Monster Hunter Rise Best Builds Guide

Our Monster Hunter Rise Best Builds Guide takes a dig into the best builds that you can equip in MH Rise, both early on and later part of the game.

Monster Hunter Rise Best Builds

There are plenty of weapons and armor sets in Monster Hunter Rise, which you can combine to make the most effective builds for your characters.

In this guide, we’ve curated five of such builds. So, let’s go ahead and take a look at them!

Build # 1

Weapon Type: Long Sword

Best Weapons

For this build, you can settle for any of the three following long swords:

• Iron Gospel – an all-purpose weapon with solid stats across the board.
• Wind Thief Scimitar Il – offers a 10% affinity, making it a great alternative to Iron Gospel if you’re looking to max out on affinity early on.
• Drowning Shaft II – offers impressive stats in all departments with an added advantage of Water Element, making it particularly effective against Magnamalo.

Best Armors

Armor Set # 1

If you’re looking to enhance the damage of your Long Sword by pumping more affinity into it, then this armor is your choice.

Armor Set # 2

You can adopt a sheath-heavy playstyle by equipping this armor set once you reach 4-star quests. It compliments Iai slashes and special sheathe attacks perfectly.

Best Weapons and Armor Sets for Late Game (up to 6-star quests)

Best Weapons

• Sinister Long Sword I – it offers impressive stats across the board besides its very own Blast Element.
• Hidden Saber I – offers high attack, incredible sharpness, and a considerable affinity boost of 30%.

Best Armors

Armor Set # 1

This armor set provides you with a sizeable boost in your affinity. In fact, coupling it with Hidden Saber I takes your affinity to Hidden Saber I, given that Latent Power is active.

Armor Set # 2

This armor combination is based upon Long Sword’s special sheathe attacks. With Critical Draw’s 40% increase in affinity at Level 3, it can be very handy in case you need some extra affinity.

Build # 2

Weapon Type: Great Sword

Best Weapons

• Buster Sword I – offers impressive base attack damage, neutral affinity and is relatively cheaper to craft compared to its alternatives.
• Carapace Sword II – offers brilliant attack damage of 130. Its -20 affinity rating can easily be compensated by coupling it with our recommended armor.

Best Armor

Since dishing out a high dosage of damage is the strength of Great Sword, our armor set jotted down below focuses mainly on the Critical Eye skill.

Build # 3

Best Weapons

• Gossblade I – offers one of the highest base attack ratings of 170 at this stage of the game.
• Buster Blade – Possesses great stats across the board.

Best Armor

This armor set revolves around Critical Draw and Critical Eye skills. So, you not only get to dish out optimal damage with your attacks but also get to perform them with improved mobility.

Weapon Type: Dual Blades

Build # 4

Best Weapons

• Kulu’s Peck II – in addition to great stats across the board, it offers you a 15% affinity boost to your character.
• Khezu Daggers II – in addition to great stats across the board, it grants you two handy elements.
• Desperado II – it has identical stats to Kulu’s Peck II in addition to Poison.

Best Armor

Build # 5

Best Weapons

• Sinister Blades I – offers impressive stats across the board along with the Blast element.
• Hidden Gemini I – with a sizeable affinity rating of 40%, this weapon is mainly concerned with an improved affinity of your attacks.

Best Armor

This armor set revolves around the Evade Extender and Razor Sharp skills.

The former enhances the distance covered of your dodges while the latter prevents sharpness loss.

Weapon Type: Charge Blade