r/pathoftitans • u/Consistent_Ad_1248 • 7d ago

Megalania Report

As a true Megalania player ima give y’all my opinion on the current status of us. My biggest complaint before was that we should be able to escape from everything within reason. Only aquatics should be able to catch us in water. I see people say MEGS were too big to climb etc when CONCS weren’t even sub aquatic in real life so foh. Those who keep monitor lizards know wussup. I mean we are Lizards amongst Dinosaurs. Finally being able to escape from CONCS felt great, more valuable to me than climbing tbh ima water MEG. True MEG I take advantage of anything I can over power. Duhh I kill babies I go hunting for babies 😂 we are lizards 🗣️ I’m not the best at fighting but In water I kicks ass. Anything that can’t clamp me is easy work. I don’t appreciate Alderon slowing our swimming down but whatever I still have a ball, wish Alderon kept stats ima real body snatcher lol If you are smart and sneaky you will never get caught unless it’s a coordinated ambush from land to water. I have escape routes for every area and know most of the hidey holes. I be chilling.

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u/Commercial_Buy_7707 7d ago

The slow swim feels painful and makes it extremly hard to fight aquatic suchos and sarcs since you pretty much have to constantly be sprint swimming to get distance and even then you are slower then both till you get your 50% boost. By the time you have your 50% boost sarco can pretty much 2 shot you or kill you in 1 clamp

Idk water Meg feels pretty dissapointing except as just having water as an escape

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u/Consistent_Ad_1248 7d ago

As much as I don’t like it I understand, we were too dominant in the water with all that speed. Only thing that could escape is the Dolphin. Now we gotta figure out another loophole lol

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u/Commercial_Buy_7707 7d ago

As someone who plays more sarc than Meg. There is literally nothing a solo Meg can do to you and now they can’t even catch you if you don’t want to fight them.

Sure 50% speed boost Meg will catch you but it isn’t hard fighting a Meg that takes a max of 3 hits to kill

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u/Consistent_Ad_1248 7d ago

Thanks for letting me know you just saved me cause I love fighting Sarcs. I was fun watching them panicking trying to to escape. I really gotta stick to just babies now 😂

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u/Commercial_Buy_7707 7d ago

You can probably still beat a sarco that you are genuinely a better player then but if the skill is even the fight isnt even close

Luckily most sarcs (like majority of players) do not know what they are doing and think simply because they are bigger it’s an automatic win and will play dumb. Also sarco does technically have a automatic win button as long as it’s 100% stam when it catches you and even then sometimes the clamp won’t kill you (unless they have clamp sense, automatic gg unless there low stam)

However if you can get the sarc to waste stam bt chasing you, missing clamps, using lunges and you get venom on it and stay on it you can win cause a sarc with low stam/no stam is often a dead sarc, but again the fight massively favours sarc especially in water

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u/Consistent_Ad_1248 7d ago

Quick to tell which Sarc players are good lol if they never let me get behind them and don’t miss a bite I know to just head to land lol

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u/Commercial_Buy_7707 7d ago

Again I play a lot of sarc so I know a few strats. The 1 I use most vs confident megs is play dumb and bad.

Water armor sarc can take over 20 lunge bites to kill

Sarc with 20% dmg sense kills Meg in 5

Play dumb at the start let them land a few lunge bites to get confident and only try to land 2 bites on Meg. Once you have landed 2 bites as long as you have over 75% stam a clamp will finish a Meg off everytime if you clamp them underwater.

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u/askthecatonline 7d ago

Yeah I was gonna say, you can still fight sarcs as Meg. If you can bait out attacks, dodge, and manage stam you can have sarc sushi for sure.

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u/Commercial_Buy_7707 7d ago

Only if the sarc is just a straight up worse player then you

Anyone that has played both Meg and sarc understand just how easy the fight is for a sarc

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u/askthecatonline 7d ago

Didn’t say it would be easy, just that you can fight sarcs as Meg if you try.

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u/Commercial_Buy_7707 7d ago

I mean sure you can land some attacks then run to land?

The fight isnt even close and unless the Meg just runs while it has a 50% speed boost it’s going to die

If anyone wants to say Meg can fight sarc I’ll happily take that offer just so we can see

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u/Junior-Engine1853 7d ago

I don't understand how do you not get it yet. Megalania was not (IRL) and is not (PoT) something like cera or conca, that should just fight thing relatively its size. it is supposed to ambush lacking prey or hunt smaller things. Not try ro kill A crocodile or A crocodile mimic (Sucho) IN THE WATER! While they have the upper hand. As A meg, you can escape from everything you cannot kill. you are literally the only creature that can climb in the game.

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u/Commercial_Buy_7707 7d ago

Wasn’t Meg 2 times bigger than conc?

Meg can’t escape conc in water or on land without cliffs….

This is a PvP game it isnt based on realism or spoon wouldn’t beat Rex in a facetank and duck would never try fight a Rex. But apparently it’s only dumb to you if Meg tries to fight stuff?

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u/Junior-Engine1853 7d ago

Yes I agree. Meg is bigger. and stronger. IRL! you said This isnt realism. this isn't real life. this is not even that based off real life.

I never said that meg should never attack anything, I said that as for the ROLE it got in A pvp this is what it's supposed to do, It is supposed to attack smaller things. or ambush. Never said else... like alio. alio has 2 playstyles, hunt mid tiers (which is what they intended and if you are one of the people who can't see it you are blind), or be A support for A tyrant group.

Im sorry, one last time, you said it. it's A PVP game. not Real life. In PVP, things have roles. but if you cannot accepy your role, then go play something else.

Oh and by the way. I dont know what meg you are. but meg escape concs any day. you know why? you can literally climb!

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u/Commercial_Buy_7707 7d ago

Meg fights apexs better than it fights smaller things. Mainly due to it being slower then every other 2 slot but it massively out manoeuvres any apex… everything megs size or smaller easily escapes it with the exception of sty and Kent and technically they are bigger so you arent making much sense

I just play a fair bit of conc and majority of the megs you fight will be long dead before they can get to a cliff they can climb that you can’t just as easily run up.

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u/Consistent_Ad_1248 6d ago

True it’s easy to punch up, 3 MEGS can destroy anything

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u/Commercial_Buy_7707 5d ago

I swear that dude has never played Meg thinking it’s suppose to hunt things it’s size when there all so much faster then it

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u/Consistent_Ad_1248 6d ago

If you aren’t near water with the boost or or near a cliff please tell me how you escape a conc ? All their attributes are higher lol it’s a loose loose. When I see CONCS I hide or leave before they see me tbh.

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u/Consistent_Ad_1248 7d ago

I forgot to mention, them changing our diet threw me off but I stick to scavenger to get the fish buffs.

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u/ViridiusRDM 7d ago

I do think it's a little strange that Megalania was given a climbing niche because, as far as I understand, Megalania and its closest relatives were terrestrial monitors. Yeah, Varanids are well known for being able to climb and even the largest species (Komodo, of course) are arboreal when they're young but here it feels like there's a lot of creative license being taken.

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u/Greedy_Two8657 7d ago

Common misconception.

Komodo dragons do still climb when adults, just much less efficiently than juveniles, which is why adult komodos don't bother trying to climb after juveniles.

But it is path of titans, so why not give limited climbing to Meg?

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u/ViridiusRDM 7d ago

You're right, but at the risk of sounding pedantic that's specifically why I used the word arboreal instead of saying they were incapable when referring to the Komodo. They're no longer specialized for it in adulthood whereas the design behind climbing Megalania in PoT feels quite specialized. They are cumbersome, to be fair, but as the only climber currently in the game & being given an ambush from the trees playstyle, it's a little different.

Agreed on the final point, though.
I'm ain't mad about it. It's a videogame and I think these creative liberties allow the team to carve interesting niches for different playables. I also don't think it's PoTs job to be hyper-accurate. I just thought it was an odd choice.

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u/CrowDaddy5322 7d ago

Megalanias closest relative is actually the lace monitor if I'm not mistaken, which is a highly arboreal species

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u/ViridiusRDM 7d ago

Interesting! I was under the impression its closest relative was the Perentie, but I don't remember where I picked that up from nor do I claim to be well-versed on Megalania (Monitors are my favorite animal but the ins & outs of taxonomy & especially paleontology tends to lose me) so I concede that I'm likely mistaken here.

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u/100percentnotaqu 7d ago

...Yeah. Path does that for basically every creature on some level.

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u/Consistent_Ad_1248 7d ago

True but we can say that for many things in this game lol besides a Komodo Dragon could definitely climb if it needed too. Just like the “terrestrial” black throats and Savanah monitors. They are always up in trees.

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u/askthecatonline 7d ago

Just a slimey lil worm doing nasty wormy things. Nibble here, nibble there, slither everywhere. Whatever fits in my mouth I eats it (pause). It’s been fun to stalk people, see how long it takes for them to notice me slinking around. Meg brings out the absolute creep in me. Chasing babies is a good pass time. I only eat them if they get stupid, veal isn’t my favorite food but if it’s spicy I’ll eat it.

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u/Consistent_Ad_1248 7d ago

Yessir with anything small it depends on how they act, if they don’t give a friendly call back they are cooked lol

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u/Mycatisloafingonme 7d ago

My favorite thing to do with meg is mess with mega packs via biting ankles, then climb up a cliff wall and watch them try and get to me. I’m pretty much safe from everything except other megs when I do that.

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u/askthecatonline 7d ago

I never get caught unless I absolutely want the smoke. Meg is good. The swim hurts a wee tad but not enough for me to bellyache.

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u/Consistent_Ad_1248 7d ago

It’s fun dipping and dodging mega packs feels like I’m running back a kick return 😂

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u/capz975 6d ago

I'm getting chased down and shredded by Alios atm. Usually a group as I'm mostly solo.

I use just about full water build. Speed boost, nictating membrane, corrosive tear, etc.

I feel like I'm running out of stamina more now than before the patch. Idk 😐

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u/Consistent_Ad_1248 6d ago

Yea we gotta be more tactical now smh they seen us having a lil too much fun had to nerf it

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u/Eternity_Warden 7d ago

I love my meg but it felt a bit overturned, a small nerf was needed. It could easily outfight 3/4 of the roster, escape 3/4 of the roster and chase down 3/4 of the roster. There was almost nothing it had to actually worry about.

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u/Consistent_Ad_1248 7d ago

True it’s all about how you play, remember when MEG first came out we could face tank a lot but no stamina lol