Barioth: How to Beat, Weakness and Drops

Barioth - 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 Barioth, it covers all the needed details to be prepared for the fight with it.

Barioth - Characteristics

Called The White Knight in the game lore

• HP Base: 4200
• HP Solo High Rank: 13440
• Quests: Grasp the Gunlance, Sharpening Amber Fangs, White Knight vs. Hunter
• Longest/Largest: 2279.19
• Shortest/Smallest: 2091.00

Barioth - Combat Guide

Recommended equipment and loadout

• Ice resistant gear and decorations
• Nulberries - to remove iceblight
• Flashbomb when he is flying

Strategy

The fight looks difficult when fighting him the first time. However, you can take these steps to make it easier

Break his Head

This will weaken his frost breath attacks.

The created tornadoes will do less damage and will make it much more manageable if you had difficulties with them

Break both of his claws

Once you break his claws the fight becomes quite easy. He will start losing ground after most of his attacks. This will make him less agile and you will have many openings for attacks.

Easy way to Punish his Signature attack

Barioth will do his signature move through the fight. Your hunter will notice you about it and also you will see the monster in this position:

It is enough just to roll one or two times to any side and his attack will miss. After that, you will have 3+ seconds opening to deal a few good hits. Keep your eyes open!

Barioth - 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.

Breakable parts

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

• Head
• Claws/Thorns

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.

Elemental hitzone values

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

Barioth - 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 Barioth Low Rank variation.

High Rank

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

Barioth - Craftable Gear

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

Weapons

• Icicle Fang I
• Icicle Fang II
• Paladire
• Bastine Edge I
• Bastine Edge II
• Bastizan Edge
• Blizzarioths I
• Blizzarioths II
• Mountain Blizzarioths
• Glacial Bash I
• Glacial Bash II
• Glacial Crunch
• Algiguiro
• Bariguiro I
• Bariguiro II
• Tusk Lance I
• Tusk Lance II
• Twinfang I
• Twinfang II
• Amber Hoarfrost
• Amber Slash I
• Amber Slash II
• Amber Slash III
• Paladire
• Weissritter I
• Weissritter II
• Weissritter III
• Amber Piton I
• Amber Piton II
• Fenrir Storm
• Blizzard Cannon I
• Blizzard Cannon II
• Guerrera Cannon I
• Guerrera Cannon II
• Ice Crest I
• Ice Crest II
• Ice Crest III

Armors

• Barioth Helm 
• Barioth Mail 
• Barioth Vambraces 
• Barioth Coil 
• Barioth Greaves 
• Barioth Helm S
• Barioth Mail S
• Barioth Vambraces S
• Barioth Coil S
• Barioth Greaves S