Here’s where to find every monster and what they drop in Monster Hunter Now.

Below, we’ll take a look at Affinity, including what it does and how to increase it.

What Does Affinity Do?

A hunter standing in the streets with the Kulu-Ya-Ku Longsword equipped.

Affinity is essentially yourcritical hit chance, or your chance to critically hit with an attack.

As such, raising your Affinity makes your attacksmore likely to be critical hits.

Critical hits deal25 percent more damagethan normal hits.

Diablos, Kulu-Ya-Ku, Legiana, Pukei-Pukei, and Paolumu rampaging through a city

By the same token, some weapons may havenegative Affinity.

In this case, the negative Affinity percentage is thechance for the weapon to hit for less damage.

A negative Affinity hit will deal25 percent less damage.

A weapon, First Dance 3, with its affinity stat circled in orange.

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

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The level one stat for the Critical Eye skill that increases affinity.

barroth monster and mining gathering node split

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