Rathalos Armor X

Rathalos Armor X

## Showcase

* Stand (Buster)
* Attack (Buster)
* Stand (Melee)
* True Charge Slash (First)
* True Charge Slash (Second)
* Rathalos Fire Breath
* Inferno

## Description

The armor X donned when he appeared during the Monster Hunter Rise event. While X was not informed of the armor details, the only thing he knew was "Rathalos Fire Breath" being the special attack.

## **Abilities**

### Active Skills

**True Charge Slash**

A powerful downward slash that deals damage to targets in range. The first hit deals damage equal to **161.28% (+ 1.28% per level)** of your attack and the second hit deals **2** times the damage. When using True Charge Slash, damage you take is reduced by **75%**.

True Charge Slash second hit damage: 322.56% (+ 2.56% per level).

Enhanced DEF duration: 2 seconds.

Cooldown: 4 seconds.

Modifier Chips
(True Charge Slash second hit damage: 354.82% (+ 2.82% per level))
(True Charge Slash second hit damage: 645.12% (+ 5.12% per level))
(Cooldown: 6 seconds)

**Rathalos Fire Breath**

Launch a fireball that deals **163.30% (+ 1.30% per level)** attack damage. This attack can be followed with a fire slash that ignores terrain and damages targets in its path.

Fire Slash damage: 171.36% (+ 1.36% per level).

Cooldown: 6 seconds.

Modifier Chips
(Burn duration: 3 seconds)

### Passive Skills

(DEF Weakened duration: 1 second)
8
(Enhanced Damage duration: 10 seconds)
24
50
40
(Inferno Fire damage: 32.40%)
(Enhanced Damage chance: 50%)
1
50
40
1
80
60
800

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## Tips

* When fully upgraded with both skills and DNA, Rathalos Armor X becomes excruciatingly powerful against slow, bulky bosses, giving him a comfortable niche against foes like Wolf Sigma, Hell Sigma and CF-02. Sadly, both True Charged Slash and Rathalos Fire Breath are slow to execute, making it nigh impossible to hit agile targets. This effectively rules RAX out of viability as far as most PvE and PvP is concerned, as he has no reliable recovery or proper defense outside of TCS and is heavily dependent on having a Buster and melee weapon together for full damage output, which significantly restricts his customization.

## Changes List

08/09/2021

* Damage buff from **Rage** and **Inferno** maximum of stack was increased from **5** to **6**
	+ However, the ingame passive description have not been changed.

19/01/2022

* **Status Resistance** was changed
	+ Before: When using True Charged Slash, you will not suffer from negative status effects.

## Trivia

* Rathalos Armor X is the first Rockman X DiVE-original armor created for X. The Rockman X DiVE development team provided the concept art for its design. The buster design resembles a Rathalos tail.
* Unlike the other collab characters Hunter V and Hunter R, none of the Rathalos Armor X weapons were released as equippable weapons.
	+ X carries the Rathalos greatsword on his back when equipping other weapons.
* Despite representing X, Rathalos Armor X's footsteps share the same lighter sound effect used by Hunter V and Hunter R, unlike Crimson Valstrax Zero or Zinogre Iris who feature the same footstep sounds shared by their standard counterparts.
* Rathalos Armor X's character introduction does not feature standard X transforming into the armor, unlike the other X armor characters aside from Second Armor X and Fourth Armor X.
* only 2nd Monster Hunter Rise Collab, player could obtains 40 Memories Shard of **Rathalos Armor X** in the event shop for free.
	+ This also the very first S rank character that can be fully obtains for free from the event so far.