Bestiary of Runeterra

Haunting deep-sea creatures with enormous luminescent eyes that stun prey.

The Antlermouse is a four-legged, sentient mammal native to the mountainous regions of Valoran, and a species associated with the champion Kog'Maw.

An insectoid species of Demacia that a lone soldier can face one-on-one, yet that overwhelms its foes in queen-led swarms moving as a single body.

A towering Void-corrupted entity that appears to shift the balance of the Rift.

A sentient fish from the island nation of Aurma, marked by teeth that jut past its jaw and valued by Piltover traders for its roe and hide.

Valor saved Quinn from a tuskvore, and together the pair became known as Demacia's Wings.

A large omnivorous mammal of Demacia's forests, the badgerbear blends a badger's coloring with a bear's build and can be tamed by ranger beastmasters.

A sentient bird native to Bahrl, an island region of Ionia, most active in the morning and known for melodic chirps that sound like song.

Giant sentient beasts of Freljordian legend, called the Wanderers, roaming the frozen northern reaches and read as a dark omen.

A terrifying Void-touched serpent that dwells in the heart of Summoner's Rift.

Massive armored reptiles used as fearsome war mounts by the Noxian military.

The Bawkatrice is a ground-dwelling, sentient bird with brightly colored tail feathers, found in the forests of Bandle City and Demacia.

A crystalline golem infused with mana energy, granting Blue Buff when defeated.

Bolbo, a sentient fish from the shores of Trannit in Noxus, wears a strangely humanlike face and lands on the table either dried or in boiled head soup.

The Bolor are large, four-legged birds of Mount Targon, sentient carnivores that hunt across the region's mountainous heights.

Ancient crystalline scorpions of Shurima — their namestones power hextech.

A Brambleback is a sentient magical beast that fuses plant and animal, lives in forests, has been sighted in Kumungu, and is linked to the champion Ivern.

Its buoyant, bubble body hides claws and hoof-like feet built for hunting bullavores.

A sapient feline species living across Runeterra and Bandle City, present in Piltover and Zaun and linked to champions from Yuumi to Teemo.

Plain and ordinary, yet its name comes up alongside Anivia, Azir, Jax, K'Sante, Lux, and Sylas.

Zaun's Firelights count bat-like Chirean members, not Vastaya, despite the resemblance.

A sentient bivalve mollusc that dwells along Runeterra's ocean floors.

One of the four elemental aspects of Runeterra's great dragons: a fur-insulated drake that climbs higher than the rest, and a fieldable unit in Riot's Demacia Rising.

Despite living in water, it feeds on clouds, an odd diet that gave the creature its name.

Sapient living coral of the Guardian's Sea, walking upright through shallow reefs and hiding in plain sight among its unthinking kin.

A house-to-tower sized boar of Demacia armored in stony hide, the Crag Beast raids settlements and is vulnerable only at its blue-blooded belly.

Aggressive bird-like reptiles that swarm intruders in the jungle.

A sentient black bird of Runeterra's remote backcountry, ranging into Demacia and linked to the champion Fiddlesticks.

Formless spirits born from mortal misery, each demon fixes on a single emotion and feeds on it until its chosen victim dies.

Domesticated, sentient canines living in temperate settlements across Runeterra and the Celestial Realm, tied to champions Nasus, Zoe, and Aurelion Sol.

Shuriman nomads build entire mobile villages on its back and follow it to hidden water.

Immense armored aquatic creatures combining turtle shells with draconic features.

Kled's mount Skaarl fled the First Battle of Drugne, then returned to save him.

A sentient, wolf-sized carnivore without wings, the Drakehound comes from the northern mountains of Noxus and lives among its people.

Goblin-like and sapient, it wears clothes and wields tools rather than acting on instinct.

Savage wolf-like war beasts bred by the Noxian military for combat.

A sentient, goat-like species from the Stonewall areas of Piltover, prized for the milk that the region's traders work to acquire.

Eka'Sul are sentient goats of the Shuriman desert that live and travel together in herds.

The oldest and mightiest dragon, appearing as the ultimate draconic challenge.

Primal draconic beings tied to Runeterra's elemental forces — fire, water, earth, and wind.

A sentient Runeterran mammal found across the Freljord, Noxus, and Targon, with ties to the champions Ashe and Zoe.

A domesticated Noxian herd grazer that feeds on plants but turns violent and bloodthirsty the moment it feels threatened.

Herded by the Avarosans for meat and hide, its leather carries the Frost Guard's reports.

Firelights are a sentient insect species native to Zaun, living within the city and the sewers beneath it.

A sentient bird of prey that hunts within the forests of Demacia.

A sentient Bilgewater shark of the Deep Seas, with a rough brown hide and a hammer-shaped head that carries two pairs of eyes.

An amphibious magical beast of the wetlands that, when fused with a magical anomaly, becomes a hardy monster whose hide turns aside both blades and spells.

Small fire spirits of Ixtal that a mage like Milio calls forth when channeling magic into healing, mending wounds with their gentle flames.

Furyhorn: a small, lion-like creature from Bandle City and the Freljord whose sloped horns reshape themselves to match the environment it lives in.

A sentient, spike-shelled crab from the seas of Bilgewater, domesticated by local merchants to haul heavy goods on its back.

A house-sized squid of Bilgewater's deep seas that can rise against smaller ships and turn any hunt for food or sport into a deadly gamble.

Magically potent saplings of the destroyed God-Willow, carrying its spiritual legacy.

Anchors a drunken Bilgewater tale where a man supposedly died disguised in its costume.

Animated constructs of stone or magic that serve as guardians across Runeterra.

Some Demacians call it a good omen, a stag-like beast that held its ground before Quinn.

Its frost-touched body lets it prowl Ice Sea waters that never fully thaw, near Ursine ground.

A massive, poisonous toad creature lurking in the jungle swamps.

Also a slur for Zaun's undercity-born, the name a 'Son of Ur' killer gives his survivor.

Aurora's wayward companion: one of Ornn's siblings, a demigod who lost his name and his shape as worship of the Old Gods waned, and now travels beside her as a monstrous, twisted elk.

Versatile raptors found across Runeterra, serving as scouts and hunting companions.

For most human societies, it carries riders and goods across steppe and city alike.

Large Freljordian eagles used for scouting and hunting by northern tribes.

A Targonian lullaby leans on its skittishness to soothe children scared of the mountain wind.

Prized for milk rich enough to be a delicacy, then disappears under winter snow to hibernate.

Massive, elementally-enhanced insectoid guardians of the hidden nation of Ixtal.

Gargantuan deep-sea behemoths so massive they are mistaken for islands.

The twin spirits of death — Lamb offers peace, Wolf hunts those who flee.

Legend ties their desert swarms to Rammus, who once crushed hundreds to save a caravan family.

Legendary tentacled deep-sea monsters capable of crushing warships.

Animated stone golems that split into smaller versions when destroyed.

Large iridescent beetles of Ixtal with shells as hard as steel.

Named for Vindor, its homeland, and linked in lore to both Ambessa and Rell.

Sejuani once gave a wounded mammoth a king's death rather than let it kneel.

Ghoulish entities conjured from the Black Mist by Yorick, the Shepherd of Souls.

A Little Legend whose sword forged the cannon that felled Outlaw Squink in Saloon Showdown.

Spectral wolves that haunt the jungle in shadowy packs.

Intelligent, multi-tentacled marine creatures of Bilgewater's coastal waters.

Its single-eyed kin near the Abyssal Crown proved an omen of a colossal horror from the deep.

This tortoise-shaped grazer is as at home in open sky as it is in reef waters.

Sapient penguins of the Freljord who debuted in 2015's Snowdown Showdown and now serve as Teamfight Tactics mascots and playable Little Legends.

Ethereal stags with petricite-infused antlers, sacred to Demacian culture.

Even its diet is guesswork, presumed carnivorous but never confirmed by those who study it.

Treasure-hoarding crustaceans of Bilgewater that steal anything shiny.

Its name passed into Bilgewater slang for grasping opportunism, as with Captain Thorne.

Counted among Ionia's mythic beasts, a giant predator that dwarfs the region's common birds.

Prefers the arenas of Shuriman desert settlements over the empty dunes beyond them.

At Nockmirch, Valor's flight of raptor-knights routed an overwhelming Noxian force.

Thrives in squalor wherever people do, surviving on adaptability rather than strength.

Despite its grim reputation, it feeds on plants rather than prey, and is linked to Swain.

Predatory fish with blade-like fins that travel in devastating schools.

A thorny, fire-infused golem that grants the powerful Red Buff when slain.

A Void-spawned beast with a glowing eye, found in the baron pit before Nashor appears.

Tiny Void insects that cluster around dimensional tears, heralding larger threats.

Saving a hawk from one won Ulla Shatter-Spear nearly a century of Anivia's protection.

Spectral golden warriors conjured from sand by Azir's solar magic.

Massive serpentine creatures that burrow through Shuriman deserts like water.

Sturdy turtle-like creatures with crushing jaws and reinforced shells.

Sacred sun-touched beetles of Shurima, symbols of rebirth and the sun.

A timid river-dwelling crab that flees from combat and grants vision when slain.

Scavengers that picked over carrion where Lucian and Mira searched Venaru's coast in Homebound.

Enormous snake-like deep-sea predators that can dwarf the largest ships.

Poachers bleed it alive for its eight pearlescent horns, prized in backwater remedies.

Cunning, silver-furred predators of the Freljord that hunt in deadly packs.

They lend their name to the Silverwing Knights, the order Jarvan IV was given to command.

Majestic silver-feathered raptors used as mounts by Demacia's elite aerial cavalry.

Chasing one onto cracking lake ice marked the night Thorva's gods-given power first stirred.

Butterfly-shaped and modest beside Targon's grander Celestials, it is linked to Zoe.

Massive, Ruination-corrupted spiders of the Shadow Isles, commanded by Elise.

Spirits that cross into the mortal realm during Ionia's Spirit Blossom Festival.

The collective spiritual essence of Ionia — the living soul of the First Lands.

Endures the thin air at Mount Targon's very summit, where lore ties it to Soraka.

Towers over ordinary deer while browsing the undergrowth of the Petricite Grove.

Taught by Ivern to embrace their hissing lisp, they now speak almost entirely in s-words.

First tamed under Boram Darkwill's rule, valued across Noxus for its speed and bony horns.

Sheared twice yearly by Rakkor shepherds, though strays risk a bolor's diving strike.

A herbivore grazing the steep slopes of Mount Targon, tied to no champion or legend.

In A Good Day, hunters found one already killed by a wildclaw deadlier than their prey.

A shadow bear spirit bound within Annie's teddy bear, erupting into flaming fury.

Noxus turns its elephantine bulk into a living tank on the battlefield.

It killed Quinn's twin brother Caleb, then returned a year later to attack her at his grave.

Tortured spirits from the Shadow Isles, trapped between life and death by the Ruination.

Quinn's bonded Azurite Eagle — a rare, fiercely intelligent Demacian raptor.

A colossal spider-god of the Shadow Isles, worshipped by Elise and her followers.

Eyeless Void tunnelers with rotating maws that destabilize the earth above.

Void-touched larval creatures that grant turret-pushing Voidmites when slain.

Small, swarming Void drones that overwhelm through sheer numbers.

Parasitic eel-like Void creatures that attach to larger Void entities.

Horned and eight-eyed, it fought giants alongside wolves when Vastayashai'rei took its shape.

Enigmatic celestial spirits that float alongside Bard, the Wandering Caretaker.

Rafen once compared himself to one, until Sarah Fortune claimed the longtooth's role instead.

Also called razorfins, they gnawed a murdered gang member's corpse until Lucian scattered them.

Ferocious dinosaur-like predators with razor claws and powerful jaws.

Ionian cliff-lore calls it a half-legendary shape carried on the wind, rarely truly witnessed.

It haunts the deep seas off the Serpent Isles, a hunter few ever glimpse.

Its many so-called sub-species are not always kin, unified more by build than by blood.

So loud when pregnant, Ionians use it for anything restless, as Shen taunted Zed's students.

Mistaken for a dragon despite two legs, one Poppy fought while searching for a fabled hero.

Burrowing Void predators of Shurima — Rek'Sai is their dreaded queen.

Winged like a bird but built like a ferret, this Targon hunter carries a link to Zoe.