Alchemy錬金術

Allows special item combinations without the Alchemy Book.

Ammo Maker弾調合

You will always make the maximum possible amount of ammunition when combining.

Anti-Theft盗み無効

Prevents anyone from stealing your items. Works against Melynxes, Gypceroses, and Purple Gypceroses.

Antiseptic抗菌・抗毒

Affects your susceptibility to Stench status and Poison.

Artillery砲術師

Increases damage dealt by Ballista S and Cannon S by 1.1×.

Attack攻撃

Increases your weapon's Attack. Adds the amount in parentheses to the weapon's True Damage Value before its Bloat Value.

Auto-Guard自動防御

Blocks attacks automatically if your weapon is drawn. You must also be facing the direction of the incoming attack (within 180 degrees in front of you), and be free to block it (that is, not be in the middle of dodging or attacking.)

Bomb Boost爆弾強化

Increases the yield of barrel bombs, dealing 1.5× damage, and ensuring success when combining bombs, Sonic Bombs, and Gunpowder. See the Explosive Damage section under About Weapons in the Weapons page.

Carving剥ぎ取り

Allows you to carve monsters an additional time.

Clust S+拡散弾追加

Loads Cluster Shot of increasing levels in bowguns that cannot normally use it. Each level includes the shot(s) from previous levels (see the Weapons page for which weapons have what ammo by default.)

Cold Resistance耐寒

Hastens, reduces, or totally negates the maximum Stamina-reducing effects of cold zones.

Combo Rate調合成功率

Increases, or reduces, your chances to successfully combine items.

Cooking肉焼き

Makes it harder, or easier, to cook meat on a BBQ Spit.

Crag S+榴弾追加

Loads Crag Shot of increasing levels in bowguns that cannot normally use it. Each level includes the shot(s) from previous levels (see the Weapons page for which weapons have what ammo by default.)

Defense防御

Reduces, or increases, your total Defense.

Dragon Resistance龍耐性

Reduces, or increases, your Dragon Element Resistance.

Earplugs聴覚保護

Negates the staggering effect of monster roars. Some monsters roar so loudly, only High Grade Earplugs can block them out. Khezu, Basarios, Monoblos, Diablos, Lao-Shan Lung, and Fatalis roars require High Grade Earplugs.

Eating食事

Takes more or less time to eat meat and fish.

Element Resistance全耐性ＵＰ

Reduces, or increases, all of your Element Resistances.

Evasion回避性能

Increases the amount of time that you are invulnerable during dodge moves. Normally, dodge moves have 6 frames, or 200 milliseconds, of invulnerability: Evasion +1 increases this to 8 frames (267ms), +2 to 10 frames (333ms).

Expert達人

Increases your weapon's affinity. Additionally, Critical Eye +1 and +2 prevent your weapon from bouncing.

Fate運気

Worsens, or improves, chances to receive additional items in quest rewards (see "How quest rewards work" on the Quests page.)

Fire Resistance火耐性

Reduces, or increases, your Fire Element Resistance.

Fisher釣り

Increases the timing window to reel in a fish, and makes the lure appear to be much bigger.

Gathering採取

Worsens, or improves, your chance to gather additional items. One item is guaranteed and each successive attempt has a chance to have another item or the gathering point will be depleted. Normally this chance is 84%, and changes to the value in parentheses for the given level of this skill.

Gluttony食いしん坊

Increases the amount of maximum Stamina gained when eating cooked meat by 25. Additionally, the Scavenging skill will occasionally increase maximum Stamina when using a recovery item. Specifically, it provides a ¹/₃ chance to gain 25 Maximum Stamina when using a recovery item.

Guardガード性能

Reduces, or improves, your shield's effectiveness while blocking. You'll get knocked back farther, consume more stamina, and take more chip damage with the negative skills, less knockback, stamina, and chip damage from the positive skills. This also affects the blocking animation, based on monster attack and weapon class. Guard +2 will also allow you to block normally unblockable attacks.

Handicraft匠

Reduces, or increases, the maximum sharpness of your weapon (normal and increased sharpness are included on the Weapons page per weapon.)

Health体力

Reduces, or increases, your maximum Hitpoints by the given amount.

Heat Resistance耐暑

Hastens, reduces, or totally negates the Hitpoint-depleting effects of hot zones.

Hungerはらへり

Hastens, reduces, or totally negates the maximum Stamina-reducing effects of hunger. Stamina normally decreases every 6 minutes. Hunger Increased [S] increases the frequency to 4 minutes, and [L] to 3 minutes.

Ice Resistance氷耐性

Reduces, or increases, your Ice Element Resistance.

Lasting Power効果持続

Reduces or increases the duration of consumables with a time-limited effect. The duration is multiplied by the amount in parentheses.

Load装填数

Maximizes the number of shots that can be loaded into Bowguns, and adds a fourth charge level for Bows.

Map地図

No Map hides most of the map even if you have the Map supply item; Automap displays the full locale map at all times.

Monsterモンスター

Increases the odds that monsters will be large individuals.

Normal S+通常弾追加

Loads Normal Shot of increasing levels in bowguns that cannot normally use it. Each level includes the shot(s) from previous levels (see the Weapons page for which weapons have what ammo by default.)

Normal S Up通常弾強化

All levels of Normal Shot deal increased 1.1× damage.

Paralysis麻痺

Suffers the effects of Paralysis for twice as long, half as long, or not at all.

Pellet S+散弾追加

Loads Pellet Shot of increasing levels in bowguns that cannot normally use it. Each level includes the shot(s) from previous levels (see the Weapons page for which weapons have what ammo by default.)

Pellet S Up散弾強化

All levels of Pellet Shot deal increased 1.3× damage.

Pierce S+貫通弾追加

Loads Pierce Shot of increasing levels in bowguns that cannot normally use it. Each level includes the shot(s) from previous levels (see the Weapons page for which weapons have what ammo by default.)

Pierce S Up貫通弾強化

All levels of Pierce Shot deal increased 1.1× damage.

Poison毒

You will suffer Poison for twice as long, half as long, or not at all.

Potential底力

Affects your Attack and/or Defense when your health drops low enoughbelow 40%.

Precision精密射撃

Increases, or reduces, the deviation of Bowgun shots and Bow arrows.

Protection加護

Sometimes25% of the time you take more or less 1.3× or 0.7× damage.

Psychic千里眼

Detect shows a detailed monster icon on the map, as long as the monster is being tracked (if it is Paintballed or the hunter is using Psychoserum); Autotracker additionally shows monster icons on the map at all times.

Rapid-Fire連射

Allows you to fire bowgun shots without having to reload, except when changing ammo type. This also increases recoil (see the Recoil section under About Weapons in the Weapons page for more details.) Also, you fire your Bow much faster.

Recoil反動

Reduces bowgun Recoil by two, or four, points. (see the Recoil section under About Weapons in the Weapons page for more details.)

Recover Speed回復速度

Recovers temporary damage (red-bar) more slowly, or quickly, per the multipliers in parentheses.

Recovery Items回復

Reduces, or increases, the amount of Hitpoints recovered from healing items. (This effect is not applied to other hunters when using Lifepowder or recovery items with the Wide-Range skills.)

Reload Speed装填

Increases, or reduces, the time it takes to reload Bowgun shots and apply Bow coatings (see the Reload section under About Weapons in the Weapons page for more details.)

Sense気配

Draws the aggression of monsters more, or less, often than other hunters in the zone. This does not impact how a monster first detects you.

Sharpness斬れ味

Blunt increases the amount of sharpness lost while attacking and when blocking with the Great Sword. Sharp Sword reduces sharpness loss when bouncing to the normal amount, reduces sharpness loss when blocking with the Great Sword, and reduces sharpness loss for the Gunlance when firing Shells and Wyvernfire. Normal and Wide shells reduce only one hit of sharpness, Long two hits, Wyvernfire five. (see the Gunlance Shells and Wyvernfire section under About Weapons in the Weapons page for more details.)

Sleep睡眠

You will suffer monster-induced Sleep for twice as long, half as long, or not at all.

Snow Resistance耐雪

Increases the duration, reduces the duration, or totally negates the effects of Snowman status.

Speed Gathering高速収集

You will gather items in the field and carve monsters 1.3× more quickly.

Speed Sharpening研ぎ師

Reduces the amount of sharpness restored when sharpening by half, or reduces the amount of time it takes to sharpen your weapon to one quarter the time.

Staminaスタミナ

Increases, or reduces, the amount of stamina used while sprinting, charging Hammer attacks, using Dual Swords Demon Mode, and charging Bow shots. The normal amount of stamina consumption for sprinting is 15 units.

Status特殊攻撃

Applies more 1.125× status with every attack that has a status effect. This applies to all Blademaster weapons that have status, Poison S, Para S, Sleep S, Poison Coating, Para Coating, and Sleep Coating.

Stun気絶

You will suffer the effects of being Stunned by a monster for twice as long, half as long, or not at all.

Terrain地形

Increases, or reduces, the effects of Terrain damage by the amount in parentheses. This includes heat damage from lava and the flame aura generated by some elder dragons.

Throw投擲

You will throw items such as Paintballs and Throwing Knives farther and faster. Also reduces the likelihood that a thrown Boomerang will break to 12.5%.

Thunder Resistance雷耐性

Reduces, or increases, your Thunder Element Resistance.

Torso Up胴系統倍加

Copies all skill points from your torso armor. Each piece of armor with Torso Up adds all the skill points for the torso armor an additional time, as if that armor piece had all the same skill points (positive and negative), including skill points from decorations. E.G. one piece doubles the points, two pieces triple, etc.

Transporter運搬

You will move faster while carrying an egg or other delivery item, and can drop from a greater height without breaking or dropping it.

Tremor Resistance耐震

Eliminates the effects of monster-induced Tremors.

Vocal Chords声帯

Reduces the duration of, or negates, Silence status. Also reduces the duration of, or negates, maximum stamina loss from Chameleos's attacks.

Water Resistance水耐性

Reduces, or increases, your Water Element Resistance.

Whim気まぐれ

Increases, or reduces, the chance that a tool will break when used. The chance the tool will break is in parentheses.

Wide-Range広域

Shares the effects of certain consumables Herbs, Potions, Antidotes, Powerseeds, and Armorseeds with all hunters in the zone. The stage determines how much of the effect is applied.

Wind Pressure風圧

You will resist the effects of wind created by monsters beating their wings, kicking up dust, etc. Some monsters apply stronger Wind Pressure than others, and can only be resisted by the Windproof [L] skill. Some dragons generate yet greater wind pressure, requiring Dragon-Windproof. Any large monsters not listed below require only Windproof [S] to nullify the wind generated by their wingbeats:

• Rathian, Rathalos, Gravios, Monoblos, Diablos, Lunastra, Teostra, Chameleos, Kushala Daora, and Fatalis wingbeats require Windproof [L].
• Lao-Shan Lung's footfalls require Windproof [L].
• Lunastra, Teostra, and Kushala Daora generate an aura that requires Dragon-Windproof until their powers are diminished: for Lunastra and Teostra, this means breaking their horns; for Kushala Daora, poisoning it.
• Chameleos's Tail Slam generates wind that requires Dragon-Windproof to nullify.