Gaijin Hunter"A hunt should take 15-20 minutes" Me with 5 minutes left on the clock:"CAN THIS THING EVEN DIE???"

5 years later this man about to save my ass soloing this

The "HOLY F*CK, WHAT DO I EVEN DO!?" experience was truly spectacular.

So to fight a mountain, you need a dragonship filled with ballista, cannons & a dragonator, but to fight the largest elder dragon of all time, you stab/shoot it to death with, from his perspective, may as well be a butterknife & a peashooter. Alright then.

you can skip the monster death cutscene?! my life has been forever changed

first time I fought this I had literally no idea what was going on and just started slashing everything in sight XD

Honestly, I find the Dalamadur and Sha Dalamadur to be amongst the easiest of hunts if not for one thing...those god forsaken meteors! I don't know about all you other hunters out there, but those meteors are a nightmare in my book! >~

I noticed something interesting as a glaive user. It has really low 'jump' weakness, when I hit it on the head, it almost always topples in the beginning and then 3-4 hits, then 6-8 hits, and so on.

"running twards the head will do you no good" the thing EVERYONE does for some strange reason XD

My favorite thing to do during this fight on the climbing phase is lance charging up him when he's climbable. It might be a waste of sharpness and damage, but it's damn fun running up while hitting him a lot. Also have to be careful not to knock friends off...

3:04 I LAUGHED SO DAMN HARD

phenomenal drawing skills, 10/10 would hire no seriously it is amazing XD

If you are on top of the tall mountain for position 1, you can jump down right onto the smaller hill for the transition to position 2 to keep up your manicuring duties.

Coming back to this I realized this is the first ever video of yours I watched! Still my fav monster hunter youtuber :^)

I foolishly tackled this quest in a HR7 room last night and it was probably the most confusing, overwhelming, but immensely epic quest I have ever done. We failed, though. I seriously did not expect the huge laser and carted twice, but it'll probably be my most memorable 4U experience. Thank you so much for this tutorial! I'll make sure my urgent becomes a flawless success.

Wow, i just watched a bunch of videos of yours and they are amazing. So detailed but yet easy to understand guides. Since your CarcheBlade guide its my main weapon :D Keep up the good work! (Y)

I cannot thank you enough for this guide. I tried it once, went in blind, 45 minutes and the bastard wouldn't go down, i f**ked up, took the breath attack and carted, abandoned the quest. Then i found this video and watched it, and with a better idea on what to do, i decided to upgrade my gear before trying again, especially cause my thunder CB wasn't enough. Killed about half the population of stygian zinogres to get his stupid umbrage to make the full armor set (had everything but the chest), then killed like 8 Gore magalas to get the nyctgem and upgrade my GS, once upgraded i actually had enough materials to upgrade it again twice. One more try, a little bit past the 30 minute mark, the bastard goes down. Ended up screwing up thanks to the camera and got only 4 carves. That being said *F**K THIS QUEST*. The only thing higher than this f**ker's hp is the designer who decided that it should be a kill quest only, instead of letting you repel the damn thing. Camera screwing you up in the worst possible moments, random meteors cause aparently the random explosions with Shagaru Magala weren't retarded enough, and criptic to the point you will NOT pass this quest your first try if you don't watch/read a guide beforehand. All of this would not be an issue if you could at least repel this damn thing or if it at least wasn't a damn urgent quest holding you from going to G rank. This isn't hard cause his atttacks do a lot of damage, or are hard to dodge, again, i carted ONCE on my first time out of frustration, that led me to take an attack i could definitely dodge. This is hard cause this abomination of a boss fight has more hit points than everything in the game this far, and if you don't attack specific points over and over without wasting a minute he won't. go. down. I heard some people talking about Lao shan lung in the first game being worse or just as bad like this, but from the little research i made, it says that he can be repelled. Jhen Mohran in 3U requires to know what you are doing as well, but on my first try without knowing anything and with subpar equipment i managed to at least repel his ass. The closest thing to a road block i got in this game so far was Shagaru Magala, and even then, all i did after failing once was upgrade my weapon since the problem was not dealing enough damage to him. F**k. This. Quest.

Cool video. Me and my girlfriend both reached this point together tonight, and did the quest as a duo group with palicos completely blind twice successfully. Once for each of us. NOW that Dalamadur is behind us, I was willing to watch your tutorial video. Thanks for filling in our few blanks. We got the head and the tail both times. I think the claws once and never the shoulder. I ended up using a Sharpness+1, Attack up XL, Speed Gatherer set the second time, because I didn't feel like evasion+1 did me any good, and I wanted dem carves!

Can you make a Palico video next? Preferably covering methods to get them fastest, their uses, gear, and optimal setups.

Oh man. Just now I fought him solo. Broke both claws, broke head, broke back. He killed me twice even though I did dodge everything, but I failed due to time. I shall follow these steps now. I guess I was running like a headless chicken cause I didn't know WTF was going on LOL. Dalamadur - its time for round two! Thank you so much for posting this! I truly appreciate it!

Thank you, Gaijin Hunter! Thanks to you I've managed to solo Dalamadur on my first try. I still carted twice and only had 10 minutes left on the clock and I can't really say I knew what was going on, but I did it!

Just managed to finish him solo! This guide definitely helped and has got me into using the Great Sword too :D (I have to thank you also for its weapon tutorial and all your other weapon tutorials) Thanks alot for all your videos :D

Hey this is awesome. You did a hell of a job on being thorough in this. As good as this was it might be worth making more MH guides this in depth. Thanks for the help.

That, and not to demean your tutorial any, but you say the fight can be done in 15 minutes.. ..You're using G-Rank equips on this fight. That cuts time SUBSTANTIALLY. I don't think 15 is a reasonable margin of time for high rank equipment...

Phew*. Just took it out (solo) thanks for the help 0_

Nice outfit change, love how good you look in F.Rajang armor.

Just did this solo on my first try with 7 minutes to spare! Thanks for the vid man, it helped a ton.

Exactly what I needed. Always didn't know where to attack. Thanks gaijinhunter!

Man, people are so bad against the Dalamadur. I tried 5 times today and i ended up soloing it in 35 min to pass G rank ._.

The crouch carve blew my mind. In the last 10 years I had no idea about this...

I tried blocking that super laser using a Lance shield with the Guard Up armor skill. Y'know, for science. Long before I watched this video... In fact, as I'm writing this comment, this is my first time seeing this video. lol Apparently that laser doesn't count as one of the "unblockable attacks" Guard Up can protect you from. So, as you would expect, I got hit. It didn't even seem to matter which way I was pointing my shield. Oh well.

this guide has been a huge help. thanks so much for making it

A team of four I had been rolling with for hours beforehand steam rolling everything took this thing on for the first time and not knowing what to do we actually won! It`s nice to see actually how to do it though. Really nice video Gaijin as usual! :)

I always thought gaijin hunter was really knowledgable, but dude watching this video I realize how good at this game you are. Your timing on this hunt was pretty unreal

When it's at position 3, or coiled around the spire, it will occasionally lower it's head and mouth. You can time GS charges easily and knock him down very often. Also, he will still take mount status and will be knocked down if it procs. He always goes down to a single jump attack the first time, as his initial mount threshold is only 5.

I love you so much for posting this! I had the "WTF is happening moment" yesterday and costed my team the hunt. I'll try to learn a thing or two from this video.

Hi Aevanko-san, thanks for thorough tutorial. Managed to solo it finally due to your tips!

This tutorial is excellent, and I learned quite a bit here. Looking forward to my rematch with this guy. I just did my first fight against this guy earlier today. I did some research ahead of time, but it was mostly just Kiranico data (like his semi-weakness to Blast, which I decided to try out with my Teostra Spada set), and knowing to dive through the lasers. I had to leave via sub-quest at 40+ minutes in, after using up all my healing items, and only barely avoided getting hit by a meteor on the way out. Still, I got him to ~10% or less health, since I saw a meteor spawn one of those mining nodes, which isn't too bad for a first SnS solo run. Especially for a scrub like me, who didn't move with the rhythm of the fight at all, and misremembered the weakness tables, thus often not attacking the correct spots. I went for the chest, thinking it was the "weakness" I remembered seeing on the tables. I think I'll be able to kill it next time, between your advice, using my Dragon SnS instead of Blast, and actually hitting it where it hurts.

When I went against Dalamadur blind (before video), all my years of Monster Hunter experience basically was chucked out the window. I was like, "How to I even......" for most of the fight. He got me with the beam once, but thankfully my instincts were good enough to take him out after 45 minutes (I actually did most of the stuff in this video, aside from the breaks). A slow solo, but it was the first time I'd even run into him. I couldn't help but think, "AND THEN THERE WAS A FIREFIGHT!" halfway through. Tutorial is spot on, thanks for the great tips!

My humble thanks. I was able thanks to this tutorial to apply the "get look then subquest out" strategy. A gem on the first try ^^

Thanks bruh! Kept failing with randoms dying on me so i decided, fk it, solo. Following your guide i cleared it in 28 mins! And subsequently whooped ukanlos' ass. Keep puttin out them vids!

I'm proud that I was able to beat this Monster on my first try, even though it took 44 minutes. Thanks to this guide, next time it should be a lot quicker and easier!

It should also be noted that everything except for the massive fire breath attack can be blocked. His bite attack, the falling meteors and even the massive fireball he spits at you are all blockable.

Omg when I first played this hunt, I thought the guild would tell me what to do. I had no idea what to do. thanks so much it was super simple and helpful

i stuck at HR7 for a long time due to this quest

For firebreath dodge u can also superman dive off a ledge so u have invicibility frames longer since u only lose when u touch the ground=)

It took me five attempts to solo him in High-rank. Gladly im done with him now. And thank you Gaijin Hunter, your tutorial helped a lot. Still took about 40-45 minutes to kill him with my trusty Insect Glaive. Now on to G-rank!

No matter how many times I watch tutorial videos like this I never understand until I do it myself....BTW those first time battles are some of the best moments in the game IMO.

This fight is great, so many clutch running dives through hyper beams and snake bites. It's so cool, you're fighting a giant star snake that can summon (annoying) meteors down from the sky.

1st time ran out of time, 2nd time (after watching your video) I slayed him under 30 minutes... THANK YOU!

Your guide actually worksssss. Thanks!

Broke everything in this video bar the head with my dragon SnS and dragon atk+3 then wailed away for the rest of the 50 minutes and ran out of time. Completed it online, with a G-rank hunter while the quest poster hid in basecamp, but when it came to my turn we triple carted. This quest is serious bullshit and testing my enthusiasm for the game.

And the Dalamadur skeleton in the Rotten Vale is far larger than this one. This is just a young Dalamadur, imagine having to fight one as big as the skeleton found in the Rotten Vale.

thanks a lot for making this tutorial gaijin hunter!!!

Also, if you're bad at timing your dives, you can also abuse farcasters to dodge the whole series of lasers/chomps (bring mats to make more)

Thanks a bunch! I just beat this thing solo earlier today with your help!

Just solo'd it with the Insect Glaive, took me 43 minutes. Thanks alot!

I got to get Accolades from this quest to build the Yamato set and finally proceed. This helped a lot.

People really need to watch this. I understand that breaking everything is optional, and anyone could wail on anything they wanted, but i almost never find a good party for this quest. I had a party of 4 once take 25 minutes on the shah (i guess the subspecies would be harder, but i've done that fight in 15 minutes before). Half the time i just get people in my room who die all the time and 3/4 battles will be failed. Granted i've died battling shah before, but when someone dies twice... two fights in a row... i often wonder how some people made it to g rank. *ahem* sorry for the rant. Its a great video gaijin! Really clears up some questions :) As a gunner, i found standing up on that "perch" is a really good spot to shoot from, because you can hit him from almost every position.

Even though the dalamadur is quite a peculiar monster, that tutoriel makes me expect that you will do the same for a few more difficult/particular mobs. That would be great !

the amount of people hit by the dalamadurp beam is too damn high

Excellent drawing skills! :P Thanks for the guide! My group of random's first try had everyone running randomly and hitting anything we saw. And then we were kill, of course.

Thank you for making this tutorial, I just got to this mission and was running around like a chicken with its head cut off. After watching your video I have a much better sense of how the fight works.

Great tutorial as always, but considering the positions of the battle, maybe you could temporarily have the map on the top screen for better orientation?

Wow great guide, i went into this with a blind solo and expected it to be the size of a najarala or teostra, but instead he was a giant...i just sat there and went for whatever parts i could hit with my insect glaive (i should've used a great sword but keep in mind this had me very surprised/ in shock). He eventually dropped for me, but boy those tips wouldve made him much easier ! At least i unlocked G rank though... But im gonna need to co op him if there's a g rank rematch for him, it would take too much to do him alone on G rank and i dont just mean getting one shotted

Yep,GaijinHunter is right. The "go in blind" experience is awesome (i spent 45 minutes on my first hunt back then).

Thanks alot for this tutorial, I've been stocked with this quest for 3 days now, my team always dies with that bite attack or the "atomic breath", I'll try to solo it with my Shagaru Magala Insect Glaive. Wonder how much time will it consume until it dies.

Very good tutorial 👍 I died the 3. time as there were these stones with items. 2 of my 3 deaths were because the bite attacks, they one-shot me. I think if I do it some more times I don't die so often and this video will help me with this. This with faster collecting materials at the end was new for me too, thanks for this video 👍

Thanks ! :D Are you going to do a tutorial on the Dah'ren Mohran ?

This quest was actually a really fun experience for me.

When you are using the Diablos bone greatsword with the writing design on it, what armor and skills are you using? preferably include talismans and decorations please! thank you!

Thank you so much for doing this. I was having better luck finding Rathian gems than finding a room that would get past this guy. Hammered this guy solo with round 8min in change:)

the dalamadur is a pain in the ass to Heavy bowgunners sporting peak performance

This helped a lot! I just arrived to this mission today and I was getting tired of people dying to the hyper beam online, so i decided to kill it just by myself.

Everything here has been helpful. That jump to the head is still tricky for me, though.

This is an awesome guide. Used this and did hunted it down. Quick question, will you do any Gogmazios tutorial at all? I find that the monster is the hardest one in the game. Pattern unlike any monster MonsterHunter ever had. Pretty weird attack pattern i would say, and maybe you can teach how to use the equipments at the battleground to beat the monster. Thanks :)

This should have been an advanced quest instead of an urgent.

This video is great help for people going through high rank fighting dala, but could u do a tutorial on how to fight the shah dalamadur in expert g rank? (If u don't know, shah is a subspecies who shed its skin pretty much right before you fight it, and u can only attack spots on it when they light up, and some of the sweeping claw/bite attacks create a superheated ground affect.)

Gaijin, for what you said at 1:35, I dont agree. You can go to the head, evade the roar and then when he starts moving (newbie players usually jump on him and then get kicked imediatly...), you do a ledge jump attack on the body and start wrecking the weak part of its body (behind the tail) that moves in the corner.

Damn. Thanks for the tutorial, I´m soloing it and is rather stressing, not for the fight itself, but for the time.

I've been in 2 successful hunting parties to take down this beast but this is very helpful, now i know where to best position myself rather then charging straight in

going into this for the first time today I basically timed out and had to complete via subquest, using master sabers and tetsu S armor, but damn I must've gotten close since rocks dropped twice. Well under 10%......knowing you were like an inch away from winning is nasty af

Very useful video. I just got around to fighting this thing on an emu after initially giving up on the 3ds version back when the game came out. Playing this game with upscaled textures is a vastly superior experience to playing it on the 3ds. I'm playing this on a steam deck which is a double treat. This thing took me 2 tries, with the GS cheda blade+. First attempt I timed out but I think I got it to around 10%. Second attempt, I watched this vid and was able to kill it in 34 min :).

Actually as a Gunner running twords the head is a good idea if you can get onto the platform that you jump on his head from dalmadur himself will never attack you and you can sit there and wail on him trust me I do this a lot

Awesome video very detailed! thanks!

I need some advice. I have the Zinogre U full set with Evasion+3 and Dragon Atk +3 with the LBG Brimstren Drakevow. For maximun damage output, should I focus the Tail/Head with Thunder/Dragon S or go for the back legs (even though I don't know where they are)?

It took me two tries to beat Dalamadur, myself. (Solo.) First encounter, full Shagaru set + Shagaru CB and it took 30 min just to break the head, got carted twice; after which there was only 1min left on the clock so I retired with just the subquest. Second attempt was abandoned after a poor start (

I did this mission yesterday for the first time solo. Didn't fallow a thing in your video and beat barely. I had Critical Eye 2 on my gear and my weapon of choice was a Dual Blades which didn't have Dragon Element on it. But in the end I made it to the end and barely beat it before the timer ran out.

you should put a quick note on begining telling about dalamadur having 2 camera icons,one for the tail and other for head.

just wow. I played over 170 hours of mh4u and I never knew that you can skip the dramatic death scenes...... this will help alot lol

Saw this mission wonder what it was since I am close to my next urgent and it is this thing so pretty much going to be grinding for heavier gear and higher attack power now

I tried to solo the HR7 urgent Dalamadur following this guide but I time out every time. :( Is there anything I should switch up when soloing? E.g. focusing on weakpoints instead of breaking parts? Looking at Kiranico, it seems like the front claws are actually pretty resistant to damage? I tried one time each with Teostra's Spada and Icesteel Dagger (I own no upgrades dragon weapon). Maybe I shouldn't use SnS because it cannot abuse the large openings? To be fair, I'm not using a hugely offensive armor set: Patissier's with Attack Up(S) and Critical Eye +1 gemmed in. Any suggestions?

I'm rank 7. The only rank 7 hunts I've done are the Deviljho, silver Rathalos and gold Rathian (and the Magala...obviously, it was the urgent). Joined a group of other rank 7's. They chose this quest. After being totally overwhelmed and clueless to where I was even supposed to begin attacking this thing, I found a nice little corner that seemed safe enough to take refuge and sat with my light bowgun hoping for the best. I died 3 times.

gaijin hunter Im still a newb at MH and I prefer speed weapons ( long sword, duel blades, insect glaive) and when I went up against dalamadur I got to I guess 10% health ( where starts dropping mining rocks) but it was 10 mins left and I failed. the weapon I used was the nueve rod. ill upgrade to dragon based weaponary but you have anymore helpful tips? thanks

Nice Dalamadur drawing by the way

Just what im lookign for ! Thanks

Thanks for the video, it was helpful to know i had almost had killed it, posistion 3 is just a pain

Help, how can I know when the fight goes to phase three? I'm trying to save up my barrel bombs for the final phase (since attack him is a pain in the ass with the meteors - i honestly can't dodge them for my life) I know once phase two starts because he breaks the lower platform. But how do I know when it has become phase 3?

Thanks to your advice, I managed to finally beat Dalamadur and get THREE Skyblade Gems in 1 hunt. I only had palicos as my support.

For some reason it won't let me place the anti-dragon bombs on its back :( The icon is greyed out and have a cross on it.