Shadow in the Snow

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[edit] Best Weapons+Health

The Khezu has 1440 HP. But, if you have a weapon that does 700 damage you wont own him in 2 hits. Everything is broken down in really complex formulas.

Here are the best weapons of each type:

[edit] Lance

Avg34 Crimson War Pike
Avg32 Blue Tail
Avg31 Gatling Lance+
Avg27 Grayburg Javelin, Knight Lance
Avg26 Ogre Tusk
Avg25 Red Tail, Gatling Lance
Avg24 Aqua Spear, Ceanataur Stinger, Tiger Stinger, Undertaker, Diablo Horn
Avg23 Incessant Raven, Ceramic Blos Lance+, Bone Claw Lance+
Avg22 Growling Wyvern
Avg21 Black Stinger, Blackbelt Lance, Valhalla, Crimson Lance, Naag Serpentblade
Avg20 Basarios Venom Lance, Barbaroi Tusk, Thunderspear, Black Lance
Avg19 Venom Lance, Dark Spear, Trident
Avg18 Bone Claw Lance, Rampart, Steel Ice Spear, Ceramic Blow Lance
Avg17 Fragrance+, Spiked Spear, Requiem Spear
Avg15 Tarnished Lance, Paladin Lance, Paralyzer, Wild Bone Lance+
Avg14 Dark Lance, Bone Javelin, Estoc
Avg13 Long Tusk, Fragrance, Rusted Lance
Avg12 Vacuum Striker, Wild Bone Lance, Steel Lance
Avg11 Native Spear, Longhorn+, Lullaby Spear
Avg9 Longhorn, Iron Lance+
Avg7 Iron Lance

[edit] Hammer

Avg61 Titan Hammer, Ancient Relic, Iron Devil, Dead Revolver
Avg59 Bone Broadaxe
Avg58 Jadite Mace, Bull Tusk Hammer
Avg56 Kut Ku Pick
Avg55 Striped Striker
Avg54 Anvil Hammer, Breat Core Hammer
Avg52 Dragon Destroyer
Avg51 Iron Striker+, Diablos Maul
Avg50 Gigaton Hammer
Avg49 Graviton Hammer
Avg48 Binder Mace, Blackbelt Hammer, Basarios Blow, Crystal Nova, True Black Cauldron, Raven Torrent
Avg47 Gunhammer Prototype
Avg46 Anchor Hammer+, Shell Hammer
Avg45 Dynamic Hammer, Black Hammer
Avg43 Conehead Hammer+
Avg42 Enormous Ham, Dragonhead Hammer, Kut Ku Jaw, Crystal Hammer
Avg39 Black Cat Stamp, Jail Hammer
Avg36 Venom Monster, Large Bone Club, Anchor Hammer
Avg35 Spiked Hammer+, Bone Axe
Avg34 Iron Striker, Bull Head Hammer, Skull Crusher+
Avg32 White Cat Stamp
Avg31 Tarnished Hammer, Atlas Hammer
Avg28 Skull Crusher, Spiked Hammer
Avg25 Black Cauldron, Rusted Hammer, Cyclow Hammer, War Mace
Avg23 Conehead Hammer
Avg20 War Hammer+
Avg17 War Hammer
Avg15 Bone Club
Avg14 Cactus Creamer, Teddybear
Avg 2 Bull Hammer

[edit] Items

10 Herbs + Blue Mushrooms

10 Potions

7+ Mega Potions (if you get hit a lot)

Armor/Power Seeds (optional) Demondrugs work too.

Tranq Bomb (For those who plan on capturing it)

Prtbl Shock Trap (Get from Blue Box)

Welldone/Gourmet STeaks

Hot drinks

Psychoserum (For those who dont like searching for Khezus...)

Paintballs

==Hunting the Khezu==

About half of the time (after you first meet the Khezu) he will go to Area 1 at 48 minutes. Not always though. The first time it will be at Area 3, and it would probably stay until you go there.

Once he enters area 1, if you are using a bow/bowgun, you can go on the ledge and hit him from there. For all GS/LS/HH/H etc users wait. Dont go near him, he will probably use his Thundershield attack.

He does a variety of attacks. You usually should stay a little far from him to the right/left.

Read up on his attacks to know more...

==Attacks==

Thunderspit

He will shoot 3 thunderballs in front of him. Fairly easy to dodge. His neck will sort-of go up and then down, spitting the thunderballs. You should be to his left/right side, so then you can run in and hit him a few times (with LS, I can manage about 2 hits.) If its your infront, RUN/JUMP. While he is in midstage of this attack, you can heal up if your behind him/off to the side. This attack will paralyze you if hit.

Thundershield

A thunder aura will surround him, so you cant go that near him. This attack is hard to dodge, but with luck and timing it can be done easily. You must wait if your a melee weapon user. This is NOT his thunderjump!!! All you can do when you are near him is hope you can roll with X away in time, or if in midhit, that your hit will cause him to stop (SOmetimes, if you hit his tail your hit will stop the shield and you will not be injured.

Jump

He will jump a short distance away.

Thunderjump (RAGE MODE ONLY)

This happens when hes lower on HP, he will jump but with thunder surrounding him. This shouldnt be a problem if your not infront of him.

Sound

A common wyvern move, he will do a annoying sound causing you to hold your ears for a few seconds.

Khezu Annoying Combo

This happens to me a little, usually when I happen to be infront of him. He will do his sound attack, keeping me there, do a thunderspit-thing attack, then a thunder jump, finishing me off. If this happens to you a LOT, then keep practicing!

[edit] Problems?

Q. He keeps killing me in one-two hits!!!

A. Try being more careful. Only attack when you know for sure that hes doing his thunderball attack, and DO NOT ever, if you can help it, be infront of him. Or get a new weapon. You should be able to get good weapons by now.

Q. He STILL keeps killing me in two-three hits!!!

A. How long do you last? If you last under 4 minutes of constant attacks, then keep practicing and aim for the neck. Over ten minutes, and you should be able to do it by now. Keep trying.

Q. I swear, he had like 10 hp left and he killed me!!!

A. Try capturing him instead.

Q.how do you kill the khezu with kut ku stave1 ???.

A. go into demonization mode and be careful when you attack. learn his moveset so you no when to attack, heal, block etc.

Q.It keeps going in area 7, 8, 9 when I went to area 3.

A. go to those area first and wait a while presuming you have a good enough weapon you shoudln't have to worry about the time limit. i killed my first Khezu in just under 25 minutes using bone katana shark.

Q.how do you know when he is in rage mode??.

A. He has white (i think) froth in his mouth like most other monsters

Reccomended Weapons: (Feel free to put your weapon up here)

Longswords: Iron Katana "Gospel"+"grace". Wyvern Blade "Fall",saber

Greatsword:Red Wing,Blue Wing,Rathalos Firesword,Crimson Goat

Bow:Kut-Ku Stave I,Kut-Ku Stave II,Kut-Ku Stave III,Blue Kut-Ku Stave I

Light Bowgun:Shotgun(Azure),Crossbow Gun,Shotgun(Blood),Shotgun(Emerald),Shotgun(White)

Hammer:Gigaton Hammer,gunnhammer prototype

Hunting Horn:war drum+

Dual Sword:Flaming Pair

Sword and Shield:Red Saber,Corona,Djnn This is of cousre if you have a head start with MFH stuff, people that did start off with them will have no find other weps

you could also change your armor i found that conga armor was good as it had +2 on thunder and if you upgraded it it had 38 defence a piece good luck on killing the khezu

[edit] Dizzy's Two Cents

I would recommend armor that provides High Grade Ear Plugs, for ex: Garuga armor, Hornetaur armor, etc easiest would be the latter. Up it's defense, or be skilled enough to evade his atacks (super easy) and use any fire based weapons that provide a fair range, like hunting horns for ex: Basarios Rock, Basarios Rock MkII, etc. In this case, at a certain range, you can still inflict damage, even with his thunder shield on. Or take a good fire hunting bow like the Prominence Bow I and so on. Me? I use the full Hornetaur setup, no skills, and a Prominence Bow II for both regular and high rank Khezu. With Red Khezu, switch the weapon to an Ice, or Water based weapon instead, his attacks are the same to evade, except his neck swing. I(nacnud)use saber and either full kirin or full velociprey(s) There, my two cents.