Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor - Game of the Year Edition

This achievement can be obtained on your first playthrough of the DLC Lord of the Hunt (which is included in this bundle).

Please note there may be some minor spoilers.

In the final warchief mission you will be tasked with entering a Ghûl infested cave to draw out the warchief. When you have him on the run he retreats out of the cave and onto the clifftop.

Once you start battle here he will summon Ghûls to fight along side him. Brand as many as possible with the flash brand ( + when you have hit streak) to turn them against him and fight for you.

It is scripted in this battle for 3 Caragaths and a Wretched Graug to appear. Brand the Caragaths and Graug with + and the achievement should unlock.

If it does not, then it means the Spitter Ghûls you had branded have died. Jump off your mount and continue to flash brand groups of Ghûls and the achievement should unlock.

Note: that you must complete this BEFORE the warchief dies; as this will end the battle and you will lose all your branded creatures.

There is an easy way to get this if you missed it during the battle (like I did)

1) Fast travel to the Forge Tower in Cab-Gwanath (NE corner of the map)

2)Look to your right, you should see a Graug, if not, fast travel again and one should spawn, shadow mount it of course

3) look towards the Forge Tower, you should see one or two Caragaths, shadow mount one or both

4) And THIS is why this is the best place to get this!! There are THREE Ghul mounds here in this area, West, East and South of the Forge Tower!!!

5) Activate the Eastern mound to release the Ghuls and to keep your Graug and Caragaths busy.......

6) Run to the Southern mound and activate it, build up your combo and use the flash brand ( + )

This is a lot easier if you have the 5 hits to get a finisher and the 2 finishers at once skills unlocked.....(Blade Master and Double Charge)

I tried getting a Spitter Ghul but failed, (darn Graug and Caragaths kept killing the Spitters) ran to the Ghul Mound South of the tower and left the Graug and Caragaths deal with the remaining Ghuls that came from the Eastern mound so I could have all the Ghuls in this mound to myself, tried again with the branding, and the cheevo popped!!!

Please leave a comment if this didn't help, or if I could explain something better.....

***this can only be got in the Lord of the Hunt DLC

For anyone who didn't get this during the mission. It is easily attainable at the location on the map below. Red is caragath location, blue is ghul mound location, and orange is graug bait location.

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this is a Lord of the Hunt DLC achievement

This is just a more detailed version of Mattricus' solution. It is by far the easiest to get this achievement in the final war chief mission. After Zagflak flees the ghul cave, all 3 creatures will gradually appear in the same spot as you fight him outside.

GHUL: These are the first creatures to appear. You can find a ghul nest before the fight starts and farm some if you wish (kind of helps). Once the Zagflak battle begins, don't waste your time fighting him. He can only be hurt by monsters. Instead you want to fight the spawning ghul, build up your combo, and push + to brand as many as you can. TIPS: the spitter ghul are valuable since Zagflak has to chase after them to kill them. The melee ghul basically run straight up to him and get murdered. However, you can distract Zagflak with or stuns so the melee ghul can get more hits on him before they die.

CARAGATH: 3 appear when Zagflak is at 1/2 health. Aim at one with and push to auto brand and mount it. You want all 3 branded, and you can do one after another without having to dismount. Once you are on the 3rd caragath, STAY ON IT. For some reason, Zagflak is very weak to mounted sword attacks. After 2-3 successful strikes the next creature will appear

GRAUG: This will appear once Zagflak hits 1/4 health. Aim at it with and push . Once mounted, you should get the achievement.

if you don't get it, its likely Zagflak killed all your ghul before you gained control of the graug. There's a high chance you'll salvage the achievement if you dismount and quickly brand a ghul. If you wind up losing all caragaths or (somehow) the graug, you must abandon the mission and try again. Be careful not to kill Zagflak before you have the achievement!

If at anytime you are unsure what creatures you have under your control. there are blue symbols listed for each type on the mid-left side of the screen.

***this can only be got in the Lord of the Hunt DLC

I just got this achievement outside of the final war chief mission so there is not the pressure of doing it before he dies.
You must have got to the point where you can dominate ghuls before you can get this (X + Y when you have a kill streak).

Go to the area around the cave where you first dominated a wretched graug with Torvin (west of the map). Find a caragath and dominate it using LT + A. Next go slightly to the east and find a ghul nest and bait it. Note it helps if there are some uruk around to build your kill streaks on (best way is to jump over them using A and then flurry attack them using X) . Fight uruk and ghuls until you finish the fight and have at least one ghul spitter under your command. Once you have this simply head over to the cave and shadow mount the wretched graug and the achievement should be yours. If it doesn't pop check which of the three you no longer have dominated and fix it as per the above!

I don't know if this will help, or I just got dam lucky. But right after the mission where you learn to dominate the Gaul, you will be told where the last warcheif is. You should still have the gaul dominated with a spitter in the group ( I did) . There was a Caragath to my right, I quickly dominated it with the shadow mount and then a few steps away there was a Wretched Graug which i also shadow mounted for the achievement.

SO when you finish that mission, and have a spitter already dominated, look around for the other 2 as I did get them both in the area nearby. (Make sure to kill anything that would kill the beasts you have dominated)