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Kinsect is a special equipment in Monster Hunter World (MHW) that players choosing to use the Insect Glaive can wield. It gives the user bonuses such as more damage, faster movement and better defense. Kinsects also have their own attacks and damage types, that vary from Kinsect to Kinsect. Kinsects can also be upgraded, much the way Weapons are and have their own upgrade trees.

 

Kinsect Information in MHW

Kinsect Stats

All Kinsects come with six stats that influence gameplay.

• Attack Type: Sever or Blunt. This determines what kind of damage the Kinsect does when attacking the monster, following the standard sever and blunt damage rules. All Culldrones are Sever, and all Mauldrones are Blunt (Dragon Soul and True Dragon Soul are Blunt as well).
• Dust Effect: Blast, Poison, Paralysis, or Heal. This determines the effect when the dust that the Kinsect leaves behind is struck. Blast, poison, and paralysis all cause their respective abnormal status "damage" in a small area of effect around the dust's location that affects a monster if it is in that radius. Heal causes a small area of effect heal to all players in the radius. This is determined by the name of the Kinsect. For example, Pseudocath I, II, and III all have blast dust, Carnage Beetle I, II, and III all have poison dust, etc.
• Power: Lv 1-15 (up to Lv 20 in Iceborne Kinsects). This is essentially the attack stat of the Kinsect. It is determined by the specific species of Kinsect, and Kinsects that are higher in an upgrade path will always have an equal or higher power stat than the ones below them in that upgrade path.
• Speed: Lv 1-15 (up to Lv 20 in Iceborne Kinsects). This stat affects the travel speed of the Kinsect when sending it out and recalling it. It does not, however, affect the attack speed of the Kinsect. It is determined in the same way as the power stat.
• Heal: Lv 1-15 (up to Lv 20 in Iceborne Kinsects). This stat affects two things. Firstly, it affects the amount of health recovered from Green Extract. It does NOT affect the health received from Heal Dust. Secondly, it affects the rate at which a Kinsect recovers its stamina while on the Hunter's arm. It does not affect the stamina recovered when manually recalling a Kinsect before its stamina runs out, nor does it affect the rate at which Kinsects deplete their stamina bar while out. The Heal level is determined the same way as the speed and power stats.
• Element: Lv 1-15 (up to Lv 20 in Iceborne Kinsects) and Fire, Water, Ice, Thunder, or Dragon. This stat is the elemental damage stat of the Kinsect. Uniquely, this stat is not in the Kinsect when it is first purchased or upgraded to. All Kinsects are naturally elementless. However, at the smithy, the option Kinsect Element can be chosen in the Manage Kinsects tab. Spending some materials, a Kinsect can be given any one of the five elements, or the element can be removed, also spending materials. The level of the stat is determined by the tier of Kinsect. For example, a Cancadaman III will automatically be given an element stat of Lv 15. When upgrading a Kinsect, if it possesses an element, its level will automatically level up to the next tier's element stat level. Something else of note is that if a Kinsect is given an element, its power stat will be reduced by one.

There are different types of Kinsect Bonus that affects each status, for more information please check Kinsect Bonus. Keep in mind however, that your weapon raw attack and elemental boost skills such as Ice Attack does not change your kinsect elemental or raw damage, kinsects cannot crit either, so skills like Critical Eye, Critical Boost, Weakness Exploit will not increase your overall DPS on a Kinsect Only build.

Speed is widely considered to be the best Kinsect stat, since it allows Extracts to be retrieved quicker and prevent the Hunter from having to waste time and DPS missing their Kinsect. Power is second to this, as it increases overall DPS. Heal is held to be the least important of the three. Not all monsters give Green Extract, making that part of the stat useless in many fights. While the increased stamina regeneration may seem useful in theory, the fact that manually recalling a Kinsect replenishes a large chunk of stamina and is unaffected by the Heal stat, there is little value in that half of the stat as well. Sever or blunt isn't an important stat in determining the usefulness of a Kinsect either, simply because it is outweighted by the other statuses. Since more than one of each Kinsect can be made, it is recommended to have five of each Kinsect, one for each element (this excludes the Dragon Soul and True Dragon, which you can only have one of).

However, with the introduction in Iceborne to the Descending Thrust move, slow and powerful kinsects became a really good option, greatly increasing your overall DPS. Using a slow kinsect, the kinsect drill that comes after the descending thrust hits more times than a fast one, and on top of that, using a power stat focused insect such as Vezirstag III Forz, the damage of this move is greatly improved. It is great against monsters such as Alatreon that has clear openings for your DT, and in this particular fight, it is possible to even use a non-elemental weapon and let your kinsect clear the elemental DPS check with only the kinsect elemental damage.

Keeping this in mind, the recommended endgame Kinsects to have are as follows:

 Iceborne Meta Kinsects

*Note: Foliacath III Forz is the best option for a speedy kinsect in Iceborne because the Foliacaths are the only options that can be upgraded to level 20 speed and healing dust isn't very good. Verzistag III Forz is pretty much your only go-to slow powerful kinsect given that it is the only kinsect with a lvl 20 Power Stat and has a relatively slow speed, increasing your overall damage on the Descending Thrust.

 

Kinsect Bonus

 

Kinsect Damage Calculations

Raw and Elemental Damage

The data bellow shows the kinsect true raw and true elemental damage given the respective level, for example, a Kinsect with Power Level 1 has 20 of Kinsect True Raw, and a Kinsect with Element Level 10 has 17 of kinsect true element. The data shown below has the values considering the kinsect without any type of buff such as Element Boost or Sever Boost.

• Power/Element Lv. 01: Raw: 20, Elemental: 8
• Power/Element Lv. 02: Raw: 25, Elemental: 9
• Power/Element Lv. 03: Raw: 35, Elemental: 10
• Power/Element Lv. 04: Raw: 40, Elemental: 11
• Power/Element Lv. 05: Raw: 55, Elemental: 12
• Power/Element Lv. 06: Raw: 60, Elemental: 13
• Power/Element Lv. 07: Raw: 70, Elemental: 14
• Power/Element Lv. 08: Raw: 75, Elemental: 15
• Power/Element Lv. 09: Raw: 80, Elemental: 16
• Power/Element Lv. 10: Raw: 85, Elemental: 17
• Power/Element Lv. 11: Raw: 90, Elemental: 18
• Power/Element Lv. 12: Raw: 100, Elemental: 19
• Power/Element Lv. 13: Raw: 110, Elemental: 20
• Power/Element Lv. 14: Raw: 115, Elemental: 21
• Power/Element Lv. 15: Raw: 125, Elemental: 23
• Power/Element Lv. 16: Raw: 135, Elemental: 25
• Power/Element Lv. 17: Raw: 140, Elemental: 27
• Power/Element Lv. 18: Raw: 145, Elemental: 28
• Power/Element Lv. 19: Raw: 155, Elemental: 30
• Power/Element Lv. 20: Raw: 170, Elemental: 35

Kinsect attacks motion values

 + : Kinsect: Harvest Extract -> 20

Midair : Descending Thrust (Kinsect attacks only) -> 35

 

Raw and Elemental Damage Calculation

The kinsect attacks have a green level sharpness multiplier on all of its attacks, so you should consider it in the calculations. For more details on damage calculation, please see Attack Power and Elemental Damage

Formula for Raw Damage displayed

Formula for Elemental Damage displayed

 

Kinsect Culldrone Lineage (Cut / Sever Damage)

 

 

Kinsect Mauldrone Lineage (Blunt Damage)

 

 

Midgardsormr Lineage (Blunt Damage)

 

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