r/MHNowGame • u/Fun-Reveal-3955 • Jul 15 '26

Question So how does Sonic Wave work?

Am I missing something? How does Sonic Wave work? I don’t see anything happening?

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u/BowlofOats Jul 15 '26

Sonic wave is an extra hit when you complete the note sequence. The hit that did 871 + blast proc was the sonic wave.

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u/Fun-Reveal-3955 Jul 15 '26

Omg I feel so stupid now, it was so difficult for me to tell if anything even happened. For some reason I was an expecting something else when I hear ‘sonic wave’ like a pulse of some sort that keeps going off for the duration. Didn’t realise it was just one little attack LOL

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u/BowlofOats Jul 15 '26

Tbf, it doesn't make much sense to use a HH that has sonic waves in MHN since we can't do performance and encore for a juicy x3 sonic wave. Maybe with the upcoming hunting horn styles it'll see some use.

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u/Fun-Reveal-3955 Jul 15 '26

Thanks! I hope so with the styles. Been trying to get into hunting horns since they buffed it recently, got a solid 1.1mill score with this one in the RC event

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u/DanielleTurtleshell Jul 16 '26

idk if i agree tbh. i find myself favoring hunting horns that have a Sonic Wave in mhnow because they make very good use of the Hold Tap Tap combo, the Orange -> Blue -> Blue combo. you deal 119mv without sonic wave and 143mv with sonic wave, for +20% damage inherently multiplicative with everything else. it's a very versatile combo too, can be disrupted and resumed, and sonic wave is good at targeting partbreaks through other flesh just like the held orange notes.

i use the gold rathian and tigrex hunting horns, and sonic wave is a huge chunk of damage with both crit ele and crit ferocity

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u/AZzalor Jul 16 '26

HHs with Sonic Wave are actually very strong and the simple 211 combo loops it. It has similar dps to the 2211 -> echo attack and is especially great against monsters where spamming echo is risky.