Hogwarts Legacy: Largest Beasts & Creatures

Summary

Hogwarts Legacy features a variety of magical beasts, some friendly, some foes, offering unique challenges for players to face in combat.
Players can encounter and tame classic-sized creatures like Hippogriffs, Thestrals, and Unicorns in the game's vast open world.
In addition to traditional magical creatures, the game also features unique foes like Fastidio's Monster, a formidable and unusual opponent.

There are numerous beasts and creatures in Hogwarts Legacy, which come in all shapes and sizes. Some of these creatures are friendly, where others are formidable foes. Indeed, the largest beasts and creatures in Hogwarts Legacy usually become enemies to battle in some way, often giving players a unique set of challenges to face in combat.

While it's tricky to know the exact proportions of all these creatures, it's pretty straightforward to see which are the largest just by looking at them. There are also particular locations or quests where players can encounter these giant foes for those seeking a challenge. There are also some creatures that don't make this list, such as the Giant Squid in the Black Lake, given players don't ever really get to see much of it to ascertain its true size beyond its slippery tentacles.

8 Thestrals, Hippogriffs, Unicorns, And Centaurs

Classic-Sized Magical Creatures Or Mounts

All are tameable beasts found in the wild
Hippogriffs encountered during quests like Hippogriff Marks The Spot
Players encounter a unicorn during The Unique Unicorn side quest
A Thestral encounter is in the Foal of the Dead sidequest

The smallest creatures on the list, but still comparably large compared to the player, these horse-sized magical beasts are a beautiful sight. Whether players are gracefully riding a Hippogriff or Thestral on land or soaring through the air, these are some of the larger magical beasts in Hogwarts Legacy that aren't enemies. Unicorns are also a similarly-sized creature that players can tame and collect for their Vivarium Biomes in the Room of the Requirement.

Centaurs would also fall into this category in terms of size, but they aren't creatures that players can interact with beyond cut scenes - unless following them around the Forbidden Forest counts.

7 Acromantula And Matriarch

Spiders Of Nightmarish Proportions

Found in the wild in Spider Lair locations on the map
Players also encounter an Acromantula during The Absconder Encounter quest

While Hogwarts Legacy has a handy Arachnophobia Mode to diminish the scare-factor of these eight-legged critters, the sheer size of Hogwarts Legacy's spiders is enough to make anyone's hair stand on end. Spiders in Hogwarts Legacy come in all shapes and sizes, but the Acromantula and Matriarch are the biggest varieties. Fortunately, these species aren't as big as other magical creatures or beasts in the RPG. However, most arachnophobes would probably agree they are more than big enough.

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Due to their size, Acromantulas in particular are also tougher to take down compared to other spiders and foes in the game, making them one of Hogwarts Legacy's strongest beasts.

6 Fastidio's Monster

An Unusual But Intimidating Magical Creature

Only encountered during the Minding Your Own Business side quest

Fastidio's Monster is a rather unusual, magical-like creature that appears during Hogwarts Legacy's "Minding Your Own Business" quest. Originally a PS5 exclusive, it's now a quest that all players have access to as part of the game's Summer 2024 update. Fastidio's Monster is a creature that's cobbled together using pieces of furniture, and looks almost, if perhaps not quite as large, as a Troll.

This makes Fastidio's Monster one of the more unique-looking creatures in the game, albeit its attack style seems similar to a Troll, with it charging at players and launching various projectiles. However, upon defeat, it crumbles into a pile of rubble, turning it back into the original-sized objects it was made up of.

5 Trolls

A Classic And Ferocious Creature

Found in various locations in the wild, like Troll Lairs
Encountered in various Hogwarts Legacy main quests like Welcome to Hogsmeade and side quests like Troll Control

Trolls in Hogwarts Legacy have a few different forms, with some being armored and some looking more like a traditional, fantasy-esque Cave Troll. However, they all stand tall around the same sort of size, albeit, perhaps not quite as tall as the magical Pensieve Guardians. Trolls in Hogwarts Legacy are also a common yet ferocious and powerful foe to contend with. While spells like Avada Kedavra can take them down pretty easily, players who prefer not to use the Dark Arts may need to find a combination of strong or overpowered spells in Hogwarts Legacy to defeat them.

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Players can come across Trolls during various Hogwarts Legacy quests, and also find them in the wild in areas like Troll Lairs, where they become a source of resources, like Troll Bogeys, once defeated.

4 Pensieve Guardian

A Tall And Formidable Foe

Found during the main story quest, Percival Rackham's Trial

The Pensieve Guardian is perhaps one of Hogwarts Legacy's hardest bosses to fight with its powerful orb-like attacks, and also one of the largest foes that players come across with its towering stature. While there are smaller variants of this magical-like creature, the Pensieve Guardian is a worthy foe at the end of some of Percival Rackam's Trials that players must dodge and defend against.

In terms of size, the Pensieve Guardian appears to stand much taller than Trolls, but isn't necessarily as heavily-built as a Graphorn, which is an altogether different type of beast by comparison.

3 Graphorn

A Majestic And Powerful Magical Beast

Encountered during San Bakar's trial during the main questline
Found in the wild in the Graphorn Den on Clagmar Coast

Graphorns are undoubtedly the biggest mount in Hogwarts Legacy. Not only are they tall, they are also powerful, stocky creatures that hit like a battering ram. Once players first encounter and tame a Graphorn known as Lord of the Shore in San Bakar's Trial, they can then find and catch Graphorns from Graphorn Dens found in the wild. According to Wizarding World, Graphorns are also big enough for Trolls to ride them.

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To catch a Graphorn, players will have to first fight and weaken it. There are also only a small number of Graphorns available, with only two more to find in the wild. However, players can breed Graphorns in the Room of Requirement if they wish to obtain an adorable baby Graphorn offspring. The latter is, of course, much smaller than the full-size version.

2 Ranrok Dragon Boss And Hebridean Black Dragon

A Staple Large Creature From Magic And Fantasy

Ranrok's dragon form - The Final Repository main quest
Hebridean Black Dragon - Poached Egg side quest

While Graphorns are often considered the biggest beasts in Hogwarts Legacy, there is a creature that could be deemed much larger - a dragon. Of course, players first see a dragon during the opening cutscene, where its sheer size compared to other magical creatures in the game is apparent. Players also help save a Heribean Black Dragon during the "Poppy's Poached Egg" sidequest, which is one of Hogwart's Legacy's creatures that is not seen in the movies.

Players also have to physically fight Ranrok in his large dragon form during "The Final Repository" main mission towards the end of the game. According to Wizarding World, it's a huge and extremely dangerous species of dragon that can grow up to thirty feet long and has a XXXXX Ministry of Magic classification.

1 Death

So Large It Dwarfs An Entire Town

Only encountered during Niamh Fitzgerald's Trial in the main story quest

While not strictly speaking a Hogwarts Legacy beast or creature in the traditional sense, Death could be considered the largest type of other-worldly creature in Hogwarts Legacy, given it towers over an entire strange and seemingly fictional town. It's a foe that only appears during Niamh Fitzgerald'sTrial, one of Charles Rookwood's Keeper Trials in Hogwarts Legacy. This quest sees players enter The Deathly Hallows fable and hide from a giant hooded skeleton representative of Death. Players must also either avoid or fight the creatures that Death summons.

While defining what Death is in these moments is somewhat tricky, in terms of size, it's undoubtedly the biggest foe that players come up against in the entire game.

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