The Insect Tier List
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Music:
Eyewitness Intro
Multiplayer Theme -Call of Duty Black Ops 2
Unfounded Revenge - Mother 3
Main Theme - Luigi's Mansion
Gusty Garden Galaxy - Super Mario Galaxy
Obstacle Course - Yoshi's Island
Loop Blues - Loop Hero
Delfino Plaza - Super Mario Sunshine
Story 5 Meeting - Fire Emblem
Hidden Village - Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Gerudo Valley - Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Underworld - Kid Icarus
Dragon Roost Island - Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
Dung Defender - Hollow Knight
Jungle Japes - Super Smash Brothers Brawl
Hornet Theme - Hollow Knight
Source Footage from:
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Additional Clips:
Monster Bug Wars: Ants vs Huntsman Spider - • Jumping Jack Ants Vs G...
Assassin Bug vs Locust footage - • Assassin bugs; the swe...
Frogs trying to catch flies - • Frogs try to catch dro...
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Thanks for watching! It has been an incredible 5 years on KZhead. Hope you'll still be watching in another 5! We have some really fun stuff planned.
I can't even imagine how long this took to make, S tier content for sure
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
S+*
@@TierZoo 2 LEGENDS TALKING! I DEEM YALL 2 OF THE BIG 3 OF WILDLIFE CONTENT!
Tiktok guy
@@TierZoo i always wonder where you get all of that footage lol, must be difficult to find relevant footage for a lot of it
My editing software exploded just watching this
Hello althisthub
Lol time to step up the game… and uh put out that fire
literally ragequit like: "fuck this shit I'm out"
@@HeadphoneYT I read that like atheist hub 💀
Makes me happy to know two of my favorite unrelated channels like each other's content
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
To be the best, you have to beat the best.
Mantis is the low ceiling skill class who smurfs use to obliterate noobs but suck at higher ranks
@@MikeDindu"if you can dodge a mantis you can dodge a ball" "Wait- what?" *Fucking dies*
i fail every vibe check
And then the thing that killed the mantis couldn't crack the beetle's armor.
Timestamps of frogs failing miserably: 2:36 17:23 17:56 19:19 Honorable mention: 13:05
I needed this
What is the soundtrack at 19:19
@@OweDalton dragon roost island from the legend of Zelda the wind waker
17:23
MVP
Can't belive I just got stick bugged by Tierzoo. what an honor.
An honor indeed
The President is gagging on my gas bladder!
As well as that, the segway into sponsor segment was flawlessly executed. Truly a top-tier build in the KZhead meta.
@@aratherbritishdinosaur I've seen smoother, but not a bad one either
@@mr.boomguy who said it was the smoothest?
The amount of frogs failing in the clips made me laugh a lot
It’s not easy being green, or any other color frogs come in for that matter
Watching a frog go full send only to completely miss it's target is my actual favorite thing 😂
@Not gonna lie did you just know or did you search for it for a year?
@@TierZoo The look on their face afterwards makes me feel a little sad though
True... serves them right though... f***ing noobs that think amphibians are a viable class in the current meta...pfffh
26:28 🐜“Hey you feeling alright James” Holds up dead guy* 🐜🕷️”Yes I am sufficient comrade, what is the level 9 access code?”
Lol
Rare L spiders, tricking my goat the Ant
@@FraudulentOne. lives to regret it
(Among us music starts playing)
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.
There's a problem with that: more aggressive builds will attack the opponent when terrified.
So an immediate terrify effect with a 50% chance of frenzy? @@kamilslup7743
@@kamilslup7743then I am a aggressive build
That doesn't always work sometimes human mains spawn with a buff preventing the fear to most players below their weight class
That only works if the cockroach is the most terrifying flying insect the human has encountered in their room.
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
Mantises have an insane ape index. It's unfair.
no venom, no societies, no armor... just kung fu
@@salvadorarreolarodriguez6165 and the practice of eating you alive while seeking the fastest way to kill you
@@salvadorarreolarodriguez6165 A true warrior
@@salvadorarreolarodriguez6165 the insect gigachad
Still can't believe the devs allow silverfish in the game, I never see anyone choose that class
I saw several in my base just this day.
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.
Bro they are all bots I swear
They should be banned simply for not being silver and not being fish
For the longest time I thought they were a myth made by human players
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
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
But if the human gains enough knowledge, the intimidation is reduced quite a lot
@@pedromartins6810 however for some players such as myself, the intimidation could be too high
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
@@Ayo_The_Pizza_Here. If I remember correctly newer human players created a term for such condition called "Skill issue"
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
This feels more like a frog humiliation video than a bugs tier list
Frog fails
😂
😂
Toads body
It's funny, but I disagree.
One thing to note about Lepidopterans (moths and butterflies) is their scales, which are a larger flattened modification of the small hairlike structures other arthropods have and often completely cover their bodies. The most important perks are: 1. The scales are designed to come off easily, which gives them some resistance to grabs, but provides much better defense against glue based traps, giving them the best matchup against spider webs of any flying insect. However, the much thicker glue droplets on glow-worm and bolas spider strands are able to soak threw the scales, but these traps cannot be formed into webs, and are much less effective unless paired with lures (which moths are unfortunately very susceptible to). 2. The scales on their wings allow them to have the only colored wings among insects, which is crucial for their camouflage and other various types of mimicry (like the eye spots and leaf patterns) as well as the most visible aposematic warnings of any insect. 3. The microscopic structure of the scales even allows them to utilize structural color, which is something worth googling if you don’t know what it is, this allows them to evolve any coloration rather than just being limited to what pigments can do. For example, butterflies can be bright blue, which is not a color of insect pigment that exists (the Blue Morpho Butterfly is a stunning example).
Truly an underappreciated aspect of the build
Lepidopterans do have some lovely aesthetics and character customization. Good for more casual playthroughs.
I admit. The fact it's D tear made my inner moth child a bit salty but I also understand. Heres some more morh defenses Many colorful moths such as Zygaenid and Uraniidae Moths are very colorful to show that they're very toxic and thus are seen as unappetizing to predators. Some Zygaenid moths have cyanide that if a bird eats it. They can also make their own cyanide. The cyanide It can kill the bird I think. These Zygaenid moths are said to be mimics of butterflies with Monarchs being one of them. These warning colors are known as Aposematism This is also seen in a lot of poisonous frogs. Some Tiger Moths and Underwing Moths have drab forewings but colorful hindwings. They hide these colorful hind wings until a predator comes by, showing the wings to startle them so the moth can escape. Frother moths when disturbed will release a liquid behind the eyes and maks a sizzling sound to detear attackers. Some Silkmoths have eyes spots to startle attacker's, some also have tails on the wings to misdirect the attacker as many moths dont mind getting bit on the wings. Its their head and body that's most important Hawkmoths some have these little hooks that when something grabs em. They feed rhag little jab which could cause a reaction for the Hawkmoth to flee. Metalmark moths raise their wings up and act very gittery to scare an attacker as the moth is mimicking the movement of jumping spiders. Many moths also camouflage to remain hidden like the Angel Moth having its head down but wings up to look ike dearj leaves. Infact, some other moths also can mimic death leaves! Window winged leaf moths have transparent areas on the wings to fool others into thinking they're leaves. A moth known as the Buddha Moth stands up sorta to appear intimidating. The Sky pointing moth when rests will raise its abdomen up to appear like a scorpion Butterflies also are like this. With Monarchs being poisonous due to milkweed or Queen Alexandria's Birdwing with the larva eating poisonous plants so that the adult doesn't become a flying buffet Glasswing butterflies are great with stealth to hide in plain sight. Phantom Butterflies have eyespotts to trick predators as well as having transparent wings to hide very well The mourning cloak can chase around a predator in swarms do it has a higher change to survive Some crafty small blue butterflies are taken by ants so they can be cared for and have the scent of a queen. Some of these caterpillars eat ant larvae too. Some carnivorous caterpillars are known to look like twigs and then swipe prey like flies out of the air with its pincer-like forelegs and then start gorging on its catch. Another interesting moth is the Water Veneer Moth. The only amphibious moth that when the adults are underwater they have a bubble around them to keep from getting wet. They can also swim and have hind legs adapted for swimming. Hawkmoths also are very good with getting nectar from hard to reach nectar flowers with even some orchid species depending on one species of Hawkmoth to help pollinate A good handful of butterflies and moths mimic each other to look poisonous even non poisonous lepidopterians do this. Anyway this is just a bunch of fun info on butterflies and moths 🦋
Weirdly enough the only mammal to evolve structural coloration is humans but only in their eyes.
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.
The walking stick giving itself away while trying to look like a swaying branch might be the most hilarious thing I’ve ever seen
Whatchu mean, he's just vibin'!
Today I learned that I dance like a poorly camouflaged stick bug.
Nah man. I gotta give it to the bee getting hit by the hummingbird at the end.
you got stickbugged
I felt bad for the lil guy
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!
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)
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.
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.
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.
Lol Frog main garbo. Just play human lol
Feelsbadman
At least he didn't feature the Epomis beetles lol
@@wolfshanze5980 ٩ط1خ111دخ
Might be a bit of a weird request, but I'd love to see something like a Fungi tier list
YES
As a fellow Fungi enjoyer, I can tell that you are a pretty fun guy.
It’d be so easy to join a large fungi colony and just chill the entire time in a tree or something．
tier*zoo* so just animals
Yes yes yes!!!
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.
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.
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.
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
I will never get tired of hearing yoshi sounds when a lizard eats something. Makes me giggle every time
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 kzhead.info/tools/jM3h0WzL-jqwXDy4mE1cSg.html
I watched that grasshopper dodge an ambush strike at 11:07 at 0.25x speed and was shocked how good the grasshoppers frame data is. The camera couldn’t catch any part of the grasshopper’s jump animation. I’m impressed.
Their jump would be like a human jumping straight across a football field
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).
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
Exactly that’s why I main them
@@Mr.BloxAlot123 kono insect da?
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
@@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.
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
“Dragonflies can’t walk” is my favorite bug fact of all time now.
Yes, but they’ll f*ck anywhere under the sun 🙄🤣🤣
For real, just like cows being good swimmers
@@Vits2001 Cows can swim?!
@@themobius5798 They can! And apparently they're actually pretty decent at it🤣
@@Vits2001 i think ive heard that mooses are good swimmers too, not sure if its true or not.
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!
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 :)
When the beetle came in and the Dung Defender theme kicks in... Magnificent!
Doma , Doma Doma Doma
FA FUUUNDAAAAAA!!!
Also, Hornet's theme for the Hymenoptera section.
Shua
Doma doma doma
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
Careful, you might trigger the frog mains :P
I thought it was the same frog in every clip. Poor guy just can't catch a break. Or a fly. Or a beetle.
It's their 'go stiff' technique!
Me: Has a Chess tournament today and needs to prepare Also me: *INSECT TIER LIST*
How did you do?
@@ValChronification Scored 3 out of 7. Not great, not terrible
@@ThatCzechMapperat least you didnt do terrible
That eyewitness theme is pure nostalgia to me. i remember watching those tapes at my grandma's house.
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 ❤️🤗
I could see silverfish mains really thriving in farming simulator type games.
Problem is, you silverfishes are near the end (Pun intended)
That's ok, food source
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
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
I think the biggest surprise was that beetles were put in the same tier No complaints here. Love beetles
@@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)
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…
my big surprise was that ants and bees are together
Have you ever played Cuphead? Bees can be scary
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
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.
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
... "spay" or "spray" :D Imagine a beetle going around castrating ants to get them ostracized by their peers
That's actually kinda sick
@@barelyabear7956 Thats what I'm saying
Imgine spy in tf2 making enemies suseptible to friendly fire. That would be quite a mess :3
@@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
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
i really appreciate how they added stick bugs as a reference to the meme
cant believe i got stick bugged man smh
Good on the devs for embracing the fan culture
"Ultimates Survivirs" - Show a Cockroach just casually walking out a Venus Fly Trap. U made that point abundandly clear sir.
A 30 minute tier zoo video! That’s a blessing from the lord! Love it
Only 30 min? He should just give us the 5hr uncut version and we’ll watch it anyways
@it's about time You are a bot.
@Don't read profile photo banner* the thing you see when you go to someone's channel is a channel banner
@it's about time wouldn’t that be genocide?
@@Zagiman72 true haha
"Technically termites are a variant of the cockroach build" made my inner entomologist very happy
I always thought they were ants wtf
hearing and looking at them, they are very clearly ant-like and not ant-related
mantises too
@@YuiFunami yeah but I believe termites evolved from a group of wood eating cockroaches, while mantises split off from the roaches sometime before that.
@@laprankster3264 they're still a variation on the cockroach build though like the termites
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
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.
The nano blade intro was hilarious 😂
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come to me and ill heal you
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.
yes
That silverfish looks like a real contender.
The s tier f tier would be the best of the worst
I think Cheetahs and Rattites would rank high. I think they're both hard done by and should be in D tier instead.
Yes
20:24 Perfect timing on Dung Defender’s theme LOL, great job TZ
this is literally one of the best youtube videos ive ever seen and ive been watching youtube since 2008
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.
Bro was flabbergasted
Orchid mantis player here, thanks! We eat each other for lold
This traumatized look of the spider at 20:42 is really relatable too
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
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.
As a former Toad Main, all those missed attacks felt like a personal attack 💀
As a former Archerfish main, i can feel your pain as well.
As a former silverfish main dont fucking use silverfish if you don't wanna be bullied🗿🗿🗿
I'm a hippo main they're a pretty good counter to the human
forg
tierzoo has a personal bias against frogs.
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 👍
I love having this guy's videos on in the background while I'm doing work
I love how Silverfish have essentially one point in life: Run.
I will remember that is an ancient species next time I introduce one to my shoe.
They exist just to give other players free xp
@@claysoggyfries no. R U N .
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
Yeah, and they are weak af. They're the only insects I've seen dying after falling from short heights.
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!
antother one who noticed : )
also dung defender theme when talking about beetles
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Yes
Link to the clip: Thank me later kzhead.info/sun/krGRlZWNfnWih4E/bejne.html
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.
Black ops music, RuneScape font, such nostalgia ❤ S tier content for sure 👌🏻
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
Many insects have the same effect on humans.
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.
This is true, although some of the Male Sub-Class of the human mains posess natural resistance to the debuff
@@trevon5036 lies nigga I'm scared
@@okene Yes, some of the offspring naturally are more scared due to the way they were farmed, and their genetic makeup at spawn.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's been a while since I've seen any of these videos. I've been here when this page was small. Good to still see it going.
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
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.
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
Bro…….
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
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.
Whoever came up with this idea of describing insects like video game characters deserves a Nobel Prize! Great stuff!
The video "Casually Explained: Evolution" was TierZoo's big inspiration, from what I hear. Except TierZoo cranked the idea up to 15.
This guy explain everything as a video game character so i guess he deserve way more than a nobel price
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.
we always thought there might be a BRAIN BUG on planet earth
@@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!
I love the Eyewitness theme song in the background. Pure nostalgia ❤
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.
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.
Reverse yoink
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.
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.
I mean, he's gone on record before as not being a fan of defensive moves that involve sacrificing a body part.
@@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.
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.
It's only some bee classes who do the oven ball methods, but yea
Is that the one that's a bug involving the unintended synergy between the huddling and overheating mechanics?
He didn't mention it but he showed it around the 25 minute mark somewere
25:38
He did? 25:38
Love the game related commentary. 10/10 video
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.
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.
And the flamingo 🦩
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)
18:32
nice zero pfp
@@Racc_Oon Thanks. I shamelessly stole it from Google images like 10 years ago.
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.
He and Casual Geographich both being the real kings into sponsor transitions. 👌
Silence, plant
That was for sure the smoothest and smartest sponsor transition I've seen so far
Yeah, I can usually sense sponsor segments form miles away, but this one caught me completely off guard!
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 this video’s footage is 30% just frogs getting absolutely clowned on
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
I lost my shit lol
@@gilded2342 Don't worry, Dung Defender is on the case
And Hornet for the hymenopterans
Big missed opportunity not putting Mantis Lords theme on the Mantis segment.
And Dragon Roost Island to the dragonfly
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”
Considering if she could eat you or not most of the time for sure.
@@molybdaen11 can’t argue with that
@@molybdaen11 pretty sure thats what my cat's doing when she looks at me too lol
@King Longface nah, you’re desperate. Reported
An angel or a demon? Depending on what shoulder it landed on.
Its a fantastic video, but the BlackOps 2 Multiplayer music was and will forever be a nostalgic banger!
I love that you used dung defenders and hornets theme. It is a game about bugs after all.
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.
locust would be SS tier
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.
@@souffrantdepine3762 for centuries they were a serious threat and have been documented in biblical times as gods wrath
@@Zacjd Still unsustainable.
@@souffrantdepine3762 no other insect has done this
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.
Yeah, this is such a wonderful channel :)
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
its cause of that phrasing that makes me wonder if 2:28 was a reference to No More Heroes intro
This video, and the fact that there are countless builds out there that specialize in hunting insects, made me realize how unbalanced the insect world is in the greater servers. Most insect mains are only concerned about other insects, yet your playthrough can still be cut short by a player hundreds of times past your weight class, sometimes without you even realizing you've been given a one-way ticket back to the character select screen.
Great work great effort great production quality!!
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
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!
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.
that's why there's a saying "a wolf in sheep's clothing" is a thing.
He Weeknd at bernies’d them
9:14 is amazing too
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!
Bonus point if said titan is a sugar addicted psychopath with a disturbing eagerness to wipe out your threats.
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.
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!
And if the hyperintelligent titan is not that good at protecting the guild, you can always abandon him and move to another place...
@@JeRefuseDeBienPrononcerBaleine yep very annoying on my hornet playthroughs
Mad amount of hardwork for one video. Respect
23:34 I would say that you are underselling human skyscrapers but On September 11 2001
Humans worst and best match up is other humans
Came for the entomology, stayed for the frog pratfalls
and the dragonfly trolling those ducks
Butterflies defenseless? The one childhood memory I have that sticks out most was when a butterfly beat the crap out of several bees and chased them away from me. Yes, it was away from me, not just away; that butterfly just kept landing on me for some reason. That was one strange afternoon.
It probably thought you were food and so it was competing with the bees for you and it won
@@Thompsonarmsandgaming I’ve heard of instances where butterflies will go after the tears (and sweat) of other animals for their salt content. Maybe it was after the salt?
Also have you ever had a moth dig its claws into you? I had a sphinx moth land on my shoulder once and it would not let me go, every time I tried to push it off I felt like its legs were cacti digging into my skin, I had to spend the day with it attached to me
Oh, we've got a Disney princess here.
@@guardianeris You were claimed. You're an honorary moth now.
the hollow knight music on the beetle section of the video was very clever, congratulations!
Not only great video, but also greatest ad transition too
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.
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
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.
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.
Just like nickleback
@@arthurfleck629 I think bees are mods
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
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).
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.
Also according to WHO not directly, but still mosquitos kill 725,000 people a year.
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.
as a dragonfly main, i support your choice to play mosquitos. More xp for me!
As a dog main, how dare you. 1v1 me like a proper game scrub.
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.
Praise the Walking With... documentaries!
@King Longface Is it of you, realising nobody likes your spammy ass? 'Cause I'll watch that!
I love this list, i think i would have put prey mantis at the top of A tier not the bottom. Just because in a head to head match up the mantis would the other two. Again love your work!!!
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!
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...
Ah, a zoo keeper. The mods of Outside’s tutorial areas.
@@peytonalexander5300 Lmaoooo
So can you tell me why Tier Zoo didn't include spiders and scorpions in the list?
@@andregon4366 Arachnids, not the same as insects
The BO2 MP music got me, already love the vid
26:15 I would love to see a tier list of mimic/impostor builds!
That's. . .. .. .Sus
did you just said.. ¿¡IMPOSTOR?!
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This channel is literally the ultimate guide to your next reincarnation
Good thing heaven inc bought Milky way.
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Just go human again
can’t go the same character twice
I play TechTree, the other game.