Best Dango Combinations for All Weapons | Gamer Guides: Y... (2024)

Before going on a hunt, you can eat Dango that’ll give you various skills and buffs that’ll make the hunt a bit easier in Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak. You can choose three Dango flavors when you eat, but some Dango favor different weapons. This page will show you some of the best combinations to take depending on your weapon. For the most part, these are universal, but some other weapons like the ranged weapons will have different Dango’s.

Best Dango’s for Damage¶

This set of Dango’s will offer you the highest amount of damage increase. As it focuses on purely damage, you may only want to use this set if you’re comfortable with the fight.

Icon	Dango	Activation Chance	Effects
	Mint-iature	70%	Dango Booster: Temporarily increases attack and defense after consumption, once. Grants 9 attack and 15 defense for 10 minutes at the start of the quest. The Level 4 effect increases this to 15 attack and 30 defense while using Hopping Skewers.
	Invigorating	50%	Dango Fighter: Reduces stamina depletion when evading, blocking, or doing certain other actions.
	Spud-luck	90%	Dango Weakener: Large monsters encountered on quests have an increased chance of being weaker than normal. At level 4, it changes to “Far more likely”.
	Easy-Breezy	50%	Dango Shifter: Performing a Switch Skill Swap slightly recovers health. This skill is on here for when it’s paired with the armor skill Dereliction. Dereliction drains your health to increase your attack when using a Switch Skill Swap. This helps nullify the cons of Dereliction. At level 4, it reduces initial stamina consumption too.
	Blastslash	70%	Dango Polisher: Speeds up weapon sharpening. Dango Pyro: Upgrades Large Barrel Bombs to Mega Barrel Bombs. Quicker weapon sharpening means more time to fight which equals quicker hunts. Having more Mega Barrel Bombs to place when a monster is down or asleep equals more damage.

Best Dango’s for Defense¶

This set of Dango’s will offer you the highest amount of defense. This is ideally used on tougher monsters like the Afflicted or monsters with attacks that you’re not familiar with.

Icon	Dango	Activation Chance	Effects
	Super Bestnut	85%	Dango Defender (Hi) High possibility that damage taken will be decreased. The Level 4 effect greatly decreases the damage taken while using Hopping Skewers.
	Self-Kelp	80%	Dango Defender: Whenever you take a set amount of damage, damage from the next hit is slightly reduced. The Level 4 effect greatly decreases the damage taken while using Hopping Skewers.
	Hide-and-Seek	60%	Super Recovery Dango: Gradually recovers health over time when discovered by a large monster. This is a great skill to have as it’ll slowly regenerate your health. What makes this great is you can leave it to heal chip damage which saves you wasting potions on them which can put yourself in a compromising position when you use said potions.
	Easy-Breezy	50%	Dango Shifter: Performing a Switch Skill Swap slightly recovers health. Another nice way to heal chip damage.

See Also

Dango List: Effects and How to Unlock | Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak｜Game8Monster Hunter Rise: Everything You Need To Know About Dango

Best Dango’s for Hammer, Hunting Horn, and Sword and Shield (Shield Build)¶

The blunt weapons can use the damage Dango combination mentioned above, or you could make use of the Dizzybloom Dango to take advantage of their stunning capabilities. The Sword and Shield is only put here for the raw shield builds.

Icon	Dango	Activation Chance	Effects
	Dizzybloom	50%	Dango Slugger: Makes it easier to stun monsters.
	Mint-iature	70%	Dango Booster: Temporarily increases attack and defense after consumption, once. Grants 9 attack and 15 defense for 10 minutes at the start of the quest. The Level 4 effect increases this to 15 attack and 30 defense while using Hopping Skewers.
	Invigorating	50%	Dango Fighter: Reduces stamina depletion when evading, blocking, or doing certain other actions.
	Spud-luck	90%	Dango Weakener: Large monsters encountered on quests have an increased chance of being weaker than normal. At level 4, it changes to “Far more likely”.
	Easy-Breezy	50%	Dango Shifter: Performing a Switch Skill Swap slightly recovers health. This skill is on here for when it’s paired with the armor skill Dereliction. Dereliction drains your health to increase your attack when using a Switch Skill Swap. This helps nullify the cons of Dereliction. At level 4, it reduces initial stamina consumption too.
	Blastslash	70%	Dango Polisher: Speeds up weapon sharpening. Dango Pyro: Upgrades Large Barrel Bombs to Mega Barrel Bombs. Quicker weapon sharpening means more time to fight which equals quicker hunts. Having more Mega Barrel Bombs to place when a monster is down or asleep equals more damage.

Best Dango Combinations for Gunlance¶

The Gunlance is put on its own as it can make use of some other Dango’ that a normal melee build won’t get much use of other than specific builds. If you’re playing a predominant poke style build, you can stick with the normal damage combination. If you’re using a wide-shelling type style, use this combination.

Icon	Dango	Activation Chance	Effects
	Fruitflash	50%	Dango Bombardier: Increases damage to Sticky Ammo and gunlance shells. A must-have for Gunlance shelling builds, this will increase the damage to your shells by approximately 10% when using hopping skewers for the level 4 effect.
	Mint-iature	70%	Dango Booster: Temporarily increases attack and defense after consumption, once. Grants 9 attack and 15 defense for 10 minutes at the start of the quest. The Level 4 effect increases this to 15 attack and 30 defense while using Hopping Skewers.
	Spud-luck	90%	Dango Weakener: Large monsters encountered on quests have an increased chance of being weaker than normal. At level 4, it changes to “Far more likely”.
	Easy-Breezy	50%	Dango Shifter: Performing a Switch Skill Swap slightly recovers health. This skill is on here for when it’s paired with the armor skill Dereliction. Dereliction drains your health to increase your attack when using a Switch Skill Swap. This helps nullify the cons of Dereliction. At level 4, it reduces initial stamina consumption too.

Best Dango Combinations for Dual Swords¶

As Dual Swords are a lot more Stamina reliant these are also put on their own. Ideally you should choose Mint-iature, one of Pinea-full or Invigorating, and any of Spud-Luck, Blastslash, or Easy-Breezy depending on your build.

Icon	Dango	Activation Chance	Effects
	Mint-iature	70%	Dango Booster: Temporarily increases attack and defense after consumption, once. Grants 9 attack and 15 defense for 10 minutes at the start of the quest. The Level 4 effect increases this to 15 attack and 30 defense while using Hopping Skewers.
	Pinea-full	80%	Dango Glutton: Reduces stamina consumption for a certain period after eating. This is great at level 4 with the hopping skewers as it’ll stop your stamina cap from reducing too.
	Invigorating	50%	Dango Fighter: Reduces stamina depletion when evading, blocking, or doing certain other actions.
	Spud-luck	90%	Dango Weakener: Large monsters encountered on quests have an increased chance of being weaker than normal. At level 4, it changes to “Far more likely”.
	Easy-Breezy	50%	Dango Shifter: Performing a Switch Skill Swap slightly recovers health. This skill is on here for when it’s paired with the armor skill Dereliction. Dereliction drains your health to increase your attack when using a Switch Skill Swap. This helps nullify the cons of Dereliction. At level 4, it reduces initial stamina consumption too.
	Blastslash	70%	Dango Polisher: Speeds up weapon sharpening. Dango Pyro: Upgrades Large Barrel Bombs to Mega Barrel Bombs. Quicker weapon sharpening means more time to fight which equals quicker hunts. Having more Mega Barrel Bombs to place when a monster is down or asleep equals more damage.

Best Dango Combinations for Ranged¶

This varies slightly depending on what ranged weapon you’re using.

Icon	Dango	Activation Chance	Effects
	Mint-iature	70%	Dango Booster: Temporarily increases attack and defense after consumption, once. Grants 9 attack and 15 defense for 10 minutes at the start of the quest. The Level 4 effect increases this to 15 attack and 30 defense while using Hopping Skewers.
	Centering	55%	Dango Feet: Prevents you from getting knocked on your butt. Dango Marksman: Increases the power of shots and arrows. Great for all the ranged weapons when it procs. The knockdown prevention is nice too.
	Beansplosion	50%	Dango Temper Increases ammo damage, but also increases deviation. This is best used with the Bowguns.
	Fruitflash	50%	Dango Bombardier: Increases damage of Sticky Ammo and gunlance shells. This is only worth using if you’re using a sticky ammo build.
	Pinea-full	80%	Dango Glutton: Reduces stamina consumption for a certain period after eating. This is great at level 4 with the hopping skewers as it’ll stop your stamina cap from reducing too. Decent for all ranged, although better for Bow.
	Invigorating	50%	Dango Fighter: Reduces stamina depletion when evading, blocking, or doing certain other actions. Decent for all ranged, although better for Bow.
	Spud-luck	90%	Dango Weakener: Large monsters encountered on quests have an increased chance of being weaker than normal. At level 4, it changes to “Far more likely”.
	Easy-Breezy	50%	Dango Shifter: Performing a Switch Skill Swap slightly recovers health. This skill is on here for when it’s paired with the armor skill Dereliction. Dereliction drains your health to increase your attack when using a Switch Skill Swap. This helps nullify the cons of Dereliction. At level 4, it reduces initial stamina consumption too.

Best Safe Dango’s for Multiplayer¶

This set is more for newer players who don’t want to cause the team to wipe due to carting. Berry Safe is a daily special. If it isn’t available, choose Balancing instead. Make sure to use a resistance Dango as one of the three choices.

Icon	Dango	Activation Chance	Effects
	Berry Safe	85%	Dango Insurance: Prevents your group from being penalized the first time a member faints. This will nullify your death counting towards the three cart limit for failing the quest. This only works once though.
	Magnaboar	60%	Dango Moxie: Prevents fainting one time when damage taken exceeds your remaining health. This allows you to survive one attack that would normally cart you.
	Balancing	55%	Dango Feet: Prevents you from getting knocked on your butt. This is helpful as most newer players will get knocked down, and get hit by a follow-up attack that will cart you.

Resistance Dango’s¶

Choose the Resistance Dango that the monster mainly uses for its attacks. For example, Thunder for Zinogre, and Fire for Rathalos.

Icon	Dango	Activation Chance	Effects
	Dragonsbane	90%	Dango Dragon Res (Hi): Significantly increases dragon resistance. Dragon resistance + 10, +20 at Level 4.
	Lava-hot Egg	90%	Dango Fire Res (Hi): Significantly increases fire resistance. Fire resistance + 10, +20 at Level 4.
	Spicejolt	90%	Dango Thunder Res (Hi): Significantly increases thunder resistance. Thunder resistance + 10, +20 at Level 4.
	Sub-zero	90%	Dango Ice Res (Hi): Significantly increases ice resistance. Ice resistance + 10, +20 at Level 4.
	Waterfall	90%	Dango Water Res (Hi): Significantly increases water resistance. Water resistance + 10, +20 at Level 4.

Best Gathering Dango’s¶

This set should be used when going to expeditions for gathering purposes. The three below are on a rotation as a Daily Special. Always choose them if they’re available, including their lower level variant.

Icon	Dango	Activation Chance	Effects
	Raisin d’être	90%	Dango Harvester: Reduces the time between gathering point respawns. This can reduce the time the gathering points respawn by approximately 20%.
	Very Hap-peanut	70%	Dango Miracle Worker: Often increases the number of reward items received at the end of a quest.
	The Kamura	90%	Dango Calculator: Increases the number of Kamura Points you receive at the end of a quest.

Best Hunt Expedition Dango’s¶

Used purely for hunting multiple monsters in Expeditions.

Icon	Dango	Activation Chance	Effects
	Triple Rose	80%	Dango Carver (Hi): Often increases the number of times you can carve. Being able to carve an extra one or two times can make farming a lot less tedious.
	Very Hap-peanut	70%	Dango Miracle Worker: Often increases the number of reward items received at the end of a quest. Getting more materials also makes farming a lot less tedious.
	Chirp Chirp	80%	Dango Bird Caller: Makes Spiribirds more likely to approach you. This can speed up your hunts by getting Spiribug buffs.