New Monster Hunter World Iceborne Subspecies Detailed at SDCC

Monster Hunter World’s developers broke down some of the new monsters appearing in Monster Hunter World: Iceborne at a panel today at San Diego Comic Con.

Today at San Diego Comic-Con, the Monster Hunter team revealed some of the new species of monsters that hunters will be squaring off against in Iceborne. They include subspecies of the Anjanath and Odogaron, which appeared in Monster Hunter World, and the Glavenus, which has been in previous Monster Hunter games, but not in World.

Monster Hunter streamer BlessRNG shared photos of the new subspecies, weapons, and armor, along with information from the panel, on Twitter. First up was the Fulgur Anjanath, an electrical variant of the base game’s fiery Anjanath. The Fulgur Anjanath begins the fight using strong physical attacks, like the regular Anjanath but charges electricity during the battle, which adds Thunder element damage to its attacks. When it fully charges up, it switches to Thunder attacks, including “electric snot,” according to BlessRNG.

Here is the final design for Fulgur Anjanath! The tiger stripes are there to represent thunder and electricity. Kaminari-sama (the dude below) is often depicted with tiger stripes. Hence the stripes! pic.twitter.com/e4SwGN6d19

— BlessRNG | Brad Jolly @ SDCC ? LTX (@BlessRNGee) July 19, 2019

Odogaron’s new variant will be the Ebony Odagaron, a Dragon-element monster with a weakness to elemental damage. The original Odagaron needed to eat during the fight to power up, but the Ebony Odagaron will start fully charged. Like the normal Odagaron, the Ebony version can inflict bleeding. Unlike the normal version’s more precision attacks, it uses wide, sweeping attacks.

With those earlier designs, they felt it didnt reflect the monster well so those designs were scrapped. Tsujimoto-san loves wearing gold armour, and they thought having it at a mod game monster would be weird. Why change once you get it?

The final Ebony Odagaron design pic.twitter.com/Zyhzw2QOHH

— BlessRNG | Brad Jolly @ SDCC ? LTX (@BlessRNGee) July 19, 2019

Finally, the team showed up Acidic Glavenus. Like the regular Glavenus, the Acidic version can sharpen its tail to do more damage. When sharpened, the Acidic Glavenus’ tail is based on a katana, and it uses faster attacks than the normal Glavenus. Throughout the fight, the Acidic Glavenus will build up poison on its tail, changing to slower attacks that can debuff and damage the player. This variant will focus more on using its tail than on using breath attacks.

ACIDIC GLAVENUS WHO IS THIS NEW GLORIOUS BOY? pic.twitter.com/2tQjH0x57Y

— BlessRNG | Brad Jolly @ SDCC ? LTX (@BlessRNGee) July 19, 2019

At the end of the panel, the team teased more subspecies coming later, showing a picture of a Pukei-Pukei, Paolumu, and Tobi-Kadachi.