Monster Hunter Rise - Best Skills for Charge Blade

Recommended Weapon Skills for your Charge Blade Build or Loadout in Monster Hunter Rise (MH Rise). Skills are organized by type and their skill effects.

All Best Skills for Charge Blade in Monster Hunter Rise

The Charge Blade is one of the fourteen weapon types the player can pick when hunting Monsters in Monster Hunter Rise. The weapon type benefits from its two weapons modes namely Sword and Shield mode and Axe mode compared to other weapon types. The Sword and Shield mode is a balance between mobility, defense, and attack while Axe mode have power and long reach.

All Weapon Guides

For a list of weapon attacks and combos, read our Charge Blade Weapon Guide:

Weapon Guide for Charge Blade

For a list of weapon upgrades and weapon tree, read our Charge Blade Weapon List:

List of Charge Blade Weapons

Charge Blade Recommended Skills

Here is list of recommended skills for the Charge Blade Hunter:

This is a tentative list based from previous Monster Hunter games. Skills are to be confirmed and changed when Monster Hunter Rise is officially released worldwide.

Charge Blade Weapon Offensive Skills

Recommended Skill	Skill Effect
Attack Boost	Increases attack power. Also improves affinity at higher levels.
Artillery	Strengthens explosive attacks like gunlance shells, Wyvern’s Fire, charge blade phial attacks, and sticky ammo.
Critical Eye	Increases affinity.
Critical Boost	Increases the damage of critical hits. Synergizes well with weakness, exploit, maximum might, and critical eye skills.
Critical Element	Increases elemental damage (Fire, Water, Thunder, Ice, Dragon) when landing critical hits.
Weakness Exploit	Increases affinity when attacking monster weak points.
Critical Draw	Increases affinity when performing draw attacks
Maximum Might	Increases affinity as long as stamina is kept full for a period of time.
Agitator	Increases attack power and affinity when large monsters become enraged.. Allows you to deal more damage when monster is angered.
Dragon Attack	Increases the power of Dragon Attacks.
Fire Attack	Increases the power of Fire Attacks.
Ice Attack	Increases the power of Ice Attacks.
Thunder Attack	Increases the power of Thunder Attacks.
Water Attack	Increases the power of Water Attacks.
Partbreaker	Makes it easier to break or sever parts of large monsters.
Artillery	Strengthens explosive attacks like gunlance shells, Wyvern’s Fire, charge blade phial attacks, and sticky ammo.

Charge Blade Weapon Defensive Skills

Recommended Skill	Skill Effect
Guard	Reduces knockbacks and stamina depletion when guarding.
Guard Up	Allows you to guard against ordinarily unblockable attacks.
Offensive Guard	Temporarily increases attack power after executing a perfectly-timed guard.
Evade Extender	Increase evade distance.
Health Boost	Increases health.

Charge Blade Weapon Utility Skills

Recommended Skill	Skill Effect
Power Prolonger	Allows long swords, dual blades, insect glaives, switch axes, and charge blades to stay powered up longer.
Focus	Increases the fill rate for weapons with gauges and the charge rate for weapons with charge attacks.
Capacity Boost	Increases the gunlance’s shell capacity and charge blade’s phial capacity.
Quick Sheathe	Speeds up weapon sheathing.
Protective Polish	Weapon sharpness does not decrease for a set time after sharpening.