🎣 Fishing Skill Tier List (with Reasoning & EV)

🟥 Top Tier

🧠 Stamana

Effect: Redraw your cards

Why it’s strong:

More cards = more damage = more successful catches
Redrawing = eliminate misses, find better cards
Each level = ~50–150% more damage
Indirectly multiplies your chance to hit high-value targets

Verdict: Core to every build. Strong early, strong late. Value: Unmatched consistency and upside.

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🌿 Weed Dealer

Effect: Increases seaweed gained per fish

Why it’s strong:

Highest raw % increase in seaweed gain
Scales extremely well with Dual Yielding and high catch counts
Depends heavily on rounding mechanics:
- If rounding down: [1.63% → 50.00%] gain
- If rounding up: [13.63% → 50.00%] gain

EV: 0.4218 Verdict: High-value investment. Potentially broken if rounding favors you. Testing in progress.

🟨 High Tier

⚔️ Dual Yielding

Effect: Chance to catch 2 fish

Why it’s strong:

Doubles value from:
- Weed Dealer
- Luck (for rare fish)
- Quality 2 fish
- Jebaitor
- Gigapengu comps
Indirectly speeds up Mastery gain
Synergizes with every other major mechanic

EV: 0.1687 Verdict: Incredible scaling and synergy. Core mid- to late-game.

🟦 Mid Tier

🍀 Luck

Effect: Chance to increase fish rarity

Why it’s "meh":

Only 1.25% chance
Less effective as base rarity increases
No effect on Giga fish
May hurt odds in future comps if they favor commons
Helps Mastery for rare fish

EV: 0.1424 Verdict: Synergistic but unreliable. Risky long-term investment.

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🎣 Jebaitor

Effect: Bonus cast on a catch

Why it’s conditional:

Strong if catch rate > 87.5% (better than Dual Yielding)
Weak if catch rate < 75% (worse than Luck)
Energy cost and second catch requirement hurt consistency
Strong potential in competition with DY synergy

EV: < 0.1898 × catch rate Verdict: Niche. Strong in optimal builds or comps, but energy-hungry and inconsistent.

🟧 Low Tier

🔮 Fintuition

Effect: % chance to see opponent's next move

Why it’s mixed:

2.5% = once every ~7 casts
Can prevent wasted turns and increase reliability
Many situations already "solved" with good cards
High investment needed to feel useful

Verdict: Interesting for control players, but payoff is too delayed for most builds.

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🎯 Rod Control

Effect: 2% crit chance for +50% damage

Why it sucks:

Only +1% average damage
Realistically even lower due to typical miss rates (~0.66%)
May actually lose you fish depending on crit behavior on misses

Verdict: Absolute garbage. Always take Stamana instead.

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😖 Taste

Effect: Gain extra seaweed on catch

Why it’s broken (in a bad way):

Doesn’t scale with Weed Dealer
Doesn’t benefit from Tonno’s +50% days
Should scale with DY and Luck—but it doesn’t
One upside: may help with faster Mastery levels

EV: 0.0511 Verdict: Feels bugged. Avoid for now.

🧠 Closing Notes

Next Steps: Testing rounding behavior for Weed Dealer
Current Meta Build Suggestion: Stamana → Weed Dealer → Dual Yielding
Future Comp Outlook: Dual Yielding + Jebaitor combo likely to dominate