List of All Monsters

Monsters are the main challenge and focus in Monster Hunter Now, which provides you with more materials to craft better gear. Check out the complete list of all current monsters and how to unlock them, their habitats and weaknesses, and upcoming monsters here!

Monsters List

Large Monsters

Monsters are mainly categorized by size. The large monsters in Monster Hunter Now are the series' hallmark, each with their strengths to overcome and weaknesses to exploit!

These Monsters reward you with rarer materials to forge and upgrade weapons and armor. The higher difficulty monster will drop proportionately higher rarity materials.

Great Jagras	Kulu-Ya-Ku	Pukei-Pukei
Barroth	Great Girros	Tobi-Kadachi
Paolumu	Jyuratodus	Anjanath
Rathian	Legiana	Diablos
Rathalos	Zinogre	Barioth
Banbaro	Radobaan	Tzitzi-Ya-Ku
Odogaron	Deviljho

Event Monsters

These monsters are available for a limited time during special events and will reward players who participate in the event with materials to craft exclusive weapons and armor!

Black Diablos	Pink Rathian	Azure Rathalos
Coral Pukei-Pukei

List of All Large Monsters

Small Monsters

Monsters of the smaller variety are weaker and more common monsters present in Monster Hunter Now and will reward players with common but essential materials for equipment forging and upgrading.

Cortos	Jagras	Mernos
Noios	Raphinos	Shamos
Wulg

List of All Small Monsters

How to Unlock Monsters

Unlock Monsters Through Quests

Monsters are often unlocked as you progress through the Story Quests. You can go through these Story Quests by completing sub-quests that will have you gather materials, hunt monsters down, and use certain weapons.

Monster	Unlock Condition
Great Jagras	Prologue Quest
Kulu-Ya-Ku	Prologue 2 Urgent Quest
Pukei-Pukei	Prologue 3 Urgent Quest
Barroth	Prologue 4 Urgent Quest
Great Girros	Chapter 2 Urgent Quest
Tobi-Kadachi	Chapter 4 Urgent Quest
Paolumu	Chapter 5 Urgent Quest
Jyuratodus	Chapter 6 Urgent Quest
Anjanath	Chapter 8 Urgent Quest
Rathian	Chapter 9 Urgent Quest
Legiana	Chapter 10 Urgent Quest
Diablos	Chapter 11 Urgent Quest
Rathalos	Chapter 13 Urgent Quest
Zinogre	Hunt-a-thon
Barioth	Fulminations in the Frost Urgent Quest
Banbaro	Fulminations in the Frost Urgent Quest
Radobaan	Fulminations in the Frost Urgent Quest
Tzitzi-Ya-Ku	The Vernal Invader
Odogaron	The Vernal Invader
Deviljho	Invasion

All Chapter and Quests List

Event-Exclusive Monsters

Monsters such as the Black Diablos and Pink Rathian can only be hunted during Event Quests. These quests are limited, so keep an eye out for any updates!

Monster	Event Appearance
Black Diablos	A Happy Hunting New Year Roar of the Desert: Diablos (Inactive) Diablos Invasion (Inactive)
Pink Rathian	A Happy Hunting New Year Rathian and Pink Rathian Week (Inactive)
Azure Rathalos	Descent of the Azure King

List of Events

Monsters Weakness and Habitat Chart

Monsters in Monster Hunter Now have different weaknesses you can use against them. Each monster also only spawns in their preferred habitats. Here's a quick reference to each monster's weakness and the habitats they spawn in:

Monster	Habitat	Weakness
Great Jagras	Swamp Desert Forest	Sleep Poison Fire
Kulu-Ya-Ku	Swamp Desert Forest	Water
Pukei-Pukei	Swamp Desert Forest	Sleep Thunder
Barroth	Swamp Desert	Poison Fire
Great Girros	Swamp Forest	Sleep Water
Tobi-Kadachi	Swamp Forest	Poison Water
Paolumu	Swamp Desert	Fire
Jyuratodus	Swamp	Thunder
Anjanath	Desert Forest	Water
Rathian	Desert Forest	Thunder Dragon
Legiana	Swamp	Poison Fire
Diablos	Desert	Paralysis Ice Dragon
Rathalos	Forest	Thunder Dragon
Black Diablos	Desert	Paralysis Ice
Pink Rathian	Forest	Thunder Dragon
Zinogre	Swamp Forest	Ice
Barioth	Forest	Fire
Banbaro	Swamp Forest	Fire Dragon
Radobaan	Swamp Desert	Ice Dragon
Azure Rathalos	Forest	Ice Dragon
Tzitzi-Ya-Ku	Swamp Desert	Ice
Odogaron	Swamp Desert	Paralysis Ice
Deviljho	Swamp Desert Forest	Poison Thunder Dragon
Coral Pukei-Pukei	Swamp Forest	Poison Ice

Monster Count: How Many Monsters Are in Monster Hunter Now?

Monster Hunter Now Monster Count

Excluding the small monsters, there are 20 monsters in Monster Hunter Now. The monsters are based on their iteration from the Monster Hunter World mainline game, which had around 27 monsters on release. However, it's no secret that more monsters will be added as updates or events in the future.

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