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Rathalos: How to Beat, Weakness and Drops

Rathalos: How to Beat, Weakness and Drops

Rathalos
Rathalos icon
Species Flying Wyverns
Elements FireFire
Ailments FireFireblight
mhr poison iconPoison
Resistances FireFire (Immune)
Ailments Weakness Thudnerblight ⭐⭐
Element weaknesses mhr dragon iconDragon ⭐⭐⭐
mhr thunder iconThunder ⭐⭐
mhr water iconWater ⭐
mhr ice iconIce ⭐
Parts weakness Cut damage type icon - Head, Wing, Tail
mosnter hunter blunt icon - Head, Wing
Monster hunter ammo icon- Head
Threat ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Locations Shrine Ruins
Lava Caverns

Rathalos - a Large Monster that you will encounter in Monster Hunter Rise (MHR). These types of monsters are usually the main targets for hunt quests. They reward with crafting materials for armors and weapons.

This page is a detailed guide on Rathalos, it covers all the needed details to be prepared for the fight with it.

Contents

Rathalos - Characteristics

Rathalos will descend on invaders. usually, they are centered around their nests. He is called King of the skies

  • HP Base: 4800
  • HP Solo High Rank: 15360
  • Quests: Champion of the Caverns, Rathalos Alert!, Red Skies at Night, Special License Test 3
  • Longest/Largest: 1738.3
  • Shortest/Smallest: 1636.05

Rathalos - Combat Guide

Recommended equipment and loadout

  • Fire Resistance gear and decorations (especially in a few first fights)
  • Nulberries (not mandatory as you can roll to remove fireblight)
  • Antidotes or Herbal Medicine
  • Flash Bombs

Strategy

As expected from King of the sky there are numerous things to have in mind in its fight:

  • For most of the fight, he will stay in the air. Flash Bombs can be used to take him down, but only a few times.
  • He will use many more Fire breath attacks compared to Rathian
  • Use Wirebug to do Aerial attacks. As Rathalos will be airborne most of the time

Signature Fire Breath attack

He will do a wide sweep fire breath attack. You will hear the hunter shouting out before it is activated. So hunters should be ready to avoid it and just run or superman dive to the side. Not back or front

Poison fangs

Rathalos will be attacking with poison claws. Opposite to Rathian Tail which was a poison source with it

Rathalos - Weaknesses

This section covers the monster's weaknesses. To better understand the details about weaknesses, hitzones, broken parts, and ailments check out this guide.

Ailments vulnerabilities

This table explains what status effects the monster is weak to. Zero stars - monster is immune, three stars - monster is very weak to it.

Poison Sleep Paralysis Blast Stun
- ⭐ ⭐ - ⭐
Exhaust Fireblight Waterblight Thunderblight Iceblight
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐⭐ ⭐

Breakable body parts

These are the parts that you can break from the monster resulting in weakening his attacks and dropping additional materials

  • Head
  • Back
  • Wings

Physical hitzone values

This section explains what type of weapon you should use and what monster parts to attack to deal the most damage. The higher the value the weaker the part is to the respective weapon.

Monster Part Cut damage type icon mosnter hunter blunt icon Monster hunter ammo icon
Head 65 70 60
Neck 35 40 30
Abdomen 25 25 20
Back 25 25 20
Wing 50 45 40
Leg 35 35 30
Tail 45 40 35

Elemental hitzone values

These are elemental hitzone values for different monster parts. The higher the value the weaker it is to the said element

Monster Part Fire icon water icon thunder icon Ice icon dragon icon
Head 0 15 20 20 30
Neck 0 5 10 10 20
Abdomen 0 5 10 10 20
Back 0 5 10 10 20
Wing 0 10 15 15 25
Leg 0 0 5 5 15
Tail 0 5 10 10 20

Rathalos - Carves and Rewards

To better understand how rewards for hunts, quests, and carves work in Monster Hunter Rise check this guide. It will explain in detail what each number and column says in the tables below

Low Rank

Check the table below for the percentage chance of rewards and items that can be obtained from the Rathalos Low Rank variation.

Material Target Rewards Capture Rewards Broken Part Rewards Carves Dropped Materials
Rathalos Scale 16% - 66% - Head 38% - Body, 20% - Tail 37%, 50%
Rathalos Shell 31% 30% 30% - Head. 68% - Back 24% - Body 30%
Rathalos Webbing 23% 27% 25% - Wing 20% - Body -
Rathalos Tail 7% 19% - 70% - Tail -
Flame Sac 14% - - 12% - Body -
Rathalos Marrow 7% 7% 30% - Back 5% - Body, 7% - Tail -
Rathalos Plate 2% 3% 4% - Head, 2% - Back 1% - Body, 3% - Tail 1%
Rath Wingtalon - 14% 75%(x2) - Wing - 12%, 20%
Wyvern Tear - - - - 50%

High Rank

Check the table below for the percentage chance of rewards and items that can be obtained from the Rathalos High Rank variation. 

Material Target Rewards Capture Rewards Broken Part Rewards Carves Dropped Materials
Rathalos Scale+ 15% - 63% - Head 36% - Body, 13% - Tail 34%, 50%
Rathalos Carapace 27% 32% 26% - Head, 45% - Back 24% - Body 30%
Rathalos Wing 20% 27% 30% - Wing 19% - Body -
Inferno Sac 15% - - 12% - Body -
Rathalos Marrow 10% - 20% - Back 12% - Tail -
Rathalos Medulla 7% 7% 30% - Back 5% - Body, 7% - Tail -
Rathalos Plate 5% 5% 7% - Head, 4% - Back 3% - Body, 5% - Tail 3%, 1%
Rathalos Ruby 1% 3% 4% - Head 3% - Body 1%
Rathalos Tail - 12% - 60% - Tail -
Rath Wingtalon+ - 14% 70% - Wing - 12%, 19%
Wyvern Tear - - - - 15%
Large Wyvern Tear - - - - 35%

Rathalos - Craftable Gear

A list of weapons and armor that are related to Large Monster Rathalos

Weapons

  • Barbaroi Blade II
  • Red Wing I
  • Red Wing II
  • Djinn I
  • Djinn II 
  • Odyssey Blade II
  • Blazeblades I
  • Blazeblades II
  • Infernal Furies
  • Twin Flames I 
  • Twin Flames II
  • Red Tail I
  • Red Tail II
  • Red Rook I 
  • Red Rook II 

Armors

  • Rathalos Helm 
  • Rathalos Mail 
  • Rathalos Braces 
  • Rathalos Coil 
  • Rathalos Greaves 
  • Rathalos Helm S
  • Rathalos Mail S
  • Rathalos Braces S
  • Rathalos Coil S
  • Rathalos Greaves S

Discussion

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Anonymous

As a first timer to the series, I can say Rathalos is much harder than Rathian