Pukei-Pukei Weakness and Strategy Guide

Learn how to beat Pukei-Pukei in the game Monster Hunter World (MHW)! This guide explains everything about Pukei-Pukei'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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Pukei-Pukei Weakness, Body Parts, and Resistances

Pukei-Pukei Characteristics

Roar	Wind	Tremor	Blight	Status
Small	Low	None	None	Poison
Breakable Parts
Head, Back, Left Wing, Right Wing, Tail

Locations and Areas Visited

Map	Starting Area	Visited Areas	Rest Spot
Ancient Forest	6	6 / 8	6
Wildspire Waste	6	2 / 3 / 6	3

*The starting location may change depending on the Quest.

Weakness, Body Parts, Extracts

Head

Tongue

Neck

Torso

Wings

Legs

Tail

Higher values indicate higher damage.

Vulnerability to Status Effects and Items

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Countermeasures against Pukei-Pukei

Recommended Weapon Element and Armor Skills

How to Beat Pukei-Pukei

Poison Mucus

Pukei-pukei can hurl out a poisonous mucus that will instantly inflict you a poison ailment if you manage to get hit. This will gradually decrease your health for a short amount of time.

You must always bring an antidote when hunting for Pukei-pukei to immediately cure any poison ailment of his attacks.

Large Tongue

When Pukei-pukei is enraged, he will sometimes continuously attack with his tongue which can deal a huge amount of damage if you do not have high defense. It is best that you position yourself behind Pukei-pukei and aim for his tail to avoid these tongue attacks.

Enhanced Poison

Pukei-pukei can activate his poison state after he eats during the hunt. In this state, Pukei-pukei's poisonous attacks are strengthened and his movements are now harder to predict.

You can release Pukei-pukei in this state by shooting a Flash Pod directly on to his face or hitting his head with any type of slinger ammo to flinch him.

Normal
Poison State (Stage 1)	Face swells and poison breath is strengthened
Poison State (Stage 2)	Tail swells and has a tendency to use poison breath

Poison Breath

When Pukei-pukei is on his second stage of his poison state, he will be able to use one of his most powerful attacks. He can spray a large poison breath cloud that can take a huge chunk of your health. However, this can be easily avoided because of the long windup, you will have enough time to move away and position yourself better to deal some damage from afar.

Pukei-Pukei Attack Patterns

Pukei-Pukei Carves and Rewards

Carvings and Hunt Rewards

Rewards for Each Body Part

Shiny Drops

How to Get Drops

Quest Clear & Investigation Rewards

Plunderblade Rewards

Plunderblade

Quests Where Pukei-Pukei Appears

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List of All Base Game Monsters

MHW (Base Game) Monsters

Anjanath	Barroth	Bazelgeuse	Behemoth
Deviljho	Diablos	Dodogama	Great Girros
Great Jagras	Jyuratodus	Kirin	Kulu-Ya-Ku
Kulve Taroth	Kushala Daora	Lavasioth	Legiana
Leshen	Lunastra	Nergigante	Odogaron
Paolumu	Pukei-Pukei	Radobaan	Rathalos
Rathian	Teostra	Tobi-Kadachi	Tzitzi-Ya-Ku
Uragaan	Vaal Hazak	Xeno'jiiva	Zorah Magdaros

Colored Variants

Ancient Leshen	Azure Rathalos	Black Diablos	Pink Rathian

Arch-Tempered Elder Dragons

Arch-Tempered Great Jagras	Arch-Tempered Kirin	Arch-Tempered Kulve Taroth	Arch-Tempered Kushala Daora
Arch-Tempered Lunastra	Arch-Tempered Nergigante	Arch-Tempered Teostra	Arch-Tempered Vaal Hazak
Arch-Tempered Xeno'jiiva	Arch-Tempered Zorah Magdaros

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