Consume the right meal before the hunt to inch closer to a victorious hunting journey. Monster Hunter Wilds now let’s hunters prepare their meals, enhancing their performance with the right combinations. Here are the top five Monster Hunter Wilds food buffs and meals to enjoy.

How Cooking Works in Monster Hunter Wilds

Luckily, hunters can easily cook their meals in Monster Hunter Wilds by acquiring all the necessary materials. There are three components to complete each meal, which are:

  1. Main Ingredient: Meat, Fish, or Veggies that provide base stat boosts
  2. Additional Ingredient: Adds special meal skills
  3. Finishing Touches: Enhances your meal with extra effects

All meals you’ll create will increase your HP by 50 and Stamina by 150 as the basic. However, successfully getting the right combinations grants you powerful advantages tailored to your hunting style.

1. Moxie Meal (Survive Fatal Damage)

Recipe:

  • Main: Meat (Attack +2)
  • Additional: Sild Garlic
  • Finishing Touch: Wild Herb (lessens effects of various ailments)

This meal grants you extremely powerful skills, preventing you from fainting once during a hunt. It’ll give you an extra life, increasing your chances of survival. This is very important when facing dangerous monsters or unfamiliar faces at times. 

Moreover, pairing the Moxie meal with the attack boost from meat pairs goes along with the defensive skill. It’ll allow players to hunt aggressively knowing they have a safety net. Also, the herb addition keeps them safe against any status effects. Due to this, the Moxie meal is considered by many as the ultimate survival meal. 

2. Defender Meal with Healing Boost

Recipe:

  • Main: Veggies (Defense +2, Elemental Resistance +3)
  • Additional: Kunafa Cheese
  • Finishing Touch: Eastern Honey

Creating this meal gives you a powerful defense combination, adding random defense throughout your hunt. The Kunafe Cheese provides the Defender Meal skill, which increases the hunter’s survivability. On the other hand, Eastern Honey provides an enhancement to all healing items’ effectiveness. So, your potions, lifepowders, and Horn healing melodies will significantly restore your health. It’ll be great for any challenging hunt to ensure your survival.

3. Black Belt Meal for Heavy Weapon Users

Recipe:

  • Main: Meat (Attack +2)
  • Additional: Droolshroom/Delishroom
  • Finishing Touch: Eastern Honey (increased healing)

Meanwhile, this meal helps players with stamina management. When wielding heavy weapons such as Hammers, Charge Blades and Great Swords, hunters use a chunk of their stamina. The Black Belt Meal skill reduces their stamina consumption when evading or using powerful attacks.

Combining this with the attack boost from meat, hunters can keep their aggressive pressure until the end. It’ll guarantee to sustain the stamina throughout the encounter with the monster.

4. Caprice Meal for Combo Weapons

Recipe:

  • Main: Meat (Attack +2)
  • Additional: Fluffy Egg/Airy Egg
  • Finishing Touch: Wild Herb (lessens effects of various ailments)

Another great Monster Hunter Wilds food buffs and meals is the Caprice which is used for combo weapons. Dual Blades, Insect Glaive, and Sword and Shield usually benefit from this skill since it randomly provides attack boosts. It increases the chances of triggering when weapons hit frequently. 

Players can also receive increased potency of random boosts with the Airy Egg variant. It’ll be useful when you want to maximize your damage output. 

5. Tumbler Meal for Evasion Hunting

Recipe:

  • Main: Fish (Defense +4)
  • Additional: Mud Shrimp/Turbid Shrimp
  • Finishing Touch: Monster Chili (negates effects of hot/cold climates)

For hunters with evading playstyle, the Tumbler meal serves perfectly. It increases the hunter’s evading distance while rolling and adds on mobility, allowing players to position. This is great with weapons used for precise play such as Bowgun, Long Sword, or Bow. 

You can also earn a defensive boost from this through a safety buffer, after imperfect dodges. Also, the Monster Chili allows the hunters to keep their focus on hunting without any environmental effects. 

Conclusion 

It’ll be best to be smart with your consumption of food buffs and meals in Monster Hunter Wilds. All these recipes will provide you with significant enhancement to the gameplay, allowing you to deal damage against monsters. Plus, it’ll help you with the quick and smooth progression by making you a well-rounded hunter from defense to offense.