Sword and Shield Builds in Monster Hunter Rise are Builds that cover a few popular recommended and some personally crafted builds for and from the community. These builds were created around the weapon types, each with a specific set of handpicked Weapons, Equipment and complementing Skills and Decor Items. These builds with Specific Weapons may be paired with a set of Armor to optimize the combination in order to create a Build type focused on the Skills available with the selected equipment.
Best Sword and Shield Builds Monster Hunter Rise
MH Rise Sword and Shield Build Guide
Sword & Shield is notably one of the highest DPS raw weapons. Hunters can use Items with their weapons drawn and whilst guarding. It has a fast recovery time, allowing for the chaining of attacks and blocks, at the expense of damage. This puts its strength on raw damage that can be pushed to its full potential when creating a build. Sword & Shield is essentially the best of both worlds when it comes to weapons in Monster Hunter Rise. Between slow hitting weapons that have large motion values and fast hitting weapons that have small motion values, the Sword & Shield falls nicely in between the two, with the ability to utilize a variety of moves that possess both small and large motion values. Describing any one playstyle is somewhat difficult for this weapon due to its versatility. As a result, there are a myriad of skills that are beneficial to Sword & Shield depending on an individual's playstyle. (Lewisriver)
Mh Rise Sword & Shield Elemental / Status or Raw Damage?
Honestly, whether or not you should focus on elemental/status or raw damage for your Sword & Shield build depends entirely on the monster you are hunting and your own personal preference in terms of playstyle. Sword & Shield is capable of dishing out some serious elemental damage thanks to fast hitting attack sequences, and some of its moves like Perfect Rush and Drill Slash even have an element/status modifier that increases elemental/status damage done to monsters. That being said, if you do go for an elemental/status build, it should be noted that attacks done with your shield DO NOT apply element/status, meaning you will be relying solely on your sword for doing damage. If you end up going for a raw damage build however, then it is recommended that you make frequent use of your shield, because the majority of shield attacks have a surprisingly high motion value that allows them to do more raw damage than other attacks. Overall, you can go either way with this weapon, and it honestly won't make too much of a difference except for in very specific situations.
MH Rise Best Swords & Shields
Monster Hunter Rise Best Sword and Shields according to damage type to better guide players on choosing weapons to create an easy build based on their playstyle.
Raw Damage
Fire
Water
Thunder
Ice
Dragon
Poison
Paralysis
Sleep
Blast
MHRise Sword and Shield Build: Raw Damage
A Raw damage build will complement the sword and Shield combination. Flash in the Night with 1 Rampage slot and 180 attack. This can be accompanied with the Valstrax Armor which comes with a Dragonheart skill, weakness exploit, resentment, and resuscitate. This can also be paired with Attack Jewel 2, Critical Jewel 2 and Brace Jewel. All together the skills for this build will include an attack boost, Dragonheart, Resentment, Rescusitate, Critical Boost, Weakness Exploit Speed Sharpening, and Flinch Free. This combinations optimizes damage health especially with the combination of the Valstrax Set and Critical and Attack Boosts.
Build Skills and Weapons
Build Skills
- Attack Boost Lv. 6
- Dragonheart Lv. 5
- Resentment Lv. 3
- Resuscitate Lv. 3
- Critical Boost Lv. 3
- Weakness Exploit Lv. 3
- Speed Sharpening Lv. 2
- Flinch Free Lv. 1
MHRise Dragon Element Sword and Shield Build
This build is based around the Dragon Element with the original stats of the Vermillion Orgul already displaying 34 Elemental and 180 Attack. This will complement the Valstrax Set, which each have Dragonheart as a Skill to maximize the ability to have Draconic energy that fills you after losing a certain amount of health. Weapons lose all non-dragon effects. Other Dragon Element Equipment and Items can be added to enhance this build further such as Dragon Jewel 1 which grants the Skill, Dragon Attack.
Build Skills and Weapons
Build Skills
- Dragonheart Lv. 5
- Attack Boost Lv. 4
- Resentment Lv. 3
- Resuscitate Lv. 3
- Critical Boost Lv. 3
- Weakness Exploit Lv. 3
Monster Hunter Rise Community Builds
Additional Monster Hunter Rise Builds are welcomed to be submitted and shared here. Players may share their favorite recommendation and information on various Weapons and Skill combinations or what they used to defeat specific Monsters or parts of the game.
Mh Rise Sword and Shield Builds
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Mh Rise Sword and Shield Builds
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