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: ~52,500(solo), ~79,000(duo), 118,125(trio+)

Alatreon Combat Info

• Alatreon appears in two Special Assignments and two Event Quests. The two event quests (Evening Star and Death Star) rotate daily and depend on the date the player completed Blazing Black Twilight. In Blazing Black Twilight, Dawn's Triumph, and The Evening Star, Alatreon starts in Fire Active. In Dawn of the Death Star, Alatreon starts in Ice Active.

• Alatreon can use attack from any element in any form, though he tends to prioritize the ones that corresponds to his active state.

• Unless you can beat him without mistakes, elemental damage is essential against Alatreon, as doing enough elemental damage will weaken his supernova, which will cart the hunter in almost every case if not weakened.

• Alatreon's elemental weakness changes depending on its active element and is extremely resistant to all ailments.

• Kinsect Extracts:

  • Red: Head

  • Orange: Legs

  • White: Wings

Elemental Rotatation

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 both Special Assignments 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 Escaton Judgement. Hopefully, Alatreon's power has been contained enough at this point to make the attack survivable. By breaking Alatreon's horns when in Dragon active, the next Elemental State can be avoided, and Alatreon will be forced to switch back to the previous element. The rotation of the elements resets back to the start.

• Example: If Alatreon switched from Fire to Dragon and you break his horns, he will be forced to switch to Fire again, after he performs the Escaton Judgement. If you failed to break his horns, he will switch to Ice.

• Unless the group uses mostly Dragon weapons for some reason, eliminating either Fire Active or Ice Active from the rotation is critical to success.

Strategies

• If you aren't in Blazing Black Twilight (or after a cart in that quest), take the crystalburst at camp. It will always stagger Alatreon, and it can save your life if you get pinned.

• A great way to start the fight is to have Temporal/Rocksteady equipped, immediately claw onto his head, claw him twice, then flinch shot him into the wall directly behind him. It's a bit luck dependent if he charges forward or does the lightning attack, but the charge forward is what you should be looking for.

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

• Ice damage is effective against fire Alatreon, and vice versa. Dragon is awful against Alatreon unless you have a lot of trouble breaking his horns. If you are using fire or ice element, breaking his horns is vital to keeping Alatreon in the opposite element after he does Escaton Judgement. If he switches to the same element as your weapons, no attacks will contribute to the elemental topple until he switches back to Dragon, leaving you a very small window to build up element to weaken the next nova.

• Frostfang Barioth weapons are highly recommended against his fire active quests if you do not have Kjárr weapons. 

• A popular strategy is to wait until Alatreon goes into Dragon Active before wall-slamming him, since it deals heavy damage to his horns.

• Alatreon can be very tricky to wall-slam, as it only works if he hits one of the three big rock formations on the edge of the arena. Alternatively, Alatreon can be slammed down to the ground when he's flying. If you don't have Temporal Mantle equipped, one great opportunity to flinch shot him to the ground is to wait until after he does the two head pounds, then clutch claw and flinch shot.

• Alatreon can be stunned with Flash Pods (even out of the air), but only when he's not enraged.

• Consider staying on the floor after getting hit, as Alatreon comboes a lot of his moves, and staying on the ground leaves you invincible.

• Good Luck Pal! You're gonna need it!

Surviving Escaton Judgement

• Escaton Judgement, Alatreon's Ultimate Attack. It is indicated by the entire Arena filling with Frost of Fire and the Sound getting notably muffled. After roughly five seconds, Alatreon releases a massive, arena-wide elemental blast, that deals a set amount of damage in 5 seconds.

• The Supernova functions identically to Lunastra's Supernova. Only this time, there is no running from it. The damage is dealt in form of red recoverable health without stagger or knockback. It is not possible to i-frame it, and it will not trigger Vigorwasp Revival. Dodging, including the Superman dive, and most mantles are useless. 

• Dealing enough elemental damage to Alatreon will cause him to do a special topple animation (similar to Velkhana when you break her ice armor), followed by a big rumble if you use controller. Once this happens, the next Escaton Judgment will be severely weakened.

• The damage dealt by the nova is dependent on how many times Alatreon has been toppled through elemental damage before Escaton Judgment. This counter resets after every EJ. Note that every weapon has a "elemental multiplier," which allows weapons that are not normally elemental focused to also pass the DPS check. 

  • 0 times: The supernova deals 1000 damage in 5 seconds. It is only possible to survive this nova through extreme coordination and perfect timing, but you shouldn't count on that. Improbable, not impossible.

  • 1 time: Deals around 280 damage. Easily survivable with two Astera Jerkies / Sushifish Scales / Max Potions without Health Boost or Health Booster. If you have 200 health without Speed Eating, you can time using one Astera Jerky at 4 ticks of damage, and survive with about 100 health.

  • 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.

• Players can survive Escaton Judgment more easily by getting together and placing down their Health Boosters at the same spot, since they stack. Lifepowder and Dust of Life can be also be beneficial.*

Recommended Skills

• Health Boost: Extremely useful considering Alatreon's high damage output.

• Blight Resistance: All Alatreon attacks are elemental, and can inflict blights, this skill eliminates a huge part of the hassle of this fight.

• Dragon Resistance: Since Dragonblight shuts down your elemental damage (required to weaken Escaton Judgment), it is very important to make sure you aren't hit by this blight. Having a dragon resistance of 20 or more will prevent him from inflicting Dragonblight, but you still will be hit by other blights, which in turn will proc Coalescence.

• Coalescence: This is almost a free damage boost considering how many blights Alatreon inflicts to the hunters. Note that Blight Resistance lv3 will nullify Coalescence (use lv2 instead).

• Agitator: Alatreon stays in enraged state for a very long time, making this skill very good.

• Fortify: Mainly useful if you intend to bruteforce Alatreon by ignoring his elemental damage mechanics.

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)	⭐⭐⭐	⭐⭐⭐	⭐

 

Detailed weakness information(Legend Explanation: here)

Credits to AsteriskAmpersand, Deathcream and MoonBunnie.

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.