Why does trapping not work sometimes

[BadMedium]

Sometimes, when there's a skull icon over a monster on the minimap, indicating I've done enough damage that it's almost dead, trapping doesn't work. This ♥♥♥♥ bothers me. Is there something I'm missing?

[Khergit Horse Archer]

wdym it doesnt work?

did u throw tranquil bombs or w/e those things are called

[zero]

are they not falling into the trap?
or what exactly is happening, which monster?

[Wata-san]

Are you using 2 tranq bombs + the trap or do you mean the trap itself isn't working? Some monsters are immune to certain traps (e.g Rey dau/gypceros are immune to shock traps)

[Glimmer]

As others have said, some traps do not work on certain monsters. It will tell you on the right side of the screen if a trap is effective or ineffective.

After trapping a monster, you need 2 direct hits with tranq bombs or tranq knives. If it escapes the trap before you get those hits in, you won't be able to capture it unless you can trap and tranquilize it again.

[Fana]

you have to check if traps work or not on the monster book thing

[Kairo]

Some missions require you to slay the monster no capturing allowed

[The Hate of Haters]

Are you trying to capture on missions that specify you need to "slay the monster"? That type of mission disallows capturing and thus just doesn't work when you try.

[Null Winter]

Several monsters are immune to shock traps; their beastiary entry usually notes that their electric/rubbery nature protects them. Pitfalls seem to be universal.

Two tranq bombs is, weirdly, always enough once their HP is below the threshold and they're caught in a trap. If you dropped 2 and they weren't captured, then either they're immune to capture per the quest rules ("Slay" instead of just "Hunt") or you haven't dropped their HP enough.

Lore-wise, you'd expect to always be required to slay Gore Magala and Frenzy Virus infected monsters, but you can capture them just fine outside of the post-credits story missions. Guardian type monsters are listed as being univerally immune to exhaustion, but capturing still seems to work.

Jin is immune to traps by virtue of being the overall biggest thing in the game, and by extension it is immune to being captured.

[Khergit Horse Archer]

Originally posted by Null Winter:

Several monsters are immune to shock traps; their beastiary entry usually notes that their electric/rubbery nature protects them. Pitfalls seems to be universal.

Two tranq bombs is, weirdly, always enough once their HP is below the threshold and they're caught in a trap. If you dropped 2 and they weren't captured, then either they're immune to capture per the quest rules ("Slay" instead of just "Hunt") or you haven't dropped their HP enough.

Lore-wise, you'd expect to always be required to slay Gore Magala and Frenzy Virus infected monsters, but you can capture them just fine outside of the post-credits story missions. Guardian type monsters are listed as being univerally immune to exhaustion, but capturing still seems to work.

Jin is immune to traps by virtue of being the overall biggest thing in the game, and by extension it is immune to being captured.

im pretty sure u can trap jin but u cant capture him

[Kaulder]

just ran into this, if the quest says "slay" you can not capture. it has to say "hunt"

[Null Winter]

Originally posted by Khergit Horse Archer:

im pretty sure u can trap jin but u cant capture him

I've never had it fall into a trap or get zapped regardless of type or placement. Stopped after the fourth attempt.

[Khergit Horse Archer]

Originally posted by Null Winter:

Originally posted by Khergit Horse Archer:

im pretty sure u can trap jin but u cant capture him

I've never had it fall into a trap or get zapped regardless of type or placement. Stopped after the fourth attempt.

im too lazy to record me trapping it but fextralife and game8 does say it can be shock trapped and i kind of remember seeing it get trapped

https://monsterhunterwilds.wiki.fextralife.com/Jin+Dahaad
https://game8.co/games/Monster-Hunter-Wilds/archives/499608

[liberator65853]

Originally posted by Khergit Horse Archer:

Originally posted by Null Winter:

I've never had it fall into a trap or get zapped regardless of type or placement. Stopped after the fourth attempt.

im too lazy to record me trapping it but fextralife and game8 does say it can be shock trapped and i kind of remember seeing it get trapped

https://monsterhunterwilds.wiki.fextralife.com/Jin+Dahaad
https://game8.co/games/Monster-Hunter-Wilds/archives/499608

He can be trapped yep but there seems to be a bug where he can't be trapped by some people. My traps don't work on him. I've seen some people in SOS groups trap him though and others who's traps just don't go off. Unsure if its a bug that he can or can't be trapped though.

[1Erik1]

You are probably missing something. There are two cases in the story mode where you actually have to slay the monster that could normally be captured instead for story reasons. Due to spoiler I won't mention the instances, but they will be fairly obvious in the context.

The other reason is that some monsters are immune to certain type of traps for reasons that make sense, howether that is mentioned in the monster compendium as an immunity in one of the sections regarding this monster.

Usually by context these are also fairly obvious like for example the absolute thunder dragon Rey Dau won't possibly be shocked by an electric trap. A less obvious one is Gypceros, but that also makes sense if you think about it, because his whole body/skin is made of stretchy rubber material. He inherently is unaffected by such small electrical charges caused by a shock trap due to that.

Also if a monster is way too small/does not weigh enough they won't trigger a pitfall trap. Off the top of my head though I don't think there is one in Wilds that would fit that description yet. In previous titles usually the velociraptor-esque monsters had this interaction. The rule of thumb is if it is not much larger than the small monsters it won't trigger a pitfall trap.

Last but not least elder dragons are unaffected by traps entirely because they are way too strong to be contained or too big or both.

[DilTinman]

Either they're immune to shock traps (Gypceros and Rey Dau are two that come to mind for that) or you're in a mission to where you have to slay them and can't capture them so check if your objective says hunt (capturable) or slay (not capturable)