What meal?

[Peace]

I use a switch axe as my main weapon. Being newer, I recently learned the benefits of making my own meal!

What mixture of foods would be good for a switch axe? What would help me get better "RNG?"

Also how do I get ingredients/the best ingredients (fish, veggies, beer, etc)?

[Inny【🐭】Nazrin]

"Better RNG" can only be provided by the alcoholic drinks, giving you extra carves, money, or bonus rewards.

Defensive bonuses (fish) are usually pointless mid to late game, as the amount of defense it gives you vs what you already have is pitiful.

If you're fighting an elemental monster and don't have great elemental resistances, Vegetables are the way to go.

If you have health regen augments, increasing your attack (meat) will benefit you more than anything else.

https://fextralife.com/monster-hunter-world-canteen-and-ingredients-guide/

[Linguistically Inept]

more fresh ingredients = higher health boost (but you can also just chug a max potion to hit cap anyway so rarely do you want to eat specifically for it)

more fresh ingredients = higher chance at skill activations (% is rolled individually for each skill, so its not a 3 or nothing deal), no fresh ingredients = 0%, 6 = 100% (5 might be 100% too? dont quote me on that though)

3 (daily) skills change per hunt, and have no requirement

eating 2/4/6 food of the same colour provide a reliable (well; still needs to activate) skill; some are very good (blackbelt), some are niche (bombadier), some are trash (none spring to mind, but theyre there)

eating 2/4/6 meat/fish/veggies gives you +S/+M/+L attack/defence/ele res boosts

drinks dont give statistical bonuses like meat/fish/veggies, but provide 'reliable' (again, if they activate) skills... theyre bad/niche though (good for gathering)

paying for a meal with a voucher (obtainable from certain event quests, arena quests and rarely from argosy trade in boxes) gives your chosen meal 100% skill activation chance



... just eat for attack (L) most of the time tbh; theres no skill that particularily benefits swaxe (unless you're running some kind of status variant)

[JPM岩]

There is no "Switch Axe Perfect Meal" that exists, as skills are mostly random due to freshness and just what the daily skills are; Really, either Chef's Choice or Meat Platter are best choices

[Hammer Of Evil]

Originally posted by PeaceOfMind:

I use a switch axe as my main weapon. Being newer, I recently learned the benefits of making my own meal!

What mixture of foods would be good for a switch axe? What would help me get better "RNG?"

Also how do I get ingredients/the best ingredients (fish, veggies, beer, etc)?

well, i go by what my equipment's core philosophy is.

if it features stamina, eat the meal that procs better felyne stamina based boosts.

to get all the ingredients, consult a bunch of guides via google, and cross reference them because most of them are wrong.

building a swagaxe isn't so simple without barfing like 4 pages of text. join a monster hunter discord or min maxer group and ask them what builds you should be looking at.

[Lemonidas of Sourta]

Well, if you're using a Switch Axe with exhaust phials, Felyne Slugger (Red x 6 food) or if you're using blast/paralysis type, Felyne Specialist (Purple x 6) would be a good way to go. The chances of you getting that skill depends on how many fresh ingredients are in that color though.