My Top Favorite Clan And WHY by Dawnkit

Official art by Wayne McLoughlin

Dawnkit argues that RiverClan is the best Clan!

I love RiverClan.

Why? Here are some reasons:

1. Their leaders

My favorite leader is Leopardstar. Yes, she added in Tigerstar, yes, she agreed to kill Stonefur, yes, she destroyed RiverClan.
Yes, she regretted her mistake.
After Tigerstar was killed, she entered the ThunderClan camp and asked Featherpaw, Stormpaw, and Mistyfoot to rejoin RiverClan. She even offered to make Mistyfoot her deputy, even though Leopardstar killed her brother and practically drove her out. She gave Featherpaw and Stormpaw warrior names, which were Feathertail and Stormfur.
She let in a rogue cat named Sasha and her two kits, and tried to give Sasha a warrior name but Sasha refused, but she gave Sasha’s kits, Hawk and Moth, apprentice names, and then gave Hawkpaw a warrior name, Hawkfrost, and Mothpaw got a medicine cat name instead, Mothwing.

The fact that she let Feathertail, Stormfur, and Mistyfoot back into RiverClan proves she changed her mind about getting rid of the half-clan cats.
She also let Sasha and her kits into RiverClan, which means she changed enough to let rogues into her camp.
She didn’t even banish Hawkfrost and Mothwing when she found out Tigerstar was their father.

This proves Leopardstar was a nice cat deep inside, but sometimes she just let her ambition get the best of her.

2. Their activities

Well, I just love swimming.

In the summer of 2021, my parents installed a pool in our backyard- an in-ground pool, unlike the above-ground pool we had for the previous years.
Almost every day, I swam in it(which is bad please don’t do that) and I really enjoyed it. I never wanted to leave(which is also very bad don’t do that either) because I really liked it.

3. Their food

Fish isn’t my favorite, but if I had to chose between rabbits from the moor or fish from the river, I would pick the river food.
If you were stranded in the woods for a week and all you had was a fishing line, bait, and a fish-packed river, would you find rabbits? The fish would leave the stream, wouldn’t they? Maybe, but let’s say you had a full ocean of fish. What would you try to catch? Fish!

Fish is more common than rabbits on an ocean island. Sure, there might be a lot of mice, but how would you catch them? If you did have a trap, where is your bait on a stranded island in the middle of nowhere?
You could make a fishing line by taking a long stick and using string that might wash up on shore, and you could dig up worms and use that as bait.

So RiverClan has easy food.

These are the reasons RiverClan is my favorite. Which clan is your favorite?

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28 comments

  • Awesome article Dawn!! I agree, RiverClan is a super interesting and awesome Clan! It’s my first fav Clan, tied with ShadowClan 😀
    I’m looking forward to reading more articles from you! 😀

  • I AGREE! Tho, Riverclan and Windclan have a tie…

  • Streampaw is so glad she decided not to leave BlogClan! She's excited to celebrate her birthday! (🌊Streampaw/lark🌊) says:

    I don’t like Leopardstar as much, but RiverClan is still my favorite Clan! Their culture of swimming and decorating their homes with shells, feathers, and other pretty rocks is cool and unique! I’d have to agree, I would choose fish over other prey as well. And a lot of my favorite characters are from RiverClan – Feathertail, Crookedstar, and my friend’s favorite, Mothwing!

  • RiverClan is my favorite clan too!!!!!!!!!!! YAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I actually like Leopardstar too, after reading the first parts of Leopardstars Honor, but slowly, I began disliking her. Great article!(:

  • I 100% agree. RiverClan = the Clan I belong to. I love to swim, eat fish, WATER YESSSS, and you know how sometimes RiverClan decorates their nests? That’s me. ^^ I also don’t cope well with hunger, so the fact that they get prey rather easily would be nice. And you know how other Clans call them lazy and fat? Well I can handle rude comments and flip them around. (“Well I’m surprised you don’t die of hunger, you’re so skinny!” or “You think swimming against the current is easy? Why don’t you try it and tell me how lazy I am doing that all the time! You’re just trying to insult me because you’re jealous.”) Btw, that’s just what I’d say if I really was a RiverClan cat and someone called me lazy/fat. Not saying that to any of you right now! I’m also named after Willowbreeze aka a RiverClan queen.