Monster Hunter Wilds Best Weapons Tier List

Let's commencement by saying this: determination is nary champion limb benignant successful Monster Hunter Wilds. If you're looking for a definitive reply connected which weapon type volition get you the fastest hunt times each clip due to the fact that it's conscionable that bully and overpowered, determination isn't one. The information of it is that you should take what feels bully to play with for you. If you're not carting, are consistently hitting the monster, and having amusive portion doing it, that's what matters the most.

There's a batch that goes into making a physique for immoderate fixed limb successful, similar armor, decorations, and a particular Artian weapon for the peculiar monster you're up against, and those are the astir important aspect, but if you're looking for limb types that conscionable mightiness assistance you get those hunt times down, these are large ones to try. This tier database of champion weapons successful Monster Hunter Wilds was created by Frankensteining IGN's assemblage tier list, online sentiment, my ain sentiment based connected trouble to master, and immoderate existent speedrun clip averages.

The "best" weapons successful Monster Hunter Wilds are Sword and Shield, Great Sword, Long Sword, Gunlance, and Bow, successful nary peculiar order, but the remainder of the weapons are perfectly viable. These conscionable basal retired supra the remainder for a assortment of reasons, which we'll picture below.

S-tier: These are the champion of the champion for some harm output and comparative easiness of usage to get there. The Gunlance is the astir method limb here, but its benefits are worthy it according to the community.

• Sword and Shield
• Great Sword
• Long Sword
• Gunlance
• Bow

A-tier:

A-tier weapons person the imaginable to beryllium arsenic bully arsenic S-tier weapons successful the close hands arsenic they thin to beryllium a spot much method and little forgiving, oregon they autumn conscionable a tiny spot short. The Hunting Horn, though perchance not the champion solo weapon, is exceptional successful co-op.

• Insect Glaive
• Charge Blade
• Dual Blades
• Hunting Horn
• Heavy Bowgun
• Switch Axe

B-tier:

These whitethorn autumn a spot abbreviated compared to S- and A-rank weapons adjacent erstwhile successful the astir experienced hands, but that doesn't astatine each mean they're "bad." They conscionable mightiness instrumentality a small much effort and fine-tuned builds for the results of immoderate of the others.

• Lance
• Hammer
• Light Bowgun

Best Monster Hunter Wilds Weapons Explained

Sword and Shield

The Sword and Shield is astonishing successful Monster Hunter Wilds. It's agelong been grossly underrated arsenic solely the "beginner" weapon, and portion it's casual to prime up and get to it, it's besides 1 of the astir versatile, accordant weapons successful the crippled that tin woody a ton of harm erstwhile you get your combos and movements down. Not lone is it incredibly mobile adjacent successful the mediate of attacks, allowing you to instrumentality connected monsters similar mud connected a Jyuratodos, but it tin also defender and woody punishing damage. It tin adjacent perfect defender incredibly easily, letting you execute quick, almighty antagonistic slashes and proc an Offensive Guard buff if you person that Equipment Skill. For enactment hunters, it tin adjacent usage items without putting it away, letting you administer life-saving Lifepowders and buffing items for your full enactment successful a flash. Whether you similar to evade oregon block, woody slashing oregon blunt damage, oregon adjacent onslaught from above, the Sword and Shield has got it all--even a Power Clash. The lone happening it's missing is an Offset attack.

Great Sword

The Monster Hunter developers person said the archetypal limb they instrumentality successful caller games is the Great Sword, and it shows. It tin instrumentality vantage of Wilds' caller Power Clashes and incredibly satisfying Offset attacks, and its kit successful wide is quintessential Monster Hunter restitution successful a nutshell. It volition instrumentality much getting utilized to than the Sword and Shield, arsenic it's rather slow, and mishits tin beryllium punishing, but the instauration of Focus Mode makes it easier than ever to aim. If you're looking for the highest harm output successful a azygous strike, the Great Sword is simply a great pick, and those True Charged Slash hits look so satisfying.

Long Sword

The Long Sword is consistently Monster Hunter's astir fashionable limb for bully reason. It's accelerated and reasonably casual to prime up, with a fun, flashy, and satisfying playstyle that relies connected its almighty perfect-evading counterattack, the Foresight Slash, to rapidly physique up the Spirit Gauge to woody max damage. It's besides got astonishing reach, considering its size, truthful slicing disconnected tails is simply a breeze with the Long Sword. It takes immoderate absorption to support a maxed Spirit Gauge, but doing it is good worthy the unthinkable harm output the Long Sword tin execute erstwhile you're successful a travel with it.

Gunlance

To beryllium honest, I cognize small astir the Gunlance, but IGN's assemblage tier database contributors, speedrunners, and radical astir the net look to emotion it successful Monster Hunter Wilds. I person recovered it overmuch much hard to prime up than the different S-tier weapons, but if you maestro it, it's got astonishing defence with its immense shield susceptible of Perfect Guards and explosive powerfulness successful speech for immoderate mobility. In Wilds, the Gunlance tin present occurrence 2 Wyvern's Fire shots, which besides person longer range. Its caller attack, Wyrmstake Full Blast, is besides incredibly powerful!

Bow

Though the bow isn't doing excessively blistery successful Tempered Arkveld speedruns, galore hold it's an astonishing prime successful Monster Hunter Wilds, and I've seen it often voted arsenic the strongest limb successful assemblage polls. It surely feels powerful, adjacent contempt its insignificant Focus Strike nerf since the Open Beta Test. So, what makes it S-tier? The Bow has a caller determination successful Wilds that guarantees your shots volition deed its intended people and crit: Tracer Ammo. Wilds besides makes it truthful the Bow ne'er runs retired of its damage-boosting oregon ailment-inflicting coatings, further expanding its harm potential. Finally, if you cleanable your dodge timing, the Bow's Discerning Dodge replenishes your stamina truthful you astir ne'er request to halt attacking! The Bow is mobile, strong, and its Focus Strike looks rad, what much could you inquire for?

Remember, this is each conscionable for reference, and we urge sticking with your preferred weapon. For example, if you're skilled with the Light Bow Gun, knowing precisely wherever to purpose with what ammo and dodging each monster attack, you're going to get amended times than with the Great Sword if you support whiffing your True Charged Slashes and can't clip your Offset attacks consistently. Any limb takes clip to get bully at!

What limb bash you deliberation is the champion successful Monster Hunter Wilds? Contribute to our Community Tier List astatine the apical of this article. Maybe we'll update this nonfiction with caller ratings! And for more, don't miss the growing, highly broad Monster Hunter Wilds guide.

Casey DeFreitas is simply a lawman exertion for the IGN guides squad and has been hunting monsters since the PS2 era. Catch her connected each societal @ShinyCaseyD.