Find the Ducks Tier List: Compare Route Difficulty Safely

The Tier List category answers a practical question: which route types deserve the most time during a full-area sweep? Find the Ducks uses rarity labels from Common through Legendary, but the accepted evidence shows that rarity and access effort can diverge. A clear tractor interaction may carry a high label while a lower-labeled target can hide above, below, or behind a structure.

Our ranking uses observable route demands only. Direct ground targets come first, followed by interiors and ordinary climbs, then water and tall structures, then hidden ledges or extended obbies, and finally multi-step access puzzles. It does not assign unsupported drop rates, value scores, or an absolute rank to every duck.

Verified examples keep the framework concrete. Sand Duck occupies a hidden lighthouse-wall ledge; Rubber Duck requires the current Beach keypad; Cookie Duck sits beyond a floating cookie obby; and the historic Cave route required four levers before its interior could be searched. Each example is framed with its version scope.

Use the tiers to order work, not to skip content. Clear cheap visible clusters first, group underwater targets, take elevation checks together, and reserve puzzle prerequisites for one planned pass. The live area counter remains the only reliable completion gate after an update. For every session, record the place ID, displayed total, local counter, and review date before proposing a correction. These checks make updates auditable and stop similarly named experiences from entering the current route archive.