| Skill name | Level | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Affinity Sliding | Increases affinity after sliding for a short time. | |
| 1 | ||
| Agitator | Increases attack power and affinity when large monsters become enraged. | |
| 1 | While active, grants attack +4 and increases affinity by 3%. | |
| 2 | While active, grants attack +8 and increases affinity by 6%. | |
| 3 | While active, grants attack +12 and increases affinity by 9%. | |
| 4 | While active, grants attack +16 and increases affinity by 12%. | |
| 5 | While active, grants attack +20 and increases affinity by 15%. | |
| Airborne | ? | |
| 1 | ||
| Aquatic Expert | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Artillery | Strengthens explosive attacks like gunlance shells, Wyvern's Fire, charge blade phial attacks, and sticky ammo. | |
| 3 | ||
| Attack Boost | Increases attack power. Also improves affinity at higher levels. | |
| 7 | ||
| BBQ Master | Improves your skill at cooking meat. | |
| 1 | Makes it easier to cook well-done steaks. | |
| Blast Attack | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Blast Resistance | Grants protection against blastblight. | |
| 3 | ||
| Bleeding Resistance | Grants protection against bleeding. | |
| 3 | ||
| Blight Resistance | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Blindsider | Makes items like flashpods and flashbugs more effective. | |
| 1 | ||
| Bombardier | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Botanist | ? | |
| 4 | ||
| Capacity Boost | ? | |
| 1 | ||
| Carving Pro | ? | |
| 1 | ||
| Cliffhanger | ? | |
| 1 | ||
| Constitution | ? | |
| 5 | ||
| Critical Boost | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Critical Draw | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Critical Eye | Increases affinity. | |
| 7 | ||
| Defense Boost | Increases defense. Level up to improve resistances as well. | |
| 7 | ||
| Detector | Rare harvestables show up on map. | |
| 1 | ||
| Divine Blessing | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Dragon Attack | ? | |
| 5 | ||
| Dragon Resistance | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Dungmaster | Makes monsters hit with slinger dung pods more likely to run. | |
| 1 | ||
| Earplugs | Grants protection from monsters' roars. Starts with small animals and goes up to large with levels. | |
| 5 | ||
| Effluvia Resistance | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Effluvial Expert | Nullifies or reduces environmental damage in the Rotten Vale. | |
| 1 | ||
| Entomologist | Decreases the chances of destroying the bodies of small insect monsters, allowing them to be carved. | |
| 3 | ||
| Evade Extender | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Evade Window | ? | |
| 5 | ||
| Fire Attack | Increases fire element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.) | |
| 5 | ||
| Fire Resistance | Improves fire resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels. | |
| 3 | ||
| Flinch Free | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Focus | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Forager's Luck | ? | |
| 1 | ||
| Fortify | Increases your attack and defense every time you fall in battle. (This effect can stack twice.) | |
| 1 | ||
| Free Elem/Ammo Up | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Free Meal | 25% chance of not having to pay for meal. | |
| 1 | ||
| Geologist | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Guard | ? | |
| 5 | ||
| Handicraft | ? | |
| 5 | ||
| Health Boost | Increases health. | |
| 3 | ||
| Heat Guard | Nullifies damage from heat. | |
| 1 | ||
| Heavy Artillery | Increases the firepower of ballistae and cannons. | |
| 2 | ||
| Heroics | ? | |
| 5 | ||
| Honey Hunter | Increases the quantity of honey you receive when gathering in the field. | |
| 1 | ||
| Horn Maestro | Extends melody effect duration and increases health recovery. | |
| 1 | ||
| Hunger Resistance | Reduces maximum stamina depletion over time. | |
| 3 | ||
| Ice Attack | ? | |
| 5 | ||
| Ice Resistance | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Intimidator | Reduces the chances small monsters will attack after spotting you. (No effect on certain monsters.) | |
| 3 | ||
| Iron Skin | Grants protection against Defense Down. | |
| 3 | ||
| Item Prolonger | Extends the duration of some item effects. | |
| 3 | ||
| Jump Master | ? | |
| 1 | ||
| Latent Power | ? | |
| 5 | ||
| Leap of Faith | ? | |
| 1 | ||
| Marathon Runner | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Master Fisher | ? | |
| 1 | ||
| Master Gatherer | Allows you to gather more quickly, and also prevents attacks from knocking you back while gathering. | |
| 1 | ||
| Master Mounter | ? | |
| 1 | ||
| Maximum Might | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Muck Resistance | Reduces impairments to mobility while stuck in monster muck. | |
| 1 | ||
| Mushroomancer | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Palico Rally | Increases attack and defense of your Palico. | |
| 5 | ||
| Paralysis Attack | Increases the rate of paralysis buildup. (Elemental buildup has a maximum limit.) | |
| 3 | ||
| Paralysis Resistance | Reduces the duration of paralysis. | |
| 3 | ||
| Partbreaker | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Peak Performance | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Piercing Shots | ? | |
| 1 | ||
| Poison Attack | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Poison Resistance | Grants protection against the effects of poison. | |
| 3 | ||
| Power Prolonger | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Pro Transporter | Increases your speed while transporting items and decreases the likelihood of dropping them. | |
| 1 | ||
| Quick Sheath | Speeds up weapon sheathing. | |
| 3 | ||
| Recovery Speed | Speeds healing of recoverable damage (the red portion of the health gauge). | |
| 3 | ||
| Recovery Up | Increases the amount recovered when restoring health. | |
| 3 | ||
| Resuscitate | ? | |
| 1 | ||
| Scenthound | Increases your scoutflies' gauge fill rate when you find tracks and other traces left by monsters. | |
| 1 | ||
| Scholar | ? | |
| 1 | ||
| Scoutfly Range Up | Expands your scoutflies' detection range. | |
| 1 | ||
| Sleep Attack | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Sleep Resistance | Reduces the duration of sleep. | |
| 3 | ||
| Slinger Capacity | Increases the loading capacity for slinger ammo obtained in the field. | |
| 3 | ||
| Slugger | Makes it easier to stun monsters. | |
| 3 | ||
| Special Ammo Boost | ? | |
| 2 | ||
| Speed Crawler | Increasing movement speed while crouching. | |
| 1 | ||
| Speed Eating | Increases meat-eating and item-consumption speed. | |
| 3 | ||
| Speed Sharpening | Increases sharpening speed. | |
| 3 | ||
| Sporepuff Expert | Sporepuff usage gives you health. | |
| 3 | ||
| Spread/Power Shots | ? | |
| 1 | ||
| Stamina Surge | Speeds up stamina recovery. | |
| 3 | ||
| Stamina Thief | Increases chance for attacks that cause exhaustion on the monster. | |
| 3 | ||
| Stealth | Makes it easier for monsters to lose sight of you. | |
| 3 | ||
| Stun Resistance | Reduces stun duration. | |
| 3 | ||
| Thunder Attack | Increases lightning element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.) | |
| 5 | ||
| Thunder Resistance | Increases thunder resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels. | |
| 3 | ||
| Tool Specialist | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Tremor Resistance | Grants protection against ground tremors. | |
| 3 | ||
| Water Attack | Increases water element attack power. (Elemental attack power has a maximum limit.) | |
| 5 | ||
| Water Resistance | Increases water resistance. Also improves defense at higher levels. | |
| 3 | ||
| Weakness Exploit | ? | |
| 3 | ||
| Wide-Range | ? | |
| 5 | ||
| Windproof | Grants protection against wind pressure. | |
| 5 |
Armor Set Skills
| Skill Set Name | Pieces Required | Skill Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anjanath Will | 2 | Adrenaline | Temporarily reduces stamina depletion when health is at 40% or lower. |
| 4 | Stamina Cap Up | Increases stamina cap. | |
| Bazelgeuse Protection | 3 | Guts | Above a certain health threshold, you withstand an attack that would normally cart you (once only). |
| Diablos Mastery | 2 | Bludgeoner | Raises attack as your weapon loses sharpness. Also boosts ranged weapon melee attacks and odds of stunning. |
| 4 | Non-elemental Boost | Powers up non-elemental weapons you have equipped. | |
| Kirin Favor | 3 | Capture Master | High chance of increased capture rewards. (No effect when joining mid-quest.) |
| Kushala Daora Flight | 3 | Nullify Wind Pressure | Negates all wind pressure. |
| Legiana Favor | 2 | Good Luck | Good chance of increased quest rewards. (No effect when joining mid-quest.) |
| 4 | Bow Charge Plus | Increases max bow charge level by one. | |
| Nergigante Hunger | 3 | Hasten Recovery | Regenerates your health as you continually attack a monster. Recovery varies by weapon. |
| Odogaron Mastery | 2 | Punishing Draw | Adds a stun effect to draw attacks and slightly increases attack power. |
| 4 | Protective Polish | Weapon sharpness does not decrease for a set time after sharpening. | |
| Pink Rathian Mastery | 3 | Poison Duration Up | Extends the duration of your poison's effect on monsters. |
| Rathalos Mastery | 2 | Critical Element | Increases elemental damage (fire, water, thunder, ice, dragon) when landing critical hits. |
| 4 | Mind's Eye/Ballistics | Prevents attacks from being deflected. Also shortens the distance before ammo and arrows reach maximum power. | |
| Teostra Technique | 3 | Master's Touch | Prevents your weapon from losing sharpness during critical hits. |
| Uragaan Protection | 3 | Guard Up | Allows you to guard against ordinarily unblockable attacks. |
| Vaal Hazak Vitality | 3 | Super Recovery | Allows recovery to exceed the red portion of the health gauge. |
| Xeno'jiiva Divinity | 3 | Razor Sharp/Spare Shot | Halves sharpness loss. For bows and bowguns, shots have a chance to not expend coatings or ammo. |
| Zorah Magdaros Mastery | 3 | Critical Status | Increases abnormal status effect damage (paralysis, poison, sleep, blast) when landing critical hits. |