TotK Like Likes: All Kinds, HP, Drops, Weak Point, Locations

The game introduces the Like Like as “a monster that has been appearing all over Hyrule in recent days”, found “in caves and other dark places”. It has “an appetite for swords and shields”: get too close and it may “swallow you whole, and eat your equipment”. This page covers the five regular kinds and the Sludge Like with their HP and drops from the game’s own data, the tongue weak point, the treasure chest every Like Like leaves behind, and a map of all 195 spawns. For other monster families see the enemy overview. Like Likes are new in this game; Breath of the Wild has none.

Which Like Likes are there and how do you tell them apart?

HP is from the game’s parameter files. What each one spits is from its Hyrule Compendium entry, the colors from the Compendium photos on this page. The Shock Like is the toughest of the regular kinds by far, with twice the HP of a Like Like.

Where do Like Likes wait?

Like Likes stick to walls and ceilings in dark places and wait with the mouth out. In the game’s words, “if you get too close, it may lunge at you with its mouth wide, swallow you whole, and eat your equipment”. A traveler in the game warns about the same thing: the monster swallows anyone who gets too close, “stealing their swords and shields in the process”. Look at cave walls and ceilings before you walk under them.

The elemental kinds keep to matching ground. The game says Fire Likes “live mostly in caves near volcanoes” and Ice Likes “in caves in snowy areas”, and Shock Likes “expel powerful lightning balls from their mouths”, which the game believes is how they stun their prey.

What is a Rock Like?

The game says Rock Likes are “covered in rocks that shield them like armor” and “try to intimidate you by spitting rocks out of their mouths, but they can be quieted when they have swallowed something”. The traveler who tells you about Like Likes found that its rocky body “shrugged off even my respectable strikes”, and wished he could “send the rocks the creature spat back the way they came”. It has 250 HP, and like every Like Like its tongue takes double damage.

How do you kill Like Likes fast?

• Hit the tongue. The game says the tongue in the center of the mouth “is very sensitive. Attack it to make the creature falter.” The damage files give every Like Like, the Sludge Like included, a weak spot there that takes double damage.
• Set it on fire. A traveler in the game tells how he swung a torch at a Like Like that ambushed him: “As the fire spread across its body, it let out a groan, exposing its tongue!” He thinks the creature “may well be weak to fire”. A Fire Fruit arrow does the job from range; then shoot the tongue.
• Use the opposite element on the elemental kinds. The Compendium says Fire Likes “don’t do well in the cold” and Ice Likes “don’t do well with fire”.
• Lightning. The damage files set lightning damage to 999,999 for all five regular kinds. The Sludge Like takes only 120.
• Small element hits. For every Like Like the damage files list 3 damage when set alight plus 3 per burning tick, 20 from a shock and 10 from being frozen. These help a little; the tongue is where the real damage goes.
• Keep your distance. If it swallows you, the game warns that it eats your equipment. Shoot from outside lunging range, or wait for it to lunge and miss before you strike.

What do Like Likes drop?

Rates are from the game’s drop tables; “rolls” is how often the game rolls that line. The arrow line also has a 5% chance each of a one-handed weapon, a two-handed weapon or a spear. A Like Like in the Depths adds Zonaite (1–2 rolls). The Rock Like has no stone of its own and drops a Like Like Stone.

• Stones: the game calls the Like Like Stone “a strange round stone from a Like Like, made of crystallized inner fluids. It’s a good ingredient for elixirs.” The Shock Like Stone “maintains some charge even outside the creature”.
• Armor upgrades: the third star of each piece of the Ember set, Frostbite set and Charged set takes 5 Fire Like, Ice Like or Shock Like Stones, so 15 for a whole set. See the upgrade materials table.

What is in a Like Like’s treasure chest?

Every Like Like’s drop table ends in a treasure chest that it always leaves. Each placement names a chest table for its area, and the chest holds one item from it:

The tables and rates are from the game’s data; the areas are where the placements using each table sit. Shields fill most chests, which fits the game’s line about an “appetite for swords and shields”. The best chance at a Radiant Shield is a Like Like in Gerudo.

Where do Like Likes spawn?

These are the game’s placement data. Caves and wells hold the most: 76 Like Likes in 52 different caves, with four each in the Royal Hidden Passage and Mount Dunsel Cave.

• Like Likes are mostly in caves around Necluda and Hyrule Field (12 each). Two wait on the Great Sky Island and four on the Thunderhead Isles.
• Fire Likes keep to Eldin: 8 of the 15 above ground and all 10 in the Depths are there.
• Ice Likes are in the Gerudo Highlands, Lanayru and Tabantha, and in the Depths below Gerudo and Hebra.
• Shock Likes are spread over Hyrule Field, Gerudo and Necluda; three are in Hyrule Castle, nearest to Princess Zelda’s Room.
• Rock Likes favor Eldin (9) and Lanayru (7) above ground.

On the surface and in the sky

In the Depths

Most of the Depths has no place names of its own, so the name given for a Depths spot is the name of the place on the surface directly above it. Find that name on the surface map and the spot is straight below.

The place column is the cave’s name for cave spawns and otherwise the nearest named landmark.

For the rest of Hyrule’s monsters see the enemy overview. Most Like Likes are underground, so see also caves in Tears of the Kingdom. Fire Fruit for the burning trick is covered in the Fuse guide and bows and arrows.