Are Humans OP? (It depends. An average Tiger is still a threat. An average human is not.)

The only thing op about humans is continuity, mods, carried. They benefit from continuity that smarter predecessors left behind, and thus the handicap being: Smarter humans did the work for the current crop. So individually, no, not op. Collectively, yes, if there's a smart human carrying the party.

An individual tiger is OP, a group of Tigers (across the board) is OP. An individual Human is an average to low level threat, a group of humans is a low to moderate BOSS, a group of smart humans is OP.

It all depends, humans just as a whole are not OP. They're NPC's

The issue is humans lost touch with their instincts, thus their threat level is nerfed.

*An average Lioness is a problem, a group of Lionesses are damn near invincible. Hence why tourists stay in the van when in the lioness turf. Why would the OP human need to hide in their metal shell hm?Not so OP.*

But a human female who's only known instagram is not a threat. Not OP. A group of Only fans models (presuming they don't have any real skills) are about as useful as a water bottle with holes in it.

The fact that all the succession generations are generally better living than the last: they're spoiled, less driven, less in tune with instincts, they don't create anything because there's no demand, no real danger, no predator, lower IQ, not trained no necessity, no purpose.

The crappy parenting is really why Humanity is not as OP as it could be, and why animals are consistent in their threat level, the parents/mothers know what they're doing.

If the human class were training their children to specialize at something with utility, even if it's just hunting or gardening from the age of 4 years old and 80% of households maintained that culture: That's a force to be reckoned with, that's OP.

But children aren't trained to do anything useful, they're just raised with the median amount of effort. Just part of the routine.

Smarter Generations unintentionally set it up so their successors could afford to be dumber than they were. Humans were OP. Not anymore. Between allergies, panic attacks, getting triggered at the slightest thing, Addiction, Fetishism, Epilepsy, twist your ankle walking in a straight line, chipping a tooth, getting a concussion, rashes, diseases, STDs, fractures, food poisoning, etc. Way too fragile.

The build is far too weak, the stats are getting weaker (including intelligence), barely level 50 (WITH equipment), let alone OP.

Overestimating the absolute crap out of Humans, and the majority of your stat estimation is technically if you use items.

When in nature, you'd be a Grizzly Bears doormat.

Some of them need sunscreen to avoid burns in the sun, Iron-Lungs, regular doctor visits, Vaccs, tampons, Shoes to protect their feet, Hernia Truss, a spider could bring you down, a mosquito could give you a sickness, etc.

Industrial tools to do a job so they don't injure their back, it's always some kind of handicap because the human animal is so inept in a vacuum. More dangerous to each other in a group than to any other species, not because OP, but sheer incompetence.

Even to go so far as pitting their own species against each other via propaganda campaigns to maintain a sense of control over the whole: Which in a way is the closest definition to OP (psychological warfare), but that's not a measure of strength, but weakness.

So still: Incompetence.

Humans are a nerfed version of the Ant organism. The only advantage being size, which means nothing because if an entire colony wanted to kill you simultaneously, you would be dead, they would eat you alive. Climb into your nose, ears, and fix your "living" problem. Basically, humans are lucky Ants don't have the temper of a Hornets nest and the spite of a human being & hold grudges. Because really think about how many goddamn species of ants dominate this planet, really consider the destruction they could cause if they just wanted us gone all at once.

Interesting study in itself, all things considered.