Hammer is SUPER UNDERRATED! UPDATED Hammer Guide | Monster Hunter World 2024

When all you have is a hammer, everything starts looking like nails.

Things that make me happy (-A small ledge-)

you can do clutch claw combo after jump attacks (on pledges too) and sliding attacks, if it was at charge lvl of 2 or 3, and airborne is a must skill on a hammer, +30% damage to all jump attacks is a must thing for a hammer.

I’ve gotten SO in hammer lately! The slinger spin hit after a big slam is my favorite move! Switch Axe next please, that’s my #1!

With each guide my arsenal is getting bigger. Thanks for these vids<3

As a newcomer to MHW from MHR and as a hammer main, I dropped the hammer coming to world because I thought there wasn't going to be something similar to the silkbind spinning bludgeon. I thought you only could do it from slides in this game, this video made me realize that with the clutch claw you can do pretty much the same thing with spinning flying smash. I can't believe I didn't know about it for this long. It does seem to force you to land on said monster, which is nice for this game. Although I think I might prefer doing my best dual blades impression in MHR. Can't wait to become a spinning hammer bro in MHW now as well, thank you! :D

Did a hammer ONLY play through, my absolute favorite weapon. Now years later im starting a new hammer playthrough complemented.by the HBG ❤

Great video! Tera, I only came across your vids a couple months ago but you inspired me to start my own YouTube journey. thank you & happy hunting.

How the hell did I not notice this one come in. I love weapon guide videos. And I think having builds added in is a good thing even if it’s just starter builds for each rank as you make the transition up

Thank you for the guide in detail, this was really helpful! <3

yo, 600 hours on the hammer and counting. here are a couple tips, insights and thoughts on the hammer from me first of all, do NOT spam use the clutch claw attack, it drains your sharpness really fast, especially if used right after the 3rd charge, as each of the 5-7 hits drains sharpness. only use it when the monster is down or when you have a very good opening for it. marathon runner, stamina thief and focus, good as they may sound, aren't really as good as you may think. if anything, having focus only hinders with the gameplay, because, since it charges your attacks quicker, you may think you're still on the 1st charge but end up doing the upswing and dying or getting knocked down, so personally id try avoiding it at any cost. best damage combos aside from the big bang would be the golf swing combo from a standing position. fastest best damage combo (from non standing position) would be running up to the monster > draw attack > directly into big bang, IMPORTATNT! skip the 2nd swing after the draw attack as it does pretty much no damage and loses you a second of time, which could be detrimental to hitting the big bang finisher. ledge abusing is also something that should definitely be learned by anyone learning how to play the hammer as it is the best way to dish out the most amount of damage. do not use the follow up attacks after jumping off a ledge/wall UNLESS you had 3 charges and you can guarantee that you will hit the monster as it locks you in a pretty long animation and it is hard to hit on a monster that isn't stunned. obviously you should ALWAYS run airborne on hammer, as that 30% extra damage can be quite a lot later on when you're going for full damage builds e.g.: i forgot to put it on one of my builds once and was doing only 900 damage after a simple ledge hop, and after i put it on it is now doing around 1.1k slugger and stamina thief, in my honest opinion, are bait skills that just take up slots that can be used for other more important skills (unless you have full fatalis gear) personally would recommend going full damage over QoL, especially if you're playing alone. the monster will be on the ground half of the hunt regardless of if you're running slugger or not. an ideal build with all mentioned above would include: agitator 5/7 attack boost 7 critical eye 7 (necessary for 100% affinity on fatalis hammer, can be lower if you reach 100% affinity before 7) weakness exploit 3 critical boost 3 airborne recovery up 3 (for health regen augment/more healing from potions) handicraft, evade window and quick sheath are also good and those can go into free slots you may have left, but i think the skills mentioned above are the best skills to run on hammer and are skills that should be in EVERY build you have. obviously, if you're running full fatalis armor and have a lot of high level gems (such as attack jewel+ 4 or expert jewel+ 4), you can fit in a lot more QoL skills such as stamina thief or slugger, yes i am contradicting myself here, but the hammer really doesn't require more than the 7 skills mentioned above for optimal damage output that works on every single monster in the game. all things considered, very informative guide, nothing that you said was misleading or wrong. as you stated its all a matter of preference so you can only take my advice and try it out. if you read this far, thank you, and i hope this helps out in any way shape or form, feel free to ask more questions :)

Ledge hopping does incredible damage ALWAYS make use of ledges, and slopes for that matter too

With a spinning attack after a slide or off a wall you can clutch claw immediately after to spin dash like Sonic right onto the monster. Great for when you miss or want to followup

As a dwarf myself, i'm glad you made a video about hammers. It's a great weapon, and even if it can't one shot every living creature as greatsword can, the possibility of delivering a CBT session to knocked out monsters is a massive plus itself.

One day a switch in my head flipped and I left the edgy rogue behind to favors barbarian type, so I switched from LS to Hammer and now I've started a new save to learn it from the very beginning of the brain. I think it's not a braindead weapon. The combos are easy to memorize and have tons of paths, but the thought goes to how and when to use what combos. Also there's a million resource to keep track of like the charge level, the overcharged that you need to maintain and the stamina. Great video btw.

I’ve been playing Hammer in Freedom Unite recently, and it gave me the idea to try it out more in Sunbreak and Iceborne, and yeah I can safely say I’ve definitely been missing out on the fun factor of just smacking monsters in the face. Big stick go bonk!

Appreciate it man this vdo very useful ❤🙏🏾

You can actually spin uphill with the spinning bludgeon after sliding. Turn towards any direction right after you release the charge button.

I dont have the exact numbers but you can access a higher damage combo by doing running charge 3 then wait for 2 hits and cancel into the charge 1 attack to finish with the bigbang combo

Hi! I'm a little late to this, (and VERY late to this game, lol) but I just picked up MHW and went with Hammer as my first weapon and from what I can tell, I chose correctly! I'm having a blast! I do love that you were talking about the mid-air hop off the ledge as being unreal, however swinging around a metal hammer that my napkin math puts at >500kg, no problem. :D