Are Honey Badgers OP? 

Glad to see mustelids getting the attention they deserve! Great Episode :)

Honey badgers are just constantly thinking "this probably won't kill me"

Honey Badgers: Tank Wolverines: DPS Otters: Mage

Honey Badgers are the only animals smart enough to recognize their own fears and yet ballsy enough to not give a shit

Hot take: Honey Badgers get an artificial boost on most tier lists because every single Honey Badger main is a tryhard. I know that sounds hyperbolic, but I have yet to meet a single Honey Badger main that wasn't a tryhard and I would honestly love to be proven wrong. Same thing goes for Geese because of their toxic player base. I swear it's like having a high intimidation stat without actually investing that many points in it simply because no one wants to deal with that shit. If you ever see the Goose build put at the top of S-Tier, I guarantee you that tier list was made by a Goose main. Every single time.

Just wanted to add that Hugh Jackman had no idea that wolverines were real animals when he took the role of The Wolverine.

"Not S tier? Honeybadger doesn't care, it doesn't give a shit."

You forgot the honey badger's most important INT ability; intimidation resistance, commonly known to the player base as "not giving a shit." Humans have this ability too, as do many top-tier builds. Intimidation resistance is powerful, in the right build, and can even be its own for of intimidation.

There was a wolverine in my city that pretty much lived on waffles, it went to the same hut resturant each day for years to get waffles

*_"But you know what else is sleek and elegant?"_*

One more thing about wolverines you forgot: They have INSANELY high stamina. They have been observed running from a helicopter in meterdeep snow for litteraly dozens of miles at top speed. They are the ULTIMATE tundra survivor.

“The fur that they drop when defeated.” God, I love TierZoo

An important part of the wolverine (and badger) playstyle that you forgot to mention is the intimidation factor. When playing, players are constantly sizing up prey in a risk/reward fashion, and asking themselves: 'is the exp I'll get from this really worth risking my whole playthrough for?' And that's what honey badgers, and to a larger extent, Wolverines, are going for. Yes, a polar bear can 100% solo a wolverine. It's almost never worth it for the polar bear, however. The fact is, wolverines and badgers do not care about their own lives, and will go out of their way to spite, maim, and possibly kill, those that would mess with them. This MAY end their playthrough, and usually does, but that's just it: A predator that just tangled with one of these animals is either going to be so hurt from the fight that it'll impact the duration of the rest of their playthrough in a HUGELY negative fashion, OR they'll just flat out die from their wounds. This makes it so that, whenever a predator sees a scavenged carcass with a wolverine attached, they'll steer clear. They'll even be willing to just hand over their own kills to the darn thing, just to avoid tangling with the crazy psychopath that is known as the Wolverine Main. Which is precisely what Wolverine Mains want. When they fight to the death against a predator many times their size, they aren't planning for their OWN continued playthrough, but for subsequent playthroughs, as well as the playthroughs of other wolverine mains. In my opinion, this exploitation of player psyche actually ranks them on a higher spot than the one you've assigned them, here.

Any player: *gets close to S tier* Human players: *invents poison or new gun to counter it* Any player: A or B tier suddenly looks good

Two fun and relevant facts: One, Ferrets can use a noodle dance to exploit a loophole in the Rabbit morale checks and essentially hypnotize them despite not having access to any Roar or size-difference effects. Two, Dachshunds are a dog build engineered by humans that can hunt badgers in their own burrows using the same overall setup as the weasels.

Honey badgers and wolverines have very underrated intelligentsia and have recently been seen using a crude version of the tool use perk. They would drag nearby objects out of the way to get better loot or use them as a ladder to reach the loot.

He doesn't trick me into biology, he tricks me into thinking that it's actually all a game

Man that sponsorship ambushed me like a jaguar player pouncing on noobs

1:17 Seal looking at the camera like “There’s a polar bear behind me, isn’t there..”

1:17 It has been a while since I laughed this hard

The reason mustelids are so good at getting crits against other players and intimidation is because their intelligence is closer to a primates than most other carnivores. Otters and ferrets are famous for their ability to play, recognize property, stealing shiny things (like crows), and wolverines and otters have more complex family structures than any other apex predator, except cetaceans and primates, which is pretty ridiculous when you consider they're generally solitary animals! Their intelligence is masked by their testosterone levels, which brings out some really unbelievable aggression but they're so cleaver they get away with fighting grizzlies. Mustelids are a relatively new family also, the wolverine found its niche during the late Pleistocene, when the complex, incredible savanna ecosystems were collapsing! The same situations that made arctodus simus and panthera atrox go extinct was the situation that wolverines were able to capitalize on.

The wolverine that took down a polar bear is S tier.

The honey badger doesnt give a f about this tier list.

Well, honey badgers are incredibly intelligent too, and can also use tools.

sees otter me: screams in cutness overload

"Immunity to Ice barrage" God damn it, was just about to hit 94 magic.

uh hey guys I made a small mistake Mustelid is actually pronounced with an unstressed U sound (Like "just/must/trust) rather than a stressed one (like "use/choose/cruise"). MUST-elid. Not MYOU-Stelid. My bad lol

I love how much he praises the Otter build while putting that cute bgm with it.

Such amazingly entertaining and educational videos! The sprinkling of pop culture references and video game effects are the icing on the cake!

"You know what else is elegant?" LOLOL I'm dead 😂😂

A honey badger whould literally attack King Kong as a kamikaze mission

so much nostalgia in your videos. i mean you even have that old nature video theme music that's awesome.

Really enjoyed this video (as usual)! I would love it if you could include skuas in a future episode - they are such cool birds.

He protecc he attacc but most importantly, he use rocc to make the shell cracc

I think my favourite aspect of your Tierzoo videos is your willingness to tackle "animals everyone knows are OP" like the Water Bear and the Honey Badger and surprising viewers with "if you think about it, it's actually bad" or "there is actually an animal that I'd rank even higher".

awesome video! funny how you talk about animals like in-game characters, meta and so on!

Just saw this on the recomendations and I loved it, it's amazing that it's explained like a videogame with stats and stuff

2:05 “It’s free real estate.” -Weasel 😏

What's the difference between a Weasel and a Stoat? A weasel is weasely spotted whereas a Stoat is Stoatally different.

Honey badgers are the kinda dudes who break into bathrooms while you're inside and casually take a shower while you're taking a shit

“Why the crazy nastyass honey badger is OP”

5:36 TZ: But you know what else is sleek and elegant? Me: The way TierZoo slips their sponsors in.

Wow I remember watching your first ever video and thinking that you must be popular already and then seeing that you barely had 5,000 subscribers, needless to say but you have come a long way

I would have clicked on this way sooner than 4 years later if I'd known it was about mustelids and not just the honey badger.

I've always liked otters, but after watching this, mustelids are officially my favorite animal family

This video needed more ferrets.

I live in Zimbabwe and I’m more afraid of honey badgers than a lion 😂😂

The Runescape Sea shanty music for the otter... Thank you so much. You're soothing my weary heart with honey.

In the 70's in Brazil a kid Fell in a otter tank in a zoo. A Brazilian army sargeant jumped after and managed to save the kid but not himself. His name was Silvio holenbach

Honey Badgers are like a Wolverine, but their stats have been flipped. Honey badgers are tanks, and Wolverines are DPS.

Sea otter main here. While I enjoy the representation of otters, the separation of river otters/giant otters and sea otters needs to be stated here. Only sea otters have unlocked the tool use perk, so no tool using giant otters for you. Also, sea otters have ridiculous food costs, needing 25% of their body weight in food everyday to survive. They're not light, either, weighing an average of 50-60 pounds and the heaviest being 110 pounds. The food cost gets even higher with a baby, so high that sea otter mothers have to make one of their babies quit if they have twins. This is because sea otters don't have any blubber in their build, so they rely on their metabolism and fur to keep warm. The trade-off is that you aren't as good of loot as marine mammals with blubber, such as seals, but it's not that good of a trade-off. The real reason you play a sea otter is for the ecosystem you're a part of, as the sea otter build is a keystone species to the kelp forest server. Without sea otters, places called 'urchin barrens' spring up, where sea urchins gang up on any kelp loot that shows up, hence the name. Nice video otherwise!

Love this channel! Iv seen all your videos but just subscribed lol

These videos crack me up 🤣 I love the concept, great thinking @tierzoo

Just wanted to add two notes: 1. The otter has the densest fur in the entire animal kingdom. The most hairs-per-inch of every living creature. This is what allows it to be aquatic. Not only does it insulate on its own, it traps air which provides an additional layer to prevent heat from escaping. 2. The honey badger has a special team up relationship with the honey bird. The bird finds beehives and leads the badger to it. The badger rips apart the hive, sedates the bees, and eats the honey. The bird prefers the leftover wax.

That polar bear joke was an instant like

There will never be a better transition into an ad spot

Mustelids are one of my favorite guilds; I'd love it if mustelids were revisited, showing off more of the guild members.

Otters get a bonus because they hold hands while sleeping

Another ability Otters have that make them extremely strong is "awwww" which debuffs humans' will-to-kill stat. If you put enough points into cuteness humans just don't want to kill you

This is my first vid and I am absolutely floored at the creativity right here. So funny for a gamer and yet so educational.

This brought so much joy into my life! Thank you!

dude... this would be the most original way to teach biology/ evolution to kids/ teenagers nowadays

There are so few channels that get to 1 million that actually deserve it, you are at the top of that list. I have a cousin studying to get her masters in animal science (I don't know the name of it lol) and she was the one who introduced me to your fantastic videos.

☺These three are definitely amazing and are best suited to their environments!🐾

1:30 honeybadger Spec one tick moment, with flute salad music on the background. 1:41 and he's also immune to ice barrage, he is op, and the osrs references are insane here.

You should do a video on the platypus

This guy is one of the most creative youtubers he deserves so much more subscribers than he has but i am glad that your about hit 1 million.

I came here from watching The large Otters, and I got to say as much as I love the Honey Badger, Big Otters are up there, it's the scariest shit ever.

It’s 2021 I just found your channel and now I watch all your vids

You’re gonna hit 1 million by tonight, fingers crossed man 🤞

I’m an S tier boiiiiiii!

AMAZING channel so glad I got recommended this

I absolutely love the Eye Witness 👁 theme at the end. Also, I found the whole video fun like so many otters. I mean others.

Hey TierZoo, I'm sure you get this a lot but you are truly an inspirational person. After I get my diploma I've decided to get my exotic vet tech degree because you sparked in me an interest of animals that I never knew I had. So thanks man

Mustelids just did all their side quests .

Size doesn't matter, the one with the Sharpest fangs wins, that is Killing bites. -Hitomi

Theres a youtube channel named TierZoo Who tells us how nature works from an mmorpg view with his entertaining vids he pleases one million adults and kids and to that i say, gg you

1:18 imagine imagine evolving so you can void one of the most dangerous mammals and go to one of the coldest regions just to find out if they're there too

The wolverine jumping on the bucks face reminds me of a facehugger and I love it

Nice vid dude, keep it up❤️👍

Your transitions from video to promotion would have my English teachers creaming their pants

>Otters in the same tier as humans I knew it. South Park warned us!

And then there is Stoffel. A Honey badger main that just randomly unlocked the tool use perk and became the top tier escape artist

This dude has S tier dialogue transitions for all his sponsors Gets me every time

dude what if tierzoo is actually a time traveler from the future where nature and animals are long gone and there was a game company that found out about their distant ancestors and their nature and decided to make a giant mmo out of it... 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

wow, that transition is top skill.... like the skills you can learn at skillshare

4:40 the sea shanty music fits very well with the otter gameplay.

2021 and this is on my suggestions 😂

That footage you're using of the honey badger taking out the hive is from a documentary that my father was part of😋

Almost a million subs?! Wow, I remember subbing to you when you had less than a quarter that. I'd say I'm surprised but I'm really not given your quality.

Honeybadgers is that brand new character added in the game and the devs didnt realize how strong they were

That game boy sound at the beginning brings back so many memories 😫

Wow a million already, I remember when he hit 50k. I mean quality content for sure no doubt.

Also wolverines have one of the best long distance running next to humans, it’s not very well documented but wolverines have been tracked running 18+ miles at almost top speed, they travel over mountain rages in a single night

That transition sosmoooth

the honey badger's defense is such a meme that it was even showcased in an anime.

Man how could you not mention that the otters hold their hands so they don’t get lost in the watter while they’re sleeping? That’s from far the cutest habilitie from all the mustelids.

Honey Players might also have higher IQ stats than advertised! They're said to escape many zoo servers.

SUBBED I JUST FOUND THIS AND IT’S A REALLY COOL CONCEPT AN ANIMAL TIER LIST PRESENTED LIKE A VIDEO GAME TIER LIST SO COOL

Just subscribed and like at the first time I've seen this video. You're better than most zoologist bro! Mind blown🤯