Kushala Daora | Monster Hunter World Wiki

thanks capcom! I in fact wanted perma flying mosnter with wind aura thanks

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Can confirm what the hunter below me said, earplugs level 5 and windproof level 3 work wonders (windproof level 5 offers no extra protection over level 3 for this fight). Kushala is quite a pushover in a hand-to-claw fight because it has noodle legs. As long as its not enraged, the wind aura is harmless and you can go wild on its legs for staggers, and it can no longer combo you with roars. It will still toss you around if you're too reckless, but that's true for every monster. I used a Nergigante weapon for maximum staggering/disabling, but thunder weapons for more damage probably work fine as well.
While it's enraged, you still have to be on the back foot, but it's a far cry from the default frustration.

Gear for this that's relatively easy to get:
Bazel Coil alpha/beta, Bazel Vembraces alpha, Earplugs Charm I, High Metal Helm alpha for earplugs level 5. If you have a Bazelgeuse gem, you can either make a level 2 charm or a Bazel Helm and free up the other slot.
Vespoid Mail alpha, Ingot Greaves alpha for windproof level 3.

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Earplugs + wind res + flash + hammer worked for me. Basically it lets you attack him constantly. Flash keeps him on ground, ear plugs mean your combos continue through his screeches, wind res means you can stay close to him without dying, and the hammer provides lots of stunlock. Specifically:
Brazenbreak I hammer
High metal helm and mail alpha
Rath heart braces and greaves alpha
Rath soul coil beta
Earplugs charm II

Oh, and remember that elder dragons mostly ignore palico traps, so a trap-type palico probably isn't the best choice.

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I just figured it out; the horns can only break once the thing is under 20% HP

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I would rather blast my balls off with a gunlance than face this overgrown ADHD doggo in MR Ancient Forest once more

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a tempered jkushala has more health than the nomal one? or is it just strongger

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If you like fighting this monster, you are masochist without realizing (even if you don't get hit once). Seriously though, who designed this thing and thought it was good idea?

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can someone please explain how this fight is so bad to me, I just don't understand

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Took me a while to find him, I never got into Monster Hunter. But I have this one as a plushy. The plush version is much cuter. But I still appreciate learning what he is. =D

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For the people struggling, I found dual blades very helpful as before I couldn't get it to the final stage most the time but once I tried using dual blades (one below the fire and ice because I was going for the horns) that it was a piece of cake. I had no food on and didn't die once so if your struggling try them out, make sure to definitely stock up on flash pods including each time you die, but if you don't have flash pods another easy way to deal with a flying daora is to just shoot them with a slinger ammo (preferably crystal burst) every single time they try to attack, it takes their stamina and they wont hit you. Make sure to bring mega barrel bombs as this will make its last stage bearable and it's the only reasonable way to get the horns off (it needs to be less than 20% hp as far as I know for them to break). And finally if its possible get the earplugs effect because for some reason it can roar and then true combo you into a stun from its running if your decently close, which if your by a wall can stun lock you until you die. Other than that try not to get too mad over losing to it because your just gonna be doing worse if you're upset, and you can retry as many times as you need.

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Where do you find tempered tracks for it?

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Has one of the best monster designs, and one of the coolest looking armors of the franchise. That said, his fight is probably the worst in the game, it's the definition of no fun allowed

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high rank Kushala was tolerable most of the time but in master rank it's an utterly miserable fight

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Hey guys I just thought I would give some tips on fighting him…even though I suck at it. So first:ALWAYS BRING FLASH PODS!!!!!! Yeah. When he goes in the air and you shoot a flash pod I think it knocks him out of the sky. Although when he is in a tornado he cannot be flash podded. For skills the most useful is probably wind proof. I always bring Health boost lvl3. But that’s just me. When it comes to elements thunder is a good choice. Blast and Poison also do well. You usually want to keep him softened because if you don’t your weapon will probably be bouncing off. I only ever beat him with either the bow or the gunlacne. Sometimes the Longsword or the Dual Blades. I think that is all I have to say. Have a good day and happy hunting!!


~ Eriatha

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aka Tornado Johnson

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what a boring and unsatisfying monster to fight...

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Makes a really satisfying "crunch" noise when you it with a hammer. Like a mix of broken glass and rubble.

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pain

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One of the best things to do in the entire game is to just go on an expedition to wherever he is, and literally just vibe with him. Ask him how his day was, make a few jokes, ask him how the family's doing. Such a chill guy, I love him

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hrhjheknkjkj

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If you have trouble with the deflection you should use rathalos a armor set it makes it so you can’t be deflected

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an absolute joke this fight becomes when you whip out those flash pods

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Windproof skill and flashbugs are your best friends for this fight

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Gunlance rips Kushala since shelling avoids hardness. Sticky lbg is equally effective too.

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Wind res with a elderseal weapon makes his fight far more bearable, Unless you are using a ranged weapon, then you are pretty much screwed.

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Kushala is my favourite elder dragon his fights has the best music and last time when I fought him in guiding lands forest area first I was annoyed by his constant flying , but then I saw the majestic atmosphere it was dark and gloomy kushala hovering behind a massive tornado with a god like mysterious presence. It was the best environmental beauty I have seen in Iceborne ever. For his fights I always use velk 4 piece and furious rajang's gs so I can hit his head as hard as possible which suppose to be the only place melee weapons can reach. Please don't hate him☹️

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This easily takes the cake as the worst monster in all of MHW. By a damn mile, it's not even close.

Not only does the constant windpressure lock you out of doing anything for most of the hunt, Kushala's tendency to fly for more than 70% of combat makes it impossible for most melee classes. His wind BS adds onto this. The fact that him taking off into the sky also wind pressures you adds onto this.
And normally you'd use flash pods for this sort of nonsense, but in MR, NO MORE! Rightfully so, flashlocking a monster was kinda dumb, but with Kushala it bloody well deserved it, and it seems to fly even more in MR.

To add insult to injury, wind resist 5 doesn't even do much against him, as one would sort of expect (the skill is called wind resist, why doesn't it help against the wind dragon?). To properly counter his wind BS, you need "wind pressure negated", which you can only get by having a HH, or by having HIS ARMOUR. WHAT SORT OF CATCH 22 IS THIS.

You can't grapple onto him half of the time due to his wind shield, and whenever he walks past you, you get stunned for what seems like 7 hours.

AND THE TORNADOES. OH THE DAMN TORNADOES. YEAH I JUST LOVE NOT BEING ABLE TO USE 3/4'S OF THE ****ING ARENA.

I don't have any respect for anyone that worked on designing, testing and implementing Kushala, and honestly, they seem like a liability to the company.

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"Target of Quests" missing master rank optional quest: "The Harbinger of Clear Skies"

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As if the wind aura, flying spam and tornadoes weren't enough, Kushala's roars also true combo into some attacks. Fun.

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Stunlock: the monster.

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Honestly I really love fighting him. In HR all you have to do is use flash pods and in MR you can do him fight him decently well with a GL or LS I mainly like him since he is very Challenging

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I hate his wind armor thing when trying to use dual blades

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Wind tornado storm wind death.

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I've seen some other people conplaining about this fight, but personally I didn't struggle too much with it. The wind was annoying, yeah, but never that much of a bother. I was using the Kadachi Pillar III Insect Glaive, and whenever he was in the air, I would just use the aerial attacks of the glaive to try and mount him, to throw him back to the ground. Still haven't done Master Rank tho, as I don't have the DLC. Even then, it's probably the 2nd easiest of the four elder dragons (counting Nergi), Vaal Hazak being the easiest to me, with Nergigante as the hardest. So overall, I'd say the Insect Glaive is probably the best weapon for this guy, but not 100% sure. Would love to hear other suggestions.

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Kushala Doara has been doing some crack look at his nose

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Hate to break it but the monster hunter world wiki does not show monster attacks. (you might know about this).

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I am hunter! I cant wait to do battle with him! I shall feast on his sweet meats! REEEEEEEEE!

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*laughs in DB

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High elderseal and windproof, still a little annoying on master rank but not too hard.

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This thing made me quit long sword for good. Too slow attacks with defense tradeoff. I am a GL guy now. Also what's the deal with elder monsters? They should be staggered by the slinger ammo they drop like any other monsters, that was always my strat with LS. It's still effective for wyverns but I love GL now. Not to mention I hate the flash pod strat it's cheesing.

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WHY DOES IT SAY TIGREX HAMMER





tigrasha daora

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If hes going to his nest soon, make sure to save your temporal mantle there. There are a lot of crystal bursts on the lower level of elder's recess. When he goes down like, grab something you can use to hit the big crystals since hes just standing right below it, BUT IF HE SEES YOU then run since he just charges straight to you. Get the wind resistance or sth if you have space (free space, not sacrificing them). It'll help you on the wind aura near him but even that should be helpful if you need to go near him.

Just keep beating up the normal kushala until you can perfectly read his moves. Once done, go beat up the T and AT versions of him, its just the same thing but takes more time.

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I used a bow and had no problem with the shoot n’ scoot tactic. The only problem I had with Kushala was his nest.
Kushala : how dare you infiltrate my nest! Take a tornado!
Me: Ha! It’ll take more than one tornado to stop me from skinning you alive!
Kushala: You underestimate my power!
And before I know it his nest is literally covered in tornados. I never took flash pods against him but I can see it would be very wise. Also I would not take a melee weapon against him but that’s just me. Thank you for taking your time to read this. Have a great day!

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Crystalburst is quite effective against it. Not only it staggers Kushala as it diminishes its wind aura as well.

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Be patient and use ground and pound with defender V kinsect glaive to deal massive damage to the head.

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at least I know I am not the only person who thinks fighting this thing is basically cancer

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Just went the full 50 minutes and could not kill one. Between it, and the Savage Deviljo that over 100 whatever units of measurement they use away somehow repeatedly found our battle four times.... Even without that, the thing would not die. Using a Rank 11 weapon with High Elderseal....

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even with the stormslinger still too much trouble for what its worth

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Takes some getting used to, flash pod spam for non iceborne hunts and he is no trouble. You wall slam him in mr repeatedly , just bring a rock steady or temporal. He can be wall slammed twice in a row, he won’t enrage right away as long as your damage isn’t too extreme and you minimize pressing circle( too much will enrage). He also derages faster and enters yellow more easily. If you want to fight him fairly, use elder seal or dragon pod to weaken his power. Use a ranged weapon or clutch spam his wings( unless he flies through his own whirl wind, you’ll be surprised how often you can successfully clutch him, most of his air attacks are safe)

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He is part shrimp.

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This mother****er is such a abomination of game design that it actually got me looking online to see if I could find out who designed it so I could send them a personalised '**** you' message. Seriously, I dont get how a person could be so damaged. The fight is so badly designed that the only way they could make it 'more difficult' for master rank was to utterly gut the one reliable way of fighting it; flash bombing the ****er into the dirt. Because Crapcom screwed up so badly designing the fight, they decide to punish players for their own ineptitude and give us this attricity. And given how terrible literally all the Elder Dragon fights are, the fact that this one can stand out so much is a testament to how bad it is. So yeah; **** Kushala Daora, **** the guy who made it and **** Crapcom for bringing it back.

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he is pretty annoying with wind aura but I actually found him okay. With his tornado's following you I s pretty annoying also but it lasts for like 5 seconds

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So... I don’t know if this is common knowledge, but you can actually cancel that wind aura by blinding Kushala with a flash-pod. Of course, Master Rank monsters gain much faster resistance against it if used to often, but its still something that helped me through every Kushala hunt. Using it sparingly of course. I discovered this when I fought AT Kushala Daora back in High Rank. I’m not sure if this always does the trick (in fact; if you use it to much it won’t do anything anymore), but please let me know if this was helpful.

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Probably the most annoying creature in the game, spamming tornadoes, blocking attacks and flying all the time makes it harder for players with blade weapons to reach it

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Kushala is piss easy with the Raging Brachydios Great sword... When I fought it i thought i was fighting HR Kushala but I was actually fight MR Kushala. XD

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t r i g g e r e d . . .

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Kushala is a hard hitter for the most part, but if there is another elder dragon and he goes there he usually gets trashed. I took a bow and had little problems, but I suggest you hit and dodge regardless the weapon. Also he is insufferable when he fights in his nest. Hope this was helpful. Have a great day!

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Really cool lore-wise. Piece of sh*t gameplay-wise.

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This bastard kept dropping tornadoes on all the shinies so I could only grab 2/4 that were dropped. The others disappeared before the tornadoes expired.

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I just did the assigned quest 22min bazelgeuse gunlance, fight went pretty smooth just be careful of his tornados, if you hit those he seems to automatically attack you

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i managed to get him at his nest... time ran out.

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Daora means cool in brazillian portuguese so is Kushala the Cool ice dragon

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Just bring flash pod and flasbug, when it flying you can shoot flash pod

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I was nearly slayed it but in the end, I got knock down, bad luck

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You won't even have to worry about weapon sharpness because you won't land a *****ing hit lol

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You will only need wind resistance 6 to like this fight and even then i´d prefer to fight an archtempered furious rajang who is fluent in 6 Million ways of ripping my ass to bits. Sincerely a mad f****** Hunter.

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I hate the person who designed MR Kushala. Seriously, I never ever have a fun time fighting this monster.

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Solod this thing with almost every type of weapon and I have had the best results with poisonous hammers. That being said, unless you are killing it to advance story or get parts for the "Fire and Ice" dual blades there is no point in ever fighting it. The armor you get is only useful for fighting it specifically and the ice element from its weapon trees is sub-par at best. You can literally get better gear from fights that are 100% gimmick based like this one is.

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Best advice I can give is to take rocksteady mantle and as much tool specialist as you can.

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"Hey kid, want some of this CC?"

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Whoever decided to add its wind aura that just knocks anyone who comes too close back should get fired. This is the most obnoxious monster in the entire game

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I want to slaughter these things and their children and their children's children to lightyears beyond whatever is beyond extinction.

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Monster Hunter World. WindProof 5: "Negates minor AND MAJOR wind pressure". Kushala hunt... Gets wind pushed anyway. Useless. In Freedom Unite that skill was the vaccine to Kushala's wind.

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Kushala is more***** than Kirin

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first tried so ez

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At least it's not rusted kushala right? OH WAIT A MINUTE!!!!

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There's no longsword?!? WHY!

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I like how Kushala in older titles was just like every other monster when you first see it, where it’d attack you, but in World he’s chill as ***** when you encounter him after the assigned quest.

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Why the ***** did they remove that poisoning him removes his wind abilities?

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"Flashpods help, can confirm"- greatsword user just to flex beat kushala first try

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BRING THE FLASHBUGS I SWEAR TO LORD CAPCOM FARM THE BUGS AT THE BOTANICAL RESEARCH AND BRING THEM THANK ME LATER

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How much health does Kushala have

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If you wanna solo him but suck at fighting him, take my advice, bring a bunch of mega bombs and materials to make more, bring ghillie, temporal, and/or rocksteady mantle and switching them up during cooldown, and use the bombs whenever possible. Personally when i have temporal mantle on, I place down mega barrel bombs near him when he is on the ground, and place it under him when he is hovering above me. When 2 mega barrel bombs go off underneath him, it usually knocks him down (assuming he is hovering). Also quick thing to note, if you are going to go for this build, the "Bomber" decoration is good to have on since it increases exploding item damage. Also, i usually manage to beat him within the 35-45 minute margin, when i solo Arch-tempered Kushala Daora using this method. Although you will probably be faster cause i ran most of the time due to the fact that he can 1-2 shot me and i refuse to change my gear loadout for some cockamaney reason.

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Is there a good strategy for breaking his head with the flying strike bow?

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Why did CAPCOM make this thing such a scrub and weak as hecc

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For almost every quest I've fought it, I've focused the head, brought bombs, and still no part break even with part breaker lvl 3! Capcom needs to fix the hitbox for the head or fix the actual damage at which the part breaks. maybe they added another 0 by accident when programing the values so that it doesn't break until after the dmg totals more than the creature's health. its aggravating when you spend a whole 24 hours of game time farming him and NO HORNS!!!

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Arch tempered he becomes such an awesome beast! If you have troubles finding a good team fight him alone with a gajalaka and use lots of bombs. Play carefuly and look out for him preparing tornados and that large deadly windblast. It's much easier that way as it would be with a random team and that gigantic healthpool. Good hunting!

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Not just that, but his wing hitboxes (armored parts) are extended so that your weapon will rebound.

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Technically among the worst designed enemies in the history of video games. Design and execution-wise obviously. Really*****ty and meaningless enemy design; sloppy hitboxes and stagger. This is how you literally ruin a mechanical game and turn it into a cheese/equipment fest.

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My favorite part is where he spawns 10 tornados and does fire damage to my gpu

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you haven't experienced true hell until you fight Kushala Daora in Ancient Forest

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His tornadoes indeed do damage when you walk into it after it is created. Please fix this. Go onto the game, walk into a tornado, and see.

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Can some1 add, i just saw kushala daora turf war with nergigante

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new biggest size with gold crown 2391.41

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You should add turf wars with nergigante too.

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garbage encounter for melee

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I like the boss and the mechanics especially the tempered version on small terrain is a challenge, but I'm not sure anymore if Elderseal is worth it tbh, or how it works or is supposed to work.

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I thought elder seal negates his wind shield. Poison negated it in previous games

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When you think the wind res skill will help *daora throws a tornado at you* YAET

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Quest 1: Gem as Quest reward.
Quest 2: Carving Gem, carving again, another Gem.
Quest 3: Gem as Quest reward again.
YET I HAVE NOT A SINGLE HORN.

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