Pukei-Pukei

Pukei-Pukei

Coral Pukei-Pukei

Pukei-Pukei プケプケ
Title	Poison Bewitching Bird
Introduced	MHWorld
Classification	Bird Wyvern
Element	Unknown
Average Dimensions
Length	11.02 m
Height	3.38 m
Foot Size	1.46 m
Habitats
Forests Deserts
Relatives
Coral Pukei-Pukei
Taxonomy
Order	Saurischia/ Wyvern Hip
Suborder	Bird Feet
Infraorder	Bird Wyvern
Superfamily	Unknown
Family	Pukei-Pukei

The Poison Bewitching Bird Pukei-Pukei (プケプケ, pukepuke) is a Bird Wyvern introduced in Monster Hunter: World.

Physiology and Abilities

Pukei-Pukei are medium sized bird wyverns known by their light green scales and manes of vivid green feathers. They have yellow eyeballs that are speckled brown, thin vertical irises, orange cheeks, and deep green cresting adorning its head as if it were a mask. Pukei-Pukei have rubbery four-pronged wings with visible bones to each end, as well as some feathers and a spike on their wing arms. They have long sticky tongues and an equally long but thin multicolored tail.

Its scales and feathers will shift towards red coloring to intimidate foes and portray anger, as well as dullen to appear lesser than, and portray tiredness. Pukei-Pukei's chin pouch and cheeks will expand upon eating berries, and its tail massively inflates when filled with toxic fumes.

Pukei-Pukei are capable of attacking with their long elastic tongues, can spit poison out of its mouth, and spew poison fog out of its tail. Should it eat from certain berry plants, that toxic spit can crackle on impact and stun its foes.

Description

Monster Hunter Now

Characteristics: A bird wyvern whose body contains a poisonous fluid. It ensnares its prey by brandishing its whip-like tongue, which can be expanded and contracted at will. By mixing the berries and plants it consumes with the venom in its body, it can release a devastating poison breath attack. Useful Information: This monster assails hunters with its poisonous saliva and extendable tongue. After spitting out venom, it leaves a small opening in which its vulnerable head can be attacked. Habitats: Forest, Desert, Swamp

Monster Hunter Rise

A bird wyvern known to store toxins within its body. It uses its tongue like a whip and can stretch or shrink it at will, allowing it to grab up food. As a defense against threats, Pukei-Pukei have numerous toxic attacks. Keep an eye on both its mouth and tail! Threat Level: ★★★★ The regurgitation of a Pukei-Pukei varies depending on what it has eaten: it may spread wider, linger on the ground, or even stun prey more easily. Check, therefore, that the monster's mouth and tail aren't swollen prior to engaging.

Game Data

Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak

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Pukei-Pukei can be found in the Shrine Ruins, Sandy Plains, Flooded Forest (Rise), and Red Stronghold.

Breakables
Head Back Wings (Individual) Tail (Sever)

Damage Effectiveness
Part	Cut	Impact	Bullet
Head	75%	80%	70%	15%	0%	30%	20%	10%
Tongue	95%	90%	85%	15%	0%	30%	20%	10%
Neck	40%	35%	30%	5%	0%	20%	10%	5%
Torso (Back)	35%	35%	30%	0%	0%	15%	5%	5%
Wing	50%	45%	40%	10%	0%	25%	15%	5%
Leg	45%	45%	40%	0%	0%	15%	5%	0%
Tail	55%	50%	45%	10%	0%	25%	15%	5%

Status Effectiveness
Status	Treshold	Increase	Duration	Recovery	Damage
X	250→700	150	15s	5/10s	10/s
★★★	130→430	75	12s	5/10s	-
★★★	100→370	90	40s	5/10s	-
★	120→520	100	10s	5/10s	-
★★	70→670	30	-	5/10s	100
★	225→900	75	-	5/10s	150 (Stamina)
★	180→570	130	20s	5/10s	300
★	180→570	130	30s	5/10s	-
★★	180→570	130	40s	5/10s	- Staggers Pukei-Pukei.
★	180→570	130	30s	5/10s	-

Carves

Low Rank

Carves (Body)
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Scale	42%
Pukei-Pukei Shell	32%
Pukei-Pukei Sac	16%
Pukei-Pukei Quill	10%
Carves (Tail)
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Tail	80%
Pukei-Pukei Shell	20%
Target Rewards
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Shell	27%
Pukei-Pukei Scale	20%
Pukei-Pukei Sac	14%
Pukei-Pukei Quill	11%
Poison Sac	11%
Monster Bone L	10%
Pukei-Pukei Tail	7%
Capture Rewards
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Shell	31%
Pukei-Pukei Sac	22%
Pukei-Pukei Scale x2	19%
Pukei-Pukei Quill	16%
Pukei-Pukei Tail	12%

Break Head
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Sac	75%
Pukei-Pukei Scale x2	25%
Break Wings (Individual)
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Quill	80%
Pukei-Pukei Scale	20%
Break Back
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Shell	80%
Pukei-Pukei Scale	20%
Drops (Set 1)
Item	Chance
Wyvern Tear	50%
Pukei-Pukei Scale	35%
Pukei-Pukei Shell	15%
Drops (Set 2)
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Scale	60%
Pukei-Pukei Shell	40%

High Rank

Carves (Body)
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Scale+	42%
Pukei-Pukei Carapace	32%
Pukei-Pukei Sac+	16%
Pukei-Pukei Wing	10%
Carves (Tail)
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Tail	70%
Pukei-Pukei Carapace	26%
Bird Wyvern Gem	4%
Target Rewards
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Carapace	28%
Pukei-Pukei Scale+	21%
Pukei-Pukei Sac+	15%
Pukei-Pukei Wing	12%
Toxin Sac	11%
Monster Keenbone x2	10%
Bird Wyvern Gem	3%
Capture Rewards
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Carapace	34%
Pukei-Pukei Scale+ x2	19%
Pukei-Pukei Sac+	18%
Pukei-Pukei Wing	15%
Pukei-Pukei Tail	9%
Bird Wyvern Gem	5%

Break Head
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Sac+	75%
Pukei-Pukei Scale+ x2	22%
Bird Wyvern Gem	3%
Break Wings (Individual)
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Wing	80%
Pukei-Pukei Scale+	20%
Break Back
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Carapace	80%
Pukei-Pukei Scale+	20%
Drops (Set 1)
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Scale+	34%
Large Wyvern Tear	25%
Wyvern Tear	25%
Pukei-Pukei Carapace	15%
Bird Wyvern Gem	1%
Drops (Set 2)
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Scale+	60%
Pukei-Pukei Carapace	40%

Master Rank

Carves (Body)
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Shard	42%
Pukei-Pukei Cortex	32%
Large Pukei-Pukei Sac	16%
Pukei-Pukei Fellwing	10%
Carves (Tail)
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Lash	80%
Pukei-Pukei Cortex	16%
Fey Wyvern Gem	4%
Target Rewards
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Cortex	26%
Pukei-Pukei Shard	18%
Large Pukei-Pukei Sac	14%
Pukei-Pukei Fellwing	11%
Deadly Poison Sac	11%
Monster Toughbone x2	10%
Pukei-Pukei Lash	7%
Fey Wyvern Gem	3%
Capture Rewards
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Cortex	33%
Pukei-Pukei Shard x2	19%
Large Pukei-Pukei Sac	16%
Pukei-Pukei Fellwing	15%
Pukei-Pukei Lash	9%
Bird Wyvern Gem	5%
Fey Wyvern Gem	3%

Break Head
Item	Chance
Large Pukei-Pukei Sac	75%
Pukei-Pukei Shard x2	22%
Fey Wyvern Gem	3%
Break Wings (Individual)
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Fellwing	80%
Pukei-Pukei Shard	20%
Break Back
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Cortex	80%
Pukei-Pukei Shard	20%
Drops (Set 1)
Item	Chance
Large Wyvern Tear	35%
Pukei-Pukei Shard	34%
Pukei-Pukei Cortex	15%
Wyvern Tear	15%
Fey Wyvern Gem	1%
Drops (Set 2)
Item	Chance
Pukei-Pukei Shard	60%
Pukei-Pukei Cortex	40%

Anomaly

• These materials are not guaranteed to be earned, they're quest rewards, and they have a chance to be carve bonuses each time you carve the afflicted monster.

Anomaly Quests (Broken Parts)
Item	Chance
Afflicted Scale	40%
Anomaly Quests (Carves)
Item	Chance
Afflicted Scale	40%
Anomaly Investigations (Broken Parts)
Item	Chance
Afflicted Scale	40% (Lv 21-30)
Afflicted Scale+	40% (Lv 31-100)
Afflicted Shard	40% (Lv 101-300)
Anomaly Investigations (Carves)
Item	Chance
Afflicted Scale	40% (Lv 21-30)
Afflicted Scale+	40% (Lv 31-100)
Afflicted Shard	40% (Lv 101-300)

Equipment

Previous Titles

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• World Iceborne

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• Now
• Stories 2

Game Appearances

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Main Series

• Monster Hunter: World (Introduced)
• Monster Hunter World: Iceborne
• Monster Hunter Rise
• Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak

Stories

• Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin

Spin-Off

• Monster Hunter Now
• Arcade Machines
  • Pachislot: Monster Hunter: World
  • Pachislot: Monster Hunter World: Iceborne

Crossovers

• TEPPEN

Locales

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• Ancient Forest
• Wildspire Waste
• Guiding Lands
• Shrine Ruins
• Sandy Plains (MHRise)
• Flooded Forest (MHRise)
• Red Stronghold

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• Hakolo Island

Information from Printed Media

Monster Hunter World: The Official Complete Works

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From Pages 210-215:
Full length: approximately 1102.23 cm
Full height: approximately 338.27 cm
Foot size: approximately 148 cm
Known habitat: Ancient Forest, Wildspire Waste

The Pukei-Pukei's feathers are covered in fine crystalline particles that cause them to change color depending on how they're angled. This allows it to alter its natural green camouflage in the event its environment changes: to appear larger and red to intimidate other monsters, or to appeal smaller and pale as it attempts to flee more fearsome threats. These modes of coloration reflect its varying behaviors in the face of intruders depending on the danger they pose. It is able to rapidly assess intruders with its large eyes, said to contain many more color-receptor cells than those of other creatures, that are capable of differentiating between many colors even in the dark.

Pukei-Pukei's feet are well adapted for grasping and holding. Though this would seem to suit it for a life among the treetops, clutching to round branches, it spends most of its time on the forest floor. It is speculated that its territory used to be in the canopy, but that it was forced lower by the migration of Rathalos to the New World long ago. It still returns to the canopy today during breeding season to find a Mernos nest with a vacant parent. There, it will lay its own egg in the nest. Upon hatching, the Pukei-Pukei chick will instinctively push out the Mernos eggs and receive exclusive care from its unwitting Mernos caretaker before leaving the nest to learn to fly and seek out vegetation for food.

Pukei-Pukei's tongue can stretch to be longer than four meters thanks to a well-developed hyoid and surrounding muscles. This tongue is so strong that a single person cannot forcibly stretch it. It uses this tongue both to attack invaders from a distance and to snatch food. Pukei-Pukei primarily eats plants, including Poisoncups, Sporepuffs, and Scatternuts. It will also store these plants in its elastic chin and tail, where it can mix them with a fluid produced in its poison sacs. Depending on the stored plant, the resulting mixture will have a variety of properties, from the mist-like spray from Sporepuffs to bursting poison bubbles from Scatternuts. It has even been been known to store rocks in its chin to spray at adversaries. When an internalized poisonous mixture is given time to ferment, it produces a toxic vapor that is stored in Pukei-Pukei's expanding tail to release from the tip as a last resort in combat. These behaviors, while providing both sustenance and defense, also assist the consumed plants in germinating and spreading around the environment. This may be why the areas around Pukei-Pukei nests have so many varieties of plants.

Developer's Note: Pukei-Pukei was originally intended to be the basic tutorial monster for new players, but that role went to Great Jagras instead. Instead, its purpose became teaching players to be more aware of their surroundings, especially vegetation and slinger ammunition, and how they can utilize them in combat. Its actions are designed to be exaggerated so players can easily read its intent. Its colors and changing form based on its emotion all help to serve this goal.

Other Languages

Other Languages
日本語	プケプケ (Pukepuke)
International	Pukei-Pukei

Notes

General Notes

• Its head and wings (individual) can be broken, and its tail severed.
  • Severing Pukei-Pukei's tail will hinder its tail poison attacks.
• Pukei-Pukei's roar is Weak. Level 3 Earplugs nullifies it. (Rise: Level 2 Earplugs / Level 1 Defiance nullifies it.)
• Pukei-Pukei strangely shares wing patterns and feet type with Paolumu, despite belonging to different classifications.
• Pukei-Pukei ranked 64th place in the Top Monster competition during Monster Hunter's 20th Anniversary.

Monster Hunter: World

If it eats Scatternuts, its spit attacks will have added Stun effect chance.

In the crossover quest with The Witcher 3, "Trouble in the Ancient Forest," a wounded but alive Pukei-Pukei is trapped northwest of Area 8, nearby some Scatternuts and Redpit. Finding it starts the "Pukei-Pukei in Peril" sidequest.

• Should the player free it, it will assist the player in fighting Leshen. If properly healed and protected, a bonus ending with the Pukei-Pukei and its Grimalkyne comrade is unlocked.
  • If Leshen or Jagras kills the bird wyvern, the side quest fails.

Monster Hunter Rise

Pukei-Pukei can appear in the Rampage, where it is considered a Targetter.

Since Scatternuts aren't present in this title, Pukei-Pukei eats from nearby ammo-producing berry plants for identical Stun effect.

Pukei-Pukei and Tobi-Kadachi both are notably more dangerous than their appearances in Monster Hunter: World, since more monsters are fought before them, and both are unlocked in LR 4★ quests rather than LR 3★.

Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak

In Master Rank, Pukei-Pukei gains a new attack where it runs flailing around (akin to Yian Kut-Ku), followed by more flailing with poison clouds being flung around.

Miscellaneous

The Amstrigian in Monster Hunter Wilds' second trailer was suspected by many to be a baby Pukei-Pukei, but officially debunked to be unrelated Endemic Life.

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