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Skulk
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Health 75 (+3 per Biomass)	Armor 10 (17 / 23 / 30)
Energy 100 (110 / 120 / 130)
Respawns In:	10 seconds
Respawns From:	Egg
Air Speed:	11 (Leap)
Ground Speed:	7.0 (7.5 / 8.0 / 8.5)
Crouch Speed:	3.5
Wall Speed:	7.25 (run), 8.0 to 11 (jump)
Abilities and Upgrades
Abilities: Alien Vision, Evolve Menu, Hive Sight, Sneak, Wall Walking (Wall Jumping), Bite, Parasite, Leap, Xenocide
Evolutions: Carapace, Regeneration, Vampirism, Adrenaline, Celerity, Crush, Camouflage, Aura, Focus
Upgrades: Leap at biomass 4, Xenocide at biomass 9
Miscellaneous
Buy From:	Evolve Menu
Purchase By:	Player
Gestation Time:	3 seconds

Introduction

The Skulk is the default Alien lifeform that all Alien players will initially spawn as and respawn as after each death.

Background

The Skulk is a very agile yet delicate quadruped. It has the unique ability to walk on walls and ceilings, making it very effective for ambushing lone/unaware Marines.

Tactics

Though Skulks are considered expendable, they are a very versatile lifeform and can perform a myriad of roles.

An Early-game skulk should focus on tagging Marines with its Parasite ability and killing them wherever possible. Skulks should generally work as a pack of 2 or more and should always favour stealthy attacks over direct engagements.

Due to its speed and low-profile, the Skulk is able to traverse the map very quickly and should use this to its advantage to harass the Marine economy, by constantly destroying Extractors and this becomes its primary objective in the mid-to-late game, though a Skulk is more than capable of killing Marines throughout the full length of the game, even being able to engage a Marine with a Jetpack with Leap and being able to kill or damage large groups of Marines with Xenocide.

Controls

Abilities

Wall Walk & Sneak

All Alien units have a movement mechanic that is unique to their class. The Skulk possesses the unique ability to Wall Walk.

• When you are close to a Wall you can press Jump
  Space
  in order to gain speed.
  • If you touch the wall too closely you will attach yourself and lose some speed even if you press Forward
    W
    . It is recommended to hold the detach button {{ in order to maintain your speed better
  • If you look upwards while jumping from a wall you will gain height faster though lose some speed while jumping forward.

Main article: Movement techniques.

Bite Bite Hotkey 1 (slot), Mouse1 (attack) Energy 5.85 Damage 75 Type Normal Range Melee Fire Rate 0.45 seconds Targets Marines, Robots, Structures The Skulk's powerful Bite can rip through both flesh and metal with frightening speed.

Parasite Parasite Allows aliens to track the inflicted target Parasite projectile travels in a straight line. Parasited targets will appear on the Map as icons. can be seen through walls Hotkey 2 (slot), Mouse1 (attack) Energy 30 Damage 10 Type Normal Range 1000 Fire Rate 0.5 seconds Duration 44 seconds Targets Marines, Robots, Structures Infects an enemy target with small Parasites, allowing all Kharaa players to track the target's position through walls using Hive Sight. Tip: You should try and Parasite every enemy you see, to give your teammates better awareness of the enemy forces!

Leap Leap Jump ability that even works mid-air Hotkey Mouse 2 TRes 15 (research 40 seconds) Energy 45 Speed Base speed + 4 Requires Biomass level 4, Research Leap (Hive) Leaps toward the Skulk's current direction while on the ground or in mid-air. While leaping, the Skulk gains a move speed bonus.

Xenocide Xenocide Self detonating ability Changes to Bite attack after activation. Player will respawn in 6 seconds instead of default spawn time. Hotkey 3 (slot), Mouse1 (attack) TRes 25 (research 60 seconds) Energy 30 Damage 200 Type Normal Radius 14 Delay 2 seconds Uses 1 Targets Marines, Robots, Structures Requires Biomass level 9 Research Xenocide Explodes the Skulk after a short delay to damage all nearby Frontiersmen units and structures. Warning: Xenocide cannot be cancelled once activated, unless the player hits the "Evolve Last Upgrade" button.

Variants

The following images show all the variations of Skulk camouflage (skins) that you may see in the game.

• Skulk Skin Variants
• 

  Normal

• 

  Shadow

• 

  Kodiak

• 

  Reaper

• 

  Abyss

• 

  Nocturne

• 

  Toxin