Zorah Magdaros - tactics, resistance & weak points

Advice on fighting Zorah Magdaros in Monster Hunter World: the monster's strong and weak sides and its hunting strategy:

• General Description
• Resilience and physiology
• High-level Rewards

General Description

Characteristics: An Elder Dragon towering over its enemies like a volcano. Where is it going? What's its purpose? The commission of inquiry is working around the clock to figure out just that.

Habitat:

In order to stand the best chance against this enemy, consider the following information:

1. Regular attacks are no good. Use larger weapons, such as a ballista, or attack the magma cores.
2. The fight unfolds during a few stages. You have to attack the cores on the beasts' body, win a duel with Nergigante and shoot at Zorah Magdaros from the ground.
3. The mission with Zorah Magdaros is comprehensively described in a separate chapter - check it out to learn all the intricacies of that fight.

Resilience and physiology

The monster's weak spots are:

1. The head (can be broken)
2. Magma (can be broken)
3. The chest (can be broken)

The table below represents the monster's susceptibility to different attacks. The more asterisks (*), the more the beast is susceptible to the given type of attacks.

Elements	Susceptibility
Fire	X (none)
Water	***
Thunder	*
Ice	**
Dragon	***

Negative effects	Susceptibility
Poison	X (none)
Sleep	X (none)
Paralysis	X (none)
Blast	X (none)
Stun	X (none)

High-level Rewards

Monster's material	Zorah Magdaros' Carapace
Broken head	Zorah Magdaros' Magma
Broken chest	Zorah Magdaros' Pleura
Broken magma	Zorah Magdaros' Carapace

Cleft off parts	Rewards for defeating the monster
None	Zoraha Magdaros' Scale
	Zoraha Magdaros' Ridge
	Zoraha Magdaros' Pleura
	Zoraha Magdaros' Magma
	Zoraha Magdaros' Carapace
	Zoraha Magdaros' Gem

Monster Hunter: World

January 26, 2018

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