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Brute Tigrex Weakness and Strategy Guide

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Learn how to beat Brute Tigrex in the Iceborne expansion for Monster Hunter World (MHW)! This guide explains everything about Brute Tigrex's weakness, carves, rewards, and a complete strategy guide for beating and capturing it. Find out what parts are breakable and severable, and what drops and Monster materials are available.

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Brute Tigrex Weakness, Body Parts, and Resistances

Brute Tigrex Characteristics

Roar Wind Tremor Blight Status
Big None None None None
Breakable Parts
Head, Hindlegs, Tail

Locations and Areas Visited

Map Starting Area Visited Areas Rest Spot
ElderElder's Recess 7 6 / 7 / 11 / 12 6
Guiding Lands ImageGuiding Lands 3 / 4 / 12 / 13 12

*The starting location may change depending on the Quest.

Weakness, Body Parts, Extracts

Head

Sever Break Bomb Fire Extract
55 60 5 0 Red
Water Thunder Ice Dragon
25 15 10 15

Back

Sever Break Bomb Fire Extract
25 25 15 0 Orange
Water Thunder Ice Dragon
15 15 10 15

Stomach

Sever Break Bomb Fire Extract
25 25 15 5 Orange
Water Thunder Ice Dragon
15 15 12 15

Hindlegs

Sever Break Bomb Fire Extract
45 40 30 0 White
Water Thunder Ice Dragon
20 18 12 5

Forelegs

Sever Break Bomb Fire Extract
30 30 25 0 Orange
Water Thunder Ice Dragon
10 5 0 5

Tail Base

Sever Break Bomb Fire Extract
35 30 25 0 Green
Water Thunder Ice Dragon
10 5 0 5

Tail

Sever Break Bomb Fire Extract
35 30 25 0 Green
Water Thunder Ice Dragon
10 10 0 10

Higher values indicate higher damage.

Vulnerability to Status Effects and Items

Poison ★★ Flash ★★
Paral ★★ Shock ★★
Sleep ★★ Pitfall ★★
Stun ★★ Ivy
Blast ★★ Dung ★★
Exhaust ★★ Meat
Mount ★★ Screamer

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Countermeasures against Brute Tigrex

Recommended Weapon Element and Armor Skills

Recommended Weapon Element
Water Weapon Brute Tigrex is weakest against water.
Guard Weapon Like the original version, Brute Tigrex is easier to fight with a guard weapon (lance, gunlance, etc.) since his attacks are all blockable.
Recommended Armor Skills
Tool Specialist Tool Specialist lengthens the time you can use your Rocksteady Mantle and your Temporal Mantle, both of which can make fighting Brute Tigrex a whole lot easier.
Partbreaker Since you want to prioritize breaking Brute Tigrex's head, Partbreaker will be a great addition to your build.
Evade Window Evade Window makes rolling around to avoid Brute Tigrex's attacks much easier; you can also evade to dodge his roars.
Guard Instead of Evade Window, Guard will be more useful to have as a shield user.
Stun Resistance Brute Tigrex is much more aggressive than Tigrex, so you might get hit a lot more. Stun Resistance will be useful for this.
Health Boost Having more health is always a good thing!
Earplugs Earplugs at Lvl 5 will only be effective when you are far away from Brute Tigrex. Using Earplugs versus using Tool Specialist is elaborated upon in the How to Beat Brute Tigrex section.
Clutch Claw Boost If you have a light weapon that cannot tenderize in one go, it will be helpful to have this, especially since you want to prioritize breaking Brute Tigrex's head.

How to Beat Brute Tigrex

Are Earplugs Useful?

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Brute Tigrex will constantly roar during the whole fight, this can deal some damage and literally blow you away if you are within its range. If you are far enough, Brute Tigrex's roar will act like any other big roar, making Earplugs at Lvl 5 useful. This does not really benefit anyone except ranged weapon users, but even then, Brute Tigrex will still chase after you, making your Earplugs useless.

What you really want are the Rocksteady Mantle and the Temporal Mantle, enhanced with the Tool Specialist skill. Rocksteady Mantle will prevent you getting knocked back by his roar, while the Temporal Mantle just straight up evades for you.

You can also dodge his roars, so the Evade Window skill is also a good idea to increase your invincible frames. But it's also just a good skill to have in general.

Weakening the Roar

You can weaken the damage and shorten its range of Brute Tigrex's roars by breaking the head. Try to focus this part to make the hunt easier for the late game.

Evading the Roar

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Brute Tigrex will sometimes do a powerful roar in front of him. This wide cone-shaped roar can deal massive damage if you get hit directly. It is also extremely difficult to dodge even if you strafe left or right. It is best that you immediately get close to him and move to his sides to avoid this attack.

Brute Tigrex Attack Patterns

Attack Attack Power Guardable Exhaustion
Front Leg Slam 50 20
Tail Attack 40 10
Front Leg Attack 40 15
High Speed Bite 35 20
Bite 35 02
Continuous Bite 55 25
Continuous Attack 20 0
Spin Attack 60 30
Spin Attack (Front Leg) 60 30
Jump Attack 45 40
Rush 80 20
Cross Attack 40 0
Step Down Attack 40 0
Rock Fling 60 30
Rock Fling (Attribute) 40+ Attribute(20) 50
Enhanced Roar 90 50
Intimidating Roar 30 15
Large Roar 80 40
Large Roar (After Head Destruction) 70 30
Roar 50 0

Brute Tigrex Carves and Rewards

Carvings and Hunt Rewards

Obtain Rate (%)
MR Tigrex Lash / Tail 72
Brute Tigrex Shard / Body 35, Tail 25
Brute Tigrex Cortex / Body 26
Brute Tigrex Hardclaw / Body 21
Tigrex Mantle / Body 2, Tail 3
Brute Tigrex Hardfang / Body 16

Rewards for Each Body Part

Obtain Rate (%)
MR Tigrex Lash / Tail
Brute Tigrex Hardclaw / Hindlegs
Brute Tigrex Hardfang / Head

Breakable Body Parts

Defense Value How to Break
Head 300 Set durability to 0, twice.
Left Foreleg 300 Set durability to 0, twice.
Right Foreleg 300 Set durability to 0, twice.
Tail 350 Set durability to 0 using cut damage.

Shiny Drops

Obtain Rate (%)
MR
Drops
Brute Tigrex Shard / 50
Brute Tigrex Hardfang / 28
Large Wyvern Tear / 22

Quest Clear & Investigation Rewards

Obtain Rate (%)
MR
Quest
Tigrex Lash / 9
Brute Tigrex Cortex / 26
Brute Tigrex Shard / 21
Spiritvein Solidbone / 18
Brute Tigrex Hardfang / 13
Brute Tigrex Hardclaw / 13
MR
Silver
Brute Tigrex Hardclaw / 20
Brute Tigrex Hardfang / 20
Brute Tigrex Cortex / 18
Tigrex Lash / 18
Brute Tigrex Shard / 14
Tigrex Mantle / 10
MR
Gold
Brute Tigrex Hardclaw / 22
Brute Tigrex Hardfang / 22
Tigrex Mantle / 18
Tigrex Lash / 14
Brute Tigrex Cortex / 13
Brute Tigrex Shard / 11

Plunderblade Rewards

Plunderblade

Obtain Rate (%)
MR Brute Tigrex Shard / 42
Brute Tigrex Cortex / 31
Brute Tigrex Hardclaw / 26
Tigrex Mantle / 1

Palarang

Obtain Rate (%)
MR Brute Tigrex Shard / 50
Brute Tigrex Hardfang / 28
Large Wyvern Tear / 22

Quests Where Brute Tigrex Appears

Type Quest Name
Optional M★6 - Special Arena: MR Brute Tigrex
Event M★6 - A Roar that Splinters the Sky
Event M★6 - Brand New Brute
Arena Quest ★4 - Arena Quest Master Rank 7

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