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Anonymous
Mantis sucks balls, sure newbies love the absurd reach and excellent grab and he's amazing against the AI but once you master using solifugid's pedipalp grab there's no real reason to use mantis. Even if your reach is good mantis is the third biggest character (After centipede and whip scorpion) and area attacks like Japanese hornet's swarm pheremone special will fuck you up. Definitely low-mid tier.
Crayfish and most beetles are likewise poor man's wetas, I'll give you that crayfish has obvious advantage in stages with water, but otherwise he can't really turtle around like weta and crayfish's guillotine cut special is much weaker than weta's bnb that ends in demon cricket bite. Beetles are generally faster than weta and have superior aerial control if you're into that (And if so you should be using Japanese hornet, dragonfly or housefly anyways, though those are glass cannons and beetles are bulkier), but they also signal mostly everything they're going to do and despite how they look most of them do shit damage against lighter characters. Hercules beetle has nice range and the aerial stab comes out quite fast though, so he might be worth something.
Keep in mind that I don't have the recent expansion packs though, feel free to remind me if anything important changed (Especially the predicted weta nerf, weta vs weta matches are incredibly boring)
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