The flight wyvern Rey Dau is the strongest monster you will encounter in the open beta of Monster Hunter Wilds. However, there are already some hunters who have defeated the monster in just under 4 minutes: We explain which weapons perform best here on MeinMMO.
Where can I find these speedruns? The Japanese video game magazine GameWith maintains a leaderboard of the fastest kills of the monster Rey Dau.
Rey Dau is currently considered the toughest opponent in the beta of Monster Hunter Wilds and serves players as a kind of benchmark
to test their weapons and performance.
The lance disappoints, but the bow convinces
Which weapon is the best? The heavy bowgun ranks first with a hunting time of 3:53 minutes for the Rey Dau. This is followed by the gunlance (3:56 minutes) and sword and shield (4:15 minutes). The lance, light bowgun, and dual blades perform the worst.
However, the GameWith list has a significant flaw: it does not differentiate whether the monster was damaged by falling rocks. A strong strategy against the Rey Dau is to use destructible rocks in the environment. This naturally distorts the pure performance of the weapon.
A Google Sheet circulating in the community also collects speedruns. It distinguishes between “freestyle runs” and “rock spam runs,” allowing for better classification of the results.
In freestyle, the energy blade (4:19 minutes), the bow (4:28 minutes), and the longsword (4:37 minutes) shine. The last three places are occupied by the light and heavy bowgun as well as the lance. Many players are particularly disappointed by the poor performance of the lance, which weakens in both rankings. They write under a post on Reddit:
- MisterMasterCylinder: “Maybe I’m just not used to the new moveset yet, but I feel like the lance took a hit. It seems difficult to be as aggressive as I could in [Monster Hunter:] World, and the counters seem to fall flat.”
- BurningBeechbone: “As a lance main since 4U, I’m so disappointed. Gunlance and bow were fun, though.”
Players praise the new bow, which feels significantly more powerful with homing arrows and a wide-area arrow barrage than in Monster Hunter: World. The good rank of the bow in the speedrun comparison supports this feeling. You can get an overview of all weapons in Monster Hunter Wilds here: All 14 weapon types from Monster Hunter Wilds at a glance
