As a result, players now making the move from Monster Hunter: World to Rise are running into a lack of this meaningful endgame content as they come up against the strongest monsters the Switch title has to offer. This eventually lead to one of the strongest Elder Dragons in Monster Hunter, Fatalis, eventually being added as the final update before Capcom moved from World to Rise.

In addition to the Elder Dragons that appeared in the launch version of Monster Hunter: World, others monsters like Lunastra and Kulve Taroth were later added in free title updates. Hunts against enemies like Teostra and Vaal Hazak make up the final stretch of both the high rank missions of vanilla Monster Hunter: World as well as the master rank that eventually appeared in later DLC. Not only do Elder Dragons make up many of the final bosses, like Monster Hunter World: Iceborne's Shara Ishvalda, but also the bulk of the late and endgame content. A strong place to start for the prevalence of Elder Dragons in the Monster Hunter series would be the game that introduced the majority of worldwide players to this type of enemy.

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