Spore Archetype Abilities Tier List

Spore Tier List of all Consequence Abilities throughout the game.

Credit to the Spore Wiki for guiding me through my research for this video.

How to become invincible using Return Ticket:

Spore’s Archetypes page:

Pitiful Worm speedrun:

Timestamps:
Intro: (0:00)
Fanatical Frenzy: (0:29)
Raider Rally: (1:55)
Cash Infusion: (2:37)
Gravitation Wave: (3:14)
Summon Mini-U: (4:16)
Static Cling: (5:30)
Soothing Song: (5:52)
Return Ticket: (6:43)
Safari Vacuum: (7:21)
Siren Song: (7:58)
Summon Flock: (8:57)
Raging Roar: (9:35)
Refreshing Storm: (9:55)
Flying Fish: (10:25)
Traps: (10:52)
Fireworks: (11:19)
Beastmaster: (11:46)
Fire Bombs: (12:17)
Healing Aura: (12:49)
Static Bomb: (13:51)
Invulnerability: (14:26)
Diplo Dervish: (14:49)
Bribe Bomb: (15:26)
Mighty Bomb: (15:55)
Black Cloud: (16:46)
Ad Blitz: (17:23)
Gadget Bomb: (18:20)
Fanatic Uprising, Global Merger, ICBM: (19:08)
Social Suave, Gentle Generalist, Colony Crazy, Arms Dealer: (20:32)
Power Monger: (21:53)
Pleasing Performance: (22:35)
Speed Demon: (23:36)
Prime Specimen: (24:13)
Gracious Greeting: (24:47)
Green Keeper: (25:18)
Spice Savant: (26:03)
Pirate B Gone: (26:52)
Final Tier List!: (27:28)

#Spore

[WipZedKay]

Raider Rally should be S tier since I like to imagine that the pirates you summon and are killed almost instantly help to reduce piracy in the galaxy

[NoName-ozgj]

14:16 is comedy gold. Never knew the creatures would literally walk all the way to city hall

[Vileplume]

as someone who almost always does shaman for most of my creatures (unless I intentionally want otherwise) I'm glad to see return ticket get the appreciation it deserves!

[Pacca]

Learning that spice savant is broken and doesn't work while off world felt like learning santa wasn't real X3 Great tier list!

[Thaddeus_Crews]

Just noticed you colored the tiers based on spice value; nice touch!

[garrett]

"Sending an Ad Blitz, otherwise known as 'Watching YouTube'" 😂

[liuser]

i appreciate that this channel continues to create spore content 🙏

[blakdeth]

One of your arguments against refreshing storm was that it doesn't help carnivores... but it's the reward you get for being an herbivore. So unless you kept jaws from the cell stage and never put on an herbivore mouth you can't be a carnivore with refreshing storm. Still a bad ability though.

[pufferfishlapras]

Hello,
I want to thank you for creating Spore content. This community is very dear to me, since I've played this game as a child and I still do now. I am very glad to see people still playing this awesome game and even uncovering new secrets and ways to enjoy it. Please keep on doing what you're doing.
Cheers!

[evilmikuplushie]

oh this is exactly the kind of hyper specific, nerdy content i need

Also, i’d really like to thank you for having captions on your videos! I have an auditory processing disorder and often struggle with understanding words. captions allow me to not have to spend so much energy on listening and interpreting and let me just enjoy the video. :]

[gamingmoth]

I kinda like Flying Fish as well. However, one thing I dislike about it is a glitch that sometime occurs where the sea monster will pop above the water, but then immediately go back under and never do the big splash that sends the fish to the shore. Not only that, but it means that unless I reload an older save I’ll be forced to listen to the sound of that sea monster consistently howling for the rest of tribal stage.

[LeoparDusk]

Safari Vacuum is my hero because I love balancing out planets. Whenever I wander past one with an unfinished ecosystem I stop what I’m doing and fill it out. I don’t place a colony or anything, I just get joy from doing it. Safari Vacuum is perfect for easily gathering samples and refreshing my stocks when I get bored of the same animals.

[KinglyValence]

Let me know what you thought of this Tier List ranking!

Additional finding for Pleasing Performance (22:35): while a colony is striking and not producing spice, if we save and quit and reload the game, the colony will start producing spice again without fixing the colony! The colony will still be treated as if it’s under attack and can’t be contacted like normal and can start protesting again, but this is an interesting glitch and work around to keep collecting spice while not needing to add entertainments. I found this after finishing the video, but this wouldn’t have changed Pleasing Performance’s placement on the Tier List.

Additional uses for Raider Rally (1:55), thanks to @danielgrizzlus3950 @Daedwartin2 @matatic3689 for explaining it to me, Raider Rally can be used during an attack and will replace the first attacking fleet and make them leave! The pirates can then be easily dispatched and quickly stop an attack on our colonies or allied planets. Defending from a Raider Rally on a colony or allies will also count towards, and can be used to grind, the Body Guard badge. These additions may have raised Raider Rally from the bottom to the top of F Tier for me. However, thwarting an attack on a colony isn't necessary with an Uber Turret and I typically ignore allies' defense requests anyway because failing a defense I believe only results in up to -50 "You Failed Missions" after many failings, which isn't too steep for allied empires. The Body Guard Badge also unlocks passively in the background from attacks on our own colonies defended by Uber Turrets, or from successful defenses of allies on their own.

[danielgrizzlus]

I haven't played in a long time so I could be misremembering. But one use for raider rally is to stop two allies fighting each other without angering either one, since I think the game always allows there to be only one invader at a time.

[GreenBird]

What I love doing is bringing a purple planet to 3rd teir, placing a monolith, and then using cash infusion on it. I can make billions of spore bucks using this method in space stage because it allows me to have purple planets with 6-10 cities on them. This also allows me to reach deep into grox space, making a habital space zone for me to eazily make it to the center. It also makes other playthroughs easier as I can just start on space stage, race to the middle of the galaxy, then use the Staff of Life to make it so the grox cannot inhabit that planet anymore. I can then use my other saves to inhabit those worlds with either monoliths or my own colonies.
the staff of life usually takes 30 seconds, while terraforming normally with all the tools usually takes 2 minutes a planet.

[Nen_niN]

Raider Rally isn't meant to conquer you planets for free. Of course anything is weak compared to Fanatical Frenzy, but I think the inteded use case for Raider Rally is just more ships the enemies can target instead of you, basically acting as meat shields. Idk though, it's been years and years since I played Spore. Your content is making me want to play again though so kudos man.

[mlgsamantha]

The endgame civilization stage abilities are such a great idea from Maxis. Every 4X game has a point where you've become the most powerful empire on the planet and it's obvious you're the one going to win, but you still have to go through the slog of actually finishing off the rest of the players or teching to the science victory or something. It's the reason why nobody ever actually plays one of these types of games to their ending screen and just starts a new game instead. Maxis is such a genius for adding a way to skip this and go on to the space stage, otherwise the slog of obtaining the last four cities in the civilization stage would be horrendous and I guarantee you people would be calling it the worst stage instead of tribal had they not done it that way.

[Pinnaporaptor]

I seriously love your channel man, it's super cozy and I love learning more about this game I adored as a kid!

[Blue-dymr]

Flying Fish S tier because it's silly and I like it, all religious skills go into Burn in Hell tier because when I was doing a no death run in spore the first city that popped up was a religious one that came over and immediately kicked my shit in and I've had a burning hatred for religious cities ever since

[ethanparker]

Can we all just take a second to thank this man for making spore content in 2023 ?!?