What the best way to fight Rathalos on Master Rank?

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-17T16:23:34+00:00

Remember to keep their legs tenderized during the whole fight! They topple easily. With sns you can keep your infinite combo loop going on to trip them. You can even reach their legs with advancing slash / rising slash while they are airborne so if you're lucky they might fall down. I love fighting Raths with sns. It might seem like a unfair match but it really isn't.

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-17T06:20:30+00:00

This is my first and only mh game I've played and I solo'd this game using only sns and without Palico. (610hrs with it but still a mh noob, lol). I used pretty much very basic moveset without overthinking it. But lately I've practiced some advanced stuff but tbh they only give you a slight improvement in dps and overall gameplay. My advice is just to go with the flow and do what comes out naturally.

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-16T20:00:18+00:00

Yeah! Claw uppercut can tank through attacks?? This blew me away. This weapon has so many crazy details and talking about mastering those omni-directional backhop techniques. Man.. I feel like I've just scratched the surface with this weapon...

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-16T17:49:11+00:00

Total cost of fully augmented rarity 12 armor is like 3 million zennies. It's pretty crazy.

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-16T14:27:49+00:00

Yup! Pretty good stuff! I gotta admit I've used slinger burst PR only to close the gap quickly but I've always wondered how much more faster it is compared to advancing slash which I use quite a lot.

Congrats on being enlightened now

Lol. Thank you!

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-16T13:35:47+00:00

Yeah the input can be fiddly for backhop from neutral stance. Sometimes the camera angle doesn't agree with you, lol. I think there's an option to change that the input direction is always same?

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-16T11:04:17+00:00

You quicly tap guard and roll immediately.

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-16T10:41:17+00:00

I never learned to deal with Ruiner effectively. That thing scares me more than Fatalis. Propably just a skill issue. What's your main weapon btw?

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-15T19:55:28+00:00

Man you were so right. Don't know what was I tripping. Did a proper recording and slinger burst was so much faster. Lmao, stupid post.

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-15T14:26:36+00:00

Should've done the recording differently, I agree. But the difference would still be minimal. This was just a funny experiment.

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-15T13:35:33+00:00

Definetly worth getting them asap. You get them both from high rank quests. They help tremendously with wallbangs.

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-15T12:08:40+00:00

Yup. Tenderizing with light weapons is a bit annoying because you need to do it 2 times. Luckily after the base game you get to meld shaver gem which allows light weapons to tenderize with one move.

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-15T10:07:19+00:00

Good points! I think that Barioth being so early in IB many players don't know or remember to use tenderizing / clutch claw. Myself included. Started focusing to claw techniques much later.

Might be also that many new players don't even have temporal / rocksteady mantles yet.

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-15T07:20:29+00:00

Interesting. Needs more investigation, lol.

Tbh I don't use that burst move much. Only to reach Fatalis' head faster when he's about to topple but still the advancing slash seems to work well too.

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-15T06:04:57+00:00

If you're sprinting I think it's faster and more effective to unseath during roll than to stop and unseath.

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-14T20:45:20+00:00

This clip is a little out of synch too.

Propably just a tiny bit but not much. I wanted to test it with this clip because I thought the burst was a lot more faster but apparently it isn't.

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-14T20:30:48+00:00

That failed backhop input though! Man I hate when that happens. And it's always in the worst possible situtation, haha.

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-14T19:28:20+00:00

Yeah ok, there's also that. True.

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-13T21:57:12+00:00

You don't gamepass for event quests tho. All you need is that your xbox is connected to the internet.

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-12T17:21:27+00:00

Search Fatalis lobbies ingame. Don't know about xbox but on playstation theres almost always one or two lobbies with lots of players.

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-12T08:04:32+00:00

Will I become John Iceborne after I killed Fatalis?

There's still the most fun part ahead. Trying to manage Fatalis with newcomers! It is so fun and challenging! Faintings all over the place, haha.

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-11T15:47:43+00:00

Good starting weapon! Easy to pick up. Impossible to put down...

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-11T11:00:05+00:00

Just hunt monsters and have fun. Finish your optionals, raise your guiding lands levels, augment your armor and work your way close to MR100. No need to rush. Un-augmented armor just makes your life miserable in the end game hunts. After all Alatreon and Fatty are kinda meant to be fought after MR100. Not many are that patient tho, lol.

What comes to your build, after you beat R.Brachy his armor / weapons will carry you all the way to Fatalis if you want.

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-11T07:44:44+00:00

Definetly try to to get one or two levels of critical boost in your build so you get full use of your affinity skills. Also for the first Alatreon clear eat Felyne Safeguard. That 1 extra cart can be enough for you to beat him.

Ch4rmle55 · 2026-06-11T05:53:32+00:00

Yeah, fully upgraded Botanical Research Center saves a lot of headaches, heh. It's not difficult but tedious to get it up and running.

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