How do you deal with Azure Rathalos?

[Alby]

That monster IS wrong!
He's constantly mid-air shooting fireballs.
Can't wait for the silver one..... jesus
What he will do? Shooting super novas while invisible?!

[Dart]

Originally posted by Lumiere:

Flash bomb resistance resets every rage in MR or room changes, but i might be wrong

I sincerely doubt the resistance mechanic is that simple. And if you are in the arena, you are just simply ♥♥♥♥♥♥ since he can't leave the area and whatnot.

[Popcorn]

Originally posted by Dart:

Originally posted by Lumiere:

Flash bomb resistance resets every rage in MR or room changes, but i might be wrong

I sincerely doubt the resistance mechanic is that simple. And if you are in the arena, you are just simply ♥♥♥♥♥♥ since he can't leave the area and whatnot.

Idk dawg, my bro just flashed a tempered azurelos yesterday after I flashed him 2 times, still got im

[Bounty 3unter]

If you're in high rank, abuse flash pods. If you're in master rank, abuse flinch shots. Azure Rathalos is a piece of cake when compared to silver Rathalos. Silver Rathalos hell on earth. He is extremely aggressive, easily stuns you, poisons you and sets you aflame, his fire balls set the ground aflame, he can shoot a huge fireball that deals a lot of damage and sets a large area on fire, and each of his body parts only takes white damage if not tenderized. My least favorite fight to be honest.

[mewlynx]

Originally posted by Bash:

If you're in high rank, abuse flash pods. If you're in master rank, abuse flinch shots. Azure Rathalos is a piece of cake when compared to silver Rathalos. Silver Rathalos hell on earth. He is extremely aggressive, easily stuns you, poisons you and sets you aflame, his fire balls set the ground aflame, he can shoot a huge fireball that deals a lot of damage and sets a large area on fire, and each of his body parts only takes white damage if not tenderized. My least favorite fight to be honest.

Pretty sure Silver's wings are a weakpoint untenderized. Same with Goldian.

[Muted Kobold]

Silver shoots novas and stays in the air for most of the fight. His nova fire ball is a one shot if it hits. Most of his fire balls have wind pressure on det, which he will immediately follow up with talons to the face.

Azure was much worse in previous generations as you had to force him to the ground. Flash bombs rarely worked cuz he was almost always raging. So you used bounce bombs to bring him down. Or prowlers trampoline.

[myhr2]

Originally posted by Dart:

You can't abuse flashbombs anymore. Theya re beyond worthless now. They didn't take into consideration the monsters that constantly stay airborne need some sort of emergency mechanic to get them out of the sky that is still somewhat limited.

Now, you get one flash tops guaranteed that you KNOW will get it out of the sky. After that, they stay airborne and you have to guage on whether or not your next one will have an effect at all.

Unless you flash once, and then wait for what seems like FOREVER until you can flash again to get some more damage in, you have to use other means like mounts, clutch claw, your highest arching attack, flinch shot or just gun them.

Seriously, flash bombs are garbage now, so stop saying "lol just bring flash pods guize XD" because that is no longer an option beyond the first because after the first one, once azure is airborne again, you are back to square one and can't use flashes effectively anymore.

And tempered? You may as well not even bother bringing flash bombs. No point.

I've started bringing glider mantle more recently now that I found out you can clutch claw, jump off and immediately go for an air attack on airborne monsters making mounting much more of a possibility. And glider mantle upgraded stays on for AGES so you can almost always get a mount.

Agree to disagree, Flashpods aren't as prevalent as before, but they are one more CC in your hunter pounch, are dirt cheap and available to all weapons. They just don't trivialize some fights anymore, but they're far from useless.

[Nope]

Originally posted by Alby:

That monster IS wrong!
He's constantly mid-air shooting fireballs.
Can't wait for the silver one..... jesus
What he will do? Shooting super novas while invisible?!

Don't worry about sliver, not because he's late into but because he fly even less than Gold rathian

[Nerevar]

silver is way better than what they call azure cancerlos for a reason. especially since iceborne.
silver atleast lands relatively commonly. cancerlos does not.

[JHarlequin]

Supposedly, direct hits in the face with some slinger ammo has chances of knocking them down. I have only seen it work once so it really isn't an effective plan.

Flash bombs as some said are supposed to do it, but they can resist as well as sometimes the flash goes off right in front of them, but they are counted as being mid animation and don't "see" it. So it has to be timed well and the monster can't resist for it to work.

You could also try paralyze knife or sleep knife, but that requires getting the knives and shrooms to do it so it isn't a good mechanic as it will take multiple hits usually and might work only one time.

Most monsters are never made with any vulnerable mechanic. Nearly infinite stamina to do hundreds of attacks before they slow down, or flying at any time that they aren't blinded makes it a bit overwhelming to face these monsters. You can get through these hunts and after you do something tougher a few times, these become trivial but it is still annoying to get through them in the first place.

[Washing Machine]

Silver comes down after a few fireballs.
Azz Rat stays in air. Forever.

[Fat Pigeon]

Originally posted by maelynx:

Pretty sure Silver's wings are a weakpoint untenderized. Same with Goldian.

Hitzone For Sever 50, for Blunt 45 but for Shot only 40 so range need to tendrize his wings.
But they have a 25 water weakness , second best against the broken head with 30 water

[OKT]

So I noticed not many people mentioned how to deal with angered Azure Rath once flashpods, bombs, traps, etc. have been exhausted. It's the most frustrating part of the fight to deal with while using melee weapons.

1. Fire slinger ammo like it's low rank. Sounds dumb and suboptimal, but when you can't reach the monster at any point in time, it's better than sitting around waiting.

2. Watch the Azure Rath's aerial attack pattern. You'll notice that it mainly uses its fireballs and swoop attacks in quick succession. The only ones that aren't used in sequence are the bite and tail swing, the latter of which has massive start up and blind spot directly under the Azure Rath. From this, we can assume that the area directly underneath the Azure Rath is relatively safe after fireballs and other attacks since only the swoop and the big take-off fireball can you hit you there.

3. If Azure Rath is breaking up its sequences with frequent swoops and take-off fireballs, you can assume the tail is safe to grapple on to immediately after the attack is done. The Azure Rath never swoops twice in a row in a sequence and can't use the tail swipe fast enough to shake you off in time. Every swoop is a free grapple attack.

Hope this helps.

[Necroshine]

Originally posted by Philosopickle:

Are you in HR? Just abuse the flash pods.
Also yeah, wait til you get to Gold Rathian and Silver Rathalos. :mhwhelp:

Gold and Silver in the same small room is my wall in this game. I HAD to SoS it. That quest was a literal effing nightmare.

[McREEEEEE]

Flying monsters aren't exactly designed for fun. Capcom straight up just design them to be as infuriating as possible

Clutch claw. Fling shot them while they're on air and not enraged. Enraged? Flash them down. Slap them around. Trap them. Repeat. Maybe fill in some wall slam if you want to fk them over even more

[Goilveig]

Originally posted by Fat Pigeon:

Originally posted by maelynx:

Pretty sure Silver's wings are a weakpoint untenderized. Same with Goldian.

Hitzone For Sever 50, for Blunt 45 but for Shot only 40 so range need to tendrize his wings.
But they have a 25 water weakness , second best against the broken head with 30 water

Hmm, when I went up against Silver without Mind's Eye, I was sometimes bouncing on what I thought were clean wing hits even with white sharpness (slashing damage).