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What do I do with animals, specifically in the context of shapechanging through either spellwork or in this specific case lycanthropy?
I have a Hill Giant (CR 7, as though you didn't know) that has been recruited by werewolves to help attack a city. The Hill Giant is now a lycanthrope. Two things: Does the Hill Giant really lose natural armor by becoming a hybrid as the RAW states (goes from +9 Hill Giant to +5 Lycanthrope for Dire Wolf Nat +3 with the increased +2 for lycanthrope) or would it keep the higher more sensible +9 for still being a flipping Hill Giant just a hairier version thereof; and what do I do about the Dire Wolf as far as it is concerned, does it just stay as a plain CR 3 Dire Wolf or do I increase it's HD to match the Hill Giant and "level" it up?
Do I really just use the statistics from Hill Giant Werewolf, but when it's in Dire Wolf form I use the Dire Wolf speed and Natural Armor meaning I draw attacks, saves, and everything else from the Hill Giant Werewolf and just ignore everything that isn't speed/natural attacks from the Dire Wolf?
This part is correct.
EDIT: Looked up Hill Giants. If the animal has a higher ability score, the transformed lycanthrope uses that score instead. So in hybrid or animal form, the HGW would have a Dexterity of 15 instead of 8.
The lycanthrope template is weird. ^_^