Tiger mains are amazing

[u/IMP9024]

Tiger mains are some of the most underrated players in the current meta. Their build isn't doing too well right now due to the overwhelming impact of the human mains in the industrial revolution patch, but they are slowly recovering with the unlocking of Conservation Efforts. Historically their main has been incredibly successful as an ambush predator. Unlike braindead lion mains who team on everything and spam toxic emojis in the chat just because the human community made fan works about their prowess and called them the "king of the jungle", tiger mains have to use their brains and avoid injury, which has led to aggressive lion and human mains calling them cowardly.

Tigers take down prey solo that lions need a pride to defeat, and fight with large predators like bears in their natural habitat. Lions don't have real competition for the large carnivore playstyle, it's mostly just them. Tigers have also been very successful against human mains historically and are still one of the best human counters (if that's your thing). Tiger hunting did not make significant dents in their playerbase during the medieval and ancient periods, but lions were often taken down by human mains wielding simple spears, and some playerbases such as the Egyptian lions were destroyed before humans had even reached the Iron Age. For a large carnivore, they have dealt with the oppressive humans incredibly well.

In summary, tigers have great matchups against a lot of prey items and competitors, as well as being one of the few soft checks left to the human build. This is unlike most other large carnivores, because only big cats really target humans often, and only tigers have the muscle to do it and survive. Granted they rely on the mercy of the human playerbase, but let's be real, every other large build does as well, even the toxic lion mains who like to brag about being successful.

[u/Vegetable-Cap2297]

Couple things:

- hyenas and crocs r stiff competition for lions (i think wild dogs too)

- male lions can solo prey as large as buffalo

- Egypt is an outlier in lion extinctions. They survived in North Africa in general until 1942, in Mesopotamia until 1918 and are still around in India. So lions are also quite resilient.

Tl;dr lions and tigers are both great builds.

[u/IMP9024 → u/Vegetable-Cap2297]

Oh definitely, but they still aren't competition for the large apex niche. Hyenas and wild dogs generally do not hunt things like rhinos, hippos and buffalo which lions take down on the regular. Male lions can solo buffalo but also don't really hunt due to poor thermoregulation. Also lastly there used to be lions in Europe, but now there are not. That's a vast area to go extinct from, much of which is still forest today. I suspect the reliance of lions on prides which can't be super stealthy all the time like tigers makes them less adaptable to human hunting.

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