Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-71.17.68.254-20130907025506/@comment-9090085-20150416070540

A common mistake people make is to conflate Intelligence with Knowledge; one is the ability to process information, the other is information itself. If you multiplied my intelligence by five, I wouldn't suddenly know every formula of Quantum Physics, I'd still have to go out and learn them.

Let's also not oversell increased intelligence turning you into a Sun Tzu knock-off; after all, even the greatest of military strategies ultimately boil down to "shoot people with guns". Thus, since 90-od% of Grimm lack ranged attacks, they ultimately need to run up and claw/bite their prey. Even the Goliaths have probably not learned anything supper crazy; they just have learned to wait until the perfect time to strike appears.

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: Alternatively, given the time period implied by a cave painting, it could just be that the Deathstalker had never encountered powerful Dust-wielding humans and did what it thought was all it needed. Before it could grasp how different their abilities were from the humans it encountered in the past, it got killed. I would go one step further and say it thought it could win, based on it's experiences(both before and in-battle) - here it was, up against a group less then half the size of the one that had wounded it and driven it into the cave. Even though hunter weapons had advanced in leaps and bounds since its "imprisonment", it had improved as well: It was once Ursa-sized; and in growing many times in size, it became noticeably tougher(but hardly invincible - even to the "pea-shooters" it now faced).

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: When you consider how the Deathstalker and Nevermore worked together, they clearly showed intelligence in combat. We shouldn't undersell this level of intelligence ether; they showed an(at least rudimentary) grasp of tactics - a Hammer and Anvil maneuver to cut of retreat; and Divide and Conquer to take the hunters out piecemeal.