BotW Lynel Locations: All 22, HP, Drops, How to Beat

Lynels are the strongest regular enemy in Breath of the Wild. This page lists all 22 locations, marks which ones grow stronger with your world level, gives each grade’s HP and drops, and shows the fight in screenshots.

How many Lynels are there?

The counts come from the game’s placement data. The data holds 27 Lynel records; five are not separate Lynels:

• the Coliseum Ruins spot has one record for each grade — red, Blue-Maned, White-Maned and Silver — at the same place, so it counts once (it is listed as red below);
• Ploymus Mountain has two records a few steps apart, one encounter;
• one White-Maned Lynel on the Great Plateau, near the Temple of Time ruins, is marked as Master Mode only.

“Grow stronger” is the data’s own flag (LevelSensorMode): those Lynels move up through Blue-Maned, White-Maned and Silver as your world level rises. The point thresholds are on the enemy scaling page.

HP values are from the game’s parameter files.

Where are the Lynels?

The landmark is the nearest named place on the map. Nearby shrines double as warp points; see all shrine locations.

How do you beat a Lynel?

Run round to its back and mount it while it is down. Mounted hits cost no weapon durability, and a two-handed weapon is a good choice once you are on its back.

Stasis+ also works on Lynels and buys time.

How To Easily Defeat a Lynel | The Legend of Zelda, BOTW Tutorial — YouTube

What does a Lynel drop?

Rates are from the game’s drop tables.

The materials go into armor upgrades — see the armor upgrade materials page.

See also

More big monsters in Breath of the Wild: all 40 Hinox, all 40 Taluses and the 4 Moldugas.

Lynels drop the Lynel and Savage Lynel weapons — see the best weapons and all weapons. Which White-Maned Lynels carry the Savage Lynel Spear is on its own page.

Which Lynels are worth farming, and what the parts are for, is on Lynel farming.