A few questions about Skaarl

Trolosaurus·8/12/2016, 12:20:33 AM·2 votes·1,906 views

First, how intelligent is Skaarl? Is it intelligent enough to understand Human speech but can't respond akin to Yoshi or is it like a pet closer to a dog. Second, are there any Drakalops left? Kled's had Skaarl for centuries (I think) and there's no mention of other Drakalops or other people being aware of their existence. I know the Rune Wars absolutely trashed the environment, so is Skaarl the last of her kind? Third, is Skaarl unkillable? In Kled's bio she's described as indestructible and in-game nothing can kill her, so is she actually literally immortal and unkillable?

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The Aqualious8/12/2016, 12:30:17 AM2 votes

If you go to Kled's bio story

1: Kled describes Skaarl as not being able to understand human speech

That being said the fact that she knows who the enemies are and to return to Kled and follows what he says, perhaps proves that her species has some for of sense that they use to perceive the world and understand commands

2: Riot has not given us enough information, perhaps when the next champ or lore event occurs will we know more

3: Everything is Killable in a sense, with Skaarl she's a cowardly creature and has been alive for so long that she's probably learned several tricks to her survival

Such as when she can stay in a fight or when she needs to get the fuck out

Her natural fight or flight sense seems heavily tuned to flight, and smart cowards, have ways of surviving a long time

Nurgle Prophet8/12/2016, 10:54:10 AM2 votes

The other guys already answered so the only thing left for me is PERSONAL FAN WANK:

My theory is that Skaarl is a biological weapon built during the height of the Rune Wars. In fiction, there are very few creatures that are, as Riot directly stated, 100% indestructible, and Skaarl is the first one that is a complete coward, running after taking what, for an indestructible creature, should be nary a scratch. So it's not really a creature that could live in the actual world, me thinks, otherwise they'd spread like wildfire, because even if they reproduced at the rate of one per century per female or something of the sort, considering they never die and can eat anything, those things should be the dominant species in Runeterra.

I think it's an artificial war machine constructed by the Rune Mages of Old, what before became the Summoners, and it suffers from severe PTSD from its experiences in the Rune Wars, which is why it's so prone to flee while in combat that by all rights should be meaningless to her.