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| Enemy Type | Large Monsters |
| Species | Elder Dragons |
| Elements |  Ice |
| Ailments |  Iceblight |
| Weakness |  Fire ⭐⭐⭐ Thunder ⭐⭐ Dragon ⭐⭐ |
| Resistances | Ice (immune) Water⭐ |
| Location(s) | All Biomes. |
| Tempered Lv. | 3 |
Velkhana is a Large Monster in Monster Hunter World (MHW). Velkhana, introduced with the Iceborne Expansion on September 6th, 2019, is a formidable Elder Dragon in Monster Hunter World (MHW). Revered for its power to freeze everything in its path, this creature, known as イヴェルカーナ (Iverukāna) in Japanese, is said to command the cold and unleash freezing breath, conjuring massive spires of ice out of nowhere. Its unique combat style, resembling a cross between a Rathalos and a Legiana, includes an Enraged mode where it unleashes ice beam attacks, requiring hunters to exploit specific weaknesses for a successful confrontation.
An elder dragon with the power to freeze all in its path.
According to legend, it can control the cold, and use its freezing breath to conjure massive spires of ice out of nowhere.
- Found in: All Biomes.
- Variation: Arch Tempered Velkhana (from The Place Where Winter Sleeps)
- Target of Quests: A Tale of Ice and Fire, The Defense of Seliana, The Iceborne Wyvern, Clashing Swords Upon The Rime.
- Is hostile when it sees you during Assignments, docile during Expeditions.
- Has Turf Wars with: Savage Deviljho, Kushala Daora, Lunastra, Ruiner Nergigante, Rajang and Teostra
- Will occasionally attack and freeze Small Monsters.
- Size:
2284.52 ~ 
3245.06 - Species: Elder Dragons
- HP: ~23,040(Solo), ~39,348(Duo), ~58752(3 or 4 players)
MHW Velkhana Combat Guide & Tips
This icy new monster seems to be somewhere between a Rathalos and a Legiana, and is the main antagonist of the expansion, in the way that Nergigante was to the original launch.
- Kinsect Extracts:
- Red: Head/Tail
- White: Wings/Forelegs
- Orange: Hindlegs
MHW Velkhana Combat Guide
Velkhana primarily deals ice damage, so having armor with high Ice resistance can be beneficial. Also, consider using armor that provides skills such as Ice Resistance or Divine Blessing to mitigate damage.
Be prepared for Velkhana's enraged mode, marked by a distinctive scream and ascension into the air. During this phase, expect an increased frequency of ice beam attacks, requiring anticipation and timely counters.
Velkhana can be susceptible to Flash Pods, especially when it's flying. Using flash pods can bring it down, giving you an opportunity to attack its vulnerable areas.
The Ice-covered form is a critical stage where Velkhana encases itself in icicles. Exploit this vulnerability by breaking off the icicles, but be aware that Velkhana becomes more aggressive in this state. New ice attacks are introduced, including falling ice crystals and expanding clusters. Velkhana's ice beam forms walls hindering hunter movement.
To disrupt the Ice-covered Form, focus on breaking Velkhana's head or tail. Additionally, targeting the ice walls formed during its attacks provides opportunities for offense. Parts covered in ice become weak points, while the rest gains resistance, enabling hunters to optimize their damage output.
The Iceproof Mantle is invaluable for protection against Velkhana's iceblight-inflicting breath. Utilize this mantle strategically to mitigate the impact of the monster's attacks.
When Velkhana takes to the air, a well-timed Slinger Burst can potentially ground it, unless it's in an enraged state. Dodge the sweeping ice beam attack by jumping off a small ledge or platform, using precise timing. The broken/melted ice walls leave behind platforms, offering opportunities for aerial attacks. Ensure you have an ample supply of healing items, such as potions and Mega Potions, to stay alive during the fight. Consider bringing Nulberries to remove the Iceblight status.
Torch Pods effectively melt ice walls, creating climbable platforms for hunters. Consider using the Resuscitate skill to counter iceblight effects instead of building up to full Ice resistance.
Breaking the ice on three of Velkhana's parts, such as the head, tail, wings, or body, consistently shatters its ice armor. This reduces the time spent in the armored state, making the fight more manageable. Managing this effectively can minimize or entirely avoid the second level of ice armor, where large ice crystals become a significant threat.
Velkhana Combat Tips
- Enraged mode: Velkhana will scream and rise into the air.
- Velkhana will also use her ice beam attacks at shorter intervals
- The Enraged mode is completely independent from its Ice-covered Form.
- She is susceptible to double Slinger Burst into a wall, if fast enough (Slinger Capacity is recommended if you intend to use this tactic)
- Ice-covered Form
- Velkhana will cover its body in icicles. The icicles become its weak spots and can be broken off.
- Velkhana will be extra aggressive when in this form.
- It gains a variety of new ice attacks, such as using moisture in the air to create ice crystals that can fall on hunters, as well as summoning a cluster of ice that expands outward from the original targeted area.
- Its ice beam will create walls of ice that impede your movement.
- Most ice beam and ice breath attacks now also summon clusters of ice that shoot out of the ground along the path of the attack, bursting shortly after, and dealing large damage as well as knocking the hunter back.
- Tips and notes:
- Iceproof Mantle can be extremely useful in this fight.
- Velkhana's breath inflicts
Iceblight, which it will project long range and all around itself when in the air. - Instead of building up to 20 Ice resistance for Iceblight immunity, the Resuscitate skill can be used to cancel the effect of Iceblight.
- Keep in mind that its ice beam can not only shoot through its walls of ice, but occasionally the floor
- While in the air, a Slinger Burst will generally knock Velkhana to the ground unless it is enraged.
- While it's covered in its Ice-Armour, the parts of its body covered in ice become weak points, while the rest of its body becomes resistant to attacks.
- It will also leave clouds of frost on the floor. These can be used to go into the sliding animation on flat terrain and perform a sliding attack
- Breaking Velkhana's head or tail will sometimes stagger her out of her Ice-covered Form
- When in Velkhana's Ice-covered Form, she will still have a functioning tail to attack with even after severing it off
- The ice walls formed by Velkhana's attacks can be broken by attacking them
- Torch Pods can also be used to melt the ice walls
- After being broken/melted, the ice walls will leave behind a small platform of ice that you can climb on top of and jump off to perform aerial attacks
- Velkhana's sweeping ice beam attack can actually be dodged by jumping off of a small ledge or platform, if timed right.
- By timing the jump correctly, the hunter will hop over the ice beam as he jumps off of the ledge/platform.
- The ice platforms left behind by its ice walls after being broken/melted can be used to perform this maneuver.
- All things considered, this is probably the hardest mandatory fight of Iceborne. If you saved your Potions and Drugs for the right moment, now is the time to use them.
Velkhana Weaknesses
Each ⭐star shown below represents more weakness to each ailment
| Ailment |  |
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| Weakness Level | ⭐⭐ | ⭐ | ⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐ |
Each ⭐star shown below represents more weakness to each damage type
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| Head (Breakable) | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| Wings (Breakable) | ⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐ | ⭐ |
| Tail (Severable) | ⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐ |
Detailed weakness information(Legend Explanation: here)
Credits to AsteriskAmpersand, Deathcream and MoonBunnie.
Velkhana Low and High Rank Carves
Defeating this monster allows the player to carve the following items:
Velkhana Carves
| Carves | Frequency | % |
 Crystal Shard (Dropped) |
Master Rank ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | 32% (28%) |
 Velkhana Cortex (Tail Carved) |
Master Rank ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | 24% (27%) |
 Velkhana Hardclaw (Dropped) |
Master Rank ⭐⭐⭐ | 19% (50%) |
 Velkhana Crownhorn |
Master Rank ⭐⭐ | 8% |
 Velkhana Fellwing |
Master Rank ⭐⭐⭐ | 15% |
 Velkhana Lash (Tail Carved) |
Master Rank ⭐⭐⭐ | 9% (70%) |
 Velkhana Crystal (Tail Carved) |
Master Rank ⭐ | 2% (3%) |
Velkhana Rewards
| Rewards | Frequency | % |
| Velkhana Cortex |
Master Rank ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | 27% |
| Crystal Shard (Break Head) |
Master Rank ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | 22% (32%) |
| Velkhana Hardclaw (Break Wings) |
Master Rank ⭐⭐⭐ | 18% (30%) |
| Velkhana Crownhorn (Break Head) |
Master Rank ⭐⭐⭐ | 8% (66%) |
| Velkhana Lash |
Master Rank ⭐⭐⭐ | 13% |
| Velkhana Crystal (Break Head) |
Master Rank ⭐ | 2% (2%) |
 Elder Dragonvein Bone |
Master Rank ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | 63% |
| Large Elder Dragon Bone |
Master Rank ⭐⭐ | 8% |
 Pure Dragon Blood |
Master Rank ⭐⭐⭐ | 12% |
 Aurora Crownhorn |
Master Rank ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | 37% |
 Elder Spiritvein Bone |
Master Rank ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | 35% |
 Tempered Crownhorn |
Master Rank ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | 64% |
 Great Spiritvein Gem |
Master Rank ⭐ | 3% |
Velkhana Weapons & Armor
Armor and Weapons related to the Velkhana Monster.
Weapons
Icewing
Winged Seraphyd
Icegale
Noble Ana Palas
Icefeather
Untouched Hel
Icebrink
Reverent Elusarca
Knightly Ectis
Vorpal Icefort
Icerood
Wicked Niddoq
Ice Guardian
Regal Daruq
Icescepter
Wise Fylos
Iceflinger
Alluring Evelia
Icehawk
Graceful Almaria
Iceroar
Righteous Varka
Icespiel
Sonorous Eisfyl
Iceshaker
Victorious NorthleinArmor
Notes & Trivia
- It is known as the "Ice Dragon" and "The Iceborne Wyvern"
- A unique victory theme plays upon defeating Velkhana for the first time.
- It is the flagship monster of Monster Hunter World: Iceborne.
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Velkhana render.
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Velkhana icon.
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An unarmored Velkhana, from the first Iceborne gameplay trailer.
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Armored Velkhana in the Elder's Recess.
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Velkhana in the cover artwork.
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Anonymous"This icy new monster seems to be somewhere between a Rathalos and a Legiana"
I-what, who wrote this?? Velks not even a flying wyvern, why not compare it to another elder like kushala.
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finished with 39 secs left this thing is mechanic bloat incarnate
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The tail clearly is my worst enemy, the hitbox is messed up like crazy. You will get it even if you're standing slightly behind it, or if you're walking or rolling into it while it's already finished its move.
That, and the fact that its beam goes through walls and the terrain...
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I started using a lance around Nargacuga, and I did well up until Velkhana. Over 20 tries, most with Lance, but also a few with Gunlance, 2 different HBGs and 2 different Insect Glaives. I either just fainted 3 times, or a couple times, ran out of time. I finally had success with the Lohenspire (Anjanath IG), a Foliacath II Forz kinsect, with a ton of pole vaulting hijinx. Maybe after a while I'll come back and try again with a lance, but was just sooo painful...
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Kinda sucks she regrows her tail with ice. it's cool and all but it sucks the opportunity for a rewarding partbreak is just intentionally and consciously ignored. At the very least it ought to melt off with fire element much easier after regrowing or something.
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Easy, use Insect Glave of Anjanath at max upgrade, a good armor with ice defense and ice resistance gems. Jump with Insect Glave and get on its wings. Rarely she will knock you off.
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unreasonably upset that her weapons have such low element and only white sharpness naturally.. i mean, she stabs you with a razor sharp tail and has probably the most powerful ice abilities in the series, yet her weapons only have good raw and slots?
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she was mad easy for me. if you use switch axe you can use mechanical lumu 2 and 3 free elem from artian armor. then temporal/rocksteady to clutch claw her into wall, spam ZSD on her head until she dies. her tail attack has awful hitboxes, and she stays pretty immobile for them. if you watch out for her windup spin you should have no problem repositioning. for melee weapons the breath weapon is also a free opening.
finally make sure to get elemental resistance L from the canteen. that has a huge impact on your defenses for this fight. with MR armor i took less than 1/4 hp from almost all of her attacks
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The biggest thing that won this fight for me was staying as close as I possibly could. I stood right underneath its belly so it can’t hit you with the ice spikes or its frozen laser beams of absolute destruction. It still was a difficult fight and I killed it with 2 minutes and no lives left, but staying near its belly is the biggest tip I have for people struggling to fight it
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Uhhh she is not docile during expeditions?? I literally found her in the ancient forest and she attacked me unprovoked
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Why is she so thicc? It's too distracting when fighting her.
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I hated this fight all the way through, and the tail hitbox is awful along with the beam clipping. Beautiful design, but it was a long, painful fight. That being said, grappling on to her after finally getting a charged L3 attack to stick and getting the final blow with the hammer to her face was the most satisfying thing I've done in this game.
That hit was crunchy.
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First time you see her be like: tail stab, ice beam, tail stab, ice beam, tail stab, ice beam...
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this thing is ****ing painful using lance weapons, its wings just out of reach of the stabs, the attacks are so fast youre forced to block and its stupid ice breath attack cant be dodged (expected for lance, youre meant to block, cant dodge) but also cant be blocked, so it basically always gets a free hit on you.
Youre constantly busy blocking because it follows up its attacks so quick until it freezes and stabs you.
Im sure I'll manage though, I've always managed to do it.
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When he does his unique Arch Tempered attack that makes radial ice walls appear distanced out and a few of them break his head takes massive damage from a leap attack while it's raised after the attack. Very important because the strict timer, will allow multiple mounts.
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Actually the worst monster in all of Iceborne.
Change my mind.
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Right... So I was fighting it solo with an Sns.
I tried a blast build, a fire build and lastly I tried a dragon elderseal build but whatever I do I always end up running out of time.
Also I never missed a wall bang and I don't care to it either...what am I missing?
As a side note I don't use Safi, alatreon, kulve and I don't use fatalis weapons either.
Are those weapons the key to Winning this fight?
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So yeah Velkhana KO'd me soon after I loaded the Dragonrazer, Ice Beam clipping through the floord
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He was a nightmare with GS when I fought the arch tempered version. Only had 21 seconds left.
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I get zero f***ing openings with great sword ranged are much better and can guarantee trips if you keep hitting his head but man.. with gs? ib just ruined this weapon.
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Its ice walls should block the ice beams WTF. They can implement that mechanic on Behemoth, why can't they do the same for Velk? I'm so tired of getting sniped from across the map when I can't even see it.
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As a bow main, this fight sucks 'cause I can't see ****. It's all just ice walls and ice clouds. When zooming in to aim, even Khezu will be glad that it's blind.
Man, even AT Kush was less annoying than Velk. As cancerous as they are, at least AT Kush are rather easy to be stunlocked. Blast bow FTW.
But this swordsman wannabe, man. Learn to duel from Glavenus first, please.
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As a bow main, this fight sucks 'cause I can't see ****. It's all just ice walls and ice clouds. When zooming in to aim, even Khezu will be glad that it's blind.
Man, even AT Kush was less annoying than Velk. As cancerous as they are, at least AT Kush are rather easy to be stunlocked. Blast bow FTW.
But this swordsman wannabe, man. Learn to duel from Glavenus first, please.
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Archtempered Velkhana is still a Velkhana lol so Helicopter to victory.
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I've killed this bastard 3 times and still have 0 crownhorn and 0 fellwing...
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What a fking shame, such good design and equipment but it's the worst elder dragon to fight with, not because of challenging but cheap as fk. It's bad enough that u can't guard its ice breathe(Lance user here) but it really loves to spam that as well as the the tail poke. Also the blast range in rage mode is dumb and can hits u when you're not even close. And with the stupidly long recovery animation the player does, it can easily combo u to death. I don't care if anyone think it's easy, this fight is just as bad as some of the deviant. It's hard because the dev was like "why the fk not, our game is fair, get gud u chump."
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Quick I need tips to kill the velkhana with my insect glaive
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Hey guys this is leon and I am proud to anouce that I made it to velkhana!!!!! And all of you guys gave me tips for this huting velkhana for MHW. And thank all of you for helping me and take care all of you. and a quik shout out to lak tak for helping me.
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The Ballad of Velkana
Great dragon of ambitious ice
Hunters flock to free a land of your vice
O Hunters hear her call
And stand up true and tall
March on this empress of immortal ice
And know you shall free a land of a vice
~MaS
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CB user, I make mincemeat out of Velk. Such an easy fight once you learn to read her signs. Wallbang and Savage Axe works wonders for breaking her parts down.
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Velkhana the Noclip monster xD love this ****ing pos of a game sometimes.
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She leaves little ice patches on the ground during the fight, hammers can charge and slide on these patches as if they were sliding down a slope.
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ok wait what?! Her largest is 3193.14?! Thats huge! even longer than Shara. and way bigger than ruiner
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I hate so much about this thing, AT Valkhana is a nightmare...
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I have a pair of dual blades called Wyvern Lovers. They're good, as velk is weak to both fire and poison.
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Insect Glaive main here. A tip for people having a hard time dodging the sweeping ice breath is to use an insect glaive as you can just pole vault jump over it ez pz. Flying attacks work pretty good when Velkhana is in the air too.
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If you're stuck on the last phase like I was, prep a bunch of mega barrel bombs and farcasters. Velkhana goes back to sleep every time you farcaster back to camp, so you get a bunch of free damage.
It also looses enraged that way, so if you see a chance to wall bang it before you run away, its worth doing.
Its not honourable or pretty, but it gets you through that phase so easily it feels unfair.
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Played around a bit and the only usefull piece for me as a SA user seems to be the layered armor.
Any suggestions? Do I miss something?
Hello my fellow hunters, Mortals seem to be having trouble with this monster so I thought I could shed some light on some forbidden tips. Even though it says it is immune to stun, you can still do it 3 to 4 times. 3 Tigrex parts help because of free meal secret and Speed eating all in one go (You need to put on 2 free meal jewels) (The parts for speed eating and free meal secret are the boots, waist, and gloves.) Clutching to its face to dodge the beams is also a good move. If you are having trouble with his blights you can put on 3 restior jewels also put in mind that these are rare jewels and you can farm the greatest jagras for some but you don't have to. Brachdios weapons are also good for this fight since you can get that 300 blast damage numbers every now and then. Anyway my dads yelling at me to good to bed. So Farewell and good luck. (P.S please comment down below if your having any troubles and I will do my best to Help.)
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Pretty inconsistant, so I don't know exactly what does this, but if you are grappled to AT Vel and it does something that would normally knock you off, it puts you in a pin instead. Noticed that I have never just been knocked off, and a fresh Temporal just gets spent and I get pinned regardless. Didn't see it on the page. Could just be lost in the numerous details.
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AT Velkhana is really something. While almost everyone is still struggling with Fatalis. They might forget AT Velkhana all together. I guess the real challenge of the event is not Fatalis. But defeating him until you can decide to fight another monster.
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Surprised that AT velk isnt total trash, faster and a multitude of aoe but still actually has openings.
Caveat is elderseal is mandatory, because capcom had to add a dumb gimmick to make it relevant for once in 3 years. Also they went out of their way to **** over ranged and HBG shield spread this time, therefore killing lance
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Its shocking that so many people are having hard time with this monster. Ive yet to cart a single time by him and only lost matches because of team mates.
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I had my ice resistance at 15, my defense seriously high, and my op longsword. He oneshotted me like six times. You friggin ice covered sausage.
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Imma be ready with my augmented Frostfang set and my Blossomajesty Insect glaive thank you very much. COME AT ME! (in 2 weeks)
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i hate this dude for lots of reasons
1:he WILL NOT DIE and most of the time im all: SHUT UP AND DIE or Y U NO DIE???????
2: he roars about 15 times before he is even attacking me and when i do attack him hes all you know what im gonna roar at this dude 30 MORE TIMES JUST BECAUSE I CAN!
3: monsters do not come to help me or even do a turf war so im SO SAD ( not really )
so yea thats y i hate this dude so much i might DESTROY THIS XBOX
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Simply one of the worst monsters thus far in my opinion. Maybe it's because I'm gunlance main but I couldn't find any sort of enjoyment from fighting him what so ever.
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Once when I was on a fishing trip in the Ancient Forest before any Velkhana quest I meet it in there and it got really pissy with me and we fought then I threw poop at it and it flew away
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If it wasnt for the ice walls, Velk would actually be the best elder of icebourne, if not the whole game, as it is, the clouds+walls make this fight so glimmicky which is the problem with 8/10 IB monsters. The tempered version is actually trash at timesas she'll just make walls, and spam ice breath through them all the time at range, then spam the freezing puddle up close
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i was fighting velkhana for a while, then i finally won, but my play station crashed right as it loaded the victory screen/cutscene and it didnt save my progress :l anyone else had this glitch?
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I just fought velkhana and am now onto the seething bazelgueese quest and how I fought velkhana might not work for you but who know so first things first always have a mega armor skin and mega demon drug for it to not chip away at your health then this worked for me since I had a greatsword and I grappled onto it when it wasn’t charging and did the attack with the great sword on it and when it flys back to it’s nest get two mega barrel bombs and place em right next to her head and do this two times and attack a few and next thing you know she’s dead
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first time fighting her with full acidic glavenus armor was hard. But now is kinda easy with investigations. I hate that when I upgrade my insect glaive I have to choose between ariel magus III or ice spear! Also comment which flag ship monster you like more nergigante or velkhana?
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Leap of faith iframes to dodge sweeping breath. Stay near enough to rush to its side and hit it while it blasts away. If the. Angle is good, clutch it's face, it wont shake you off if it's busy w a long breath attack. Ice resist gems, ice resist mantle. Learning to claw then, flinch shot,then ram him to a wall will help. Would recomend gobbler gems, max speed eating can let you heal very fast. Would recomend hit and roll away, esp if he rages, everything is faster and he may combo tail thrusts or ice breaths.
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I don't. Its literally just preference, I think he's male (turf war me). Elegant doesn't necessarily mean feminine, and just because an "a" is at the end of his name doesn't mean he's female. In other languages, though rare, some male names end in 'a'. Honestly though, this is all just speculation, believe what you want lads, imma stick with my opinion.
Note: He is also my favorite monster
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I think it's breath AOE has gaps in-between the ice so you don't have to roll all the way out it's range. I once got caught inside and the attack didn't hit me. Could someone please confirm this?
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Ice walls formed by Velkhana : *exist*
Bug stick boi that can fly : lol nice try
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Ok Capcom, explain me this:
Why is the ice WALLS Velkhana creates acts as terrain for players, but you cant flinch shot her into it?
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Just fought a 3245.06 size Velkhana. Bigger than what this page says it gets to.
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Velkhana's ice armor will consistently break (along with a prolonged trip animation) if you break the ice on 3 of the following: head, tail, wings, or body. The ice on the fourth part will break with the third, and it will have to start accumulating its ice all over again. Makes it easier to manage the fight if you can reliably do this, since its unarmored form is very predictable, and you can greatly decrease the time it spends in (or even entirely avoid) its second level of ice armor, which is where those giant ice crystals start falling everywhere.
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As a cb user I find myself getting very frustrated because it seems to be impossible to guard point the breath attacks. Is this a thing or am I just bad?
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I just finished this with my friends and while they were attacking and dodging her I was manning the canons and honestly it was a lot of fun, we were worried at first since we both are a Hammer and HH respectively
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i saw this monster and said nevermind i want iceborne that and alatreon
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DB user here. Speed eating and stamina is your best friend. Dodge all the attacks, combo then dodge again. Rinse > repeat. Solid ~50 mins solo first try using fire blades
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This and (Blackveil) Vaal Hazak mADE ME USE LIKE 100 NULBERRIES WHY
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I'm going to SOS this boss. I spent all the time dodging, attacking, consuming little potions, and not dying, but the damage but still wasn't enough. Azure Rathian is more difficult. Barioth was ***** hard to me and I tried it like 3 times willingly. But this Boss doesn't want me to try another 50 minutes solo again...
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I have 20 ice armor and IT stil hits me die crazy And im fighting IT with dual blades
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Had an interesting experience last night. Seems like Velkhana enrages anytime you rotate with grappling, smash into a wall, or stun. Was having a lot of trouble fighting until we realized this. The enrage happened much less frequently after I stopped trying to impact walls. Hope this helps someone.
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I was having trouble slaying this one, so I got a really great group together, it wasn't too terribly bad. I got the last hit with about 750 damage. I was esthatic. But the game crashed and deleted the whole battle from my save. I tried 2 more times and utterly failed. So I gave up.
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can't get anywhere near it without getting stabbed to look like a block of swiss cheese. then if i try to maintain distance, the damn sweep beam attack gets me.
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I think the Locations notes need to be looked at again. I’ve run Investigations where I’ve hunted Velkhana in Hoarfrost Reach, Elders Recess, and Wildspire Wastes. I’ve also gotten Investigations for Velkhana Hunts in Coral Highlands, Ancient Forest, and even Rotting Vale (did not run those since meh rewards). These are from PC
- Anonymous
Hit boxes on the ground ice are just as bad as the Nergigante dive.
- Anonymous
some of its moves, one sound effect and its general model are rather similar to (if not completely the same) kushala daora, which makes me think velkhana is a substitute to (possibly the original pitched idea) a kushala daora with ice control, but im just a rando on the net
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
I need help. I'm trying to fight Velkhana with my Lance/ Gunlance and Velkhana's beam attacks just go through my block entirely. How can I fight it?
- Anonymous
Why is Velkhana’s “special attack” just it using all it’s moves at once? No use of armor, no special ice storm, just all of it’s normal ice attacks at once with maybe some range increase; but it benefits you to stay down if you’re hit! The other specials are terrifying, potential one-shots thats are great at invoking frenzy and evasion, but Velkhana, the FLAGSHIP, has a special that’s kinda just “Oh, it’s using the special. I got hit? Meh, Imma just stay down. And it’s over. Aight.” Yeesh... Compare that to Nergi’s dive bomb and you’ll see the issue.
- Anonymous
Partbreaker and dragonblight helps. Shattering his armor completely will send him crashing down.
- Anonymous
So I have to do this on single player since I cant hold a connection well enough, for Iceborn wyvern quest I have to carve through about 23k health just to slay it?
- Anonymous
When velkana ices your feet, HOW are you supposed to get out of it??? It's a guaranteed death by stabbing.
- Anonymous
Why do people think Velkana is female? The game did not establish that. The creators never established that. So who made this up? Why?
She so pretty
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