This is a hunting guide for Flaming Espinas, a Large Monster in Monster Hunter Rise (MH Rise): Sunbreak. Read on to learn what we know about Flaming Espinas' weakness, element, blights, and armor so far!

Flaming Espinas Guide	Espinas Guide
Flaming Espinas Weapons	Flaming Espinas Armor

Flaming Espinas Weakness and Notes

Flaming Espinas
Type	Flying Wyvern	Previous Games	MHF2, MHO
Threat Level	9/10	Rampage Type	ー
Major Weakness	Water	Other Weakness	Dragon Thunder
Blight / Elemental Damage	Fire	Abnormal Status	Defense Down Poison
Characteristics
An Espinas subspecies with a slightly more muted body color. The boldness of the standard Espinas remains: run-of-the-mill attacks won't rouse Flaming Espinas from their slumber. Their breath attack contains a powerful poison, and a dense acid that deteriorates armor. Take this attack head-on, and you won't stand a chance...

How to Unlock Flaming Espinas

Reach MR 10

Quest Name	Monster/Unlock
What Sleeps in the Tower	Flaming Espinas
	Unlock Conditions: Reach MR10

To hunt Flaming Espinas after downloading Sunbreak's Title Update 2, you need to raise your MR to 10.

Speak to Doctor Tadori and to Chichae the Quest Damsel to unlock What Sleeps in the Tower.

MR Grinding Guide:
How to Get from MR 6 to MR 100 Fast

Flaming Espinas Weakness and Resistance

Flaming Espinas Weapon Damage Breakdown

Part
Head	30	30	20
Abdomen	30	30	25
Back	20	20	15
Wing	23	23	20
Leg	38	38	40
Tail	28	25	20
Overall	29	28	24

Flaming Espinas Elemental Weakness Breakdown

Part
Head	0	15	10	5	10
Abdomen	0	15	10	5	10
Back	0	10	5	0	5
Wing	0	10	10	0	5
Leg	0	15	10	5	10
Tail	0	10	5	0	5
Overall	0	13	9	3	8

Higher numbers indicate higher potential damage to the monster.

Flaming Espinas Hunting Tips

Beware when Flaming Espinas stand up and spread their wings; they'll begin building up power to unleash a massive fireball attack with a wide area of effect. When they start charging up, escape to a safe distance. The fireball's explosive effects lower defense, so bring along items like Adamant Seeds to give it a boost.

Status Effect Vulnerabilities

If an ailment has more stars it means that it has better effectiveness.

Item Vulnerabilities

◯ = Vulnerable; ✕ = Fully Resistant; ▲ = Situational

Kinsect Extracts

Monster Part	Extract
Head
Abdomen
Back
Wing
Leg
Tail
Overall	—

Red = Attack Increase, White = Movement Boost, Orange = Anti-knockback When Attacking

Kinsect Extract Guide

Espinas Subspecies

In Monster Hunter Frontier Season 2, Flaming Espinas did not have an official name. Back then, it was only called Espinas Subspecies or Brown Espinas. And now that it's appearing in Sunbreak in Title Update 2, it finally has an official name!

Espinas: Weakness and Drops

Flaming Espinas Locations and Quests

Flaming Espinas Habitat

Map	Starting Area	Visited Areas	Rest Area
Forlorn Arena	-	-	-
Citadel	2 / 7 / 10	2 / 5 / 7 / 8 / 10 / 13	7

Flaming Espinas Quest Appearances

How to Beat Flaming Espinas

Flaming Espinas Tips
Will Always Start Off Sleeping Mind Its Attack Range Use Items to Remove Defense Debuff Stay Away from Smog

Will Always Start Off Sleeping

Flaming Espinas, much alike its normal variant, will always be asleep at the start of every hunt. Exploit this mechanic by maximizing the wake up slap multiplier (2x) and start strong.

We suggest using Mega Barrel Bombs or use your weapon's big damage attack to wake it up like the Great Sword's True Charged Slash or the Hunting Horn's Sonic Bloom Silkbind Attack.

Mind Its Attack Range

It may be easy to underestimate Flaming Espinas' attack range due to its size, but its fireball attacks and the explosion caused by these can reach far away. If you need to heal or use an item, make sure to create some distance away from the monster to be safe!

Use Items to Remove Defense Debuff

Flaming Espinas' fireball attack not only causes fireblight and poison, but can also deal Defense Down, which can put you in grave danger given how aggressive Flaming Espinas is.

If affected with Defense Down, you can use items such as Adamant Seed, Armorskin, or Mega Armorskin to remove the defense debuff.

Status Boost, Abnormal Status, and
Elemental Blight Guide

Stay Away from Smog

Flaming Espinas' fireball attacks will explode and leave a trail of smog which will inflict fireblight and poison if you pass through it. You might end up recovering from being poisoned only to get it again if you roll towards the smog cloud, so watch out where you roll!

Flaming Espinas Attacks and Moves

Body Slam

Tail Slam

Spin Attack

Horn Attacks

Flaming Espinas can utilize its protruding horns to take a hurtful jab at any hunter standing in its way.

Chomp to Tail Combo

Explosive Fireball Attacks

Flaming Espinas' fireballs gets a fierce upgrade, with the attack causing fireblight, poison, and Defense Down.

The attack also causes four small explosions which travel forward. A trail of smoggy clouds will linger on the ground which can cause fireblight and poison to whoever passes through it!

Fiery Swerving Chomp

Fiery Finale

Flaming Espinas Materials and Drops

Master Rank Flaming Espinas Materials

Target

Capture

Broken Parts

Carves

Flaming Espinas Cortex [35%] Flaming Espinas Sulfur [26%] Flaming Espinas Shard [21%] Flaming Espinas Lash [8%] Flaming Espinas Surspike [7%] Flaming Espinas Mantle [3%]

Flaming Espinas Cortex [37%] Flaming Espinas Shard [27%] Flaming Espinas Hardhorn [21%] Flaming Espinas Lash [12%] Flaming Espinas Mantle [3%]

Flaming Espinas Hardhorn [85% (Horn)] Flaming Espinas Surspike [60% (Wing)] Flaming Espinas Shard [40% (Wing)] Afflicted Dire Blood [40% (Anomaly Investigations)] Afflicted Dire Dragon Blood [40% (Anomaly Investigations)] Afflicted Dire Darkblood [40% (Anomaly Investigations)] Flaming Espinas Sulfur [30% (Back)] Flaming Espinas Cortex [12% (Horn), 70% (Back)] Flaming Espinas Mantle [3% (Horn)]

Flaming Espinas Lash [80% (Tail)] Flaming Espinas Shard [41% (Body), 12% (Tail)] Afflicted Dire Blood [40% (Anomaly Investigations)] Afflicted Dire Dragon Blood [40% (Anomaly Investigations)] Afflicted Dire Darkblood [40% (Anomaly Investigations)] Flaming Espinas Cortex [31% (Body)] Flaming Espinas Sulfur [21% (Body)] Flaming Espinas Surspike [5% (Body), 5% (Tail)] Flaming Espinas Mantle [2% (Body), 3% (Tail)]

Flaming Espinas Dropped Materials

Master Rank

Flaming Espinas Shard [50%] Flaming Espinas Cortex [34%] Flaming Espinas Sulfur [15%] Flaming Espinas Surspike [3%] Flaming Espinas Mantle [1%]

Flaming Espinas Trailers

Exclusive Trailer

Flaming Espinas' appearance in Sunbreak was announced through his exclusive trailer, where it is fighting Teostra, Emperor of Flames, in the Forlorn Arena.

TGS 2022 Gameplay

Capcom shared with us a bigger sneak peak at Flaming Espinas' new moves with this video!

Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak Related Guides

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