Monster Hunter Rise - Best Skills for Heavy Bowgun Weapon

March 26, 2021 Pixel Jello Monster Hunter Rise 0

All best skills for the Heavy Bowgun weapon type in Monster Hunter Rise, including an overview for each weapon skill and their skill effects.

All Best Skills for Heavy Bowgun in Monster Hunter Rise

Heavy Bowgun Weapon Guide

Heavy Bowgun Recommended Skills

Here is list of recommended skills for the Heavy Bowgun 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.

Heavy Bowgun Weapon Offensive Skills

Recommended Skill	Skill Effect
Attack Boost	Increases attack power. Also improves affinity at higher levels.
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.
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.
Piercing Shots	Increases the damage caused by jumping attacks.
Spread/ Power Shots	Increases the attack power of spread ammo, power shot arrows, and Thousand Dragons.
Normal Shots	Increases the attack power of normal ammo and normal arrows.
Special Ammo Boost	Increases the power of bowgun special ammo, Dragon Piercer, and Thousand Dragons.
Slugger	Makes it easier to stun monsters
Artillery	Strengthens explosive attacks like gunlance shells, Wyvern’s Fire, charge blade phial attacks, and sticky ammo.

Heavy Bowgun 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.
Divine Blessing	Reduces knockbacks and stamina depletion when guarding.
Earplugs	Grants protection from large monsters’ roars.
Health Boost	Increases health.
Evade Extender	Increases evade distance.
Evade Window	Extends the invulnerability period when evading.

Heavy Bowgun Weapon Utility Skills

Recommended Skill	Skill Effect
Quick Sheathe	Speeds up weapon sheathing.
Free Elem/Ammo Up	Unlocks your weapon’s hidden element. Also increases bowgun loading capacity. (There is a cap to loading capacity.)
Razor Sharp/Spare Shot	Halves sharpness loss. For bows and bowguns, shots have a chance not to expend coatings or ammo.