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Calculating the Pyke Leviathan's Size

NA Darklarik·5/13/2018, 8:03:21 PM·52 votes·27,523 views

Ok. Being a deep sea monsters Fan and since Riot NEVER gives us the Sweet micro-details of lore that make it juicy, i decided to try and get an estimate of how much the Leviathan that eats Pyke measures in terms of size. Seing how the only point of reference i have is Pyke being dragged into this thing's Jaw, we are going to take 2 Measurements asuming that he is vertically positioned to the Beast's open Maw at the very tip of its entrance (parallel to its teeth)

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The reason i take 2 measurements is because in the trailer vs the final image, Pyke shrinks depending on how closer he is to the Beast's maw.

  • As such there is the Smallest size, take from the image...
  • and the Biggest size, taken from the point in the trailer where Pyke is at his tinniest compared to the Jaw....

So the final measurements are as Follows, using Pyke as a 6 ft tall reference. Take note i tried to draw the creature based on the image where we see the creature in full view in the water, doing my best to calculate the size based on perspective.

https://i.imgur.com/Z7r2U5d.jpg[/img]

  • The Creature's maximum size estimate (Black) is around 635 Ft Long (193.8 Meters - same as the Sea Emperor Leviathan from Sub Nautica), 92 Ft tall Jaw (when opened). Weighing around 1222 Tons
  • The Creature minimum size estimate (Red) is around 322 Ft Long (98.1 Meters), 45 Ft tall Jaw (when opened). Weighing around 605 Tons

A Sperm Whale, Blue Whale, Elephant, and the HMS Detroit (Sloop Brig) have been placed to showcase the size and serve as a reference to this things absurd size.

What do you guys think? This thing is a Kaiju in terms of size. I honestly dont know how the people of Bildgewater can hunt these things with Wooden ships, this thing can bite a Blue whale in half. Pyke got rekt.

63 Comments

FakeGravity5/13/2018, 8:50:25 PM18 votes

thats a big nope, another reason to go to shurima for a vacation...oh right...void creatures well there always demacia then

Placentas5/13/2018, 8:58:47 PM9 votes

I mean just on land we have massive creatures like the thing that Galio was fighting in his story. So I don't think it's very far fetched to think this creature that swallowed Pyk could be absolutely massive since in our own real world sea creatures seem to be the biggest creatures that have existed.

" the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), is thought to be the largest animal ever to have lived. The maximum recorded weight was 190 metric tonnes for a specimen measuring 27.6 metres (91 ft), whereas longer ones, up to 33.6 metres (110 ft), have been recorded but not weighed."

Since animals in the ocean aren't forced to support their own weight entirely on their own which allows them to grow bigger, mixed with the fact Runeterra is a crazy magical place with crazy creatures, I think your estimate is definitely possible.

NA Darklarik5/14/2018, 3:43:39 PM9 votes

That moment you make a thread about sea monsters and their sizes, and everyone starts talking about which place in Valoran its best to live in :'v [sg-janna]

RiotFauxSchizzle5/17/2018, 2:22:49 PM7 votes

I love this thread. For ALL the reasons. Pyke got REKT.

Tattersall5/13/2018, 8:44:11 PM6 votes

I think this is the only image we have of other sea monsters around Bilgewater, but they look smaller than your thing, so maybe the stuff that the people of Bilgewater hunt are a lot smaller typically? It would kind of make sense, Pyke talks about betrayal, maybe his crew was running from something too big to hunt and they threw him over as bait? https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/region/bilgewater/?mv=highlights I can't copy the link for whatever reason, so just do right arrow key

Whyte Lyon5/14/2018, 4:09:45 AM2 votes

Then suddenly it turns out the Leviathan from the teaser is just an artistic/ metaphorical representation of what truly happened, and so the creature isn't actually that big...

Fun read regardless! Imagine what heights Cho'gath could get to if consuming ever larger Leviathans from the depths tho.

SuperMewKitty5/14/2018, 2:11:00 AM1 votes

can you use real measure units not that crap that americans use?that would be more credible thanks