Summary
- Monster Hunter Wilds features a mix of old and new monsters, catering to both veteran and new players.
- Strong monsters like Deviljho and Magnamalo add challenging fights to the game.
- Powerful monsters like Alatreon and Fatalis are missing from the game so far, leaving room for future updates.
While many players may be coming to Wilds as their first Monster Hunter game, Capcom's long-standing franchise is over twenty years old. Over that time, there have been a huge number of monsters added to the total roster. Not every monster makes it into every game, but many fan favorites show up regularly.
Like previous entries, Monster Hunter Wilds includes monsters both old and new. Strong foes like Rathalos and Gore Magala will be familiar to veteran hunters, while new enemies like Lala Barina and Uth Duna provide some entertaining fights. There are still many monsters that haven't made it into the game, and fans will all have their picks for who should or could be added.
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These are some of the freshest monsters Capcom has created since the series debuted in 2004.
As for the strongest monsters in the series, players aren't likely to see those world-ending threats for a while. For players who are wondering who are the biggest threats yet seen in the series that haven't made the cut , these are the strongest monsters that aren't in Monster Hunter Wilds, at least not yet.
1 Plesioth
The Piscine Wyvern
- Elements: Water / Sleep
- Weaknesses: Thunder / Fire
- First Game Appearance: Monster Hunter
There are several elemental wyverns across the Monster Hunter series, and they tend to be pretty strong foes. The Plesioth is a piscine wyvern with webbed feet and fish-like scales. As players might expect, that means its main element in the past has been water, though many versions are also able to inflict sleep.
Monster Hunter's Plesioth was particularly tricky due to its ability to spit water like some kind of aquatic sniper. In lore terms, Plesioths are described as semi-aquatic, with their fins and webbed wings adapted for movement in the water as well as the air.
2 Yian Garuga
Avian Wyvern
- Elements: Fire / Poison
- Weaknesses: Water
- First Game Appearance: Monster Hunter Freedom
Yian Garuga is an avian wyvern with a jagged, beak-shaped mouth and clubbed, spiked tail that can inflict poison. Wilds players might see Yian Garuga as vaguely familiar, as some features are quite similar to Yian Kut-Ku. Garuga is much more deadly, though, or at least its past incarnations have been.
Interestingly, the official first appearance of Yian Garuga came in Monster Hunter Freedom, but some players will remember the monster from earlier games, where Scarred Yian Garuga had already made an appearance. Poison is the status to watch out for against this monster. If it makes its way to Wilds, avoid the deadly clubbed tail at all costs.
3 Deviljho
Brutish Wyvern
- Elements: Dragon
- Weaknesses: Thunder / Dragon
- First Game Appearance: Monster Hunter 3
The Deviljho may be classed as a wyvern in Monster Hunter lore, but its stout and muscular bipedal form evokes more of a T. Rex-on-steroids appearance. Deviljho was first introduced in Monster Hunter 3, but it's been a mainstay of the series since then, and many players will remember this formidable monster from Monster Hunter Worlds.
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Deviljho is a scary monster on its own, able to destroy players with pure physical strength, but there have also been some even more terrifying variants, too. The Savage Deviljho was no joke, and the Four Heavenly King Deviljho from the online Monster Hunter Frontier was particularly brutal.
4 Magnamalo
Rampaging Wyvern
- Elements: Hellfire
- Weaknesses: Thunder / Water
- First Game Appearance: Monster Hunter Rise
Magnamalo is one of the most fearsome monsters added to the roster in Monster Hunter Rise. Although it's classified as a wyvern, this four-legged beast brings to mind Final Fantasy's Behemoths, although with armor-plated scales and a fiery, explosive twist. Magnamalo is an apex predator in Monster Hunter terms, and it only gets stronger by feasting on its prey.
Magnamalo creates explosive hellfire as it digests other monsters, a volatile gas that rises from its body as players fight. The creature can use the gas to create explosions, fireballs, and other attacks, and as if that weren't enough power, it also gets moderate regenerative abilities.
5 Ahtal-Ka
Mantis Empress
- Elements: Physical
- Weaknesses: Thunder / Water
- First Game Appearance: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
The final boss of Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate, Ahtal-Ka is a formidable foe in gameplay terms, a strong and intelligent monster canonically, and a highly creative monster design all in one. The Mantis-like monster switches between fighting in its regular form and using its silk to control a large mecha-like four-legged construct called the Ahtal-Neset.
With or without mechanical assistance, Ahtal-Ka is tough, able to attack with Mantis-like claws, throw objects from range using silk threads, and bind players in place with pools of silk. As a final boss fight with fairly complex mechanics, it's unlikely Ahtal-Ka is the kind of monster that will make a reappearance, but they're definitely one of the strongest non-Elder Dragon monsters.
6 Rajang
Savage Ape
- Elements: Thunder
- Weaknesses: Ice
- First Game Appearance: Monster Hunter 2
Unlike some of the more imposing monsters in the series, Rajang isn't ten times the player's size, and it doesn't alter the whole fighting area with control of the elements. Rajang is just a strong horned ape - a Furious Rajang is canonically strong enough to defeat a Savage Deviljho with one punch.
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The shaggy, ape-like form, the immense physical strength, and the fact that the creature's hair rises and starts to turn gold when enraged is a nod to its inspiration from Dragon Ball's Saiyans and their Oozaru forms.
7 Shagaru Magala
Evolved Magala
- Elements: Earth / Frenzy
- Weaknesses: Dragon / Fire / Ice
- First Game Appearance: Monster Hunter 4
Gore Magala is already one of Monster Hunter Wilds' more challenging monsters. But the final form of Gore Magala is the Elder Dragon Shagaru Magala, and Gore Magala is a breeze in comparison. Shagaru Magala starts with a more advanced version of Gore Magala's enraged attack pattern, and only gets stronger from there.
In their appearances in Monster Hunter 4 and Monster Hunter GU, Shagaru Magala can spread Frenzy virus across a wide area rapidly, affecting other monsters and players. With Gore Magala already in the game, players are likely to see the star-winged Elder Dragon Shagaru Magala in Wilds at some point in the future.
8 Kushala Daora
Elder Wind Dragon
- Elements: Dragon / Ice / Fire
- Weaknesses: Dragon/ Thunder / Fire
- First Game Appearance: Monster Hunter 2
The Elder Dragons are generally considered to be the strongest monsters in Monster Hunter. While different games' mechanics and monster variants can make power levels difficult to gauge, lore-wise, this has always been the case. Kushala Daora was first introduced in Monster Hunter 2, as the Elder Dragon with control of the winds.
Kushala Daora is also known as the steel dragon, and its scales have a metallic quality, making them hard-wearing. Its control of the winds is signified by a rushing air effect enshrouding its body, but is most felt by the player in the destructive tornados that Daora attacks with. In previous appearances, Daora would also create a wind vortex that could push back players and deflect attacks when enraged, which had to be dispelled by breaking the monster's horn.
9 Fatalis
Black Dragon
- Elements: Dragon / Fire / Bleeding
- Weaknesses: Dragon / Fire
- First Game Appearance: Monster Hunter
Fatalis is a name that long-time Monster Hunter players will remember with fear. The black dragon has been in the series since the first game, and Fatalis and its variants have appeared in numerous games since. The visual design is strongly reminiscent of a classical Arthurian dragon, in contrast to the series' varied dragon and wyvern designs, but Fatalis' black and spiny looks radiate malice.
It's not easy to compare across different games and say which is the strongest version of Fatalis, but many players cite Monster Hunter 2's White Fatalis as a particularly nasty version, along with the G-Rank White Fatalis in Monster Hunter Frontier.
10 Alatreon
Elemental Master Dragon
- Elements: Dragon / Fire / Ice / Thunder / Water
- Weaknesses: Dragon / Fire / Ice
- First Game Appearance: Monster Hunter 3
In current Monster Hunter lore terms, Alatreon and Fatalis are generally held as the strongest monsters, even compared with other Elder Dragons. Alatreon has control of all elements, and that plays out in different ways in battle. In Alatreon's most recent appearance in Monster Hunter Worlds, the monster moves through elemental cycles, changing its resistances and attack patterns.
This version of the monster requires players to manage and overcome these cycles to avoid Alatreon's ultimate move, Eschaton Judgement, which is basically an elemental one-shot if players can't weaken it sufficiently. Alatreon is one of the strongest monsters canonically, but hunts involving Alatreon have been some of the toughest in their respective games, too.
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