Top 10 Strongest 'Legendary' Monsters in D&D

Legendary monsters are literally the strongest, most powerful creatures in D&D, and they have special abilities to indicate that; most legendary monsters are either gods, or beings that are very close to becoming gods, so they’re always incredibly strong. A Legendary monster always has two traits: Legendary Resistances, and Legendary Actions.

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Written by: Zephyr

├ The List
Intro: (0:00)
10-Ancient (Gold) Dragon: (0:48)
9-Niv-Mizzet: (2:40)
8-Orcus: (4:28)
7-Zariel: (5:36)
6-Tromokratis: (7:07)
5-Rak Tulkesh: (9:45)
4-Greatwyrms (metallic): (12:21)
3-Sul Khatesh: (14:29)
2-Tarrasque: (17:10)
1-Aspect of Tiamat/Aspect of Bahamut: (19:41)

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[sambrown]

Reading the greatwyrm stat blocks for the first time felt like a fevor dream

[treespawned]

Another shortcoming of the Tarrasque is its lack of ranged attacks. If you sit on a flying mount and shoot it with arrows, there is literally nothing it can to to stop you.

[m]

In my last Campaign my party fought both Orcus and Niv-mizzit. I will say we were Lvl 14 when we fought Niv-mizzit and Lvl 20 when we fought Orcus. As a result Niv-mizzit was easily the hardest boss fight our group encountered in our 1.5 year campaign and im pretty sure our DM even nerfed some parts of him. His insane spell casting ability along with the movement of a dragon was almost too much for our party we had at least 5 ko's during the fight and one death. Orcus was fairly tough especially since our DM gave him a legendary action that just refilled his hitpoints to full. But aside from that and the Conjure undead, we had a lot more tools to deal with him. And he was far more vulnerable to our bloodhunter/barbarian and rouge/fighter to just bash away on him

[lukeari]

Niv-Mizzet is TERRIFYING, that dual-concentration thing is just absolutely ridiculously overpowered when you look at his spell list.

[BORNTOSIEGE]

My party fougth Zariel at the end of Avernus, although she was already a little beaten up, having fought in the blood war with a distraction they created to save the city.
She appeared in front of them furious... the fight was intense, they were hyped but scared at the same time, one of them died and another fell, the only ones left alive were the last 2 members of the group who had less than 10 hp . Surprising end to the campaign. Totally recommended AND amazing video!

[TehWolfmanOP]

Tarrasque absolutely did NOT deserve to be #2. I would've given it like #7 being generous.

[agentchaos]

Yeah, Sul-Katesh is more difficult to beat then either Bahamut or Tiamut, unless you manage to get a suprise round, & Deal 475 damage to her before she uses Arcane Catastrophe. As soon as that ability goes off, unless you have DM-Fiat dependent help (Artifacts, or the direct blessing of a God, which is up to the DM to give you) the fight is borderline unwinnable. Sure, a reasonable DM will recognize that, and probably won't put you in a fight that you mechanically can't win, but she's the only monster that requires things you can't get through Class Features to beat her. Doesn't matter how " Optimized" you are, you can rock up with 20 Simulacrums, & a crazy speed archer build with 500 ft. of movement, it doesn't matter. She will wreck your min-maxed party, unless you have specific narrative things, or a multi-step master plan to get around her abilities, and at least at that point you were forced to think during combat.

[the-neko-warlock]

I was surprised the Tarrasque even was on the list

[tobiaspause]

you kinda forgot that Bahamut spawns a whole bunch of gold Dragons, pushing him way above Tiamat.

[Zack-dsrs]

Today I just discovered DnDlogs after being a Duellogs watcher, literally both of my favorite games

[SuperPCGaming]

Finding out you do dnd and not just yugioh is the greatest thing I've discovered this year.

[luizrafael]

Great video, thanks. I have a suggestion for a future video: tell us a story of a party that actually defeated one of those bosses!!! Watching this video felt like impossible to manage that... thanks in advance !!!

[Kratos_God_of__BMG]

I’m surprised they don’t require you to use a Wish spell to finish of the Terrasque anymore. THAT made beating it even more of a pain.

[MatthewLickers]

Ancient Gold Dragons have literally the same physical damage as Ancient Red Dragons and their Breath weapon deals more damage than a Red Dragons so they are objectively better than Reds, it’s not a trade off they’re just straight up better

[ericpowell]

Sul Khatesh should have been #2 or #1. There’s quite literally very little any party can do to hurt her.

[darkranger]

"fighting a Tarrasque on its own terms, is basically impossible"

yeah tell that to my dad's friend, whos Minotaur Barbarian jumped into its mouth and ripped his way out of its chest with its god damn heart between his horns.

the DM literally left to get more snacks he was so flabbergasted XD

[SuperCosmicSpaceMagnet]

My D&D group fought a Displacer Beast in our last session! The DM had to do some serious fudging of dice and repeatedly ask about our current HP in order for us to not get TPK'd by it.

We.. Uh... We're a long way off ever seeing any of the creatures in this video.

[Multistrangedude]

The original Tiamat from The Tyranny of Dragons is way more powerful than the aspect of Tiamat

[Kevzilla]

Ayy I love your yugioh content and just stumbled on your DnD content. Awesome dude keep it up 😂

[brandonolar]

I think its worth mentioning, when talking about which damage types are best. The ranks are from the perspective of the players. Plenty of monsters resist poison, acid, and fire. But that doesnt mean plenty of player characters do