Best Skills
There are various skills from monsties, weapons, and armor that can significantly improve your gameplay in Monster Hunter Stories 3 (MHS3). Learn more about the best skills and their effects with this guide!
Best Monstie Skills
Best Monstie Passive Skills
| Monstie Skills | ||
|---|---|---|
| Passive Skills | Attack Skills | Support Skills |
| Skill | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Soul Kinship | Soul Kinship enables you use Kinship Skills faster and earlier, allowing you to heal up and deal high damage. |
| Self-Heal lets monsties heal at the end of the turn, which significantly boosts survivability. | |
| Having a higher chance of applying status inflictions will increase the overall value of skills that have a chance of applying them. | |
| Increased Wyvernfell Power can help you topple enemies faster and more often, allowing you to deal more damage. | |
| Though stamina costs are increased, this is basically a free Kinship Skill buff since they do not cost any stamina. |
The passive skills mentioned above are meant to passively bosst the effects of your attacks and skills. However, the best passives to equip might also depend on the enemy your are fighting.
Best Monstie Attack Skills
| Monstie Skills | ||
|---|---|---|
| Passive Skills | Attack Skills | Support Skills |
| Skill | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Reverberating Roar | Aside from being able to stun all enemies, it also has a chance to strike first. This reduces the risk of your monstie not being able to use its skill. |
| Nightmare Cradle | This skill deals dragon damage and inflicts Attack Down. Many endgame monsters are weak to dragon damage, and the additional debuff can help you survive powerful hits. |
| Infernal Flames | This skill has a low stamina cost and can inflict both Noxius Poison and Paralysis to all enemies, making it a quick way to apply debuffs. |
| Pickaxe Beak | This skill applies Wyvernsoul Defense Down to one enemy, making it particularly useful for boss fights. |
| Savage Roar | This skill has a chance to inflict Stun on all enemies, which is a useful generic skill that can help deal with multiple enemies at once.. |
The monstie active skills mentioned above are all meant to stun or apply debuffs in some way. These inflictions can often whittle down stronger enemies and allow you to prolong the fight long enough to execute stronger attacks.
Best Monstie Support Skills
| Monstie Skills | ||
|---|---|---|
| Passive Skills | Attack Skills | Support Skills |
| Skill | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Egg Skill: Solar Cry | This skill fills up your Kinship Gauge, so you can ride your monstie sooner, heal back HP, and deal high damage. |
| Bishaten Embers | This skill can extend the effects of inflictions you apply, so you can make room for another skill instead of repeatedly applying inflictions. |
| Egg Skill: E. Dominance | This skill inflicts Attack Down and Defense Down on all enemies, which allows you to defeat enemies more quickly. Additionally, the effects grows stronger after each use, making it useful for long fights. |
| Egg Skill: Charge Up | This skill gives Regenerate and Stamina Regen Up to all allies, making it useful for when you are not using a hunting horn for support. |
| Flash | This skill has a chance to inflict Darkness to all enemies. Darkness incredibly useful since it allows you to avoid fatal attacks from enemies. |
The skills mentioned above are meant to buff your own team or debuff the enemy. These can often decide whether or not you win fights against stronger enemies.
Best Weapon Skills
| Skill | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Soulbreak | Soulbreak increases your damage dealt after breaking a monster part, which you will do naturally anyway. |
| Pulsing Melody | This skill recovers 1 heart for all allies, which is what makes the Magia Charm hunting horn so valuable. |
| Power Paean | This is a staple hunting horn skill, as it can deal some damage while also providing Attack Up, Defense Up, and Critical Up to all allies. |
| Charge Burst | This skill is useful for Greatsword users because it can increase your Attack and Stamina. |
| Flash Coating | This coating for bows is particularly useful since it can apply Darkness, which can allow you to survive attacks by having enemies miss completely. |
The weapon skills mentioned have valuable effects that can significantly increase your damage or survivability.
Best Armor Skills
| Skill | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Kinship Skill+ | Kinship Skill damage is powerful as is, but this can further improve your damage and defeat enemies much quicker. |
| Self Heal | Healing at the end of turns allows you to continuosly fight and potentially save you from losing hearts. |
| All-Elem Def Boost | This is incredibly powerful since it will allow you to stop worrying about matching your armor to the enemy's damage type. |
| Weak Point | This skill can increase your Critical Hit Chance as long as you are hitting a monster part with an advantageous weapon. This is something you will do anyway, and can significantly improve your damage. |
| Stamina Surge | With more stamina, you are able to execute stronger skills more often. |
The Armor skills mentioned focus on effects that boost your defense or damage. These are all passive skills, so you will always have them active when certain conditions are met.
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