Welcome to NGB and our guide on the Elder’s Lair Zone 5 Trial, which is the end game content in Monster Hunter Stories 2.
Elder’s Lair Zone 5
Objective: Slay the Velkhana
Before fighting the Velkhana, you have the option to search the zone for chests containing notes left by Red on how to take down the beast. If you’d like to skip that part, we have them listed below.
Red’s Notes
- Begins with a powerful attack, it will follow up with Power, Power and Speed.
- If uses Tail Sting, it will follow up with two Technical Attacks.
- Watch out for Hyperfreeze. It will follow with two Speed Attacks.
- When using Freezing Fog, it will repeat Technical and Power attacks. This is the time to use Kinship Skills.
- After the 6th turn of Freezing Fog, it unleashes a big attack. Break fog before that happens.
- When it doesn’t go Head-to-Head, assume it’s gearing up for a powerful attack.
- Use these attack types: blunt for the head, slashing for the body and piercing for the tail. Nothing else works.
- Fire elemental attacks work well while Ice doesn’t seem to have any effect.
Velkhana
Weak Point: Fire
- Head – Blunt
- Body – Slash
- Tail – Piercing
Velkhana hits hard and deals a lot of damage so miss reading even one of its moves could be fatal. We brought Cheval along for this fight, and you’ll want to make sure you have armor with high ice defense as well as fire-based elemental weapons for each damage type. Follow Red’s Notes above and you should be just fine. Also note that if your partner uses the Kinship Skill, Velkhana will try to repeat the turn attack it was trying on the next turn (or at least that’s what happened to me). For example, she was going to use a power attack, but Cheval used his Kinship Skill. On the next turn, instead of using a Technical attack, Velkhana tried to use another power attack.
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