Reaper - a bitch

Ghost - a bitch

Dragon - kinda cool, but still a bitch

Sea treader- wants to do his own thing and be left alone, I can respect that

Emperor - love her, amazing

Reefback - absolute S tier, got the right idea in life, chilling and riding the waves, can't do better

iirc they're in a dark valley to the right of the small Blood Kelp Zone. There's dozens of them constantly migrating South and they create ore deposits as they walk which is great for getting diamonds and stuff.

The elusive Peeper leviathan

Maybe in the next game it will be possible to build bases on the backs of some creatures

Go to the seafloor below degasi island.

There probably aren’t any other peaceful and intelligent leviathans on 4546B. They either try to kill you or just moan at you like the reefback

Look at it instead this way. The crater (and likely most of the planet) were in an extremely precarious balance due to Kharaa. That sort of precarious balance was due to how many individuals in a species were unlikely to reach maturity and reproduce before death. With the pressure from Kharaa removed, it’s also possible to have population explosions from the bottom of the food chain up to the top.

So it could take a long, long time to see, but it’s possible that leviathan populations increase as their food sources grow and survival challenges become far easier.

It will forever bother me that the Sea Dragon is less scary than a Reaper. The soulless black eyes of the Reaper along with it's mandibles that make it's whole face insect-like makes it very unsettling. Also by the time you find a Sea Dragon, you have a Prawn Suit that can sustain multiple hits. I'd imagine a fair amount of players were still swimming around with their Sea Glides when they suddenly looked up and saw their first Reaper looming overhead, nothing to protect them.

Well I mean the volcano crater has been there for who knows how long... Plenty of completely isolated evolution has taken place... I Dont Know... Like im not entirely certain but I didnt see any reapers, jelly rays or sand sharks in subnautica 2 trailers. Those are blunt examples but still.

The Sea Dragon? Probably, by the time of Subnautica 2. There were only three left and the PDA said they were going extinct.

It's worth remembering that the PDA says the eggs on 4546B work differently to ours on Earth in that they are kept in stasis until conditions are right to hatch; if the Sea Emperor eggs are anything to go by then the time (months, years, decades?) it takes for life on the planet to bounce back from the virus shouldn't effect the Sea Dragon eggs.

What is more problematic though is that while the cannon of it is debatable regarding the old Hell Hole where the Sea Dragons would presumably leave and hunt reapers, when the devs moved the entrance of the hole to the lava zone to the lost river they didn't account for a way for the Sea Dragons to leave and hunt reapers.

This has led to many people assuming that oh the Aurora blocked their entry, which is a valid assumption but we know that Sea Dragons can leave the lava zone via the Sacred Tree (I don't remember the real name) where they went and attacked the disease research facility. Now the question is can they move through the rest of the lost river to find reapers? Genuinely I don't think there is a way for them where the cavern is big enough.

However, it's worth noting that we never see the animals actually have routines. The Crabsnakes will never visually leave their cave, but we know they do via the lifepod attack. The Crabsquid are said to have an insatiable appetite and gorge themselves constantly, but we never see that. Crashfish only go kaboom at the nesting stage of their life cycle, but we don't see any crash fish before that stage. It's one of my wishes for Subnautica 2 for it to have (for some fish) a routine system like Kingdom Come 2, it would be so cool having vertical migrators that are nocturnal like in real life or the fish having places to sleep.

Also no Sea Dragons implies that the Reapers might be without their singular natural predator and could explode in population, have fun with that information :D

it kinda looks cool having those arms, can easily grab reapers and cook them

I personally think that Reapers are the best Leviathans, they are the first ones you encounter, that actually terrify you and make you acutely aware that this Planet is NOT a nice place to be.

And they are the only ones that seem like actual predatory Super-Life-Forms instead of Guardian/Gatekeepers like the Ghost, Shadow or Sea Dragon. Chelicerate is a weaker version of Reapers imo and Squidsharks... eeeeh

i like the adult ghost leviathan in the void, especially when it's pitch black and you see the dark blue creature with a screech. So cool

I just like all the creatures including the leviathans.  A lot of thought went into the designs.

Thats a ventgarden, really cool and chill Leviathans, even have some good resources if you enter through their mouth

No way, that's one of the best creatures. That and the jellyfish by Phi robotics.

Subnautica 2 needs this kind of stuff. Not just limited to the void either. Like some kind of thing like this that is massive and will actively hunt you.

Also something like a swarm or school of piranha or something that will just gobble you up if it gets on you, but not a single organism, that does it. Just ton of little ones.

ACI did such a good job with the mod. I'm way too scared to play with it

It depends, I like reefbacks but my greatest scare comes from a sea dragon so idk what to choose

Sea emperor because it’s the biggest and yet it is peaceful

Absolutely and entirely unwarranted chelicerate hate

You are the first person I've ever seen that doesn't love the ice leviathan design and your existence baffles me

I find myself personally offended that you don't include The Sea Emperor in your top tier. How are you gonna disrespect our girl like that?

Next time I see her, I'm telling her I don't know you.

What would the squid shark be rated?

Sea treader supremacy 🙏🙏

I think the vent garden is the most unique. A living biome as a leviathan? That’s cool. The least unique is easily the void chelicerate. Changing the color scheme, giving it glowing eyes and making it slightly bigger isn’t that creative

The shadow leviathan design is so crazy I love it. Also a big fan of the Ice Worm too. Glow whales are kinda mid tho

It’s not a different leviathan though, it’s just an adult leviathan

Yeah, they’re the second smallest leviathans if you count squid sharks (which doesn’t really make much sense because squid sharks arent that big but idk)

My hungry ass thought you said Which leviathan is the most delicious

The sea emperor would be so cool if she did anything other than sit there and cure you

Ice worms are cool, and they remind me of the movie “Tremors” which I really liked

Sea Treader!

Vent garden

Reefback leviathan always.

Reefback. Also, peepers aren't leviathans.

Can we get an F in the chat for sea treaders and reefbacks?

I was going to put ghost but saw peeper

The peeper is the scariest of them all

Crashfish that's worse than any leviathan

Ghost Leviathan for sure, something about being a lonely, thin, ghost-like creature that eats very little, spends all of its time in a dark pit and gets angry when someone disturbs it just seems familiar to me... i just don't know why...

The 4th is actually just a mod right?

Also my personal favorite is the Reaper.

Big mom will always have a place in my heart

I have a feeling there's going to be crazy amount of Sea emperor simpers in the comments.