Monster Hunter Wilds

List of Armor Skills

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Last updated on: February 24, 2026 02:30 AM

Armor Skills are skills tied to different armor pieces that give your character buffs in Monster Hunter Wilds. View all the available Armor Skills, as well as their effects in this page.

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Skill	Effect
Stun Resistance	Reduces stun duration.
Divine Blessing	Has a predetermined chance of reducing the damage you take.
Stamina Surge	Speeds up stamina recovery.
Free Meal	Gives you a predetermined chance of consuming a food or drink item for free.
Bombardier	Increases the damage of explosive items.
Speed Eating	Increases meat-eating and item-consumption speed.
Recovery Speed	Speeds healing of recoverable damage (the red portion of the Health Gauge).
Mushroomancer	Lets you digest mushrooms that would otherwise be inedible and gain their advantageous effects.
Stench Resistance	Grants protection against stench.
Fire Resistance	Increases fire resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels.
Flinch Free	Prevents knockbacks and other reactions to small damage.
Recovery Up	Increases the amount recovered when restoring health.
Paralysis Resistance	Reduces the duration of paralysis.
Tremor Resistance	Grants protection against ground tremors.
Quick Sheathe	Speeds up weapon sheathing.
Resentment	Increases attack when you have recoverable damage (the red portion of your Health Gauge).
Jump Master	Prevents attacks from knocking you back during a jump.
Botanist	Increases the quantity of herbs and other consumable items you gather
Hunger Resistance	Reduces maximum stamina depetion over time.
Geologist	Increases the number of times you gain at gathering points.
Marathon Runner	Slows down stamina depletion for actions that continuously drain stamina (such as dashing).
Entomologist	The bodies of small insect monsters won't be destroyed, allowing them to be carved.
Leap of Faith	Allows you to do a dive-evade when facing towards large monsters and extends the dive-evade distance.
Item Prolonger	Extends the duration of some item effects.
Water Resistance	Increases water resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels.
Survival Expert	Extra health is recovered from environmental interactables.
Evade Extender	Increases evade distance.
Windproof	Grants protection against wind pressure.
Sleep Resistance	Reduces the duration of sleep.
Wide-Range	Allows the effects of certain items to also affect nearby allies.
Poison Resistance	Reduces damage while poisoned.
Ambush	Temporarily increases the damage to large monsters with a successful Sneak Attack.
Bind Resistance	Grants protection against webbed status and frostblight.
Evade Window	Extends the invulnerability period when evading.
Ice Resistance	Increases ice resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels.
Partbreaker	Makes it easier to break large monster parts, and increases damage dealt when destroying a wound with a Focus Strike.
Cliffhanger	Decrease stamina depletion when climbing on vines.
Peak Performance	Increases attack when your health is full.
Tool Specialist	Reduces the recharge time for specialized tools.
Aquatic/Oilsilt Mobility	Grants resistance against impairments to mobility while in water, oilsilt, or streams.
Latent Power	Temporarily increases affinity and reduces stamina depletion when certain conditions are met.
Constitution	Reduces stamina depletion when evading, blocking, or doing certain other actions.
Heroics	Increases attack power and defense when health drops to 35% or lower.
Iron Skin	Grants protection against defense down.
Weakness Exploit	Increases the affinity of attacks that exploit a monster's weak points and wounds.
Intimidator	Reduces the chance small monsters will attack after spotting you. (Has no effect on certain monsters.)
Burst	Continuously landing hits gradually increases attack and elemental attack. (Amount increased depends on weapon.)
Bleeding Resistance	Grants protection against bleeding.
Maximum Might	Increases affinity if stamina is kept full for a period of time.
Flayer	Makes it easier to inflict wounds. Can also deal extra non-elemental damage upon buildup. (Excludes some attacks.)
Blight Resistance	Grants protection against all elemental blights.
Defense Boost	Increases defense. Also improves resistances at higher levels.
Blast Resistance	Grants protection against blastblight.
Thunder Resistance	Increases thunder resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels.
Dragon Resistance	Increases dragon resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels.
Foray	Increases attack power and affinity against large monsters affected by poison or paralysis.
Adaptability	Grants protection against environmental damage, such as from heat or cold.
Shock Absorber	Disables damage reactions when you hit a friend or when a friend hits you.
Blindsider	Improves the effectiveness of flash attacks and items.
Agitator	Increases attack power and affinity when large monsters become enraged.
Earplugs	Grants protection from large monsters' roars.
Counterstrike	Temporarily increases attack power after being knocked back.
Coalescence	Temporarily increases elemental attack power and status effects after recovering from blights or abnormal status.
Adrenaline Rush	Temporarily increases attack power after executing a perfectly-timed evade just as a monster attacks.
Outdoorsman	Improves fishing, grilling, and transporting abilities.
Palico Rally	Powers up Palicoes.
Self-Improvement	Attack and defense increase as time passes while on a quest. (The maximum is reached after 30 minutes.)
Elemental Absorption	After taking elemental damage, temporarily grants you element effects. (Cooldown after effect ends)
Convert Element	After taking elemental damage, temporarily grants you dragon element effects. (Cooldown after effect ends.)
Antivirus	Once infected, makes it easier to overcome the Frenzy and increases affinity if cured.
Rice Ball	Increases the attack power of Akuma actions and stun damage.

What are Armor Skills?

Skills Obtained from Armor Pieces

Equipment Skill

Equipping armor or weapons can provide you different skills. Each weapon and armor have differing skills, 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.

Upgrading Does Not Lose 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.

You can view your current equipped skills inside tent or by pressing the Start button, then selecting Equipment Info > Skill Info and then pressing the L1 or R1 button to switch between Skill Info pages.

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