Monster Hunter Rise - Best Skills for Lance

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

All Best Skills for Lance in Monster Hunter Rise

The Lance is one of the fourteen weapon types the player can pick when hunting Monsters in Monster Hunter Rise. The weapon type benefits from dealing thrust-based damage, charge attacks that hits multiple times, its high range and counter attacks, and its strongest blocking compared to other weapon types.

All Weapon Guides

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

Weapon Guide for Lance

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

List of Lance Weapons

Lance Recommended Skills

Here is list of recommended skills for your Lance 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.

Lance 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.
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.
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.
Resentment	Increases attack when you have recoverable damage.

Lance 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.
Evade Extender	Increase evade distance.
Health Boost	Increases health.
Flinch Free	Prevents knockbacks and other reactions to small damage.

Lance 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.
Protective Polish	Weapon sharpness does not decrease for a set time after sharpening.
Speed Sharpening	Speeds up weapon sharpening when using a whetstone.
Master’s Touch	Prevents your weapon from losing sharpness during critical hits.
Constitution	Reduces stamina depletion when performing stamina-draining moves such as evading, etc.
Handicraft	Increases the sharpness of your weapon for more damage.