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 he tends to prioritize the ones that corresponds to his active state.

• Elemental damage is primordial against Alatreon, considering doing enough elemental damage will weaken its supernova, and it will cart the hunter in almost every case 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 Shiny Drops by breaking his horns, performing a successful wall-slam and everytime you weaken his nova.

• 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 his active element, but it is significantly less potent than any other element.

• 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, 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.

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

• 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.

• 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, Alatreon's power has been contained enough at this point to make the attack survivable.

By breaking Alatreon's horns after he 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 his 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 his horns a second time.

• Unless the group uses mostly Dragon, Thunder or Water weapons, eliminating either Fire Active or Ice Active from the rotation 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 eliminate Fire Active from the rotation.

Going blindly for the horns can be detrimental to the hunt! If you fail to break Alatreon's 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 his power in this stage. Once it switches to Dragon again, you may contain Alatreon's power once to survive the Escaton Judgement. But, if you break the horns, Alatreon will SWITCH BACK TO ICE NEXT! The horns should NOT be broken in this case!

Surviving the Supernova (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 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 dealt in form of red health without stagger or knockback. It is not possible to i-frame it, and it will not trigger Vigorwasp Revival.

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

• The damage dealt by the nova is dependant on how many times Alatreon has been toppled through elemental damage before Escaton Judgment. This counter resets after every EJ.

  • 0 Times: The supernova deals over 400 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.

  • 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.

• 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.

 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.