Tiger

Tiger is the fruit that used to be Leopard, and the rename did not change why people want it. You get fast, hard-hitting martial-arts moves and a transformation into a humanoid tiger that boosts your speed and agility, with M1 attacks that feel close to those of Yeti, Dragon and Kitsune.

We would not buy it for the First or Second Sea. Tiger asks for high mastery, and the heavy knockback on its moves scatters mobs, so early farming ends up slower than with cheaper fruits. In the Third Sea the picture flips: huge AoE, multi-target moves that break Instinct and short cooldowns carry it through raids, bosses and Sea Events. Stack cooldown reduction from the Zebra Cap and Ghoul V3/V4 on top of its Blazing Form and you can chain moves almost without a pause.

For PvP, two warnings. Ice counters its close-range and underground attacks well, and the transformation gives you no i-frames, so don't start it in the middle of an enemy combo.

Traders should also know the Werewolf angle: it is the first mutation in the game, it comes from Tiger, and it has a separate entry on our list.