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To become a good hunter in Monster Hunter Now, you need to improve your attack and defense. Skills are an important factor to help you do this. In this section, we will share all information about Skills Monster Hunter Now.

Types of skills

| Monster Hunter includes 2 types of skills

Equipment skills Can be equipped to your weapons or armor. Each equipped skill provides a different benefit, such as increased damage, reduced damage, or increased defense.

Special skill are powerful skills that can be used in battle. Each special skill has a different effect, such as dealing great damage, applying status effects to monsters, or creating a protective shield.

List of Equipment Skills

| Attack skills

Attack skills will increase strength yours for devastating attacks and combos.

Skill Describe
Skyward Striker Increases the damage of air attacks.
Sleep Attack Increases weapon's ability to accumulate sleep.
He resented it When taking damage, attack power is increased for 15 seconds.
Dragon Attack Increases the dragon element value of weapons.
Attack Boost Increase attack power.
Poison Attack Increases weapon's poison accumulation value.
Fire attack Increases weapon's fire attribute value.
Water Attack Increases the water element value of weapons.
Ice Attack Increases weapon's ice elemental value.
Thunder Attack Increases weapon's lightning attribute value.
Critical Eye Increase affinity.
fortify Increases attack power for a certain period of time every time you revive after fainting during a hunt.
Weakness Exploit Increases affinity when attacking monsters' weak points.
Focus Shortens the charging time for weapons with charged attacks by a certain % and increases the fill rate of the Spirit Gauge by a certain %.
Recoil Down Reduced recoil of archery guns.
Offensive Guard Increases attack power for a certain number of seconds after performing a well-timed guard.
Burst Attacking continuously for a short period of time will increase attack power for a certain number of seconds.
heroics Increases attack power when your health drops below a certain level.
Reload Speed Reduces reload time for archery guns.
Sneak Attack Increases damage when attacking monsters from behind.
Peak Performance Increases attack power when your health is full.
Special Boost Increases damage of special skills.
Solidarity (Pumpkin Hunt) Increases attack power as more of your fellow hunters activate this skill.

 

| Defense skills

Defensive skills will play an important role in this maintain survival as you face fierce challenges and confront powerful monsters.

Skill Describe
Tremor Resistance Denial of ground shaking.
Sleep Resistance Creates an opportunity to prevent sleep/sleep states.
Health Boost Health promotion.
Defense Boost Increases defense ability.
Poison Resistance Provides opportunities to prevent intoxication/prevent poisoning.
Paralytic Resistance Creates a chance to prevent paralysis/prevent paralysis.
Fire Resistance Reduces damage from fire-type monsters.
Water resistance Reduced damage from water elemental monsters.
Ice Resistance Reduced damage from ice elemental monsters.
Thunder Resistance Reduced damage from lightning-elemental monsters.
Divine Blessing Has a chance to halve the damage caused by a monster's attack.
Guard Reduces damage and knockback when guarding against monster attacks.
Last stand Increases defense when your health drops below a certain level.
artful dodger Makes perfect dodging easier to do.
Guts Survive lethal damage at a certain health level or higher.

 

| Utility skills

Utility skills will give you many different ways to Improve the performance your abilities during hunts in addition to dealing extra damage or defense.

Skill Describe
Evasive Concentration Fills the Special Gauge after performing a perfect dodge.
Concentration Increases special gauge fill rate.
Paralysis Attack Increases weapon's paralysis buildup.
Evade Extender Extend evasion distance.
Part breaker Increases cumulative damage on fragile parts.
Firm Foothold Reduced knockback effect when taking damage.
Earplugs Reduce/Null the effect of weak monster's roar.
rising tide Increases attack and defense when hunting time is up.
Windproof Reduce/Negrate the effects of wind pressure.
sluggers Increases stun power.
lock on If using a close-range weapon, it will display a lock button while hunting, allowing targeting a specific monster body part.

List of Special Skills

| Special skills of all weapons

Weapons Special skill Describe
Monster Hunter Now - Sword and Shield Perfect Rush Combo Rush into enemies with a dizzying array of attacks and attacks.
Monster Hunter Now - Great Sword True Charged Slash Gather all the strength of the body into a devastating slashing attack.
Monster Hunter Now - Hammer Spinning Bludgeon Use the hammer's rotation to deliver a fatal blow.
Monster Hunter Now - Long Sword Spirit Helm Breaker Jump into the sky and dive into your enemies with this deadly secret technique.
Monster Hunter Now - Light Bowgun Wyvernblast Counter A single shot will unleash the full destructive power of Wyvernblast bullets.
Monster Hunter Now - Bow Dragon Piercer Use all of your body's strength to launch and shoot an arrow that can pierce anything.
Monster Hunter Now - Dual Blades Heavenly Blade Dance A series of fatal attacks soared into the sky, cutting through the monster.
Monster Hunter Now - Lance Dash Attack An all-out, deadly attack that penetrates all defenses.

How to acquire skills?

| Armor or weapons will provide you with equipment skills

Equipment will grant you the skills they provide passively if you equip them. Both weapons and armor are possible provide skills. Each type of weapon and armor will have different skills and you must find the perfect combination to become the most powerful.

| Weapons will provide special skills

Your weapon will determine which Special Skills you have. Special skills are these powerful move There is a limit to what you can do on hunts to deal massive damage in combat.

Related Instructions

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