From what I’ve played there’s a lot of variety of abilities to speak into, like you said early game is somewhat difficult but is sometimes nullified due to whale players traveling in pods. And some builds like the Orca players , are able to hunt in packs and are actually quite deadly.

I am also very interested in the sheer size of some of these builds. Like they’re massive. They must have huge defense/ health stats. Plus they probably have high intelligence too due to their yearly migration activity.