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The hp.lock does not matter for me since i need 30 Minutes to kill him but damn that must have been annoying for Someone as skilled as you.

Great stuff im trying switch Axe myself but its kinda hard with staying mobile as a beginner.

Super late to the party...damn sorry switch axe mains i just started using it during the beta i thought it was pretty good its gonna be my secondary i knew little about it thought it was pretty good but you guys bring up valid points but honestly with it being less forgiving is gonna make you guys so much better i sucked with ls in world and in wilds it felt reallly good i feel like a fraud...havent got the counters down yet but the attacks i got a good feel for with that being said once you guys master it you got somethen to be proud of. Iv had a hard time learning weapons but i really like the game started in world took a long break then iceborn came out and iv had a hard time getting back in the groove if nothimg changes and you guys still master it theres nothing to talk about you overcame...even though it could be simpler or better you did what most can't....ls in wilds makes me feel like a fraud its more fluint but the focus strike makes me feel like a fraud but ls looks so cool but i couldn't figure it out in world but the game tips in wild helped more compared to world

how could you skip the annoying cutscene when u killed the monster ? is it mod or something tho ?? cuz it's really annoying

Rejoice, SWAGAXE is getting patched up.

I think the #1 problem with Swaxe is just that the damage numbers were really low. Counter seems intended to be more of a tool in the toolkit than a core identity and keep in mind that CB, a weapon where counters are part of its identity, can only counter in a specific form, doesn't want to counter *every* attack because some deal too much damage/KB and *requires* them to maintain good levels of damage (CB-playstyle only, more applicable to world than wilds). We could speculate that there could be significant morph-oriented equipment skills (as SAED-CB also has abysmally low damage) but I think its more likely that damage number tuning wasn't a priority for them for the first beta and the numbers were just off. There are a lot of wildly imbalanced weapons, not just Swaxe, so that seems more likely. It's a fair concern for sure though given Swaxe's history.

damn, all things considering, 8 minutes is a CRAZY clear time with a cart, that’s insanely impressive

While I liked swaxe simply because it is swaxe the MVs in this beta were just plain wack. Now I know the "spam mega move" meta isn't knew but the low commitment pokes with the axe and even the sword combos were so weak the damage numbers were pathetic. It really incentived you to spam the full release which imo isn't even as cool looking as ZSD which is also nerfed in this game. The cost of giving us this new mega move is that they had to nerf all our other attacks and they did not come up with a good balance. The commitment needed to even pull it off should justify the damage while not nerfing everything else about the weapon

dont say x yu triangle. say what it is. block, etc.

What’s the song name? 😅

This song has been used by angbata so much it feels weird on another channel

I think people are misunderstanding the point of the sword mode counter, IMO. The sword counter I think should be used on weak attacks to hit them with the double slash followup. The duration of the counter window is really large compared to other counters in the game, so it makes sense that it's not as useful as a traditional "counter". If Swaxe's counter gave full immunity to damage it would be insanely strong, as it would be really easy to just counter any big hit coming your way. The other weapons with small counter windows require a good amount of skill and monster knowledge to be able to counter their big moves effectively, whereas I was able to use the sword-mode counter really easily in the beta, and it was my first time picking up the weapon.

moveset is cool, damage is shit, counter is shitter

What Swax in Wilds needs: A) Motion value adjustments (buffs). B) Way less chip damage on the sword counter. C) Lower gauge consumption with standard sword attacks. What would be nice but harder to implement: D) A follow-up counter/unique dodge after the sword counter. E) The ability to delay the off-set swing but keep the chip damage outside of actual "off set" success. F) Short I-frames on the Fade Slash. Successfully dodging an attack with it triggers a "perfect dodge" and grants passive sword gauge regeneration for a fifteen seconds (this one is a bit of a stretch :P).

Good video, although I think it would have benefited from having more clips to show exactly the things you were talking about (having to turn around after the counter, the way that LS can counter multiple times, etc). The complaints feel a lot more substantial when there's a visual example showing how annoying the problems actually are

Not gonna buy mhwilds just because I feel like SA is even worse than in mhw which was already pretty bad.

The switch axe counter are so incredible in Wilds!

Same brother. I played one day of it, and I immediately felt so disappointed. No Offset in Sword mode(R2+O morphs you into an Axe: Forward Overhead Slash, shoulda been the offset), sword eats hella meter, no passive axe regen, lack of meaningful morph attacks, mobility options are trash and attack ranges + movement during attacks are stiff, counters take too much damage, elemental and zero-sum discharge are outclassed by unbridled/full release slash but the attack takes too much time and has no shortcut like double slash into elemental discharge, the gameplan of the weapon is just using all your meter for unbridled/full release and following up with spiral burst slash to get gauge back and unbridled/full release again. Overall, did not feel good and despite some kickback I was getting for voicing this opinion, I'm looking toward the bigger picture when the game is fully released. If other weapons are strong now with demo stats, they're going to be absurd with better weapons, skills, systems, augments, etc. If Switch Axe is weak now, its going to take the planets aligning to reach stardom.

omg finally someone finally address the swaxe problem

I think the complains about not being able to do the sword counter from axe mode and vise versa is more of a mentality issue, I instantly had the mentality that the axe counter is much harder to pull off but if I am already in axe mode and I am confident I can counter it with the offset otherwise I dodge, and in sword mode the whole thing is about the flow, I attack the monster and counter as soon as I see it attacking me to keep the flow going which feels GOOD (I agree we take too much damage from the sword counter but that can be easily fixed hopefully, and maybe its just because we had bad armor?)

this felt good to watch

Dangg so cool

What even is a counter that doesn't negate damage?

What is the layered weapon skin u have on

all i hear is skill issues.

That was actually awesome

other weapons: nice i landed a counter switch axe: oops i should have just dodged

My palico healing me at the end because of the amount of chip damage I got from the counters. FFS

So much chip damage from the sword counter 😂 like why does it hurt so bad lol

When i tried switch axe (first time touching it, never tried it in world) i actually never seen prompts for counter or offset on the list. And r2+anything seems like 120% guarantee of disaster for this weapon: Game eats input / lag / misclick = enjoy switch animation and not move/counter. Like how is this went through qa?

Like @ハク-q6e1j said here in the comments - sword mode feels unsatisfying - the sword counter takes too much damage (why does it take damage in the first place?) - offset is hard to time correctly - what is full release slash's purpose? I would be adding to his list that - The new SA is forced to play with full release because 1: even if you only use a discharge, it almost completely drains your switch gauge so that's why 2: you cannot play ZSD spam AND 3: the rest of the moveset has trash tier damage for some ungodly reason. I main SA in World and Rise, on one hand they took a step in the right direction in rise with combos and the new moves, but then they lowered the axe mode power which rendered it useless. And now in Wilds? They did a 180 degree turn where everything feels weird.

Yeah honestly think both counters need a buff especially the sword version because not only do you still take a massive amount of damage but you don't really do anything afterwards that makes it worth using so the sword counter feels useless and my issue with the axe counter is that it only topples the monster once so most of the benefits of the axe counter require you to follow it up so the counter on the axe seems to be only worth using once for the whole fight

5:38 I'm actually so glad you brought this up cuz this is probably my biggest gripe with sword mode counter. Because perfect example is Doshaguma's triple paw combo when he's fully enraged. Like if I was playing Lance I can perfect guard and then press triangle to do the quick poke back for the first two and then I can do the high thrust after countering the third one. But with switch axe after countering the first paw I'm a sitting duck, because my only options outside of that is to hope that I hopped to the side quick enough to either evade it or maybe be able to squeeze that counter in but most of the time that's not going to work. That's like if Lance did a perfect block and their only option was high thrust... That would feel garbage so I don't know why they did that for switch axe. Not only that there's literally no reason for them to not have it be able to be done back-to-back, if that was the case I would basically have zero problems with sword mode counter. Also, and this is just a personal wish, I was really disappointed with the options that you have out of it. Like I was kind of hoping after you did the counter and you pressed the input for ZSD you can just do EBC after. Like all you really had to do was let us access it from being in full power sword mode with full meter, you didn't have to take it away completely I mean you let Hammer keep keeping sway and Lance skyward thrust off of Mount finisher, it's only fair.

I'm of the opinion that it's more true to Switch Axe to be evading attacks rather than using counters that they gave to the weapon... so, like you said, why did they really add the counters? I don't think we were really asking for them, we didn't have any until the silkbind in Sunbreak and in that case it's an outlier with limitations on its use, but one that's really fun. We weren't really asking for a janky one that hurts us when we use it. Between that, and how slow the new discharges are whilst also being the only attacks that do worthwhile damage, It makes it feel like they don't understand what we liked about SA.

So, switch axe sucks, insect glaive sucks, lance sucks. Is anything good? I haven't really heard anything positive about MHWilds.

Swaxe is my fav weapon to use, but it really is all risk, with very little reward. Perfect gameplay still leaves you trailing behind so many other weapons in terms of clear times. Sad.

I think the sword counter should be like a long sword parry but could be should just have little dmg, not be very repeatable like foresight slash, but has the s and the ability to help you gain energy.

I agree with you on everything.. but I think there is too little time left until the release and the only thing they can do is reduce the damage taken. They should give a small window of invincibility if the counter is timed perfectly. Also need to be able to counter after counter.. because many monsters do 2-3 hits in a row.. look at the doshaguma..

i feel like whats messing me up the most is shifting movement abilities around, it used to be so fluid by itself in iceborne but now it feels so immobile on an already fairly immobile weapon without evade extender

Switch axe doesn't suck your just trying to get views thumbs down for that