Best Charge Blade builds: Progression and Endgame (2024)

This is a post on Monster Hunter Rise Charge Blade builds. We will go through the best builds with the weapon during different stages. This guide will make the hunter journey much easier

Feel free to jump to the relevant section by selecting it from the Table of Contents.

General Skill recommendations

Here is a list of skills that are recommended to use with Charge Blade in Monster Hutner Rise. Of course, they are also situational, because for example with Elemental Charge Blade you would not use Artillery skill.

1. Load Shells (Non-Condensed Spinning Slash builds) - Having level 2 will allow you to charge full phials with just yellow phial color. Replaces Focus.
2. Artillery (Impact Phial builds with Amped Elemental Discharges) - boosts phial damage
3. Rapid Morph - Faster Axe to charge blade -> Charge Blade to Axe switching
4. Weakness Exploit (WE) - Increases affinity to weak spots, can be maximized to 50%
5. Critical Boost - boosts critical hits
6. Attack Boost - Boosts physical attacks and phial damage
7. Elemental damage boost (like Frost Jewel Lv 1, Blaze Jewel Lv 1, etc.)
8. Critical Eye - increases the chance
9. Guard - usually you would start with level 1, to be able to use Amped Elemental discharge after guard point
10. Offensive Guard - best utilized in builds that concentrate on Guard Point and Counter Peak Performance

Low Rank Builds

Throughout the Monster Hunter Rise story, you should use Impact Phial Charge blades. They are easily accessible and you get many relevant skills.

Early Low Rank - Village Quests 1 - 3 stars

This is your intro to the Monster Hunter Rise game. I suggest spending some time getting used to the weapon and practicing charge blade in Training Area.

Weapon

A good Charge blade will be available to you from the first large monster: Great Izuchi. It will give you green sharpness. This is great because your weapon attacks will not bounce as often

Armors

You would want to get Rhenoplos Braces as soon as possible as they will increase your Impact phial damage. Moreover, Ingot Greaves will lead you through the whole Low Rank

I suggest upgrading these two items mentioned above. This will increase your defense and allow you to push through the whole Low Rank.

Item	Skills
Izuchi Helm	Critical Eye Lv 1
Izuchi Mail	Attack Boost Lv 1
Rhenoplos Braces	Artillery Lv 1
Izuchi Coil	Critical Eye Lv 1
Ingot Greaves	Attack Boost Lv 1 Critical Eye Lv 1

Hunter Greaves can be used until you get Ingot Greaves.

Mid to End of Low Rank - Village Quests 4 - 6 stars

This is the part of Monster Hunter Rise, where it opens up, you will encounter new monsters with widely different mechanics

Weapon

There are some interesting Charge blades available at this time. However, Regas Hyper is easily accessible, and you do not need to farm any specific monster for it.

Then you are free to upgrade it to Elite Blade I after you fight Zinogre.

Of course, an interesting alternative is Hidden Arsenal I charge blade, with 30% affinity. For which you need to fight Nargacuga.

Armors

You will still keep Rhenoplos Braces and Ingot Greaves. As you can see some better gear is introduced that allows adding better skills.

Moreover, you can start melding talismans. Try to get Wirebug Whisperer for a longer third wirebug duration.

Item	Skills
Zinogre Helm	Latent Power Lv 1 Critical Eye Lv 1
Nargacuga Mail	Critical Eye Lv 1
Rhenoplos Braces	Artillery Lv 1
Anjanath Coil	Attack Boost Lv 2
Ingot Greaves	Attack Boost Lv 1 Critical Eye Lv 1
Talisman	Wirebug Whisperer Lv 1

High Rank: HR 4 - 6

Here I also recommend using Impact Phial Charge Blade. You would spend too much time making elemental phial blade for each encounter. Moreover, you would also need to farm appropriate armors for each elemental charge blade

Weapon

Elite Blade II is easily accessible similar alternative would be the Bone Blade II charge blade. However, due to not having blue sharpness it is inferior.

Armors

The usual items are back. Rhenoplos Braces S and Ingot Greaves S provide great damage boosts and increased affinity rate.

Regarding the belt, you should only go for Skalda Elytra S armor if you have Almudron Plate material. However, it is hard to get it and you can just go for Baggi Coil

Item	Skills
Izuchi Helm S	Critical Eye Lv 1
Izuchi Mail S	Critical Eye Lv 2 Recovery Speed Lv 1
Rhenoplos Braces S	Artillery Lv 2
Skalda Elytra S / Spio Elytra S	Weakness Exploit Lv 2
Ingot Greaves S	Attack Boost Lv 2 Critical Eye Lv 2
Talisman	Weakness Exploit Lv 1 (more damage) Wirebug Whisperer Lv 1

High Rank: HR 6 - 7

Weapon

Feel free to use Kaiser Blade. However, once you fight Nargacuga and Magnamalo get Scream in the Night. It will give White Sharpness, 40% affinity and good rampage skills.

Not only that it is also good till the HR 100.

Armors

You can switch to Almudron Helm S helmet once you get it. It will be a part of many endgame builds later on.

Item	Skills
Zinogre Helm S	Latent Power Lv 1 Weakness Exploit Lv 1
Zinogre Mail S	Latent Power Lv 1 Weakness Exploit Lv 1
Rhenoplos Braces S	Artillery Lv 2
Anjanath Coil S	Attack Boost Lv 2
Golden Hakama	Critical Boost Lv 2 Latent Power Lv 1
Talisman	Weakness Exploit Lv 1

At this point in the game, I recommend getting Weakness Exploit Talisman.

High Rank: HR 8 - 40

From here on, you should start getting decent decorations. Use them to greatly beef up the charge blade build.

Impact Charge blade build

This build's purpose is to use the impact phials for maximum damage. The source of that is mostly Ultra Element Discharge, Condense Element Slash or Axe Hopper. This is your choice.

Weapons

Armors

At HR 8 you can fight Bazelgeuse. This Large Monster will provide two critical equipment pieces to improve the build

Item	Skills
Almudron Helm S	Rapid Morph Lv 2
Vaik Mail S	-
Bazelgeuse Braces	Load Shells Lv 1 Guard Up Lv 1
Anjanath Coil S	Attack Boost Lv 2
Bazelgeuse Greaves	Artillery Lv 2 Guard Lv 1

Talismans and decorations

Generally, the most offensive option is the best, like Weakness Exploit. However, it also depends on your skill and what talismans you have.

So feel free to check what you have and adjust the decorations to your liking

Talisman skills + slots	Decorations	Notes
Wirebug Whisperer 2	Attack Jewel 2 x2 Tenderizer Jewel 2 x3 Critical Jewel 2 x1 Magazine Jewel 2 x1 Artillery Jewel 2 x1	In case you land Wirebug Whisperer it is also a decent option, that can allow you to use Silkbind skills more often.
Guard 2	Attack Jewel 2 x2 Tenderizer Jewel 2 x3 Critical Jewel 2 x1 Magazine Jewel 2 x1 Artillery Jewel 2 x1	A defensive option where you are more effective with your shield and can use UED faster.
Weakness Exploit 1	Attack Jewel 2 x2 Tenderizer Jewel 2 x2 Critical Jewel 2 x2 Magazine Jewel 2 x1 Artillery Jewel 2 x1	This option must be readily available if you melded for Weakness Exploit.
Any skill	Attack Jewel 2 x2 Tenderizer Jewel 2 x3 Critical Jewel 2 x3 Magazine Jewel 2 x1 Artillery Jewel 2 x1	This is I think the optimal solution as you should try getting this type of talisman at least once.

Spinning Axe Build

These builds are perfect for those that want to use Condensed Spinning Slash Switch Skill. This type of build concentrates on using Axe mode.

You will want to utilize the Morph skill so that you could enter the Savage Axe mode as soon as possible.

Weapon

Scream in The Night complements this build extremely well. The white sharpness will help immensely. Moreover, to keep white sharpness through the fight hunter should get Mastery jewel 2

Armors

You do not get much affinity with equipment, only from Weakness Exploit. However, it will be boosted with Tenderzier Jewels

Item	Skills
Almudron Helm S	Rapid Morph Lv 2
Vaik Mail S	-
Rathalos Braces S	Attack Boost Lv 2
Anjanath Coil S	Attack Boost Lv 2
Ingot Greaves S	Attack Boost Lv 2 Critical Eye Lv 2

Talismans and Decorations

This charge blade build tears through sharpness extremely fast due to Spinning Axe. We will try to complement this weakness to maximize the build utility and damage.

Moreover, we can easily reach 100% affinity making... you guessed it Mastery Jewel 2 mandatory.

Talisman skills + slots	Decorations	Notes
Guard 1	Tenderizer Jewel 2 x3 Mastery Jewel 2 x3 Critical Jewel 2 x1	This is a more defensive approach giving a chance to defend against the monster attack
Any skill	Tenderizer Jewel 2 x3 Mastery Jewel 2 x3 Critical Jewel 2 x3	This option allows to have 100 affinity and ensures white sharpness for a long time.
Weakness Exploit 1	Tenderizer Jewel 2 x2 Mastery Jewel 2 x3 Critical Jewel 2 x3	The budget option for those that have this talisman.

High Rank: HR 40 - 99

Generally, the builds from the HR 8-40 section continue to work perfectly. However, you can still try this one below

Tigrex Impact Charge Blade Build

This build maximizes the phial damage by having higher raw from Tigrex Blade. You will need to constantly use Ultimate Element Discharge or Element Discharge moves to utilize this.

Weapons

This is an extremely powerful charge blade that will greatly boost Impact phial damage

Armors

We include Bazelgeuse Helm and this way the charge blade build gets Artillery Lv 3

Item	Skills
Bazelgeuse Helm	Artillery Lv 1 Guard Lv 1
Vaik Mail S	-
Bazelgeuse Braces	Load Shells Lv 1 Guard Up Lv 1
Anjanath Coil S	Attack Boost Lv 2
Bazelgeuse Greaves	Artillery Lv 2 Guard Lv 1

Talismans and Decorations

Talisman skills + slots	Decorations	Notes
Attack Boost 2	Attack Jewel 2 x2 Tenderizer Jewel 2 x3 Sharp Jewel 2 x2 Magazine Jewel 2 x1 Grinder Jewel 1 x3	This is a truly powerful option enabling us to have Attack Boost Lv6 in total. This way phial damage will be extremely high
Any skill	Attack Jewel 2 x3 Tenderizer Jewel 2 x3 Sharp Jewel 2 x2 Magazine Jewel 2 x1 Grinder Jewel 1 x3	The optimal all-around option
Weakness Exploit 1	Attack Jewel 2 x3 Tenderizer Jewel 2 x2 Sharp Jewel 2 x2 Magazine Jewel 2 x1 Grinder Jewel 1 x3	The budget option of this charge blade build. The Sharp Jewel 2 allows to safely utilize the white sharpness for 60 seconds.

Endgame: High Rank 100+ (patch 3.0)

For non-Dragonheart builds, you can check the previous sections. They still hold well and you do not need to be masochist with yourself for 80% health:

• HR 8-40
• HR 40-99

Dragonheart build Spinning Axe

This build works the best with Spinning Axe mode. Unfortunately for effective AED spam, you would need a large decoration investment into Magazine and Artillery

Weapons

Armors

With the Valstrax armors unlocked you will be able to make some scary builds. Concentrating purely on offense

Item	Skills
Valstrax Helm	Dragonheart Lv 1 Weakness Exploit Lv 1
Valstrax Mail	Dragonheart Lv 1 Resuscitate Lv 2
Valstrax Braces	Dragonheart Lv 1 Weakness Exploit Lv 2
Valstrax Coil	Dragonheart Lv 1 Resuscitate Lv 1 Resentment Lv 2
Valstrax Greaves	Dragonheart Lv 1 Resentment Lv 1

Decorations

Because Spinning Axe mode tears through sharpness, you need ways to mitigate this. Two of the alternatives are Master's Touch and Protective Polish skills.

You also want to use Critical Jewel 2. It scales the damage better for Scream in The Night. You can check the our calculator

Talisman skills + slots	Decorations	Notes
Attack Boost 1	Critical Jewel 2 x3 Expert Jewel 2 x2 Mastery Jewel 2 x3 Grinder Jewel 1 x3	Attack Boost talisman option.
Critical Boost 1	Critical Jewel 2 x2 Attack Jewel 2 x1 Expert Jewel 2 x2 Mastery Jewel 2 x3 Grinder Jewel 1 x3	This is another great option.
Critical Eye 1	Critical Jewel 2 x3 Attack Jewel 2 x1 Expert Jewel 2 x1 Mastery Jewel 2 x3 Grinder Jewel 1 x3	Now you can add additional Attack Jewel 2 for a significant boost to Effective Raw on this charge blade build
Any skill	Critical Jewel 2 x3 Expert Jewel 2 x2 Mastery Jewel 2 x3 Grinder Jewel 1 x3	Although you would think that having Attack Jewel 2 would be great. However, having Expert Jewel 2 gives a little more effective raw and more white sharpness

Conclusion

Hope these builds will help you through Monster Hunter Rise. I will try to keep them updated as new patches are introduced.

Have in mind that Monster Hunter Rise is where you try to excel, improve and find better ways to become a hunter.

So if you have suggestions for the builds feel free to leave them down below in the comments!