Hemokai/Legacy

== Description ==
== Appearance ==
The is a lizard-like creature, resembling a Gila monster. Vivid green striped markings span from its neck and down its slender body. The Hemokai has small glowing yellow spikes that lay along its back on top of a turquoise and jade fin. It has five claws on each foot which are a glowing yellow, unlike the rest of its leg. The majority of the body is a dark navy blue shade. Its mouth is long and composed of small, sharp, white teeth and a green tongue. The 's eyes are a small, glowing yellow bead with black sclera, surrounded by a green line going around it.
 has no gender dimorphism.
== Abilities ==
== Gameplay ==
=== Pros ===
The is a carnivore with a decent appetite, meaning it can survive for a while without food and water and can grab any creature regardless of diet. Being capable of eating on-the-run gives it multiple advantages, eliminating the risk of remaining stuck in-animation while eating, and providing the ability to regain hunger while fighting and/or fleeing. Thanks to Iron Stomach, needs to worry considerably less about eating rotten products (ignoring Sickness from any source), albeit still needing to be careful of the water and HP depletion spoiled food deals. With ambush, the gains quite an advantage against non-ambushers, especially when combined with the ability Streamlined: Streamlined can help slightly with the speed underwater, if slightly, possibly useful for reaching NPC fish to eat if desperate. Ambushing while underwater is a possibility, provided that Streamlined is given enough time to activate (albeit that leaves you vulnerable while still and its very situational), and thanks to its good stamina and stamina regeneration it can clearly run and swim for a while without tiring and having a fast recovery from exhaustion.
Its full poison defense provides an extreme advantage for absolutely any ability that delivers poison or any of its subailments once fully grown (including its own poison breath and thus helping on avoiding lethality on intra-species fights). For its tier it has quite good HP stat, which combined with its slight bleed defense helps it resist hits from bleeders far better than many of its low tier peers.
Due its breath, the has an advantage against other creatures, able to inflict poison from further away than typically normal and helping into vulnerable area coverage and ranged defense from abilities, partially compensating for its low bite damage, albeit that one can still be dangerous on the long term against vulnerable creatures thanks to its toxin.
It has an excellent nightvision, which lets it roam at night without problem. Although this makes it the most vulnerable to nightvision-nerf abilities, such as Night Stalker, it also helps it pinpoint where the creature with such an ability is.
=== Cons ===
Due to the low health stat, can be quickly killed by heavier, high damage creatures, specially since its low HP regeneration doesn't help that much in the middle of a combat (and in fact a growing may still carry high damage received as a child until adult since their growth speed is a bit faster than its healing percentage) and while its weight is not bad it's somewhat on the higher end of the lower tiers. Even then, its melee damage is low enough that biting only really becomes fully effective against lighter creatures or heavily poisoned creatures, and even then the low damage will guarantee defensive status are stacked to maximum, even poison if the has not grown enough. Its turn speed while not bad is still slightly low and a faster creature may be capable of attacking at vulnerable spots. All of these become clearly evident if the 's advantageous speed or mobility get affected or compromised, such as with bone breaking.
Having the Streamlined ability doesn't help for the most part either considering that it's a normal terrestrial creature and as such it won't matter that its total stamina and stamina regeneration are doubled since Streamlined doesn't add nor remove stamina to adjust to a percent or tiredness and it doesn't recover any stamina underwater (meaning they cannot stay for longer underwater). Additionally its HP regeneration is low enough to guarantee die of drowning no matter what (as mentioned before), so any boosts they get underwater are short-lived before they die, for example any boost to the hunger will only last a few seconds at most.
== Carry-able Creatures ==
== Trivia ==
* Original and redesign concepts by Dragonbab (aka Artistep) on the Creatures of Sonaria Discord.
** The original was mainly inspired by real life poisonous animals to try and make more realistic, as well as having a theme of a 'mean lizard'.
** Hemokai is a word in Māori that translates to 'famine', 'hunger', or 'starvation', which fits as the is described as "always hungry".
** was planned to be named Hemokai-Stalkeri (stalker), but it was changed to just .
** 's pattern had been changed 4 times, the last (and final) one being a mix of the second and last design.
* Original design modeled by TamBrush.
** The used to be considered to have come from the planet Daimona, but this has been changed after TamBrush's resignment from CoS, making this creature a regular Sonarian.
* Original design animated and rigged by Erythia.
* Redesign animated by Aphauxin and Mukudori.
* There is a UGC item based on added to Roblox called Toxic Lizard Friend, which was previously purchasable for and is now offsale. Made by TamBrush.
* It was one of the few creatures that were playable during alpha stage.
* was the first creature to receive the Toxin Breath ability.
* It used to be tied with Hikorshi and Sana'ata for having the highest toxin stat.
* can more or less safely traverse through lava (idle animation, sitting, laying down, aggro, cower, hiding scent and walking on a straight line over lava don't hurt the ) as seen here.
== Gallery ==
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Main =
This tab is intended to present official concept sheets, color palettes, and Glimmer (if applicable).
Hemokairedesignconcept.png| redesign concept art
Hemokai.jpg|Former concept art
Hemokaiconcept.png|Former concept art (alternate)
Hemokai new palette.jpeg|'s primary color palette
GlimmerHemokai.png|Default Glimmer (night)
hemokaivoid.png|The Glimmer regions of the , highlighted with a Void palette
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Development =
This tab is intended to present anything showcased during the process of development, such as the creation of models, animations, and poses.
oldhemokai ref.png|'s old model reference
oldhemokai patterns.png|'s old model's patterns
HemokaiImport.png|Hemokai in Roblox Studio
HemokaiModeling.jpg|Rendered Hemokai, previous design
HemokaiModel.jpg|Former Heomoaki's model
HemokaiPose.png|Rigged and posed Hemokai, previous design
Hemoredesignrig.png|Hemokai redesign rigged
HemokaiDev1|Clip provided by Erythia, CoS Discord, 8/12/2020
HemokaiDev2|Clip provided by Erythia, CoS Discord, 8/12/2020
HemokaiDev3|Clip provided by Blue Hour (Aphauxin), CoS Discord, 2/6/2023
HemokaiDev4|Clip provided by Mukudori (M_uku), CoS Discord, 2/7/2023
HemokaiDev5|Clip provided by Mukudori (M_uku), CoS Discord, 2/7/2023
HemokaiDev6|Clip provided by Mukudori (M_uku), CoS Discord, 2/7/2023
HemokaiDev7|Clip provided by Triefelgrim (Wolfragon), CoS Discord, 2/10/2023
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References =
This tab is intended to present anything to further observe a creature's design, inspirations, and changes in growth stages for reference.
RHemokaiJuvenile.png|Juvenile Hemokai
RHemokaiTeen.png|Teen Hemokai
Hemokai Adult.png|Adult Hemokai
HemokaiJuvenile2023.png|Former juvenile Hemokai
HemokaiTeen2023.png|Former teen Hemokai
HemokaiAdult2023.png|Former adult Hemokai
Hemmo.PNG|Old default Glimmer Hemokai
Nile Monitor.jpg|A Nile monitor, which appears to be inspiration for the Hemokai
Hemokai_old_male-stock.png|Old in Blender
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Other =
Hemokai Toxin Breath.png|Hemokai's Toxin Breath ability
HemokaiColorPalette.png|Previous primary color palette
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Category:Beta Release
Category:Remodels/Legacy
Category:Glimmer/Legacy
Category:Daimona
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