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Great Whetfish - Location, How to Get and Use

Great Whetfish

Great Whetfish icon
A jumbo-sized Whetfish. Its dorsal fin surpasses even whetstones in functionality
Type Fishes
Rarity 4
Sell Price 90z
Buy Price -
Carry 3
Monster -
Locations Shrine Ruins
Frost Islands
Flooded Forest
Lava Caverns
Sandy Plains

Great Whetfish is a fish found in Monster Hunter Rise (MHR) game. Fishes can be used as crafting materials, consumables, and healing items. They are mainly acquired by fishing in Fishing Spots throughout the maps

Great Whetfish is both an item and a fish found in most of the game regions. It allows you to sharpen your weapon to maximum sharpness with a single stroke.

Usually used by speedrunners in mid-fights to ensure maximum damage output.

Great Whetfish - Locations and How to Obtain

This section contains explanations of different ways that the fish can be obtained.

Fishing Locations

Locations where you can gather the materials in the game through outcrops and similar sources.

The fish can be found on all maps and is quite abundant. Due to this, you should have no problems farming it.

Shrine Ruins
Shrine Ruins great whetfish locations
Frost Islands
Great whetfish frost islands location one
Upper level
Frost Islands great whetfish fishing location
Lower level
Sandy Plains
Sandy Plains Great Whetfish upper location
Upper level
Sandy Plains Great Whetfish location
Lower level
Flooded Forest
Great Whetfish Flooded forest locations
Upper level
Lava Caverns
Lava Caverns upper fishing locations
Upper Level
Lava caverns lower fishing locations
Lower level

Meowcenaries: Low Rank

Locale Node
Lava Caverns Fishing Node (Sparkling)

Meowcenaries: High Rank

Locale Node
Lava Caverns Fishing Node (Sparkling

Great Whetfish - Usage

This section covers different use cases for the material, like crafting, forging, and upgrading.

Weapon crafting

  • Ample Bowfish (×1) 
  • Frozen Speartuna I (×1) 
  • Perfected Dango (×2) 

Related Monster Hunter Rise information

List of Items and Material types
Monster hunter rise fish iconFishes    

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