Monster Hunter Now - Hunt Monsters & Collect

Explore the excitement of the chase. Initiate your hunting journey now!

🌎 Embark on a worldwide adventure to seek out and conquer some of the fiercest monsters from the Monster Hunter realm as they manifest in our reality. Arm yourself with mighty weapons and collaborate with fellow hunters to pursue gigantic monsters and confront them directly.

⚔️ Experience authentic hunting action tailored for mobile devices:

Encounter diverse creatures based on your surroundings – be it Forest, Desert, or Swamp – and partake in thrilling solo hunts or team up with other hunters to battle these colossal beasts. The user-friendly tap controls and realistic graphics make it easy to enjoy the hunt wherever you are.

📷 Spot monsters nearby using the AR Camera:

Witness the presence of iconic monsters in the real world through the AR Camera's unique features.

⏱️ Hone your hunting skills within 75 seconds:

Can you finish the hunt within the given timeframe? Master your arsenal, create powerful armor sets, and sharpen your abilities – exploit vulnerabilities and utilize all available resources to face the challenge.

🔴 Keep track of monsters even when your phone is in your pocket:

Utilize Adventure Sync to use a Paintball for monster tracking while exploring your surroundings, bringing the thrill of the hunt right to your doorstep. Let your Palico mark passing monsters with Palico Paintballs as you roam around, allowing you to return to them later and keep the adventure going, no matter what.

Monster Hunter Now tips and tricks for beginners

Don’t bother completing armor sets — pick and choose based on perks

Each piece of armor has its own set of perks, skills that you get from upgrading your gear to certain tiers. Rather than completing an armor set and wearing a matching outfit, you should pick armor pieces based on skills that match your playstyle. For example, if you find yourself getting tossed around by monsters often, you may want to equip and upgrade the Jagras Helm, which gives you Firm Foothold, a skill that reduces knockback the more you level it up.

Progress through the story for more monsters to fight

If you’re tired of taking out Kulu-Ya-Ku and Jagras, don’t worry — more monsters will unlock as you progress. You’ll be stuck with the same handful of beasts for a while, but just keep taking down monsters and collecting materials to complete your quests and you’ll see a larger variety of enemies in no time.

Elements matter most in combat

When it comes to fighting larger monsters, having an elemental advantage can make a significant difference, especially at higher difficulties; we hit a brick wall during the five-star Rathian encounter in the story, which we able to eventually clear with enough paralysis weapon upgrades. Our recommendation is, once you have settled on your weapon type of choice, is to have a variety of elements at the ready, and to upgrade them up as much as your armor sets — making those leaps in difficulty much less daunting.

Remember to open the app, even if you’re not going to hunt monsters in the moment

You’ll need to collect lots of materials, both for your missions and to upgrade your gear. Even if you’re not feeling up to hunting a bunch of monsters, you should open the app occasionally so you Felyne friend can collect materials around you. It’ll only take a few seconds for your Palico to grab the nearby materials and you can close the app right after it’s finished.

Habitats around you change

Don’t worry too much about being stuck in the same drab area just because you live in the suburbs. The habitats will shift often enough that you should be able to encounter a variety of monsters, even if you’re confined to one neighborhood.

Remember to do both your story and special quests

Your story quests will unlock progression like new weapons and the like, but special quests are daily objectives you can complete for lots of HRP (experience) and crafting materials. most of them are easy enough to complete and you’ll get them done just by playing the game, so make sure to claim the rewards as you do.

Be within the radius of resources points before you tap

Something worth knowing for those coming from Niantic’s other games, such as Pokémon Go, is that Monster Hunter Now is more temperamental about the game’s equivalent of PokéStops, called Gathering Points. Gathering Points will not register your current position if you interact with them a little too early, requiring you to exit and tap in again each time. A minor annoyance in the grand scheme of things, but does means resource gathering isn’t as quick fire as we’d like.

Small monsters are more useful than you think

Small monsters – which take just a few hits of your weapon to defeat – will regularly litter the map, and you’ll be forgiven for ignoring them in favor of larger ones with more valuable crafting parts. But fighting them has multiple benefits: They have unique drops required for various armor and weapon upgrades (you’ll need these more often than you’d think!) and, perhaps more usefully, fighting them contributes to building your Special Skill gauge. This gauge persists between encounters, meaning you can activate a powerful attack right at the start of a challenging large monster fight.