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WITH HALLOWEEN IN RANGE, TWO STARWARS.COM WRITERS DEBATE WHICH CREATURE IS GREATEST!

One of the great things about Star Wars is that it inspires endless debates and opinions on a wide array of topics. Best bounty hunter? Most powerful Jedi? Does Salacious Crumb have the best haircut in the saga? In that spirit, StarWars.com presents From a Certain Point of View: a series of point-counterpoints on some of the biggest — and most fun — Star Wars issues. Being that it’s Halloween season, this installment finds two StarWars.com writers discussing which creature from a galaxy far, far away is the creepiest and coolest.

The acklay is Star Wars’ best monster design, says James.

There’s a lot of great monsters in Star Wars, but when it comes to best overall design of a horrifying creature, the acklay is the top monster. From its blood-chilling screech to its lethal predator body design, this creature is the epitome of a monster that will give you nightmares. When Obi-Wan Kenobi faced the acklay in the Geonosian arena in Attack of the Clones, he was constantly on the defensive against it, and was only able to best it when given a lightsaber.

The acklay is big, fast, and nearly invulnerable to most attacks. A list of an acklay’s features reads like an arsenal’s manifest. With its six limbs, this predator from Vendaxa can keep up with its prey, and attack or defend on the move. Each of those limbs has a variety of nasty surprises for any opponent: those claw tips, which are really hypertrophied fingertips, are horn fused with solid bone, while the smaller tip of each claw is super-hardened skin with no pain sensors.

Also, those exoskeletal claws have armor-providing bony nodules and sensory hairs. In short, the acklay is walking on swords. Moving up the limb, the claws are just part of the acklay’s hands, which can grapple an opponent who gets too close. All those joints makes it possible for an acklay to reach in nearly any direction and be able to scramble on pretty much any type of surface and slash and stab in from any angle. Plus those long limbs keep the body and head of the acklay out of reach from its victims while providing long reach to pin its prey and rip it to shreds.

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