Monster Hunter NowGameplayHow to PlayMonstersWeaponsArmorSkillsNewsShopWeb StoreCode Redemption GameplayHow to PlayMonstersWeaponsArmorSkillsNewsShopWeb StoreCode RedemptionEnglishDeutschEspañolFrançaisItalianoPortuguês日本語한국어中文

Skills

Master the skills essential for hunting. Learn more about the skills available in Monster Hunter Now!

Attack

Attack Boost

Lv. 1 - Increases attack power by 50.

View details

Advanced Attack Boost

Lv. 1 - Increases attack power by 150 when Attack Boost Lv5+ is active.

View details

Peak Performance

Lv. 1 - Increases attack power by 100 when your health is full.

View details

Hellfire Cloak

Lv. 1 - Inflict yourself with hellfireblight at the start of a hunt, or when a certain amount of damage is dealt to a monster.

View details

Rising Tide

Lv. 1 - Very slightly increases attack power and defense as the hunt timer runs out.

View details

Burst

Lv. 1 - Landing consecutive hits in a short span of time increases attack power by 5% for 4 seconds.

View details

Advanced Burst

Lv. 1 - Increases attack power by 5% when Burst Lv5+ is active.

View details

Heroics

Lv. 1 - Increases attack power by 10% when your health drops to 29% or lower.

View details

Offensive Guard

Lv. 1 - Increases attack power by 10% for 10 seconds after executing a well-timed guard.

View details

Fortify

Lv. 1 - Increases attack power by 10% for 40 seconds each time you revive after fainting during a hunt.

View details

Resentment

Lv. 1 - When taking damage, attack power is increased by 10% for 15 seconds.

View details

Timed Charger

Lv. 1 - Increases attack power by 15% when executing a well-timed attack after performing a charged action.

View details

Valor

Lv. 1 - Increases attack power by 400 and fills Special Gauge by 50% when a monster roars (up to 1 time per hunt).

View details

Shared Sword

Lv. 1 - Increases attack power by 80 during a group hunt.

View details

Raw Power

Lv. 1 - Affinity decreases by 5%, but attack power increases by 100.

View details

Attack Efficacy

Lv. 1 - Attack power increases by 10%.

View details

Critical Strength

Lv. 1 - Attack power increases by 8 per 1% of your weapon's affinity.

View details

Reckless

Lv. 1 - Increases damage by 5%, but makes you unable to perform perfect evades.

View details

Sneak Attack

Lv. 1 - Increases damage by 10% when attacking a monster from behind.

View details

Skyward Striker

Lv. 1 - Increases the damage of aerial attacks by 15%.

View details

Pursuit

Lv. 1 - Increases damage dealt to a monster with a broken body part by 10%.

View details

Blood Cloak

Lv. 1 - Inflict yourself with bloodblight at the start of a hunt, or when a certain amount of damage is dealt to a monster.

View details

Resuscitate

Lv. 1 - Increases damage by 5% when you are suffering from a status ailment.

View details

Coalescence

Lv. 1 - Increases damage by 15% for 20 seconds after recovering from abnormal status.

View details

Aggressive Dodger

Lv. 1 - Any attack performed following a perfect evade has its damage increased by 20%.

View details

Offensive Dodger

Lv. 1 - Increases damage by 10% for 15 seconds after performing a perfect evade.

View details

Fighting Spirit

Lv. 1 - When the Special Gauge becomes full, damage dealt increases by 10% for 20 seconds.

View details

Combo Master

Lv. 1 - Increases damage dealt by 10% after performing an action multiple times.

View details

Special Boost

Lv. 1 - Increases the damage of Special Skills by 10%.

View details

Rude Awakener

Lv. 1 - Slightly increases the damage of the first attack dealt to sleeping monsters.

View details

Poison Exploit

Lv. 1 - Damage against monsters inflicted with poison increases by 30%.

View details

Paralysis Exploit

Lv. 1 - Increases damage to paralyzed monsters by 50%.

View details

Buildup Boost

Lv. 1 - Increases damage by 10% if poison/paralysis/sleep/blast buildup occurs when hitting a monster.

View details

Hunter's Unity

Lv. 1 - Increases attack power relative to the number of fellow hunters with this skill activated.

View details

Nergigante Avidity

Lv. 1 - Damage increased by 10%, but Special Gauge will no longer fill when attacking.

View details

Artillery

Lv. 1 - Increases damage of gunlance's Shelling/Wyvern's Fire, charge blade's phial attacks, sticky ammo, and wyvern ammo by 10%.

View details

Morph Boost

Lv. 1 - Increases damage by 5% for 15 seconds after either morphing a switch axe/charge blade, or entering/exiting Demon Mode while using dual blades.

View details

Morph Attack Boost

Lv. 1 - When performing morph attacks, affinity increases by 60% and damage increases by 30%.

View details

Final Shot

Lv. 1 - Increases the damage of the last remaining ammo/phial by 10% when using a gunlance, charge blade, light bowgun or heavy bowgun.

View details

Normal/Element Ammo Boost

Lv. 1 - Increases damage of Normal/Fire/Water/Thunder/Ice/Dragon Ammo by 60%.

View details

Blunt Force

Lv. 1 - Increases the damage of the hammer's Charged Attack and the hunting horn's Echo Attack by 15%.

View details

Headstrong

Lv. 1 - Damage increases by 10% after not evading for 10 seconds.

View details

Dauntless

Lv. 1 - Damage increases by 5% for 10 seconds after performing a forward evasion.

View details

Critical Range Boost

Lv. 1 - Increases damage of ammo/arrows fired at an optimal distance by 10%.

View details

Reflection

Lv. 1 - After successfully guarding, returns a very slight amount of damage at close range, proportional to the power of the received attack.

View details

Critical Eye

Lv. 1 - Increases affinity by 10%.

View details

Weakness Exploit

Lv. 1 - Increases affinity by 20% when attacking a monster's weak point.

View details

Bleeding Edge

Lv. 1 - Reduces damage received from bleeding.

View details

Critical Boost

Lv. 1 - Increases the damage multiplier of critical hits to 130%.

View details

Critical Ferocity

Lv. 1 - Reduces weapon's affinity by 10%, but grants a small chance of increasing negative affinity damage to 150%.

View details

Latent Power

Lv. 1 - Affinity raised by 20% and Special Gauge fill rate increased by 10% when certain conditions are met.

View details

Partbreaker

Lv. 1 - Increases part damage accumulated on breakable parts by 5%.

View details

Special Partbreaker

Lv. 1 - Increases accumulated damage upon breakable parts when using Special Skills by 20%, and fills Special Gauge by 5% each time a body part is broken.

View details

Slugger

Lv. 1 - Increases stun power by 10%.

View details

Element

Fire Attack

Lv. 1 - Increases weapon's fire element value by 50.

View details

Water Attack

Lv. 1 - Increases weapon's water element value by 50.

View details

Thunder Attack

Lv. 1 - Increases weapon's thunder element value by 50.

View details

Ice Attack

Lv. 1 - Increases weapon's ice element value by 50.

View details

Dragon Attack

Lv. 1 - Increases weapon's dragon element value by 50.

View details

Advanced Water Attack

Lv. 1 - Increases weapon's water element value by 200 when Water Attack Lv5+ is active.

View details

Advanced Thunder Attack

Lv. 1 - Increases weapon's thunder element value by 200 when Thunder Attack Lv5+ is active.

View details

Advanced Ice Attack

Lv. 1 - Increases weapon's ice element value by 200 when Ice Attack Lv5+ is active.

View details

Vital Fire

Lv. 1 - Increases weapon's fire element value by 2x your remaining health.

View details

Vital Thunder

Lv. 1 - Increases weapon's thunder element value by 2x your remaining health.

View details

Vital Ice

Lv. 1 - Increases weapon's ice element value by 2x your remaining health.

View details

Vital Dragon

Lv. 1 - Increases weapon's dragon element value by 2x your remaining health.

View details

Charge Master

Lv. 1 - Increases your weapon's elemental value by 10% and abnormal status buildup by 5% when using charged attacks.

View details

Critical Element

Lv. 1 - Weapon's elemental attack power increased by 30% when landing a critical hit.

View details

Kushala Frostwind

Lv. 1 - Reduces the effects of wind pressure/dragon wind pressure, and increases ice element attack power by 10%.

View details

Kirin Flashstorm

Lv. 1 - Makes it easier to get rid of paralysis and increases thunder element attack power by 10%.

View details

Namielle Electrowave

Lv. 1 - Reduces damage received from thunder element monsters by 10% and increases your weapon's water element value by 10%.

View details

Malzeno Crimsonblood

Lv. 1 - Reduces damage received from dragon element monsters by 10% and increases your weapon's dragon element value by 10%.

View details

Poison Attack

Lv. 1 - Increases weapon's poison buildup value by 50.

View details

Paralysis Attack

Lv. 1 - Increases weapon's paralysis buildup value by 50.

View details

Sleep Attack

Lv. 1 - Increases weapon's sleep buildup value by 50.

View details

Blast Attack

Lv. 1 - Increases weapon's blast buildup value by 50.

View details

Status Sneak Attack

Lv. 1 - Makes it ever so slightly more probable to inflict status ailment buildup when attacking a monster from behind.

View details

Ailment Opportunist

Lv. 1 - Your next attack with a status-inducing weapon will be guaranteed to inflict status buildup after performing a perfect evade, applying a very slight amount of status buildup.

View details

Teostra Blastpowder

Lv. 1 - Makes it easier to rid yourself of blastblight and slightly easier to inflict blast buildup on monsters.

View details

Chameleos Venomist

Lv. 1 - Halves poison/venom status duration, and makes it slightly easier to build up poison status on a monster.

View details

Action

Focus

Lv. 1 - Shortens charging time by 5%, and increases the fill rate of the long sword, dual blades, switch axe, charge blades and insect glaive's gauge by 5%.

View details

Quick Work

Lv. 1 - Ever so slightly increases the speed of actions that involve sheathing or transforming your weapon.

View details

Reload Speed

Lv. 1 - Slightly reduces reload time for bowguns.

View details

Recoil Down

Lv. 1 - Slightly reduces bowgun recoil.

View details

Firm Foothold

Lv. 1 - Very slightly reduces knockback when taking damage.

View details

Evade Extender

Lv. 1 - Very slightly extends evasion distance.

View details

Artful Dodger

Lv. 1 - Makes perfect evades ever so slightly easier to perform.

View details

Perfectionist

Lv. 1 - Automatically perform a perfect evade against an incoming attack at the cost of 100% of your Special Gauge.

View details

Bubbly Dance

Lv. 1 - Reduces the effects of bubbleblight.

View details

Power Prolonger

Lv. 1 - Ever so slightly extends the duration of the powered-up state granted by dual blades, long swords, hunting horns, gunlances, switch axes, charge blades and insect glaives.

View details

Defensive Loading

Lv. 1 - Reloads phial/ammo of charge blade/gunlance/heavy bowgun by 1 after guarding against a monster's attack.

View details

Evading Reload

Lv. 1 - Grants a 30% chance of phials/ammo being refilled by 1 when evading while equipped with a gunlance, charge blade, light bowgun or heavy bowgun.

View details

Ballistics

Lv. 1 - Slightly increases the optimal firing distance of your ammo/arrows.

View details

Spare Shot

Lv. 1 - 10% chance of ammo not being consumed upon use when equipped with a light bowgun or heavy bowgun.

View details

Concentration

Lv. 1 - Increases Special Gauge fill rate by 5%.

View details

Evasive Concentration

Lv. 1 - Fills Special Gauge by 7% after performing a perfect evade.

View details

Guard Concentration

Lv. 1 - Fills Special Gauge by 5% after guarding against a monster's attack.

View details

Lock On

Lv. 1 - Displays a lock-on button while hunting with a close-range weapon, allowing a specific monster body part to be targeted.

View details

Defense/Resistance

Defense Boost

Lv. 1 - Increases defense by 20.

View details

Last Stand

Lv. 1 - Increases defense by 50 when your health drops to 29% or lower.

View details

Shared Shield

Lv. 1 - Increases defense by 30 during a group hunt.

View details

Health Boost

Lv. 1 - Increases health by 10.

View details

Divine Blessing

Lv. 1 - 30% chance of reducing damage from a monster's attack by 50%.

View details

Litheness

Lv. 1 - Each time you evade, gain a 20% cut in damage for the next incoming attack (stacks to max 3 evades).

View details

Guts

Lv. 1 - Up to 1 time(s) per hunt, survive lethal damage taken at 70 health or above.

View details

Guard

Lv. 1 - Very slightly reduces damage and knockback when guarding against monster attacks.

View details

Guard Up

Lv. 1 - Allows you to guard against attacks that usually cannot be blocked.

View details

Special Insurance

Lv. 1 - Special Gauge can no longer be stolen, and is no longer reduced when fainting during a hunt.

View details

Earplugs

Lv. 1 - Nullifies the effects of weak monster roars, and slightly reduces the effects of strong monster roars.

View details

Tremor Resistance

Lv. 1 - Negates minor ground tremors.

View details

Windproof

Lv. 1 - Negates minor wind pressure and slightly reduces the effects of major wind pressure.

View details

Fire Resistance

Lv. 1 - Decreases damage from fire element monsters by 15%.

View details

Water Resistance

Lv. 1 - Decreases damage from water element monsters by 15%.

View details

Thunder Resistance

Lv. 1 - Decreases damage from thunder element monsters by 15%.

View details

Ice Resistance

Lv. 1 - Decreases damage from ice element monsters by 15%.

View details

Dragon Resistance

Lv. 1 - Decreases damage from dragon element monsters by 15%.

View details

Poison Resistance

Lv. 1 - 30% chance of preventing poison/venom status when damaged by a poison/venom inflicting attack.

View details

Paralysis Resistance

Lv. 1 - 30% chance of preventing paralysis status when damaged by a paralysis element attack.

View details

Sleep Resistance

Lv. 1 - 30% chance of preventing sleep status when damaged by a sleep element attack.

View details

Bleeding Resistance

Lv. 1 - 30% chance of preventing bleeding status when damaged by a bleeding-inducing attack.

View details

Blast Resistance

Lv. 1 - 30% chance of preventing blastblight status when damaged by a blast element attack.

View details

* Some event-exclusive skills are not listed.

Monster Hunter Now
The Hunt Starts Now
Download Today!
EnglishDeutschEspañolFrançaisItalianoPortuguês日本語한국어中文