Arch-Tempered Lunastra Weakness and Strategy Guide

Learn how to beat Arch-Tempered Lunastra in the game Monster Hunter World (MHW)! This guide explains everything about Arch-Tempered Lunastra'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.

All Lunastra Articles
Lunastra Weakness & Strategy	Lunastra Weapons	Lunastra Armor β | ⍺ | ⍺+ | β+

Arch-Tempered Lunastra Weakness, Body Parts, and Resistances

Arch-Tempered Lunastra Characteristics

Roar	Wind	Tremor	Blight	Status
Big	High	None	Fire	Blastblight
Breakable Parts
Head, Wings, Tail

Locations and Areas Visited

Map	Starting Area	Visited Areas	Rest Spot
Elder's Recess	11	8 / 9 / 11 / 12	13

*The starting location may change depending on the Quest.

Weakness, Body Parts, Extracts

Head

Sever	Break	Bomb	Fire	Extract
37	60	45	0	Red
Water	Thunder	Ice	Dragon
7	7	30	25

Neck

Sever	Break	Bomb	Fire	Extract
33	37	33	0	Red
Water	Thunder	Ice	Dragon
3	3	20	15

Stomach

Sever	Break	Bomb	Fire	Extract
17	17	20	0	Orange
Water	Thunder	Ice	Dragon
0	0	15	10

Back

Sever	Break	Bomb	Fire	Extract
17	17	20	0	Orange
Water	Thunder	Ice	Dragon
0	0	15	10

Hindlegs

Sever	Break	Bomb	Fire	Extract
25	30	20	0	White
Water	Thunder	Ice	Dragon
3	3	15	10

Forelegs

Sever	Break	Bomb	Fire	Extract
30	25	20	0	White
Water	Thunder	Ice	Dragon
3	3	15	10

Wings

Sever	Break	Bomb	Fire	Extract
55	35	40	0	White
Water	Thunder	Ice	Dragon
7	7	25	20

Tail

Sever	Break	Bomb	Fire	Extract
45	37	50	0	Orange
Water	Thunder	Ice	Dragon
3	3	20	15

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	❌

All Monster Guides

Best Equipment for Arch-Tempered Lunastra

Best Weapons

Ice Weapons	Ice is the most effective weapon to use against AT Lunastra. Despite having the fire element, water isn't that good against her.
Blades with Long Reach	Weapons like the Longsword is particularly good against Lunastra. Her vulnerable parts moves alot and is hard to reach (wings,tail) so having a blade weapon with a long reach is recommended.

Best Skills

Heat Guard	Protects you from the DOT damage that Lunastra emits (can also be bypassed by Cool Drink making this optional)
Fire Resist	The higher your fire resistance, the better. AT Lunastra's damage comes from fire attacks.
Windproof Minimum Level 5 Needed	Windproof is a great QOL skill against AT Lunastra. It prevents Lunastra from knocking you back when it uses its hellfire which allows you to dodge the majority of its damage.
Nullify Wind Pressure	Alternatively, you can get a 3 piece Kushala set to get the Kushala Daora Flight secret which nullifies all wind pressures.
Health Regen Augment/Nergigante Ambition	Slot in some healing to counter Lunastra's DPS. It also removes some need to unsheathe your weapon to heal and thus, improving DPS.
Health Boost	More HP

Sample Armor Loadout

With the Iceborne expansion, many armor in MR rank is now capable of dealing with Arch-Tempered Lunastra. Below will be a sample armor loadout that attempts to get the majority of the needed skills to counter AT Lunastra as well as normal Lunastras for HR and MR quests.

Weapon		Decorations
Daora's Tughril Beg		Charger Jewel 2
Armor		Decorations
Head	Kushala Glare Beta +	Challenger/Vitality Jewel 4 Fire Res Jewel 1
Armor	Ruinous Mail Beta +	Challenger/Vitality Jewel 4 Charger Jewel 2
Greaves	Ruinous Vambraces Beta +	Challenger/Vitality Jewel 4 Fire Res Jewel 1
Waist	Kushala Cocoon Alpha +	Charger Jewel 2
Legs	Kushala Crus Alpha +	Fire Res Jewel 1
Charm	Challenger Charm III	---

Armorset Skills

Skills
Agitator 5	Attack Boost 4
Focus 3	Fire Resistance 3
Health Boost 3	Evade Extender 3
Ice Attack 5	Stamina Surge 2
Handicraft 2	Evade Window 1

While there are some unnecessary skills mixed in, this is a standard Ruiner Nergi/Kushala armor combo to obtain the wind pressure nullification while also obtaining health regen for the Ruiner Nergi set. It lacks affinity for critical strikes so you'll have to rely on the Great Sword's high damage output for DPS. It comes with other QOL skills like Ice Attack, Fire Resist, and Health Boost to survive Lunastra's fire attacks.

Best Palico/Felyne Skills, Gadgets, and Weapons

Felyne Insurance/Safeguard	If you're having trouble with Lunastra, chances are you'll get carted. Having more lives means more fighting chance against the blue Elder Dragon.
Felyne Baan Ball Alpha +	While the Lunastra is resistant to status ailments, having even just one sleep from your Palico is huge against her.
Vigorwasp Spray	More healing to counter Lunastra's damage.
Meowlotov Cocktail	Swap this in after Vigorwasp has used its revive to maximize your palico gadget's effects (vigorwasp with only 2 abilities is not that worth it unless you really need the healing)

Best Mantles

Temporal Mantle	Easy dodges and keeps you in tip top form. Won't be able to dodge some DoTs so it's not as recommended as the other mantles mentioned.
Fireproof Mantle	Negates most of Lunastra's damage.
Rocksteady Mantle	If you don't have the ability to negate Lunastra's wind pressure, bringing rocksteady together with Fireproof may just save your life. When Lunastra uses its Hellfire, keep on superman diving to negate mostof its damage then pop an astera jerky to return to full health.

Best Items to Bring

Max / Ancient Potion	For instant full healing.
Mega Potion x10	More Healing
Cool Drink	Negates Lunastra's aura damage.
Astera Jerky	Allows you to instantly heal AT Lunastra's Hellfire attack (if you survived).

How to Beat Arch-Tempered Lunastra

Things You Should Know in Advance

・Wind Resistance can be good against Hellflare
・Fire Resistance is strongly recommended
・Use a Cool Drink before initiating the fight

Max Health and Fire Resistance

Most of Arch-Tempered Lunastra's attacks can be pretty strong. It is recommended that you increase your max health and equip gears with high Fire Resistance to increase your chances of winning the fight.

If you are still having a hard time clearing the hunt, you can also add skills such as Stun Resistance or Evade Window to further increase your survivability.

Wind Pressure From Hellflare

Hellflare has an additional wind pressure effect that can stagger you making it harder for you to get away. You can negate this effect by simply wearing gears that can give you level 5 Windproof or get the armor set bonus Kushala Daora Flight from the Kushala set piece.

Cool Drink and Extreme Heat

You will constantly take damage from the environment due to the extreme heat. Prevent this by using a Cool Drink before entering areas with extreme heat.

Avoid Using Flash Pods

Using a Flash Pod will only anger Arch-Tempered Lunastra even more and has a chance to make Arch-Tempered Lunastra perform the Hellflare attack. This can be useful if you are playing solo. However, if you are playing in multiplayer, it might be better to not use Flash Pods at all since it can endanger other hunters in your party.

Use Elderseal Weapons

Normal	Blue Flame

It is possible to suppress the fire and dust surrounding Arch-Tempered Lunastra when he is enraged by using a weapon with an Elderseal.

Hellflare

Hellflare is one of Arch-Tempered Lunastra's most powerful attack. This causes a big explosion setting a large area on fire with high wind pressure. The high wind pressure can disable your movement making it difficult for you to move away.

Hellflare's windpressure can be negated by the Rocksteady Mantle or you can just take the brunt of the damage with Fireproof Mantle. The Hellflare will leave several recoverable HP so prepare an Astera Jerky when AT Lunastra uses it.

Gears and Strategies without Windproof

Gear and Strategy	Description
Rocksteady Mantle	Negates the windpressures from Arch-Tempered Lunastra
Fireproof Mantle	Increases your resistance against fire attacks
Farcaster	Instantly moves you back to camp
Continuous Rolls	Helps you move away from the Hellflare and Supernova

Blue Flame

The blue flame that Arch-Tempered Lunastra scatters during the fight can be difficult to deal with if you do not have enough fire resistance. Try to stay away from it or try to lure Arch-Tempered Lunastra away from the blue flame to avoid taking more damage when you are running away from his attacks.

Using a Water Affinity weapon a Crystal Burst on the blue flame can instantly extinguish it. However, this is not recommended since it can deal damage if not approached carefully. Extinguishing the blue flame while fighting Arch-Tempered Lunastra can be difficult. Only use this trick if you have no other option.

Arrows and Bullets

Attacking Arch-Tempered Lunastra with blue flames using a ranged weapon will deal 0 damage. The blue flame can surrounding Arch-Tempered Lunastra repels any arrows or bullets fired at him.

Attacking the Rear

The safest place to attack is somewhere near the hind legs. If you manage to deal enough damage on this area, this can also down Arch-Tempered Lunastra for a few seconds. Also, staying near the hind legs will help you avoid most of the high damaging attacks like bite and flame breath.

Dealing with the Supernova

When Arch-Tempered Lunastra and Teostra are together, they can initiate their special move called the Supernova. This powerful move can instantly kill you if you are within its large area of effect.

It is best to try and kill one of them before they can group up. This will not only stop them from using the Supernova but it can also lessen the flames you have to deal with. If this is not possible, try to lure them away from each other. Keep in mind that Dung Pods do not work against them, you have to enrage one of them to lure them out of the area.

Know Your Targets

Blunt weapons are particularly effective against the head while bladed weapons are more effective against its wings. Make sure to know what your target it when Lunastra is downed.

Arch-Tempered Lunastra Attack Patterns

Attack	Description
Bite	A short range bite attack
Rush	A quick move forward that can deal damage if you are on the way
Scratch	A short attack infront of Arch-Tempered Lunastra
Pounce	A forward jump attack
Tail Attack	A fast moving tail attack
Tail Attack (x2)	A swift tail attack twice in a row
Front Flame Breath	A flame breath that goes on a straight line
Blue Flame Breath	Short distance attack that spreads blue flame on the ground
Blast Attack	Forward Blast attack that scatters blue flame
Air Attack	An Aerial attack that can be dodged by moving left or right
Aerial Flame Breath	A concentrated fire attack that can easily be avoided by moving away
Hellflare	A charged up blue flame explosion followed up by a strong wind pressure that can deal massive damage every second.

Arch-Tempered Lunastra Carves and Rewards

Carvings and Hunt Rewards

	Obtain Rate (%)
HR	Lunastra Scale+ / ★★★★★ Lunastra Carapace / ★★★★ Lunastra Tail / ★★★ Lunastra Mane / ★★★ Lunastra Wing / ★★ Lunastra Gem / ★

Rewards for Each Body Part

	Obtain Rate (%)
HR	Lunastra Wing / Wings Lunastra Tail / Tail Lunastra Gem / Head, Tail Lunastra Horn / Head

Breakable Body Parts

	Defense Value	How to Break
Head	200	Set Durability to 0, 4 times.
Left Wing	280	Set Durability to 0, twice.
Right Wing	280	Set Durability to 0, twice.
Tail	300	Reduce durability by 500 using cut damage.

Quest Clear & Investigation Rewards

	Obtain Rate (%)
HR Quest	Lunastra Carapace / ★★★★ Lunastra Scale+ / ★★★ Lunastra Mane / ★★★ Lunastra Wing / ★★★ Elder Dragon Blood / ★★★ Lunastra Horn / ★★ Large Elder Dragon Bone / ★★

Quests Where Arch-Tempered Lunastra Appears

Type	Quest Name
Event	★9 - When Blue Dust Surpasses Red Lust

All Quest Guides

Related Links

All Monster Guides

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

Monsters by Game

All Monsters by Game
Iceborne	Monster Hunter World