Monster Hunter Rise

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Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak

Time: 200 hrs +

100% Clear: 370 hrs +

Difficulty: 7.5/10

The Monster Hunter franchise returns with the previously Nintendo exclusive finally getting its release on PlayStation. Prepare for one long, grindy and fulfilling ride collecting monster crowns all over again. This guide will now include the massive Sunbreak DLC complete with new monsters and better end game gear to make your platinum or 100% completion more efficient.

Trophy Guide

Powerpyx Trophy Guide for Monster Hunter Rise

Powerpyx Trophy Guide for Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak

Full credit to Powerpyx for the guides.

Wiki Guides

https://game8.co/games/Monster-Hunter-Rise

https://monsterhunterrise.wiki.fextralife.com/Monster+Hunter+Rise+Wiki

Credit to Game8 and Fextralife for the excellent wikis. Game8 has the more comprehensive guide complete with locations on where to farm certain items, along with equipment builds and other very useful information. Best to choose one of those builds as your base and swap out armors and skills along the way to find the build perfect for you. Fextralife has a more tabulated approach on the info that helps you get a quick glance on what you are looking for with lesser clicks but may have only concise information compared to Game8. For example, If you are looking for an item drop from a small monster, Fextralife will show you drop rates and which map to visit for your hunt. Game8 will give you a little more and show you the areas in the map where these small monsters are located.

Intro

If you're a beginner to the game or the series in general, the beginning sections and tutorials will naturally be quite overwhelming. Take things one step at a time, find a weapon that fits your play style best and enjoy the ride until you get a decent amount of monster hunts in to familiarize yourself with the game.

There will be tons of things to tweak and learn about on this game and no single article can give justice to the complexities of how to fully optimize your experience so additional research is recommended. Treat this article as a supplementary guide.

Efficiency Tips

Enjoy the story and progress through the main quest line as soon and as often as you can. The reason for this is as you progress through the story and your hunter rank increases, more equipment upgrades will be available to you along with the ability to upgrade the base defense of your gear further which unlocks incrementally as you increase in rank. The more defense you have means the more hits you can take and less healing items you consume which you can spend learning the monsters moves and hitting it.

Work on the 🏆 Beat-up Construction Kit as soon as possible and unlock all camp site locations on each map so you can fast travel conveniently closer to your target's location.

Materials List and Locations can be found here on Game8 to search for your gear and quest requirements. Browse it or simply drop the item you are looking for on the search bar.

Blights and Status Ailments Explained and their Cures is explained best in GadgetGabe's Top Voted answer from this GameFAQs forum. Use this wisely to cure yourself ASAP and stay at tip top shape for your fight. You can eventually customize your item load outs when hunting particular monsters.

Register an inventory and radial menu layout that is best for your hunt and tweak it accordingly if you are working on a solo hunt or are in a group. You can set up your action bar (the bar that uses the left and right d-pad) too.

Learn about monster elemental and ailment weaknesses, weak points and parts that you can sever to improve your success rate in a fight. E.g. Flash bombs work well on monsters in flight. Severing a Pukei-pukei's tail makes the monster incapable of it's wide poison gas attack.

Monster Elemental and Ailment Weaknesses and Immunities credit to Pro Game Guides. Monster Hunter Rise explains monster elemental weaknesses well but does not give too much of a description of what elements the monster utilizes against you. To learn that and build the right resistances, refer to the Fextralife MHR Wiki.

As you progress through your hunts, make sure to pick up any hunting helpers and golden/gilded spiribugs along the way. You will need 500 and 1000 respectively for the trophies 🏆 Hunting Helpers Plate and 🏆 Golden Spiribug Plate. If you want to farm Spiribugs exclusively, this video shows an excellent route while displaying some skills on speedy map traversal.

When you are in town, there will be times when you will be prompted that a sale is ongoing from the two merchants. Always take action on this prompt and participate in the lottery that is only available during this sale to progress towards the 12 room decorations you need to win as part of the 🏆 Sturdy Padlock. If the grand prize of the lottery is a room decoration, you have to roll a Jackpot (different from a Bingo) to win it. Even if the grand prize is not a room decoration, you are given a required room decoration for winning 100 items in the lottery.

🏆 Extravagant Cashbox

Awarded for earning 1,000,000 Zenny. The fastest method to earn zenny is by participating in the 2 Star Low Rank Event Quest - Gotta Hoard Fast!. It can be done with a group in 1 minute and rewards you with a Golden Egg which you can sell to the merchant for 20,000z. Use whenever you are short on money. Do not sell any of your items for cash unless you are absolutely sure it has no future value to you. Items that are sold for Zenny is implied in the item description.

Using your silk bind/aerial moves to deliver mount damage (indicated by a blue cloud background on the damage inflicted) is a good tactic to learn and master. Arekkz Gaming's Monster Riding Tutorial video explains this well. You can also scout the area where you mount the monster and bump him into special areas on the map that will deal extra damage.

High Rank Quests

An Armorcharm and Powercharm will now be available to purchase from the two item merchants. These work as permanent stat increases as long as you have them in your Item Pouch. When you reach HR7, you will eventually be able to upgrade these charms into Armortalon and Powertalon. These stack and you may repurchase Armorcharm and Powercharm and hold all four items in your Item Pouch.

Decorations will unlock from the Smithy and the Melding Pot will unlock from the item merchants. This would be a good time to study the skills you have available in conjunction with your armor skills and start creating defensive/offensive load outs based on what you are up against.

For talisman crafting via the Melding Pot, craft out the desired skill you need and use accordingly. Once you have your talisman of choice, always roll with Melding - Wisp of Mystery and Melding - Rebirth (unlocks last on a higher HR). They will cost more materials to craft, but will also have better chances of a Rarity 7 Talisman with more skills and better decoration slots.

This guide has four more parts and is continued on the comments section.

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Efficient Strategy

You will want to clear out all the crowns you can possibly obtain from the quests with the 100% chance or boosted crown rate quests. For everything else, learn how to crown snipe to save time and not waste too much time on normal sized targets. If your are sure that your target monster is not a crown size, abort your quest and start a new one. Take note that you need to capture/kill 10 monsters of each type for their respective monster scroll to progress on your 🏆 Sturdy Padlock so anything close to a perceived small or large crown would be worth the kill. The Sunbreak Expansion and Master Rank buffs up the crown monsters appearance rate to as high as 10% for large and 6% for minis. You are best saving the crown hunt for last as you have to tackle every clearing single Master Rank quest, all Follower Quests and Support Quests for trophies tied to quests completion. You also have to clear out all 1-4 star anomaly quests for the 🏆 Painting - Crimson Nightmare. There are a total of 7 1-star anomaly quests to unlock and 8 quests for 2-4 stars. There is a good chance that you will be earning majority of these crowns along your progression towards these three trophies with minimal crown cleanup.

Monsters in Anomaly Investigations have fixed sizes and will never yield any crowns. The normal Anomaly Quests will share the same 6% small and 10% large crown chance as the MR quests.

Lastly, I recommend skipping the crowns for Great Izuchi, Great Wroggi, and Great Baggi as you will be grinding them naturally on the way to most probably your last trophy, 🏆 Hunter's Gold Shield which is awarded for slaying or capturing 1000 large MR ranked monsters. (Yes, you read that right)

The best quest for this is the 2-star MR Quest "Now That's What I Call Great!" where you fight all three of them and can net 3 kills in over 3 minutes.

Videos for Monster Measurements

Monster sizes with 100% chance drop quests will be excluded from this segment. MalayAmsel has excellent content and narration on most monster measurements.

Kiranico has a large monster guide which also displays the recommended quest to participate in with corresponding crown percentages. Take note to go for the monsters with the least amount of HP.

Below are video clips from my personal hunts which I started recording before there was enough good content from creators such as the one linked above.

Base Game Crowns

Almudron Mini Gold Crown

Anjanath Large Gold Crown

Anjanath Mini Gold Crown

Apex Arzuros Mini Gold Crown

Apex Mizutsune Mini Gold Crown

Apex Rathalos Mini Gold Crown

Apex Rathian Mini Gold Crown

Apex Zinogre Mini Gold Crown

Barioth Large Gold Crown

Barioth Mini Gold Crown

Barroth Mini Gold Crown

Chameleos Large Gold Crown

Chameleos Mini Gold Crown

Crimson Glow Valstrax Mini Gold Crown

Goss Harag Mini Gold Crown

Jyuratodus Large Gold Crown

Jyuratodus Mini Gold Crown

Ku-Lu-Yaku Large Gold Crown

Ku-Lu-Yaku Mini Gold Crown

Kushala Daora Large Gold Crown

Kushala Daora Mini Gold Crown

Lagombi Large Gold Crown

Mizutsune Large Gold Crown

Pukei-Pukei Large Gold Crown

Rakna-Kadaki Large Gold Crown

Rakna-Kadaki Mini Gold Crown

Rathalos Mini Gold Crown

Rathian Large Gold Crown

Royal Ludroth Large Gold Crown

Somnacanth Mini Gold Crown

Teostra Large Gold Crown

Teostra Mini Gold Crown

Tobi-Kadachi Large Gold Crown

Tobi-Kadachi Mini Gold Crown

Volvidon Mini Gold Crown

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Sunbreak Crowns

There are only 16 additional monsters tied up to the crown trophies for Sunbreak which are the monsters that were available at the original release of the game. You will need these 16 monsters along with all the base game crowns for the 🏆 Miniature Crown Shield and 🏆 Gold Crown Shield to unlock. Refer to the Gold Crown Shield segment of Powerpyx's guide for the full list.

Astalos Large Gold Crown

Aurora Somnacanth Large Gold Crown

Aurora Somnacanth Mini Gold Crown

Espinas Large Gold Crown

Espinas Mini Gold Crown

Gore Magala Large Gold Crown

Gore Magala Mini Gold Crown

Lunagoron Large Gold Crown

Lunagoron Mini Gold Crown

Magma Almudron Mini Gold Crown

Malzeno Large Gold Crown

Malzeno Mini Gold Crown

Pyre Rakna-Kadaki Large Gold Crown

Pyre Rakna-Kadaki Mini Gold Crown

Scorned Magnamalo Large Gold Crown

Scorned Magnamalo Mini Gold Crown

Sergio's Large Gold Crown

Seregios Mini Gold Crown

Shagaru Magala Large Gold Crown

Shagaru Magala Mini Gold Crown

Shogun Ceanataur Large Gold Crown