Monster Hunter Rise - Best Skills for Dual Blades

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

All Best Skills for Dual Blades in Monster Hunter Rise

The Dual Blades is one of the fourteen weapon types the player can pick when hunting Monsters in Monster Hunter Rise. The weapon type benefits from being the highest DPS raw weapon type, its ability use items while the weapon is drawn or in guard, and fast recovery time that allows for more chain of attacks compared to other weapon types.

All Weapon Guides

For a list of weapon attacks and combos, read our Dual Blades Weapon Guide:

Weapon Guide for Dual Blades

For a list of weapon upgrades and weapon tree, read our Dual Blades Weapon List:

List of Dual Blades Weapons

Dual Blades Recommended Skills

Here is list of recommended skills for your Dual Blades Hunter Build and Loadout:

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.

Dual Blades Weapon Offensive Skills

Recommended Skill	Skill Effect
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.
Critical Draw	Increases affinity when performing draw attacks.
Weakness Exploit	Increases affinity when attacking monster weak points.
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.

Dual Blades Weapon Defensive Skills

Recommended Skill	Skill Effect
Evade Window	Reduces knockbacks and stamina depletion when guarding.
Evade Extender	Increase evade distance.
Divine Blessing	Has a predetermined chance of reducing the damage you take.
Health Boost	Increases health.
Earplugs	Grants protection from large monsters’ roars.

Dual Blades Weapon Utility Skills

Recommended Skill	Skill Effect
Constitution	Reduces stamina depletion when performing stamina-draining moves such as evading, etc.
Marathon Runner	Slows down stamina depletion for actions which continuously drain stamina (such as dashing).
Protective Polish	Weapon sharpness does not decrease for a set time after sharpening.
Speed Sharpening	Speeds up weapon sharpening when using a whetstone.
Stamina Surge	Recover stamina faster, allowing you to use your stamina more for dodging or special attacks.
Razor Sharp/Spare Shot	Halves sharpness loss.
Handicraft	Increases the sharpness of your weapon for more damage.