Talk:Death Stalker/@comment-121.44.168.66-20130906120041/@comment-9090085-20130909220959

I think the difference lay in firepower; while these "kids" have spent years learning how to fight(Ruby getting in 2 years early from a warrior school, remember?), they are a LOT better armed then the people who drove the Deathstalker into the cave - those paintings would indicate that this particular Deathstalker was around before the discovery of dust, metal-craft or any real technology was developed; I.e., it was fought with sticks, stones, and sticks with pointy stones on the end. if that doesn't speak volumes for just how mortal this creature is I don't know what does. And even with that advantage in firepower, it could have killed any one of these "kids" one-on-one, no question; only by working together could they kill it.

They were hardly lucky, ether - Ren went out of his way to damage it's stinger; Pyrrha intentionally snapped it off; and Nora aimed right for the new chink in it's armour.

I'm not sure the Deathstalker would even think in those terms: it found humans, it would try it's hardest to kill them. Granted, while I am sad to such a rare specimen disappear, it spent hundreds or thousands of years underground - maybe it got rusty.