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Hunting Horn (狩猟笛 shyuryou fue, "hunting animal flute") is a weapon category in Monster Hunter World (MHW). Like all Weapons, it features a unique moveset and an upgrade path that branches out depending on the materials used. Please see Weapon Mechanics for details on the basics of your hunter tools.

The hunting horn is a blunt weapon that can bestow positive status effects on yourself and your allies. Use it to perform melodies that can boost attack power, restore health, and grant other beneficial effects.

 

Hunting Horn Weapon Tree

For full details, including rare 9 and above horns added with Iceborne please see Hunting Horn Weapon Tree

You can also see Master Rank Iceborne Hunting Horns.

 

 

Hunting Horn Traits & Abilities

• Attacks make notes which can be weaved into melodies.
• Wide varity of team buffs
• Blunt weapon that allows for repeated stunning

 

Hunting Horn Guide

A light hearted weapon, the Hunting Horn is a welcome addition to any hunting party. The main feature of the Hunting Horn is its ability to play music. Every attack adds a music note to a music sheet and once the correct sequence of notes are played, a melody is made and added to a melody sheet. Up to three melodies can be stored on the melody sheet with new ones replacing old ones. Hunters can play any melody they have stored at any time. The exact sequence of notes required for a melody, and the melody's effects, vary from Hunting Horn to Hunting Horn. The effects of a melody can range from attack buffs to immunity to monster roars to curing poison, and they effect every hunter near the Hunting Horn; user included. Once the hunter has played all the melodies they wanted to, they can still attack the monster. The Hunting Horn is still a weapon after all, and a very viable one at that. High damage and a simple moveset makes for a strong offense, while dealing only blunt damage makes the Hunting Horn very good at stunning the monster.

 

Advanced Performance Techniques

You can perform your stocked melodies in order by pressing R2. You can also press R2+another attack button at the same time to start your performance from the second or third stocked melody.

 

Using Performances to Attack

The initial shockwave created by the hunting horn Performance has high attack and stunning power, making the move completely viable as an attack in its own right. You can also chain a normal attack into a Performance, and then cancel the Performance with a dodge roll.

 

Performance Effect Radius

You can tell if a party member is within range of your Performance effects by looking at the icon next to their name. 

 

Hunting Horn Advantages

• Superb team support
• Blunt damage allows for stunning monsters
• Built-in Mind's Eye (negates weapon bounces)
• Good movement speed when drawn

 

Hunting Horn Disadvantages

• Low attack power
• Somewhat slow attack speed
• Limited move set
• Performance requires the user to stand still for a few seconds

 

Hunting Horn Controls

Each move has its own Motion Value (MV), which is used when calculating Raw (physical) Damage. See the article on Attack Power for more information.

• : Attack with note 1. MVs:
  
  • Left Swing: 22
  • ( + ) Forward Smash: 28
• : Attack with note 2. MVs:
  
  • Right Swing: 27
  • ( + ) Flourish: 15 + 22 (can be cancelled after 1st hit; can input another note for 2nd hit)
• + : Attack with note 3. MVs:
  
  • Backward Strike: 37
  • ( +  + ) Overhead Smash: 14 + 39
•  after any attack: Echo Attack (has its own note). MVs: 10 (sever) + 17 * 4
•  + any note after any attack: Hilt Stab. MV: 10 (sever damage)
• : Performance (plays all the stored melodies starting from the 1st. Adding  or  will play the 2nd or 3rd stored melody first instead; adding any  changes the direction of the attack). MV: 29
  
  • Shockwave (added automatically after Performance if a melody was stored). MV: 27
  • Echo Wave "Impact" (stored using Echo Attack). MVs: 50 (lv1), 100 (lv2), 150 (lv3)
  • Echo Wave "Dragon" (stored using Echo Attack, deals blunt + 6/12/18 dragon damage). MVs: 45 (lv1), 65 (lv2), 85 (lv3)
•  any time during Performance: Encore (extends melody durations; adding any  changes the direction and the number of the attacks). MV: 35 * number of hits
• Midair  /  /  + : Jumping Smash (plays the corresponding note). MV: 35
• Midair : Midair Performance (can use  /  to choose which melody is played first)
•  while sliding: Jumping Strong Overhead Smash. MV: 55

 

Hunting Horn Melodies

 

This is a comprehensive list of Hunting Horn Melodies! A Hunting Horn's melodies will depend on its notes, however multiple melodies can create the same Effect.

 

Hunting Horns Organized by Note and Song Set

Hunting Horn Trivia

• First Wyverian statistics: Hunting Horns are the least favorite weapon with only 1% of hunters using it.

 

 

   

 

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