (lighthearted, i love roaches too. but i think termites deserve their own order. to represent their power.) termites also have funny guys in their stomachs (i want to say protozoans?) that are what allow them to digest wood!! so they have tummy pals :) -funny thing about the beetle species vs ant numbers thing. hymenoptera is actually the order with the most species. research has come out literally in the last like, two or three years proving that. so ants win doubly!! i've been a long time fan of this channel (longer than i've been in school for insects, haha)!! i love this type of stuff and insects in particular are, of course, a special interest of mine. looking forward to more arthropod content in general!!!

I love to play as the Silverfish, whenever I want to have that extra challenge. Your only objective is to eat paper and survive, basically turning the game into a giant Hide & Seek Horde Survival game

As a former Toad Main, all those missed attacks felt like a personal attack 💀

@apac13

Жыл бұрын

As a former Archerfish main, i can feel your pain as well.

@hlimon7614

Жыл бұрын

As a former silverfish main dont fucking use silverfish if you don't wanna be bullied🗿🗿🗿

@riroufudo

Жыл бұрын

I'm a hippo main they're a pretty good counter to the human

@mrblakeboy1420

Жыл бұрын

forg

@jamesverner9132

Жыл бұрын

tierzoo has a personal bias against frogs.

I've been big into biology and ecology all my life but I find the "gamified" approach adopted on this channel to covering the material extremely compelling and regularly brings a smile to my face even though I'm watching them talk about things I already know. I just hadn't thought about how "broken" an ability was given the current patch level. Well done.

@Jaybiiird

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, this is such a wonderful channel :)

@aoumersini6627

Жыл бұрын

this chanel is a lyar, dont belive everithing,the theory of evolution is a big lie pokemon yugioh cards like you programed on tv, so please dont belive everithing

@mfsusanoo7238

Жыл бұрын

its cause of that phrasing that makes me wonder if 2:28 was a reference to No More Heroes intro

I love the Eyewitness theme song in the background. Pure nostalgia ❤

"cockroaches are ratter clumsy flyers... but everyone is gansta until one of those fly around and puts everyone in scream mode"

I appreciate you taking a breaking from the endless arthropods to give us that clip of the ducklings napping on a log (with cameo by dragonfly) as a palate cleanser.

@f1ringfed

Жыл бұрын

And the flamingo 🦩

@sekaihunter9378

Жыл бұрын

Also some frog and tadpole cameos. (Rip the tadpole player tho, he was still too underleveled and couldn't defended himself against that dragonfly base form player)

@ArberKryemadhi

Жыл бұрын

18:32

@Racc_Oon

Жыл бұрын

nice zero pfp

@corphish129

Жыл бұрын

@@Racc_Oon Thanks. I shamelessly stole it from Google images like 10 years ago.

You forgot to bring up the rare grasshopper "Swarm" event where grasshopper mains gain access to the locust build which allows them to farm xp so efficiently along with other locusts that they can completely strip regions of plant based xp.

@Zacjd

Жыл бұрын

locust would be SS tier

@souffrantdepine3762

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, probably because it isn't exactly a "plus". Swarms inevitably starve themselves out and collapse, or otherwise draw too much attention from the human faction and get chem-bombed into non-existence. The strategy is so rare because it's utterly unsustainable.

@Zacjd

Жыл бұрын

@@souffrantdepine3762 for centuries they were a serious threat and have been documented in biblical times as gods wrath

@souffrantdepine3762

Жыл бұрын

@@Zacjd Still unsustainable.

@Zacjd

Жыл бұрын

@@souffrantdepine3762 no other insect has done this

Love the game related commentary. 10/10 video

This is a great way to tell a science story! Good job!

20:23 love how you matched the Dung Defender theme to the beetle

@gilded2342

Жыл бұрын

I lost my shit lol

@imveryangryitsnotbutter

Жыл бұрын

@@gilded2342 Don't worry, Dung Defender is on the case

@gergory97

Жыл бұрын

And Hornet for the hymenopterans

@mcgoldenblade4765

Жыл бұрын

Big missed opportunity not putting Mantis Lords theme on the Mantis segment.

@trevorhegstrom2816

Жыл бұрын

And Dragon Roost Island to the dragonfly

The nano blade intro was hilarious 😂

@potato4481

Жыл бұрын

i need healing

@crestfallen4341

Жыл бұрын

come to me and ill heal you

Just started playing Overwatch 2 the last month and the intro had me in stitches. The chat part is a fucking chef’s kiss!

Its a fantastic video, but the BlackOps 2 Multiplayer music was and will forever be a nostalgic banger!

One interesting thing about the Bee players is how they managed to make an alliance alongsize Human players. Some bee players make special guilds that give Humans some of their resources in return for their protection. This might seem like a bad deal at first, but the more you look into it, the more your realize just how powerful this can be. I mean, when you have a hyper intelligent titan as your protector, that's a pretty good deal!

@JeRefuseDeBienPrononcerBaleine

Жыл бұрын

Bonus point if said titan is a sugar addicted psychopath with a disturbing eagerness to wipe out your threats.

@Undomaranel

Жыл бұрын

It's less of an alliance and more of a truce. Builds like cattle, dogs and such are definitely human allies, and those factions willingly chose to develop together. I'm a raptor main, on my hawk runs it's a 50/50 shot that I'm in a truce with some human. I eat the rodents their farming attracts, they leave me alone except watch, or that one family that actually recorded my aerie and mating questline because they're weird (maybe they got xp for observing our chicks, who knows). But bees? Not only are they staunchly independent, but territories and resources with humans aren't in competition, so sharing the same resources for different xp benefits them like it does my raptors. A human-bee playthrough isn't much different than a bee playthrough, you just lose your honey to a bear or something instead of the human who expects loot for not destroying you smh. The most they get from me is the odd feather ... and pellets when I go owl lol.

@Ahrpigi

Жыл бұрын

Human players enjoy this trade so much, some of them have specialized into finding wayward bee players and guiding them back to a safe trading area. It's so nice to see players cooperate like that!

@lordfriedrick7911

Жыл бұрын

And if the hyperintelligent titan is not that good at protecting the guild, you can always abandon him and move to another place...

@astick5249

Жыл бұрын

@@JeRefuseDeBienPrononcerBaleine yep very annoying on my hornet playthroughs

While playing stick bug you might get the “meme” perk. It does nothing to your actual play style or build, but it makes you funny to human mains

@metademetra

Жыл бұрын

Debatably, the meme perk can be extremely useful. Human mains become charmed, which leads them to try to defend the player. House Cat mains were the first to develop this perk. Now, cats have an idle playstyle that makes humans gather XP and key items for them.

@eliasalarabi6298

Жыл бұрын

It's just an entertainment bonus at the cost of a stealth setback, feels less like an actual utility and more like a genuine easter egg

@shrimpcat12

Жыл бұрын

Bro…….

@wayward5219

Жыл бұрын

Though, a human main might get close to you, and since their eyes are located on the head, allowing you to jump onto the human face and bite and totally not grab onto its face and lay eggs in the human main's stomach who are going to burst out of the human's chest and become giant monsters and causing humans to make movies about them. Yeah, totally insane

@sincereflowers3218

Жыл бұрын

The Human specific "cuteness" algorithm needs to be considered in all tier lists going forward. Realistically, if you can appear generally "cute" to humans you unlock a mostly consequence free playstyle.

Also worth noting both ants and termites unlocked agriculture, and termites actually are entirely dependent on a species of fungi they cultivate in order to digest wood

the hollow knight music on the beetle section of the video was very clever, congratulations!

I grew up in an urban environment and insects are what introduced me to outside gameplay.

it's incredible how underrated this class is and how everyone says they're useless, and yet an enormous portion of the players in this game play it.

@anarchosnowflakist786

Жыл бұрын

those who say they're useless are just salty they can't fly *and* have cool armor, also insects are too busy winning the game to answer these critics

@arthurfleck629

Жыл бұрын

And on top of that‚ a huge amounts of the player base‚ the majority in fact‚ wouldn’t even be able to survive without the platers who play as bees‚ given that bees help to create food.

@shallowseller3893

Жыл бұрын

Most are npcs, mobs, kids that want to play the game but couldn’t gather enough exp so they are stuck playing the worst classes, players looking for achievements, role players, casual players, and randomized spawn.

@bengonzalez5215

Жыл бұрын

Just like nickleback

@irieform5442

Жыл бұрын

@@arthurfleck629 I think bees are mods

Maybe I am mistaken, but I think the biggest problem with Earwigs is that they are grabbing stuff with a deathgrip… Using a tool that is at the end of the body part that contains most of their vital organs.

as a termite main we have the longest living insect queen and replacable queens and kings when they die we can have a new one by simply evolving one of our workers to a queen or king to keep the colony running unlike ants when their queen dies the whole colony dies

The fact that chsnnels like yours about animals and prehistoric animals still use the "Walking With " clips for footage warms my heart. The whole series is definitely one of the best prehistoric series we ever got. Also phenomenal video as always.

@Abominatrix650

Жыл бұрын

Praise the Walking With... documentaries!

@Abominatrix650

Жыл бұрын

@King Longface Is it of you, realising nobody likes your spammy ass? 'Cause I'll watch that!

I can’t believe you didn’t mention one of the bee team’s most intimidating group attacks, piling on their opponents and cooking them alive through the team’s collective body heat.

@Classica2010

Жыл бұрын

It's only some bee classes who do the oven ball methods, but yea

@stuckinhedge2612

Жыл бұрын

Is that the one that's a bug involving the unintended synergy between the huddling and overheating mechanics?

@sule.A

Жыл бұрын

He didn't mention it but he showed it around the 25 minute mark somewere

@teri4978

Жыл бұрын

25:38

@dewit2069

Жыл бұрын

He did? 25:38

The idea of a stick bug walking up my pants scares the shit outta me

You think i wouldn’t notice the dung defender theme in the beetle part? Lol nice reference, also the hornet theme at the ant part. My hollow knight senses are tingling!

Came for the entomology, stayed for the frog pratfalls

@phoule76

Жыл бұрын

and the dragonfly trolling those ducks

Mosquito main here. It may not be the strongest or fastest build out there, but it's GLORIOUS for griefing. If you play it right, you can completely deny the rested bonus to players millions of times your size. Just engage them in "combat" whenever they're about to doze off (go for the ear!). Works even better in a pack and you don't have to coordinate with your teammates, either! If you're in the mood for stealthy shenanigans, pierce their skin to steal resources and leave a debuff that literally causes them to hurt themselves, doing more damage to them than you ever could. Sit on the wall and watch the madness unfold (avoid white wallpaper).

@Th-tj6xv

Жыл бұрын

As a Liberty Cap fungus main I can agree as I can hear some of them speaking of plague's and hating on Mosquitos and how they spread diseases.

@pawesliwa6967

Жыл бұрын

Also according to WHO not directly, but still mosquitos kill 725,000 people a year.

@Justacheese

Жыл бұрын

Jokes on you pal. I speced into the highly sensitive skin trait. The moment you land on me I can feel it. I'm also more patient than you can imagine. You never know if I know if you're there or not. So when you least expect it I'll smash your entire body in with a one hit KO thanks to my size. I also researched the weapon that counters you. Good luck evading 3 separate fly swatters I own in case one breaks.

@estebanslavidastic4382

Жыл бұрын

as a dragonfly main, i support your choice to play mosquitos. More xp for me!

@sugarkane1571

Жыл бұрын

As a dog main, how dare you. 1v1 me like a proper game scrub.

13:35 is the kind of subtle comedy that I adore lmao

I love your videos!

The spider masquerading as an ant at 26:30 literally did the thing in TV shows where somebody is dead or knocked out but the protagonist has to use them as a disguise or pretend that they are alive. I hope that somebody else saw it

@thefluffyaj4119

Жыл бұрын

yup! I study entomology and that's indeed what the spider is doing. they are carrying around the ant so that they well smell more like the colony!

@raheemallen2003

Жыл бұрын

All These calamities that are going on around the world is going to lead to a Sunday law which will be the MARK of The BEAST, Those that keep God's seventh day sabbath will be persecuted and prohibited from buying and selling, Jesus is coming soon.

@rickydiscord7671

Жыл бұрын

that's why there's a saying "a wolf in sheep's clothing" is a thing.

@alexmcmurray7731

Жыл бұрын

He Weeknd at bernies’d them

@AnRandomSoul

Жыл бұрын

9:14 is amazing too

This has been my most anticipated tierlist for years. As an ant main, I predicted your A and S tiers to a T. Arguably hymenopterans were the dominant meta in every server before the human build was invented. Glorious victory.

@luigivercotti6410

Жыл бұрын

Arguably they're still the dominant meta

@IMADINOSAURNOTABIRD

Жыл бұрын

@@recitationtohear yeah it's called *your face*

@Fach317

Жыл бұрын

​@@luigivercotti6410 yeah but humans' stomping ability and use of tools will cause large casualities to their armies, and humans also have large armies with vast majority of weapons they can use to destroy entire kingdoms of ants

@OT_Sauce

Жыл бұрын

@@IMADINOSAURNOTABIRD got em

@hangfire5944

Жыл бұрын

@@Fach317 this is heavily midigated by the queen ant's incredibly op breeding ability, allowing it to produce 800 eggs per day

The fact that dragonflies have legs but cannot walk blew my mind

As a Zoo Keeper who specifically works with Insects and other invertebrates, I want to say thank you. This is genuinely one of the best and most fun overviews of a frankly vast subject area. Very very well researched, beautifully edited and lovely footage. I also don't think I disagree with a single ranking. You should be very proud this is awesome. Can't wait to see some order specific tier lists!

@joshuabyrne6865

Жыл бұрын

As also that profession, I was pleasantly surprised! A really well-reasoned ranking, I've objected to some previous videos more and thought I'd have more to say about this one. Now to share it with all the friends...

@peytonalexander5300

Жыл бұрын

Ah, a zoo keeper. The mods of Outside’s tutorial areas.

@12kh45

Жыл бұрын

@@peytonalexander5300 Lmaoooo

@andregon4366

Жыл бұрын

So can you tell me why Tier Zoo didn't include spiders and scorpions in the list?

@zakattack1362

Жыл бұрын

@@andregon4366 Arachnids, not the same as insects

I never had any nintendo systems. Im glad tierzoo made me finally find gmthe mario song I've heard once that was kinda similar to kh1 clock tower song. Sad and happy song. The one that plays when they're talking about butterflies. Thank you

As a biology student, a 28 minute TeirZoo video gets my heart going. Thanky Teirzoo!

@patrickmorrey8722

Жыл бұрын

Especially one about insects! I love learning about these little guys.

@luhniso

Жыл бұрын

@Bích Phúc Đạt and 59 seconds 😐

@ayo123

Жыл бұрын

@Bích Phúc Đạt it's closer to 28 than 27