Mike Melton compares all-terrain, rugged-terrain, and mud-terrain tires, focusing on tread design, sidewall aggressiveness, and how those features affect wet traction and off-road durability. He advises favoring all-terrain tires for wet traction because their tread has more cuts (which increase flexibility and grip), while rugged/mud-terrain tires have fewer cuts to prevent tread chunking during rock climbing.
This right here is just for comparison. So a lot of people ask me, what tire should I get for wet traction? So when it comes to wet traction, you always want to steer towards all terrain and not your rugged terrain or mud terrain. Now, when it comes to looks, your mud terrain and your rugged terrains are always a better looking tire. They always look more aggressive, like the sidewalls. Compared to the all terrain, they're not as aggressive. So when you're looking at both tires, there's a big difference. So if you notice, this one has a lot more cuts inside the tread blocks. Now, if you're looking at the rugged terrain, you see it has a lot less. Now the reason the rugged train has a lot less cuts inside the tread blocks is because when you're off road and you know, climbing up rocks and stuff like that, you don't want these tread blocks to flex as much. Now with an all terrain, it's going, the tread blocks are going to flex a lot more. And you do not want that when you're climbing rocks. So the reason you don't want that, because when these things start to flex like that, it'll chunk off some of that rubber. And when you off road, you definitely don't want that to start happening. So between the two, if you want a tire that's going to give you better wet traction, always go off terrain. Go for a rugged terrain or mud terrain all day.
