Monster Hunter Now: Affinity, Explained

In Monster Hunter Now, you can take the joys of monster hunting with you on the go. Slay massive monsters, cut off their body parts, then using those materials to make stronger weapons., all on your phone.

While the combat system is definitely not as in-depth as the mainline Monster Hunter games, Monster Hunter Now has more than enough stats, skills, weapon variety, and monster mechanics to keep you busy. Below, we'll take a look at Affinity, including what it does and how to increase it.

What Does Affinity Do?

Affinity is essentially your critical hit chance, or your chance to critically hit with an attack. As such, raising your Affinity makes your attacks more likely to be critical hits. Critical hits deal 25 percent more damage than normal hits.

You can tell when you've performed a critical hit by the bright red streak that appears at the same time as your weapon hits the monster.

By the same token, some weapons may have negative Affinity. In this case, the negative Affinity percentage is the chance for the weapon to hit for less damage. A negative Affinity hit will deal 25 percent less damage.

How To Increase Affinity

Every weapon has a base Affinity stat, but you can also increase your total Affinity through certain skills. Critical Eye increases your overall Affinity, while Weakness Exploit increases your Affinity when attacking a monster's weak spot.

Critical Eye and Weakness Exploit stack with each other, but Affinity is capped at 100 percent, at which point every attack is a critical hit.

Here's a breakdown of how Critical Eye and Weakness Exploit increase your Affinity.

Critical Eye
Level	Effect
1	Increases Affinity by 10%
2	Increases Affinity by 15%
3	Increases Affinity by 20%
4	Increases Affinity by 30%
5	Increases Affinity by 40%

Critical Eye

Level

Effect

1

Increases Affinity by 10%

2

Increases Affinity by 15%

3

Increases Affinity by 20%

4

Increases Affinity by 30%

5

Increases Affinity by 40%

Weakness Exploit
Level	Effect
1	Increases Affinity by 20% when attacking a monster's weak spot
2	Increases Affinity by 25% when attacking a monster's weak spot
3	Increases Affinity by 30% when attacking a monster's weak spot
4	Increases Affinity by 40% when attacking a monster's weak spot
5	Increases Affinity by 50% when attacking a monster's weak spot

There are several pieces of equipment that provide these skills, including various pieces of the Kulu-Ya-ku set, the Pink Rathain set, and the Odogaron set for Critical Eye, and the Rathalos and Coral Pukei-Pukei sets for Weakness Exploit.

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