I hear these terms thrown all over the place and was just curious as to what each is. What defines each? I'm really curious to what the community thinks. I'm at 1.9 million GP and I started in March of this year so going on 8 months. Am I whale? Kraken? Tuna? How about 3.1 million in the same amount of time. Thoughts?

It all depends on your level of jealousy towards the player. :D

GP means nothing. A 100k fleet consisting of 2-3 whale ships can beat 420k fleet.... same in arena.... whale/keaken means you get to buy access to OP toons before they are nerfed when released to us peons for use.

Heres an ingame snapshot of a dolphin

"Crazygone510;d-186866" wrote:I hear these terms thrown all over the place and was just curious as to what each is. What defines each? I'm really curious to what the community thinks. I'm at 1.9 million GP and I started in March of this year so going on 8 months. Am I whale? Kraken? Tuna? Its about how much they spent in the game. There are 4 types of labels:F2P: Probably the most obnoxious group that are very entitled and like to plug their status the most (fyi, i'm F2P). They've never spend a dime in the game and its meaning is corrupted. The game is VERY F2P friendly than it used to be. Back then, you had some toons that were locked behind money. You could not acquire these toons without spending money and the characters you could acquire for free were less powerful than they are now, with a smaller selection and it was extremely difficult to beat a team of Paid Toons. So it was considered a huge achievement if you could beat toons like clones or Sun Fac using the weak F2P toons. It was proper bragging rights. Now its just a status symbol rather than an impressive feat. Dolphins: Light / Thin spenders. They might drop $9.99 for a 30 shard pack. They might spend $50 bucks on a pack or crystals each month or less. They consider themselves almost completely F2P and walk around with the F2P status while finding it difficult that there is someone in this game that is F2P and can beat them.Whales: People who occasionally drop big once in a blue moon. They might drop $300 on a single or buy a crystal vault a month. They might see a really really good toon that brings a lot of value and shell hard on that toon. Sometimes you lose against a dolphin or F2P with better mods or toons they farmed and you feel bitter and resent and you justify your loss by calling that person a whale. It has a negative meaning and being called a whale is suppose to devalue your accomplishments in the game. (Oh you can only score so good in the raid because you paid for it, oh you can only win because $$$ etc.) From what I've seen, whales are usually chill people who are happy to admit they are one. I'm glad there isn't a big divide in both sides.Kraken: THEY. HAVE. EVERYTHING. MAXED. OUT. These people have their checking account linked to wire all their earnings to SWGOH. Jokes aside, they are heavy spenders, if Whales spend $300 per month they would be people who spent like $1000 or more idk. Just a lot.These are all based on the size of the sea life so terms like tuna, shrimp is basically mean dolphin

"Ultra;c-1688938" wrote:"Crazygone510;d-186866" wrote:I hear these terms thrown all over the place and was just curious as to what each is. What defines each? I'm really curious to what the community thinks. I'm at 1.9 million GP and I started in March of this year so going on 8 months. Am I whale? Kraken? Tuna? Its about how much they spent in the game. There are 4 types of labels:F2P: Probably the most obnoxious group that are very entitled and like to plug their status the most (fyi, i'm F2P). They've never spend a dime in the game and its meaning is corrupted. The game is VERY F2P friendly than it used to be. Back then, you had some toons that were locked behind money. You could not acquire these toons without spending money and the characters you could acquire for free were less powerful than they are now, with a smaller selection and it was extremely difficult to beat a team of Paid Toons. So it was considered a huge achievement if you could beat toons like clones or Sun Fac using the weak F2P toons. It was proper bragging rights. Now its just a status symbol rather than an impressive feat. Dolphins: Light / Thin spenders. They might drop $9.99 for a 30 shard pack. They might spend $50 bucks on a pack or crystals each month or less. They consider themselves almost completely F2P and walk around with the F2P status while finding it difficult that there is someone in this game that is F2P and can beat them.Whales: People who occasionally drop big once in a blue moon. They might drop $300 on a single or buy a crystal vault a month. They might see a really really good toon that brings a lot of value and shell hard on that toon. Sometimes you lose against a dolphin or F2P with better mods or toons they farmed and you feel bitter and resent and you justify your loss by calling that person a whale. It has a negative meaning and being called a whale is suppose to devalue your accomplishments in the game. (Oh you can only score so good in the raid because you paid for it, oh you can only win because $$$ etc.) From what I've seen, whales are usually chill people who are happy to admit they are one. I'm glad there isn't a big divide in both sides.Kraken: THEY. HAVE. EVERYTHING. MAXED. OUT. These people have their checking account linked to wire all their earnings to SWGOH. Jokes aside, they are heavy spenders, if Whales spend $300 per month they would be people who spent like $1000 or more idk. Just a lot.These are all based on the size of the sea life so terms like tuna, shrimp is basically mean dolphinInteresting that you gave each personality features. Here’s my take:Free players: vast majority (95%) of players in the game. They don’t spend money in game. Most likely to become frustrated and lash out whenever a character event comes around that they aren’t ready for. Guppy/minnow: 3% of playerbase. They may have bought 1 or 2 things in game. Total spending under $50. I’m a guppy. Most likely to pretend they’re free players because the “only spent a little.”Dolphin: 1.5% of playerbase. Regular spenders. Total spending in the hundreds of dollars. Most likely to do well in arena without appearing to spend. Whale: 0.3% of playerbase. Enthusiast spenders. Total spending in the thousands of dollars. Most likely to throw a fit about “underpowered teams” being able to climb in arena. Kraken: 0.2% of playerbase. Rich completionists. Total spending in the tens of thousands of dollars. Most likely to quit the game after buying everything.

Minnow v Whale v Kracken (Tuna🤦‍♂️)

61 Replies

N0oTry
7 years ago
Guppy, dolphin, whale, kraken. They are very vague terms. There's no clear definition.

I would call an average of 300$ per month a whale. Krakens are -gotta max everything- types. You gotta look what they don't have rather than what they do to see if they constitute as such.

Your account looks like a dolphin one to me. But you know your spending grade, I don't.

For example this is the only kraken on my arena shard. Of course there are those far crazier exist.
https://swgoh.gg/p/166714439/
thirtiethruby84
7 years ago
It all depends on your level of jealousy towards the player. :D
dkreknumone
7 years ago
GP means nothing. A 100k fleet consisting of 2-3 whale ships can beat 420k fleet.... same in arena.... whale/keaken means you get to buy access to OP toons before they are nerfed when released to us peons for use.
icanectc
7 years ago
There really is no guidelines.
My definitions

Krakens = buy anything and everything without worrying about costs. Buy all packs just for omegas. Max refreshes buy all gear buy all new toons and ships immediately and g12 them, Max abilities. Etc (doesn't really care about arena payouts)

Whales = spend large amounts buy all new toons and ships might gear new toons to max but still farms gear traditionally (probably still cares about arena rank)

Dolphin = spends money more modestly and wisely. Will buy a new ship or toon if they think it's good. Cares about arena. Leverages crystals for gear farming and some purchases. Crystals purchases tend to stretch over time before next purchase.
OpticGK_Alex
7 years ago
"No_Try;c-1688918" wrote:
Guppy, dolphin, whale, kraken. They are very vague terms. There's no clear definition.

I would call an average of 300$ per month a whale. Krakens are -gotta max everything- types. You gotta look what they don't have rather than what they do to see if they constitute as such.

Your account looks like a dolphin one to me. But you know your spending grade, I don't.

For example this is the only kraken on my arena shard. Of course there are those far crazier exist.
https://swgoh.gg/p/166714439/

That is an extremely maxed account. I wonder how much they spent on this lol.
Shellzbutt
7 years ago

Heres an ingame snapshot of a dolphin
icanectc
7 years ago
"Shellzbutt;c-1688929" wrote:

Heres an ingame snapshot of a dolphin

For some reason i can't stop watching that. Lol
Shellzbutt
7 years ago

I was lucky to survive getting this captured footage of a kraken
dkreknumone
7 years ago
"icanectc;c-1688930" wrote:
"Shellzbutt;c-1688929" wrote:

Heres an ingame snapshot of a dolphin

For some reason i can't stop watching that. Lol

Yeah that was A+
NotRealUltra
Legend
7 years ago
"Crazygone510;d-186866" wrote:
I hear these terms thrown all over the place and was just curious as to what each is.

What defines each? I'm really curious to what the community thinks. I'm at 1.9 million GP and I started in March of this year so going on 8 months. Am I whale? Kraken? Tuna?

Its about how much they spent in the game. There are 4 types of labels:

F2P: Probably the most obnoxious group that are very entitled and like to plug their status the most (fyi, i'm F2P). They've never spend a dime in the game and its meaning is corrupted. The game is VERY F2P friendly than it used to be. Back then, you had some toons that were locked behind money. You could not acquire these toons without spending money and the characters you could acquire for free were less powerful than they are now, with a smaller selection and it was extremely difficult to beat a team of Paid Toons. So it was considered a huge achievement if you could beat toons like clones or Sun Fac using the weak F2P toons. It was proper bragging rights. Now its just a status symbol rather than an impressive feat.

Dolphins: Light / Thin spenders. They might drop $9.99 for a 30 shard pack. They might spend $50 bucks on a pack or crystals each month or less. They consider themselves almost completely F2P and walk around with the F2P status while finding it difficult that there is someone in this game that is F2P and can beat them.

Whales: People who occasionally drop big once in a blue moon. They might drop $300 on a single or buy a crystal vault a month. They might see a really really good toon that brings a lot of value and shell hard on that toon. Sometimes you lose against a dolphin or F2P with better mods or toons they farmed and you feel bitter and resent and you justify your loss by calling that person a whale. It has a negative meaning and being called a whale is suppose to devalue your accomplishments in the game. (Oh you can only score so good in the raid because you paid for it, oh you can only win because $$$ etc.) From what I've seen, whales are usually chill people who are happy to admit they are one. I'm glad there isn't a big divide in both sides.

Kraken: THEY. HAVE. EVERYTHING. MAXED. OUT. These people have their checking account linked to wire all their earnings to SWGOH. Jokes aside, they are heavy spenders, if Whales spend $300 per month they would be people who spent like $1000 or more idk. Just a lot.

These are all based on the size of the sea life so terms like tuna, shrimp is basically mean dolphin