Alatreon - Monster Hunter World

Alatreon
Enemy Type	Large Monsters
Species	Elder Dragons
Elements	Dragon Ice Thunder Fire Water
Ailments	Waterblight Thunderblight Iceblight Fireblight Dragonblight
Weakness	Fire Active: Fire (immune) Thunder ⭐ Dragon ⭐ Water ⭐⭐ Ice ⭐⭐⭐ Dragon Active: Fire ⭐ Thunder ⭐ Water ⭐ Ice ⭐ Dragon ⭐⭐ Ice Active: Ice (immune) Water ⭐ Dragon ⭐ Thunder ⭐⭐ Fire ⭐⭐⭐
Location(s)	Secluded Valley

Alatreon is a Large Monster in Monster Hunter World (MHW). アルバトリオン (Arubatorion) in Japanese.

Known as a symbol of destruction, people fear even uttering it’s name. It’s rumoured to control all of the elements, but most, if not all, records of its existence have been burned.

Alatreon Details & Locations

• Found in: Secluded Valley
• Target of Quests: Blazing Black Twilight, The Evening Star, Dawn of the Death Star, Dawn's Triumph.
• Is hostile immediately
• Size: Alatreon's size does not vary and is always 2474.69
• Species: Elder Dragon
• HP (Tempered): ~52,500(solo), 118,125(trio)

Alatreon Combat Info

• There are two events that allow you to fight Alatreon (Evening Star and Death Star). They rotate on a daily basis and differ from player to player.

• The Evening Star is the quest where Alatreon will always start in Fire Active.

• Dawn of the Death Star is the quest where Alatreon will always start in Ice Active.

• Alatreon can use attack from any element in any form, though it tends to prioritise the ones that corresponds to it's active state

• Elemental damage is primordial against Alatreon, considering doing enough elemental damage will weaken its supernova, and it will oneshot any hunter if not weakened.

• Alatreon's elemental weakness changes depending on its active element.

• Alatreon is extremely resistant to all ailments and it will take a lot of time for you to inflict it just once.

• Kinsect Extracts:

  • Red: Head

  • Orange: Legs

  • White: Wings

• You can obtain a Shiny Drops by breaking its horns, performing a succesful Wall-Slam and everytime you weaken its nova.

• Elemental Defense (L) can be an asset considering most of Alatreon's attacks deal elemental damage.

• Eating for Felyne Insurance can be extremely useful if you're having trouble hitting Alatreon's elemental DPS check.

• Blight Resistance can be extremely useful if you find blights too annoying, Alternatively you can bring Nulberries and equip the Coalescence skill to get some extra stats.

• Considering Alatreon's high damage output, Health Boost 3 is highly recommended 

• Traps and Meat will not work on Alatreon since it is an Elder Dragon

• It is possible to survive the unweakened supernova by putting down a Health Booster and eating a well timed Astera Jerky but it is pretty difficult, and the intended way is to deal enough elemental damage to weaken the supernova.

• Although Water and Thunder are marked as 2 stars weaknesses for Fire and Ice Actives respectively, Fire and Ice are a lot more effective against their counterpart, even though they are only marked 1 star higher.

• Dragon damage is always effective against Alatreon, no matter its Active element, but it is significantly less potent than other elements, it becomes good if you have high damage uptime on Alatreon.

• A popular strategy is to wait until Alatreon goes into Dragon Active before wall-slamming him, since this makes breaking his horns extremely easy.

• Alatreon can be very tricky to wall-slam, if it doesn't hit one of the four big rock formations on the edge of the arena, it will simply not registers other walls and run into them without slamming. Alternatively, Alatreon can be flung out of the air at any time with the same effect as wall-slamming him, but that requires it to be flying.

• Alatreon tends to target Hunters that are incapacitated in some way, such as being stunned or under a blight effect.

• Getting up immediately after getting hit by Alatreon is not always a good idea considering it tends to combo a lot of its move, waiting on the floor longer while invincible could save a faint.

• Alatreon has the highest HP of any solo intended Monster in the game (Safi-jiiva and Kulve Taroth are always scaled for 4 players and thus do not count), despite this it is not a bad idea to hunt it alone because its elemental damage threshold is very low when solo, and it is possible to brute force him into a kill by dying twice to the novas and doing enough damage to kill it before he does a third one.

• Give your Palico the Plunderblade. You might not complete the quest, but you can still farm Alatreon materials until you eventually do succeed.

 Alatreon's Elemental Rotatation and how to take advantage of it

Alatreon has three "Elemental States": Fire, Dragon and Ice, through which he will circle during the Hunt. Alatreon switches Elements every 3 Minutes. Depending on the Quest you fight Alatreon in, the Rotation will be different.

• In the Special Assignment and the Event Quest "The Evening Star", Alatreon will start in Fire Active and Switch as follows:

  • Fire to Dragon to Ice to Dragon to Fire

• In the Event Quest "Dawn of the Death Star", Alatreon will start in Ice Active and switch as follows:

  • Ice to Dragon to Fire to Dragon to Ice

Every time Alatreon Switches From Dragon to the next Element, he will perform the Escaton Judgement-Attack. Hopefully, Alatreons Power has been contained enough at this point to make the Attack survivable.

By breaking Alatreons horns after it shifts to Dragon, the next Elemental State can be avoided, and Alatreon will be forced to switch to the other Element next. The Rotation of the Elements resets back to the start.

• Example: If Alatreon switched from Fire to Dragon and you break its horns, he will be forced to switch to Fire again, after he performs the Escaton Judgement. Afterwards, He switches to Dragon, and after that to Ice, if you don't break its horns a second time.

• Unless the group uses mostly Dragon, Thunder or Water weapons, Eliminating Fire Active or Ice Active is critical to success.

• If Alatreon starts in Fire Active, he has a 3 Star Weakness to Ice and is immune to Fire. Bring Ice weapons and Eliminate Ice Active From the Rotation.

• If Alatreon starts in Ice Active, he has a 3 star Weakness to Fire and is immune to Ice. Bring Fire weapons and Elimintae Fire Active from the Rotation.

Going blindly for the horns can be detramental to the hunt! If you fail to break Alatreons horns and are stuck with the wrong Elemental state DO NOT break the horns once Alatreon switches back to Dragon!

• Example: Your team is running 3 Ice weapons, one Light Bowgun. If Alatreon switches to Ice, you can't effectively contain it's power in this Stage. Once it switches to Dragon again, you may contain Alatreons power once to survive the Escaton Judgement. But, if you break the horns, Alatreon will SWITCH BACK TO ICE NEXT! The horns should definitely NOT be broken in this case!

Surviving the Supernova (Escaton Judgement)

• Alatreon's Ultimate Attack that can lead to a complete Teamwipe. It is indicated by the entire Arena filling with Frost of Fire and the Sound getting notably muffeled. This time should be used to heal to full health. After roughly five seconds, Alatreon releases a massive, arenawide elemental blast, that deals a set amount of damage in 5 seconds.

• The Supernova functions identically to Lunastras Supernova. Only this time, there is no running from it.

  • Dodging, including the Superman-Dive, and most mantles are useless. The Vitality Mantle will give you 100 additional health, reducing the effects of the Supernova somewhat.

  • The damage is delivered through chip damage, meaning no stagger or Knockback (and therefore no I-Frames)

  • To make surviving the Supernova easier, all players should get together and place down their Health Boosters at the same spot, since they stack. Lifepowder and Dust of Life can be also be beneficial.

  • If Alatreon performs a full-power Escaton Judgement and you don't have 5 faints left for your 4 man group of randoms, you can use the time to Abandon the Quest and get all your consumables back. This should however be the absolute exception!

• The Damage the Attack deals is dependant on how many times Alatreon has been KO'd due to elemental damage prior to the supernova. This counter resets after every Supernova!

  • 0 Times: You die. There are no skills, armors, or tools that will help you survive. The supernova deals over 400 damage in 5 seconds. No healing can compete with that. (If you're with an extremely coordinated team with the right skills and using items in a very strict window, you could technically survive. Team Darkside has made a video showing it's possible. However, most people probably do not have a coordinated speed run team playing with them.)

  • 1 Time: Deals around 280 damage. Easily survivable with two Astera jerkies / Sushifish scales without health boost or health booster. 

  • 2 Times: The supernova now only deals 140 damage in 5 Seconds, making it completely survivable without healing if you start at full 150 health.

  • 3 Times: Alatreons Power is fully contained and the Supernova deals a miniscule amount of damage. Very hard to actually achieve in a group, but manageable solo if you have extremely high elemental damage.

Alatreon Weaknesses

Each ⭐star shown below represents more weakness to each ailment

Ailment
Weakness Level	⭐	⭐	⭐	⭐	⭐

 

Each ⭐star shown below represents more weakness to each damage type

Weak Point
Head (Breakable)	⭐⭐⭐	⭐⭐⭐	⭐⭐
Tail (Severable)	⭐⭐	⭐⭐	⭐⭐
Forelegs (Breakable)	⭐⭐⭐	⭐⭐⭐	⭐

 

In-game weakness information

 Good Luck Pal! You're gonna need it!

Alatreon Low and High Rank Carves

Defeating this monster allows the player to carve the following items:

Alatreon Weapons & Armor

Armor and Weapons related to the Alatreon Monster.

Weapons

Armor

Notes & Trivia

• It is known as the "Blazing Black Dragon".
• Alatreon has the most physiology diagrams of any monster, one for each of its active states.
  • Unlike Shara Ishvalda, the displays only differ in terms of elemental weaknesses, not physical design.