Monster Hunter Wilds

List of Skills

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List of Skills

Monster Hunter Wilds features different skills that will help you hunt for monsters. See a list of equipment skills and food skills, and how to get them in this guide!

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Skill	Type	Effect
Adaptability	Armor	Grants protection against environmental damage, such as from heat or cold. Lv. 1: Negates the effects of heat and cold. Lv. 2: Negates environmental damage.
Adrenaline Rush	Armor	Temporarily increases attack power after executing a perfectly-timed evade just as a monster attacks. Lv. 1: Attack +10 while active. Lv. 2: Attack +15 while active. Lv. 3: Attack +20 while active. Lv. 4: Attack +25 while active. Lv. 5: Attack +30 while active.
Agitator	Armor	Increases attack power and affinity when large monsters become enraged. Lv. 1: Attack +4 and affinity +3% while active. Lv. 2: Attack +8 and affinity +5% while active. Lv. 3: Attack +12 and affinity +7% while active. Lv. 4: Attack +16 and affinity +10% while active. Lv. 5: Attack +20 and affinity +15% while active.
Airborne	Weapon	Increases the damage caused by jumping attacks. Lv. 1: Jumping attack power +10%
Ambush	Armor	Temporarily increases the damage to large monsters with a successful Sneak Attack. Lv. 1: Attack +5% while active. Lv. 2: Attack +10% while active. Lv. 3: Attack +15% while active.
Antivirus	Armor	Once infected, makes it easier to overcome the Frenzy and increases affinity if cured. Lv. 1: Slightly increases recovery rate after contracting the Frenzy. Affinity +3% if cured. Lv. 2: Increases recovery rate after contracting the Frenzy. Affinity +6% if cured. Lv. 3: Greatly increases recovery rate after contracting the Frenzy. Affinity +10% if cured.
Aquatic/Oilsilt Mobility	Armor	Grants resistance against impairments to mobility while in water, oilsilt, or streams. Lv. 1: Negates the effects of muddy streams, and prevents you from being slowed down in water or oilsilt. Lv. 2: Also negates the effects of waves.
Artillery	Weapon	Strengthens explosive attacks like shells, Wyvern's Fire, charge blade phial attacks, and Sticky Ammo. Lv. 1: Moderately increases each attack and Wyvern's Fire firing speed. Shelling fire attack +30. Lv. 2: Increases each attack and Wyvern's Fire firing speed. Shelling fire attack +60. Lv. 3: Greatly increases each attack and Wyvern's Fire firing speed. Shelling fire attack +90.
Attack Boost	Weapon	Increases attack power. Lv. 1: Attack +3 Lv. 2: Attack +5 Lv. 3: Attack +7 Lv. 4: Attack +2%, Bonus: +8 Lv. 5: Attack +4%, Bonus: +9
Ballistics	Weapon	Extends the range in which ammo and arrows have maximum power. Lv. 1: Slightly extends range. Lv. 2: Extends range. Lv. 3: Greatly extends range.
Bind Resistance	Armor	Grants protection against webbed status and frostblight. Lv. 1: Allows you to quickly recover from webbed status or frostblight. Lv. 2: Allows you to very quickly recover from webbed status or frostblight. Lv. 3: Prevents webbed status and frostblight.
Blast Attack	Weapon	Increases the rate of blast buildup. (Blast buildup has a maximum limit.) Lv. 1: Blast buildup +5%, Bonus: +10 Lv. 2: Blast buildup +10%, Bonus: +20 Lv. 3: Blast buildup +20%, Bonus: +50
Blast Functionality	Weapon	Allows you to apply blast coatings. Lv. 1: Lets you use blast coatings.
Blast Resistance	Armor	Grants protection against blastblight. Lv. 1: Delays blastblight and reduces blast damage. Lv. 2: Greatly delays blastblight and greatly reduces blast damage. Lv. 3: Prevents blastblight.
Bleeding Resistance	Armor	Grants protection against bleeding. Lv. 1: Reduces damage while bleeding. Lv. 2: Greatly reduces damage while bleeding. Lv. 3: Prevents bleeding.
Blight Resistance	Armor	Grants protection against all elemental blights. Lv. 1: Reduces the duration of all elemental blights by 50%. Lv. 2: Reduces the duration of all elemental blights by 75% Lv. 3: Nullifies all elemental blights.
Blindsider	Armor	Improves the effectiveness of flash attacks and items. Lv. 1: Improves the effectiveness of flash attacks and items.
Bludgeoner	Weapon	Increases attack power when your weapon sharpness is low. Lv. 1: +5% attack power when your sharpness gauge is yellow or lower. Lv. 2: +10% attack power when your sharpness gauge is yellow or lower. Lv. 3: +10% attack power when your sharpness gauge is green or lower.
Bombardier	Armor	Increases the damage of explosive items. Lv. 1: Explosive power +10% Lv. 2: Explosive power +20% Lv. 3: Explosive power +30%
Botanist	Armor	Increases the quantity of herbs and other consumable items you gather Lv. 1: One extra consumbale herb item per gather. Lv. 2: Additionally adds one extra consumable fruit, nut, or seed item per gather. Lv. 3: Additionally adds one extra consumable insect item per gather. Lv. 4: Additionally adds one extra consumable mushroom item per gather.
Burst	Armor	Continuously landing hits gradually increases attack and elemental attack. (Amount increased depends on weapon.) Lv. 1: On first hit, gain a small temporary attack and element boost, replaced by a larger boost after the fifth hit. Lv. 2: Hit 5 successive times for a moderate stat boost. Lv. 3: Hit 5 successive times for a bigger stat boost. Lv. 4: Hit 5 successive times for an even bigger stat boost. Lv. 5: Hit 5 successive times for a huge stat boost.
Charge Master	Weapon	Increases element power and status buildup for charged attacks. Lv. 1: Slightly increases elemental damage and status buildup for charged attacks. Lv. 2: Increases elemental damage and status buildup for charged attacks. Lv. 3: Greatly increases elemental damage and status buildup for charged attacks.
Charge Up	Weapon	Increases your power to induce stun when you hit a monster with a hammer's charged attack. Lv. 1: Activates skill effect.
Cliffhanger	Armor	Decrease stamina depletion when climbing on vines. Lv. 1: Reduces stamina depletion while climbing by 50%.
Coalescence	Armor	Temporarily increases elemental attack power and status effects after recovering from blights or abnormal status. Lv. 1: When active, grants a slight increase to elemental damage and status buildup. Lv. 2: When active, grants an increase to elemental damage and status buildup. Lv. 3: When active, grants a large increase to elemental damage and status buildup.
Constitution	Armor	Reduces stamina depletion when evading, blocking, or doing certain other actions. Lv. 1: Reduces fixed stamina depletion by 10%. Lv. 2: Reduces fixed stamina depletion by 20%. Lv. 3: Reduces fixed stamina depletion by 30%. Lv. 4: Reduces fixed stamina depletion by 40%. Lv. 5: Reduces fixed stamina depletion by 50%.
Convert Element	Armor	After taking elemental damage, temporarily grants you dragon element effects. (Cooldown after effect ends.) Lv. 1: While active, deals extra dragon damage after dealing enough elemental damage. Slightly increases dragon attack. Lv. 2: Increases additional dragon damage and increases dragon attack. Lv. 3: Further increases additional dragon damage and greatly increases dragon attack.
Counterstrike	Armor	Temporarily increases attack power after being knocked back. Lv. 1: Attack +10 while active. Lv. 2: Attack +15 while active. Moderately extends effect time. Lv. 3: Attack +25 while active. Extends effect time.
Critical Boost	Weapon	Increases the damage of critical hits. Lv. 1: Increases damage dealt by critical hits to 28%. Lv. 2: Increases damage dealt by critical hits to 31%. Lv. 3: Increases damage dealt by critical hits to 34%. Lv. 4: Increases damage dealt by critical hits to 37%. Lv. 5: Increases damage dealt by critical hits to 40%.
Critical Draw	Weapon	Increases affinity when performing draw attacks. (Not effective while riding.) Lv. 1: Affinity +50% Lv. 2: Affinity +75% Lv. 3: Affinity +100%
Critical Element	Weapon	Increases elemental damage (fire, water, thunder, ice, dragon) when landing critical hits. Lv. 1: Slightly increases elemental damage while active. Lv. 2: Increases elemental damage while active. Lv. 3: Greatly increases elemental damage while active.
Critical Eye	Weapon	Increases affinity. Lv. 1: Affinity +4% Lv. 2: Affinity +8% Lv. 3: Affinity +12% Lv. 4: Affinity +16% Lv. 5: Affinity +20%
Critical Status	Weapon	Increases abnormal status effects (paralysis, poison, sleep, blast) when landing critical hits. Lv. 1: Slightly increases abnormal status effects when landing critical hits. Lv. 2: Increases abnormal status effects when landing critical hits. Lv. 3: Greatly increases abnormal status effects when landing critical hits.
Defense Boost	Armor	Increases defense. Also improves resistances at higher levels. Lv. 1: Defense +5 Lv. 2: Defense +10 Lv. 3: Defense +5% Bonus: +10 Lv. 4: Defense +5% Bonus: +20 All elemental resistances +3 Lv. 5: Defense +8% Bonus: +20 All elemental resistances +3 Lv. 6: Defense +8% Bonus: +35 All elemental resistances +5 Lv. 7: Defense +10% Bonus: +35 All elemental resistances +5
Divine Blessing	Armor	Has a predetermined chance of reducing the damage you take. Lv. 1: While active, reduces damage taken by 15%. Lv. 2: While active, reduces damage taken by 30%. Lv. 3: While active, reduces damage taken by 50%.
Dragon Attack	Weapon	Increases dragon element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.) Lv. 1: Dragon attack +40 Lv. 2: Dragon attack +10%, Bonus: +50 Lv. 3: Dragon attack +20%, Bonus: +60
Dragon Resistance	Armor	Increases dragon resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels. Lv. 1: Dragon resistance +6 Lv. 2: Dragon resistance +12 Lv. 3: Dragon resistance +20, Defense +10
Earplugs	Armor	Grants protection from large monsters' roars. Lv. 1: Reduces the effects of weak monster roars. Lv. 2: Nullifies weak monster roars and reduces the effects of strong monster roars. Lv. 3: Nullifies weak and strong monster roars.
Elemental Absorption	Armor	After taking elemental damage, temporarily grants you element effects. (Cooldown after effect ends) Lv. 1: While active, slightly increases elemental attack, and resistance to element taken at activation by 4. Lv. 2: While active, moderately increases elemental attack, and resistance to element taken at activation by 6. Lv. 3: While active, increases elemental attack, and resistance to element taken at activation by 8.
Entomologist	Armor	The bodies of small insect monsters won't be destroyed, allowing them to be carved. Lv. 1: Activates the skill effect.
Evade Extender	Armor	Increases evade distance. Lv. 1: Slightly extends evasion distance. Lv. 2: Extends evasion distance. Lv. 3: Greatly extends evasion distance.
Evade Window	Armor	Extends the invulnerability period when evading. Lv. 1: Very slightly increases invulnerability window. Lv. 2: Slightly increases invulnerability window. Lv. 3: Increases invulnerability window. Lv. 4: Greatly increases invulnerability window. Lv. 5: Massively increases invulnerability window.
Exhaust Functionality	Weapon	Allows you to apply exhaust coatings. Lv. 1: Lets you use exhaust coatings.
Fire Attack	Weapon	Increases fire element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.) Lv. 1: Fire attack + 40 Lv. 2: Fire attack +10%, Bonus: +50 Lv. 3: Fire attack +20%, Bonus: +60
Fire Resistance	Armor	Increases fire resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels. Lv. 1: Fire resistance +6 Lv. 2: Fire resistance +12 Lv. 3: Fire resistance +20, Defense +10
Flayer	Armor	Makes it easier to inflict wounds. Upon inflicting enough damage, also deals additional non-elemental damage, Lv. 1: Makes it ever so slightly easier to inflict wounds. Also deals additional non-elemental damage. Lv. 2: Makes it moderately easier to inflict wounds. Also deals slightly more additional non-elemental damage. Lv. 3: Makes it easier to inflict wounds. Also deals moderately more additional non-elemental damage. Lv. 4: Makes it much easier to inflict wounds. Also deals more additional non-elemental damage. Lv. 5: Makes it significantly easier to inflict wounds. Also deals much more additional non-elemental damage.
Flinch Free	Armor	Prevents knockbacks and other reactions to small damage. Lv. 1: Prevents knockbacks. Lv. 2: Prevents knockbacks. Tripping is reduced to a knockback instead. Lv. 3: Prevents knockbacks and tripping.
Focus	Weapon	Increases the fill rate for weapons with gauges and the charge rate for weapons with charge attacks. Lv. 1: Slightly increases gauge fill rate and reduces charge times by 5%. Lv. 2: Moderately increases gauge fill rate and reduces charge times by 10%. Lv. 3: Increases gauge fill rate and reduces charge times by 15%.
Foray	Armor	Increases attack power and affinity against large monsters affected by poison or paralysis. Lv. 1: Attack +6 against large monsters affected by poison or paralysis. Lv. 2: Attack +8 and affinity +5% against large monsters affected by poison or paralysis. Lv. 3: Attack +10 and affinity +10% against large monsters affected by poison or paralysis. Lv. 4: Attack +12 and affinity +15% against large monsters affected by poison or paralysis. Lv. 5: Attack +15 and affinity +20% against large monsters affected by poison or paralysis.
Free Meal	Armor	Gives you a predetermined chance of consuming a food or drink item for free. Lv. 1: Activates 10% of the time. Lv. 2: Activates 25% of the time. Lv. 3: Activates 45% of the time.
Geologist	Armor	Increases the number of times you gain at gathering points. Lv. 1: One extra item when gathering from bonepiles. Lv. 2: Additionally adds one extra item when gathering special items. Lv. 3: Additionally adds one extra item when gathering from mining outcrops.
Guard	Weapon	Reduces knockbacks and stamina depletion when guarding. Lv. 1: Slightly decreases the impact of attacks and reduces stamina depletion by 15%. Lv. 2: Decreases the impact of attacks and reduces stamina depletion by 30%. Lv. 3: Greatly decreases the impact of attacks and reduces stamina depletion by 50%.
Guard Up	Weapon	Allows you to guard against ordinarily unblockable attacks. Lv. 1: Reduces damage taken by 30%. Lv. 2: Reduces damage taken by 50%. Lv. 3: Reduces damage taken by 80%.
Handicraft	Weapon	Extends the weapon sharpness gauge. However, it will not increase the gauge past its maximum. Lv. 1: Weapon sharpness +10 Lv. 2: Weapon sharpness +20 Lv. 3: Weapon sharpness +30 Lv. 4: Weapon sharpness +40 Lv. 5: Weapon sharpness +50
Heroics	Armor	Increases attack power and defense when health drops to 35% or lower. Lv. 1: Defense +50 while active. Lv. 2: Attack +5% and defense +50 while active. Lv. 3: Attack +5% and defense +100 while active. Lv. 4: Attack +10% and defense +100 while active. Lv. 5: Attack +30% and defense-increasing effects are negated while active.
Horn Maestro	Weapon	Increases the effect duration of hunting horn melodies. (Effect lost when you change weapons) Lv. 1: Extends Melody Effect duration and increases the chance of larger heals from healing melodies. Lv. 2: Greatly increases the effect duration of hunting horn melodies.
Hunger Resistance	Armor	Reduces maximum stamina depetion over time. Lv. 1: Extends the time until your stamina cap reduces by 50%. Lv. 2: Extends the time until your stamina cap reduces by 100%. Lv. 3: Prevents your stamina cap from decreasing.
Ice Attack	Weapon	Increases ice element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.) Lv. 1: Ice attack + 40 Lv. 2: Ice attack +10%, Bonus: +50 Lv. 3: Ice attack +20%, Bonus: +60
Ice Resistance	Armor	Increases ice resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels. Lv. 1: Ice resistance +6. Lv. 2: Ice resistance +12. Lv. 3: Ice resistance +20. Defense +10.
Intimidator	Armor	Reduces the chance small monsters will attack after spotting you. (Has no effect on certain monsters.) Lv. 1: Discourages monsters from engaging you even if you've been spotted. Lv. 2: Highly discourages monsters from engaging you even if you've been spotted. Lv. 3: Prevents monsters from engaging you even if you've been spotted.
Iron Skin	Armor	Grants protection against defense down. Lv. 1: Reduces the duration of defense down by 50%. Lv. 2: Reduces the duration of defense down by 75%. Lv. 3: Prevents defense down.
Item Prolonger	Armor	Extends the duration of some item effects. Lv. 1: Item effect duration +10%. Lv. 2: Item effect duration +25%. Lv. 3: Item effect duration +50%.
Jump Master	Armor	Prevents attacks from knocking you back during a jump. Lv. 1: Negates knockback during jumps.
Latent Power	Armor	Temporarily increases affinity and reduces stamina depletion when certain conditions are met. Lv. 1: While active, affinity +10% and reduces stamina depletion by 30%. Lv. 2: While active, affinity +20% and reduces stamina depletion by 30%. Lv. 3: While active, affinity +30% and reduces stamina depletion by 50%. Lv. 4: While active, affinity +40% and reduces stamina depletion by 50%. Lv. 5: While active, affinity +50% and reduces stamina depletion by 50%.
Leap of Faith	Armor	Allows you to do a dive-evade when facing towards large monsters and extends the dive-evade distance. Lv. 1: Enables skill use.
Load Shells	Weapon	Improves reloading, and increases the gunlance's shell capacity and charge blade's phial capacity. Lv. 1: Increases shell and phial reloading speed. Lv. 2: Increases shell/phial reloading speed. Gunlance loading capacity +1. Charge blade charges 5 phials on yellow gauge.
Marathon Runner	Armor	Slows down stamina depletion for actions that continuously drain stamina (such as dashing). Lv. 1: Reduces continuous stamina depletion by 15%. Lv. 2: Reduces continuous stamina depletion by 30%. Lv. 3: Reduces continuous stamina depletion by 50%.
Master's Touch	Weapon	Prevents your weapon from losing sharpness during critical hits. Lv. 1: Grants an 80% chance of no sharpness loss while active.
Maximum Might	Armor	Increases affinity if stamina is kept full for a period of time. Lv. 1: Affinity +10% while active Lv. 2: Affinity +20% while active Lv. 3: Affinity +30% while active
Mind's Eye	Weapon	Your attacks are deflected less and deal more damage to hard targets. Lv. 1: 50% chance of your attacks not being deflected, +10% damage to hard targets. Lv. 2: 100% chance of your attacks not being deflected, +15% damage to hard targets. Lv. 3: 100% chance of your attacks not being deflected, +30% damage to hard targets.
Mushroomancer	Armor	Lets you digest mushrooms that would otherwise be inedible and gain their advantageous effects. Lv. 1: Lets you digets blue mushrooms and toadstools. Lv. 2: Additionally lets you digest nitroshrooms and parashrooms. Lv. 3: Additionally lets you digest mandragoras, devil's blight, and exciteshrooms.
Normal Shots	Weapon	Increases the attack power of Normal Ammo, normal arrows, and Flying Swallow Shot. Lv. 1: Slightly increases the power of specified ammo and arrows.
Offensive Guard	Weapon	Temporarily increases attack power after executing a perfectly-timed guard. Lv. 1: Attack +5% while active. Lv. 2: Attack +10% while active. Lv. 3: Attack +15% while active.
Opening Shot	Weapon	Increases the bowgun's reload speed and increases the power of bullets when fully loaded Lv. 1: Moderately increases bowgun reload speed and attack power of ammo when certain conditions are met. Lv. 2: Increases bowgun reload speed and attack power of ammo when certain conditions are met. Lv. 3: Greatly increases bowgun reload speed and attack power of ammo when certain conditions are met.
Outdoorsman	Armor	Improves fishing, grilling, and transporting abilities. Lv. 1: Improves fishing, grilling, and transporting abilities.
Palico Rally	Armor	Powers up Palicoes. Lv. 1: Increases Palico attack power and defense by 5%. Lv. 2: Increases Palico attack power and defense by 10%. Lv. 3: Increases Palico attack power and defense by 15%. Lv. 4: Increases Palico attack power and defense by 20%. Lv. 5: Increases Palico attack power and defense by 25%.
Para Functionality	Weapon	Allows you to apply paralysis coatings. Lv. 1: Lets you use paralysis coatings.
Paralysis Attack	Weapon	Increases the rate of paralysis buildup. (Paralysis buildup has a maximum limit.) Lv. 1: Paralysis buildup +5%, Bonus: +10 Lv. 2: Paralysis buildup +10%, Bonus: +20 Lv. 3: Paralysis buildup +20%, Bonus: +50
Paralysis Resistance	Armor	Reduces the duration of paralysis. Lv. 1: Reduces the duration of paralysis by 30%. Lv. 2: Reduces the duration of paralysis by 60%. Lv. 3: Prevents paralysis.
Partbreaker	Armor	Makes it easier to break large monster parts, and increases damage dealt when destroying a wound with a Focus Strike. Lv. 1: Increases part damage and damage dealt when conditions are met by 10%. Lv. 2: Increases part damage and damage dealt when conditions are met by 20%. Lv. 3: Increases part damage and damage dealt when conditions are met by 30%.
Peak Performance	Armor	Increases attack when your health is full. Lv. 1: Attack +3 while active. Lv. 2: Attack +6 while active. Lv. 3: Attack +10 while active. Lv. 4: Attack +15 while active. Lv. 5: Attack +20 while active.
Piercing Shots	Weapon	Increases the attack of the bowgun's Pierce Ammo, and the bow's Dragon Piercer and Thousand Dragons. Lv. 1: Slightly increases the power of specified ammo and arrows.
Poison Attack	Weapon	Increases the rate of poison buildup. (Poison buildup has a maximum limit.) Lv. 1: Poison buildup +5%, Bonus +10 Lv. 2: Poison buildup +10%, Bonus: +20 Lv. 3: Poison buildup +20%, Bonus: +50
Poison Duration Up	Weapon	Extends the duration of your poison's effect on monsters. Lv. 1: Extends the duration of your poison's effect by 20%.
Poison Functionality	Weapon	Allows you to apply poison coatings. Lv. 1: Lets you use poison coatings.
Poison Resistance	Armor	Reduces damage while poisoned. Lv. 1: Reduces the number of times you take poison damage. Lv. 2: Greatly reduces the number of times you take poison damage. Lv. 3: Prevents poison.
Power Prolonger	Weapon	Allows long swords, dual blades, insect glaives, switch axes, and charge blades stay powered up longer. Lv. 1: Moderately boosts the duration weapons are powered up. Lv. 2: Boosts the duration weapons are powered up. Lv. 3: Greatly boosts the duration weapons are powered up.
Protective Polish	Weapon	Weapon sharpness does not decrease for a set time after sharpening. Lv. 1: Grants no sharpness loss for 30 seconds after activation. Lv. 2: Grants no sharpness loss for 60 seconds after activation. Lv. 3: Grants no sharpness loss for 90 seconds after activation.
Punishing Draw	Weapon	Adds a stun effect to draw attacks and slightly increases attack power. (Not effective while riding.) Lv. 1: Draw attacks deal a small amount of stun damage and gain attack +3. Lv. 2: Draw attacks deal a medium amount of stun damage and gain attack +5. Lv. 3: Draw attacks deal a large amount of stun damage and gain attack +7.
Quick Sheathe	Armor	Speeds up weapon sheathing. Lv. 1: Slightly increases sheathing speed. Lv. 2: Increases sheathing speed. Lv. 3: Greatly increases sheathing speed.
Rapid Fire Up	Weapon	Improves light bowgun rapid fire. Lv. 1: Rapid fire damage +5%
Rapid Morph	Weapon	Increases switch speed and power for switch axes and charge blades. Lv. 1: Speed +10% Lv. 2: Speed +20%, Morph attack damage +10% Lv. 3: Speed +30%, Morph attack damage +20%
Razor Sharp	Weapon	Prevents your weapon from losing sharpness. Lv. 1: Grants a 10% chance of no sharpness loss. Lv. 2: Grants a 25% chance of no sharpness loss. Lv. 3: Grants a 50% chance of no sharpness loss.
Recovery Speed	Armor	Speeds healing of recoverable damage (the red portion of the Health Gauge). Lv. 1: Doubles the speed at which you heal recoverable damage. Lv. 2: Triples the speed at which you heal recoverable damage. Lv. 3: Quadruples the speed at which you heal recoverable damage.
Recovery Up	Armor	Increases the amount recovered when restoring health. Lv. 1: Slightly increases recovery. Lv. 2: Moderately increases recovery. Lv. 3: Greatly increases recovery.
Resentment	Armor	Increases attack when you have recoverable damage (the red portion of your Health Gauge). Lv. 1: Attack +5 while active. Lv. 2: Attack +10 while active. Lv. 3: Attack +15 while active. Lv. 4: Attack +20 while active. Lv. 5: Attack +25 while active.
Self-Improvement	Armor	Attack and defense increase as time passes while on a quest. (The maximum is reached after 30 minutes.) Lv. 1: Activates skill effect.
Shock Absorber	Armor	Disables damage reactions when you hit a friend or when a friend hits you. Lv. 1: Activates skill effect.
Sleep Attack	Weapon	Increases the rate of sleep buildup. (Sleep buildup has a maximum limit.) Lv. 1: Sleep buildup +5%, Bonus: +10 Lv. 2: Sleep buildup +10%, Bonus: +20 Lv. 3: Sleep buildup +20%, Bonus: +50
Sleep Functionality	Weapon	Allows you to apply sleep coatings. Lv. 1: Lets you use sleep coatings.
Sleep Resistance	Armor	Reduces the duration of sleep. Lv. 1: Reduces the duration of sleep by 30%. Lv. 2: Reduces the duration of sleep by 60%. Lv. 3: Prevents sleep.
Slugger	Weapon	Makes it easier to stun monsters. Lv. 1: Stun power +20% Lv. 2: Stun power +30% Lv. 3: Stun power +40%
Special Ammo Boost	Weapon	Increases the power of the bowgun's special ammo, and the bow's Dragon Piercer, Thousand Dragons, and Tracer Lv. 1: Moderately increases the power of specified ammo and arrows. Lv. 2: Increases the power of specified ammo and arrows.
Speed Eating	Armor	Increases meat-eating and item-consumption speed. Lv. 1: Moderately increases eating speed. Lv. 2: Increases eating speed. Lv. 3: Greatly increases eating speed.
Speed Sharpening	Weapon	Speeds up weapon sharpening when using a whetstone. Lv. 1: Removes one cycle from the sharpening process. Lv. 2: Removes two cycles from the sharpening process.
Spread/Power Shots	Weapon	Increases the attack of the bowgun's Spread Ammo and the bow's Power Shots and Quick Shots. Lv. 1: Slightly increases the power of specified ammo and arrows.
Stamina Surge	Armor	Speeds up stamina recovery. Lv. 1: Stamina recovery speed +10%. Lv. 2: Stamina recovery speed +30%. Lv. 3: Stamina recovery speed +50%.
Stamina Thief	Weapon	Increases certain attacks' ability to exhaust monsters. Lv. 1: Exhaust power +20% Lv. 2: Exhaust power +30% Lv. 3: Exhaust power +40%
Stench Resistance	Armor	Grants protection against stench. Lv. 1: Reduces stench duration by 50%. Lv. 2: Prevents stench.
Stun Resistance	Armor	Reduces stun duration. Lv. 1: Reduces the duration of stun by 30%. Lv. 2: Reduces the duration of stun by 60%. Lv. 3: Prevents stun.
Survival Expert	Armor	Extra health is recovered from environmental interactables. Lv. 1: Restores 50 health. Lv. 2: Restores 80 health. Lv. 3: Restores 100 health.
Tetrad Shot	Weapon	Increases the affinity of bowgun ammo/coatings from the fourth shot and attack of the fourth and sixth shots. Lv. 1: Slightly increases the attack power and affinity of ammo after certain conditions are met. Lv. 2: Moderately increases the attack power and affinity of ammo after certain conditions are met. Lv. 3: Increases the attack power and affinity of ammo after certain conditions are met.
Thunder Attack	Weapon	Increases thunder element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.) Lv. 1: Thunder attack + 40 Lv. 2: Thunder attack +10%, Bonus: +50 Lv. 3: Thunder attack +20%, Bonus: +60
Thunder Resistance	Armor	Increases thunder resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels. Lv. 1: Thunder resistance +6 Lv. 2: Thunder resistance +12 Lv. 3: Thunder resistance +20, Defense +10
Tool Specialist	Armor	Reduces the recharge time for specialized tools. Lv. 1: Shortens recharge time by 10%. Lv. 2: Shortens recharge time by 20%. Lv. 3: Shortens recharge time by 30%. Lv. 4: Shortens recharge time by 40%. Lv. 5: Shortens recharge time by 50%.
Tremor Resistance	Armor	Grants protection against ground tremors. Lv. 1: Nullifies very minor ground tremors and halves effects of minor ground tremors. Lv. 2: Nullifies up to minor ground tremors and greatly reduces the effects of major grounded tremors. Lv. 3: Nullifies all ground tremors.
Water Attack	Weapon	Increases water element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.) Lv. 1: Water attack + 40 Lv. 2: Water attack +10%, Bonus: +50 Lv. 3: Water attack +20%, Bonus: +60
Water Resistance	Armor	Increases water resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels. Lv. 1: Water resistance +6. Lv. 2: Water resistance + 12. Lv. 3: Water resistance + 20. Defense +10.
Weakness Exploit	Armor	Increases the affinity of attacks that exploit a monster's weak points and wounds. Lv. 1: Attacks that hit weak points gain affinity +5%, with an extra 3% on wounds. Lv. 2: Attacks that hit weak points gain affinity +10%, with an extra 5% on wounds. Lv. 3: Attacks that hit weak points gain affinity +15%, with an extra 10% on wounds. Lv. 4: Attacks that hit weak points gain affinity +20%, with an extra 15% on wounds. Lv. 5: Attacks that hit weak points gain affinity +30%, with an extra 20% on wounds.
Wide-Range	Armor	Allows the effects of certain items to also affect nearby allies. Lv. 1: Items affect nearby allies with 33% of their efficacy. Lv. 2: Items affect nearby allies in a wider radius with 33% of their efficacy. Lv. 3: Items affect nearby allies in a wider radius with 66% of their efficacy. Lv. 4: Items affect nearby allies in a much wider radius with 66% of their efficacy. Lv. 5: Items affect nearby allies in a much wider radius with full efficacy.
Windproof	Armor	Grants protection against wind pressure. Lv. 1: Negates minor wind pressure and halves the effect of major wind pressure. Lv. 2: Negates minor wind pressure and halves the effect of dragon wind pressure. Lv. 3: Negates all kinds of wind pressure.

How to Get Skills

Equip Armor and Weapons to Get Equipment Skills

Equipment Skills

Equipping armor or weapons can provide you with different skills. Each weapon and armor will have differing skills whether for improving attack performance or survivability, and it's up to you to choose which skills fit your playstyle.

Skills that affect weapons, such as Speed Sharpening or Critical Eye, are considered Weapon Skills and will be found on weapons, while skills that provide other passive effects, such as Speed Eating, will remain as Armor Skills.

Additionally, you will not lose skills whenever you upgrade weapons in the same Weapon Tree. Skills can only be upgraded or added as you go down a weapon's upgrade path.

List of Armor Skills

List of Weapon Skills

Equip Armor from Specific Set to Get Set Bonus

You can obtain Set Bonus Skills if you equip a certain amount of armor from a specific set. For example, you can get Doshaguma's Might by equipping two or four armor pieces from the Doshaguma set.

Set Bonus Skills

Skill	Effect	Group Bonus
Powerhouse	Temporarily increases attack after a successful Power Clash or Offset attack	Doshaguma's Might
Thunderous Roar	Moderately extends the activation time of the Latent Power skill.	Rey Dau's Voltage
Protective Veil	Increases defense temporarily when using a specialized tool.	Uth Duna's Cover
Bad Blood	Deals additional damage while the Resentment skill is active.	Nu Udra's Mutiny
Scorcher	Chance to deal additional fire damage after landing an attack.	Rathalos's Flare
Burst Boost	Extends the duration of the Burst skill and grants attack while Burst is active.	Ebony Odogaron's Power
Decimator	Restores a moderate amount of health when destroying a wound on a large monster.	Guardian Arkveld's Vitality
Binding Counter	Increases attack after recovering from webbed status, frostblight, being pinned, or a Power Clash.	Jin Dahaad's Revolt
Flawless Armor	Reduces the damage you take when your health is full.	Gravios's Protection
War Cry	Using the To Victory! gesture increases attack temporarily to nearby allies. Also effects Palicoes and Support Hunters	Blangonga's Spirit
Black Eclipse	Infects you with Frenzy when against large monsters.	Gore Magala's Tyranny
Hasten Recovery	Regenerates your health as you continually attack a monster. Recovery varies by weapon.	Arkveld's Hunger
Protein Fiend	Temporarily grants attack after eating meat items.	Xu Wu's Vigor
Second Wind	Grants an additional Stamina Gauge.	Fulgur Anjanath's Will

List of Set Bonus Skills

Equip Armor from a Group Type to Get Group Skills

Group Skills are a new addition to Monster Hunter Wilds. They're similar to Set Bonus Skills but instead of equipping armor from a certain set, you need to equip a certain amount of armor with the Group Skill, even if the pieces are from different armor sets. Current examples include Fortify and Master Mounter.

Group Skills

Skill	Effect	Group Bonus
Master Mounter	Makes it easier to mount monsters and to wound them once mounted.	Scaling Prowess
Fortify	Increases attack and defense after fainting during a quest. (Can be used twice.)	Fortifying Pelt
Hunter Gatherer	Increases gathering speed, and prevents knock back when gathering or carving.	Flexible Leathercraft
Honey Hunter	Increases the amount of honey you gain from gathering points.	Neopteron Alert
Inspiration	Temporarily increases attack power when using effects like Melody Effects that affect companions in range.	Lord's Favor
Wylk Burst	Increases recovery speed of stamina and red gauge when near Wylkrystals.	Guardian's Pulse
Fleetfoot	Increases movement speed while crouching, and makes it easier to escape large monsters' detection.	Neopteron Camouflage
Affinity Sliding	Increases your affinity temporarily when sliding on terrain.	Buttery Leathercraft
Adrenaline	Temporarily reduces stamina depletion when health is at 40% or lower.	Scale Layering
Diversion	Increases the attention drawn to you when attacking a monster.	Alluring Pelt
Resuscitate	Increases attack when inflicted with ailments.	Lord's Fury
Ward of Wyveria	Reduces elemental and unique damage while in the Ruins of Wyveria.	Guardian's Protection
Forager's Luck	Increases the chance of finding rare gathering points.	Imparted Wisdom

List of Group Skills

Grill a Meal in the BBQ Menu to Obtain Food Skills

Food Skills

Food Skills are obtained by eating meals. The ingredients that you use to make your meals contain the food skills. Always cook and eat a meal before hunting monsters to get useful buffs!

To make meals and get Food Skills, just go to your tent, select BBQ Menu, and choose either of the options.

Food Skills

List of Skills
Black Belt Meal (Lo)	Tumbler Meal (Lo)	Immunizer Meal
Medic Meal	Sizzling Meal	Defender Meal (Lo)
Defender Meal (Hi)	Black Belt Meal (Hi)	Tumbler Meal (Hi)
Gatherer Meal	Caprice Meal (Lo)	Moxie Meal (Lo)
Specialist Meal	Moxie Meal (Hi)	Swimmer Meal
Caprice Meal (Hi)	Insurance Meal	Carver Meal
Capture Pro Meal	Exploiter Meal	Riser Meal
Trainer Meal	Break-time Meal	Piping-Hot Meal
Lucky Meal	Bulldozer Meal	Rider Meal
Iron Carver Meal	Escape Artist Meal	Balanced Meal
Fisher Meal	Fortune Hunter Meal	Hardy Meal
Top Cat Meal

List of Food Skills

Equip Decorations

Decorations can be slotted into weapons and armor to provide new skills or improve existing ones. These can be obtained from Orbs as a reward for doing quests.

List of Decorations

Monster Hunter Wilds Related Guides

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Monster Hunter Wilds Wiki Contents
Weapons	Armor Sets
Monsters	Builds
Story Walkthrough	Artian Weapons
Maps and Locations	Items and Materials
Tips and Tricks	Endemic Life
Skills	Decorations
Talismans	Characters
Quests	Palico
Trophies	Cosmetics
Furniture	News and Game Info
Message Boards	-

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Best Beginner Weapons	Easter Eggs and Secrets
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Best Meals and Food Effects	Best Status Effect
List of All Bugged Skills	Best Co-op Strategies
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How to Get Skills

Equip Armor and Weapons to Get Equipment Skills