Alatreon Guide - How to Beat Alatreon - Monster Hunter World Iceborne 

Tips: 1. Use a weapon that deals a lot of elemental damage. Thunder/Dragon elements let you deal balanced elemental damage during ice/fire/dragon attacks. Refer to the large monster guide for details. 2. Eat Felyne safeguard/insurance meal that gives your team an extra cart if someone dies. Grab a crystalburst at the camp. 3. Bring astera jerky and nullberries. Use Health Boost and astera jerky when the monster hits the ground during the super attack. You won't survive unless your team had dealt enough elemental attack beforehand. 4. I find Switch Axe to be the most effective melee weapon. I used power prolonger and focus skills (level 2). I keep attacking with elemental discharge while wearing the rocksteady and temporal mantles. 5. Try to knock the monster to the wall and break the horns. 6. Use good armor with Divine Blessing (Gold Rathian) and Health Recovery (Blackveil Vaal Hazak) pieces. 7. Once you get past the Special Assignment, the Event quests are easier to beat with better players. Good luck!

thank you for confirming that someone can get frustrated at something (a boss fight, a mechanic etc) that he actually likes. i thought i was crazy.

Key openings that you can exploit when alatreon is doing an attack: 1.) Random Lightning Barrage - this one is an attack he does alot. He stays in this position when he channels this ability. But be careful, he does a follow up run charge/swipe/slam. Attack him when he is charging or when he is channeling the ability and just be mindful of where his lightnings land. As a side note, his lightnings do not land on the same spot twice, so you can go to a spot where the lightning has already landed. 2.) Fire and Ice ground breath attack- he charges or pauses before he does this attack. If you are close to him make use of this opening since he cant reach you. Also, if you are far from him and his firebreath is coming towards you, you can roll sideways when he does his firebreath and you wont get damaged. 3.) Aerial attacks when he's not enraged - this one is a free topple down. Dont just randomly clutch claw and ram him into the edges of the map. There are big rocks on the map where he can be rammed into when he is on the ground. However, when he is flying a simple clutch claw and slinger burst will topple him which can give you alot of time to deal damage. 4.) Ground slam/Aerial head slam- he pauses a little bit when he finishes this move. For aerial head slam, he slams 2 times when not enraged and 3 times when enraged. After this you can punish him. 5.) Flash pods- this only works when he is not enraged. I usually dont use this cuz it is better to clutch claw and slinger burst him when he is not enraged. But feel free to use this when you need to. EDIT: 6.) Change form explosion/ dragon explosion - this one you can see a mile away. Superman dive out of this or simply run. However, when you are behind him, in line with his tail, the explosion does not reach there so you dont get damaged. Use this opening to land free hits if you are ranged. Lemme know if I missed anything :)

Hard as hell to clutch claw and tenderize as much as we're used to. He constantly moves and knocks you off. Very small windows.

I can die three times to the nova in a single fight. The problem is that I can’t pass the checks reliably solo. So my problem is damage output while dodging; not just dodging.

After 3 years this video still relevant, thank you so much for the tips

I love this fight but it hurts my soul. He's so freaking cool but I'm definitely getting a bit frustrated by the nova. Gotten so close to killing him on the special assignment at least 5 times

I think getting through the special assignment is the hardest part as alot of ransoms there don't exactly bring the ideal amount of element damage to be able to cancel his escaton goodbye everyone dance. Also it's ironic how his gear is very good for the fight against himself😂.

in my opinion lunastra looks like a puppy dog compared to him. Even extreme behemoth is easier imo

I crafted his LBG and upgraded it fully without beating him. My buddy and I came at him with GS (him) and DB (me) to cut tail. Make sure to add partbreaker to your armor for easier cut. We wore armor (like two piece guild palace set) that gives extra carves. Tail has a chance to yield his gem. Cats had paralysis weapon and plunderblade, which can plunder his gem or at least 4 other parts. We don't even give a shit about breaking horn or containing his nova. Brought temporal mantle and rocksteady to reliably flinch shot him when he's not enraged. Everytime you flinch him to the ground, he drops an item. We collect them, then continue to go after tail. When he topples, we go in for tail cut. Supernova? Who cares. We take nova to the face, cart, then come back and keep going at his tail until it comes off. Then took turn being decoy so the other person can carve. After carving, we run around and whistle at cats to plunder. Then we "return from quest" and collect cat's plunder. The whole thing took a few minutes. With his lbg crafted and fully upgraded, we came back and killed him for real. Try this method if you want to farm him for his LGB.

with LBG you don't need to break the horns. i solo'd him switching between fire, ice and dragon ammo with the luna blaze lbg. plunder blade can give you the items to craft his lbg, giving you RF all elements including dragon(which btw absolutely wrecks him). his lbg is just broken.

Yes, Escarton Judgement is the problem

I've not beaten this after 100 tries, and I never will since I give up. Total BS one shot kill move.

Summarizing the most important things for this fight 1.) For special assignment his starting phase is fire. For maximum elemental damage bring an ice weapon. 2.) When he changes to dragon phase focus on breaking his horns. This must be done to prevent him from switching to ice after his supernova 3.) During his supernova as long as you met the threshold, healing will be enough. I recommend astera jerky for it to save your healing items. 4.) Finally if you decide to use a universal element with one star damage instead because you don't want to break the horns, just understand you will need to be a lot more aggressive and keep pounding damage onto him. Another side note I also recommend Blight resistance 3 so he can't inflict you with dragon blight and you can continue doing elemental damage onto him.

3:12 talking bout these other quests like they even exist... Smh (They only show up when you beat the Special Assignment)

Even my wife was cheering up for you during the streams. Nice streams by the way! I thought you were a bit hasty/greedy (afobado, in Portuguese) during the fights, but other than that, it's a difficult monster! We all gotta train and prepare. Congrats for the channel!

Its easier soloable. Less liability and don't have to rely on others. IG is also really good imo

Yes, Rurikhan, the nova has been the only problem.

This is by far the most accurate and helpful video on Alatreon I've seen yet. So many other videos miss smaller yet still very crucial details, like how his elemental weakness shifts, how the elements actually cycle, how breaking his horns disrupts the cycle, or the differences between the two event quests. Absolutely fantastic job.

I took him down with elemental SNS! You're an amazing player bud I'm surprised you hadn't taken him down at this time. I wish you luck if you haven't taken him yet. Also thank you for your sns instructional video I use to main greatsword before hand and you taught me the way of the squirrel blade.

I finally got a Solo victory today :,) hearing that victory theme almost brought some tears to my eyes *Almost* lol

Tried all weekend with my MHW duo buddy to beat this. Many many attempts using 800 elemental damage weapons. Ice and or Dragon. Not a single time did we weaken the nova. Not a single time did we meet this supposedly "just hit it a bit with elemental weapons" dps check. Its bullshit. We spend more time chasing it and getting knocked down than actually hitting it. Using CB and SA btw. 400+ hours and feel like I've never played this game before.

I only killed it twice during multiplayer but have a lot of success when do it solo later. I'm using switchaxe btw Here's some tips, I hope it helps: - The ground exploding fire attack and all it's lighting attacks are very easy to i-frame. Especially when you use Safi armors (built-in evade window 3) -The fire and frost breath attack is one of the best moment to attack. Run towards him in diagonal and you can hit the head easily or at least go for the front legs -You only need 2 Astera Jerky to survive Escaton Judgement. Drop the health booster and pick whatever tools can help you with the offensive -Whenever it's not enrage, lure it to the wall and do flinch shot. Trust me, you gonna need every chance you have to attack the head (massive hitzone for both raw and elements) -DO NOT CLUTCH CLAW INTO ITS HEAD DURING AND FEW SECONDS AFTER IT'S DOING LIGHTNING ATTACKS, ESPECIALLY WITH TEMPORAL MANTLES ON I'm not even a subscriber but I stayed watching your livestream from the Zinogre hunts until the point you're frustated with Alatreon. You rock, I hope my father is as cool as you!

Everyone; "Alright what element do I need to bring today" Me with my Alatreon LBG; "I'll just bring every element" I highly recommend this LBG for all that are having trouble with this fight, also I was able to craft it and upgrade it with out defeating Alatreon first. Just use a Sticky HBG with Partbreaker, Fortitude and Palaco Plunderblade and focus on the horns and wings you can get all the crafting parts except the tail you can even rarely get a Dragonsphire. Good luck everyone and don't give up it took me 2 days of 6hr sessions to finally beat him solo.

This is a paste from a comment I did somewhere else, I hope it helps: Use weapons with high elemental damage. The best elements are [Fire] for [Ice active mode], [Ice] for [Fire active mode] and [Dragon] to always do elemental damage in every elemental mode. He starts with a different element, Ice active or Fire active, depending on the name of the quest. To prevent Alatreon from going to the opposite element break his horns during dragon phase( they are only breakable during the [Dragon] phase). Before changing elements he does Escaton Judgement (nova). He follows this order when changing: [Starting element] -> [Dragon + Escaton Judgement] -> [Opposite of starting element]. He does his nova around 5 to 7 minutes into the fight and with weakening it once is enough to outheal it. Bring Astera Jerky, Great Sushifish Scale, Max Potions and Ancient Potions to survive the nova. Use Safi'jiiva's set to increase elemental damage; also it has enough space for defensive skills, 3 levels of Evade Window and free 40 Affinity. I recommend equipping blight resistance, knockout resistance and health boost as defensive skills. Don't forget to fully upgrade your armor and put a health regen augment on your weapons. Before the fight leave your cat in camp and eat for Feline Insurance. Combat Tips: 1-During th fight try to stay near the front legs, it's the safest spot and has the best elemental hitzones. 2-DO NOT run around, it will make you deal less damage and trigger Alatreon's ranged attacks. 3-You can roll away and through almost every [Lighting] attack Alatreon does, and those are the ones with the most openings. 4-The Fire attack with multiple explosions must be rolled away first and after the center explosion happens roll back in, he is open until the last explosion. 5-When he flies up and does an AOE fire or ice breath attack pointing beneath him : clutch and tenderize if you want. 6-If he is flying just stay under him and attack the rear legs or the tail. 7-In the air he does two or three claw attacks depending wether he is enraged or not. Well, when he is done doing it he goes into a little rest animation in which you can cluth or attack. 8-Always try to stay close to him and don't panic, his strongest attacks give pretty good openings. 9-Beware of physical attacks, those give dragonblight and knock you out easily ( Thats why you bring blight resistance and knockout resistance) 10-I recommended you to do a few practice hunts just to learn the patterns and get used to the flow of the fight. As a last piece of advice, please, do the hunt solo, it will give you higher chances of survival and it lowers the DPS check, plus Alatreon will always stay close to you. Please ask if you have more questions or tell me if I missed something. Good luck.

“Constantly flinching him” All GS users: yeah boy “Elemental damage” All GS users: cry softly like a man in the corner I honestly can’t solo him with my trusty greatsword and had to change to my long sword to solo him. His fight is so amazing though that I don’t care.

After MANY attempts with a buddy we were able to net 3 victories. I feel like Ive gotten him down well enough to try some solo gs runs, and tbh, while hes still a decently tough fight, his nova is what makes the fight "hard". Its just artificial difficulty, balony gimmicks. We were starting to get Extremoth ptsd from the quests

The mechanics for air flinch shot is the monster has to be not facing a wall and for rathalos velkhana and goldian they have to also be at hight 1 "the hight where you highest reach attack can hit the monster (except hbg,lbg,db and sns obviously)"

Thanks for this! I followed your guide and this hammer main beat alatreon for the first time!

Finally soloed him with lance earlier. Took 26 tries. Had to use Velkhana Lance with Safi Armor and Ice Attack Decos. (Next week I can upgrade my ice kjarr Lance tho) Just a few tips Bring (and I can't stress this enough) Blight Resistance. He inflicts dragonblight so easily which renders your elemental damage useless unless you heal it with nulberries. Just nullify that shit with Blight Resistance Eat for this red Special bonus. Gives you felyne safeguard. Extremely viable. Then, use Fortify. Since you have 4 lives thanks to the meal, the first two faints are just Making you stronger without losing much. For his attacks (lance tips mainly) When he does his electric stuff. You are pretty safe under him. Just wait until he stands on 4 legs again and hit his front legs or head. His lightning won't hit you. Learn the timings for his melee attacks. You can counter many things. His claw attack is a free counter, his tail swipe comes out two times so don't counter too recklessly. Same for his horn swipes. Those are similar to Diablos. His big head slam knocks you back but you can go for a full guard and counter with that. The Ice and Fire AOE Breaths are dangerous but with Guard 5 you should be able to block the whole thing. When he is in the air, your upward pokes easily hit the hind legs and the tail. Stay under him and poke. Except for the mentioned AOE Attacks he can't do much there. Use your shield Dash. This is a neat movement option to dodge his lightning rows or breaths and you can perform your leaping thrust out of it (3 small Hits) and Go l right into poking. Make usage of your movement Options. Lance is so much more than a stationary tank.

If you go into fight with the Blaze LBG (ice/fire) or the Styx LBG (water/thunder), or if you use any gun that fires multiple elemental ammo types, it's better if you DON'T break horns. You want Alatreon to shift elements so that you can alternate ammo type. If you break horns and it stays in ice or fire phase too long, you will run out of ammo and will need to die to replenish. The shifting elements is actually a good thing.

Very interesting clip ♥! As a current RU-vidr, I am always looking for new ideas! Nice Job!

Also if u put vitality mantle and health booster on and equip to radial menu as soon as he begins nova use both IMMEDIATELY (as long as u eat and have full health bar), u can survive nova....its a sacrifice of your other mantles/boosters, but it works😉

Behemoth is still the most fun and challenging quest in the game! When he runs towards you if you shoot a Crystal Burst at his head he hits the wall(if it's right, just like Barroth)

Didn’t expect Kristoffer Hivju to try his chances at Aletreon

Nice info bro, I think that you have explained the mechanics of the fight much better than the guys of the Developer Diary. I have killed this guy 16 times all in Multiplayer. currently I'm using his LS and the entire Alatreon B+ set to help randoms in SOS flares or in online sessions. Now I will try it for my own

If you're having problems with breaking the horns, yeet him to the wall when he is in dragon mode, it will always make one horn break if you're playing solo

When you’re trying to flinch shot him, if possible, try to do it when he’s in the air. Most of his attacks in the air don’t knock you off so even if you don’t have any rocksteady or temporal it’s still quite doable. He doesn’t do thunder attacks when he’s in the air and the only moves that can knock you off from his head are charging attacks and the stomp. He’s guaranteed a knockdown when you at least slap his head once, doing that also stops his movement for a bit so the flinch afterwards is sure to bring him down from the air. Try not to use any flash pods also. It doesn’t work when he’s enraged and you’ll be wasting a knockdown when you flash him when he’s flying

My friend and I went for 3 melee all fire/ice + 1 Alatreon LBG. 3 melee is usually good enough for at lease 2 element knockdown and horn break. The Alatreon LBG is the fail save. If the melee guys somehow screw up and failed to break the horn by the 1st nova, Alatreon LBG is good enough to take down at least the majority of element threshold by the 2nd dragon phase. That means an easy element knockdown when the melee people back to doing some element damage. It feels good to rapid fire every elemental ammo and save your team from the 2nd nova.

At 8:34 you recommend taking dragon element because at least it's doing damage all the time. I thought this at first as well, but then I checked out the HZV table for Alatreon and it seems that even though dragon is "1 star" in the fire and ice phases, he might as well be immune since the highest dragon HZV in those phases is LITERALLY TWO. Here's a link to an image of his HZV table: imgur.com/a/mdveLeX It seems that if you wanna go the "medium damage all of the time" route the best options would be thunder or water. Thanks for the content BTW, your weapon move breakdown videos helped me a lot as a fledgling hunter!

Took me like 5 full tries, I did it solo. The best way was using an elemental LBG with both ice and fire rapid fire elemental ammo. I did it just under 30 minutes. (bring full potions and astera meat) skills: blight resistance, fortify, health+50, fire and ice lvl 6, safijiva full armor.

As a Gunlance main I was waiting for this video. I'm ready to take him down for the first time

I beat him 30 times already but I really like your videos so I'll watch this xD

For survivability against his elemental attacks, evasion and stun resistance is a must. I was constantly dying due to being stunned and then his lightning would zap me to death. You need full evasion. The invulnerability window is very generous with full evasion. I can dodge through his fire breath and lightning attacks without any issues.

Finally youtuber who actually says alatreon is not easy

I got frustrated in MP so I tried solo and killed him 2nd try. So I would definitely advise ppl to go solo The thresholds are actually quite easy to reach in solo I recommend low animation commitment weapons like IG and DB they pretty good matchup

I am running HH Support for this with the Safi Frosthorn. Its awakened abilities are: Element Melody IV Tigrex Essence Element up VI Element up V Element up V Its songs are: Self Improvement Elemental Attack Up (S - L) Blight Resistance Up (S - L) Elemental Effectiveness Up Armor skills: Ice Attack 6 Wide-range 5 Tool Specialist 5 ---(Lunastra 3pc bonus: Tool Specialist Secret - head, chest, legs) Attack Boost 4 ---(I had it at 6 but Alatreon is giving me too much trouble so I opted for the defence since it has no bearing on elemental attack) Defence boost 3 Speed Eater 3 Free Meal 3 ---(Tigrex essence: 75% free heals! - ams, waist)Armour rating is just over 1000. The rest of the skills are just byproducts. I know that Hunting Horn isn't great for elemental attack, but this is literally the best set I can think of bringing to the fight. I'm yet to beat it, but I have enough materials to make 2 of its base weapons (not sure about upgrading though)....

just throwing it for the people who might find it useful. when alatreon does a lightning base attack, you can safely clutch to his head AFTER the lightning effect on his head is gone if not to clutch, it gives a wide opening regardless once you dodge it, so go crazy

The aerial flinch shot requires the monster to hit the ground in order to be successful. Monsters will ignore walls if you flinch shot them while they are flying - they _have_ to hit the ground. I find that Alatreon is easier to flinch shot successfully while flying compared to when it is on the ground.

Does guts skill work? or no same with behemoth. Also, if only wyrmstake Canon deals elemental damage. We'll more than capable of elemental damage.

You can pass the dps check on the nova using an ice safi gunlance, the problem is you dont deal optimal dmg.

Capcom made a good move with this game. Make it fun, immersive, challenging, then right toward the end drop that troll bomb called alatreon. At that point they got your money so they don't care

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I dont have an issue with his moves. I dont have the dps check. I dont hate breaking horns. But I've passed 3 checks, broke both horns, and he isn't half way dead. Why the fuck is he not dying. I dodge his moves, hit the weak points, and sure I die a bit, but why in the hell is he not dead after all that. I've been trying for a week straight and can't beat him. Not solo, or duo, or a full squad has helped. I dont know what to do at this point. I actually hate him now. I've tried more damage, more comfort, different weapons, and everytime I can pass the checks and break horns but his 50k health pool keeps fucking me over.

Dual blades main here. Solo'ed second try. I have to agree that's a great weapon for Alatreon, I can't see myself doing it with a less element intensive weapon. Many times I reached the nova threshold seconds before he cast it. Also, fortfy and Bligh resistance 3 are mandatory for me, cause you know, if I mess up the horns, ate least I can back up stronger

For Alatreon If you have no idea what you're doing, and you aren't super good against him yet, bring a support build Because good Lord, he becomes 10x easier when you have a healbot in the background with technically infinite heals with the Tigrex meal secret set bonus it is such a godsend

If your problem is the nova, that means that it is not the only problem you have. You might not be aggressive enough. Soloable even with only one element. I would have been disappointed if I had it easier before finishing what is supposed to be endgame content. If anything, they should have walled this behind MR 100 at least to gate off some newer folks. You don't need the right element, just enough element and breaking the horns during the correct time. Using the right element just helps making it easier. The head is easy to partbreak, with a lot of alatreon's aoe casting moves locking him in place with his head down. In general you need to evade INTO him, not away. If you have the right resistances, you can stand in some of his AOEs and tank the damage while hitting him with Health Augment, or clutch into his face when he is doing downward breaths. You are punished if you clutch in too late with an air dash because you hesitated. This is a good case of the "competent enemy vs incompetent ally" quote. It's not artificial difficulty, since it rewards skillful aggressive play, banding together with hunters to plan, and building to a monster correctly- which are core gameplay and fits the lore of the monster being an elemental god of sorts. If you play randos or use SOS and expect to be carried, then prepare to be judged- Escaton style.

I finally beat Aletreon by myself after 3 days! It took a while for me too but I managed to find a way to beat him even if it took 30 minutes. I ate to get Safeguard and tried my best to not die to the nova until after his second horn broke which would mean he went from Fire to ice. Even if i had a ice weapon against him being in his ice form, all i would have to do is do “extra” damage until he killed me with his nova because of me doing no damage, but you can damage him when he goes into his dragon active state. You have a slight chance to not die but even if you do, you have 2 deaths left to kill him and in that time, in the last fire active state you have enough time to kill him or repeat the rotation and die to get him back into his fire active state. This method worked for me but it required a lot of patience and knowledge of his moveset to not die to anything but his nova

You can't really solo if you are using non-elemental weapons or weapons who has very little elemental DPS, like GS or Gun Lance. Although it might be possible if you utilize both Safeguard and Insurance from felyne kitchen skill. Make 2 sets of your preferred weapon, a fire set and an ice set. If you can break his horn during his dragon phase then you can lock him on his primary element, and its actually possible and easy to kill him if you can do it. But if you fail to break the horn, it means you are going to die soon anyway, meaning the 2nd escaton judgment, make sure you change your set according to the element at that point, ALSO DON'T forget to put fortify in both sets.

Been at this ever since this nightmare was released, and man this monster is a pain in the ass. It seems he just spams so much that I have no time to really do enough damage. I am using elemental damage, I’ve tried stacking affinity and crit, I’ve tried so many weapons yet I just can’t pull it off. So far I just need four wings for armor set thanks to plunder blade but I’m at my wit’s end right now. Ugh, I think I need to take a break from this just to stay sane. Any more tips on just how to manage this solo will be greatly appreciated. 😰

Saying that he has so little openings is an exaggeration. In fact, many of his attacks are exploitable, even for slower weapons. Despite covering large areas, they tend to start off slow, and have many, many gaps in between hitboxes which you can even accidentally stand in. Not only that, his lightning strikes, dragon bursts and sweeping fire-streams have very few damaging frames. You can very easily I-frame it, since it ends so quickly. Many of his attacks leave him open if you deal with them a certain way that may not be normal. For example, his fireball explosion-rings have a large delay between bursts and short frames. It is very easy to dodge right, then left again and you will be right in front of Alatreon's immobile head for damage. Same with his lightning. His lightning rain comes out ridiculously slowly, and you also get a large warning before any lightning hits the ground. Just look for any warning patch, and carefully strafe towards it. As soon as the lightning hits and ends, roll into where it was. You'll be safe, and if you do this early enough, you get another opening. Rolling isn't really necessary. It helps that during his lightning attacks, his head is basically a non-moving weakpoint (besides the triple lines) as long as you don't clutch claw to it then. Both his sweeping Fire-beam and Ice-river attacks are prime clutch-claw opportunities, since they don't hit the sides of his head. The sweeping fire can be dangerous, but as long as you move right while aiming (or attacking), and stay close, it will go right over your head. If worst comes to worst and you are stuck at mid-range, you can try I-framing through it. It also moves quite quickly, so as long as you aren't too jumpy, you'll succeed. The ice river in particular is his best opening, since not only is his head stationary and safe, he also does an idle animation afterwards. His flying ice/fire-downbeam is a great chance to sharpen or clutch-claw his WINGS. If you tenderize his wings, then his torso ALSO gets tenderized, which is a must for ranged weapons. Their radii are deceptively small, so as long as you stay just outside of it, as soon a the breathing ends, it no longer damages you, and one roll should bring you close to Alatreon's body, where he will again be stationary. In the air, he is still terrible to deal with, but it is MUCH better when he is unenraged, When he is calm, he can be flashed out of the sky, so you can fit in some good damage if you incorporate the flash-pod into a mid-combo slinger burst, as he will fall right onto your attack. Try not to flinch-shot him unless he is in Dragon mode, as you can only break horns then, and a tenderized wall/ground-bang contributes significantly to the part-break. As long as you pass the DPS check (and have at least health-boost 1), you should use the Judgement startup to move closer to Alatreon in preparation for more DPS, or sharpen if necessary, or do damage. As long as you CAN survive the judgement, you should time the astera jerky button when your health has reached 80% from full. You can go later, but it's risky, and keep in mind that if your health is NOT full (or no health boost), then your timing becomes substantially harder. 1 Astera jerky will leave you with aroud 20-30% HP left after the attack ends, so you should use another, unless you have Temporal mantle prepared (and a health augment). Then, you should be whaling on Alatreon as he recovers from judgement to have a safe and easy full heal. Good luck everybody. Alatreon's a fantastic challenge (and honestly deserves to be a final boss). You should treat him like you would a Final boss, and endeavor to solo him successfully. There is no better feeling than success.

what about status ailment weapons? i really love poison for example, and so far i have been riding pretty good with it (sns and lance), does the fight work with poison, or should i craft a "xyz" element weapon?

I fought him success with dragon element last night and I learn one thing... When alatreon is inflicted with elderseal, somehow he cannot use the supernova move and some of his element move are disabled a bit. I realized when hit it more and it stagger him so much.

I thought I would add this to help others (at least for Dual Blade users), Succeded my first kill last night. (solo of coarse) While I can’t say much about my fire weapon, in terms of Ice I used Beo with affinity II, def 1, Elemental III. Witha armor I used (fully augmented ) Damascus Helm B, and Namielle for the rest. (used lvl V elemental Charm, Temp And Rock mantles. With the gems added 3 vitality, 3 tenderizor, fortitude, finished blight resistance, got def to lvl 6, then filled up the rest with expert and charger (just as a bonus), mantles had expert (6 while mantles worn)and weapons finished the elemental dmg. Ate Elemental L during, but Ate Safeguard first round (though lost it but weakened Ale and broke horn by then thus was able to do fine surviving blast), after breaking both horns and fighting him ice vs ice I sadly died before his 4th explosion thus loosing 2 lives in a row :(. Somehow finished him in his 2nd time of ice (with an ice weapon of coarse at that point). On a side note.... if solo at least, the fight pauses if you die it looks like, so if you get stuck with the wrong element then die before his explosion, count that as 2 deaths...... :(

What I have found is that people absolutely refuse to adapt to new fights. They find the highest theorhetical dps build for something like longsword, a raw weapon, and get mad when that isn't the optimal way to fight this monster. I genuinely enjoy the fact that you need a new strategy to beat this monster - it adds variety to the game. What I ended up doing was making an elemental longsword builds with kjarr weapons and Safi set bonus - sure it's technically less total dps and sure the Safi set isnt fully optimal on longsword because the healing resets on special sheathe, but guess what. It increased my elemental damage enough to pass the dps check. I don't understand why people refuse to find a new strategy when the one they are using doesn't work. Like people will complain about lack of build variety and then refuse to even attempt a new build for a different fight.

Wrong, Escaton Judgement IS the problem. My group of friends spent 6 hours yesterday trying to do this. We researched the fight, we all built ice dps builds, and we didn’t even get close. It felt like pure luck if we were actually able to do enough elemental DPS to weaken EJ, but then we also had issues breaking the horns, so we’d die anyway because nobody could do enough damage in his ice phase. The fight is poorly designed, and more so because farming him is rather pointless. None of the weapons are anything ground breaking and the armor is terrible. So, why am I punishing myself to fight this guy? This is one of the few times in the nearly 2000 hours I’ve plugged into this game over the years where I can say Capcom got this wrong. Either EJ needs to be weaker, the time between his elemental shifts needs to increase, or the DPS check needs to decrease. Also, apparently the longer the fight goes, the higher the DPS check is. Stupid and ridiculous.

That zorah magdaros music is fire

Not sure if you covered it in the video, but how do you stop him from switching after the phases where you've already broken his horns? That's been my main reason for dying

Also if you need to clutch claw him to boop him into a wall or out of the sky use Temporal Mantle. This will help you not get flung off due to the little openings Alatreon provides especially while airborne. Be careful though its fast attack animations while you are clutch clawed with Temporal Mantle can deplete it in no time. It's a good use still especially if you need to get good damage in before the nova.

So....how much Elemental Damage do you need to deal with that Escaton AOE discharge? I am a long ways away from being able to hunt Alatreon, but I want to have a big idea what to do as a Bow user, like how much elemental I need for my bow to be effective. So far I was able to bump up My Dragon elemental bow over 500. Need to work on maximizing it to the Shara line. That and I intend to make a Velkhana bow for its ice element. Any hard numbers and armor suggestions would help me out greatly.

Fucking love this monster, brings out my inner Dark Souls, very Midir, Sinh and Kalameet like

Good stuff Ruri

You can actually cheese the escaton judgement by using an insectglaive and giving your kinsect the opposite element. That way you don't need to care about the Horns anymore. So for one phase fight normaly for the other use the kinsect and for dragon use both. Using only your kinsect is pretty goofy and not that exciting to play but it is actually really safe and also very effective. So basicly apply animal abuse for animal abuse. Have fun !

@3:00 If you aren't counting the special assignment what exactly is the guide for? You can't do the Event if you havn't done the special assignment. If you have done the special assignment you probably aren't watching a guide, and would have figured out after a few attempts to swap elemental weapons per quest.

At first having struggled and failing probably close to 10 times in a row and now having countless back to back flawless runs done, here's what I can give to you all: BLIGHT RESISTANCE 3 AND HEALTH AUGMENT MAKE THE FIGHT EXTREMELY EASY Applies for both solo and mp (I play mostly mp) Also make sure to flinch shot him every time he's yellow, knockdowns make breaking horns a cakewalk. Elemental trips you should achieve by just playing normally (best elemental HZs are his front legs though so focus those if you are struggling to meet the threshold) Literally any weapon works great (HBG is iffy), but if you are playing IG stick to ground glaive (you can mount him once first, after that his threshold just gets too high so it's not worth it going for any more mounts) Oh yeah and when he starts channeling Escaton you get literally 5 seconds of free dps before the need to use a jerky so dont just back off and afk, just make sure you have time to gobble that bad boi up One more thing, DO NOT USE DRAGON ELEMENT IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER ELEMENT AVAILABLE! His Dragon HZ values are absolute garbage so although the game claims he's 2* weak to it it's the Nergi Thunder case all over again, so not worth. If you have the choice and can consistently break the horns, you should always just match the starting element's weakness. I have personally just run Safi's Water GS (we always go the fire start quest since my friends both run Ice) and we can consistently meet the threshold in about 3-4 minutes so don't sweat that part But yeah, I used to cart a lot but after the health augment + blight res set up I think I have died twice total (I play GS, and started learning it with Alatreon so it really makes the quest exponentially easier) Happy hunting and good luck!

I thought it was a bullshift fight at first, but the more I play the more I like it, it's actually tuned pretty well. I've come really close to killing him solo but no cigar yet, will keep trying.

I finally clapped his cheeks, then made his lbg and THEN I clapped more cheeks

I've beaten alatreon solo using Dualblades, longsword, chargeblade and Insect glaive. Im gonna try switch axe, hammer, bow and SnS next. This guy is definitely soloable. You just need to practice a bit. Good luck to all the hunter out there. Happyyyy huntiiing!

Saw that live stream yesterday , u were kinda getting your hat handed to u, but then again so have I 🤣.

I'm at the point where I can solo him with relative ease and, in my personal experience, the fight is made significantly harder if you don't bring his specific starting weakness. I haven't been able to beat him even a single time while bringing dragon element solo while I've been able to do it consistently bringing his weakness. If you're not confident in breaking the horns, you can still try dragon, I'm not saying it's impossible, it's just not advisable. Also, remember that the horns only reset his element shifts, they don't disable his final shift entirely. After you reset his cycle twice, it's either you kill him before he kills you or he shifts to counter you and it's game over.

Thank you so much for this guide I can solo him easy now with styg zino hammer

bring a level of wide range for preemptive potion chugging at full health during nova. i think dragon element greatsword is good for horn breaking but everyone else needs to have ice/fire. you can farm parts for one of his unupgraded weapons by going solo or 2player and bring a palico with plunder blade, aim for horn break and you should get enough materials even if you fail to kill.

I just say go look on Gaijinhunter's twitter, he perfectly rants on how this Nova is bad like its just not fun at all for multiplayer because its scaled bad. I'm gonna try soloing him tonight to see if its easier but yeah its totally the monster hunter team's fault not ours. (Editing this in but to add I have over 700 hours worth of experience because I have no life and I found the monster and the fight beautiful, its literally its nova that kills it especially for a guy that likes playing with others.)

My build consists of 1 Kulve Kjarr Crit element weapon, 3 Teostra armor sets for Master's Touch and 2 Namielle armor sets for Elemental Acceleration. Seems to be decent enough. I suggest using either Water element or Dragon element weapon because those two at worst 1 star damage on Alatreon.

Alright, cleared my head after beating him, these are the problems I got with the fight, the rocks are too small and his positioning makes it very annoying to slam him on the wall. Sometimes if you get a group that does too much damage, he enrages ALL the time which gives you 10 seconds max to clutch and throw him down which again, makes things annoying, not difficult. Other than that, I think the fight is fine, the attacks after a couple of tries are not THAT hard although you will still probably get hit by some here and there. If they fix the whole "Slam him in the rocks the size of a pebble to break his horns and if he enrages you are screwed" I think its gonna be amazing.

Ohhh, I'm actually on time... Wowzers, notifications worked well.

So I just beat him for the first time last night after 20 or so attempts. If there's anything people should know it's that you gotta beat the shit out of him with elemental weapons until the handler says "good job weakening him" or something. That's your cue that you can now survive his escaton attack. And just rinse and repeat until he's dead. If it's not working, you're not dealing enough elemental damage. It's frustrating, but it's one of those quests that really wants you to play by it's rules.

I just hate how people complain about alatreon with his nova because all you've got to do is break his horns in dragon mode and place health. Boosters down get your astera jerkys and put on rocksteady or vitality and you will survive. People are just bad

"if Barioth and Rajang had a baby it will be Alatron" I think this not quit right, you can say Alatron is their master and Barioth and Rajang are his students. Note: if you want to break his horns you can wall bang him during the dragon phase, it will make horn break much easier.

The fight is a DPS check. If the Nova is what's killing you it means your dmg isnt constant, optimal or high enough, Period. Doesnt matter if you "mastered" his move set or dont die all, Alatreon cannot be killed without constant and high elemental dmg ( talking about the multiplayer version btw). So better solo it or hope for luck with randoms

some question that i have is that what triggers the escajudge? is it time or accumulated hp damage or just rng? i feel like whenever we dealt big damage like mount or wallbang, he did the ult quicker. Is it better to break the horn after we weaken it?

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It sucks if you're the kind of person that likes to main a particular weapon 100% of the time and your favorite just happens to have poor elemental dps. I tried a ton of times with the GS with no luck. Finally gave in and crafted my first dual blades and beat him 2nd try. Rocksteady (don't clutch claw with it on...just don't) is huge for staying up and hitting, and having teammates that don't run around WAY away from him while healing - he'll usually start flying around between the groups and you lose out on a lot of time.

He may have a resistance to air flinch shots when he flys away if its a different animation then normal safe to assume he does

Alatreons light bow gun can use all elements, so you will always be effective against him, while having almost enough ammo to kill him, just farm it using plunderblade.

I main Switch Axe and she's much, much easier to solo. Elemental Switch Axe can easily disrupt her elements by the second minute of the fight. I've only managed to beat her in a group with one other person but she still wasn't easy. All of her actual attacks are very fair in my opinion, and you can just keep laying the damage on her if you go with full evade window and evade distance.

My main advice as I just killed it is to have Crit element.and Affinity Boosters, as well as support to help heal.

For me it was the exact oposing. Managed to solo it no problem but had several problems on multi. People tend to come unprepared for the fight, bringing blast weapons, and sometimes not even buffs and heals. Not to mention that I always had a guy managing to cart in the first 30 secs of the fight or wasting 2-3 carts all the time.

People need to stop looking at hunter notes for hitzone and elemental damage info. The stars do not give you accurate info. Two 1 star elements can be doing completely different damage. Just look at the charts online, like on kiranico. It will tell you the exact damage you will be dealing.

Basically just switching your lightbreak weapon to something with elem is almost okay. Honestly you dont really need to touch the build much at all. Maybe the only thing id say is a must is blight res. Edit: yes blight res. Why? Because alatreon will dragonblight you more than 10times easily.