Hunting Horn Songs and Effects

This is a guide to the best builds and equipment for Hunting Horns in Monster Hunter Rise (MH Rise): Sunbreak. Learn about the best Hunting Horns for Sunbreak and the best builds and Armor pieces to use with the Hunting Horns for Low, High, and Master Rank.

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Songs and Effects

Best Hunting Horn Songs

Top 5 Hunting Horn Songs for Offense

Best Songs for Offense and DPS
Song	Explanation
Sonic Barrier	Contrary to its official in-game description, Sonic Barrier doesn't negate damage. Instead, it provides you and your teammates a one-time barrier that negates getting flinched or knocked back by attacks, getting stunned from roars, wind pressure, and tremor. This song can be repeatedly played to give you and hunters constant immunity from interrupts!
Attack and Defense Up	This is Attack Up and Defense Up rolled into one delicious song. No need for further explanation!
Attack and Affinity Up	Attack Up and Affinity Up all-in-one meal. Their independent songs are also good if both are not available in one note.
Elemental Attack Boost	Good for boosting overall elemental damage, especially in Sunbreak where elemental weapons are stronger!
Infernal Melody	It is recommended to use this as often as you can since it is available in every hunting horn and provides an attack boost.

For playing aggresively, the above offense-based hunting horn songs are recommended to increase opportunities for dealing damage.

Top 5 Hunting Horn Songs for Comfort

Best Songs for Utility and Comfort
Song	Explanation
Self-Improvement	An essential hunting horn buff for increasing your movements speed and attack deflection.
Sharpness Regeneration	Good for significantly reducing the need for you and other hunters to sharpen.
Stamina Use Reduced	Useful for stamina management and giving more breathing room for hunters with stamina-hungry weapons.
Earplugs (L)	Great to have to power through monster roars uninterrupted!
Health Recovery (L) or (S)	Overall a great healing song that gives flat health recovery to you and your party. Health Regeneration is also good but for Sunbreak skills like Dereliction that interrupt or shut off your natural healing, it is best to go with Health Recovery instead. Health Recovery (S) + Antidote is also available on some hunting horns. Best used against monsters that afflict poison status like Rathalos or Chameleos.

Focusing on comfort, the above hunting horn songs are recommended to use in situations requiring more survivabiltiy and utility. There are many more songs to check out so feel free to adjust them to one's playstyle as needed!

List of All Hunting Horn Songs

Here's a complete list of all the songs you can play across every Hunting Horn in MH Rise. Songs without icons have a one-time, instant effect and do not last after they are played.

List of Miscellaneous Songs

Song	Effect
Self-Improvement	Temporarily boosts the Hunting Horn user's movement speed and prevents their own attacks from being deflected.
Sonic Wave	Generates a high-frequency shockwave. Deals damage at a short range.
Environment Damage Negated	Temporarily nullifies certain forms of terrain-based damage.
Sharpness Loss Reduced	Temporarily reduces loss of weapon sharpness.
Earplugs (L)	Nullifies weak and strong monster roars.
Sharpness Extension	Temporarily extends the weapon sharpness gauge. However, it cannot increase the gauge past its maximum.

List of Buffing Songs

Song	Effect
Infernal Melody	Boosts attack considerably for a period of time. (Limited to filling up the Hunting Horn gauge.)
Attack Up	Temporarily boosts attack.
Defense Up	Temporarily boosts defense.
Attack and Defense Up	Temporarily boosts attack and defense.
Affinity Up	Temporarily boosts attacks.
Attack and Affinity Up	Temporarily boosts attack and increases affinity.
Elemental Attack Boost	Temporarily boosts the weapon's element.
Divine Protection	Has a chance of temporarily decreasing damage received.

List of Health and Stamina Related Songs

Song	Effect
Health Regeneration	Gradually restores health for a period of time.
Health Recovery (S)	Restores a sliver of health.
Health Recovery (L)	Restores health.
Health Recovery (S) + Antidote	Remedies poison and restores a sliver of health.
Stamina Use Reduced	Temporarily reduces stamina depletion.
Stamina Recovery Up	Temporarily increases stamina regeneration.

List of Anti-Crowd Control Songs

Song	Effect
Sonic Barrier	Temporarily creates a barrier of sound that nullifies damage once.
Blight Negated	Temporarily nullifies all elemental blights.
Earplugs (S)	Nullifies weak monster roars.
Earplugs (L)	Nullifies weak and strong monster roars.
Knockbacks Negated	Temporarily prevents knockback from enemy attacks.
Stun Negated	Temporarily grants protection against being stunned.
Tremors Negated	Temporarily grants protection against ground tremors.
Wind Pressure Negated	Temporarily grants protection against wind pressure.

Different Types of Hunting Horn Notes

Types of Notes

Blue	Red	Green
Controls
(X) (Left Click) (Triangle) (Y)	(A) (Right Click) (Circle) (B)	+ (X + A) + (Left + Right Click) + (Triangle + Circle) + (Y + B)

There are three types of notes you can play through the three different basic attacks. Different song effects are activated by using their corresponding notes.

By default, activating one type of note with Melody Mode: Performance requires that you play the same note twice in a row to play a song.

With Melody Mode: Echo, you only need to play one type of note once and use the Chord move (zR, MB4, R2, or RT) to activate a song. Using the Chord move will activate all notes placed on the staff.

Magnificent Trio

Magnificent Trio (Play All Notes)
+ zR + X + MB4 + Left Click + R2 + Triangle + RT + Y

The Magnificent Trio is a move that becomes available as you input all three types of notes on the musical staff of your hunting horn.

The benefit is that you can save this move without sacrificing any other notes on the staff. Inputting the Magnificent Trio will have all of your hunting horn's songs activated along with the Self-Improvement song.

How to Use the Hunting Horn

Songs Expire Over Time

It should be noted that all songs expire after a period of time, so make sure to keep an eye on their color and keep them active! When the song is white, that means it is inactive. When it's orange, that means it's currently active.

Of course, there are exceptions to this, which are the songs with one-time effects like Health Recovery (S) and Sonic Wave.

Songs Not Exclusive to Notes

It should be noted that songs aren't exclusive to one note. For example, one Hunting Horn could have Defense Up tied to the blue note (Kamura Chorus), while another Hunting Horn can have it on its red note (Zurogong Primo), and another would have it on the green note (Frilled Flute).

So keep an eye on what Hunting Horn you're using and what songs it offers! Not every Hunting Horn is made equal, and some are just bound to be better than others.

Same Melodies Don't Stack

Playing the same melodies at the same time only refreshes the melody timer and does not stack the effects and time.

For example, if you play an Attack Up melody one after another, it will not stack the attack buff and the remaining melody timer.

Infernal Melody Can't Be Played Simultaneously

If there are two Hunting Horn users in your party and both have Infernal Melody ready, only one can play the Song of Raging Flame at a time.

The other Horn user must wait for the first Song of Raging Flame to expire before they can play!

Hunting Horn Builds and Best Equipment

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