Prepare for the Roar: Brute Tigrex Makes its MH Now Debut

The terrifying new monster variant arriving for the Monster Hunter Now Halloween 2025 event is the Brute Tigrex. This ferocious subspecies is known for its distinctive blackish-brown scales, extreme aggression, and even stronger sonic roars compared to the base Tigrex. The event, scheduled to run from Monday, October 27th, 2025, to Sunday, November 2nd, 2025 (local time), marks the first appearance of Brute Tigrex in the mobile title.

This powerful addition is expected to significantly shake up the game’s meta, offering a formidable high-difficulty hunt for veteran players seeking a new challenge and powerful end-game equipment.

Event Details and Hunting Strategy

The MH Now Halloween 2025 event is bringing a host of content designed around the debut of the Brute Tigrex and the spooky season. The monster will appear more frequently on the field as a dimensionally linked monster and will also be featured in Hunt-a-thons, ensuring multiple opportunities for hunters to track and engage the beast.

To successfully take down the Brute Tigrex, hunters should be aware of its specific characteristics and weaknesses:

• Weakness: Water and Dragon elements. Hunters should prioritize forging and upgrading Water- and Dragon-elemental weapons before the event begins.
• Key Threat: Its powerful roars, which stun hunters and leave them vulnerable.
• Crucial Skill: The Earplugs skill is highly recommended to block the monster’s devastating sonic attacks and maximize your Damage Per Second (DPS).
• Strategic Tip: Utilizing weapons that can inflict Paralysis is an effective strategy to stop its relentless charge attacks and create openings for team damage.

In addition to the Brute Tigrex, the event will feature increased appearances of other key monsters like Tigrex, Espinas, Bishaten, and Bazelgeuse—likely to encourage players to build the necessary anti-Brute Tigrex gear.

Exclusive Gear and Rewards

Defeating the Brute Tigrex and completing event quests will yield materials to forge and exchange for exclusive limited-time equipment and rewards:

• New Weapon: The event introduces a Halloween-themed Hunting Horn called the Skullwhistle, which features the Paralysis element—making it a perfect counter-weapon for the Brute Tigrex itself.
• New Armor Set: Materials from the Brute Tigrex can be used to forge the Rex Roar Set armor, which boasts the Advanced Attack Boost skill, significantly increasing attack power when Attack Boost Lv5+ is active. This set is expected to be a highly high CPC keyword item due to its meta-defining potential.
• Layered Equipment: Hunters can earn the Jack-o’-Glove layered equipment by completing high-difficulty quests, and tickets to forge past Halloween favorites, such as the Cawscythe Long Sword and Jack-o’-Head armor, will be available at the Event Exchange Hub.

A major quality-of-life (QoL) feature is the material discount during the event: the Zenny and gatherable materials needed to upgrade the new Halloween-exclusive equipment will be significantly reduced, instead requiring Halloween Upgrade Tickets. This allows for rapid gearing up, making this a high-value event for all players.

The Evolution of MH Now’s Live Service

The introduction of a fierce monster subspecies like Brute Tigrex demonstrates Niantic’s commitment to maintaining a robust and continually evolving live service. These seasonal events are crucial drivers for player re-engagement, compelling players to leave the house, explore the map, and participate in coordinated co-op gaming to tackle the new challenges. Following the recent arrival of Magnamalo and the ongoing development of the Season 7 content, the Brute Tigrex debut confirms that the pace of new monster content and power creep is escalating, keeping the hunting experience fresh and demanding for its mobile gaming community.

Hunters should start preparing their Water-elemental builds immediately and stock up on potions to face one of the most aggressive and unpredictable opponents to ever debut in Monster Hunter Now. This Halloween is promising thrills, chills, and a hunt that will test the skill of every hunter.