Status Boost, Abnormal Status, and Elemental Blight Guide | Monster Hunter Rise | MHR (MH Rise)

This is a guide to Status Boost effects, Abnormal Status effects, and Elemental Blights in Monster Hunter Rise (MHRise). If you want to know more about the status effects and blights, new elemental statuses, and how to remove blights and negative status effects, read on!

Status Boosts

List of Status Boosts and Effects

Status	Effects
Attack Boost	Buffs the Hunter's Attack for a period of time.
Elemental Boost	Increases the Hunter's Elemental Damage for a period of time.
Affinity Up	Temporarily raises the Hunter's Affinity.
Defense Up	Increases the Hunter's Defense for a period of time.
Stamina Use Reduced	Reduce the stamina consumption of moves and attacks performed by Hunter.
Gourmet Fish Effect	Regenerates a certain amount of the Hunter's Health in intervals.
Immunity	Cures and prevents status ailments while active.
Natural Healing Up	Increases the amount of health that can be recovered. This increases the amount of the red recovarable health in the Hunter's health bar.
Blowback Negated / Sonic Barrier	Prevents Hunter from being blown away by Monster attacks.
Divine Protection	Chance to decrease the amount of damage taken by Hunter from Monsters.
Self-Improvement	Boosts the Hunter's movement speed and prevents attacks from being deflected.
Knockbacks Negated	Momentarily prevents Hunter from taking Knockbacks.
Tremor Negated	Protects Hunters from Tremors made by Monters.
Wind Pressure Negated	Protects Hunters from Wind Pressure made by Monsters.
Stun Negated	Momentarily prevents the Hunter from being inflicted with Stun status effect.
Blight Negated	Prevents and nullfiies all Blight status effects from inflciting the Hunter.
Health Regeneration	Gradually restore the health of Hunter for a period of time.
Stamina Recovery Up	Temporarily increases the recovery rate of Hunter's stamina.
Sharpness Loss Reduced	Temporarily reduce Hunter's loss of weapon sharpness.
Environment Damage Negated	Terrain-based damage are nullfied temporarily.
Infernal Melody	When active, this will boost Hunter's Attack considerably.
Earplugs (S) / Earplugs (L)	Earplugs (S) - Nullfies weak Monster roars. Earplug (L) - Nullifies strong Monster roars.

How to Activate Status Buffs

Eating Dangos

A variety of status boosts can easily be activated just by eating Dangos before or during hunts. Just approach any of the Canteens in Kamura Village or enter any Camps during quests.

List of Dangos and Effects

Interact with Endemic Life

Interacting with Perma Buffers and Temp Buffers will provide status boosts for Hunters. Keep your eyes peeled for these endmemic lifeforms during your hunts.

List of Endemic LIfe

Use Hunting Horn

Hunting Horn is capable of a variety of status buffs and support skills. This weapon type is essential for tough hunts like Apex Monster hunts.

Hunting Horn Guide and Movesets

Palico Support

Some Palicoes are adept in support skills, other than the healing kind, these skills can potentially make or break a hunt.

Best Builds and Equipment for Palicoes

Elemental Blights on Hunters

List of Elemental Blights

Blight	Effect and Solutions
Fireblight	Damage over time • Use Nulberry • Dodge roll thrice (3x) • Dodge roll once (1x) when on water • Wait for effects to wear off
Waterblight	Slow stamina recovery • Use Nulberry • Repeatedly dodge roll • Repeatedly Wiredash • Wait for effects to wear off
Thunderblight	More susceptible to stuns • Use Nulberry • Repeatedly dodge roll • Wait for effects to wear off
Iceblight	Slow Wirebug gauge recovery • Use Nulberry • Repeatedly dodge roll • Wait for effects to wear off
Dragonblight	Weapon element and status effects are nullified • Use Nulberry • Repeatedly dodge roll • Wait for effects to wear off
Blastblight	A short time or after being blown back, an explosion will trigger, causing damage • Use Deodorant • Repeatedly dodge roll • Wiredash
Hellfireblight	A short time or after being blown back, an explosion will trigger, causing damage • Use Deodorant • Repeatedly dodge roll • Wiredash to leave behind a hellfire cloud that explodes when hit or after time.

How to Remove Elemental Blights

Use Nulberries

All elemental blights can be cured by using Nulberries so when fighting a monster with elements, always make sure to bring a full stack!

Know Other Methods of Removal

In case you forget to bring Nulberries, know other ways to cure blights eg. rolling thrice can extinguish fireblight!

Wear Armor with Effect-Resistant Armor Skills

There are also armor skills that provide resistance against blights called Blight Resistance. Use this method when being affected by blights is unavoidable! Take note though, this does not nullify damage - only the blight.

Elemental Blights on Monsters

List of Elemental Blights on Monsters

Blight	Effects
Fireblight	• Damage over time • Monster is more likely to flinch
Waterblight	• Monster Hide becomes softer • Gives opportunity to damage parts where your weapon usually bounce off
Thunderblight	• Monster can be stunned even when hit with non-blunt weapons • Stun damage will accumulate even if hit on other parts but will trigger the stun when hit on the head!
Iceblight	• Monster will have reduced movement speed • No effect on exhausted monsters
Hellfireblight	• A short time an explosion will trigger, causing damage

How to Deal Elemental Blights Against Monsters

Use Endemic Life

In Monster Hunter Rise, monsters can be afflicted by elemental blights by using endemic life in the map!

To easily induce blights to monsters, the following endemic life is scattered in the battlefield:

List of Endemic Life

Use Wyvern Riding Attacks

While riding monsters using Wyvern Riding, some moves allow you to induce elemental blights to another monster eg. Mizutsune's water breath attack (waterblight) and Rathalos' Mounted Punisher (fireblight)!

Wyvern Riding Guide: Best Monsters to Wyvern Ride

Abnormal Status Effects on Hunters

List of Abnormal Status Effects

Status	Effect and Solutions
Poison	Damage over time • Use Antidote or Herbal Medicine • Wait for the effect to wear off • A stronger version of poison exists.
Stun	Unable to move for a short while • Mash the B button and rotate the Left Analog Stick • Wait for the effect to wear off • Get knocked back by an attack
Paralysis	Unable to move for a short while • Mash the B button and rotate the Left Analog Stick • Wait for the effect to wear off • Get knocked back by an attack
Sleep	Gradually puts you to sleep; damage received is increased • Use Energy Drink before you fall asleep completely • Receive an attack while asleep • Wait for the effect to wear off
Defense Down	Lowers your defense stats making you take more damage • Use Adamant Seed or Armorskin • Wait for the effect to wear off
Resistance Down	Lowers your elemental resistance making you more susceptible to elemental blights • Use a Nulberry • Wait for the effect to wear off
Stench	Prevents you from using health and stamina recovery items • Use a Deodorant • Wait for the effect to wear off
Bubble	Bubbles accumulate and makes movement harder • Use a Cleanser • Receive an attack
Webbed	Prevents movement, attacks and evasion while affected • Use a Cleanser • Mash buttons and rotate Left Analog Stick.
Leeched	Damage over time • Repeatedly dodge roll • Use a Kunai to remove • Wiredash

How to Cure Abnormal Status Effects

Know the Monster and Keep the Curing Items on Hand

Always know which abnormal status effect a monster can give your hunter. Knowing this allows you to prepare the necessary cures before the hunt!

Use Armor Skills that Increases Stun and Paralysis Resistance

Since stun and paralysis inherently do not have cures, it is suggested to incorporate the resist skills like Stun Resistance and Paralysis Resistance into your armor builds! Take note however that this is only recommended for beginners because veterans can usually evade their way out of these attacks.

Abnormal Status Effects on Monsters

List of Abnormal Status Effects on Monsters

Status	Effect
Poison	• Deals damage over time • Increased damage when exhausted
Paralysis	• Unable to move for a short period • Increased effectiveness when exhausted
Sleep	• Puts the monster to sleep • First attack that wakes it up (wake-up attack) deals double damage
Blast	• Builds up overtime before dealing damage. • Monster skin toughness is ignored
Stun	• Occurs when the head is attacked by a blunt weapon • Could also occur when attacked while having thunderblight
Exhaust	• Naturally occurring status effect on monster • Usually denoted by slower movement and dripping saliva on mouth

How to Deal Abnormal Status Effects Against Monsters

Use Status Weapons

If your build focuses on inflicting abnormal status effects, use a status weapon that has fast multi-hits like the Dual Blades and Sword and Shield. This allows you to accumulate status onto a monster more quickly!

Use Wyvern Riding Attacks

Like elemental bights, some moves while riding a monster induces status eg. Rathian's somersault attack can inflict poison onto an opposing monster!

Stun using Blunt Weapons

Blunt weapons like the Hammer and Hunting Horn can inherently stun and exhaust monsters when hit on the head. Alternatively, the Bow's Exhaust Coating can also induce exhaust.

All Weapon Type and Guides

Use Endemic Life and Items

There is certain endemic life like the Poisontoad and items like Tinged Meat that induces status effects!

List of Items

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