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Sword and Shield hunters focus on using a wide variety of elemental swords to inflict quick considerable damage. The Sword and Shield weapon class is the primary weapon type that hunters utilize in the Monster Hunter series. Also known as SnS, this weapon type exploits the natural speed and agility of the light-weight sword in conjunction with a small shield. A hunter is able to run and perform a rolling dodge with this weapon unsheathed, and is able to suppress certain types of attacks within the shield's meagerly-sized hitbox with a block. The hunter can also use an a item while in the shielding stance. While staying this impressively mobile, the typical SnS only has a limited damage potential; indeed, some of the lowest attack power in the game makes its home in the SnS category. To compensate SnS attack quickly and many of the weapons in this category are imbued with powerful elemental properties or status ailment inflictions. This makes them the best bladed weapon for inducing status affects such as paralysis, poison and sleep.