What is best element for hammer?

[RedOcean]

I'm thinking about making a hammer build and looking from the outside it seems like the paralyze and sleep element is pretty good. I've also thought about blast. Are any of these good?

[Singrave]

hammer progression guide
https://pastebin.com/tfDuYU64

[Peshmerga]

None. Go with high raw. Call dibs on monster head. Go to town on its head. Uppercut snipe head to gap close. Be in power mode. Time Level 3 charge attacks on head. Monster down, Big Bang combo on head.

Repeat.

[明星ヒマリ]

Get the one with high raw and slot in slugger. Done.

[Okami]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJKAQggSs9Q
Listen to Ramsay. He's a Hammer master.

[Waffles]

The best element for hammer is stunning the **** out of the monster with raw damage.

[DarkFenix]

Slow hard hitting weapons are all best off with high raw damage. So in other words the Diablos tree is the best hands down. It takes the fastest weapons to be better with elemental.

[Peshmerga]

Though you can build a hammer and armor skills to easily apply status effects like paralyze and sleep by using the "spin-to-win" move.

But why would you?

Let the puny edged weapons like SnS, DB, LS, Lance, Gunlance do the status effects while you take the glory and do the big damage.

[White Glint]

If you gotta pick, I'd go for Paralysis.

[Voodoo]

Imo diablos
slap on elementless, weakness exploit and go for the head.

[arkenDuelcalion]

Any of those should be fine, it just might depend on which sound more fun: getting more free hits on the head with para, abusing hammer's golfswing / charged slam when the monster falls asleep, or having occasional bursts of extra damage go off every once in a while.

[Mirai]

The final hammer in the barroth tree is amazing if you want to paralyze, I highly recommend it with paralysis chram not only do you paralyze but you still knock monsters the F out cause it's a hammer

[Okami]

Originally posted by Mirai:

The final hammer in the barroth tree is amazing if you want to paralyze, I highly recommend it with paralysis chram not only do you paralyze but you still knock monsters the F out cause it's a hammer

does the KO build up when paralized ? possibly looping Stun/para/stun/para... ?

[Dex]

I'm going down the nergigante tree right now. Generally because of how elemental works, you want high raw damage instead. The Diablos hammer gives pure raw damage I think, if you use that gem that increases non-elemental damage with that, I assume that'd be really powerful.

[Mirai]

Yes I have knocked out monsters while paralyzed and paralyzed while they're knocked down, you can some real nasty combos with the thing

[Rick25]

Since hammer can stun I would say THAT is your status element. Dont worry too much for those if you are using a hammer, I think your palico can even trigger one of those 2 way faster than you, so I would say raw damage is okay.

But if you really want to pick, I would say paralysis is good.