Amazing guide, my friend. One of the best to make guide videos out there. We really appreciate the work you do. Looking forward to your next guides in mh6
You guys already know the drill, timestamps for those interested in only specific things Timestamps: 0:00 "Intro" 0:12 Breakdown of the guide 2:02 Which weapons to use? 2:18 How to augment my Insect Glaives 2:36 Which Rampage Decos and when? 3:04 Why only Poison for Raw/Status? 3:45 The Builds 4:35 Elemental Non-HP drain Build 4:46 Details of this Build 5:15 Elemental HP drain Build (Dereliction) 5:26 Details of this Build 5:50 Raw/Status Non-HP drain Build 6:00 Details of this Build 6:30 Raw/Status HP drain Build (Dereliction) 6:41 Details of this Build 7:14 Understanding the Insect Glaive mechanics 7:20 Part 1 - The extract/buff system 8:38 More details on this system 9:05 Which Kinsects to use? 9:55 To every single Kinsect not mentioned in this video... 10:51 The Best Kinsect for Elemental playstyle 11:01 The Best Kinsect for Raw Atk playstyle 11:20 The Best Kinsect for Powder Vortex playstyle 11:30 Why these Kinsects over the others? 12:20 Difference between Severing and Blunt Kinsects 14:35 More info on Elemental and Boosted Powder Kinsects 14:59 More info on Raw and Dual Color Kinsects 17:18 Really helpful tip for the Dual Color (Defense) Kinsect 17:48 Switch Skills & Gameplay tips 18:00 Prefered Switch Skill loadout for both playstyles 21:35 Raw Insect Glaive general gameplan 22:50 Elemental Insect Glaive general gameplan 23:57 The Powder Vortex playstyle 26:35 Which Insect Glaive for Powder Vortex? 27:15 Advancing Roundslash is an amazing move 27:24 Active Counter frames of the Advancing Roundslash move 27:35 Best and last overall tip for Insect Glaive combat 28:15 Last messages and upcoming content
I love how IG is like, the only weapon where it is efficient to do that since we don’t have Le funny Counter that does big Damage like all the other weapons. 🤣
I was so ready to throwdown and fight if you called my kinsect trash lol. But you didn't. I absolutely love love love powder kinsects. They legitimately saved IG for me because--yes--they're strong. But more importantly, they're interesting and fun.
I love we have a minimum of 3 different types of Kinsects to play around, each with their own pros and cons at endgame fr, really disliked how all the previous games with IG had that one Kinsect that completely decimates all the competition and immediately made you feel bad if you choose to not use it.
Ofc I see this video after having just finished making all my IG sets hahaha. Have been playing insect glaive ever since GU and have well over 1000 hours using, it but always love learning what is considered meta skills for the weapon in every game. I'll take what I like from this video and try to make some comfy sets, keep up the good work!
I got a wind mantle +3 and buildup boost +2 with 2 lvl 2 slots that has been super sexy for making sets for like flaming espinas and lucent narga ig, but it still feels like i'm always trying to make better charms for the elemental attacks that aren't status lol
Thanks, about the smoother graphics you're perceiving, is probably the couple Reshade filters I have going with my game, always use them in most of my games to get better colors and slightly sharper images without any issues whatsoever.
Then you are set for both non-HP drain templates already, although for the Elemental one, if you get a Burst 2-3 Talisman with good slots it would be perfect, but a Critical Element 2-3 one also works (replace the Crit Ele decos with Burst decos then).
I think insect glaive is a very fun weapon but some of the shit glaive players have had to put up with in the 5th generation is just straight up not ok and I hope it gets fixed in 6th Gen
It's honestly depressing watching the downfall of IG damage-wise from 4U to Sunbreak, as it keeps this constant feeling of "man this weapon is so fun but it does no damage" constantly at the back of you mind if you play other weapons. At this point my only wish for the future is that they might as well commit to this recent version in Sunbreak and begin buffing the Aerial playstyle to the point where is actually truly equal, if not, slightly stronger than Grounded, with how many BS vertical hitboxes they added to monster in the 5th Gen (and specially in Sunbreak) I fail to see why they are still afraid of that.
Maybe it's just me but I never felt IG was particularly weak. Like yeah it's not as good as optimal SnS but it's so much safer and more consistent plus aerial lets you avoid like 80% of monsters pretty easily so it's a trade off
My expectations of IG MIGHT be compromised with memories of how busted it was back when it debuted in MH4U, but I still stand that they could've done so much more for it in Sunbreak to make it better, not so much on the damage department, but on the QoL department. There is this one mod I played around with for a bit, that along some other minor changes, allows you to skill swap in the air with IG, with an added interaction with the Redirection lvl2 skill that gives you an extra jump as long as you keep triggering Redirection in the air, that particular interaction really made me realize how much more they could've done for IG to go all out with the craziness of Sunbreak. Cuz like, sure, we got the Power Vortex playstyle that is fun, unique and even pretty strong at times, but is so ass for casual playstyle + multiplayer hunts it's hard to not think on stuff like this. 😭
It's worth noting that IG during progression and IG endgame don't play the same way due to scaling, what you have, and match up. For examples: Assist Kinsect is entirely pointless before late Sunbreak, due to match up, sharpness economy, prevent it damage from catching up compared to Powder type. Use Powder Kinsect type will be more consistent while giving the same if not better results. Especially due to Assist Kinsect's dependent on sharpness for ground combo before having Mind's Eye. It take around post-Amatsu with Supercharge deco for Assist type to have viable damage, or perhap post-Awakened Kinsect Attack which is something I think worth experimenting a bit. Similar case with Kinsect Slash, due to stamina consumption and being slower and cover less distance, it's too much cost for little reward, even with Diving Wyvern which by itself is already a gamble in practice. You'll have better time and flexibility with Jumping Advancing Slash and Recall Kinsect Silkbind. Also Advancing Roundslash is almost entirely useless in entire progression due to sharpness cost, and IG already has a better gap closers, and due to IG being a close-range melee, it's prone to putting you out of position than being useful, IG already can have full uptime even without it as well, so timing for Roundslash alone can lead to a lot of dps loss.
I can say this because I been testing and running a few new playthroughs with IG in Rise Sunbreak, if we take the video's guide right away, it will lead to painful experiences.
The ears + tail (they are a single armor piece), the scarf and actually most of the Layered armor sets used during this video are all mods for PC, so if you are on console i'm sorry to disappoint with that answer. 😔
If it helps, somewhere around in the DLC store of the game, there is a Layered Cat and Dog ears and tail which while not as big and fluffy as these mods may help you with the look you are looking for.
@@hydeoutgaming I've been wondering too because the scarf looks cool as hell but knowing it is a mod really makes me sad :') I guess blood malice can be a replacement even if not as long as that
I will never understand why they didn't bring this Scarf back as an Event Layered Armor pìece seen how they were willing to bring back the Extra Buff Body, but who knows. 😩 And yeah, the Blood Malice Headgear might not be this long, but is still really cool and a decent alternative.
If i'm honest with you, Power Prolonger has never been a thing for Insect Glaive, getting an extra ~35 secs on your triple buff uptime for 3 Skill points is not really worth it when Insect Glaive really needs as much damage as it can fit. Especially when you consider how easy it is to work around it with the Dual Color Kinsect letting you get the buff in two extracts, or one extract and a Kinsect Slash, and the Booster Powder ones allowing you to straight up potentially keep the buff indefinitely all together. Power Prolonger has always come off as a skill that if it comes like, as a 2nd skill in Talisman with another more useful skill and slots, or as part of the armor pieces you are using, is a nice bonus, but is not worth going out of your way to put it in your build with like augments or decorations.
It's a combination of two mods, one is "Hard or Soft" that lets you modify stuff like: Size, Color, show crits (the ! at the end of the number), along other options, the other is a Font mod to replace the in-game font with Genshin Impact's font, but that last one got yeeted off Nexusmods due to a copyright claim or something like that and I'm not sure if its available anywhere else.
disagree about advancing roundslash over leaping slash, i think advancing roundslash have a pretty bad damage and his counter sucks and if orange + white buff you don't even need this counter just use vault and ignore roar or dodge the monster attacks, leaping slash make possible to use fast teatreseal slash on short opening making it waaay superior.
While is great to disagree and play how you want and perform better with, there are a lot of disagreements i have in your view of Advancing Roundslash, for starters, Advancing Roundslash has actually similar base DMG to Leaping Slash at 10-10-26 MV for the whole move compared to Leaping Slash 26 MV, meaning a full Roundslash ends up doing more DMG (specially with Elemental builds) if it lands entirely on a weakzone, but at the same time Leaping Slash being more spamable keeps them close and if anything better for Raw builds. The other point that is "useless" because you can always dodge, having only evades for defensive moves, while my favorite aspect of the weapon, is one of the few reasons why IG is one of the weakest weapons in Sunbreak, the lack of a big damage counter/hyper armor move that almost every other weapon received with the expansion is why aggression is key for IG, giving up your only move that can answer charging monsters, big AoE's or moves with enough lingering hitboxes that even with Evade Window 5 are hard to evade consistently, for a 3rd shortcut to Tetraseal Slash when Diving Wyvern > Tetraseal Slash and Rising Slash > Tetraseal Slash are already a thing is, at least for me, kinda redundant. Again, i don't disagree with your take and i see where is coming from, in fact along other comments it makes me realize that i simply made a mistake by cutting the full Switch Skill/Silkbind Move section and leaving only my recommendations in this final cut of my guide.
@@hydeoutgaming Yes fair point and ty for the response. IG really misses the BIG COUNTER DAMAGE that every other weapon have, i hope for the next game that IG receive more love, i mean kinsect slash it's great and tetraseal is good but i think having to stay still on it's animation gets old fast, at least tornado slash you can stay mobile as i see for my self the playstyle for the IG, it's the most mobile weapon afters DB i think(i don't know with we can say that SnS is faster than IG), but yea that's my little complain about the actual IG. By the way great video.
Yup, my favorite thing about IG is how it relies on proper evasion to keep combos going and positioning to punish with moves like Diving Wyvern instead of relying on a counter every time is available, like it used to be in literally all the previous games, but Sunbreak push for the counter spam playstyle reflects on how poorly IG performs overall in the game, the fact that our biggest damage moves require so much setup for just good damage with Diving Wyvern requiring 3 jump attacks or 1 successful Advancing Roundslash counter + 2 jump attack AND land on a good weakzone to deliver and Powder Vortex Explosion being an overall nightmare to setup against monsters that spam AoE on themselves or repositiong a lot is mildly infuriating to say the least. My wishlist for the next game would be to give IG s in some moves to keep you grounded and keep aggression going, Dodge Slash having 0 s despite having "Dodge" in the name will always feel wrong, and in fact, having played with a Mod that does give s to that move, i can tell you is definitely the direction i would love IG to take. And also give it back a little bit of it's MH4U scalings that it currently misses so much. 🤣
Hey there, thanks for your great guide ! I had a question about stamina management as I'm progressing through the story and actually at MR3 right now, I often run out while doing the aerial dashes before getting my third hit and getting the time to do the diving move, are the skills that allow you to dash through the air without using any stamina (almost) endgames skills ? I guess I could just use dash juices and constitution for the moment but I thought I could still ask.
I personally wouldn't bother with Stamina management while progressing through the game, instead I can give you a couple of gameplay tips to deal with the situation: 1. Try and learn how to use the counter from Advancing Round Slash, as I mentioned in this guide, using that counter successfully not only blocks damage and put you into the air, it also instantly counts as the 1st of your three aerial attacks to make your Diving Wyvern do max damage, you don't need to force yourself to use it everywhere, but easy opening like roars and projectiles should always be good windows to use the move. 2. Use at least one Silkbind Vault during your aerial combos, either, as your first move to get off the ground, or while in the air for reposition, remember this move costs one Wirebug but 0 Stamina to use, so as long as you still have the remaining Wirebug for the Diving Wyvern don't be afraid to use this move as much as you can. 3. Don't hyper focus on the fully charged Diving Wyvern, A problem a lot of us IG players tend to adapt consciously or not, is the idea that we have to go for a fully charged Diving Wyvern or nothing to end our aerial combos, this is not the case, most of the time, if anything, is better to commit to a semi-charged one (only two aerial attacks into Diving Wyvern) than trying to force the full one, only to either run out of Stamina, get hit back in the landing process because we are forcing, or straight up missing after such commitment, save the fully charged one for really good opening or when you learn a monster moveset better, and instead focus on a mix of ground combos/poke and semi-charged Diving Wyverns, you'll be surprised how consistent hunts can get with this mindset.
Thanks for all your tips, you're a king🧎 I'll be sure to apply your tips to my gameplay, this weapon has such a big skill celling compared to MHWI which I already liked a lot.@@hydeoutgaming
Yeah the guide is taking into account all updates, which is the reason why I chose to leave that one out. The Amatsu IG has great Raw but pretty low Element compared to Ludroth's IG, making Ludroth the better one for Elemental damage. Couple that with the fact that Amatsu IG biggest strength outside its Raw Atk is the passive "Silkbind Boost" that all Amatsu weapons get, makes it less of an Elemental weapon and more of a Raw option where you want to be spamming your Diving Wyvern to take advantage of the high Raw and Silkbind Boost, as opposed to Elemental builds where you want to spam your Tetraseal Slash as much as possible.
The closest Waist piece in terms of efficiency pre-Risen Shagaru is the Archfiend one from the Gaismagorm, which lacks a 2nd level of Weakness exploit and the lvl 2 deco slot on top of the lvl 4 one.
Like any other Heaven-sent/Berserk-Strife based build, you can totally use Max Might to abuse the Inf. Stamina for a more "efficient" way to cap Affinity without relying on other skills, but I choose to ignore it for this guide for two reasons: 1. The guide is aimed at people trying the weapon for a first time, so recommending a skill that relies on you not getting hit often kinda clashes with that, cuz is one thing losing the Stamina and Sharpness buffs from Heaven-sent for 15 secs every time that happens, but adding a portion of your Affinity to that mix is just to punishing. 2. Personal preference, unless you are a speedrunner who's scripting a fight so that it goes perfect or as close to perfect as possible, on regular hunts you are getting hit regularly on IG specially if you go for aerial moves (Diving Wyvern recovery animation is a b*tch). So again, while the synergy of Heaven-sent and Max Might is there on paper, in practice is a little bit more complicated for IG, but don't let these opinions stop you tho, if you want to go for it, go for it, at the end of the day, if you are good enough to don't get hit that often, or you play almost or fully grounded IG where is easier to not get hit, you can definitely make it work.
Unfortunately, yes. For some reason Capcom though the cool looking ninja scarf was good for the previous game MH World, but not good enough for the actual MH game with ninjas running around so modders had to come through.
So if you are looking to avoid Bloodlust to play with 0 HP drain skills, your best bet is changing that with the Primordial Malzeno coil, the deco slots on that piece on top of giving you an extra level of Crit Boost you can now sacrifice from any of your armor pieces with that skill for better skills/slots (I would personally use the Slot+ augment option on the Amatsu legs to sacrifice one lvl of Crit Boost for two deco slots, so you can slot in one of the Weakness Exploit lvl's you are losing with this change). Doing this and compensating the missing Weakness Exploit on the build with decorations or your talisman, you'll end up with the same build, minus both Bloodlust skills and gain two lvl's of Burst instead, which is a good trade-off. Of course, you end up with the issue of no longer having access to 100% affinity, but you can patch this up by getting the last lvl of Crit Eye for a total of 90% affinity or using a Palico with the support move Rousing Roar (+30% affinity for 2:30 mins.)
@@planelattice2783 I mean, it is one of the greatest games ever fr, imo world is a better game, but sun break is a better monster hunter, if that makes sense
This is a pretty poor guide. Not because of the information, I don't know much about IG, which is why I here, but because of how you give the information. There is so much wasted time and words on nothing and poor attempts at humor. It's so obnoxious when guides are like, "This is a thing for this but I'm not going to tell you now, I'll explain later in the guide." Which is pointless, just don't mention it now at all and mention it later. Then there's typos and punctuation error on the guide itself, take a few minutes and proofread the text. This entire guide could be probably 30% of the time if you removed all your pointless mumbling and focused on information.
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Amazing guide, my friend. One of the best to make guide videos out there. We really appreciate the work you do. Looking forward to your next guides in mh6
very well made video, it showed up on my home page so i'm commenting to boost the algorithm :)
I'm amazed on how u only have 700 subs, this guides and speedruns u do are amazing and help me a lot. Keep the good work 💪
You guys already know the drill, timestamps for those interested in only specific things
Timestamps:
0:00 "Intro"
0:12 Breakdown of the guide
2:02 Which weapons to use?
2:18 How to augment my Insect Glaives
2:36 Which Rampage Decos and when?
3:04 Why only Poison for Raw/Status?
3:45 The Builds
4:35 Elemental Non-HP drain Build
4:46 Details of this Build
5:15 Elemental HP drain Build (Dereliction)
5:26 Details of this Build
5:50 Raw/Status Non-HP drain Build
6:00 Details of this Build
6:30 Raw/Status HP drain Build (Dereliction)
6:41 Details of this Build
7:14 Understanding the Insect Glaive mechanics
7:20 Part 1 - The extract/buff system
8:38 More details on this system
9:05 Which Kinsects to use?
9:55 To every single Kinsect not mentioned in this video...
10:51 The Best Kinsect for Elemental playstyle
11:01 The Best Kinsect for Raw Atk playstyle
11:20 The Best Kinsect for Powder Vortex playstyle
11:30 Why these Kinsects over the others?
12:20 Difference between Severing and Blunt Kinsects
14:35 More info on Elemental and Boosted Powder Kinsects
14:59 More info on Raw and Dual Color Kinsects
17:18 Really helpful tip for the Dual Color (Defense) Kinsect
17:48 Switch Skills & Gameplay tips
18:00 Prefered Switch Skill loadout for both playstyles
21:35 Raw Insect Glaive general gameplan
22:50 Elemental Insect Glaive general gameplan
23:57 The Powder Vortex playstyle
26:35 Which Insect Glaive for Powder Vortex?
27:15 Advancing Roundslash is an amazing move
27:24 Active Counter frames of the Advancing Roundslash move
27:35 Best and last overall tip for Insect Glaive combat
28:15 Last messages and upcoming content
New to sunbreak and I appreciate this guide. Thanks
Yooo thanks, i been thinking of trying IG so this is a great start
Great guide!
I'm having alot of fun just rolling through monster attacks and activating adrenaline rush XD
I love how IG is like, the only weapon where it is efficient to do that since we don’t have Le funny Counter that does big Damage like all the other weapons. 🤣
It's Here 🤩
Time to start building!!!
I was so ready to throwdown and fight if you called my kinsect trash lol. But you didn't. I absolutely love love love powder kinsects. They legitimately saved IG for me because--yes--they're strong. But more importantly, they're interesting and fun.
I love we have a minimum of 3 different types of Kinsects to play around, each with their own pros and cons at endgame fr, really disliked how all the previous games with IG had that one Kinsect that completely decimates all the competition and immediately made you feel bad if you choose to not use it.
Ayooo , thanks bro!
Ofc I see this video after having just finished making all my IG sets hahaha. Have been playing insect glaive ever since GU and have well over 1000 hours using, it but always love learning what is considered meta skills for the weapon in every game. I'll take what I like from this video and try to make some comfy sets, keep up the good work!
I got a wind mantle +3 and buildup boost +2 with 2 lvl 2 slots that has been super sexy for making sets for like flaming espinas and lucent narga ig, but it still feels like i'm always trying to make better charms for the elemental attacks that aren't status lol
Am I just imagining things or does youre rise looks smoother? Idk. Graphicswise, maybe im just delulu xD Anyway Solid guide my dude ^^keep it up
Thanks, about the smoother graphics you're perceiving, is probably the couple Reshade filters I have going with my game, always use them in most of my games to get better colors and slightly sharper images without any issues whatsoever.
I have three lvs of Mail of Hellfire augmented into my Tempest pieces.
Then you are set for both non-HP drain templates already, although for the Elemental one, if you get a Burst 2-3 Talisman with good slots it would be perfect, but a Critical Element 2-3 one also works (replace the Crit Ele decos with Burst decos then).
@@hydeoutgaming Okay. Gotta dig around in my talisman box to see if i have one :P
I think insect glaive is a very fun weapon but some of the shit glaive players have had to put up with in the 5th generation is just straight up not ok and I hope it gets fixed in 6th Gen
It's honestly depressing watching the downfall of IG damage-wise from 4U to Sunbreak, as it keeps this constant feeling of "man this weapon is so fun but it does no damage" constantly at the back of you mind if you play other weapons.
At this point my only wish for the future is that they might as well commit to this recent version in Sunbreak and begin buffing the Aerial playstyle to the point where is actually truly equal, if not, slightly stronger than Grounded, with how many BS vertical hitboxes they added to monster in the 5th Gen (and specially in Sunbreak) I fail to see why they are still afraid of that.
Maybe it's just me but I never felt IG was particularly weak.
Like yeah it's not as good as optimal SnS but it's so much safer and more consistent plus aerial lets you avoid like 80% of monsters pretty easily so it's a trade off
My expectations of IG MIGHT be compromised with memories of how busted it was back when it debuted in MH4U, but I still stand that they could've done so much more for it in Sunbreak to make it better, not so much on the damage department, but on the QoL department.
There is this one mod I played around with for a bit, that along some other minor changes, allows you to skill swap in the air with IG, with an added interaction with the Redirection lvl2 skill that gives you an extra jump as long as you keep triggering Redirection in the air, that particular interaction really made me realize how much more they could've done for IG to go all out with the craziness of Sunbreak.
Cuz like, sure, we got the Power Vortex playstyle that is fun, unique and even pretty strong at times, but is so ass for casual playstyle + multiplayer hunts it's hard to not think on stuff like this. 😭
Good guide, IG is my maim weapon
You're spending too much time on the ground
IG user is the master of the skies
It's worth noting that IG during progression and IG endgame don't play the same way due to scaling, what you have, and match up.
For examples:
Assist Kinsect is entirely pointless before late Sunbreak, due to match up, sharpness economy, prevent it damage from catching up compared to Powder type. Use Powder Kinsect type will be more consistent while giving the same if not better results. Especially due to Assist Kinsect's dependent on sharpness for ground combo before having Mind's Eye. It take around post-Amatsu with Supercharge deco for Assist type to have viable damage, or perhap post-Awakened Kinsect Attack which is something I think worth experimenting a bit.
Similar case with Kinsect Slash, due to stamina consumption and being slower and cover less distance, it's too much cost for little reward, even with Diving Wyvern which by itself is already a gamble in practice. You'll have better time and flexibility with Jumping Advancing Slash and Recall Kinsect Silkbind.
Also Advancing Roundslash is almost entirely useless in entire progression due to sharpness cost, and IG already has a better gap closers, and due to IG being a close-range melee, it's prone to putting you out of position than being useful, IG already can have full uptime even without it as well, so timing for Roundslash alone can lead to a lot of dps loss.
I can say this because I been testing and running a few new playthroughs with IG in Rise Sunbreak, if we take the video's guide right away, it will lead to painful experiences.
Hey hydeout i was wonder what layerd armor set you was wearing cause i wonder how you got the ears and the scar.?
The ears + tail (they are a single armor piece), the scarf and actually most of the Layered armor sets used during this video are all mods for PC, so if you are on console i'm sorry to disappoint with that answer. 😔
@hydeoutgaming that's disappointing oh well that's for the reply back and thanks for your build videos imma try them out
If it helps, somewhere around in the DLC store of the game, there is a Layered Cat and Dog ears and tail which while not as big and fluffy as these mods may help you with the look you are looking for.
@@hydeoutgaming I've been wondering too because the scarf looks cool as hell but knowing it is a mod really makes me sad :') I guess blood malice can be a replacement even if not as long as that
I will never understand why they didn't bring this Scarf back as an Event Layered Armor pìece seen how they were willing to bring back the Extra Buff Body, but who knows. 😩
And yeah, the Blood Malice Headgear might not be this long, but is still really cool and a decent alternative.
Hey man is power prolonged not a thing in rise? Noticed it was not in this build.
If i'm honest with you, Power Prolonger has never been a thing for Insect Glaive, getting an extra ~35 secs on your triple buff uptime for 3 Skill points is not really worth it when Insect Glaive really needs as much damage as it can fit.
Especially when you consider how easy it is to work around it with the Dual Color Kinsect letting you get the buff in two extracts, or one extract and a Kinsect Slash, and the Booster Powder ones allowing you to straight up potentially keep the buff indefinitely all together.
Power Prolonger has always come off as a skill that if it comes like, as a 2nd skill in Talisman with another more useful skill and slots, or as part of the armor pieces you are using, is a nice bonus, but is not worth going out of your way to put it in your build with like augments or decorations.
Thanks for the clarification, it really makes no sense with with all those refresh options.
how yo changed the damage numbers? it looks really cool
It's a combination of two mods, one is "Hard or Soft" that lets you modify stuff like: Size, Color, show crits (the ! at the end of the number), along other options, the other is a Font mod to replace the in-game font with Genshin Impact's font, but that last one got yeeted off Nexusmods due to a copyright claim or something like that and I'm not sure if its available anywhere else.
@@hydeoutgaming thanks
disagree about advancing roundslash over leaping slash, i think advancing roundslash have a pretty bad damage and his counter sucks and if orange + white buff you don't even need this counter just use vault and ignore roar or dodge the monster attacks, leaping slash make possible to use fast teatreseal slash on short opening making it waaay superior.
While is great to disagree and play how you want and perform better with, there are a lot of disagreements i have in your view of Advancing Roundslash, for starters, Advancing Roundslash has actually similar base DMG to Leaping Slash at 10-10-26 MV for the whole move compared to Leaping Slash 26 MV, meaning a full Roundslash ends up doing more DMG (specially with Elemental builds) if it lands entirely on a weakzone, but at the same time Leaping Slash being more spamable keeps them close and if anything better for Raw builds.
The other point that is "useless" because you can always dodge, having only evades for defensive moves, while my favorite aspect of the weapon, is one of the few reasons why IG is one of the weakest weapons in Sunbreak, the lack of a big damage counter/hyper armor move that almost every other weapon received with the expansion is why aggression is key for IG, giving up your only move that can answer charging monsters, big AoE's or moves with enough lingering hitboxes that even with Evade Window 5 are hard to evade consistently, for a 3rd shortcut to Tetraseal Slash when Diving Wyvern > Tetraseal Slash and Rising Slash > Tetraseal Slash are already a thing is, at least for me, kinda redundant.
Again, i don't disagree with your take and i see where is coming from, in fact along other comments it makes me realize that i simply made a mistake by cutting the full Switch Skill/Silkbind Move section and leaving only my recommendations in this final cut of my guide.
@@hydeoutgaming Yes fair point and ty for the response. IG really misses the BIG COUNTER DAMAGE that every other weapon have, i hope for the next game that IG receive more love, i mean kinsect slash it's great and tetraseal is good but i think having to stay still on it's animation gets old fast, at least tornado slash you can stay mobile as i see for my self the playstyle for the IG, it's the most mobile weapon afters DB i think(i don't know with we can say that SnS is faster than IG), but yea that's my little complain about the actual IG.
By the way great video.
Yup, my favorite thing about IG is how it relies on proper evasion to keep combos going and positioning to punish with moves like Diving Wyvern instead of relying on a counter every time is available, like it used to be in literally all the previous games, but Sunbreak push for the counter spam playstyle reflects on how poorly IG performs overall in the game, the fact that our biggest damage moves require so much setup for just good damage with Diving Wyvern requiring 3 jump attacks or 1 successful Advancing Roundslash counter + 2 jump attack AND land on a good weakzone to deliver and Powder Vortex Explosion being an overall nightmare to setup against monsters that spam AoE on themselves or repositiong a lot is mildly infuriating to say the least.
My wishlist for the next game would be to give IG s in some moves to keep you grounded and keep aggression going, Dodge Slash having 0 s despite having "Dodge" in the name will always feel wrong, and in fact, having played with a Mod that does give s to that move, i can tell you is definitely the direction i would love IG to take.
And also give it back a little bit of it's MH4U scalings that it currently misses so much. 🤣
Hey there, thanks for your great guide ! I had a question about stamina management as I'm progressing through the story and actually at MR3 right now, I often run out while doing the aerial dashes before getting my third hit and getting the time to do the diving move, are the skills that allow you to dash through the air without using any stamina (almost) endgames skills ? I guess I could just use dash juices and constitution for the moment but I thought I could still ask.
I personally wouldn't bother with Stamina management while progressing through the game, instead I can give you a couple of gameplay tips to deal with the situation:
1. Try and learn how to use the counter from Advancing Round Slash, as I mentioned in this guide, using that counter successfully not only blocks damage and put you into the air, it also instantly counts as the 1st of your three aerial attacks to make your Diving Wyvern do max damage, you don't need to force yourself to use it everywhere, but easy opening like roars and projectiles should always be good windows to use the move.
2. Use at least one Silkbind Vault during your aerial combos, either, as your first move to get off the ground, or while in the air for reposition, remember this move costs one Wirebug but 0 Stamina to use, so as long as you still have the remaining Wirebug for the Diving Wyvern don't be afraid to use this move as much as you can.
3. Don't hyper focus on the fully charged Diving Wyvern, A problem a lot of us IG players tend to adapt consciously or not, is the idea that we have to go for a fully charged Diving Wyvern or nothing to end our aerial combos, this is not the case, most of the time, if anything, is better to commit to a semi-charged one (only two aerial attacks into Diving Wyvern) than trying to force the full one, only to either run out of Stamina, get hit back in the landing process because we are forcing, or straight up missing after such commitment, save the fully charged one for really good opening or when you learn a monster moveset better, and instead focus on a mix of ground combos/poke and semi-charged Diving Wyverns, you'll be surprised how consistent hunts can get with this mindset.
Thanks for all your tips, you're a king🧎
I'll be sure to apply your tips to my gameplay, this weapon has such a big skill celling compared to MHWI which I already liked a lot.@@hydeoutgaming
I don't know if this is before or after Amatsu, but I wonder if the Amatsu IG is better than the Ludroth one or not
Yeah the guide is taking into account all updates, which is the reason why I chose to leave that one out.
The Amatsu IG has great Raw but pretty low Element compared to Ludroth's IG, making Ludroth the better one for Elemental damage.
Couple that with the fact that Amatsu IG biggest strength outside its Raw Atk is the passive "Silkbind Boost" that all Amatsu weapons get, makes it less of an Elemental weapon and more of a Raw option where you want to be spamming your Diving Wyvern to take advantage of the high Raw and Silkbind Boost, as opposed to Elemental builds where you want to spam your Tetraseal Slash as much as possible.
@@hydeoutgaming I see, thank you!
What can i replace the prudence coil with? Im just starting to level up MR
The closest Waist piece in terms of efficiency pre-Risen Shagaru is the Archfiend one from the Gaismagorm, which lacks a 2nd level of Weakness exploit and the lvl 2 deco slot on top of the lvl 4 one.
@@hydeoutgaming thanks brother! The guide was exceptional and I'm exited to re-learn IG with it
Glad to help bro, if you have any further questions don't hesitate to come back. 👍
For the heaven sent builds, why not use max might ?
Like any other Heaven-sent/Berserk-Strife based build, you can totally use Max Might to abuse the Inf. Stamina for a more "efficient" way to cap Affinity without relying on other skills, but I choose to ignore it for this guide for two reasons:
1. The guide is aimed at people trying the weapon for a first time, so recommending a skill that relies on you not getting hit often kinda clashes with that, cuz is one thing losing the Stamina and Sharpness buffs from Heaven-sent for 15 secs every time that happens, but adding a portion of your Affinity to that mix is just to punishing.
2. Personal preference, unless you are a speedrunner who's scripting a fight so that it goes perfect or as close to perfect as possible, on regular hunts you are getting hit regularly on IG specially if you go for aerial moves (Diving Wyvern recovery animation is a b*tch).
So again, while the synergy of Heaven-sent and Max Might is there on paper, in practice is a little bit more complicated for IG, but don't let these opinions stop you tho, if you want to go for it, go for it, at the end of the day, if you are good enough to don't get hit that often, or you play almost or fully grounded IG where is easier to not get hit, you can definitely make it work.
is that scarf only mod?
Unfortunately, yes.
For some reason Capcom though the cool looking ninja scarf was good for the previous game MH World, but not good enough for the actual MH game with ninjas running around so modders had to come through.
yeah the scarf fits better for mhr theme thats just sad it didnt make it to rise
There's something i can use to replace the coils?
From which specific build? cuz the options will depend on that.
Elementals
So if you are looking to avoid Bloodlust to play with 0 HP drain skills, your best bet is changing that with the Primordial Malzeno coil, the deco slots on that piece on top of giving you an extra level of Crit Boost you can now sacrifice from any of your armor pieces with that skill for better skills/slots (I would personally use the Slot+ augment option on the Amatsu legs to sacrifice one lvl of Crit Boost for two deco slots, so you can slot in one of the Weakness Exploit lvl's you are losing with this change).
Doing this and compensating the missing Weakness Exploit on the build with decorations or your talisman, you'll end up with the same build, minus both Bloodlust skills and gain two lvl's of Burst instead, which is a good trade-off.
Of course, you end up with the issue of no longer having access to 100% affinity, but you can patch this up by getting the last lvl of Crit Eye for a total of 90% affinity or using a Palico with the support move Rousing Roar (+30% affinity for 2:30 mins.)
i didn't notice that mhrise has b..bs physics!
They are just PC exclusive😉
Ok but what is your character wearing
If you ask for the thumbnail and most of this video, is a modded version of the Nargacuga armor + the Sealed Dragoncloth Scarf which is also a mod.
@@hydeoutgaming oh lame thought the ears and tail were real
I understand. World is probably the best game I've ever played.
Nice bait
@@planelattice2783 I mean, it is one of the greatest games ever fr, imo world is a better game, but sun break is a better monster hunter, if that makes sense
@@altzard6170 my problem was his comment having nothing to do with the video other than angering people who like rise
It would be a Midstiny fan saying sum bs like this 😂
@@bofa722 comsidering its capcoms highest selling game?
This is a pretty poor guide. Not because of the information, I don't know much about IG, which is why I here, but because of how you give the information. There is so much wasted time and words on nothing and poor attempts at humor. It's so obnoxious when guides are like, "This is a thing for this but I'm not going to tell you now, I'll explain later in the guide." Which is pointless, just don't mention it now at all and mention it later. Then there's typos and punctuation error on the guide itself, take a few minutes and proofread the text.
This entire guide could be probably 30% of the time if you removed all your pointless mumbling and focused on information.