Monster Hunter Rise - Monsters
The large monsters of Monster Hunter Rise and its Sunbreak expansion, listed roughly in the order a new Hunter meets them: the Kamura low-rank roster first, then the high-rank invaders and elder dragons, then the Master Rank additions from Elgado. The base game's hunts are split between Village ques...
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| Name | Type | Description | Abilities | Stats | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Izuchi | Bird Wyvern | The opening hunt of Rise and the template for the whole game: a sickle-tailed bird wyvern that fights with two smaller Izuchi and whose tail sweep is the first attack a Hunter learns to roll through. | Sickle tail sweep and spin Commands a pack of Izuchi that mirror its attacks Leaping bite from range | Threat: Low Habitat: Shrine Ruins | Village 1-star assignments, Shrine Ruins |
| Arzuros | Fanged Beast | A bear-like fanged beast that lives for honey and hits with both arms. | Double-arm slam and grapple Honey gathering that buffs it Charging bear rush | Threat: Low Habitat: Shrine Ruins, Frost Islands | Village and Hub low rank |
| Lagombi | Fanged Beast | A snow rabbit that slides across ice on its belly and throws snowballs. | Belly slide across ice Snowball throws Ice-armoured spin | Threat: Low Habitat: Frost Islands | Hub low rank, Frost Islands |
| Volvidon | Fanged Beast | An armadillo that rolls into a ball, sprays paralysing saliva and swings a long tongue. | Rolling ball charge Paralysing saliva spray Tongue lash | Threat: Low Habitat: Sandy Plains, Lava Caverns | Hub low rank, Sandy Plains |
| Great Wroggi | Bird Wyvern | A poison-spitting bird wyvern with a sac throat and a pack of Wroggi behind it. | Poison mist cloud Pack of Wroggi Poison-coated bite | Threat: Low Habitat: Shrine Ruins, Flooded Forest | Hub low rank |
| Kulu-Ya-Ku | Bird Wyvern | A thief bird that digs up a rock and uses it as both a shield and a hammer. | Rock pickup used as shield and weapon Digging for rocks Panicked pecking flurry | Threat: Low Habitat: Sandy Plains, Shrine Ruins | Hub low rank |
| Khezu | Flying Wyvern | A pale, eyeless cave wyvern that hangs from ceilings and discharges electricity across the ground. | Ground electricity discharge Extending neck bite Ceiling ambush and paralysis | Threat: Medium Habitat: Frost Islands | Hub low rank, Frost Islands |
| Basarios | Flying Wyvern | A juvenile rock wyvern that looks like a boulder until it moves, with a hide that bounces blades. | Rock-hard hide that deflects attacks Poison gas emission Rolling body slam | Threat: Medium Habitat: Sandy Plains, Lava Caverns | Hub low rank |
| Barroth | Brute Wyvern | A mud-caked brute wyvern that armours its head in earth and charges like a train. | Mud armour on the head Charging headbutt Tail swipe and mud fling | Threat: Medium Habitat: Sandy Plains | Hub low rank, Sandy Plains |
| Royal Ludroth | Leviathan | A maned leviathan that soaks itself in water to soften blows and spits water balls. | Water absorption that softens damage Water ball spit Rolling body slam | Threat: Medium Habitat: Flooded Forest | Hub low rank, Flooded Forest |
| Bishaten | Fanged Beast | A monkey-like fanged beast that juggles persimmon bombs from its tail and swings through the canopy. | Juggled persimmon bombs (poison, paralysis) Tail spin and tree swinging Aerial dive attack | Threat: Medium Habitat: Shrine Ruins | Hub low rank, Shrine Ruins |
| Aknosom | Bird Wyvern | A crane-like bird wyvern with a fire-breathing crest and a parasol-shaped frill it uses as a shield. | Fire breath and fireball Frill shield Multi-hit pecking combo | Threat: Medium Habitat: Shrine Ruins | Village 2-star assignments |
| Tetranadon | Amphibian | A fat amphibian that swallows rocks and water to bulk up, then belly-flops. | Rock and water swallowing for armour Belly flop Mud spit | Threat: Medium Habitat: Shrine Ruins, Flooded Forest | Village 2-star assignments |
| Somnacanth | Leviathan | A mermaid-like leviathan that sings Hunters to sleep and swims through solid ground. | Sleep-inducing song Ground swimming Tail slam and somersault | Threat: Medium Habitat: Flooded Forest | Hub low rank, Flooded Forest |
| Jyuratodus | Piscine Wyvern | A mud-plated fish wyvern that swims through the marsh and throws mud. | Mud armour and mud throws Marsh swimming Body slam | Threat: Medium Habitat: Flooded Forest | Hub low rank |
| Barioth | Flying Wyvern | A tundra wyvern with tusks and ice-covered wings that leaps across the arena. | Leaping pounce attacks Ice tornado breath Tusk and tail swipes | Threat: High Habitat: Frost Islands | Hub high rank, Frost Islands |
| Nargacuga | Flying Wyvern | A black, blade-winged wyvern that fights from the air and the treeline. | Airborne blade-wing dive Tail slam and spin Enraged speed increase | Threat: High Habitat: Flooded Forest, Shrine Ruins | Hub high rank |
| Mizutsune | Leviathan | A bubble-spitting leviathan whose soapy foam causes slippery footing and whose water beam cuts across the arena. | Bubble foam that causes slipping Pressurised water beam Tail spin and body slam | Threat: High Habitat: Flooded Forest, Shrine Ruins | Hub high rank |
| Goss Harag | Fanged Beast | A yeti-like fanged beast that freezes its own arms into blades and clubs of ice. | Ice blade and ice club arms Charging rush Ground-shattering slam | Threat: High Habitat: Frost Islands | Hub high rank, Frost Islands |
| Almudron | Leviathan | A mud-wielding leviathan that shapes earth into a towering tail and walls of sludge. | Mud tail constructs Earth walls and mud waves Golden mud empowered state | Threat: High Habitat: Sandy Plains, Flooded Forest | Hub high rank |
| Rakna-Kadaki | Temnoceran | A giant spider that hangs from silk and sets the arena on fire with its webbing. | Silk webbing and web traversal Flame beam Rachnoid offspring | Threat: High Habitat: Lava Caverns, Sandy Plains | Hub high rank |
| Rathian | Flying Wyvern | The female of the series' signature wyvern pair, built around poison and a somersault tail flip. | Poison tail somersault Fireball volley Aerial charge | Threat: High Habitat: Shrine Ruins, Flooded Forest, Sandy Plains | Hub high rank |
| Rathalos | Flying Wyvern | The series mascot and the apex of the Shrine Ruins sky: a fire-breathing flying wyvern that spends most of the fight airborne. | Airborne fireball barrage Diving talon grab Poison tail swipe | Threat: Very high Habitat: Shrine Ruins, Lava Caverns | Hub high rank, Village 5-star assignments |
| Tigrex | Flying Wyvern | A screaming, charging wyvern that runs over everything in its path. | Full-speed charging run Roar that staggers Hunters Spinning tail and leaping bite | Threat: Very high Habitat: Sandy Plains, Frost Islands | Hub high rank |
| Diablos | Flying Wyvern | A horned desert wyvern that burrows and erupts underneath the Hunter. | Burrowing ambush Horn charge Tail swing and sand eruption | Threat: Very high Habitat: Sandy Plains | Hub high rank |
| Zinogre | Fanged Wyvern | A thunder wolf that charges itself up with lightning and calls down bolts. | Lightning charge and discharge Charged state damage increase Leaping slam | Threat: Very high Habitat: Shrine Ruins | Hub high rank |
| Magnamalo | Fanged Wyvern | Rise's flagship: a purple, armoured fanged wyvern that exhumes hellfire gas and detonates it. | Hellfire gas and explosions Armoured tail blade Invasion of other hunts Hellfire charged state | Threat: Very high Habitat: Shrine Ruins, all locales as an invader | Village 6-star and Hub high rank flagship hunt |
| Rajang | Fanged Beast | A lightning-charged ape that hunts Kirin and treats Hunters as a warm-up. | Thunder beam Golden enraged state Grapple and throw | Threat: Very high Habitat: Shrine Ruins, Sandy Plains | Hub high rank invader |
| Bazelgeuse | Flying Wyvern | A living bomber: it drops explosive scales across the arena and carpet-bombs whatever it has decided to fight. | Explosive scale drops Carpet bombing run Roaming invasion | Threat: Very high Habitat: All locales as an invader | Hub high rank invader |
| Chameleos | Elder Dragon | A vanishing elder dragon that turns invisible, steals items and breathes poison mist. | Invisibility Poison mist Item theft | Threat: Elder Dragon Habitat: Shrine Ruins, Flooded Forest | Hub high rank elder dragon |
| Kushala Daora | Elder Dragon | A steel-scaled elder dragon wrapped in wind that deflects most attacks. | Wind barrier that deflects attacks Tornado generation Steel-scale hardening | Threat: Elder Dragon Habitat: Frost Islands, Shrine Ruins | Hub high rank elder dragon |
| Teostra | Elder Dragon | A lion-bodied elder dragon wreathed in flame that leaves explosive dust behind it. | Flame aura and explosive dust Supernova blast Claw and bite combo | Threat: Elder Dragon Habitat: Lava Caverns, Sandy Plains | Hub high rank elder dragon |
| Wind Serpent Ibushi | Elder Dragon | One half of Rise's twin serpent pair: a male elder dragon that rides the wind and whose Rampage is the game's first true crisis event. | Wind manipulation Aerial serpentine flight Rampage leadership | Threat: Elder Dragon Habitat: Red Stronghold | Hub 7-star Rampage and story hunts |
| Thunder Serpent Narwa | Elder Dragon | The female half of the serpent pair and Rise's final boss: a thunder elder that fights in a floating coral arena with lightning storms and gravity-defying dives. | Lightning storm attacks Levitation and coral arena control Allmother empowered form | Threat: Final Boss Habitat: Coral Palace | Hub final boss, Coral Palace |
| Crimson Glow Valstrax | Elder Dragon | A comet-shaped elder dragon that dive-bombs the arena from the sky at full speed and leaves a trail of dragon energy. | High-speed comet dive Dragon energy wing strikes Roaming invasion | Threat: Elder Dragon Habitat: All locales as an invader | Hub high rank title update |
| Apex Arzuros | Apex / Fanged Beast | The Rampage's first Apex: an Arzuros swollen with weird energy that hits far harder than the base monster and leads a wave of lesser monsters. | Empowered slams Rampage wave leadership Charging grapple | Threat: High Habitat: Rampage, Shrine Ruins | Rampage quests and Apex hub hunts |
| Apex Rathalos | Apex / Flying Wyvern | The Apex form of the series mascot, fought in Rampage waves and later as a hub hunt. | Cluster fireball barrage Fast diving talon strike Apex roar | Threat: Very high Habitat: Rampage, Shrine Ruins | Rampage quests and Apex hub hunts |
| Apex Zinogre | Apex / Fanged Wyvern | A charged-up Apex thunder wolf that closes the Rampage progression. | Extended lightning discharge Longer combo strings Apex charge state | Threat: Very high Habitat: Rampage, Shrine Ruins | Rampage quests and Apex hub hunts |
| Daimyo Hermitaur | Carapaceon | A giant hermit crab wearing a monster skull as a shell, and one of the first Master Rank hunts in Sunbreak. | Water jet Skull shell slam Burrowing and claw swipes | Threat: Master Rank Habitat: Jungle | Sunbreak Master Rank, Jungle |
| Shogun Ceanataur | Carapaceon | A razor-clawed crab that swaps between a skull shell and a rock shell and bleeds Hunters with its claws. | Bleeding claw slashes Shell swapping Fast claw charge | Threat: Master Rank Habitat: Jungle, Citadel | Sunbreak Master Rank |
| Blood Orange Bishaten | Fanged Beast | A fire variant of the persimmon-juggling monkey that replaces the fruit with explosive pine cones. | Explosive pine cone throws Burning ground Aerial cartwheel dive | Threat: Master Rank Habitat: Jungle | Sunbreak Master Rank |
| Aurora Somnacanth | Leviathan | An ice-element Somnacanth variant that freezes the ground and sings a song that inflicts frostbite instead of sleep. | Frostbite song Ice shard projectiles Freezing ground | Threat: Master Rank Habitat: Citadel | Sunbreak Master Rank |
| Lunagaron | Fanged Wyvern | A werewolf-shaped fanged wyvern that freezes its own body into armour and fights on two legs when enraged. | Ice armour transformation Bipedal enraged moveset Ice claw slashes | Threat: Master Rank Habitat: Citadel | Sunbreak story hunts, Citadel |
| Garangolm | Fanged Beast | A moss-covered golem of a fanged beast that grows stone and plant armour on its arms and slams the ground apart. | Stone and moss arm armour Ground-splitting slam Rolling charge | Threat: Master Rank Habitat: Citadel, Jungle | Sunbreak story hunts |
| Astalos | Flying Wyvern | A lightning wyvern with blade wings and a razor tail, and one of Sunbreak's returning flagships from Generations. | Charged lightning dive Blade-wing slashes Tail stab and thunder burst | Threat: Master Rank Habitat: Jungle | Sunbreak Master Rank |
| Gore Magala | Elder Dragon | The frenzy virus elder dragon: a black, six-limbed wyvern that blinds Hunters with its wings and spreads a virus that turns other monsters aggressive. | Frenzy virus spread Wing-blind and aerial combos Enraged horned state | Threat: Elder Dragon Habitat: Citadel | Sunbreak Master Rank |
| Espinas | Flying Wyvern | A heavily armoured, thorn-covered wyvern that spends most of the fight asleep until it is hit, then explodes into poison, paralysis and fire. | Poison, paralysis and fire attacks Thorn armour Sleeping ambush state | Threat: Master Rank Habitat: Jungle, Citadel | Sunbreak Master Rank |
| Seregios | Flying Wyvern | A blade-scaled wyvern that sheds razor scales as it moves and dives at Hunters from range. | Razor scale shedding and bleeding Long-range dive Aerial talon strike | Threat: Master Rank Habitat: Citadel, Jungle | Sunbreak Master Rank |
| Malzeno | Elder Dragon | Sunbreak's flagship: a vampire-like elder dragon that drains life with its bite and spreads the Qurio parasite across the Kingdom. | Qurio parasite spread Bloodblight drain bite Teleporting dive attack | Threat: Elder Dragon Habitat: Citadel | Sunbreak story finale, Citadel |
| Gaismagorm | Elder Dragon | The true final boss of Sunbreak: a colossal elder dragon that climbs out of the Citadel's depths and fights in a multi-stage arena. | Qurio swarm control Beam and explosion attacks Multi-phase arena fight | Threat: Final Boss Habitat: Citadel depths | Sunbreak final boss |
| Primordial Malzeno | Elder Dragon | The final title-update boss of Sunbreak: Malzeno before the Qurio, fighting with pure speed, a lance-like tail and no parasite to exploit. | Unrestrained speed combos Lance tail thrusts Enraged multi-hit dive | Threat: Final Boss Habitat: Citadel | Sunbreak title update 6 |
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