Monster Hunter Now: 18 Best Monsters, Ranked

Summary

• Monster Hunter Now features terrifying monsters, offering a unique and challenging gaming experience.
• From the Great Jagras to Deviljho, each monster has unique abilities and weaknesses that players must strategize to defeat.
• With color variations and limited-time events, Monster Hunter Now keeps players engaged with new challenges and rewards.

It's not always easy for gamers to find something new and different in the realm of battle games. By now, you've probably had fights against other people like you, reanimated corpses like zombies and vampires, and every kind of computer-generated baddie there is. But Monster Hunter Now does manage to capture something new.

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Featuring monstrous creatures straight out of an HR Giger-inspired imagination hellscape, Monster Hunter Now is a highly playable fighting game where you will battle some truly terrifying foes. Which of these are the most fearsome, the hardest to defeat, and the coolest-looking in the game?

Updated on June 13, 2024 by Jupiter Hadley: There are a lot of great monsters in Monster Hunter Now, but these are the best of the best. We have updated this list to include more fantastic monsters, along with some notes on color variation between monsters.

18 Great Jagras

The Great Jagras is the leader of a whole group of Jagras. These monsters basically never stop eating and looking for food, and will attack anything and everything in search of a snack.

Jagras eat their food whole, so there's that. This monster is green all over and has a distinct swamp vibe happening. This monster is scary but it's the earliest one you will encounter, so it's not too difficult to get past and it's far from one of the best-looking designs you will see in the game.

17 Barroth

The Barroth looks like several different monsters that got rolled into one uber-frightening design. It has a bony head shield, a powerful body with an enormous head, and a jaw that would make sharks envious.

This monster hides in mud, staying hidden until it spots a likely-looking target... or until someone or something is foolish enough to disturb its swamp. Barroth has a somewhat plain look compared to the other monsters in the game and, if you avoid its head, you can defeat this creature without too much trouble.

16 Radobaan

Radobaan sort of feels inspired by Barroth and has the same fighting style, where they will bash their head into the ground. However, Radobaan is also able to roll around and is completely covered in spikes, which work as a shield that you need to chip away at to actually do damage.

This monster is known to eat the bones of carcasses found around the world and that's what they also use to make their armor outside of their body. Though it's more challenging that the Barroth, it's one of those monsters that you just need to stick to attacking and eventually, you will wear down those bones and do some real damage.

15 Anjanath

The Anjanath is particularly brutal. It's angry and attacks anything and everything it comes across, which makes this monster particularly deadly. This monster is covered with a membrane, which fans out when it is angry. It also breathes fire, so you'll want to watch out for that.

Once you know that this creature has a weakness to water, and you figure out what happens when you attack its membrane, Anjanath is not so difficult to defeat. It does have a super cool look, however.

14 Banbaro

This monster actually uses the environment to fully attack you, dragging its big horns across the ground and picking up trees or rocks to fling forward. It's a pretty dodge-intensive monster, especially with the range of area that they are able to cover with their massive horns.

Banbaro are weak to fire damage and dragon damage, which can really help you when it comes to fighting them. It's often best to focus on a horn and break it. That way, they can't drag items across the ground and they become easier in the long run.

13 Jyuratodus

This monster is huge and angry. You will find the Jyuratodus in the swamps when you're unlucky. Since this creature hides itself in the mud, you want to tread very carefully.

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This thing loves the mud so much, it uses mud as a weapon. This monster will expel swamp mud to slow down whatever it is attacking. The mud slows movement and can eventually render you immobile. But Jyuratodus is particularly weak to lightning damage, so you can finish this fight pretty handily with the right weapon.

12 Tobi-Kadachi

Long, pale, and spooky, the Tobi-Kadachi looks like it comes out of another world entirely. You will encounter this horrific beast in forest areas, which this creature uses to generate static electricity by rubbing its fur against trees and the ground.

The Tobi-Kadachi uses this static energy to create an electrical charge to wound its enemies, which is a heck of a good fighting move. Be prepared for it and wait for an opening to attack.

11 Kulu-Ya-Ku

The Kulu-Ya-Ku looks positively prehistoric. This ferocious bird monster has the tail of a dinosaur and many of the characteristics of birds, except that this thing could tear anything to shreds.

This birdlike monster is excellent at stealing eggs, which makes it adept at throwing rocks at its enemies when provided. The highly flexible talons can grip many objects successfully. Kulu-Ya-Ku has a weakness to water, which you might be able to use in your favor.

10 Odogaron

Odogarons attack all of the time, only spending a few moments here and there not attacking their enemy. You'll need to focus on countering attacks and then dodging whatever they do next, if you are going to survive.

It's often best to focus on breaking their forelegs as quickly as possible so that you prevent bleeding status. Using a weapon that paralyzes this Monster will give you better fighting odds.

9 Pukei-Pukei

You know you should be terrified when you see the enormous tongue of the Pukei-Pukei. No creature with a tongue like that is possibly trying to do any good. This monster actually uses its tongue to trap enemies.

However, the real danger comes from the poison fluid running through the monster's body. This monster releases poison breath that can be devastating. You will want to strike the creature's tongue to win this fight, but you will almost certainly be poisoned during the battle, so be prepared.

Pukei-Pukei came out as a coral version for a limited-time event, unlocking new weapons. Apart from the color, Coral Pukei-Pukei has a weakness to ice and poison, and is a water element.