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Best Charge Blade Builds and Armor

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Last updated on: March 21, 2025 02:07 AM

Charge Blade Builds and Best Armor

This is a full list of builds for the Charge Blade in Monster Hunter Wilds (MHWilds). Learn about the best Charge Blade builds for High Rank and Low Rank, as well as the best Skill and Armor Pieces to use with the Charge Blade!

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Low Rank Charge Blade Builds
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High Rank Charge Blade Builds

High Rank	Build Name
HR36++	Frenzy Burst Agitator CB Build
HR21 - HR40	Agitator Burst CB Build
HR9 - HR20	Mixed Foray CB Build

Note that if you are still comfortable with a previous build you're using, you can skip some builds. This is a suggested build progression that you can follow until endgame.

Frenzy Burst Agitator Charge Blade Build

Effective Raw

297.99

Effective Element

11.5

Raw Crit Damage

1.25x

Element Crit Damage

1.00x

Attack

774

Element

100

Affinity

20%

Sharpness

Defense

307

Fire icon vs. Fire

-8

Water icon vs. Water

Thunder icon vs. Thunder

-5

Ice icon vs. Ice

Dragon icon vs. Dragon

-7

Weapon Skills

skill icon Offensive GuardLv.3

skill icon Rapid MorphLv.3

skill icon GuardLv.2

skill icon Load ShellsLv.2

skill icon HandicraftLv.1

Armor Skills

skill icon AgitatorLv.5

skill icon AntivirusLv.3

skill icon BurstLv.3

skill icon Maximum MightLv.3

skill icon ConstitutionLv.2

skill icon AdaptabilityLv.1

skill icon Flinch FreeLv.1

skill icon PartbreakerLv.1

skill icon Weakness ExploitLv.1

Set Skills

skill icon Binding CounterLv.1

skill icon Black EclipseLv.1

Chrono Gear	Dahaad Shardhelm β Arkvulcan Mail β Dahaad Shardbraces α Gore Coil β Gore Greaves β Challenger Charm II
This is the High Rank endgame build for the Charge Blade utilizing Burst and Agitator in combination with Frenzy and Antivirus. Paralysis is recommended for the Charge Blade.

Frenzy Burst Agitator CB Build Details

Agitator Burst Charge Blade Build

Artian Defender I	G. Ebony Helm β Blango Mail β G. Ebony Braces α Blango Coil β Blango Greaves β Chainblade Charm I
A high-damage Charge Blade build for mid-game High Rank focused on Burst's multi-hit DPS boosts and Agitator's increased damage and affinity against enraged monsters.

Agitator Burst CB Build Details

Mixed Foray Charge Blade Build

Dear Lutemis I	Barina Headgear β Rathian Mail α Kut-Ku Vambraces α Rathian Coil β Conga Greaves β Chainblade Charm I
An early High Rank build for the Charge Blade that maximizes Foray with Rathian and Lala Barina pieces with other offensive skills.

Mixed Foray CB Build Details

Low Rank Charge Blade Builds

Low Rank	Build Name
HR6 - HR8	Flayer Burst CB Build
HR4 - HR5	Rey Dau Mixed CB Build
HR1 - HR3	Powerhouse Starter CB Build

Flayer Burst CB Build

Albirath Blade I	G. Ebony Helm G. Arkveld Mail G. Ebony Braces G. Arkveld Coil G. Rathalos Greaves Blessing Charm I
This is a Low Rank Charge Blade build revolving around Flayer and Burst through late Low Rank Guardian sets.

Flayer Burst CB Build Details

Rey Dau Mixed CB Build

Chata Strongarm II	Rey Sandhelm Rey Sandmail Balahara Vambraces Balahara Coil Ajarakan Greaves Blessing Charm I
A mid-stage low rank Charge Blade build that uses parts of Rey Dau for Latent Power and Thunderous Roar. It is also fitted with some comfort skills such as Evade Extender.

Rey Dau Mixed CB Build Details

Powerhouse Starter CB Build Starter Build

Bone Strongarm II	Doshaguma Helm Doshaguma Mail Doshaguma Braces Balahara Coil Doshaguma Greaves
This is a starter build for the Charge Blade that is focused on maximizing damage from Doshaguma's Powerhouse.

Powerhouse Starter CB Build Details

Best Charge Blade Skills

Best Damage Skills

Damage skills concern the amount of damage, critical damage (including elements), and affinity (critical chance) than you can deal. For the Charge Blade, we recommend adding flat damage skills, including elemental ones when needed, then following it up with affinity skills.

Best Skills	Explanation
Agitator ★★★	Increases the damage of the Charge Blade when the monster is enraged. This is the best skill to have since it gives a large amount of combined raw damage and affinity at higher levels. It also activates often due to monsters later in the game being frequently enraged.
Offensive Guard ★★★	Gives a temporary percentage increase to your attack damage after a perfectly-timed guard. This goes will with the Charge Blade's style of using Perfect Guard.
Artillery ★★★	Significantly increases the raw damage done by phial attacks, increasing the overall DPS of your Element Discharge attacks. This is great to have when you often dish out phial explosions with Element Discharge attacks.
Burst ★★★	Increases your raw and elemental attack after successive hits. This is great for the Charge Blade's Savage Axe.
Flayer ★★★	Makes it easier to deal wounds and adds non-elemental damage on hitting wounds. This is great for the Charge Blade to get more opportunities with activating Savage Axe via Focus Strike.
Critical Status ★★★	Increases abnormal status effects against monsters when landing critical hits. This is ideal for boosting the status buildup of status element weapons such as Blast and Paralysis.
Critical Element ★★★	Increases elemental damage on critical hits. This is the ideal damage skill for boosting Hunting Horns with elemental attacks such as Fire and Thunder.
Maximum Might ★★	Grants an affinity boost when your stamina is full. This is a great skill to have early on since it's more efficient than Critical Eye, giving more affinity at lower levels. You also do not use stamina in your combos (such as in continuous Element Discharges in Axe Mode), giving you a lot of uptime on its use before you decide to run or dodge.
Antivirus ★★	Increases affinity when being cured of Frenzy. This is best used at full level 3 with 2 piece Gore Magala to get Black Eclipse, granting you a temporary increase affinity increase up to 15%.
Weakness Exploit ★★	The Charge Blade gets a set increased affinity when dealing damage to wounds. It's a great skill to have when you're doing precision attacks against wounds, especially when using Savage Axe.
Critical Eye ★★	Grants affinity to your weapon, increasing the chances that it will deal critical damage. This is great for the Charge Blade since it deals multi-hit attacks. The skill can be sustained for the Charge Blade up to earlier in High Rank, where you'll get more efficient use of other affinity skills like Antivirus, Maximum Might, and Agitator.
Ambush ★★	Significantly increases the damage you deal temporarily after using a Sneak Attack on a monster. This is useful to get a big raw damage boost at the start of a fight or when doing another Sneak Attack later on in the hunt.
Latent Power ★	Grants temporary increased affinity and reduced stamina consumption after meeting certain conditions. This is useful starting at the middle of Low Rank as an efficient alternative to Critical Eye, but takes time to activate compared to other conditional skills later on.
Attack Boost ★	Directly increases the raw damage dealt by the Charge Blade. It's very useful early one when you do not have any other alternatives, but can be swapped out with other more efficient skills later in game like Agitator.

Best Comfort Skills

Comfort skills concern utility skills that make it easier for you to play with the Charge Blade. They can range from giving your dodges more I-frames to giving more knockback resistance to your shield, but some may also contribute to an increase in your DPS such as increasing your phial energy per charge.

Best Skills	Explanation
Load Shells ★★★	Increases phial charge speed, and at max level, fills 5 phials with a yellow charge. This speeds up the damage delivery of the weapon, allowing a potentially fast 5-phial SAED.
Rapid Morph ★★★	Increases the animation speed of your Morph Attacks, making transitions into your different modes easier. Note that Guard Point windows will be shorter in this case due to the animation speed up.
Handicraft ★★★	Increases the maximum sharpness of your Charge Blade. This is useful for maintaining sharpness, especially during Savage Axe attacks which use up a lot of sharpness per hit.
Guard ★★	Reduces stamina consumption and knockback on being hit during a guard. Dependency on this skill can be lessened by mastering Perfect Guards and Guard Points.
Guard Up ★★	Gives you the ability to block unblockable attacks with the Charge Blade
Evade Window ★★	Grants you more dodge I-frames, making it easier to dodge through attacks especially during Axe Mode.
Evade Extender ★★	Increases the distance of your dodge. This is ideal for repositioning quickly or getting out of the way of large attacks.
Power Prolonger ★★	Increases the duration of your powered-up Charge Blade modes such as Element Boost and Savage Axe.
Free Meal ★	A useful skill to have when it is at a high level. Gives you a chance to consume items for free.
Stun Resistance ★	Can help prevent you from being stunned after an attack. Full level prevents you from being stunned.
Earplugs ★	At a high level, prevents you from being interruped by large monster roars. This is helpful for protecting you from interruption during high-commitment attacks such as SAED.

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Great Sword Low Rank \| High Rank	Long Sword Low Rank \| High Rank
Sword and Shield Low Rank \| High Rank	Dual Blades Low Rank \| High Rank
Hammer Low Rank \| High Rank	Hunting Horn Low Rank \| High Rank
Lance Low Rank \| High Rank	Gunlance Low Rank \| High Rank
Switch Axe Low Rank \| High Rank	Charge Blade Low Rank \| High Rank
Insect Glaive Low Rank \| High Rank	Bow Low Rank \| High Rank
Light Bowgun Low Rank \| High Rank	Heavy Bowgun Low Rank \| High Rank

Non-Meta Builds in Monster Hunter Wilds

Non-Meta Builds & Guides
Immortal Build	Support Build
Best Gathering Sets	How to Make a Good Build

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1 Anonymous24 days

G. EBONY COIL B does not have 3 gem slots and also does not have a level 3 gem slot at all. You can't put a challenger gem in them.. js fix that

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