Jin Dahaad

Jin Dahaad is a leviathan so big that the fight moves across several arenas, and it’s so cold that the air freezes around it. It sits at the very top of the Iceshard Cliffs.

Out in the wild

It lives only in the Iceshard Cliffs and is most active during the Frostwinds, the region’s Inclemency. Ridge-like cooling plates run along its body and keep everything around it frozen. The frost from its limbs is both a weapon and a way to travel, letting it climb walls and move across floating rocks. Hirabami sleep in part of its arena, and if you wake them, they’ll go after Jin Dahaad.

Where you meet it

It’s repelled in Low Rank in Chapter 3, “Nothing Frozen, Nothing Gained”, and slain in High Rank in Chapter 5. New to the series with Wilds. Tempered and Arch-Tempered versions came later, with Arch-Tempered arriving in Title Update 4.

How the fight goes

The fight moves to a new area when you’ve dealt enough damage, not after a set time. Its finishing move is an ice explosion that covers the whole arena. The answer is to shoot down hanging ice with your Slinger and take cover behind it. When it perches on a pillar to fire ice beams, the Slinger can bring the pillar, and Jin Dahaad, crashing down.

Hunter’s tips

• Break the ice plates. The big back plate is very tough until the smaller ones are gone, and every break weakens its freezing attacks.
• After an ice beam, its head is open for a Focus Strike. Breaking its legs knocks it down.
• It can’t be captured. Shock Traps and Flash Pods work, but Pitfall Traps don’t.
• Bring Cleansers for the freezing.