MHGU Talisman Odds

How talismans roll

A charm is turned into a talisman in one roll, the same way whether it came from a quest or the Melding Pot. Each of the four charms has its own skill tables and its own slot table.

1. First skill. One entry of the charm's first-skill table, every entry equally likely. There are no weights. Its points are any value in the entry's range, each equally likely.
2. Second skill or not. Mystery Charms never get one. Shining get one 65% of the time, Timeworn 75%, Enduring 85%.
3. Second skill. One entry of the second-skill table, equally likely. If its range runs from negative to positive, a coin flip picks the side first: half the time it rolls 1 to the top, half the time the minimum to 0. A roll of 0 removes the skill. If it lands on the same skill as the first, the second skill is deleted, not rerolled.
4. Skill strength. The game rates each skill against the best it could have rolled. A skill at its top value counts as fully strong; a negative second skill counts as nothing.
5. Slots. The stronger the skills, the worse the slot odds. A talisman with both skills at their top value gets the worst slot odds the charm has.
6. Which talisman. Strong skills and more slots give the higher name. Each charm has its own set: Pawn and Bishop, Knight and Rook, Queen to Dragon, Hero to Creator.

The Melding Pot

You trade 3 talismans and Wycademy Points for charms. Every melded charm rolls its second skill on the positive side only, so a melded talisman never has a negative or zero second skill.

• Mystery, Luminous, Ancient, Fabled: 3 talismans of one band for 1 Mystery, Shining, Timeworn or Enduring Charm.
• Halcyon: any 3 from Pawn to Dragon for 1 to 6 Mystery, Shining or Timeworn Charms.
• Juju: any 3 from Pawn to Dragon for up to 2 Enduring Charms plus 1 or 2 Timeworn.

For Halcyon and Juju, higher talismans (up to Dragon) make more charms. Three Queen, King or Dragon Talismans make Juju give exactly 2 Enduring Charms every time.

The talismans are rolled the moment you place the order. The wait in quests only counts down; finishing a quest moves every order one step closer.

Other MHGU Apps

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• Quest RandomizerRolls random quests when you can't decide what to hunt.
• Collection TrackerTracks which weapons, armor and Palico gear you own, and what it costs to finish them.
• Equipment BoxMirrors the in-game box — 2000 hunter slots and 1000 Palico — so you can plan where things sit.
• BingoBuilds a bingo card of hunting goals, with a shareable seed so a group can race the same board.
• Hunting LogKeeps a running record of your hunts — what you were after, what you wore, who came along.
• Zenny GauntletA scored challenge run — fail a hunt or get carted and you lose that weapon/style combo for the rest of the run.
• Set BuilderAssemble a full set by hand and see exactly which skills it activates.
• Weapon TreesBrowse every weapon upgrade tree, with full stats on any node you click.
• Challenge RunA permadeath challenge run — start from a root weapon, lose it on any quest failure, clear every Key Quest.
• Charm FarmA Clicker/Idle game about beating up various Brachydios until you finally get the desired God Charms you always wanted.
• Talisman BingoA bingo card of talisman conditions — keep drawing charms until one finally fills the line you needed.
• FishingA fishing sim on the game's own tables — prepare at camp, travel to a locale, come home with the catch.
• Armor ViewerRenders a hunter in 3D with every armor piece swappable, so you can mix and match a set.
• Monster ViewerRenders every monster in 3D with its own motion lists, so you can watch what they actually do.
• Armor Skills ExplainedEvery armor skill: the game's own description, then what it actually does, with the numbers.
• Talisman Odds you are hereEnter a talisman and see the exact odds of rolling it, from quest charms and the Melding Pot.

About

An unofficial, non-commercial fan reference for MHGU's talismans. Enter a talisman and it shows the exact chance of getting it from each charm and each Melding Pot style, and how that number is built.

Where the numbers come from: the game's own charm tables and the code that rolls them, read from the game files. The calculation here was checked against the game's own code, run step by step, before it was published. The odds are exact, not estimates from simulated rolls.

Development: Built by the author with substantial help from Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding tool, reviewed and directed by the author.

Menu textures and font: carried over from the sibling MHGU apps.

Brachydios icon: from the Monster Hunter Wiki on Fandom, by way of Charm Farm, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.

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