Talk:Undead Rat/@comment-199.101.62.75-20131106042833/@comment-6003396-20131106071728

The shyness is in reference to the fact that many (not all) of the small ones will initially back off/run away. If pursued, however, then they will attack (as stated in the article). So, relatively speaking, it is not inaccurate to call them shy. And you may mean to be hyperbolic, but Black Knight never run away initially, so that isn't really a fair comparison.

Like most things in Dark Souls, the rats are really not much of a threat if you know how to deal with them.