Monstrous Dog |
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Locations | Caelid Dragonbarrow Mountaintops of the Giants |
Drops | ![]() Hefty Beast Bone Beast Blood |
Monstrous Dog is an Enemy in Elden Ring. Monstrous Dogs are massive dogs that have grown to be much larger than normal, with smaller forelegs in exchange for bigger and stronger hind legs. They often chase after anything, and are fast enough to catch up even on horseback.
Elden Ring Monstrous Dog Locations
Where to Find Monstrous Dog:
- Found everwhere in Caelid
- A unique variant always spawns outside of Gowry's Shack.
- A pair appear to be watching herds of hostile sheep at the Shack of the Rotting
- Some are near the Hermit Merchant’s shack in the Dragonbarrow.
- Found past the frozen lake in the Mountaintops.
Elden Ring Monstrous Dog Drops
Item |
Drop Rate |
Additional Info |
Runes | 100% | ![]() |
Hefty Beast Bone | 8.00% | N/A |
Beast Blood | 8.00% | N/A |
Monstrous Dog Notes & Tips
- This enemy will often lunge towards the player and attempt to bite/grab. The damage is very high, even for higher level players, but can mostly be avoided by sidestepping.
- The one near Gowry is wearing a spiked collar and also has a unique move where it sprays a cloud of rot. It seems to act as a sort of guard dog.
- There are white furred and red-eyed variants that howl upon noticing you. This will alert the other dogs to attack.
- They can hit and even kill each other if they get too close.
- Can be poise-broken, which allows for a critical hit on its head.
- They are highly susceptible to Sleep Pots.
- 1 Sleep Pot at Faith 22, Int 15 will put one Monstrous Dog to sleep.
- The Beast-Repellent Torch prevents them from attacking the player until attacked, with exceptions:
- The red-eyed variants in Caelid attack the player, regardless of the torch.
- The regular and red-eyed variants in the Mountaintops of the Giants also ignore the pacifying effect.
Elden Ring Monstrous Dog Gallery
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Did anyone else roll their eyes when the first Giant Dog they encountered had the same moveset as Watchdog of Old Lords from BB and Sulyvahns' Beasts from DS3?
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The ones near the isolated merchants shack in dragons barrow look like sheep herding dogs to me. I thought it was cute.
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Somehow these guys are way more fun to fight than regular dogs
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I'm wondering if maybe their forelimbs aren't small. Maybe they are actually the correct size. It's every OTHER part of their body that has gotten bigger while their front paws have stayed the same size as a normal dog.
Also, I think Gowry is able to 'charm' the one dog outside his shack because Gowry is secretly Miquella, and charming people with magic is his whole deal.
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1st image is just a normal dog, not one of the monstrous giant ones.
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Put some info on mobs who fight each other Like these guys vs radhan soldiers or demi humans vs the limgrave soldiers
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These mfs reminds me of people who are like "Oh my Pitbull is so sweet they wouldn't hurt a fly!"
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It's like someone didn't know whether to have a dinosaur or a dog as a pet so he got both. It also seems like life found away and his dinosaur dog got loose.
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I am 99.9999% sure the ones outside of the Isolated Merchant Shack are unique and VASTLY stronger than the standard variant of these.
https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Isolated+Merchant's+Shack+(Dragonbarrow)
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I do not like the move where they unhinge their jaw and turn sideways to crash into you and bite you in half.
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A pike seems to be a good weapon against these because of it its special heavy attack. When you stand in front of them it will hit them right in the head and a single fully charged attack poise breaks them
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These damn things aswell as those birds scared me so much when i was new that i didn't even explore a good chunk of Caelid until i was ridiculously overleveled after completing most of the game.
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Am i insane or are these things less annoying than the "regular" dogs?
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This thing came out of nowhere and killed Gowry on my first playthrough.
Instantly hated them
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Honestly this is, so far, only enemy I met made for shield builds.
I block the first charge and counter whitch poise blocks it, then comes crit, repeat 2nd time or more if necesary.
Bad thing though they have a habit of missing, then I strong attack instead of counter and it is bad ;D
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So that's why their aren't any children/families in Elden Ring.
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These remind me of Anjanath from monster hunter, what with the way they chomp along the ground
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Doggosaurus Rex is what i call em, or D-Rex, real pain in the arse
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Seeing one of these things glaring at me with glowing red eyes from a few meters away instills a sense of dread I haven't felt playing most horror games.
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As someone noted already below, guard counters pretty much trivialize these encounters.
Using a hammer class weapon (personal favorite being the actual Hammer you get from the Fortified Manor in Leyndell) I can reliably stance break with a single guard-counter straight to their snout and follow up with a critical.
As a quick aside, hammers in this game are pretty damn good for stance breaking given how fast their guard counters are, especially compared to great hammers, considering the poise damage from a great hammer guard-counter is just slightly higher than that of a hammer.
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I call these Rexes. They're obviously model after tyrannosaurs, or at least similar therapods, and of course Rex being a practically stereotypical name for a dog.
Giant Dogs and Crows share the following damage absorptions:
-10 Absorption for Standard, Strike, and Thrust
-20 Absorption for Magic, Lightning, and Holy
-40 Absorption for Slash and *Fire damage!
Resistances:
84 for Sleep
112 for Poison, Rot, and Bleed
If you plan on killing these things, definitely use Slash and Fire for that +40% damage. Bleed also helps to empty their large health pools.
*The rotten crow variant has 0 fire absorption
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"Please, stop. Just call them Giant Dogs."
"Scarlet-Rottweilers, hurr hurr hurr"
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I parried one of these by accident the other day, and I have no idea how, no idea what attack it was trying on me, I parried a greatsword guy and this dog at the same time, does anyone else know what attack is parriable? I've tried quite a lot and can't seem to replicate it
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So is that charge attack they do completely undodgeable or what???
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what happened to the scrappy doo trivia section? why would someone edit out real information smh
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I have found that the best way to deal with these is to Guard-counter them with your best weapon. It stance-breaks them in 1-2 counters, allowing you to crit them.
They sometimes do a double-bite, which can catch you off guard if you try to counter the first blow, so remember that you have a little bit of a grace period after blocking to guard counter, and can wait just long enough to be sure they aren't about to attack again.
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There's a much stronger version of this that is in Greyoll's Dragonbarrow west of the Dragonbarrow West Site of Grace. The eyes look a bit different... More red or something? Anyway, they are kind of a pain. It seems like they're able to do a combo that knocks you off of your horse and then immediately hits you again for a one-shot kill, which is pretty annoying.
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I thought this was a dinosaur..anyone else thought this was a t rex? A dog..wtf lol
Very informative and inspiring lore! Keep up the great work!
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this guy made a whole account and wiki page just to make a scrappy doo joke
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Has anyone found this one version of it that has glowing red eyes? Seems to have roughly the same HP and damage from what I can tell. But stands out from all the others in the area.
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It's a sad state of affairs when this is the best source of information we have.
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Ditch the Scrappy-Doo trivia. This is fextralife, not TV Tropes.
Red eyes version have unique feral attack where they have super long attack combo. All Collars version from mountain top have unique feet stomp stomp attack when you under their feet.
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