Finding the Ghul Matron in Shadow of Mordor

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I'm currently accomplishing the hunting challenges, and the 9th challenge is to kill a Ghul Matron in the game.

I went through quite a few discussions onto Steam/IGN etc. boards, and mostly they discussed how the Matron's weakness is fire and explosions, and how to get rid of them easily. They do mention something along the lines of:

you'll need to hang out around ghul mounds at night to get one to come out iirc.

I've been stuck trying to go through caves and all kinds of seedy areas at night times and have only found orcs gatherings or Graugs. I did not encounter any ghouls at all.

Is there a particular Ghul-rich cave? A particular place in the maps (either of them)? Are ghul mounds something different? I just thought that they especially gather around caves and that is what the quote above is referring to?

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Best Answer

In addition to the selected answer, a small step-by-step for easier spawning:

  1. Tracking some uruks near/around the mound region
  2. The game time should be night
  3. Start a combat with the uruks, do not use stealth/arrows.
  4. Once you reach ~10x combo, the first few ghuls will appear
  5. As soon as you notice the first ghul on map, convert the uruks (if any remain) to fight alongside you.
  6. Let the ghuls notice you. Do not fight them, just keep double-tapping spacebar around them and let the uruks kill them for you
  7. The last 3 ghuls will start running away. Let them leave. They'll dig tunnels in the earth
  8. In 20 seconds or so, next batch of ghuls will appear. Follow same steps as 5-6-7. The next wave of ghuls will appear quickly this time (within 5 seconds)
  9. The 3rd/4th wave will consist of atleast one Ghul Matron. (in my case, I had 4 matrons appear at the same time)


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Where can I find Ghul matron in Shadow of Mordor?

Finding Ghul Matrons Ghuls are often present in the least populated parts of Mordor exclusively at night time, so if you decide to have a go at them, simply head to the Forge Tower, change time of day, and explore on a Caragor until you see a collection of tiny claw marks on your minimap.

How do you kill a Ghul matron in Shadow of Mordor?

Matrons are succeptibly to bows. Shoot 5 Ghuls with the bow (or 8), only one tap will kill then, then use your 2 (or 1) Fire arrows on the Matron and it should die. If you have it use Flame of Azkar you can use that to kill it.

Where can I find Ghul mounds?

  • Black Gate.
  • Mordor.
  • N\xfarn.
  • Sea of N\xfarnen.
  • Ud\xfbn.


How do you draw a Ghul matron?

Sometimes you might find a Ghul matron, but usually you need to draw one out. To do this you will need to kill a few normal ghuls. Once they start retreating, leave them alone and they will burrow into the ground. After a few seconds more will come out of the ground.


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