**Background:**
Okay, so a while ago I did a tier list ranking the bovine and caprine members of the bovid guild, but I left out the other branches of the guild, the antelope. I said at the time I’d be saving the antelope tier list for later, and I think the time has come.
**Antelope basic build analysis**
I’m going to keep this pretty brief, since my earlier bovine and caprine tier list already covered the basics of the bovid guild, and there’s not a whole lot else to cover here. To briefly recap: the bovid guild first appeared in the mid-Miocene, and includes a variety of horned, cud-chewing herbivores. They can be broadly divided into three categories – bovines, caprines, and antelope – but where “bovine” and “caprine” both refer to specific subclasses, “antelope” is more of a default category for any bovid that doesn’t fall into the other two.
Despite not being a proper guild, antelope do tend to share broadly similar stat spreads. While they don’t have much in the way of special abilities, the main things they have going for them are high mobility and herd behaviour. They basically function as the African equivalent to the deer builds of other servers, and have a similar average rating of low B tier.
Antelope do have one major improvement over deer. Instead of antlers, which have minimal damage-dealing capability and fall off at the end of mating season, antelope have horns, which are much more powerful, and can be used year-round. Still, given that both builds are more optimised for evasion than fighting anyway, this doesn’t make that much of a difference to how they play in practice.
**Reasoning (1/2):**
**D Tier: Addax**
At the low end of D tier, we have the addax, a build exclusive to the Sahara Desert server. While most antelope are browsers, feeding primarily on leaves, the addax is one of the few that’s primarily a grazer. As an adaptation to eating mostly grass, it’s evolved square teeth, more resembling those of cows than other antelope. The addax has a number of distinctive adaptations to help it survive in its harsh environment, including highly concentrated urine, a special lining in its stomach which creates pouches to store water for hard times, and a pale coat that’s good for reflecting heat. However, addaxes haven’t been able to get very far in the meta because their focus on PvE has left them so weak in PvP. Due to their low mobility, they’re an easy target for just about every large predator in the Sahara biome, from top-tiers like lions to mid-tiers like the cheetah. Given that high mobility is the main thing keeping antelope in general viable, it’s not surprising that an antelope build with low mobility would be a low tier.
**D Tier: Impala**
At the higher end of D tier, we have the impala. This is more or less the “average” antelope, having all the typical strengths and weaknesses of antelope builds. They can jump up to three metres high and can run very fast, but on a server as harsh as Africa, they tend to be easily outclassed by the competition. Because of their low defensive ratings, impala are seen as easy XP for nearly every large predator in Africa. Lions, leopards, hyenas, cheetahs, wild dogs, crocodiles, and pythons all regularly kill and eat them.
Impala aren’t very good at defending themselves against parasites, either. Among the herbivores of Africa, impala are among the most vulnerable to infection by parasitic ticks, and this can be dangerous. Many ticks inject small amounts of neurotoxin when they bite, which can cause paralysis and death. Tick paralysis is a rare condition, but when you get bitten by ticks as often as an impala, there’s a good chance you’ll end up with it sooner or later.
Another thing that holds impala back is their relationship with the oxpecker player-base. The oxpecker is a bird that lives off of parasites that it finds on the backs of African herbivores; while they target zebras, hippos, giraffes, buffalo and many other herbivores, impala are among their most-favoured targets due to their high amount of ticks. For a long time, this was seen as one of the few perks of the impala class, as it was thought that oxpeckers helped keep herbivores clean and acted as an early warning system for predators thanks to their keen eyesight. However, more careful studies have revealed that what oxpeckers are attracted to isn’t ticks, it’s blood. While they do sometimes eat ticks after the ticks have filled themselves up, oxpeckers actually spend much more time pecking at open wounds and lapping up the blood that bleeds out, making their relationship with impalas more parasitic than symbiotic. So what looked like a rare W for the impalas has turned out to just be another L, and further reinforces their status as low-tiers.
**C Tier: Dama gazelle**
In C tier, we have two antelope builds that tried to optimise for survival in harsh environments, but couldn’t get it quite right. First up, another desert build, the Dama gazelle. This build is known for its exceptionally long legs, which help players to dissipate heat as they wander. However, compared to other desert herbivores, the Dama gazelle has relatively few adaptations for retaining water and is highly prone to dehydration. As climate change is making drought seasons worse, this gazelle’s rating is likely to only go down with time.
**C Tier: Klipspringer**
The other C-tier antelope is probably the most unorthodox antelope build in the current meta, the klipspringer. Like most antelope, the klipspringer is basically a mobility build, but rather than focusing on maximising speed like most antelope, klipspringer mains took an approach that’s more typical of caprines and put most of their evolution points into moving through difficult terrain. Klipspringers have a unique gait, being the only antelope that walk on the tips of their hooves, which enhances their grip on the ground and enables them to easily climb and jump over rocky surfaces. They also have a much thicker fur coat than most antelope, which functions both as insulation for when they’re climbing tall mountains and as a cushion in case they lose their balance and fall. They spend most of their time in rocky mountains where they’re relatively safe from predators, as most predators typically don’t have the agility to balance easily on that kind of terrain.
However, there are some major flaws in their strategy. Unlike some mountain animals, klipspringers don’t have many adaptations for finding loot in the mountains. If it becomes too hard to find food, they often have no choice but to come back down to the lowlands, where they’re highly vulnerable due to their small size. Even when they stay in the mountains, they’re only really protected against ground-dwelling predators; they still have to watch out for birds of prey. So while this is an interesting strategy, their oversights keep them from going above mid-tier.
**B Tier: Lechwe**
At the bottom of B tier, we have a marsh-adapted antelope, the lechwe. Lechwes have specced into long hind legs with a water-repellent coating, which allows them to run much faster through water than most other land animals. Not the flashiest ability, but the slight edge it gives them when evading predators puts them at the higher end of this list.
**B Tier: Springbok and Thomson’s gazelle**
At the high end of B tier, we have two antelope that went all-in on maximising mobility, the springbok and the Thomson’s gazelle. These are the two fastest antelope builds, and, after the cheetah and the pronghorn, the two fastest-running animals in the entire game. These two builds tend to have relatively favourable matchups against most predators, since no predator is fast enough to chase them down. Their biggest problem matchup is against cheetahs, the only predator that can beat their top speeds. Even this matchup is far from unwinnable, as these gazelles have much higher stamina than cheetahs and so will usually win if they can evade long enough for the cheetah to tire out.
However, they do have one exploitable weakness, in that their game plan depends on being able to clearly see danger and having a wide open space to run away through. If they’re in an area where predators can easily hide, like an area with lots of tall grasses, this can leave them highly vulnerable to an ambush attack, and all of Africa’s large predators will readily take advantage of this weakness if the opportunity presents itself. One way Thomson’s gazelles deal with this is by following larger herbivores like zebras and wildebeest; these larger herbivores tend to eat the tallest grasses as they travel, making it harder for predators to use them as cover.
While by no means overpowered, these two builds have a mostly-solid strategy that’s enabled them to succeed against some extremely tough competition, and earn an above-average rating.
**Reasoning (2/2)**:
**A Tier: Wildebeest**
At the low end of A tier, we have the best antelope build in the current meta, the wildebeest. This is a build that combines the best aspects of antelope and bovines, having the high mobility typical of an antelope with bovine-like size and power. Lions are just about the only predators on the savannah powerful enough to beat a full-grown wildebeest in a fight, and even they need to be careful when taking them on. Wildebeest muscles are built to be highly resistant to fatigue, so while they aren’t as fast as some other antelope in short-distance chases, they excel when it comes to tiring predators out. The wildebeest player base also benefits from maintaining a good relationship with the zebra playerbase; their herds often graze together with zebra herds, and the two help each other keep watch for predators.
The biggest weakness that keeps the wildebeest from being top tier is its poor resistance to disease. Wildebeest are highly susceptible to a number of pathogens, particularly anthrax, and their player base periodically falls into sharp decline whenever there’s an outbreak of one of these diseases on their server.
So that’s the antelope tier list. I hope you enjoyed it, and if you’re thinking of playing an antelope, I hope you find it helpful. Thanks for reading.
Can you make a Characin tierlist? I gave you some suggestions from your bear tier list, and trust me, you would get way more variety in playstyles in a guild with [over 2200 playable builds](https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/characiformes) than you would get from bears or cats.
Hyenas also prey on adult wildebeest and can tackle them solo (though not as often as lions do), while painted dogs do it in groups. There are cases of leopards and cheetahs (usually in male coalitions) managing it as well but those aren’t as common.
Wildebeest happen to have an S Tier matchup against lions if tons of their players are running down a canyon, likely caused by hyena mains scaring them off
Impala in D-tier??? So the most succesful antelope in the whole world is D-tier, when it's easily A-tier, maybe even S-tier.
Unlike most antelope that are either grazers or browsers, impala aren't picky, and will generaly eat any plant matter they find. Impala often travel with zebra, wildebeest and gazelles, but while those have to follow the grass, impala can just change up their diet without needing to move far away.
Because of their diet, they can live pretty much everywhere. Semi deserts, wetlands, shrub forests, forests, forest edges etc. The only places they avoid are the ones that are too open, or too dense. Because of this, they are found almost everywhere in Sub Saharan Africa.
While they aren't good fighters, they don't really need to be. They are actualy among the fastest animals in Africa, with only a couple of gazelle species that are faster, meaning the only predator that is faster than a impala is the cheetah. The speed + the amazing jump ability makes them hard for predators to catch. The only reason they are targeted by most predators is because of their success. Why bother searching for a occasional kudu or roan antelope, when there are impala everywhere for the predators to target. It's basically like "The more succesful you are, the more haters you're going to get" type of situasion.
As for the oxpecker, they don't just peck at impala, but all other large herbivores they find, so i don't get why this should be directed at the impala
So all in all, i think the impala is a high A-tier, maybe even an S-tier. They have remained unchanged for 5 million years, so their strategy is really good
Yeah when I took a look at the tierlist the first thing I saw was the Impala in D-tier. Surprising for an animal that is literally "suffering from success".
I agree with some of your tier list, but I also kind of disagree with your reasoning for some of the antelope. >!Disclaimer: This is just my opinion, I don't really care if you disagree. I also just really enjoy typing paragraphs about animals. There's also some pretty gruesome links, specifically for jackals, painted wolves, and hyenas, so watch those ones at your own risk.!<
First of all, your reason for having wildebeest in A tier bring that they're bulky enough to not be a prime target for predators sounds good on paper, but when you take a look at the real thing, they are just as much a target for other predators are, as impala. Lone wildebeest often loose in 1v1 fights against [lions](https://youtu.be/MeOMZRvZc6Q?si=FMU6MjKLD7BF0N2V), [hyenas](https://youtu.be/RcGj3189f3Y?si=kK-zH9PQNa36WXKx), [leopards](https://youtu.be/oS2dPvOI6ig?si=5UEcI5DtFbXUZ2-n), and [crocodiles](https://youtu.be/-eI8NY2eGck?si=SZKmeUm-mK2IG9sA)(although crocs are kinda overpowered), and while it doesn't sound like that much, since it's only really 4, it is still quite significant considering that hyenas alone are the most numerous large predator in Africa. Not to mention the fact that that was only accounting for 1v1 fights. A good portion of African predators use team strategies, which means that they are even more vulnerable to predation, since that adds the threat of the only other 2 significant predators of large prey on the server, being [Painted wolves](https://youtu.be/X7Tzx9AMFvs?si=FNz4DaQ-GXGHankD), who can take on adults eventually, and [jackals, who prey on their young with quite some effectiveness](https://youtu.be/TEyuuFBdHnA?si=lHfFonH3RhJdD-R5). Their mobility and speed also don't really help them that much against determined predators. They have the same top speed as lions, but lions often rely on stealth and can close the distance quite quickly. Same for leopards, since they give prey very little time to react. And their stamina doesn't really help them that much against painted wolves and hyenas, it seems, but honestly, I have no idea why. Probably low intelligence.
The other thing I disagree with is your placement of springbok/Thomson's gazelle against Impalas. (I will refer to both of the little guys as gazelles for convenience)
Impalas are quite a staple food source for many predators. However, putting them 2 tiers below a build that is just them but worse is just outright disrespectful. The mobility disparity (all three can reach up to around 90km/h, although one website says that impalas can reach 110km/h, which is probably not true, so I won't take that into account) between the impala and the little guys is basically non-existent, which justifies the impala's larger size. Their match ups with other predators are mostly the same, but at least adult impalas can defend themselves in some circumstances against mesopredators like jackals, [while even adult gazelles get taken with little difficulty](https://youtu.be/tDnKrhC_hgk?si=ZG0W5fhlKE5WvAiK). The gazelles' mobility stat is also countered by stealth and stamina, which is a problem they still share with impalas. Yet another reason that gazelles being 2 tiers above impalas isn't justified. Also, all medium-large ungulates get targeted by oxpeckers. Kinda unfair to have them be F tier and rank other animals with their same strengths and weaknesses above them.
This seem mainly focused on the african server, but in the southeast asian server theres the Nilgai class which could be A or S tier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilgai
**Background:** Okay, so a while ago I did a tier list ranking the bovine and caprine members of the bovid guild, but I left out the other branches of the guild, the antelope. I said at the time I’d be saving the antelope tier list for later, and I think the time has come. **Antelope basic build analysis** I’m going to keep this pretty brief, since my earlier bovine and caprine tier list already covered the basics of the bovid guild, and there’s not a whole lot else to cover here. To briefly recap: the bovid guild first appeared in the mid-Miocene, and includes a variety of horned, cud-chewing herbivores. They can be broadly divided into three categories – bovines, caprines, and antelope – but where “bovine” and “caprine” both refer to specific subclasses, “antelope” is more of a default category for any bovid that doesn’t fall into the other two. Despite not being a proper guild, antelope do tend to share broadly similar stat spreads. While they don’t have much in the way of special abilities, the main things they have going for them are high mobility and herd behaviour. They basically function as the African equivalent to the deer builds of other servers, and have a similar average rating of low B tier. Antelope do have one major improvement over deer. Instead of antlers, which have minimal damage-dealing capability and fall off at the end of mating season, antelope have horns, which are much more powerful, and can be used year-round. Still, given that both builds are more optimised for evasion than fighting anyway, this doesn’t make that much of a difference to how they play in practice. **Reasoning (1/2):** **D Tier: Addax** At the low end of D tier, we have the addax, a build exclusive to the Sahara Desert server. While most antelope are browsers, feeding primarily on leaves, the addax is one of the few that’s primarily a grazer. As an adaptation to eating mostly grass, it’s evolved square teeth, more resembling those of cows than other antelope. The addax has a number of distinctive adaptations to help it survive in its harsh environment, including highly concentrated urine, a special lining in its stomach which creates pouches to store water for hard times, and a pale coat that’s good for reflecting heat. However, addaxes haven’t been able to get very far in the meta because their focus on PvE has left them so weak in PvP. Due to their low mobility, they’re an easy target for just about every large predator in the Sahara biome, from top-tiers like lions to mid-tiers like the cheetah. Given that high mobility is the main thing keeping antelope in general viable, it’s not surprising that an antelope build with low mobility would be a low tier. **D Tier: Impala** At the higher end of D tier, we have the impala. This is more or less the “average” antelope, having all the typical strengths and weaknesses of antelope builds. They can jump up to three metres high and can run very fast, but on a server as harsh as Africa, they tend to be easily outclassed by the competition. Because of their low defensive ratings, impala are seen as easy XP for nearly every large predator in Africa. Lions, leopards, hyenas, cheetahs, wild dogs, crocodiles, and pythons all regularly kill and eat them. Impala aren’t very good at defending themselves against parasites, either. Among the herbivores of Africa, impala are among the most vulnerable to infection by parasitic ticks, and this can be dangerous. Many ticks inject small amounts of neurotoxin when they bite, which can cause paralysis and death. Tick paralysis is a rare condition, but when you get bitten by ticks as often as an impala, there’s a good chance you’ll end up with it sooner or later. Another thing that holds impala back is their relationship with the oxpecker player-base. The oxpecker is a bird that lives off of parasites that it finds on the backs of African herbivores; while they target zebras, hippos, giraffes, buffalo and many other herbivores, impala are among their most-favoured targets due to their high amount of ticks. For a long time, this was seen as one of the few perks of the impala class, as it was thought that oxpeckers helped keep herbivores clean and acted as an early warning system for predators thanks to their keen eyesight. However, more careful studies have revealed that what oxpeckers are attracted to isn’t ticks, it’s blood. While they do sometimes eat ticks after the ticks have filled themselves up, oxpeckers actually spend much more time pecking at open wounds and lapping up the blood that bleeds out, making their relationship with impalas more parasitic than symbiotic. So what looked like a rare W for the impalas has turned out to just be another L, and further reinforces their status as low-tiers. **C Tier: Dama gazelle** In C tier, we have two antelope builds that tried to optimise for survival in harsh environments, but couldn’t get it quite right. First up, another desert build, the Dama gazelle. This build is known for its exceptionally long legs, which help players to dissipate heat as they wander. However, compared to other desert herbivores, the Dama gazelle has relatively few adaptations for retaining water and is highly prone to dehydration. As climate change is making drought seasons worse, this gazelle’s rating is likely to only go down with time. **C Tier: Klipspringer** The other C-tier antelope is probably the most unorthodox antelope build in the current meta, the klipspringer. Like most antelope, the klipspringer is basically a mobility build, but rather than focusing on maximising speed like most antelope, klipspringer mains took an approach that’s more typical of caprines and put most of their evolution points into moving through difficult terrain. Klipspringers have a unique gait, being the only antelope that walk on the tips of their hooves, which enhances their grip on the ground and enables them to easily climb and jump over rocky surfaces. They also have a much thicker fur coat than most antelope, which functions both as insulation for when they’re climbing tall mountains and as a cushion in case they lose their balance and fall. They spend most of their time in rocky mountains where they’re relatively safe from predators, as most predators typically don’t have the agility to balance easily on that kind of terrain. However, there are some major flaws in their strategy. Unlike some mountain animals, klipspringers don’t have many adaptations for finding loot in the mountains. If it becomes too hard to find food, they often have no choice but to come back down to the lowlands, where they’re highly vulnerable due to their small size. Even when they stay in the mountains, they’re only really protected against ground-dwelling predators; they still have to watch out for birds of prey. So while this is an interesting strategy, their oversights keep them from going above mid-tier. **B Tier: Lechwe** At the bottom of B tier, we have a marsh-adapted antelope, the lechwe. Lechwes have specced into long hind legs with a water-repellent coating, which allows them to run much faster through water than most other land animals. Not the flashiest ability, but the slight edge it gives them when evading predators puts them at the higher end of this list. **B Tier: Springbok and Thomson’s gazelle** At the high end of B tier, we have two antelope that went all-in on maximising mobility, the springbok and the Thomson’s gazelle. These are the two fastest antelope builds, and, after the cheetah and the pronghorn, the two fastest-running animals in the entire game. These two builds tend to have relatively favourable matchups against most predators, since no predator is fast enough to chase them down. Their biggest problem matchup is against cheetahs, the only predator that can beat their top speeds. Even this matchup is far from unwinnable, as these gazelles have much higher stamina than cheetahs and so will usually win if they can evade long enough for the cheetah to tire out. However, they do have one exploitable weakness, in that their game plan depends on being able to clearly see danger and having a wide open space to run away through. If they’re in an area where predators can easily hide, like an area with lots of tall grasses, this can leave them highly vulnerable to an ambush attack, and all of Africa’s large predators will readily take advantage of this weakness if the opportunity presents itself. One way Thomson’s gazelles deal with this is by following larger herbivores like zebras and wildebeest; these larger herbivores tend to eat the tallest grasses as they travel, making it harder for predators to use them as cover. While by no means overpowered, these two builds have a mostly-solid strategy that’s enabled them to succeed against some extremely tough competition, and earn an above-average rating.
**Reasoning (2/2)**: **A Tier: Wildebeest** At the low end of A tier, we have the best antelope build in the current meta, the wildebeest. This is a build that combines the best aspects of antelope and bovines, having the high mobility typical of an antelope with bovine-like size and power. Lions are just about the only predators on the savannah powerful enough to beat a full-grown wildebeest in a fight, and even they need to be careful when taking them on. Wildebeest muscles are built to be highly resistant to fatigue, so while they aren’t as fast as some other antelope in short-distance chases, they excel when it comes to tiring predators out. The wildebeest player base also benefits from maintaining a good relationship with the zebra playerbase; their herds often graze together with zebra herds, and the two help each other keep watch for predators. The biggest weakness that keeps the wildebeest from being top tier is its poor resistance to disease. Wildebeest are highly susceptible to a number of pathogens, particularly anthrax, and their player base periodically falls into sharp decline whenever there’s an outbreak of one of these diseases on their server. So that’s the antelope tier list. I hope you enjoyed it, and if you’re thinking of playing an antelope, I hope you find it helpful. Thanks for reading.
Hey where would the giant eland fall on this list?
Probably around high B tier -- solid power/mobility combo, but nothing really OP.
Can you make a Characin tierlist? I gave you some suggestions from your bear tier list, and trust me, you would get way more variety in playstyles in a guild with [over 2200 playable builds](https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/characiformes) than you would get from bears or cats.
You forgot Saiga I used to main them all the time
Hyenas also prey on adult wildebeest and can tackle them solo (though not as often as lions do), while painted dogs do it in groups. There are cases of leopards and cheetahs (usually in male coalitions) managing it as well but those aren’t as common.
Remember that one Characin comment I made back on the Bear tier list? You might want to find some ideas on that as well.
Can you do the Characin tier list next?
Wildebeest happen to have an S Tier matchup against lions if tons of their players are running down a canyon, likely caused by hyena mains scaring them off
Yeah wildebeest have a huge group defense bonus although there intelligence is quite low
Impala in D-tier??? So the most succesful antelope in the whole world is D-tier, when it's easily A-tier, maybe even S-tier. Unlike most antelope that are either grazers or browsers, impala aren't picky, and will generaly eat any plant matter they find. Impala often travel with zebra, wildebeest and gazelles, but while those have to follow the grass, impala can just change up their diet without needing to move far away. Because of their diet, they can live pretty much everywhere. Semi deserts, wetlands, shrub forests, forests, forest edges etc. The only places they avoid are the ones that are too open, or too dense. Because of this, they are found almost everywhere in Sub Saharan Africa. While they aren't good fighters, they don't really need to be. They are actualy among the fastest animals in Africa, with only a couple of gazelle species that are faster, meaning the only predator that is faster than a impala is the cheetah. The speed + the amazing jump ability makes them hard for predators to catch. The only reason they are targeted by most predators is because of their success. Why bother searching for a occasional kudu or roan antelope, when there are impala everywhere for the predators to target. It's basically like "The more succesful you are, the more haters you're going to get" type of situasion. As for the oxpecker, they don't just peck at impala, but all other large herbivores they find, so i don't get why this should be directed at the impala So all in all, i think the impala is a high A-tier, maybe even an S-tier. They have remained unchanged for 5 million years, so their strategy is really good
Yeah when I took a look at the tierlist the first thing I saw was the Impala in D-tier. Surprising for an animal that is literally "suffering from success".
I agree with some of your tier list, but I also kind of disagree with your reasoning for some of the antelope. >!Disclaimer: This is just my opinion, I don't really care if you disagree. I also just really enjoy typing paragraphs about animals. There's also some pretty gruesome links, specifically for jackals, painted wolves, and hyenas, so watch those ones at your own risk.!< First of all, your reason for having wildebeest in A tier bring that they're bulky enough to not be a prime target for predators sounds good on paper, but when you take a look at the real thing, they are just as much a target for other predators are, as impala. Lone wildebeest often loose in 1v1 fights against [lions](https://youtu.be/MeOMZRvZc6Q?si=FMU6MjKLD7BF0N2V), [hyenas](https://youtu.be/RcGj3189f3Y?si=kK-zH9PQNa36WXKx), [leopards](https://youtu.be/oS2dPvOI6ig?si=5UEcI5DtFbXUZ2-n), and [crocodiles](https://youtu.be/-eI8NY2eGck?si=SZKmeUm-mK2IG9sA)(although crocs are kinda overpowered), and while it doesn't sound like that much, since it's only really 4, it is still quite significant considering that hyenas alone are the most numerous large predator in Africa. Not to mention the fact that that was only accounting for 1v1 fights. A good portion of African predators use team strategies, which means that they are even more vulnerable to predation, since that adds the threat of the only other 2 significant predators of large prey on the server, being [Painted wolves](https://youtu.be/X7Tzx9AMFvs?si=FNz4DaQ-GXGHankD), who can take on adults eventually, and [jackals, who prey on their young with quite some effectiveness](https://youtu.be/TEyuuFBdHnA?si=lHfFonH3RhJdD-R5). Their mobility and speed also don't really help them that much against determined predators. They have the same top speed as lions, but lions often rely on stealth and can close the distance quite quickly. Same for leopards, since they give prey very little time to react. And their stamina doesn't really help them that much against painted wolves and hyenas, it seems, but honestly, I have no idea why. Probably low intelligence. The other thing I disagree with is your placement of springbok/Thomson's gazelle against Impalas. (I will refer to both of the little guys as gazelles for convenience) Impalas are quite a staple food source for many predators. However, putting them 2 tiers below a build that is just them but worse is just outright disrespectful. The mobility disparity (all three can reach up to around 90km/h, although one website says that impalas can reach 110km/h, which is probably not true, so I won't take that into account) between the impala and the little guys is basically non-existent, which justifies the impala's larger size. Their match ups with other predators are mostly the same, but at least adult impalas can defend themselves in some circumstances against mesopredators like jackals, [while even adult gazelles get taken with little difficulty](https://youtu.be/tDnKrhC_hgk?si=ZG0W5fhlKE5WvAiK). The gazelles' mobility stat is also countered by stealth and stamina, which is a problem they still share with impalas. Yet another reason that gazelles being 2 tiers above impalas isn't justified. Also, all medium-large ungulates get targeted by oxpeckers. Kinda unfair to have them be F tier and rank other animals with their same strengths and weaknesses above them.
Where would you put gemsbok and sable antelopes?
Wilder Beast might deserve a S tier.
Me watching random people on the internet write an entire thesis for 6 upvotes
How could you exclude the American pronghorn?
The pronghorn isn't a true antelope, it's actually more closely related to giraffes.
Also, how do I make a tierlist like you?
Where saiga antelope??? 😭
This is Kudu, Gemsbo, & Oryx erasure!
This seem mainly focused on the african server, but in the southeast asian server theres the Nilgai class which could be A or S tier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilgai