Monster Hunter Now - Personal Notes

These are just my personal notes for the game. Information may be inaccurate, out of date, or personalized for my needs only. Feel free to use my notes as a template for your own notes!

Resources

mhn.quest: I use it for gear planning, checking material costs, comparing weapon damage, and monster hitzone/break tables.
MHN Discord: Find meta builds here.

Melee Cut Damage Guide

Unless otherwise stated, assume: No use of gyro (so can’t hit the wings).

Monster	r6 Break	Bonus Breaks	Kill-Only	Special Farm	Tail Break
	Default Tail		Default Head		Default Cutting damage
Great Jagras	Forelegs	Head → Stomach			Unbreakable
Kulu-Ya-Ku	Head	Forelegs			Unbreakable
Pukei-Pukei Coral Pukei-Pukei		Head
Barroth		Forelegs → Hindlegs	Forelegs
Great Girros	Head	Tail → Forelegs
Tobi-Kadachi		Head → Forelegs			Any damage
Paolumu Nightshade Paolumu		”Head”			Any damage
Jyuratodus	Head	Body → Tail		r2: Head	Any damage
Anjanath		Head → Hindlegs (2x)		r2: Tail
Rathian Pink Rathian		Head
Legiana	(Wings)	Tail → Head			Any damage
Diablos Black Diablos	Horns (2x)	Tail	Body / Tail
Rathalos Azure Rathalos		Head		r2: Tail
Radobaan	Head	Tail → Hindlegs (2x) → Body	Hindlegs
Banbaro	Horns (2x)	Tail → Hindlegs (2x)	Hindleg
Barioth		”Forearms” (2x) → Head
Zinogre		Forelegs → Head		r2: Tail
Tzitzi-Ya-Ku	Head (2x)				Unbreakable
Odogaron	Forelegs	Tail → Head → Hindlegs	Forelegs
Deviljho	Head	Tail → Body	Hindlegs / Head
Basarios	Head	Tail → Stomach	Stomach
Khezu	Head	Hindlegs (2x)			Unbreakable
Mizutsune		Head → Forearms (2x)
Kushala Daora	Head	Tail		r5: Tail

Paolumu
- *Can you only break Neck Pouch during flight phase? I’m not sure.
Legiana
- Bonus rewards are terrible for melee. Prefer to use ranged. Break both wings.

Builds

I’m only playing through the game casually and lazily, so my builds reflect it.

I started playing the game shortly after launch and chose SnS. I didn’t realize until too late that it’s actually quite a difficult weapon to deal competitive damage. I’ll be exploring moving to new weapons, but I already have reasonable SnS builds so I’ll just focus on making do with what I have for now.

Current Builds

These are very old meta. As in launch year old. I never bothered moving to new builds because the grind is just too much and I practically quit the game for a long time.

My plan will be to just max out the weapons and then these builds will mostly be “finished”. They might still be used as my “lazy builds”, e.g. when I’m walking around the street and just want to lazily beat up an 8* monster without looking at the screen too much. I might refine them a bit for this lazy purpose, but otherwise, these builds are “finished”.

The special gauge build is a permanent build for quickly farming small monsters to recharge special gauge.

#	Label	Weapon	Head	Chest	Arms	Waist	Legs
1	[1] Water	SnS: Jyuratodus	Coral Pukei +1 Sneak Attack	Odogaron +1 Aggressive Dodger	Jyuratodus +1 Water Attack	Pink Rathian	Great Jagras
2	[2] Thunder	SnS: Zinogre					Zinogre +1 Thunder Attack	Tobi-Kadachi	Kulu-Ya-Ku
3	[3] Fire	SnS: Rathalos					Anjanath +1 Fire Attack	Basarios	Kulu-Ya-Ku
4	[4] Ice	SnS: Legiana					Barioth +1 Ice Attack	Legiana	Kushala
5	[1b] Water PB	SnS: Jyuratodus	Black Diablos +1 Partbreaker	Gold Rathian	Rathian	Pink Rathian	Great Jagras
6	[2b] Thunder PB	SnS: Zinogre							Tobi-Kadachi	Kulu-Ya-Ku
7	[3b] Fire PB	SnS: Rathalos							Basarios	Kulu-Ya-Ku
8	[4b] Ice PB	SnS: Legiana							Legiana	Kushala
9	Special Gauge	Any Hammer	Paolumu	Banbaro	Paolumu	Tigrex	Kulu-Ya-Ku

WIP Builds

I will be moving to elemental Power Volley Bow as my competitive builds.

For the foreseeable future, my SnS Partbreak builds will still be my main Partbreak builds.

I don’t like how ranged builds aren’t lazy because you need to use the gyroscope to aim, and it can’t cut tails, so I’ll still need lazy and tail-cutting builds. But under ideal circumstances, the bow builds should be my strongest.

#	Label	Weapon	Head	Chest	Arms	Waist	Legs
10	[1c] Water	Bow: Jyuratodus	Nergigante +1 Charge Master	Chameleos +1 Charge Master	Almudron +1 Charge Master	Rajang +1 Charge Master	Silver Rathalos +1 Charge Master
11	[2c] Thunder	Bow: Zinogre
12	[3c] Fire	Bow: Rathalos
13	[4c] Ice	Bow: Legiana

Retired Builds

The fire LBG build has served its purpose as my quick and easy fire build for Legiana farming early in the game’s lifecycle. Since I’m moving to Bow, it is no longer required.

#	Label	Weapon	Head	Chest	Arms	Waist	Legs
		LBG: Anjanath	Black Diablos	Paolumu	Legiana	Coral Pukei	Diablos