Monster Hunter Rise: Best Endgame Charge Blade Builds (2024)

This is the most meta build for the Charge Blade in MHR currently, and it's centered around using different Elements and Elemental Weakspots (which vary from monster to monster) to deal as much damage per SAEDs.

The play style is for people who like the pizza cutter-esque Savage Axe version of the CB's Axe Form. Excels in just about everything the SAED Build doesn't such as crit damage, Status Effect application, and so on.

This would be the standard Charge Blade build in any other MH game and the Elemental Builds would typically be the niche ones. However, Rise (and Sunbreak especially) really changed things up for Elemental CB builds. Still, Impact SAED builds specialize in consistent and reliable damage, have a ton of KO potential with Impact Phials, and players won't need to make a build for each Element, target specific areas (other than the head), or focus Elemental weak spots.

Guard

Guard

Guard

Guard Up

Guard Up

Guard Up

Load Shells

Load Shells

Load Shells

Rapid Morph

Rapid Morph

Rapid Morph

Flinch Free

Flinch Free

Flinch Free

Furious

Weakness Exploit

Artillery

Element Exploit

Critical Boost

Focus

Resentment

Wirebug Whisperer

Resentment

Burst

Burst

Resuscitate

Dereliction

Wind Mantle

Dereliction

Dragon Conversion

Powder Mantle

Artillery

Fire/Water/Thunder/Ice/Dragon Resistance

Intrepid Heart

Intrepid Heart

Fire/Water/Thunder/Ice/Dragon Attack

Spiribird's Call

Dragonheart

Narwa, Teostra, or Kushala Blessing

Recovery Up

N/A

Stamina Surge

Stun Resistance

N/A

Latent Power

Latent Power

N/A

Attack Boost

Attack Boost

N/A

Critical Eye

Critical Eye

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Basically just makes it way easier to charge vials. However, if a player is confident in their Counter Peak Performance timing then they don't necessarily need this.

At Level 3 this Skill makes switching between the CB's Sword and Axe form 30 percent faster, which will have a gigantic impact overall.

In the post-endgame content, Guard is almost mandatory for players using Charge Blade to block some attacks and survive or keep their Guard up.

Same reasoning as Guard, but helps players take less damage from the big attacks they do manage to block.

Probably the least mandatory Skill on here given that Title Updates 4 and 5 made keeping the CB charged even easier. Still very handy to have.

3/3

Turns every 4 points of Elemental Resistance into +1 Elemental damage with whatever weapon the player currently has equipped.

3/3

Works in combination with Dragon Conversion to get Elemental damage even higher.

4/5

Should probably have at least Guard 4 if not Guard 5. Doing so makes it so most attacks can be Guard Point'ed and players won't have that long recovering animation after blocking.

2/3

It makes unguardable moves more guardable, players will be getting used to blocking over avoiding attacks and this makes Guarding almost always the safer option anyway.

2/2

Mandatory on any CB Build since Lvl 2 Load Shells mean players have full vials when they're yellow instead of red.

3/3

While equipped player gets extra Defenses on Red Scroll, at Max Rank +30 Defense that gets added into Dragon Conversion for Elemental damage.

1/3

Huge boost in Elemental damage and should always be equipped when possible

1/3

Only worth using if running Dereliction as well, is a pretty sizeable buff to all non-Elemental damage.

3/3

Some say it's only necessary for convenience, others say it's mandatory, either way having it reduces all transition animation time from Sword to Axe mode, vice versa, and the AED/SAED animations as well.

1/3

CB, even without Spinning Slash, deals a lot of hits in a short span of time, which means Burst is often active. When active it increases both regular and Elemental attacks.

2/4 & Stormsoul 3/5

The blessing equipped highly depends on what Element Build that player is currently running. Stormsoul for Thunder, Teostra Blessing for Fire, and Kushala Blessing for both Water and Ice.

1/1

This Skill replaced Flinch Free after Title Update 5 and has since made multiplayer so much more fun overall thanks to friends not being able to interrupt each other's attacks.

3/3

If possible, try and get either 1 or 3 points in Heaven-Sent, as it just makes hunts overall a bit safer and more streamlined when active.

Fire

Rakna-Kadaki Tree

Element

Water

Vaik Tree

Element

Ice

Auroracanth Tree

Element

Thunder

Narwa Tree

Element

Dragon

Valstrax Tree

Element

4/5

Should probably have at least Guard 4 if not Guard 5. Doing so makes it so most attacks can be Guard Point'ed and players won't have that long recovering animation after blocking.

2/3

It makes unguardable moves more guardable, players will be getting used to blocking over avoiding attacks and this makes Guarding almost always the safer option anyway.

2/2

Mandatory on any CB Build since Lvl 2 Load Shells mean players have full vials when they're yellow instead of red.

3/3

Some say it's only necessary for convenience, others say it's mandatory, either way having it reduces all transition animation time from Sword to Axe mode, vice versa, and the AED/SAED animations as well.

7/7

Because Savage Axe hits so often, any flat buffs to Attack damage have massive benefits.

1/3

As long as players are attacking weak spots often, they'll find themselves critting a lot more with this active. Again, a huge benefit for multi-hitting attacks.

1/3

Improves crit damage by 30 to 40 percent at Max Rank, and this build crits quite a lot.

3/7

Additional Affinity equals more crits overall.

1/3

Leaps and bounds better on this build than the other two since the constant multi-hits from Savage Axe will constantly have this active.

1/3

Regardless of the Switch Skills used, whether it's Ready Stance or Counter Peak Performance, players will be using Silkbind Attacks a lot. So this will keep Wirebug charges active more often.

1/3

Basically adds the Blast status effect to any build, as long as players build up the charge completely without getting hit. There's also no downside for getting hit outside of charge level resetting, despite what the Skill description says.

1/2

Every 68 hits players get 75 percent damage resistance on the next attack that hits them (if at Rank 2). Plus, that same attack will also ignore damage reactions, which means Savage Axe mode is interrupted less.

1/1

This Skill replaced Flinch Free after Title Update 5 and has since made multiplayer so much more fun overall thanks to friends not being able to interrupt each other's attacks.

3/3

If possible, try and get either 1 or 3 points in Heaven-Sent, as it just makes hunts overall a bit safer and more streamlined when active.

Raw

Royal Order Tree

Impact

Blast

Scorned Magna Tree

Impact

Paralysis

Volvidon Tree

Impact

Poison

Gold Rathian Tree

Impact

3/3

Only CB build that uses Blue Scroll on this Skill. A massive bonus to Attack and Stun.

5/5

With Dereliction, Resentment is always active which means a flat +25 Attack when combined.

3/3

'Abnormal Status' is a deceptive description, Resuscitate is triggered by basically any negative status effect, including Dereliction and Dragonheart.

3/3

Gives Phials a 30 percent damage buff for each Phial Explosion.

2/5

Obviously, this build doesn't care about Elemental damage, so the Dragonblight from this Skill doesn't matter. Additionally, it gives huge Elemental Resistances when active.

2/2

Mandatory on any CB Build since Lvl 2 Load Shells mean players have full vials when they're yellow instead of red.

3/3

Some say it's only necessary for convenience, others say it's mandatory, either way having it reduces all transition animation time from Sword to Axe mode, vice versa, and the AED/SAED animations as well.

2/3

It makes unguardable moves more guardable, players will be getting used to blocking over avoiding attacks and this makes Guarding almost always the safer option anyway.

4/5

Should probably have at least Guard 4 if not Guard 5. Doing so makes it so most attacks can be Guard Point'ed and players won't have that long recovering animation after blocking.

2/3

Makes it easier to get to Yellow Phial charge in fewer attacks.

2/2

Every 68 hits players get 75 percent damage resistance on the next attack that hits them (if at Rank 2). Plus, that same attack will also ignore damage reactions, which means Savage Axe mode is interrupted less.

1/1

This Skill replaced Flinch Free after Title Update 5 and has since made multiplayer so much more fun overall thanks to friends not being able to interrupt each other's attacks.

Grand Gordlock

Raw

Garangolm Tree

Impact

Valstrax Helm - Epoch

Dragon Conversion x1 Latent Power x2 Attack Boost x1

Valstrax Mail - Epoch

Dragon Conversion x1 Dragon Resistance x3 Attack Boost x1

Archfiend Armor Epine

Dereliction x2 Resentment x1

Valstrax Coil - Epoch

Dragon Conversion x1 Stamina Surge x3 Attack Boost x1

Archfiend Armor Sceros

Dereliction x1 Resentment x1

The longer a player's red health, the more benefits this gives. Not enough benefit to warrant putting into regular build over other Skills

By far the best thing to get on any Augment for this build. At Max Rank Furious gives bonus Defenses which give more Elemental damage from Dragon Conversion

Spinning Axe burns through Sharpness, so this is just convenient.

More Weakness Exploit can't hurt, it's only ever a benefit.

Burst, previously known as Chain Crit by the way, is only worth running at Rank 1 or Max Rank, and Max Rank benefits are pretty noticeable.

Raw Damage build takes any flat bonuses to Attack it can find.

The build, sadly, doesn't have much room for Rapid Morph, so getting it in an Augment Skill is nice.

Burst is only worth running at Rank 1 or Max Rank, and Max Rank benefits are pretty noticeable.