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Slay Monsters and Protect Humanity in Puzzle & Dragons with Monster Hunter™

Confront Rathalos and Malzeno in the returning collaboration starting December 26

December 23, 2022

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GungHo | REDONDO BEACH, Calif. – December 23, 2022 - Brace yourself for a brutal hunt as various monsters such as Rathalos and Malzeno from Monster Hunter™ attack in Puzzle & Dragon. Starting December 26 through January 8, battle monsters in this limited-time collaboration, featuring eight event-exclusive dungeons. 

Any well-prepared member of the Hunter’s Guild needs the best armor and weapons to slay mighty monsters and recruit powerful allies. Players can collect monsters from the 10 Magic Stones! Monster Hunter Egg Machine and the Monster Hunter Memorial Egg Machine, which grants a free pull to all players that log in during the collaboration. With the return of Monster Hunter™ comes new event-exclusive monsters, including Malzeno, Lunagaron, Garangolm, Goss Harag, and Pukei-Pukei.

Battle Wicked Monsters
Fight alongside your fellow hunters to survive through eight event-exclusive dungeons. 

  • Monster Hunter Collab & Monster Hunter Collab 2 lets players hunt for materials used to evolve Male Hunter and Female Hunter. Having Monster Hunter™ collab characters in your team in this dungeon will raise their parameters. 

  • Skill Leveling Dungeon Monster Hunter rewards the hunters and monsters on your team with the same Skill as characters in the dungeon with a guaranteed Skill Up for that character. 

  • Monster Hunter Support Survey is a high-difficulty dungeon that rewards players using a Monster Hunter™ collab character as team leader with a 100% drop rate and guarantees one of the three types of Dango from the defeated boss. The dungeon also drops monsters like Latent TAMADRA (Extra Slot) and Super Snow Globe Dragon at a fixed rate. Successful players receive a 2x Event Medal - Rainbow as a first-time clear reward.

    • Multiplayer! Monster Hunter Support Survey allows players to challenge the Monster Hunter Support Survey dungeon with their hunter friends.

  • [Hunter King] Title Challenge is a special time-limited dungeon that can only be completed with a specified team. Players receive the [Hunter King] title as a first-time clear reward. 

  • Urgent Quest! Magnamalo Descended! rewards players with ★6+ Monster Hunter Egg Machine as a first-time clear reward! Having Monster Hunter™ collab characters in your team will raise their parameters.

    • Multiplayer! Urgent Quest! Magnamalo Descended! allows players to challenge the Urgent Quest! Magnamalo Descended! dungeon with their hunter friends.


Monster Exchange
Trading 3x Event Medal - Black at the Monster Exchange will get you event-exclusive characters like the newly added Palico! Male Hunter and Female Hunter have also been added to the Monster Purchase lineup.

Special Bundles
Turn the tides of battle by taming monsters to fight on your side. Build your team up with special bundles:

  • 30 Magic Stones & Monster Hunter Malzeno Egg Machine: Grants 30 Magic Stones and one pull from the Monster Hunter Malzeno Egg Machine for $29.99 USD. Players also get a special Monster Hunter Collab BGM Set when they get Malzeno for the first time.

  • 15 Magic Stones & Monster Hunter Lunagaron Egg Machine: Grants 15 Magic Stones and one pull from the Monster Hunter Lunagaron Egg Machine for $14.99 USD. Players also get a special Monster Hunter Orbs 3 Skin when they get Lunagaron for the first time.

  • 15 Magic Stones & Monster Hunter Seregios Egg Machine: Grants 15 Magic Stones and one pull from the Monster Hunter Seregios Egg Machine for $14.99 USD. Players also get a special Monster Hunter Orbs Skin when they get Seregios for the first time.

  • 30 Magic Stones & ★7 Monster Hunter Egg Machine: Grants 30 Magic Stones and one pull from the ★7 Monster Hunter Egg Machine for $29.99 USD. 

  • 2 Magic Stones & Monster Hunter Egg Machine: Grants 2 Magic Stones and one pull from the Monster Hunter Egg Machine for $1.99 USD. 


Assets for the Monster Hunter™ collab can be found here.

Puzzle & Dragons is a mobile gaming phenomenon that continues to see tremendous growth, featuring an addictive combination of puzzle, dungeon-crawling, and monster-collecting gameplay. In the game, players can capture, collect and evolve thousands of elemental monsters while incorporating quick thinking to chain combos and maximize the abilities and skills of their monsters. To date, Puzzle & Dragons has surpassed 90 million downloads worldwide and can be downloaded from the App Store and Google Play.

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