The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has many dangerous enemies for players to encounter in its vast open world, from bandits who have taken over forts and watchtowers to more fantastical creatures, like frost trolls, ice wraiths, and dragons. Even its regular animals pose a threat, and no Skyrim animal is more deadly than the mammoth.
Skyrim's enemy animals include both real-life creatures like wolves and approximate fantasy equivalents, such as horkers, which look and act much like real-world walruses. Mudcrabs are similar, as they're essentially crabs with no special properties other than their large size. Though mammoths went extinct thousands of years ago, they did once exist on Earth as regular, everyday animals. The mammoths of Skyrim do differ slightly in appearance, however, having extra tusks compared to their real-world counterparts.
The most dangerous creature in the game depends largely on the Skyrim player character's race, build, and equipment. Ice wraiths aren’t as dangerous to Nords, for instance, because they have a natural 50% frost resistance. Dunmer have a 50% resistance to fire, which makes fighting dragons slightly easier. But almost regardless of the character, Skyrim's mammoths are big threat.
On their own, Skyrim's mammoths can kill many player characters in one hit, but they usually aren’t alone. Most mammoths are found in groups of other mammoths, and while some wild ones do wander the region, it's far more common for them to be guarded by giants, who protect them in exchange for their milk. Skyrim's giants are prone to knocking players skyward, making them particularly threatening foes.
Mammoths themselves have a large amount of health and a resistance to frost, can move fairly quickly, and can't be paralyzed. Because of their huge size, the popular Unrelenting Force Dragon Shout is also not effective on mammoths. It can stagger them, but it won't cause them to go flying, as is also true for giants.
Luckily, most of the time, Skyrim's mammoths are easy to avoid. Neither they nor giants are overly aggressive. They will attack if players invade their lands, but giants generally warn potential trespassers with obvious territory markers, even attempting to ward players off by adopting a threating posture if they get to close. This gives players ample time to leave if they accidentally stumble into a giant camp, after which it will be marked on the map to allow future avoidance. Entering a camp, then, is usually done on purpose, as there are a few reasons Skyrim players may actually want to risk a mammoth encounter.
Mammoth tusks are valuable, but they can easily be found elsewhere in the world. If players are after mammoth cheese, they can get it by sneaking into the camp instead. The real reason to fight a mammoth is that killing one can fill a Grand Soul Gem. Grand souls are usually granted only by Skyrim's toughest enemies, like Dragon Priests and Draugr Death Overlords, so mammoths can offer a safer alternative - though that's not to say fighting mammoths is easy.
Because Skyrim's mammoths are fast and resist many attack types, players will have to use different tactics to defeat them than they would other enemies. The best defense is mobility. It is possible to fight mammoths with melee, but doing so will be very difficult. Their attacks are powerful, and they can quickly gang up on the player, so it's best to keep a distance. Since Skyrim doesn't have static classes, it should be fairly easy for melee builds to adopt ranged attacks for fighting mammoths.
Skyrim spawns higher-level enemies as players level up, but mammoths are always level 38, and giants are always level 32, so they will eventually become easier to take on. In the meantime, mammoths’ main weakness is that, due to their large size, they often get stuck on terrain. Players can hide behind rock outcroppings, buildings, trees, and whatever else they can find nearby. It's a fairly cheesy strategy, but it's necessary to avoid getting in range of mammoths' attacks at low levels.
If players have one of Skyrim's good bows and some high-quality arrows, they can whittle down a mammoth’s health easily enough. Having a follower also helps, as long as players keep the mammoth focused on themselves; if it attacks their follower and they go down, the player loses out on extra damage.
Magic (apart from frost) is also a good way to take mammoths down. Skyrim's fire spells will likely work best, since they don’t cost as much magicka and can light the mammoth on fire to deal additional damage. This pairs very well with a bow-wielding follower. Of course, players can also get creative with Conjuration magic, summoning various creatures to help them. Even The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim's Necromancy magic can be useful, as it can allow players to resurrect one dead mammoth to fight the others for them.
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