Monster Hunter Rise Affinity: How To Improve It

Our Guide Explains What Affinity Is, And How It Can Help You Become A Better Hunter

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July 23, 2022

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Monster Hunter Rise Affinity: A Comprehensive Guide.

Now, first of all, let’s establish exactly what Affinity is and how it works. While inspecting your Monster Hunter Rise weapons during some downtime, you might have seen this tiny little stat show up on your screen alongside some other attributes like Attack, Rarity, and Sharpness.

Key Highlights

Affinity in Monster Hunter Rise affects a weapon’s critical hit capability.
Critical hits deal 25% extra damage, indicated by red particle effects.
Affinity can be positive (increasing critical hit chance) or negative (decreasing critical hit chance).
Higher affinity results in more frequent critical hits and increased damage.
Critical hits impact pure physical damage, not elemental bonuses.
Skills like Agitator, Critical Draw, Critical Eye, Foray, Latent Power, Maximum Might, and Weakness Exploit enhance Affinity.
Optimize Affinity by equipping armor pieces with Decorations and Talismans granting these skills.
Start with a weapon having high default Affinity and enhance it with armor and skills

What Are Critical Hits

Critical Hits do not affect elemental bonuses, focusing on pure physical damage.
To maximize Affinity, use equipment that prioritizes raw physical attacks.
Extra damage from Critical Hits is fixed at 25%, unaffected by Affinity changes or boosts.
Example: Guerrera Cannon I (Heavy Bowgun) with 180 attack rating results in 225 total damage per Critical Hit.
Identifying Critical Hits: Look for special particle effects with a noticeable red glow behind numerical values of the attack.
Faster monster takedowns and efficient material farming, like Thunder Sacs, are benefits of landing Critical Hits.

How To Improve Affinity

Different armor sets in MHR Sunbreak grant the wearer a variety of different buffs that can help them in combat. A lot of these are really useful by themselves, but if you outfit these armor pieces with Decorations and Talismans, you can apply a variety of additional skills to them as well such as the Latent Power in MHR ability.

And wouldn’t you know it, a bunch of these skills also happen to increase your Affinity percentages. Let’s take a look at them in the table below.

Skill	Effect	Level
Affinity Sliding	You can increase the Affinity of your weapon by sliding.	N/A
Agitator	When you deal damage to, and Enrage, large monsters, this skill activates.	Level 1: +4 Attack and +3% Affinity while active. Level 2: +8 Attack and +5% Affinity while active. Level 3: +12 Attack and +7% Affinity while active. Level 4: +16 Attack and +10% Affinity while active. Level 5: +20 Attack and +15% Affinity while active.
Critical Draw	Increases Affinity briefly whenever you perform a draw attack. Silkbind attacks do not count.	Level 1: +10% Affinity. Level 2: +20% Affinity Level 3: +40% Affinity
Critical Eye	Simply increases Affinity without any requirements.	Level 1: +5% Affinity. Level 2: +10% Affinity. Level 3: +15% Affinity. Level 4: +20% Affinity. Level 5: +25% Affinity. Level 6: +30% Affinity. Level 7: +40% Affinity.
Foray	This skill activates when players attack a large monster affected by either Poison, Paralysis, or an Elemental blight status.	Level 1: +10 Attack while active. Level 2: +10 Attack and +10% Affinity while active. Level 3: 10 Attack and +10% Affinity while active.
Latent Power	You must spend 175 seconds in active combat with a monster for this skill to activate.	Level 1: Grants +10% Affinity and reduces stamina depletion by 30%. Level 2: Grants +20% Affinity and reduces stamina depletion by 30%. Level 3: Grants +30% Affinity and reduces stamina depletion by 50%. Level 4: Grants +40% Affinity and reduces stamina depletion by 50%. Level 5: Grants +50% Affinity and reduces stamina depletion by 50%.
Maximum Might	Keep your stamina at max for 3 seconds to activate this skill.	Level 1: Increases Affinity by +10% while active. Level 2: Increases Affinity by +20% while active. Level 3: Increases Affinity by +30% while active.
Weakness Exploit	Whenever you target the weak spots of a monster, this skill goes into effect and increases a weapon’s Affinity.	Level 1: +15% Affinity for attacks that hit weak spots. Level 2: +30% Affinity for attacks that hit weak spots. Level 3: +50% Affinity for attacks that hit weak spots.

These skills can really help you increase your Critical Hit chances, but to get the utmost out of them, it is recommended to start with a weapon that already has a high Affinity by default. After that, it’s all up to you and what armor and skills you choose to use.

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