Monster Hunter Wilds: Every monster confirmed so far

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A hunter sits atop their Seikret mount, their palico seated behind them.

Recent updatesJanuary 8, 2025:Alongside a second open beta test for Wilds, the return of the Gypceros has been announced and added to our compendium. We are anticipating a second announcement closer to the time of the open beta, but we don’t know what creature that will be yet.

Recent updates

January 8, 2025:Alongside a second open beta test for Wilds, the return of the Gypceros has been announced and added to our compendium. We are anticipating a second announcement closer to the time of the open beta, but we don’t know what creature that will be yet.

WithMonster Hunter Wildsreleasing in just over a month, it’s worth studying the confirmed monsters we’ll be hunting across the Forbidden Lands. Preparation is, after all, half of the hunter’s job—even if that preparation only involves deciding which armor piece would most improve your outfit so you know which beast to target first. No matter what threats Capcom adds, every hunter’s greatest prize is fashion at the end of the day.

Capcom has been slowly revealing new and returning monsters in Monster Hunter Wilds, from series classics like Rathalos and Yian Kut-Ku to all-new beasties like the lightning-launching Rey Dau. Whether you’re swinginga hammer, shelling with a gunlance,or sobbing over losing the ability to stay airborne with your insect glaive, here’s the list of confirmed monsters you’ll be facing in February.

We’ll be updating this list with additional monster reveals as we approach the Monster Hunter Wilds release.

Ajarakan

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Ajarakan, a fiery, metal-plated fanged beast in Monster Hunter Wilds

Monster Class:Fanged Beast |Habitat:Oilwell Basin

Ajarakan is a hyper-aggressive, hulking primate in a similar vein as long-time monster favoriteRajang. But where Rajang is a lightning-charged, Super Saiyan ape, Ajarakan is more of a metal-plated mandrill. Monster Hunter isn’t a series that’s content to settle with a steel-encased baboon, however. When Ajarakan’s enraged, it’ll rake its own shell with its claws until the metal plating is molten-hot, presumably adding fire damage to its rampage.

Arkveld

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Arkveld, the mascot monster from Monster Hunter Wilds—a large flying wyvern with whip-like wing appendages.

Monster Class:Unknown |Habitat:Unknown

Extending from Arkveld’s forelimbs are two whip-like appendages. During its reveal in the fourth Monster Hunter Wilds trailer, it can be seen with its whips glowing as they’re coiled around another monster.

I can only speculate, but considering that it’s a massive, horned, white wyvern with a majestic beard, I feel like we can safely assume that its armor sets will look pretty rad, at least.

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Balahara

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Balahara, a worm-like leviathan monster from Monster Hunter Wilds.

Monster Class:Leviathan |Habitat:Windward Plains

Leviathan monsters tend to be aquatic, but Balahara instead occupies the sands of the Windward Plains as an ambush predator. Its coiled, spiraling scales let it burrow beneath the sand to create quicksand traps to swallow hunters and other monsters.

The Black Flame

Monster Class:Unknown |Habitat:Oilwell Basin

We don’t yet know the actual name of the monster that the inhabitants of the Oilwell Basin call “The Black Flame.” From the brief glimpse of the creature Capcom gave at the end of the Oilwell Basin trailer, it seems to be a huge, spined cephalopod that’s constantly exuding oil, which it can ignite at will to produce gouts of fire.

It bears a passing resemblance to the elder dragonNakarkos, a giant squid-like monster first introduced in Monster Hunter Generations that encases its tentacles in the skeletons of other monsters. Those could just be coincidental or taxonomic similarities, but it’s possible that The Black Flame is some form of Nakarkos variant or subspecies.

Chatacabra

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Chatacabra, the frog-like amphibian monster from Monster Hunter Wilds.

Monster Class:Amphibian |Habitat:Windward Plains

One of the introductory hunt targets in Wilds, Chatacabra is a frog-like amphibian monster. While it can use its long tongue to attack, its primary utility is coating the Chatacabra’s forearms with a thick, adhesive saliva which lets the monster attach environmental materials to strengthen its attacks. It’s, you know, gross. Still, points for ingenuity.

Congalala

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Congalala, a pink-furred, hippo-faced ape monster returning in Monster Hunter Wilds

Monster Class:Fanged Beast |Habitat:Scarlet Forest

First introduced in Monster Hunter 2, Congalala is a returning foe with a famed reputation—not for its striking pink pelt, not for its ripping claws and simian strength, but for its flatulence. Congalala farts, and Congolala farts to kill. Hunters caught in the blast radius suffer the Stench status, preventing them from eating any consumables.

Oh, and it can throw dung at you. Watch our for that.

Doshaguma

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Doshaguma, a shaggy, burly fanged beast monster from Monster Hunter Wilds.

Monster Class:Fanged Beast |Habitat:Windward Plains, Scarlet Forest

Players of the first Monster Hunter Wilds beta in October 2024 likely battled an Alpha Doshaguma in the Windward Plains, but trailers have also shown them in the Scarlet Forest region.

Gypceros

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Gypceros the bird wyvern in Monster Hunter Wilds

Monster Class: Bird Wyvern |Habitat:Unknown

Following its debut in the original Monster Hunter, the return of the Gypceros has been announced for Wilds. As one of the heaviest bird wyverns, the Gypceros is a pretty intimidating beast already, and that’s before you’ve experienced how quick they are to play dead in an attempt to outsmart any hunter. Delivering bright, dizzying flashes and a mass of toxic fluids there’s a lot to factor into your next encounter with one.

Players of the second open beta test being held in February 2025 will get to experience an encounter with the Gypceros and get a headstart in mastering its tricks before the full launch.

Lala Barina

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Lala Barina, a rose-themed temnoceran monster from Monster Hunter Wilds.

Monster Class:Temnoceran |Habitat:Scarlet Forest

Lala Barina is like if a dracula was a giant wooly spider made out of knives and spears. Nesting in webs of crimson silk in the Scarlet Forest region, it can extend sets of scything claws from its forelimbs, while its abdomen boasts a retractable, impaling stinger.

When enraged, the Lala Barina can unfold its abdomen, appearing to bloom like a giant rose. When it does so, it can scatter bundled florets of its silk, which will paralyze hunters on contact.

Quematrice

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Quematrice, a cockatrice-like brute wyvern monster from Monster Hunter Wilds.

Monster Class:Brute Wyvern |Habitat:Windward Plains

The Quematrice is one of the tyrannosaurish brute wyverns, but this one is crested and draped in sheets of sagging hide to give it an appearance resembling the mythological cockatrice. Given that the Spanish “quemar” means “to burn,” I’ll give you a few seconds to guess what its special talent is before I continue.

If your answer was “create horrible fire,” you’re right! The Quematrice can spread a flammable powder, which it can ignite with sweeps of its tail.

Rathalos

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A Rathalos soars over the Windward Plains in the reveal trailer of Monster Hunter Wilds.

Monster Class:Flying Wyvern |Habitat:Unknown

Rathalos, the flying wyvern mascot for the Monster Hunter series as a whole, hasn’t been seen battling any hunters in Wilds footage released so far, but it’s briefly seen flying over the landscape at the end of theWilds reveal trailer. Considering the King of the Skies has been huntable in every Monster Hunter game to date, it’s safe to assume that appearance wasn’t just for show.

Having hunted Rathalos for years now, I think of it more as an old friend than a storied foe. At least, until I remember all the times it’s refused to land while raking me with poisonous talons and strafing the area with fireballs. Ah, memories.

Rathian

Psst, hunters, just a reminder of the reveal of a returning monster from NYCC!The iconic Queen of the Land, Rathian, is back in all her majesty in Monster Hunter Wilds! #MHWilds pic.twitter.com/hRSj6x23eeDecember 2, 2024

Monster Class:Flying Wyvern |Habitat:Scarlet Forest

What’s the King of the Skies without the Queen of the Land? Rathian, Rathalos’s green-clad consort, made her Wilds debut at New York Comic Con, where players could face the series fixture in preview demos.

Like Rathalos, Rathian can utilize fiery breath attacks. Where Rathalos’s main poison risk is its claws, however, Rathian’s is its tail, which ends in a cluster of poisonous barbs. Not even severing the tail will keep her from being able to poison you—a mystery that baffles the brightest hunter minds even to this day.

Rey Dau

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Rey Dau, the flying wyvern apex predator of the Windward Plains in Monster Hunter Wilds.

Monster Class:Flying Wyvern |Habitat:Windward Plains

The Rey Dau is the imposing apex predator of the Windward Plains, where it most often appears during the lightning storms that sweep across the region during the Sandtide. Able to harness the lightning strikes for its own ends, it can charge its bladed wings and tail with electricity, carving superheated streaks into the landscape as it attacks.

For its heaviest attack, Rey Dau can snap its horns forward to turn its head into an organic railgun, which lets it channel a blast of lightning capable of one-hitting an unwary hunter. Successfully dodging the blast gives, however, gives you an opportunity to land a focus strike on the Rey Dau’s head as it cools down from the attack.

Rompopolo

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Rompopolo, a purple, bulbous brute wyvern from Monster Hunter Worlds, covered in poison-filled sacs.

Monster Class:Brute Wyvern |Habitat:Oilwell Basin

Rompopolo is a hateful creature. I mean, look at it. Vile thing.

If simply beholding a Rompopolo doesn’t convince you that it’s beyond any human capacity for mercy, all its nightmarish, bulbous sacs are filled with a poisonous gas, which it can inject into the oil-soaked silt of its home terrain to cause a violent explosion. Awful.

Uth Duna

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Uth Duna, the aquatic leviathan apex predator of the Scarlet Forest in Monster Hunter Wilds.

Monster Class:Leviathan |Habitat:Scarlet Forest

Uth Duna is a large, bulky leviathan that acts as the apex predator of the Scarlet Forest region. According to Capcom, it’s seen most often during the Downpour, when the Scarlet Forest floods with torrential rainwater. Capable of manipulating moisture, Uth Duna can use the Downpour’s waters to veil itself in a protective barrier.

Revealed in the Monster Hunter Wilds release date trailer, Uth Duna looks—and seems to fight—like a cross between aRoyal Ludrothand the elder dragonNamielle, slamming with its bulk, striking with its claws and fangs, and launching itself into water to send flood surges sweeping across the battlefield.

Yian Kut-Ku

The big beaked bird wyvern, Yian Kut-Ku, returns with a vengeance in Monster Hunter Wilds!How and when will you encounter them? That’s for you to find out! #MHWilds pic.twitter.com/anw15tiFXKSeptember 26, 2024

Monster Class:Bird Wyvern |Habitat:Scarlet Forest

Like Rathalos, Yian Kut-Ku has been around since the very first Monster Hunter game, although it’s been absent from the last few mainline releases. Returning in Wilds, it’ll apparently be one of the monster species that can be encountered in packs. Given its penchant for loud squawks, I’m sure that’ll be a lovely acoustic experience for everyone involved.

The Yian Kut-Ku can launch fireballs from its beak, and it’s recognizable for its characteristic frills that flare open when it’s on alert. With Yian Kut-Ku confirmed for Wilds, it’s worth wondering whether we’ll also seeYian Garuga: a related species that possesses a poisonous, barbed tail.

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Ajarakan#

Arkveld#

Balahara#

The Black Flame#

Chatacabra#

Congalala#

Doshaguma#

Gypceros#

Lala Barina#

Quematrice#

Rathalos#

Rathian#

Rey Dau#

Rompopolo#

Uth Duna#

Yian Kut-Ku#

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Ajarakan

Arkveld

Balahara

The Black Flame

Chatacabra

Congalala

Doshaguma

Gypceros

Lala Barina

Quematrice

Rathalos

Rathian

Rey Dau

Rompopolo

Uth Duna

Yian Kut-Ku

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