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The recently released location-based mobile gameThe Witcher: Monster Slayerbrings a light RPG system to the popular GPS gaming formula. Throughout the player’s travels across the real world, they will gather materials, items, and gold. Gold can be earned a few ways (or bought with real money) and is used primarily to purchase better equipment in the shop.
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Three types of equipable gear are currently available inThe Witcher: Monster Slayer, being Steel Swords, Silver Swords, and Witcher School Armor. There are a total of 16 swords available between the Steel and Silver varieties, and though they don’t have upgraded base stats like in the main games, their unique playerbonuses set them apartfrom one another.
Updated Jul 21, 2025 by Erik Petrovich:There is a huge variety of The Witcher: Monster Slayer swords, each with their own unique effects related to their school (except for named swords like Caerme). The Witcher: Monster Slayer best swords are those that provide meaningful bonuses compared to their gold cost, as well as the types of enemies that will likely be weaker to certain weapon types over others. While both Silver and Steel swords share properties if they belong to the same school, players often find that just because the enchantments are the same, their effectiveness against different enemy types varies.
Steel Swords
Steel SwordsinThe Witcherseries have long been associated with non-monster enemies and tend to have a longer blade and a flat crossguard. They are particularlyeffective against Humans and Non-Humans(which is a different category than Monsters) and the player starts with one automatically.
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There are only a few differences between the bonuses granted by Steel Swords and their counterpart Silver Swords of the same Witcher School. However, it’s usually best to choose different bonuses on each type that go along with one’s preferred playstyle. The exception to this is experience-boosting swords, which every player should try to acquire first to speed up leveling significantly.
6. Kaer Morhen Steel Sword
The Kaer Morhen Steel Sword is, unfortunately, no longer acquirable in-game. It was given to players for free during the first week ofThe Witcher: Monster Slayer’s release, and it’s not known whether it will be coming back. The10% boost to Monster kill Experienceis a pretty good starting buff and one that plenty of earlyplayers take advantage of.
5. Manticore Steel Sword
The Manticore Steel Sword is a very powerful weapon against agile and Fire-weak enemies thanks to its30% reduction of Sign cooldown. When used with Igni, this leads to much more rapid spellcasting (and thus higher damage output), but the Aard and Quen signs can also be used more often for their interrupting and defensive effects, too.
4. Wolven Steel Sword
The Wolven Steel Sword increases therate that the Critical Hit Meter chargeswith each hit. It’s a small buff,but significant enoughthat a player can get to the all-important Critical Hit phase a swing or two faster than normal.
3. Griffin Steel Sword
The Griffin Steel Sword is a weapon similar to the Manticore Steel Sword, in that it buffs theplayer’s ability to cast Signs. However, instead of a reduced cooldown, this sword simplyincreases the effectiveness of signs. Igni deals more damage, Aard interrupts longer, and Quen becomes a nearly-impenetrable self-buff.
2. Dawnbringer
Dawnbringer is perhapsThe Witcher: Monster Slayerbest sword for players who prefer to take to the streets in search of monsters after dark. It increases all damage at night by 10% when wielded during the night, though this restriction makes it functionally useless for players who only take on foes in daylight hours. For those who aren’t afraid to pursue Humans and Non-Humans at night, though, thatflat extra 10% damageimproves a Witcher’s prospects of victory significantly.
1. Caerme
The Steel Sword category inThe Witcher: Monster Slayeronly houses one named sword: Caerme. Caerme is one of the most expensive items in the game, and its50% bonus to all Critical Hit damageis equally huge. Just be prepared to farm Gold for a few weeks (or buy some Gold with real money) to be able to wield this impressive steel blade.
Silver Swords
Silver SwordsinThe Witcherseries are typically associated withhigher damage against Monstersand generally have an iconic forward-facing crossguard. If it doesn’t look human or humanoid, one can safely bet that a Silver Sword will get the job done.
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Unfortunately, the player does not start out with a Silver Sword right away – even the Kaer Morhen varietygiven to players initiallyfor free is a Steel sword. However, it doesn’t take too much regular play to amass enough Gold to buy a Monster-slaying sword, and one can also be picked up in the Starter Bundle available for $4.99 in-game.
6. Wolven Silver Sword
The Wolven Silver Sword is functionally the same as its equivalent sword in the Steel category, though it costs a significant 400 gold more. Itincreases the rate at which the Critical Hit Meter chargesfor both Fast and Strong Attacksby 10%, though it costs a whopping 3600 gold to add to the inventory. It’s not the most powerful Silver Sword, but it’s still a huge improvement on the featureless Witcher Silver Sword that comes with theWitcher: Monster Slayerstarter pack.
5. Griffin Silver Sword
The Griffin Silver Sword is equivalent to the Steel Sword variety of the same Witcher School. Itincreases the effectiveness of Signs by 30%, which is particularly useful against Monsters as many are weak to Fire damage and vastly improves the Quen and Aard signs too. It is 400 Gold more expensive than its counterpart, though.
4. Feline Silver Sword
The Feline Silver Sword’s bonus is a simple one that slightlyincreases damage output with Fast Attacks(rapid, untimed swipes). It might seem like such a minor buff that it doesn’t matter all; however, when one considers that it reduces time in combat by 15% because it means fewer swings to down a Monster, its self-survivalbenefits become apparent.
3. Ursine Silver Sword
Similar to the Feline Silver Sword, the Ursine Silver Sword gives asmall damage bonusto the player, this timefor Strong Attacks. If a player happens to have both of theseWitcher: Monster Slayerswords available, they should always verify to equip the one associated with a damage type that their foe is weak against before beginning combat.
2. Melltith
The Silver Sword category is home to two named weapons. Melltith is the second most expensiveweapon inThe Witcher: Monster Slayer, and it gives a pretty good bonus to every attack, no matter if it is Fast or Strong. Thechance to inflict Fire damageis small, but considering how many swings it takes to down some Monsters, it’s almost guaranteed to proc at least a few times.
1. A’Baeth
A’Baeth is both the most expensive item in the game and arguably theWitcher: Monster Slayerbest silver sword, too. This Silver Sword gives a25% boost to all Experiencefor killing monsters. It’s a far cry from the puny 10% granted by the Kaer Morhen Steel Sword, and it’s well worth the investment (if players can stick around long enough to save up gold to buy it, that is).
The Witcher: Monster Slayeris available for iOS and Android mobile devices.
