Leshen is an Large Monster in Monster Hunter World (MHW).?? in Japanese.
Dwelling deep inside the forest, these creatures use their innate magic to control all flora and fauna within their territory. Revolures and Jagras controlled by a Leshen are tough to approach, but the Igni Sign is very useful in fending off Leshen's lashing roots.
Leshen Details & Locations
- Found in: Ancient Forest
- Target of Quest: Contract: Trouble in the Ancient Forest
- Is immediately hostile at any range
- Attacks other monsters: No
- See Ancient Leshen for another variation.
- Small Monsters version: Controls Jagras and Revolture
- Sizes: 549.7 ~ 549.7
- Species: Relict
- HP: 11,700
Leshen Combat Info
- This monster attacks with its claws, and commands a flock of Revolures and a group of Jagras to attack Geralt. It can also use wood magic to summon roots to attack or "defend".
- This monster can inflict
Bleeding - This monster is weak to the Igni Sign, as well as
Fire (⭐⭐⭐), 
Dragon (⭐⭐) andThunder (⭐⭐) - This monster can be staggered with the Hunter Runestone
- Geralt can break the Leshen's Antlers, Body and Legs.
- Combat tactics
- This monster is resistant to
Water and 
Sleep - Kinsect Extract:
- Red: Head/Antlers
- Orange: Waist/Body
- White: Legs
- The Igni Sign can be used to instantly kill the Jagras the Leshen summons. This is especially useful to keep a certain ally alive.
- Dispell the cloud of Revoltures with the Igni Sign
- You can actually mount the Leshen. The animation is weird and it has only one spot you grab onto, but it works nonetheless. Brace whenever it tries to shake you off and you will get a free knockdown.
- Break the Leshens antlers twice to stop it from summoning Jagras. Easier said than done however. Mounting the Leshen will help.
- SPOILERS!
- While completing the "Investigation" that leads up to the fight, you will come across a Pukei-Pukei hanging dead in some roots. Head right to continue the quest, but if you head left, you will find another Pukei-Pukei, choked by roots. From there you should see a third Pukei-Pukei, barely alive and quite beaten up. Burn the Roots with Igni and it will fly away for now. It will later join Geralt towards the end of the Leshen fight.
- Pukei will Poison the Leshen at least twice for some great Damage. It will also deal low physical damage
- The biggest danger to Pukei are the Jagras. Make sure to deal with them as quickly as possible.
- Keep Pukei alive with Dust of Life (make sure to grab the EZ Dust of Life from the chest at a base camp) and you will get a special reward at the end (Plus, it's just really heartwarming).
- While completing the "Investigation" that leads up to the fight, you will come across a Pukei-Pukei hanging dead in some roots. Head right to continue the quest, but if you head left, you will find another Pukei-Pukei, choked by roots. From there you should see a third Pukei-Pukei, barely alive and quite beaten up. Burn the Roots with Igni and it will fly away for now. It will later join Geralt towards the end of the Leshen fight.
Leshen 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 |  |
 |
 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antlers (Breakable Twice) | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| Body & Tail (Breakable Twice) | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ |
Detailed weakness information(Legend Explanation: here)
Credits to AsteriskAmpersand, Deathcream and MoonBunnie.
Leshen High Rank Carves
Defeating this monster allows the player to carve the following items:
Leshen Rewards
| Rewards | Frequency | % |
| Leshen Claw | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | |
| Cursed Bone | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | |
| Leshen Resin (Break Body & Legs) | ⭐⭐⭐ | |
| Leshen Antlers (Break Antlers) | ⭐⭐ |
LeshenWeapons & Armor
Armor and Weapons related to the Leshen Monster.
Weapons
Witcher's Silver Sword
Witcher's Silver Sword +Armor
Notes & Trivia
- Can be lured with ??
- Camouflage works until ?? range
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Leshen Icon.
Anonymouswould be really cool if these *****ng jagras would let me heal once
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Absolute trash. In tw3 we had op guarding, faster regenerating and more stunning igni, massive roll iframes. Hated this quest by heart.
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How yo ride stuff. I just noticed that in a expedition on wildspire waste on some kelbi...
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lol i copy this website to make a book of my own of monster hunter, the monsters are easy and hard so i make a book today
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F YOU JAGRAS AND LESHEN! I FINALY MAKE FRIENDS WITH A MONSTER AND YOU KILL HIM! I WILL SLAUGHTER YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY! Next time I will bring heals for my beloved Pukei-pukei, RIP.
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I would love to get a chance to fight one as our own hunter in Rise.
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It seems that as long as you keep at least 1 Jagras alive he won’t summon more. My advice: Keep at least 1 alive (you don’t have to go out of your way to; if it wants to taste blade then oblige it) and you won’t be pecked to death. Also the default swords are good enough if you are patient with your attacks.
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Beat him first time without carting. Wish I could say it was skill, but it was luck.
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Why the **** do we need to do the entire quest all over again from scratch, it's an awesome quest but the Leshen is an as***** and those jagras can rot in hell
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Hunting Leshen is actually fun and easy. Beat him twice on two hunt. Just git gud (i use IG. Pretty light and fast to fight this thing ). But i more prefer hunting ancient leshen as i can wear my temporal mantle and set sum health boost
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I thought this fight is hard especially when I want to do my killer mover those stupid jagras always get in my way. Not to mention it can have bleed effect on you. Thankfully I beaten the leshen in my second try
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But can anyone recognize the moves of this beast of Satan? Only the explosion of branches is recognizable, but the wall and remote attack have the same movement. Then jagras are the most annoying and hateful thing in this world, almost more than those damn pigeons. Harder him than the nergigante and Xeno'jiiva put together
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HERES A TIP FOR PEOPLE FAILING THE QUEST: Just run away from the boss, wait for your fire sign cooldown, go back to burn him and bash him. Repeat.
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With how many times I was interrupted from healing and was bleeding from Leshen while being pecked at by the Jagras and the Revoultures, I NEVER want to fight this thing again.
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You can free a Pukei to help you in the final phase. Pretty common knowledge but it's not on the wiki. If I wasnt tech retarded I would update it myself:(
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Just ran through it, beat with about a minute to spare, and the game crashed :)
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I mean, its subjectively one of if not the hardest fight in mhw, pre iceborn.
Oh I thought the fcking Jagras were the boss and the leshen is their summon.
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