KrakenCR 23 · Gargantuan Monstrosity · Stat Block & Encounter Builder

Gargantuan monstrosity, Challenge 23. AC 18, 472 hit points.

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Armour Class

Hit Points

472

Speed

20 ft.

Challenge

23 · 50,000 XP

Alignment

Chaotic Evil

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Stat Block

Gargantuan Monstrosity · Chaotic Evil

Kraken

472

27d20 + 189 · 20 ft., swim 60 ft. · AC from natural armor

Truesight 120 ft., passive Perception 14

Languages: understands Abyssal, Celestial, Infernal, and Primordial but can't speak, telepathy 120 ft.

STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
30 (+10)	11 (+0)	25 (+7)	22 (+6)	18 (+4)	20 (+5)

Traits

Damage ImmunitiesLightning, bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical weapons

Condition ImmunitiesFrightened, Paralyzed

AmphibiousThe kraken can breathe air and water.

Freedom of MovementThe kraken ignores difficult terrain, and magical effects can't reduce its speed or cause it to be restrained. It can spend 5 feet of movement to escape from nonmagical restraints or being grappled.

Siege MonsterThe kraken deals double damage to objects and structures.

Actions

MultiattackThe kraken makes three tentacle attacks, each of which it can replace with one use of Fling.

BiteMelee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 23 (3d8 + 10) piercing damage. If the target is a Large or smaller creature grappled by the kraken, that creature is swallowed, and the grapple ends. While swallowed, the creature is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the kraken, and it takes 42 (12d6) acid damage at the start of each of the kraken's turns. If the kraken takes 50 damage or more on a single turn from a creature inside it, the kraken must succeed on a DC 25 Constitution saving throw at the end of that turn or regurgitate all swallowed creatures, which fall prone in a space within 10 feet of the kraken. If the kraken dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse using 15 feet of movement, exiting prone.

TentacleMelee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 30 ft., one target. Hit: 20 (3d6 + 10) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 18). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained. The kraken has ten tentacles, each of which can grapple one target.

FlingOne Large or smaller object held or creature grappled by the kraken is thrown up to 60 feet in a random direction and knocked prone. If a thrown target strikes a solid surface, the target takes 3 (1d6) bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet it was thrown. If the target is thrown at another creature, that creature must succeed on a DC 18 Dexterity saving throw or take the same damage and be knocked prone.

Lightning StormThe kraken magically creates three bolts of lightning, each of which can strike a target the kraken can see within 120 feet of it. A target must make a DC 23 Dexterity saving throw, taking 22 (4d10) lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

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1Multiattack: The kraken makes three tentacle attacks, each of which it can replace with one use of Fling.

2It is a legendary creature with 3 legendary actions between turns; fight it in its lair and it is far more dangerous than the stat block alone.

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Krakens4Party size4Party level3

Could kill someone — and at high enough numbers, the whole party.

Difficulty

Deadly

400,000 adj. XP · ×2

deadly at 1,600

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What is Kraken's challenge rating in D&D 5e?

Kraken is Challenge 23, worth 50,000 XP. Encounter maths multiplies XP by the number of monsters, so a group is deadlier than the raw total — use the calculator on this page.

What are Kraken's stats?

AC 18 (natural armor), 472 hit points (27d20 + 189), speed 20 ft., swim 60 ft.. Ability scores: STR 30, DEX 11, CON 25, INT 22, WIS 18, CHA 20.

What is Kraken resistant to?

Kraken is immune to lightning and bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical weapons damage. Pick a damage type it does not shrug off.

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