MHGen Prowler Guide

/mhg/ Prowler Guide

INHERENT MOVES AND SKILLS

First off, the inherent Moves and Skills on a perfect cat are as follow, you want to scout/beg for a cat that has ALL of them.

Moves: Piercing Boomerangs and Big Boomerangs (note that Mega Boomerang is a different skill and is garbage, so don't bother)

Skills: Boomerang Pro; Critical Up (S); Earplugs OR Critical Up (L)

About Earplugs and CuL, you don't have enough slots for both so it's an either/or situation. Personally I like Earplugs better because it's just more versatile and add another layer of defense. Also, cat Earplugs is actually HGE and negate all roars.


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SUPPORT BIAS
Next, cats have base stats that scale with level
Here's the Stat table for max leveled cats, from >reddit

Base Stats (at lv 50)
Support Bias	Health	Melee	Ranged	Defense
Fighting		140		120		120		145
Gathering		140		90		90		130
Charisma		140		100		100		145
Protection		140		100		100		188
Assisting		140		90		90		145
Healing			140		90		90		174
Bombing			140		110		110		145

Only Fighting and Gathering cats can have both Boomerang moves, and Fighting has higher attack, so don't bother with anything else, go Fighting.

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LEARNED MOVE AND SKILL

Cat can learn one Move and one Skill from other cats, and the optimal Move to learn is Emergency Retreat which will get you out of trouble, heal you for a Potion's worth and cure all status effects.

Your Move loadout should be Pierce rang, Big rang, Emergency Retreat and whatever else you can fit in

As for Skill, the best skill - bar none -  to teach to your cat is World's Strongest, which is a DLC skill that will be released in the future.

It increases the base attack of your cat by 1.5x and base defense by 2x while your cat's naked.

Meaning an extra 60 attack and 145 defense for a level 50 Fighting cat.

There's an inferior skill called Last Stand which you can use while waiting for World's Strongest

It gives your cat an extra 40 attack and defense while taking away your acorns.

Last Stand also costs 3 slots while WS costs 2

So overall, WS is cheaper, give you more attack and let you keep your acorns in exchange for lower defense.
The lower defense is not that much of an issue because the max defense for a level 50 cat with WS is 290, which is equal to some endgame Gunner sets and you're playing a ranged weapon anyway.

Cats have a maximum of 6 slots at level 40 and above, and those 6 should be filled with the following

Boomerang Pro (1)
Critical Up S (1)
Earplugs OR Critical Up L (2)
World's Strongest (2)

If you don't have World's Strongest then take out CuS and fit in Last Stand instead.

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WEAPONS

Pierce Boomerang hits for 3 hits, which applies 1.5x element for the first hit and 0.5x for the second two.

Meaning each pierce rang you throw will apply 2.5x the element value on your weapon, making cat one of the best element and status dealers in the game.

Below are the best weapons for each element.

*Fire: Dreadking Sword S OR Hyper Agnaktor Sword
*Ice: Snowbaron Stick S
Water: Amatsu Sword
Thunder: Hyper Lagiacrus Anchor
Dragon: Shagaru Sword
*Poison: Deadeye Garuga Fan S
*Blast: Hellblade Sword S
*Raw: Silverwind Shuriken S

Sleep and Para weapons are ass so I don't recommend using them.

*To unlock the S Deviant cat weapon, you need to finish a level 9 or level 10 hunt, you don't have to host it.

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ARMOR
Naked.

Or whatever that has the highest defense if you're not using WS.

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HOW TO FIGHT

Eat for Felyne Hurler (Dragon Salad), this increase boomerang damage by 10%.

Bring Charms and Talons.

Build up your support gauge with whatever combo that deals the most hits. I like using AXA to cover distance.

Activate Piercing and Big then start throwing charged boomerangs. The boomerangs go surprisingly far so keep your distance.

Add in the third A hit in melee range for a nice multihit spin that deals a lot of damage.

Cat can also block.
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TL;DR

1. Scout/beg for a Fighting cat that has Piercing Boomerangs, Big Boomerangs, Earplugs, Critical up S and Boomerang Pro.
2. Teach it Emergency Retreat and World's Strongest.
3. Make one weapon for each element and statuses, except Sleep and Para weapons because those are sub-par.