What is the best equipment for fighting against high rank Vaal hazak and Kushala daora (I’m bad)

[Yulapboy]

I’m just really dont like dying and im stuck

[Suzaku]

Miasma resistance is recommended for Vaal, though you likely don't have any access to it unless you randomly acquired a Miasma decoration if this is your first time meeting them. Otherwise, Vaal's own armor has the skill on it.

Kushala likes to fly a lot, and fliers are easy to blind out of the sky with a flash pod. Bring those and more bugs to craft more flash pods during the fight.

The rest is up to your own skills.

[Bobucles]

Health boost 3
effluvial resist 3 for vaal
SoS flare for kush

[Yulapboy]

Originally posted by Suzaku:

Miasma resistance is recommended for Vaal, though you likely don't have any access to it unless you randomly acquired a Miasma decoration if this is your first time meeting them. Otherwise, Vaal's own armor has the skill on it.

Kushala likes to fly a lot, and fliers are easy to blind out of the sky with a flash pod. Bring those and more bugs to craft more flash pods during the fight.

The rest is up to your own skills.

What about weapons

[Suzaku]

Whatever you're best at using. And whatever the best you can craft.

[Fustigate]

If you can't get effluvial rank 3 for Vaal, at least bring nulberries.

[Ishinoyonitsuyoi]

Originally posted by Yulapboy:

What about weapons

Just get a high Fire element weapon. Then stuff your pack with Large Barrel Bomb and Mega Barrel Bomb and the spare ingredients to make them. Light Vaal on fire repeatedly until it is no more. Kushala is another annoying wyvern. Like already mentioned, spam flashes until it dies. It keeps flying up and making gust tornados- so you would want to flash it before it does. As for weapon types, it depends on your gameplay preference. I prefer lance because these two tend to stand on their rear legs and having a pokey stick to their chest works.

[cruste]

range weapon make both monster trivial

choral orchester tool for palico might help with the annoying wind, when you use a melee weapon

[HeyItsYuu]

I kind of forgot in highrank about dragon seal, dragon elemental weapon is recommended, fire weapon also deals more damage to it. As for additional bring nullberry or cleanser booster to gain back your max health.

Kushala daora you have to bring him to the land with flashpod
poison is best against it to weaken him, somehow making his wind on his body disappeared
but again dragonseal just break it's horn

goodluck

[Yulapboy]

Thank you all for the advice

[NoRa_G]

Brute forcing vaal without the effluvia resist is a pain yeah. These are some of the fights where the game is really telling you to either plan ahead, or accept that you'll have to hit your head against a more frustrating wall (also completely doable but again more of a pain), in the same vein that anjanath is the game telling you you gotta actually outfight something to beat it sometimes. Don't give up, they're infamously annoying monsters for a lot of people, doesn't mean you're bad.

[N.GinWorks]

Vaal Hazak might be tricky considering that thing gas would cause miasma ailment, and it also mostly fight on effluvia area (the poisoned area). Considering you're in HR, we can forgot the Miasma resistance. Say, how about Immunity mantle? And lots of nullberry. if you run out, pay visit to botany researcher and fill all of the slot with nullberry. This item is the only cure for miasma ailment. In case you didn't know, while you can't beat the miasma, you can at least get rid the gassy area with torch pod. Fire it on the ground and it will clear out the area from gas, reducing one headache of this fight. Vaal Hazak is easy dragon overall since most part of its body is a weak point. Just use whatever weapon you good at. I beat that thing with Bow for first time if you curious. But even that doesn't guarantee no-faint.

Kushala? Obviously Wind resistance or Rocksteady mantle is your friend here. It might fly a lot but flash bomb is enough to bring it down for your beating pleasure. Bear in mind if 2 of its wind collide, it will cause larger tornado. If it was happening on volcano area? Firestorm. This Dragon would fly bunch of time but it usually wasn't that long compared to Rathalos so there's that. You can use range to cut down the effort of waiting it to get low enough to attack but I would recommend use melee regardless for this one since Kushala can block range attack when it berserk in which you can only attack head. When I said block your attack I mean totally nullify your EVERY range damage to its body.

Point aside, just bring your latest armor and upgrade it when you got the material. Also read the Hunter Notes in start menu as it will display the monster weak point and element weakness listed there.

[Cyber Von Cyberus]

For HR Vaal Hazak, you'll want a lot of nullberries and a fire weapon, he's intimidating at first, but he's fairly sluggish compared to some other stuff you might've fought earlier so don't lose your confidence.

Kushala Daodra's wind can't be mitigated without its own armour set (lmao). Your best bet is to fill your inventory with flashpods and flashbugs and exploit the hell out of them to keep that thing permanently on the ground.

[Amaterasu]

Blind the everloving ♥♥♥♥ out of Kushala. I used to not know this trick, then wound up in a party where we ended Kushala in 5 minutes doing this. Then my last attempt was 1 minute trying to find it, 9 minutes just thoroughly spanking it.

Vaal Hazak is pretty easy I find. If you have Miasma Decos, insert them into your gear. Keep in mind as an Elder Dragon, Vaal does a lot of damage compared to normal monsters and if you can't get Effluvium Resistance level 3, you'll want to bring nullberries to the fight. In fact, you could say that it's rather... critical that you bring them anyhow. He's extremely fire weak, so if you don't have a Negigante weapon, bring your best Rath, Anja, or Lavasioth weapon.

[palacentes]

Health boost 3 matters a lot. Its bigger value than defense.

You can prob find access to nergi armor and use that, its pretty solid base defense.

Eat or drink max potion/ ancient potion, 200 hp is possible. 50 from health 3 and 50 from food/ max potion, then finally 100 base hp.

Defense meal L would be nice too, or buff items like armorskin. Same for armorcharm, super expensive thingy sold in the item shop. Can google these, they last until you faint, except for the charm, its permanent.

Try staying close to val, its worst moves is prob blasting you with its fog breath, the laser one, that really hurts and it tags you easier if you are far. Its a huge opening if you are too close.
Then effluvia res, or bring nulberry to cure the max HP down effect.

Daora, you can spam flash pods to force it to land, if it flies( monster head must see the flash, or the flash does nothing to it). That also makes an opening to smash it. Also try to sprint off ledges and use jump attacks to mount the monster, another good way of bringing it down.

To get rid of its wind armor, you can use elder seal, a nerg weapon for example, or pick up a dragon pod ( red slinger ammo that drops if you keep hitting it) and unload like 6 or 7 shots to it. That will cause elder seal and turn the wind armor off. This can also affect val, shutting down its power for a bit.

If you dont have elder seal, you have to max out the reach of your weapon and strike parts like the tail tip or the head, so you can hurt it even tho it has wind armor on( weapons w longer reach have more leeway) . Waiting it out is an option, but that feels bad.