All partners in Monster Hunter Stories 3: Monsties, abilities, weapons, and more

Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflections might be a single-player adventure, but you’ll always have a partner to aid you on your journey.

At first, the list of options is limited, but soon, you can unlock and use more partners. Let’s quickly look at all that each partner ally offers to you in terms of their kits and preferred monsters.

All partners in Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflections explained

The list of allies in Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflections begins with Simon, and you can unlock more of them.

Simon

Weapon	Active Skills	Passive Skills
Katana (Lightning)	Absolute Evasion Cheer Lunge Stance Spirit Blade Spirithelm Breaker Spirit Release Slash Sakura Spiritblade Unsheathing Strike Wild Slash	Evasion Ability (s) Dragon Buster (s) Feral Monster Chaser Iai Mastery (s) Soul Kinship (s)

Fawn

Element	Attack Type	Skills
Ice	Speed	Diamond Raid Evasion Ability (s) Freezing Burst+ Ice Spray Icicle Ralm Ice Attack Boost (s) Sealbreaker (m)

Thea

Weapon	Active Skills	Passive Skills
Bow	Aerial Aim Absolute Evasion Defense Down Coating Poogie Parade Piercing Shot Power Coating Poison Coating	Bow Mastery (s) Critical Kinship (s) Kinship Skill+ Sixth Sense Synchronize (s)

Kagachi

Element	Attack Type	Skills
Lightning	Speed	High Voltage Kadachi Fury Thunder Attack Boost (s) Thunder Drop Thunderball

Kora

Weapon	Active Skills	Passive Skills
Gunlance	Guard Reload Shelling Shielding Stance Taunt Wyvern’s Blaze	All-Elements Boost (s) Divine Blessing (s) Guard Chance (s) Insitgator (s) Potential (s) Vicious (s)

Gravy

Element	Attack Type	Skills
Fire	Power	Bishaten Embers Divine Blessing (m) Fire Defense Boost (s) Health Boost (s) Magma Surge Rock Shield Spreading Beam

Ogden

Weapon	Active Skills	Passive Skills
Hunting Horn	Absolute Evasion Defensive Ditty Comforting Melody Lyrical Legato Magnificent Trio Magnificent Trio Style Power Paean Spriny Staccato Wyvernfell Melody	Dragon Buster (s) Partbreaker (s) Polychrome Performer (s) Salt In Wound (s) Sealbreaker (s)

Chirpy

Element	Attack Type	Skills
Normal	Technical	Antivenom 9m) Debilitating Lilt Inflit Rate Up (m) Omni Shaser (s) Salt In Wound (m) Venom Surprise Venom Shot

Gaul

Weapon	Active Skills	Passive Skills
Katana	Lunge Stance Murray Multiplicator Spirit Blade Spirithelm Breaker	Item Saver (s) Inflict Rate Up (s) Long Sword Mastery (s) Panacea (s) Sef-Heal (s)

Legia

Element	Attack Type	Skills
Ice	Speed	Debuff Chaser P Elemental Assault (s) Frost Veil Ice Drill Icicle Realm Tenacity (s) Quick (s)

Eleanor

Weapon	Active Skills	Passive Skills
Great Sword	Charge Charged Slash Charge Tackle Fortified Spirit Pep Talk Strong Charged Slash Slash	Charge Burst (s) Fire Attack Boost (s) Heroics (s) Soul Kinship (s) Slugger (s)

Angie

Element	Attack Type	Skills
Fire	Power	Anja Assault Blightproof (s) Blazeball Burning Fang Fire Attack Boost (m) Health Boost (s) Killer Tackle

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Setting up an amazing squad in Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection is easier said than done, as you’ll need to look for monsties with the best possible stats.

This task is easier said than done. While you can always hatch the best of eggs, that doesn’t guarantee a perfect monstie. Instead, you’ll need to look for something called genes and master the concept.

How do genes work in Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection

Every monstie has a dedicated set of Active and Passive skills. The number and types of skills of a monstie are determined by genes. If you refer to the image below, you’ll find a young Rathalos that’s available for all of us at the start of a journey.

Notice the bottom right corner, and you’ll find nine slots in a 3×3 grid. This grid is applicable for every monstie when they hatch. Some of the slots will be filled, and some will be empty. To get your perfect mostie, you’ll need to fill these empty slots. Having nine filled slots will give the mostie the best set of skills.

While not all their slots might be filled at the start, you can inherit additional genes from other creatures. To do so, you need to understand how Bingo and Rite of Channeling work.

How does Rite of Channeling and Bingo work in Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection

Rite of Channeling allows you to switch the genes from one monstie to another. You can do so in different ways.

• Directly swap the genes from one monstie to another.
• Manually select which gene/genes you want to swap.
• Select the monsties and the genes you want to swap.

Once the swap is complete, you can continue to modify the genes of your selected monstie until you’ve filled all nine slots. However, randomly filling the slots is not the most optimal thing to do.

When you use Rite of Channeling, you should match up genes to get the maximum possible bonus. If you manage to do so, your monstie will have an extra 5% damage as a bonus for all Power attacks. To do so, you need to match three Power genes in a row. You can match them vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.

You’ll get the bonus damage for a Bingo even if the associated element and attack type don’t match. If they do, however, then you can get multiple Bingos in a single row.

To build up your perfect monstie, Excursions are important as well.

How do Excursions work in Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection

You can send your monstie on an Excursion to make it gain different stat bonuses and Environment Skills. To do so, you’ll need Training Talisman, which can be purchased from the Melynx Emporium. They’re expensive, so you should ration them properly. Additionally, only one monstie can be sent on an Excursion at any time.

To gain Environmental Skills, you’ll need to pay attention to whether the monstie was present in that region. If you add a monstie to a habitat and then send it on an Excursion at the same place, it will be able to learn new skills based on their Environment Rank.

The ultimate aim is to have three S-rank Environment Skills active on your monstie at once. Three is the maximum number of Environment Skills any monstie can have. If you send them to a region they’re unfamiliar with, your monstie will only learn the stat bonuses.

Every Environment Skill has three ranks for each region: B, A, and S. Your monstie can access the Skill if their Ecosystem Rank matches the region’s grade. Additionally, you can also Awaken every Environment Skill if your monstie has the required genes.

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