Upper Rathian - Monster Hunter Rise (Materials, Weaknesses and Strategies)
If the Rathian is a mere formality for veterans of the saga, the Upper Rathian will have something to upset them in Monster Hunter Rise. Its poison overloaded tail makes it deadly on contact. In this guide, you will be introduced to its attacks, its weaknesses, and the novice and expert materials it can bring back to forge weapons and armour.
Upper Rathian

Species : Flying Wyvern
Element : Fire
Threat: 8 stars
Weaknesses of the Upper Rathian
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Head | 60 | 65 | 50 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Neck | 40 | 40 | 30 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Trunk | 24 | 24 | 20 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 5 | 15 |
Back | 20 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 25 |
Wing | 35 | 35 | 30 | 0 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 25 |
Paw | 24 | 24 | 20 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 15 |
Tail | 40 | 35 | 30 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 15 |
How to beat the top Rathian
To come
The materials of the upper Rathian
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.
- 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 | |
P. upper poison | 5% | -- | 35% | 40% | -- | |
Rathian Scale + | 31% | -- | 58% | 42% | 60% | |
Rathian breastplate | 23% | -- | 60% | 32% | 40% | |
Palmure Rathian | 8% | -- | 20% | -- | -- | |
Infernal pocket | 14% | -- | -- | 17% | -- | |
Aceros bones | 12% | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
Rathian plate | 5% | -- | 7% | 5% | -- | |
Rathian Ruby | 2% | -- | 5% | 5% | 2% | |
Rath Greenhouse + | -- | -- | 80% | -- | -- | |
Medulla Rath | -- | -- | -- | 8% | -- | |
Large wyvern tear | -- | -- | -- | -- | 40% |
Master Rank
Materials | Target | Seize | Damage | Cutting up | Recovered | |
P.poison sup. | 3% | - | 70% | 40% | - | |
Rathian Radiance | 19% | - | 58% | 45% | 35% | |
Rathian Cortex | 10% | - | 30% | 37% | 47% | |
Rathian Canvas | 8% | - | 20% | - | - | |
Medulla Rath | - | - | - | 15% | - | |
Rath Sharp Greenhouse | - | - | - | - | - | |
Fusion cake | - | - | - | - | - | |
Melting honey | 35% | - | - | - | - | |
Rathian Ruby | 7% | - | 8% | 8% | 4% | |
Rathian Mantis | 3% | - | 2% | 4% | 1% | |
Great Wyvern Tear | - | - | - | - | 40% |