Dark Rayman
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- This article is about the character's role in Rayman fan games. For the character in official games, see Bad Rayman and Dark Rayman.
| Dark Rayman | ||
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| Alignment | Bad | |
| Appears in | Rayman: The Dark Magician's Reign of Terror, Rayman Redemption | |
| Location | Mr Dark's Dare, The End of the World | |
| Resistance |  (Mr Dark's Dare)  (The End of the World)
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| Attacks | Deadly touch (Mr Dark's Dare), Moskito projectiles, fireballs (The End of the World) | |
| Species | Rayman's species | |
| Relatives | Mr Dark (creator)
Rayman (sibling via cloning) | |
Who dares disturb my beauty sleep? You will not get away with this! Drown in lava!—Mr Skops, Rayman Redemption
You're still here? I'll teach you not to disturb a scorpion's sleep! I'll cut you into pieces!—Mr Skops, Rayman Redemption
Mr Skops is a giant, dark-pink scorpion with a single massive claw, and yellow spikes on his body. He is the fifth major boss in Rayman Redemption. Rayman first encounters Mr Skops at the beginning of Molten Depths, sleeping on the other side of a bridge of spiky platforms. Mr Skops, angry at his sleep being disturbed, smashes the ground, causing the bridge to collapse under Rayman's feet, dropping him into the depths below.
After Rayman successfully navigates the deep, lava-filled caverns, defeating Darktoon in the process, he challenges Mr Skops again in his domain - Mr Skops' Stalactites. The scorpion lures Rayman into his lair, alternating between claw and energy ball attacks, which Rayman must avoid. Although it is possible for Rayman to launch his fist and lure the energy balls back into Mr Skops, they cause no damage to the scorpion at this stage. Only when the final battle begins, Mr Skops' health bar becomes visible and he becomes vulnerable.
In the final phase of the battle, Mr Skops alternates claw and energy ball attacks. Rayman must jump over the claw as it sails towards him and again as it returns. The energy balls that Mr Skops launches actually track Rayman's fist, which is the secret to hurting Mr Skops - by throwing a punch at the scorpion at the right moment, Rayman will not only avoid being hit by the energy balls, but will cause them to hit Mr Skops instead, taking off one hit point.
After every two hits taken by Mr Skops, he will drop a boulder, then walk towards Rayman and off the screen. Rayman must use the boulder to jump over the scorpion, as touching his claw will hurt Rayman. While off-screen, Mr Skops will attempt to sting Rayman from above four times. The tip of the sting always aims at Rayman's location and is visible right before it is launched. Rayman must quickly move to avoid being stung. When Mr Skops returns to the screen, he will resume the alternating attack pattern.
In the second half of the battle, after Mr Skops has suffered 4 hits, instead of launching his claw straight ahead, he makes it track Rayman on the screen, making it harder to avoid. The rest of the patterns remain the same.
Achievements
- Defeating Mr Skops grants the Let Him Sleep achievement.
Trivia
- In the original Rayman, the spiky platform bridge and chase sequence were both part of the same encounter in Mr Skops' Stalactites. Rayman Redemption split them into two separate, simplified encounters. Rayman no longer has to stay on a slowly collapsing bridge while avoiding Mr Skops' claw, and the chase sequence has no rising lava.
- Mr Skops' sting and tracking claw attacks in the final battle are new to Rayman Redemption, and did not appear in Rayman 1.