How long do I have when "monster leaving local soon" appears?

[BaconBankai]

I know fighting it gets it to stay a bit longer it's unclear on exactly how long. Like if I'm fighting a monster at 70% hp left and it says that should I even bother?

[Xilo The Odd]

i mean, if its in guiding you can still make them drop shinies. always worth it.

we had a rajang with no broken parts say it was gonna leave. we ended up full breaking it and capping it. before it could. and we were pretty sure leaving was its next move.

from my experience its like a 2-5 min warning. there is some variance.

[Nonexistinghero]

Hard to say. I've started fighting monsters when I saw that message and finished them before they left. But I've also seen the message appear after mostly killing them and had them leaving before even having the chance to finish them off or catch them. I've also seen monsters I didn't even see get that message of leaving soon, then them still being around like 15-20 minutes later after I captured different monster. Seems random, IMO.

[RopeDrink]

It is explained that said timer in Guiding Lands is somewhat extended when sufficient damage is done to the monster at some point early in its tutorial. How accurate that is or what it truly means is a different story.

I tend to put it down to about 3-4 minutes between 'leaving soon' and 'has left' in terms of untouched monsters, but that's just guessing, and only for the Guiding Lands.

[Xilo The Odd]

Originally posted by RopeDrink:

It is explained that said timer in Guiding Lands is somewhat extended when sufficient damage is done to the monster at some point early in its tutorial. How accurate that is or what it truly means is a different story.

I tend to put it down to about 3-4 minutes between 'leaving soon' and 'has left' in terms of untouched monsters, but that's just guessing, and only for the Guiding Lands.

ah i missed that part. i guess no message pops up for when this happens though like with Kulve.

[Mare/\thyu]

In my experience, any monster that isn't lured or any monster that you don't know when it spawned in may just leave at any point. I only fight monsters if I lured it or watched it spawn, since I have had cases where the monster left without the warning even showing up.

That being said, or is always worth going for a monster that is leaving soon because you can always make it drop materials by being parts, smashing it into a wall etc.