MHW Rathalos Weakness, Location and How To Get Rathalos Ruby & Plate Rewards

MHW Rathalos is commonly known as the King of the Skies, well at least in Ancient Forest skies. MHW Rathalos is also one of the apex monsters in the Ancient Forest you have to defeat in MHW Story Mode Assigned quests.

Let’s have a closer look at Rathalos in Monster Hunter World to learn more about its Weaknesses, commonly found Ancient Forest locations as well as how to get the MHW Rathalos rare rewards — Rathalos Ruby and Rathalos Plate.

Specially knowing weak body parts of Rathalos and its Elemental Weakness changes the hunt for good. Want to see how these precious details make you THE Monster Hunter? Watch the video!

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MHW Rathalos, At a Glance

MHW Rathalos
Type	Large Monster
Species	Flying Wyvern
Rank	All Ranks
Elemental Power	Fire
Ailment Power	Poison Fireblight Stun
Main Location	Ancient Forest
Resistance	Fire
First Quest	A Fiery Throne Atop the Forest
Roar?	Yes
Turf Wars?	Anjanath Deviljho Azure Rathalos
Ailment Weakness	Paralysis ★★ Stun ★★ Sleep ★★ Blast ★ Poison ★
Elemental Weakness	Dragon ★★★ Thunder ★★ Water ★ Ice ★
Pod Weakness	Flash Pods Bomb Pods
Hostile?	Yes, when seen at close-range
Max Tempered Level	2
Weak Parts	Head Wings Back Tail
Main Attacks	Charging Attack Aerial Claw Charge Aerial Fireball 3 Fireballs Tail 360 Swing Aerial Tail Swing Pick Up & Throw
Nesting Area	Area 16, Ancient Forest
Armor Set Bonus	Rathalos Mastery Rathalos Power
Reward Materials	Rathalos Plate Rathalos Scale Rathalos Shell Rathalos Tail Rathalos Marrow Rathalos Wing Rathalos Carapace Rathalos Medulla Rathalos Ruby Rathalos Webbing Monster Bone+ Monster Hardbone Flame Sac Inferno Sac

MHW Rathalos Weakness

As usual MHW gives you various details about the game, its monsters, weapons and many other things inside the game. There’s also a book known as Hunter’s Notes where you can find Rathalos Weakness details, but the thing is it’s not available until you research the monster.

At the moment of writing this Rathalos guide, I’ve killed 187 MHW Rathalos and captured 26 AND who knows what number I failed.

So, this is what’s shown for Physiology of MHW Rathalos in the Hunter’s Notes. Yeah, that’s Rathalos Weakness data in a scientific way.

Rathalos Weak Parts are …

1. Head
2. Front of Wings
3. End of Tail
4. BONUS: Back

Therefore, attacking Rathalos legs, between legs, between legs & tail’s end or neck won’t do much damage.

If you’re using Weakness Exploit skill, then you sure do need to focus on weak body parts of Rathalos for satisfying yellow Damage Numbers like the one you see in the video above.

TIP: Target one of the Rathalos Wings and break that part to avoid annoying Aerial Attacks. Watch how Rathalos falls down when you do this in the video.

Jumping attack on to the Rathalos Back can also do big damage as well as letting you to mount the monster. Mounting. Knock Out. Biggest Combo. Yeah, that’s a favorite combination of mine.

Since Tail is a weak spot and it’s the only thing severable, it’s a good idea to cut down the Tail to avoid all Tail attacks. Plus you get the chance to gain a Rathalos rare reward, but about that in a moment.

Rathalos Elemental Weaknesses are …

1. Dragon
2. Thunder
3. Ice

Using a weapon powered with Elements deal extra damage to the monster. For example, you can watch how I did extra 100 Blast Element damage with Empress Galea “Styx” Greatsword for MHW Rathalos in the video above.

That extra damage is useful when the monster has that element as one of its Elemental Weaknesses.

Then there is Ailment Weakness too. Ailments can stop the monster for a bit giving you a while to nail the weak parts for a truckload of damage.

Rathalos Ailment Weaknesses are …

1. Sleep
2. Paralysis
3. Stun

Out of those ailments Stun is the easiest Rathalos Ailment, because attacking weak part, Head causes Stuns as well as a quick Flash Pod too make it happen. Watch how I stunned Rathalos with a Flash Pod before breaking something precious of it in the video.

MHW Rathalos Location

MHW Rathalos has its native home in the Ancient Forest. In all MHW Story Mode assigned quests, Rathalos has appeared only in Ancient Forest. Yet in Optional, Investigations and Event quests, Rathalos has appeared in other areas too such as Elder’s Recess.

Ancient Forest can be painful in finding monsters, when you don’t have Monster’s Research Level at max. But no worries now, because I’m going to show you common locations where Rathalos appear in Ancient Forest.

Here are common Rathalos Locations …

1. Area #16
2. Area #5
3. Area #12
4. Area #14
5. Area #8

Want to see those exact locations instead of Area numbers? Here you go!

Area #16, Ancient Forest Camp is Closest

Area #5, Northeast Camp is Closest

Area #12, Northeast Camp is Closest

Area #14, Northwest Camp is Closest

Area #8, Northwest Camp is Closest

TIP: Build all 4 Camps in Ancient Forest to travel faster in case you don’t find Rathalos in a specific location.

MHW Rathalos Rewards

Armors, Weapons and Charms using Rathalos parts or powers require you to have various Rathalos Rewards. There are 5 ways you can gain Rathalos Rewards,

1. By hunting Rathalos.
2. By carving the slayed Rathalos.
3. By breaking Rathalos body parts.
4. By melding few Rathalos parts at Elder Melder.
5. By purchasing at Argosy.

Of course, beginner hunters won’t have access to Argosy and Elder Melder. If that’s the case with you, then there’s no other way than hunting a Rathalos to gain rewards.

But if you feel Rathalos is too hard, there’s SOS hunters to help you. Monster that gave you so much trouble will be over like in a minute or two.

How To Get Rathalos Ruby and Rathalos Plate?

Majority of the Rathalos Rewards are received frequently by hunting or carving both Low Rank Rathalos and High Rank Rathalos. However, Rathalos rare rewards are actually harder to get. In fact Rathalos Ruby is more harder to get as it’s available only in HR Rathalos hunts.

Rathalos Plate can be obtained by,

1. Breaking Rathalos Head in both LR & HR.
2. Breaking Rathalos Wings in both LR & HR.
3. Breaking Rathalos Tail in both LR & HR.

Rathalos Ruby on the other hand can only be obtained by,

1. Breaking HR Rathalos Head.
2. Breaking HR Rathalos Wings.
3. Breaking HR Rathalos Tail.

It’s also possible to get both Rathalos Plate and Rathalos Ruby rare rewards by Elder Melder, but the cost is too high as Silver & Gold Wyverian Prints are hard to farm.

Great to have you here so far in GamesTunnel’s MHW Rathalos guide. Now you have the wisdom of the big bad Rathalos and only thing probably missing is practice. You can either jump into MHW and start practicing Rathalos Hunts OR you can watch how I ended the story of Rathalos at the end of the video.

Hope you learned what you came here to learn about MHW Rathalos. If not, please ask your question below in the comments. Want more Monster Hunter World tips? Check out this guide.

Before you go out in the wild, I just want to ask you to do something precious for you.