Killed in One hit

[Kiwi]

Hello everyone, i have a question about something strange.

There are two monsters (i don't remember the names) in two different missions, the chocobo hunting :-) and the 3rd or 4th in MH Iceborne that you have to hunter a monster that put poison. That two monster do an specific attack that kill me in one hit, whatever health i have.

Is this possible? Must i have something to avoid it?

Thanks.

[zghaun]

I assume this is the first time you encounter one-shot moves, there will be A LOT MORE

All of them are dodgeable and have very recognizable indicator

[Jereweeb]

I have a feeling you're talking about Mosswinin' and Dinin' in base game, where you have to hunt 5 giant Mosswines; and Paolumu Lullabies in Iceborne, where you have to fight a tiny Nightshade Paolumu. Both instances will oneshot you regardless of defense, so you just need to be very careful to never get hit.

For the mosswines, try to inflict crowd control ailments, like Paralysis, Sleep, or Stun. Hitting the pigs with rocks staggers them. Using light bowguns or bows with those ailments are probably your safest options.

For the nightshade paolumu, there's not a lot of "trick" other than to flat out kill it as fast as you can. It's so tiny and slow that most of its attacks will probably miss you, but be wary of its sleep gases. Ranged is far safer, but melee is still viable if you're careful.

These two are the only event quests that are intentionally "silly" in that it's always a oneshot even if you have 9000 defense. Any other instance of attacks, excluding ultra endgame bosses oneshot moves, are not true "oneshots", but just normal moves that deals high damage, and your armor defense probably just wasn't high enough.

If my two guesses were not what you're talking about, then my bad.

[D. Flame]

Only a few attacks are one shots. Behemoth's meteor is one of those. You can avoid it by standing behind one of the rocks/comets he calls down during the fight. They will block the impact. That's why you have to try to avoid letting him break them all during the fight.

You also get a jump emote (like a dragoon from FF14). You can use it to jump off the screen to avoid being one shotted too, but the timing is pretty strict and changes based on how close or far you are from the impact point.

As for most other moves, they aren't true one shots. They just do a lot of damage. You can tank through them with skills like Guts or by superman diving to avoid them.

[Anoyun?]

Originally posted by Kiwi:

Hello everyone, i have a question about something strange.

There are two monsters (i don't remember the names) in two different missions, the chocobo hunting :-) and the 3rd or 4th in MH Iceborne that you have to hunter a monster that put poison. That two monster do an specific attack that kill me in one hit, whatever health i have.

Is this possible? Must i have something to avoid it?

Thanks.

chocobo? kuluyaku with crystal the final fantasy event his 3rd form can i hit. and for the 2nd one if im correct that would be viper tobi kadachi i believe his spinning jumping move can 1 hit if you have low defense

[Jereweeb]

Ok, after thinking and re-reading the original post a bit, I think I finally understand better what OP is trying to say.

Originally posted by Kiwi:

the chocobo hunting

I'm pretty sure you're talking about the giant Kulu-Ya-Ku holding the giant crystal quest. Kulu here does deal insane damage, to the point that it's virtually a one-shot to most unprepared hunters. It's NOT a oneshot, it just deals a lot of damage. Upgrade your armor as best as you can, maybe progress a bit more to get better upgrades, or just completely avoid his attacks. Don't overcommit, do quick attacks and always be ready to dodge. As far as I know, he can't be stunned, paralyzed, slept, or anything that will usually make a Kulu-Ya-Ku drop their rock/egg. Focus on dodging and damaging, and with patience, you'll kill it.

Originally posted by Kiwi:

and the 3rd or 4th in MH Iceborne that you have to hunter a monster that put poison.

I'm gonna assume by "3rd or 4th", you meant the 3rd or 4th assigned quest, where you have to fight the dark red/brown ish Viper Tobi-Kadachi. This one is just straight up silly, as he isn't buffed in any form of way. You're just dealing with a normal Master Rank quest monster. His damage is normal, I'm assuming you just have very undergeared high rank/master rank armor. That's early Master Rank for you - everything oneshots you if you're not wearing proper defense. Get Master Rank armor as soon as you can, and upgrade them. I replaced my full Behemoth armor with just Bone and Kulu-Ya-Ku armors, and they're already far stronger than Behemoth's.

[Roshambo]

Armor for end of MHW DEF 450-550

Armor for most of Iceborne DEF 700-900 (Rarity 9-10)

Armor for endgame Iceborne DEF 1000-1100 (Rarity 10-12)

Use armor spheres to upgrade armor beyond base level. Below these thresholds you will encounter monsters who hit hard enough to one-shot you. At end game some attacks can one shot you anyways.

* When you unlock the Guiding Lands at the end of the Iceborne story be sure to farm zones there until you fight tempered monsters. They will drop items that will enhance your armor cap to reach higher Defense levels with armor spheres.

[Agoraphobic Meep]

final fantasy kulu is just a bastard, and he does a lot of damage. You can build towards survivability to avoid "fake" one shots from end-game monsters though. Mainly look towards building for health boost and divine blessing. Stun resistance is nice too and evade window and extender both actually help you not get hit in the first place.

Rule of thumb for MH buildmaking, if you're dying too much, you have too much DPS and not enough survivability specced. There's nothing wrong with taking off some levels of attack boost or WEX for divine blessing.

Also viper tobi kadachi isn't that strong, you probably just haven't equipped iceborne armor like weeb said. Do that.

[cruste]

Originally posted by Roshambo:

Armor for end of MHW DEF 450-550

Armor for most of Iceborne DEF 700-900 (Rarity 9-10)

Armor for endgame Iceborne DEF 1000-1100 (Rarity 10-12)

Use armor spheres to upgrade armor beyond base level. Below these thresholds you will encounter monsters who hit hard enough to one-shot you. At end game some attacks can one shot you anyways.

* When you unlock the Guiding Lands at the end of the Iceborne story be sure to farm zones there until you fight tempered monsters. They will drop items that will enhance your armor cap to reach higher Defense levels with armor spheres.

wasn't mhw endgame armor more like 350 for the average defender build user, you needed hero streamstone to unlock the augmenting option for the armor obtained from t2/t3 or arch temp monsters to get that fancy 450 number

which might also explain the one shot from the chicken while he is simply went undergeared in endgame mhw content

[9oaD]

Those numbers listed seem fine to me. I just skimmed through my builds.

The older ones from mhw are in the range of 450 up to high 500's There were a few in 700-900 range for iceborne, and the rest of my builds are all 1000+ the highest is 1250 but will buff up with pots and a meal if I will be tanking

[Roshambo]

Originally posted by cruste:

wasn't mhw endgame armor more like 350 for the average defender build user, you needed hero streamstone to unlock the augmenting option for the armor obtained from t2/t3 or arch temp monsters to get that fancy 450 number

which might also explain the one shot from the chicken while he is simply went undergeared in endgame mhw content

350 would work for the end of the story in MHW. By the time you are into endgame content for MHW you would be expected to farm those streamstones to reach the MHW DEF cap for things like Arch-Tempered monsters or that giant chicken (which was a prelude mission to the Behemoth fight) or else you would get a lot of one shot deaths. Those missions were released over a year after launch with updates so people had time to grind. These days you can just use MR gear to finish MHW endgame missions though.