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Best Bowgun Build In Monster Hunter Now

Bow before the bowgun!

Choosing the right equipment and skillet is a crucial thing in any hunting game, including the fantasy hunting game like the Monster Hunter series. It is very important to know your prey and what are their weaknesses. There are plenty of Weapons you can use to make yourself into a legendary Hunter.

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The Best Build for Bowgun in Monster Hunter Now

The blowgun is one of the most efficient weapons in the game. It can give a huge advantage to the player by significantly increasing DPS. The bowgun can output a massive amount of damage, and it is also one of the safest weapons in the game because it’s long-range, so all the violence happens far from the player. Add to that great elemental damage and the ability to hit your prey’s weak spots constantly.

The Best Armor Set For Bowgun Build

This is the armor that goes best with the bowgun build. For the helmet, we will use Kadachi Helm, which will give you Reload Speed 1 and Artful Dodger 1 when upgraded to Grade 6. For the chest, we will go with Lumu Mail, with Recoil Down 1 skill. Legiana Wambraces will go on arms, along with Reload Speed 1.

Around the waist, there’s Jagras Coil, and with it, there are two useful skills, Fortify 1 and Rising Tide. For the latter, you need to upgrade Jagras Coil to Grade 4. Finally, the leg piece is Barroth Greaves. Those greaves will give you Recoil Down 1 and Defense Boost 1 when upgraded to Grade 4.

The Best Skillset For Bowgun Build

Once you have equipped all these armor parts and upgraded all of them to Grade 6, you will have the perfect skill set for the bowgun build:

  • Reload Speed 3
  • Artful Dodger 1
  • Recoil Down 3
  • Reload Speed 3
  • Fortify 2
  • Rising Tide 1
  • Defense Boost 2

These skills will drastically shorten the time you need to reload your bowgun, and they additionally reduce the recoil. Practically, it means you can quickly barrage monsters with projectiles, consistently striking the weak spots.

Utility Abilities

The ultimate Monster Hunter bowgun setup now has a few other useful features as well. Every time you come back from a faint, Fortify enhances your attack power for 10 seconds. As the timer expires, Rising Tide additionally boosts defense and attack strength, which is highly useful in late-game hunts.

Defense Boost, as the name implies, also gives your hunter a good boost to defense, while Artful Dodger makes it simpler to accomplish perfect evades. Both of these abilities allow you to quickly refill your ammunition and keep you out of harm’s way.

Alternative Armor Parts

Although the optimal Light Bowgun setup in Monster Hunter is somewhat inflexible, you have the option to replace the Waist with either Rathian Coil or Lumu Coil. Rathian Coil will give you Poison Resistant & Burst, and Lumu Coil will give you Divine Blessing.

Because of its Burst talent, which boosts attack power when you land consecutive hits, the Rathian Coil is a fantastic choice for DPS. In the meantime, there’s a chance that the Lumu Coil’s Divine Blessing will lessen monster attack damage.


These are the armor parts and skills that you need for the optimal bowgun build. For more relevant articles, check out Best Weapons in Monster Hunter Now or All Details About Monster Hunter 20th Anniversary.

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Nenad Grujić
My name is Nenad Grujić and I'm a Staff Writer at GameJournalist. I have decades of gaming and media under my belt, and decades of writing experience. I like to call myself "your favorite ace of all trades", although I specialize in writing, education, voice acting, video editing, and media content creation.