The Stirge is a Beast, but the Grick is a Monstrosity, and neither are Aberrations. The Giant Frog (Froghemoth) is a Monstrosity.
The Beast, and Monstrosity type have a ton of overlap, and there doesn’t seem to be a strong distinction between the two. A giant ape may be unique, and if your DM is a true purist, you may be stuck topping out with the CR 4 elephant, if you’ve seen one. And even that’s a dinosaur, which enough people complain about in D&D that it might be safe to assume you can’t really pick it. The first “reasonable” option is the Tyrannosaurus at a massive CR 8. Especially not if its a player introducing the option, and not as a random enemy by the DM. Both, more likely to see play than our friend Traxigor, but probably not in your DMs bag of tricks either. The next best are the CR 10 Sky Leviathan from Planeshift Kamigawa, and the CR 10 Gishath, Sun’s Avatar, from Planeshift Ixlan. Your DM probably isn’t going to let you to polymorph into that one, and its pretty specific on if you’ll ever encounter him for your favored enemy. What’s a Traxigor you may ask? Well he’s an 18th level wizard in Baldur’s Gate, Descent into Avernus who, thanks to how WoTC wrote the stats shows up in most online monster filters and counts as a beast because he’s polymorphed into an otter.
A ranger who reaches 14th level and picks Beasts as his new favored enemy should probably get a stern warning from the DM (or more positively, a bunch of homebrew).Īt the time of publishing, the most powerful official beast is Traxigor, at CR 12. The Beast type is nonsensical, and if you make it to high levels, its empty. DMs who do a lot of world building know it, and once I point it out, it will drive you up a wall. A lot of players may not realize this, unless they are playing a druid, or someone with polymorph, but 5e has a problem.
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