[Maneater]Evolution (Equipment) Performance and Recommended Evolution!

Good evening, I'm Milpirika.

In this article, I will introduce the evolution (equipment) of Maneater.

Since there are some parts of the game description that are somewhat difficult to understand or misunderstand, I would like to enhance, detail and explain the equipment.

Evolution (Equipment) List

Effects are described with maximum enhancement (Tier 5).

Teeth Evolution

Bio-Electric Teeth

Effect:

• Each time a shark bites, electricity is emitted from its teeth to a radius of 4m.
• Additional damage +10 to organisms, stun count +3.
• Electricity Count
  (When the enemy's stun count reaches 10, the creature is stunned for 5 seconds.)
  (While an enemy is stunned, it becomes unable to act except to move.)
  (If the count does not reach 10, the count disappears by 1 every 3 seconds.)

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Description.

You can get it by defeating Infamy Rank 1.

This equipment is available early in the game and is one of the strongest "teeth" equipment available.

It is very easy to use because every time a shark bites, it does an additional 10 damage.

When the shark is enhanced to the maximum, four bites are enough to electrocute the enemy and the other side can do nothing, allowing for more consecutive bite attacks.

Sperm whales, in particular, are slow-moving, so a shark can easily beat them with a series of bites.

Bio-Electric Teeth is recommended because of its strong performance compared to other "teeth", but as a precaution, it will not damage boats or other vehicles.

Bone Teeth

Effect:

• Thrash Damage+25%
• Bite damage to boats+60%

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Description.

You can get it by defeating the apex barracuda in Dead Horse Lake.

This equipment increases damage to both creatures and boats, but damage to creatures is not effective because Thrash does not occur unless the creature is small.
Also, it is better to ramming for damage against boats if you are going to do Bite.

Therefore, the purpose of using this equipment is often not for damage but for attaching it to the "Set Bonus of Bone".
However, even for the purpose of Set Bonus, it has a lower priority than other bone series because of its lack of defensive effect.

In sum, this equipment is very unfavorable, and since Bio-Electric Teeth is available and strong at the time this tooth is available, it is quite useless.

I personally like the large, flat look of these teeth.

Shadow Teeth

Effect:

• Bite damage +30%.
• Recovery of health for each successful Bite +50.

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Description.

You can get it by collecting all the landmarks in Dead Horse Lake.

The shark's Bite damage is increased, which increases the damage by 1.3 times for both boats and creatures.
For example, when the shark is at level 40, the bite damage increases from 80 to 104.

Compared to this and Bio-Electric Teeth, this one does more damage,
but Bio-Electric Teeth can cause the enemy to be in an abnormal state, so it is a matter of preference as to which one to choose.

By the way, don't expect much of a physical recovery effect,
It is only at +50 that you can barely see your strength recovering, and even if you bite continuously, you will not recover much.
Biting a vehicle will not recover your strength either.

Head Evolution

Bio-Electric Head

Effect:

• Rammed boats stop for 10 seconds.

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Description.

You can get it by defeating Infamy Rank 9.

If you equip this evolution, you can easily stop the movement of the boat when sharks ramming.
This is an effect that can only be achieved with this equipment compared to other equipment.

You have the boat stop moving, which makes it easier for you to prey on people on the boat,
You also can escape when you want to, making it easier for you to use it.

Note, however, that it can only be stopped once per boat and has no effect on living organisms.

Bone Head

Effect:

• Ramming damage+40%
• Pushing force during ramming+50%
• Knockback resistance by boat crew+50
• Damage resistance by boat crew+40%
• Damage resistance+15%

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Description.

You can get it by defeating the Caviar Key Apex Orca Whale.

I recommend it most highly in head evolution.
Anyway, there are various effects, but the main features are Damage Resistance and Ramming damage.

Just equip it and it cuts 15% of any damage, so it's hard to get game over.

Ramming (Lunge or evasion on the water) is originally high damage itself, so 1.4 times the Ramming damage is strong.

For example, against boats the damage jumps as follows. (These figures are for level 40):
・Lunge Damege increases from 176 to 246 damage.
・Ramming Damage increases from 118 to 166.

If you are not sure which head to equip, this equipment alone will make you stronger, so strengthen it as soon as you get it.

Shadow Head

Effect:

• Lunge speed+10%
• Thrash damage+25%

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Description.

You can get it by collecting all the landmarks in Caviar Key.

This equipment increases the shark's Lunge Speed and Thrash Damage,
making it a good match when combined with Bone Evolution,
which specializes in ramming but has low mobility.

Body Evolution

Bio-Electric Body

Effect:

• When it evolves, it enters The Lightning Burst mode, and during evolution it gains the following enhancements:
  ・Projectile Damage Resistance +30%
  ・Electrical Damage Resistance +30%
  ・Lunge Speed, Acceleration, Swim Speed, and Max Speed +25% while lunging
• Resistance to Bio-Electric great white shark electric stun attacks (additional DLC)

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Description.

You can get it by defeating Infamy Rank 6.

During evolution, it is easy to do more damage if you Lunge about 3 times after activating and Bite and Tail Whip.
Boats can be stopped and creatures can be electrocuted instantly, which is strong, but the damage is quite low at 20.
So rather than using Lunge continuously, it is better to use the style of stopping the enemy's movement at first and then do the usual fighting after that.

As you may have somehow figured out from the description, being in evolution mode, including other evolutions, does not give you a significant advantage in battle.

It is limited in its use, so you don't have to use it.

Bone Body

Effect:

• When it evolves, it enters The Bone Crusher mode, and during evolution it gains the following enhancements:
  ・Damage Reduction +7
  ・Damage Resistance +25%
  ・Ramming Damage +100%
  ・Pushing force during Ramming +50%
  ・Probability of dropping all crew in the boat while ramming +50%
  ・Lunge Speed, Acceleration, Swim Speed, and Max Speed +25% while lunging +25%
• Resistance to Bone sperm whales stun attacks (additional DLC)
  

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Description.

You can get it by defeating the Sapphire Bay Apex Hammerhead Shark.

During the evolution, you should repeat the Lunge until the evolution gauge runs out and leave when you are done.

You might think that the probability of dropping a crew member is so high that you can annihilate any boat, but in fact you can only drop a crew member once during the activation. In other words, you cannot drop the second boat.

This is very disappointing because if it could be done as many times as possible, it would have been a very useful mode.

As with the other evolutions, the evolution mode itself is not that strong, so you would most likely equip it for the purpose of adding a set bonus rather than forcing it to be used.

Then you can choose whatever equipment you like the look of.

Shadow Body

Effect:

• When it evolves, it enters The Shadow Form mode, and during evolution it gains the following enhancements:
  ・Acceleration +40%
  ・Lunge Speed +40%
  ・Swim Speed +20%
  ・Max Speed +20%
• Resistance to Shadow Orca Poison Attack (additional DLC)

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Description.

You can get it by collecting all the landmarks in Sapphire Bay.

During evolution, it is best to disperse the poison by repeatedly rushing at it until the evolution gauge runs out, then leave when it is finished.

It is much easier to use than the other evolutions, and it is easy to see that it has a special attack.
However, as is the case with the other evolutions, there is no need to use it forcibly as it does not significantly change the battle situation when activated.

Tiger Body

Effect:

• Amount of all nutrients that can be obtained+25%

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Description.

It can be obtained by purchasing the first limited edition of Maneater or the DLC "Truth Quest" and can be equipped by going to the first grotto.

When equipped with this body, instead of not being able to go into evolution mode,
all the nutrition you can get will be 1.25 times more.

Also, treasure chests and storyline rewards are also 1.25 times more rewarding, so if you have the Tiger Body enhanced and equipped, you can enhance other equipment much faster.

Furthermore, Evolution is added in the DLC as well, and the nutrition required to strengthen it is quite a lot, making it a very powerful effect.
(I personally like the way it looks, it's flashy too.)

By the way, when I was playing the game, I did not use the body evolution mode, but used the Tiger Body for the time being to earn nutrition, so if you are worried about equipment, I recommend the Tiger Body.

Fins Evolution

Bio-Electric Fins

Effect:

• While evading, it becomes covered with an electric aura and gains the following effects:
  ・Damage completely disabled
  ・Evade Speed +70%
  ・After evading, it releases electricity with a range of 5m, damage 20, and grants +3 Electricity Count.
• Electricity Count
  (When the enemy's stun count reaches 10, the creature is stunned for 5 seconds.)
  (While an enemy is stunned, it becomes unable to act except to move.)
  (If the count does not reach 10, the count disappears by 1 every 3 seconds.)

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Description.

You can get it by defeating Infamy Rank 5.

You do not take any damage while evading and the increased evasion speed while evading will inevitably increase the evasion distance considerably.
If you want to use evasion as your main tool, this equipment is perfect for you.

However, it has a weakness. Because of its long evasion distance, it is difficult to hit the electric aura where you think it will hit if you are used to a normal evasion distance.
Therefore, it would be difficult to use it for damage or stunned purposes.

If you want to make it easy to hit the attacker and also stun him, you can equip the Evolution of Bio-Electric Tail.

In summary, this evolution should be recognized as equipment used for avoidance.

Bone Fins

Effect:

• Ramming Damage+15%
• Damage Resistance+15%
• While evading, it spins around and gains the following effects:
  ・50 damage to everything within 2.0m
  ・Damage Resistance +20%.

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Description.

You can get it by defeating the Golden Shores Apex Mako.

This is the most recommended equipment for fins.
When equipped with this, you will be unusually strong against humans and boats.

While evading, unlike other fins, it does 50 damage no matter what timing you hit it, and incidentally, if you hit an enemy boat, you can do even more damage.

In particular, you can destroy only the enemy without taking much damage to yourself by simply repeating evasive maneuvers toward the boat while floating on the water.

This makes sense, since Ramming Damage is also increased, and a collision during evasion is also treated as "Ramming".

In addition, damage resistance is also increased, so you can take almost no damage and the enemy can take damage, so you can play as if you are a single unit of offense and defense.

Shadow Fins

Effect:

• When evading, it evades while emitting poison on the spot. The effect of the poison is as follows:
  ・Poison range is within 5m, poison count +5 when touched.
• Shadow Count
  (-0.5% speed and -0.5% resistance to biological damage for every 1 poison)
  (+1 damage per second to the organism per 5 poison counts)
  (The maximum count is 30, and the count disappears by 1 every 3 seconds.)

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Description.

You can get it by collecting all the landmarks in Golden Shores.

When you do release poison, you will release it where you were originally, so it will be difficult to apply poison to your enemies.

For the purpose of inflicting poison, you can do so with Shadow Tail or Shadow Body as much as you want, so there will be little purpose for using it other than as a set bonus.

Also note that while you are evading, there is no damage resistance, so even if you evade, your strength may still be reduced.

Tail Evolution

Bio-Electric Tail

Effect:

• When Tailwhip, it flies forward with electricity that penetrates up to 30 meters.
• Electrical Damage is 20, Electricity Count+3
• Electricity Count
  (When the enemy's stun count reaches 10, the creature is stunned for 5 seconds.)
  (While an enemy is stunned, it becomes unable to act except to move.)
  (If the count does not reach 10, the count disappears by 1 every 3 seconds.)

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Description.

You can get it by defeating Infamy Rank 8.

This Equipment is a very powerful Evolution.

The electricity you send is wide horizontally, so its range is quite wide, and because it penetrates, it is easy to hit even if you wag your tail at random.

If you hit it about three times, you can even put the enemy in a stunned state, making it easier to follow up.

Bone Tail

Effect:

• Tailwhip Damage +30
• Pushing force during Tailwhip +250%
• Ramming Damage +20%
• Whipshot Range +50%
• Damage Resistance+15%

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Description.

You can get it by defeating the Prosperity Sands Apex Great White Shark

It is good that Ramming Damage and Damage Resistance are increased, but compared to other tails, it cannot attack at long range, which makes it less flexible in combat.

It has a wider Whipshot Range,
However, it is less effective because it can only be used by grabbing an object.

In summary, this Evolution should be equipped for use against humans.

Shadow Tail

Effect:

• Max Speed and Swim Speed +20%
• Whipshot Speed and Whipshot Range +40%
• When tailwhip, it sends a poison ball forward up to 30m.
  ・The poison ball has a range of up to 10 meters and does 50 damage and a poison count of +5 when touched.
• Shadow Count
  (-0.5% speed and -0.5% resistance to biological damage for every 1 poison)
  (+1 damage per second to the organism per 5 poison counts)
  (The maximum count is 30, and the count disappears by 1 every 3 seconds.)

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Description.

You can get it by collecting all the landmarks in Prosperity Sands.

Tails are all very useful and strong, so it is a fierce competition, Among them, this Shadow Tail is a recommended equipment.

First of all, it increases the speed of swimming, making it more comfortable for moving and avoiding attacks.

In addition, the performance of the poison ball that flies away is excellent, The advantage is that the poison balls are fast, easy to hit, and easy to accumulate poison counts.

Especially against humans, If you hit a boat with about three shots and leave it alone, the occupants will die from the poison on their own.

It can be used against living creatures, but it has only one drawback: the enemy turns black in a poisoned state, making it impossible to see counterattack opportunities (because the enemy's body no longer glows).

Organs Evolution

Advanced Sonar

Effect:

• Sonar Detection Range +300%
• Sonar Cooldown Time -50%

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Description.

You can get it by entering the first grotto. (the Fawtick Bayou grotto).

This equipment is recommended, or rather, required.

You will be moving through the field with your sonar out on a regular basis, searching for enemies, understanding the map you are currently exploring, etc., so I don't think you will be able to think about removing it in the opposite direction.

With the DLC's additional equipment, you will be less and less inclined to remove this equipment, as you can also generate sonar to strengthen yourself and weaken your enemies.

Hearty

Effect:

• Upper limit of Physical Strength +150
• Knockback Resistance by Boat Crew  +20

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Description.

You can get it by defeating Infamy Rank 2.

It is useful in the beginning because equipping it increases its strength by 150, but even if it is eventually strengthened, it only increases the upper limit to +600, not 6 times.

You will not be able to see with your eyes whether the upper limit has been raised because your strength will increase considerably as your level increases in the latter half of the story.

For now, keep this evolution equipped and replace it with Digestion-type equipment when it becomes available in the middle of the story.

Mineral Digestion

Effect:

• Mineral Gain +30%
• Physical Recovery by Predation  +30%

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Description.

You can get it by defeating Infamy Rank 3.

It is a powerful equipment that can be obtained from the beginning of the game.

Minerals are often lacking in the early stages because they are used for "bone" equipment, and it is easy to become undernourished, so this "Mineral Digestion" equipment is almost a must.

The Digestion-type equipment that will be available in the future will have 1.3 times the nutrition that can be obtained from treasure chests and story rewards, so the two Organs Evolution slots should be filled with Digestion-type evolutions for a while.

Just by equipping it, the amount of predation recovery is increased by 1.3 times, and if another Digestion-type is attached, the amount is increased by 1.6 times.

This is useful not only for nutritional gain, but also for actual combat.

Protein Digestion

Effect:

• Protein Gain +30%
• Physical Recovery by Predation  +30%

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Description.

You can get it by collecting all the landmarks in Fawtick Bayou.

It can be obtained early in the game and can be equipped immediately, but it can be done later because it requires minerals to strengthen it.

Among the nutrients, protein tends to be in surplus, so if you have "fat digestion," which you can get in the middle of the story, you should replace it.

Fat Digestion

Effect:

• Fat Gain +30%
• Physical Recovery by Predation  +30%

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Description.

You can get it by defeating Scaly Pete in Sapphire Bay Boss Fight.

It has the advantage that it is easy to equip because you can get it in the story without you having to stop by, and it is easy to raise the tier because the nutrition needed to strengthen it is protein.

If you attach "Mineral Digestion" to it, you can earn nutrition and increase recovery by 1.6 times, which is useful in the story progression.

Mutagen Digestion

Effect:

• Mutagen Gain +30%
• Physical Recovery by Predation  +30%

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Description.

You can get it by defeating Infamy Rank 7.

Compared to other digestive evolutions, this equipment is longer to obtain than other digestive evolutions, and if you collect treasure chests steadily, you will have extra nutrition, so you will hardly have to use it.

Adrenal Gland

Effect:

• When the physical strength is less than 25%, the following effects are obtained:
  ・Swim Speed +30%
  ・Acceleration +30%
  ・Max Speed +30%
  ・Lunge Speed +30%
  ・Evade Speed +30%

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Description.

You can get it by defeating Infamy Rank 4.

If your strength falls below 25%, your movement speed will increase, This equipment is designed to ensure that if you want to escape in a pinch, you can do so.

It is easy to strengthen, so it may be useful in the beginning,
But as you get used to it, you will probably run away or recover before you get in a pinch, So, it is not necessary to equip it gradually.

Amphibious

Effect:

• Land Speed +50%
• Oxygen Gauge +125%

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Description.

You can get it by defeating the Fawtick Bayou Apex Alligator.

A shark's oxygen gauge usually lasts about 20 seconds, but with this equipment, you can relax on the ground for about 45 seconds.
This is a necessity when you want to devour humans or sightsee buildings on the ground.

It increases the speed of movement on land, but does not apply to jumps or other movement speeds on land.
If you want to move faster on land, you can press the Bite button continuously, so equipping this evolution for the purpose of movement speed is not very effective.

Brutal Muscles

Effect:

• Swim Speed +30%
• Acceleration +30%
• Max Speed +30%
• Tailwhip Damage +30
• Pushing force during Tailwhip +30%

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Description.

You can get it by defeating Infamy Rank 10.

It is highly recommended equipment.

Just by equipping this equipment, you can swim 1.3 times faster.
Swimming faster is an advantage for exploring the map, fighting, or anything else,
Once you acquire it, enhance it and equip it immediately.

Incidentally, equipping a Tail that can attack at long range, such as Shadow Tail, with this evolution does not increase the damage of long-range attacks.
Tailwhip-related effects are almost a bonus.

Subliminal Evasion

Effect:

• The main character's shark size will no longer be attacked by fish less than 90% of its size.

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Description.

You can get it by defeating The Gulf's Apex Predator Sperm Whale

When equipped, blue sharks, hammerhead sharks, and marlin will no longer attack you.
However, if you attack them yourself, they will keep attacking you.

It is good that they are no longer attacking you when you are exploring the map, because it is troublesome to have them attack you every time.
It is also advantageous to be able to fight only the target enemy, since it is quite troublesome to fight 1 vs. 2 in a battle.

However, since there is no other particular effect, I feel that I tend to choose other internal evolutions.

Reinforced Cartilage

Effect:

• Damage Resistance +15%

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Description.

You can get it by collecting all the landmarks in The Gulf.

Recommended equipment.

It is a very useful equipment because it can cut 15% of damage just by equipping it.
It is indispensable for equipment with low defense, such as the Bio-Electric set and the Shadow set.

Recommended equipment

Here are some of the configurations I often equip myself with, for your reference.

Equipped to clear the story

Only the teeth are Bio-Electric, the rest of the equipment consists of Bone, all of which can be obtained simply by progressing through the story.

The basic movement is to attack with Bite against living creatures, and Ramming (mainly used to avoid water) against humans and boats.

Damage from enemies is Bone, which is durable, and Organs Evolution increases predation recovery by 60%, so you can proceed without any obstacles.

Equipped for nutritional gain

By equipping Tiger Body and Digestion system internal evolution, You will get 1.25 times more Mutagen and 1.55 times more other nutrition.

You will get more of all nutrients from treasure chests, collections, and story rewards.
If you have taken most of the rewards and that is still not enough, you can earn a lot by preying on humans.

The Completed Shark

This is the recommended configuration if you have finished the story or collected all the collections.

Against creatures, Bite + chase with long-range attack + poison,
Against humans, use long-range attacks to attack with poison,
Against boats, use Ramming,

The damage resistance is also increased, and the speed is made faster and more comfortable,
This set of equipment is all you need.

If you are going to do the DLC from now on, or if you don't want to change your equipment, this equipment is good for you.

Finally.

How was it?
I hope this page has been helpful.

Try various combinations and have a good shark life.

See you soon!

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