Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-108.81.117.0-20140913150156/@comment-13965604-20140914211027

A black wolf is a melanistic colour variant of the grey wolf (Canis lupus).[1] Black specimens are recorded among red wolves (Canis lupus rufus), but these color variants are probably extinct.[2] Genetic research from the Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of California, Los Angeles revealed that wolves with black pelts owe their distinctive coloration to a mutation which occurred in domestic dogs, and was carried to wolves through wolf-dog hybridisation- Wikipedia http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_wolf

Full wolf shift is certainly more impressive, and implies a crap ton of control and inner balance, which are good qualities, but for purposes of fighting, I would think that the middle shifts would be more useful.