Bloodborne help.

[Sunstrider]

Ludwig's will surely be stronger than the hunter's axe later on, so if you want to sub your axe with ludwig's then you better invest in skill scaling, then balancing out your strength and skill scaling because later on the skill scaling will give better stats than your strength as bananaking said, with this in mind, I have to ask, do you find the move set of ludwig's better than the axe? because if you're more comfortable with the axe's move set then you can stick with it till end game, otherwise, get ludwig's.