Rogue creature

Basic info


Rogue creatures (called Mini-Epics in the Prima guide) are larger and more powerful versions of creatures. Even though they look imposing, they can be befriended. They are useful for killing Epic Creatures, as they are the most powerful creatures a player can befriend.

Rogues will usually ignore other creatures. They also are loners - so if you are trying to kill one, you don't have to worry about pack members of the same kind. Rogue creatures will attack and kill other species, but not yours (unless you are in hard mode). They will also throw sticks at other creatures.

They are good to befriend - and can easily be befriended.

Creature stage
Rogue creatures are very rare, appearing late in the stage, they are slower than normal creatures, but stronger. They are able to survive multiple attacks from Epic creatures, and, unlike Epic creatures, they can be befriended, but it is really difficult, as they're hard to impress. However, as they are not part of a nest, they are only ever encountered alone but they can fight if they see another rogue, and as such having a large pack of creatures with middling social abilities makes befriending one rather easy. They are very useful allies, killing or helping to befriend other creatures. They stop following a creature shortly after it's out of sight and are hard to kill as they have 250 health. Most, if not all, Rogues are creatures from the Sporepedia that have excellent socializing and/or combat skills but can be befriended. The criteria the game uses to select a rogue creature are as follows: All rogue creatures must have all four combat and all four social skills, and they must have a combined total of at least 12 levels in each type, combat and social (visible in the small Sporepedia card). Other skills (e.g. Glide or Sneak) don't seem to matter, but because of the high criteria, a rogue creature often has many such skills.



Some Rogue creatures can be found near an Epic creature. Most times there is 1 epic with 3 Rogues, the other epics don't have any.

Occasionally, "Rogue Duos" may appear. A Rogue Duo is a pair of Rogues of the same species. Finding these can be useful if you are planning an assault on an Epic. If befriended rogues creatures eventually get killed, they will respawn near the spot where they were originally found.

Other stages
Rogue creatures don't appear in the tribal stage, civilization stage or space stage (it is unknown in-game why), due to the fact that you won't use your creature alone anymore. As the player soon controls a tribe, vehicles or a spaceship, Rogue creatures aren't necessary. However, if the player has Rogue creatures in their pack, like any other pack members of different species, they'll become pets when the player advances to the tribal stage. Occasionally they will attack other raiding tribes. However on planets in space stage, individual creatures that are larger than the rest of their species can be seen, it is unknown whether this is a glitch or rogues.

Spore Hero
Rogues also appear in Spore Hero, less viscious and more civilised than Spore versions.


 * Beast is a tough creature made cute and flightless by Zarkhator.
 * Goglu is a medium-sized rogue made fat, flightless, lumpy, and four-eyed by Zarkhator.
 * Yeti is a rogue that was encased in crystal with a moonfruit somehow.