Monster Hunter Rise - Best Skills for Hammer

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

All Best Skills for Hammer in Monster Hunter Rise

The Hammer is one of the fourteen weapon types the player can pick when hunting Monsters in Monster Hunter Rise. The weapon type benefits from its mobility, dealing blunt damage that also stuns monsters, and dealing hard hitting charge attacks compared to other weapon types.

All Weapon Guides

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

Weapon Guide for Hammer

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

List of Hammer Weapons

Hammer Recommended Skills

Here is list of recommended skills for the Hammer 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.

Hammer 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.
Weakness Exploit	Increases affinity when attacking monster weak points.
Attack Boost	Increases attack power. Also improves affinity at higher levels.
Agitator	Increases attack power and affinity when large monsters become enraged.. Allows you to deal more damage when monster is angered.
Partbreaker	Makes it easier to break or sever parts of large monsters.
Slugger	Makes it easier to stun monsters.
Non-Elemental Boost	Powers up non-elemental weapons you have equipped.
Bludgeoner	Raises attack as your weapon loses sharpness. Also boosts ranged weapon melee attacks and odds of stunning.
Stamina Thief	Increases certain attacks’ ability to exhaust monsters.

Hammer 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 Window	Reduces knockbacks and stamina depletion when guarding.
Divine Blessing	Has a predetermined chance of reducing the damage you take.
Evade Extender	Increase evade distance.
Earplugs	Grants protection from large monsters’ roars.
Health Boost	Increases health.
Flinch Free	Prevents knockbacks and other reactions to small damage.

Hammer Weapon Utility Skills

Recommended Skill	Skill Effect
Mind’s Eye/Ballistics	Prevents attacks from being deflected. Also shortens the distance before ammo and arrows reach maximum power.
Handicraft	Increases the sharpness of your weapon for more damage.
Protective Polish	Weapon sharpness does not decrease for a set time after sharpening.
Focus	Increases the fill rate for weapons with gauges and the charge rate for weapons with charge attacks.