Boar, shark and ocelot: the three animal trophies and their coordinates
Double Tap sits at 13.2% and the game's best opportunity passes in the first few minutes, once. The three animal trophies, and the counter-intuitive advice they share: do not kill the second beast.
And it counts towards Matador, Perfect Predator, required for the platinum.
The shared rule: do not kill the second animal
Two of these three trophies ask you to repeat a defensive reaction several times in a row, and in both the mistake is the same: killing animals.
With two beasts alive you get enough attacks to chain what the trophy wants. With only one, you sit waiting between attacks and the rhythm falls apart.
Put like that it sounds obvious, but it runs against everything the game has taught you up to that point, which is to reduce threats. That is why Double Tap sits at 13.2% and Matador at 15.3%: they are not failed through difficulty, they are failed because people clear the area before trying.
A curious wrinkle: in Matador the advice half-inverts. If there are two wild pigs, kill one first, because with both alive you get chained charges and it is easy to eat one. With a single pig you have all the time in the world between charges. The difference is that here you are not chaining: you are accumulating.
Double Tap and Matador: where and when
Double Tap — 13.2%. Parry two ocelot attacks in rapid succession.
The game's best opportunity is also its first: right after getting the Jackdaw you stop at an island where the story makes you kill two ocelots. Both cats are there, attacking, and there is plenty of time between one parry and the next.
The advice: do not damage them until the trophy pops. Kill one and you are left with a single ocelot attacking, and the rhythm falls apart. With both alive you get enough attacks.
Matador — 15.3%. Dodge a total of three wild pig charge attacks.
Find an island with boars. When one winds up to charge, the red warning flash lights up: that is the moment to dodge, not before, not after.
A convenient spot is Mayaguana Island, at coordinates 850, 513. And since it is cumulative, the three charges need not be consecutive or from the same animal.
Perfect Predator: perfect does not mean fully charged
Perfect Predator — 23.9%. Get a perfect harpoon shot on a great white shark.
First, where: the sea hunts appear on the map once you have captured the forts. The great white's sits towards the centre-south; there is one at coordinates 490, 303.
And here is the nuance that decides the trophy, because the game does not explain it: "perfect" does not mean charging the harpoon fully. You release it when the cursor glows, not before, not after. Overcharge and the shot counts as a shot but does not count as perfect, and that is the difference between throwing twenty harpoons for nothing and getting it on the second try.
Recommended gear: harpoon upgraded to at least level 2, with the boat and ammunition maxed. The great white hits back, and a failed hunt means sailing to the spot all over again.
The trophies involved
Each one links to its section inside the full Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced trophy guide.