Upper Mizutsune - Monster Hunter Rise (Materials, Weaknesses and Strategies)
The Upper Mizutsune is sure to give you a run for your money with its brand new aquatic attacks. This is one of the most difficult monsters in Monster Hunter Rise. In this guide, you will be introduced to its attacks, weaknesses, as well as the novice and expert materials it can bring in to forge weapons and armour.
Upper Mizutsune

Species : Leviathan
Element : Water
Threat: 9 stars
Weaknesses of the Upper Mizutsune
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Head | 60 | 60 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 8 |
Neck | 43 | 43 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 8 |
Trunk | 25 | 25 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 5 |
Front leg | 28 | 28 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 25 | 15 | 30 |
Left claw | 24 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 30 | 15 | 30 |
Right claw | 24 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 30 | 15 | 30 |
Dorsal fin | 43 | 43 | 45 | 8 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 10 |
How to beat the superior Mizutsune
To come
The materials of the Upper Mizutsune
By fighting a monster, you can get different items and materials for making armour or weapons which we have listed in the following table. This is how the table works:
- Target - Represents your chance to get this material by completing a quest that involves this monster.
- Capture - Your chance to get this material at the end of the quest by capturing this monster, even if it was not the target of the quest.
- Damage - Your chance to get this extra material by completing a quest that involves this monster, if you damage it in a specific place.
- Damage - Your chance to get this extra material by completing a quest that involves this monster, if you damage it in a specific place.
- Skinning - Your chances of obtaining this material by skinning the carcass or broken/severed element of the target.
- Recovered - Your chance to make this material fall to the ground by injuring the monster, throwing it against a wall, or making it fight another monster.
Novice Rank
This monster does not appear in the Novice rank in Monster Hunter Rise
Expert Rank
Materials | Target | Seize | Damage | Cutting up | Recovered | |
Top foam | 6% | -- | 31% | 12% | -- | |
Miztutsune Scale + | 38% | -- | -- | 41% | 60% | |
Fur m. Miztutsune + | 29% | -- | 65% | 28% | 40% | |
Miztutsune claw + | 15% | -- | 80% | 15% | -- | |
Miztutsune Tail | 5% | -- | -- | 75% | -- | |
Miztutsune plate | 5% | -- | 7% | 7% | -- | |
Orbe water Miztutsune | 2% | -- | 5% | 5% | 2% | |
Miztutsune + fin | -- | -- | 60% | -- | -- | |
Large wyvern tear | -- | -- | -- | -- | 40% |
Master Rank
Coming soon with Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak DLC