Tears of the Kingdom Monster Medals: Sub-Boss Counts and HP

Tears of the Kingdom's most recent patch, Ver. 1.4.3 on February 17, 2026, names exactly one fix. A Black Hinox in Hyrule Castle kept showing as undefeated after Link had killed it, and that stopped players from earning the Hinox Monster Medal. Everything else in Nintendo's notes is "several other issues."

So the medal is real, it is trackable, and a single stuck Hinox was enough to lock it. This guide covers the whole system: who hands the medals out, the six quests you have to clear before he will, how many of each monster he is counting, and how much health each of those variants carries. The counts and HP figures come from Zelda Wiki, with Thonky's location lists as a cross-check where the wiki is silent.

Six medals, one man at Lookout Landing

In Breath of the Wild, Kilton handed out three Medals of Honor for clearing out every Hinox, Talus and Molduga. Our Breath of the Wild field boss guide covers that 84-kill hunt. Tears of the Kingdom doubles the medal count and moves the job to Gralens, head of the Monster-Control Crew, a volunteer group that fights the monsters loose in Hyrule since the Upheaval. The crew's headquarters is the Emergency Shelter at Lookout Landing.

Zelda Wiki lists six Monster Medals:

• Hinox Monster Medal
• Stone Talus Monster Medal
• Molduga Monster Medal
• Gleeok Monster Medal
• Frox Monster Medal
• Flux Construct Monster Medal

There is no Lynel medal. Thonky's location list counts 34 Lynels in the game, and none of Gralens's six medals covers them.

What you get for a medal is the medal. The inventory text calls it an award from the monster-control crew for defeating every member of that species in Hyrule, and adds that it is "very fancy and is shaped like the monster it represents." The description lists no effect. Treat these as trophies, not gear.

Zelda Wiki's Tears of the Kingdom medal list also includes the Dispelling Darkness Medal, which comes from activating all 120 Lightroots. That hunt belongs to the Depths guide, not to Gralens.

The six quests that open the hunt

Gralens will not talk medals until you have done six Side Quests for him. They come in two tiers.

The WANTED tier. "WANTED: Hinox", "WANTED: Molduga" and "WANTED: Stone Talus". "WANTED: Hinox" sends you after a Hinox around Trilby Plain, near Woodland Stable northeast of Hyrule Field. It pays a Silver Rupee, and Zelda Wiki notes a Gold Rupee is added only once all three WANTED quests are complete.

The Unknown tier. Zelda Wiki lists the three WANTED quests as the prerequisite for the next three, where the crew reports something it cannot identify and you find out what it was:

All three pay a Silver Rupee, and a Diamond comes only once all three Unknown quests are done.

Once all six are finished, Zelda Wiki's Hinox, Molduga and Flux Construct medal pages say you can ask Gralens about that species. If every one is dead, he hands over that medal. If not, he gives you a number. His Frox line runs "Our squads out on expedition report that, currently, [X] Froxes remain," with the live count where the X sits. That running count is the most useful part of the system: ask after every few kills and you know how many are left.

How many of each Gralens counts

Zelda Wiki states the target for three of the six medals outright. For the other three, its medal pages are still marked incomplete, so the figures below come from Thonky's per-species location lists and are labelled that way.

The Frox, Flux Construct, Gleeok and Molduga breakdowns are counted row by row from Thonky's lists. The Talus figure is weaker: 87 is the total Thonky's Talus page states, but its table only lists 52 rows (all 14 from its separate Rare Talus list among them), so treat 87 as Thonky's number rather than a counted one. With it, the six medals add up to about 248 sub-bosses, against Breath of the Wild's 84.

Two notes on that table.

The Hinox number is one short of Thonky's. Zelda Wiki's Hinox Monster Medal page says Gralens rewards you once "all 68 Hinoxes" are dead, while Thonky's Hinox page says there are 69 in the game. Neither source says why they differ. Since Gralens reports how many remain, his count settles it for your save file. Just make sure you are on Ver. 1.4.3 or later first, or the Hyrule Castle Black Hinox from the opening paragraph can keep reading as alive.

Every Frox on Thonky's list is underground. All 40 entries on Thonky's Frox list sit at negative elevation, in the Depths. Flux Constructs split between the two other layers: Zelda Wiki lists their habitats as the sky islands and the Depths, and 20 of Thonky's 35 are below ground. The four Moldugas are all in the Gerudo Desert: East Barrens, Palu Wasteland South, Toruma Dunes, and one northwest of Gerudo Town.

The Gleeok count checks out twice

The Gleeok figure is the one you can check against both sources. Zelda Wiki's variant pages list their habitats, and they line up with Thonky's 14 entries:

One wrinkle: the King Gleeok infobox also names the West Hebra Sky Archipelago. Zelda Wiki's Sage's Will page puts the Hebra sky King Gleeok on an island west of that archipelago, and Thonky has only one King Gleeok in the Hebra sky. Neither source lists a fifth.

The Gleeok Den is the Depths counterpart to the Thyphlo Ruins, and it holds a gloom-wreathed King Gleeok. The three sky King Gleeoks each guard one of the Sage's Wills covered in our sages guide. One caution: Zelda Wiki's Gleeok Monster Medal page does not yet say whether King Gleeoks count toward it. Kill all 14 and the question does not matter.

Every variant's HP

These are Zelda Wiki's infobox figures for every variant that feeds one of the six medals. The Breath of the Wild column is included where the wiki lists one, because several of these monsters got tougher between games.

Four patterns stand out.

• Every returning Talus got tougher and every Hinox stayed the same. The Frost and Igneo Taluses went from 800 to 1,000, the Rare Talus from 900 to 1,080, and even the plain Stone Talus from 300 to 380. None of the four Hinox types moved.
• Flux Constructs scale in steps of 360. Type II has exactly double type I's health and type III exactly triple. One exception: Zelda Wiki notes the Flux Construct I on the Great Sky Island has only 200 HP and gives no experience.
• A Frox's Zonaite Deposits are each worth a fifth of its body. It is 140 against 700, 270 against 1,350 and 420 against 2,100, the same ratio in all three variants. Zelda Wiki adds that damage to a deposit is split between the deposit and the Frox itself.
• King Gleeoks load in stronger than they are built. Zelda Wiki notes a King Gleeok has 8,000 HP internally and gains a 50% boost when it loads, which is where the 12,000 comes from.

Gleeoks out-tank the Demon Dragon's body

Line the Gleeoks up against the story bosses and they stop looking like field monsters. Zelda Wiki gives the Demon Dragon's main body 6,000 HP, with its weak points and the Secret Stone rated separately at 1,200 each; our boss guide covers that fight. An ordinary Flame Gleeok sitting on the Bridge of Hylia has 8,000. A King Gleeok has twice the Demon Dragon's main-body total.

The Gleeoks are also more than five times a Molduga's 1,500 and over seven times the toughest Talus. Hunting them is a gear check. Every other medal is mostly a travel check.

How each species goes down

Each fight has one trick worth knowing. These come from Zelda Wiki's page for each monster, plus one Nintendo patch note.

• Hinox. Tears of the Kingdom's Hinoxes can slam their horns down on Link, and Recall sends the boulders they throw straight back at them. A regular Hinox always drops one Hinox Horn.
• Taluses. The ore deposit on top is still the weak point. A Battle Talus carries a monster stronghold with spiked wooden frames under its platforms, so you cannot climb it. Ascend up through the platform instead. A Rare Talus drops a Rare Stone Talus Heart, which fuses into a hammer with 33 extra attack power.
• Molduga. Zelda Wiki says Moldugas are sensitive to explosions from Bomb Flowers and Time Bombs. They also drop a Molduga Jaw now, a part missing from their Breath of the Wild drop list.
• Frox. Throw a Bomb Flower or Time Bomb into its open mouth to stun it, then work on the eye and the deposits. All three variants list Zonaite, Large Zonaite and a Large Crystallized Charge among their drops, so the Frox hunt pays into the same Zonaite economy our Ultrahand and Zonai devices guide runs on.
• Flux Construct. One block glows bright green, and pulling it out with Ultrahand makes the construct fall apart for a while. A Flux Construct III can drop a Big Battery on top of its core and Zonai Charges. Nintendo's Ver. 1.2.1 notes also fixed a bug that cost you the contents of a treasure chest attached to a Flux Construct when the construct's own attacks made the chest vanish; after the update, reloading the save restores the chest or puts its contents in your pouch.
• Gleeok. Zelda Wiki's pages for all four variants say the same thing: shoot all three heads within a short window to stun it long enough to land hits. A Thunder Gleeok brings a thunderstorm that can strike Link if he carries metal gear. On a King Gleeok the fire head is weak to water and ice, and the ice head to fire. Drops are generous: a Thunder Gleeok always gives three Thunder Horns and six wings, with Gleeok Guts at 10%, while a King Gleeok always gives one Flame, Frost and Thunder Horn each, six wings and Gleeok Guts.

Where to start the hunt

The six medals overlap with other collection jobs, which is the best argument for chasing them in parallel rather than one species at a time.

1. Clear the WANTED quests early. They are what open everything else, and until the Unknown tier is done Gralens will not count anything for you.
2. Take the sky King Gleeoks with the Sage's Wills. Three of your 14 Gleeok kills are guarding wills you need for Solemn Vows.
3. Do the Froxes with the Lightroots. All 40 on Thonky's list are in the Depths, and lighting the map is how you find them without wandering in the dark. That same sweep earns the Dispelling Darkness Medal.
4. Sweep the Flux Constructs from both ends. Pick up the sky ones while island-hopping and the Depths ones on Lightroot runs.
5. Leave the Taluses for last. At 87 on Thonky's figure they are the biggest count, and at 380 to 1,080 HP they are among the lowest totals in the table, so they suit a map-cleanup pass. Our rupee guide covers what a Rare Talus's gems are worth.

More Hyrule lives on the Tears of the Kingdom hub, and everything else we are playing is on the Mythras blog.

Quick Action Checklist

• Six Monster Medals, all from Gralens in the Emergency Shelter at Lookout Landing: Hinox, Stone Talus, Molduga, Gleeok, Frox and Flux Construct. There is no Lynel medal.
• Finish six Side Quests first: the three WANTED quests (Hinox, Molduga, Stone Talus), then Unknown Three-Headed Monster, Unknown Huge Silhouette and Unknown Sky Giant.
• Ask Gralens for the running count. He tells you how many of a species remain.
• Targets: 68 Hinoxes, 35 Flux Constructs and 4 Moldugas per Zelda Wiki. Thonky puts the rest at 87 Taluses, 40 Froxes and 14 Gleeoks.
• Update to Ver. 1.4.3. It fixed a Hyrule Castle Black Hinox that stayed flagged as undefeated and blocked the Hinox medal.
• Gleeoks are the gear check: 8,000 HP for Flame, Frost and Thunder, 12,000 for a King. That beats the Demon Dragon's 6,000-HP main body.
• Shoot all three Gleeok heads fast to stun one. Throw bombs into a Frox's mouth. Ascend through a Battle Talus instead of climbing it.
• The medals are trophies. Their descriptions list no effect, so hunt for the materials and the completion, not for a buff.