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You are making the mistake of setting your fantasy character up against a normal animal.
You as a real life human would be fighting the orka, not your fantasy character. They would be fighting a Chimera. Which can do all those things you mentioned as well.
And if you think your fantasy character can beat a Chimera with their weapons and magic, that would be the same as you thinking you can beat an orka with your bare hands.
Unless you are some elite high level special ops in the military, you will not win against an orka.
Let's say as a party you've taken down a few monsters already. Without knowing the proportional strength of a chimera to the monsters you've already faced how would you know?
Like let's say I did kill an Orca on my own. Then I see a polar bear, the Orca was a lot bigger so seems reasonable.
Now living in the age of technology, not a fantasy setting, I personally know that a polar bear would be a lot harder to beat. But how's an adventurer supposed to know that? They don't have wikipedia and national geographic in most fantasy settings. It's not unreasonable to believe when encountering a creature that no one in the party is familiar with it at all.