Summary
If you think about it,Monster Hunteris a bit like Pokemon. you’re able to even capture all the monsters you hunt. You just keep them for materials instead of battling to the death for you. In that same vein though, monsters are the personality of the series, and seeing a mix of new and old in each entry is what makes it so good.
The Monster Hunter series has quite a large selection of monsters for you to battle, though there are a few that seem to always find their way into the next entry. Here’s those with the most appearances in the series, and the game they were introduced in.
For the sake of ease, this willonly be counting the main games, and the final version of each of them.
10Zinogre
Five Games
Zinogre is the latest entry to the series with such a large number of entries. While a massive amount of monsters in the series are tied with five appearances, Zinogre is the only one from the third generation of the games. They have appeared, in some form or another, in every game since they first appeared, a real testament to their love.
What makes Zinogre even more fun is the fact that they’re not superpowered, but symbiotic. They have Thunderbugs in their fur that allows them to unleash all of their electric attacks. They are powerful because of how they exist with the environment.
9Kushala Daora
Kushala Daora acted as the final boss of the village quests of Monster Hunter 2, and has become a mainstay of the series since then. They haven’t always appeared in the base entries, though have just about always made their way into almost every game in later updates and releases.
Kushala Daora is another Elder Dragon that is literally a dragon, but with wings of steel. They have full control of the wind, and their hide cannot be cut with anything but the sharpest weapons. They’re a cool mosnter, if not one that can be a bit frustrating to actually battle.
8Nargacuga
Nargacuga first appeared in thePSP version of Monster Hunter 2, and has had a great many appearances since them. Nargacuga is a great monster, though they are likely better known as being the greatest proprietor of high affinity weapons in the whole Monster Hunter series.
Nargacuga is a predator by every definition. They are sly and blend in with the darkness, and can lunge at you with absurd speed and show few weaknesses. To make them even more fearsome, there’s Lucent Nargacuga that can literally turn invisible.
7Khezu
Really, there aren’t many nice words you can say about Khezu. Despite the horror of looking at them, they have an awful habit of reappearing in most of the games. With eyes, devoid of fur, and made of nightmares, Khezu is a slimy beast that can never stop being present.
In the games, Khezu is actually quite an interesting fight. They can stretch their limbs to reach you at a distance, and use their tail as a suction keep to keep themselves in place. They can also summon lighting to paralyse you, just so you’re forced to be around them for even longer.
6Basarios
Basarios is one of the more baffling monsters. They aren’t a bad monster by many means, and can even be quite interesting. But in the line-up of monsters that tend to reappear, Basarios is definitely not one you could expect to pop up in the vast majority of the games.
Basarios is a bulky beast, covered in and made of rocks. They can shoot fireballs and fire attacks even heat up their exterior to let them take more damage. They’re also classed as a Flying Wyvern, despite those wings clearly not able to do anything but flap aimlessly.
5Kirin
Kirin is one of the funnier monsters in the series in that they are very clearly just a1:1 recreation of a mythological creature. They’re also the smallest Elder Dragon in the series, comparable to the size of an actual horse. Despite that, they are one of the most popular monsters in the entire series.
Even though they possess a pointed horn, Kirin prefers to keep its distance and use lighting to strike its enemies. It can also coat itself in lightning to both deal damage to any that come close to them, and boost their own speed to a dramatic degree.
4Fatalis
The big bad from the very first game, and a frequent secret boss across various other games, Fatalis is in many ways the face of the series. They are a typical dragon, yet represent the height of challenge in the games that they appear in. This isn’t even counting the various other forms of Fatalis, which are technically distinct from the original.
Fatalis is a real monster. They can charge across the battlefield for massive damage, take to the sky to rain down streams of fire, and in the case of Monster Hunter World, have breath attacks so hot they melt the very structures you need to take cover behind. They are a threat unlike many others in the series.
3Tigrex
Six Games
There are Elder Dragons that are suitably the final boss of the games they are in, and then there is Tigrex, a beast of unparalleled strength that is apparently just a regular monster. Tigrex is genuinely one of the strongest monsters in the series, and that has made them a skill ceiling for many players in the majority of the games.
Tigrex is a tiger mixed with a dinosaur and given some wings and more rage than can conceivably fit within its body. When enraged, it gets faster and enters a high damage stat with seemingly no downsides for them. When fighting Tigrex, just don’t get hit, or else you’re simply dead.
2Diablos
Seven Games
If there was ever a monster that could take down Tigrex, it would be the monster that has appeared even more than it. Diablos has appeared in next to every single game in the series, Monster Hunter 4 being the only game where it wasn’t part of the base roster. Diablos is popular, and also one of the strongest monsters in the series.
Diablos is massive, with horns that could gouge even the most prepared hunters. They’re also deceptively fast, able to dash at high speed and dig under the ground to reappear wherever they would like. Diablos is not a monster you’re able to ever fight mindlessly, being a true test of strength at every moment.
1Rathian And Rathalos
Every Game
While each game has a Flagship monster to call its own, there is undoubtedly a mascot that defines the entire series, and that is Rathalos and Rathian. The unstoppable duo, in literally every single game in the series without exception.
Rathian and Rathalos are synergetic monsters, picking up where one fails. Rathalos is focused on swoops and fire attacks, while Rathian dashes and swipes with their tail for poison attacks. Both are fearsome, and a good skill ceiling to moe challenging monsters in every game.
