How To Beat Mizutsune In Monster Hunter Rise

One of the most iconic monsters in Monster Hunter Ascension, the Mizutsune is also one of the first challenging creature encounters you’ll encounter in the game’s early hours. This creature is a frustratingly agile, bubble-blowing menace that can prove a challenge if you’re unprepared. However, as with all Monster Hunter titles, the key to success is going into battle with the right gear, strategy, and knowledge of the monster.

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Early game progression in Monster Hunter Rise requires you to defeat or capture a Mizutsune at least once, and they’re a common enemy that will appear as you roam free in the first few areas you can access in Monster Hunter Rise. There are also additional variants of the Mizutsune that can be picked up later in the game, such as the Violet Mizutsune, a more difficult variant that was added in the game’s last title update.

Mizutsune – strengths and weaknesses

Despite her intimidating agility, Mizutsune has some obvious weaknesses that can be used to your advantage. Notably, Mizutsune has an elemental weakness for both thunder attacks and dragon Attacks. Thunder is the more effective of the twowhich provides an advantage over more of Mizutsune’s targets than dragon-based attacks.

In terms of where to hit the body, The Mizutsune’s head and neck offer the greatest potential for damage and will topple the creature faster. You should try to focus your attacks here, although the tail is also easy to hit for much of the fight and is also an acceptable target if you can’t reach the head area.

Best equipment for fighting Mizutsune

Any thunder element weapon will be quite effective against the Mizutsune, especially weapons that deal slamming damage. A Greatsword, longsword or dual blade will all be useful for this purpose. Weapons made from Khezu or Zinogre are all particularly effective.

for armor, any that offers water resistance will do. The set acquired from Royal Ludroth is a good option if you want accessible armor that doesn’t require a lot of additional grinding for materials.

Mizutsune – combat breakdown and moves

Mizutsune’s basic approach to fighting you is to use a series of bubble-based ranged attacks. These mostly come in the form of charged spread attacks that you have to dodge or switch between. Mizutsune also frequently fires single bubbles, including a large pink bubble that deals more damage than her usual beige bubbles.

It goes without saying that getting hit by one of Mizutsune’s regular bubbles is also bad news, but if you’re well equipped it’ll only do minor damage. Most of Mizutsune’s bubbles will be beige and will inflict you with a condition that reduces speed and stamina (“bubble burn”).

Mizutsune occasionally shoots green or red bubbles, which can improve your health or attack power. Pay close attention to the bubble color.

In addition to these bubble attacks, Mizutsune can also shoot water straight ahead in a water cannon attack. This isn’t just a static waterline, as Mizutsune moves her head to direct the water’s trajectory into the air or in a sweeping motion, or sometimes into the air. This jet stream can reach quite a distance, so it will be difficult to overtake it’s best to roll evasively through the creek. Failure to dodge will also apply the Bubbleblight debuff. This can be remedied by eating a Nullberry.

Aside from her repertoire of water-based moves, another strong advantage of the mizutsune is her unpredictable physical attacks. This creature loves to perform a spinning attack that can hit you with its entire body, often multiple times in a row. They can also perform a simpler flapping motion with their tail, which is really hard to avoid once you’re already close to them.

Learning when Mizutsune is about to turn or flick her tail is crucial to mastering this fight, as it’s very easy to get caught off guard by these incredibly fast attacks. Once you notice the early frames of the rotating attack, it’s a good idea to use your wirebug to get out of the way as quickly as possible.

Mizutsune also has a habit of dashing forward very quickly, especially when they are enraged. It is best to roll it several times or zip directly to the left or right with the Wirebug. Once their lunge completes, there is usually a short window of opportunity to attack before they get into another physical attack or bubble attack.

If you are hit by a physical attack from Mizutsune, You often get knocked down and unable to use your wirebugs for a few crucial seconds. This should be avoided if possible. If you have a melee weapon such as sword and shield or longswordyou should use your Wirebug as much as possible to stay in medium range and hop in and out to attack.

Be sure to collect an extra Wirebug on your way into battle, and make sure your weapon stays at maximum sharpness to do the most damage to the head, neck, and dorsal fin (the fin on the head).

Mizutsune – Drops and materials

Mizutsune drops a small selection of materials that can be used in crafting Mizutsune armor set (which provides water resistance) and a set of Mizutsune weapons with the same elemental property.

The only way to get the Mizutsune Fin is by doing this break the fin during the fightwhat is easiest to achieve Attack to the head with a slashing weapon while the creature is lying on the ground.

The following materials can be obtained from Mizutsune:

• Mizutsune scale
• Mizutsune Purplefur
• Mizutsune Claw
• bubble foam
• Mizutsune tail
• Mizutsune Plate
• Mizutsune Fin
• Wyvern Tear

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