Monster Hunter Rise - Best Skills for Hunting Horn

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

All Best Skills for Hunting Horn in Monster Hunter Rise

The Hunting Horn 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 Hunting Horn Weapon Guide:

Weapon Guide for Hunting Horn

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

List of Hunting Horn Weapons

Hunting Horn Recommended Skills

Here is list of recommended skills for the Hunting Horn 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.

Hunting Horn Weapon Offensive Skills

Recommended Skill	Skill Effect
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.
Slugger	Makes it easier to stun monsters.
Maximum Might	Increases affinity as long as stamina is kept full for a period of time.
Stamina Thief	Increases certain attacks’ ability to exhaust monsters.

Hunting Horn Weapon Defensive Skills

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

Hunting Horn Weapon Utility Skills

Recommended Skill	Skill Effect
Horn Maesto	Increases the effect duration of hunting horn melodies.
Quick Sheathe	Speeds up weapon sheathing.
Master’s Touch	Prevents your weapon from losing sharpness during critical hits.
Handicraft	Increases the sharpness of your weapon for more damage.
Flinch Free	Prevents knockbacks and other reactions to small damage.

Hunting Horn Weapon Support Skills

Recommended Skill	Skill Effect
Wide-Range	Allows the effects of certain items to also affect nearby allies.
Speed Eating	Increases meat-eating and item-consumption speed.
Free Meal	Gives you a predetermined chance of consuming a food or drink item for free.