MH Wilds Ascendance Monsters: Every Confirmed Monster and the Ones Likely to Return, With RageGamingVideos

Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance has six confirmed large monsters as of 30 September 2026: two new ones, Gundoraja and Araketa, and four returning ones, Teostra, Kushala Daora, Lao-Shan Lung and Khezu. Tokyo Game Show 2026 added four new small monsters on top (Myenma-o, the Gandron, the Khezu whelps and an unnamed parasite) and a returning Remobra, which brings the named list to eleven.

RageGamingVideos played the Master Rank demo at Capcom and rebuilt his roster after the show, sorting everything into confirmed, extremely likely, very likely and pure hope. His video never puts that list on screen, so we rebuilt it from his narration and the footage, read every name off the quest cards, the HUD and the official Japanese account’s posts rather than the auto captions, and checked every base-game monster he leans on against our own monster database. The official facts (release window, platforms, the Boost Bracer) stay on our Ascendance page; this piece is the roster.

Which monsters are confirmed in MH Wilds Ascendance?

Capcom’s own Ascendance site lists six large monsters, and the TGS demo quest cards back three of the details up word for word. The small monsters come from the stage presentation and the official Japanese X account, which is why their English names are still machine translations.

Monster	Size	Status	Where it has been shown
Gundoraja	Large, Elder Dragon	New	Announcement and TGS trailers, Capcom’s monster page
Araketa	Large, bird wyvern	New	TGS demo quest “Hunt the Araketa”, Skybound Eyrie
Teostra	Large, Elder Dragon	Returning	TGS demo quest “Slay the Teostra”, Oilwell Basin
Kushala Daora	Large, Elder Dragon	Returning	Trailers, Capcom’s monster page
Lao-Shan Lung	Large, Elder Dragon	Returning	Story trailer, Capcom’s synopsis
Khezu	Large, wyvern	Returning	Its own TGS trailer and live gameplay
Myenma-o	Small, winged dragon	New	Official Japanese X account, 21 September
Gandron	Small, spiked lizard	New	Preview HUD, thrown at Araketa
Khezu whelps	Small	New	Khezu trailer, official render
Unnamed parasite	Small	New	TGS trailer
Remobra	Small, flying wyvern	Returning	Lao-Shan Lung trailer, identified by RageGamingVideos

Two more sit in a gray zone. RageGamingVideos points at a pale, streaked wyvern in the trailer that he reads as a Guardian Rathian, perhaps tied to a new affliction system, and says so with a hedge. The base game only has a Guardian Rathalos, and Capcom’s line under the monster list, “As Ecosystems Change, Guardians Expand Their Territory”, makes more Guardians plausible without naming one. Komarimott, a rolling creature from the stage demo, is called an environmental creature by Capcom, so it is endemic life rather than a monster you hunt.

What is different about Teostra in Ascendance?

Teostra was the Expert quest of the TGS demo, and the card puts the fight in Oilwell Basin, not in the new Skybound Eyrie. Its description reads: “A powerful Elder Dragon that cloaks itself in flames and explosive dust, unleashing scorching breath.” The HUD during the hunt shows the blastblight tooltip in full: an explosion triggers if you are hit or if enough time passes, and you avoid it “by repeatedly evading or using a deodorant.”

RageGamingVideos played the same slice at Capcom, on a timer, and his verdict is that this is a Master Rank Teostra with a moveset that feels closer to Risen Teostra from Sunbreak than to a base version. That is his read from one timed hunt, not a Capcom statement, but it fits the Expert label on the card. He also singles out a detail fans have wanted for years: the trailer finally shows Teostra eating a blast core.

For preparation, the fight lives in a locale you already know, and the demo hands you Expert difficulty straight away. Fire resistance and a way to clear blastblight are the obvious carry-overs; our build list is still on base-game gear until Master Rank armor exists.

How does Khezu fight in MH Wilds Ascendance?

Khezu got its own trailer at TGS, and it is the returning monster with the most new tricks. Capcom’s description is the classic one: a cave dweller that paralyzes prey with electric shocks before pouncing from the walls or ceiling. What Wilds adds is how much it uses that stretchy body. After a basic thunder attack the neck shoots out for a follow-up bite, and it climbs walls and hangs from them, with a full grab animation that RageGamingVideos calls “proper nightmare fuel”.

The new part is the walls. In its cave in the Skybound area, Khezu pushes its neck out of holes in ruined stone. RageGamingVideos reads this as an interactive wall, like the endemic traps in the base game, that can hit either you or the monster. In every clip he saw, Khezu was aggressive towards the other monsters rather than the hunter, which he compares to a turf war of its own.

From the live gameplay he lists three attacks to respect. A thunder shot fans out in a cone along five lines. A single, more condensed shot is the one you really want to dodge. And in a slow “doom walk”, Khezu steps forward bursting thunder around itself. Getting paralyzed next to a monster that bites from range is the whole danger, so paralysis-proofing is the first thing to think about for this fight.

The Khezu whelps are the other half of the reveal: little pink babies that RageGamingVideos compares to the Gigginox young of earlier games. They jump and bite at you and look set to fill the cave. Capcom has not said whether they count as small monsters or endemic life.

Is Gundoraja the flagship monster of Ascendance?

No, according to RageGamingVideos, who says the developers confirmed it in interviews after TGS. We have not seen that interview ourselves, so treat it as his report. Capcom’s page gives Gundoraja the title “the Black Sky’s Wrath”: an Elder Dragon that reigns over the heavens, wraps itself in storm clouds and calls down lightning. It was the face of the first trailer, which is why so many players assumed it was the cover monster.

If Gundoraja is not the flagship, there is at least one more new slot at the top of the roster. RageGamingVideos leaves it open: a final story boss, another new Elder Dragon, or even the grown form of the unnamed parasite. He also notes Gundoraja’s long, snake-like skeleton, which he thinks makes other serpent monsters easier to bring back.

What do we know about Araketa, Lao-Shan Lung and Kushala Daora?

Araketa is the Jetstream Wyvern: a large bird wyvern whose wing organs push out bursts of air, and which obeys its alpha. The demo card adds that they form packs around that alpha and perform coordinated, high-speed attacks together, and the Japanese HUD in the preview reads “Hunt the Alpha Araketa”. It was the Intermediate quest of the demo, in the Skybound Eyrie, and RageGamingVideos calls it “absolutely fantastic to fight” for what he describes as the first monster of Master Rank.

Lao-Shan Lung is the story’s trigger. In Capcom’s synopsis it appears in the Forbidden Lands and overwhelms the hunters, and Madoi Stronghold is built afterwards to prepare for its return. The trailer shot below gives a sense of scale: the hunter on a Seikret reaches about as high as its lower jaw. Kushala Daora rounds out the confirmed list. Capcom describes a wind-shielded Elder Dragon with metallic scales, and RageGamingVideos hopes its rusted form comes back later.

Which new small monsters are in Ascendance?

Four, plus one returning. Myenma-o was posted by the official Japanese account on 21 September as a small winged dragon of the new field. It stores dust in the white feathers that cover its body and, when it senses danger, releases it like a smokescreen to escape. The English name comes from X’s machine translation, so the final localized spelling may differ.

The smokescreen does not always work. The trailer catches an Araketa grabbing one out of the air and flying off with it, a trail of dust behind.

The Gandron is the spiked lizard players have seen in every preview. RageGamingVideos handled them himself: you pick one up and throw it like a barrel bomb. In the footage the Gandron hits Araketa for a yellow 300 on the damage numbers and forces a flinch, a reaction he compares to landing an Offset attack. The same HUD lists Vitalily and Sparkflint beside it.

Komarimott is the round yellow creature that curled up and rolled away during the stage hunt of Araketa. Capcom’s post calls it an environmental creature of a new area, so it is closer to endemic life than to a monster. The last new small one is the glossy black parasite from the trailer, still unnamed. RageGamingVideos hopes it grows into a large version, and puts that large form at the top of his “extremely likely” list. Remobra, the returning small monster, flies through the canyon in the Lao-Shan Lung trailer.

Which monsters are likely to return in Ascendance?

None of these is confirmed. They are RageGamingVideos’s calls, ranked by how much evidence he thinks there is, and each comes with his reason.

Tier	Monster	RageGamingVideos’s reason
Extremely likely	A large form of the parasite	The small one is confirmed and looks like a juvenile
Extremely likely	The real flagship Elder Dragon	Gundoraja is not it, so the slot is open
Extremely likely	Shagaru Magala	Gore Magala and the frenzy are in the base game story
Extremely likely	Shrouded Nerscylla	Nerscylla is already in Wilds and the subspecies wears Khezu hide
Extremely likely	Some form of Gravios	He reads Teostra as standing on one in the trailer
Very likely	Somult, the great bird	Elder Ela tells its tale in the Windward Plains
Very likely	Chameleos	It would complete the trio with Teostra and Kushala
Very likely	Gold Rathian and Silver Rathalos	Every Master Rank so far has had them
Very likely	Qurupeco	Its skeleton and animations resemble Araketa’s

Two of those reasons are stronger than the rest. Shrouded Nerscylla needs two monsters that are both already in the game, and the one piece of hard lore behind Somult is on screen: at 10:06 Elder Ela offers to tell “the tale of the great bird Somult”. The Gravios call is the weakest. We looked at the trailer frames he points to and could not make out a Gravios under Teostra, only rock and smoke; he also shows a gray tail from a soft preview clip.

Below that he keeps a “something to go on” list: a third cephalopod, because Wilds already has two; more snake wyverns such as Dalamadur, thanks to Gundoraja’s skeleton; Rusted Kushala; Kulve Taroth; and Malzeno or Ruby Basarios. Then comes pure hope with nothing behind it: Valstrax, Nergigante and Zinogre, the last one topping his own popularity poll.

What do the red crystals and Gold Helmcrabs point to?

Two clues from the preview builds carry the more speculative calls. The first is an area of red ore that Capcom’s own PR footage stops on, with a Japanese caption that translates as “We also found a mysterious area covered in red ore. What is this place?”

The community reads it two ways. One camp wants Malzeno, the flagship of Sunbreak, and a Qurio frenzy in the style of that expansion, which would mirror the Gore Magala frenzy of the Wilds story. The other says the crystals are simply shed from a Ruby Basarios. RageGamingVideos finds the second more likely and more disappointing.

The second clue is a gathering list. A preview player picked up three Gold Helmcrabs, which RageGamingVideos says were only ever seen in the Caverns of El Dorado in Monster Hunter: World, the home of Kulve Taroth. He ranks this lowest of all his theories: he does not see Kulve on a floating island, only perhaps in a lower area.

Which base-game monsters should you practice on before Ascendance?

Most of the likely returns are variants of monsters already in Wilds, so the base game is the best practice you have. This is what our database says about each one, straight from the game data we use for the weakness chart.

Base-game monster	Where it lives in Wilds	Element weakness	Linked Ascendance call
Nerscylla	Oilwell Basin, Ruins of Wyveria, Iceshard Cliffs	Thunder (more once the mantle breaks), Fire	Shrouded Nerscylla
Gore Magala	Ruins of Wyveria, Iceshard Cliffs	Fire, Dragon	Shagaru Magala
Gravios	Oilwell Basin, Ruins of Wyveria	Water, Dragon	A black or Guardian Gravios
Rathian	Oilwell Basin, Windward Plains, Scarlet Forest	Dragon	Gold Rathian, “white Guardian Rathian”
Rathalos	Oilwell Basin, Scarlet Forest, Ruins of Wyveria	Dragon	Silver Rathalos
Nu Udra	Oilwell Basin	Water	A third cephalopod
Xu Wu	Ruins of Wyveria	Ice	A third cephalopod

Two patterns stand out. Dragon covers five of the seven, so a strong Dragon weapon is the safest thing to have ready if the variants arrive. And Nerscylla is the one to learn now: if its Khezu-wearing subspecies returns, the mantle break that opens up its thunder weakness is a habit worth having already. For which weapons are strong today, the tier list is updated for Ver. 1.042.

How many monsters are in MH Wilds Ascendance?

Six large monsters are official, and eleven named monsters in total once the four new small ones and Remobra are added. The video’s title says 14 confirmed and 11 likely, but it never shows the list, and from the narration we count 11 confirmed and 9 likely, or 10 if Gold Rathian and Silver Rathalos count separately. The gap to 14 is probably the hedged Guardian Rathian, Komarimott and the open flagship slot. That is our reading, not his. Either way, Capcom has not given a final count, and with release set for 2027, more reveals are likely before launch. We will update this list when they come.