Trying to get rare materials to craft your new armour set or upgrade it? Well, you’ve probably asked yourself a bunch of times what the Monster Hunter Now drop rates are. That’s exactly what I aim to answer in this guide. I’ll detail the drop rates for specific item rarities and, where there isn’t a defined answer, I’ll provide the community’s best guesses. I’ll also update this guide whenever anything changes so I recommend bookmarking it and checking back often.
Monster Hunter Now is the latest location-based game by Niantic, the makers of Pokémon GO. It follows closely in the latter’s footsteps, with you exploring the real world as you seek monsters. This time you aren’t capturing them though, but hunting them. You can then turn their various body parts into new armour and weapons to help you take on more powerful monsters.
If you’d like to check it out, you can grab Monster Hunter Now on Google Play. I’ve also put together a Monster Hunter Now perfect dodge guide, Monster Hunter Now pre-registration rewards guide, and Monster Hunter Now soft ban guide.
Monster Hunter Now Drop Rates
Now, let’s take a look at the various different drop rates.
What Are the Different Rarities?
Each monster that you defeat drops materials, from small monsters to large monsters. These materials are each assigned a rarity, from 1 through to 6. Materials at 1 rarity are the most common, while 6 are the rarest. As such, they all have a specific percentage drop rate.
What Are the Drop Rates Per Rarity?
Before I move on with my findings so far, I’d like to point you towards a Google Sheet. A community on Reddit is trying to determine accurate drop rates per item, and is inviting you to fill in your data per kill. To gain accurate drop rates, please do so.
Rarity levels 1 are, effectively, a guaranteed drop. Niantic doesn’t reveal exact drop rates, but in my experience I’ve almost always received a rarity level 1 drop when defeating a monster.
Everything from rarity 2 – 6 has a percentage chance to drop. Again, I can’t say the exact percentages, but, from experience, rarity 2 and 3 drop often. I’d guess at a 30% – 50% chance.
Rarity 4 through 6 are the least common items. In traditional Monster Hunter games, a rarity 6 has a drop rate of 1%, and this may well be the case for Monster Hunter Now.
In a Reddit post on this exact subject, a Redditor claimed that the drop rate for 4-5 rarity items is more like 10%. This is verified by many users sharing their rates as roughly one rarity 4-5 item per ten hunts, so it checks out.
What I do know for sure is that only monsters at 8+ stars drop the 6 rarity gems, but the drop rate is insanely low.
Does Breaking a Part Guarantee a Drop?
That depends on the rarity. If it’s a rarity 1 item then yes, it should guarantee the drop. If it’s a rarity 2+ then you are at the mercy of RNG.
How monster part breaking works is, you only have a chance to gain that item if you break the part. Breaking it doesn’t guarantee you get the item, it instead triggers the chance to gain it.
