I remember when I first picked up the weapon. I initially was like "what's this?". Then I accidently went into axe mode. Then I was like "oooooh big axe!". Then I started to learn the mechanics. My impression then became "big axe needs big brain to swing". Never looked back. Became my favourite weapon imidiately and pretty much the only one I use with the occasional change.
@@LJAndrews1986 I hate capcom sometimes. Like they made this two fantastic new weapons in that game, made them both ridiculously strong to give them a warm welcome but then kick one in the balls the next game and slowly nerf the other over the next few. Like why not just balance better in the first place
one important note about 4U charge blade was that you could go straight from a gp to SAED (or a shield charge) which was absurdly powerful and fun. Generations removed that which made charging the shield harder. also I'm not sure if this changed after 4U but gp also did one phial of damage and you could KO monsters like diablos by repeatedly using a guard point when they attack with the head
In 4U you could counter with an AED/SAED after regular guards too, not only GPs. In Generations blocking with a charged shield gives you a mini phial explosion, while in 4U it was only with both charged shield AND a GP.
Hmm yes, the weapon that I used through all of the base quests of MHW, and *then* figured out how to buff my sword and shield. In my defense, it was my first monster hunter game
"I dont know what gen players were doing with this weapon" I was a CB main in 4U and the way CB felt in Base generations made me drop it for Aerial SNS
Charge Blade was a shadow of itself in Generations, but good Charge Blade users didn't use the SAED, and instead use impact phials to exhaust and stun. Striker Style experts use guard frames during attacks to deal devastating counterattacks.
I remember hearing about how strong charge blade was in 4u. To say the least that statement was proven to me when a guy beat the entirety of 4u with charge blade, without ever sharpening. He even beat Gog without sharpening, I feel like that's a testament to 4u charge blade strength.
Yeah, but the motion values of everything were destroyed so now you need to spam the shit out of it. Also the SAED pattern and MVs are shit in rise. It's going to be savage axe meta again.
4u was my first my game, and when I got it I was determined to learn how to play a comparatively complicated weapon, it’s been my main ever since. Love these videos!
In Gen/GU you actually couldn't go into AED from a shield thrust, you could only fill phials into the shield, combo into another sword move or morph. Aerial CB also could still use aerial AEDs in Gen, which was the optimal way to play it, but you couldn't use AEDs if you had a charged shield, you could only SAED, so people never charged shield with the style. GU's buff to that was making aerial AEDs possible with a charged shield. Also if you were wondering about the popular choice for the third HA in Gen's striker CB, people usually picked Energy Blade. It's a giant lightsaber made up of your phials that emits from the shield (the blade also had the most awkward hitbox possible somehow) and grew in strength and size depending on how many phials you had loaded into it. Gen/GU's CB overall emphasized being in Axe mode more to deal damage rather than staying in sword mode and using shortcuts to your strongest moves like other games since those shortcuts were removed. So comparatively it was not as free-flowing, less counter focused, and more committal akin to the Greatsword. I think Gen's CB was actually one of the biggest nerfs a weapon ever received going from one title to another within the whole series.
12:10 wrong. Shield thrust to AED/SAED was removed entirely in generations. It's not just striker lacking a shield thrust. Striker was popular BECAUSE the shieldthrust lost pretty much all of its utility.
The shield thrust shortcut only serves to refresh shield duration in Gen/GU. Striker was popular because it gets increased damage modifier for axe attacks (like a 1.2x modifier iirc) and it can run both absolute Hunter arts because Ripper shield was the only one worth using in GU.
@@tonyngo1885 Ye, it did give the axe mode a boost but I wasn't sure if I remembered it correctly. And the shield thrust did end up kinda useless so giving it up entirely just wasn't too big of a sacrifice which I would say was part of why striker was popular.
You forgot to mention how you can attack out of Counter Peak Performance with either a condensed element slash if you hit X, a morph slash with A, and an AED or SAED with XA! The condensed element slash is pretty useful cause it bypasses the decently lengthy charge time for it!
Charge blade , switch axe , you know all these are well and good . But do you know which weapon was the first ! to mix a weapon with machinery ?? A weapon so mighty it had to be contained , bound by chains ....in the bottom of tier lists... , as its power was so technologically advanced and marvelous ,if more than 3 concurrent players used the weapon the whole of the monster hunter universe , from stories to frontier ,would collapse! The allmighty gunlance!! So my friends dont be fooled . When people claim the weapon is "slow" and "garbage" , they are simply spreading false information, propaganda as to keep the number of people playing gunlance down! I am one of the three that main the weapon . But if more of us start using the cannon buster sword we ll be able to reshape monster hunter reality as we know it !! So please , SuperRad , spread the word of the great gunlance by making the history video on it next and Lead us to a new generation filled to the brim with giant shields and awesome explosions!!! I know you ll do the right thing !
I love the gunlance but I just suck at it. The gunlance has been even more difficult to become proficient at than the charge blade. It requires patience and positioning and godlike back hops and I still have not been able to get down the flow so my respect goes out to you and the two others of your kind. Also Rise gunlance looks extra spicy. Can't wait to give it a whirl.
I'm so fucking with you I believe in Boomstick supremacy People find the weapon slow? Immobile? Clearly they have no idea what it means to play as The Fucking Wall Itself
I can't believe you just completely glossed over the Limit Breaker + Energy Blade combo in MHGU. I never got to end game so maybe it's not useful later, but I loved my giant laser sword.
had to scroll to far for this. i dont care if it was less than optimal it was to godamn fun not to use my giant LAZER SWORD. I even setup an auto chat that would say "imma firin mah laser" whenever i used it.
Watching this series made me realize how well rounded the MH series weapon roster is. The only niche that needs to be filled is a fast attack blunt weapon really. Maybe one day they will take the tonfa idea from frontier.
@Rill the problem was old Gen hunting horn was really difficult and dangerous to use in close combat. World hunting horn was much better overall but still required a great amount of skill and timing. But above all it’s one of the least used weapons. These buffs I would argue is necessary. Who finds spamming songs far from the fight any fun.
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Ngl I cheesed all of 4 Ultimate's endgame by soloing everything with max guard and max defense charge blade. Pop on some knockout maestro, stam drain, life hone, and maybe some attack skills for the added bonus of literally blocking things to death. Molten Tigrex, Crimson Demon Fatalis, and Silver Rathalos especially suffered at the charge of my blade.
The Charge Blade is fascinating to me. I used it a LOT at the beginning of MH4U because it looked like a beefier SnS and I loved that. Thought I did pretty well, until about 10 hours in, I join up with some friends and immediately realize I'd been completely ignorant of one of its mechanics - the shield charge. Watching the video, it now makes much more sense to me as to why. Back then, I thought it felt "tacked on" to a perfectly fine weapon and that makes sense once you know it wasn't originally there. I never really used it too much after this and fell into the trap of deeming it "too complicated" as seems to be the common say about the CB. Then, when I replayed World recently, I found that no, the weapon isn't really complicated at all. It actually has a very VERY fluid style of attacking that makes it easy to completely ignore any of the charging stuff. Once you actively learn to keep an eye out for the charge, it's pretty simple imo. That said, I'm still far from considering myself good at the weapon. I have way too much fun using the charged up sword to quickly stun monsters to the point that I'm not sure if the weapon is for me since I really dislike the AED combo. The way I actually enjoy to use the weapon seemed sup-optimal to me and that's a big turn off for me. The fact that Gen and Gen U actually nerfed SAED and AED was a huge surprise to me watching this video considering how I think of the weapon. I think CB, I think AED spam, but apparently that's not true any more, is it?
Love the content just found ya and subbed, I'm a bow main and CB main so this video is like my dirty little slice of heaven. Keep up the good work my G
12:00 or so - none of the styles can use the shield thrust into AED or SAED. The reason SAED isn't used is because the motion values were nerfed to be only just as good as the AED at 4-5 phials, while removing your charged shield. Also, the aerial style has a more powerful air AED.
Fun fact: Phials deal pierce/ammo damage, meaning your phials will deal more damage based on where you hit. This also means that Charge Blade can successfully deal all 3 types of damage in one. Slashing for the Sword/Axe basic attacks, and Blunt for the Impact Phials specifically.
So after the history of our hunting tools, could we expect a history of our skills? Since the evolution of our beloved skill charts into single points of a skill, there are some skills that only got to shine in one game before being torn from us! I think that would be an interesting series!
Two other things that gen/gu removed from 4u is the ability to SAED out of a gp (guard point) and the ability to SAED after a shield thrust, also the hitboxes of SAED were massively changed
They turned it into a massive piece of literally unplayable shit. I bought GU and every time i start up the game i just close the app because the cb is so shit. Its like if the spirit combo did almost no damage for LS. Or the GS got its lvl 3 removed. Or the LBG had its rapid shots nerfed to 2 shots and medium wait. Or the glaive not proccing any mount damage. Ichinose took a broom he'd just snapped in half and shoved it up CBs anus. No lube, nothing. Just right up there. Splinters and all.
i think it would be neat to see some videos in this style but for monsters: What gen they came from, how their movesets changed over the gens and their armour sets, also there's so many its a well of content. luv ya vids
That ending reminded me of Chris Chan talking about his house being online, “I want Capcom to retweet my videos, NOw, NOW, NOW, NOW!” Never change lmao
There are more arts that are worth using. The limit breaker + energy blade is a BIG damaging combo, and it's used a lot! Healing fial is used too...Kinda...
Next weapon I wanna see is Gunlance. It's such a criminally underrated weapon that gets overlooked due to its slow & clunky nature. It's deceptively supportive because it capitalizes best off of a team since you can keep laying on consistent pressure when the monster is down. Helps that's its shells are flat damage, meaning they'll always hit at the exact amount regardless of where you hit on the monster. You typically play in sort of hit & run tactics until you can actually get in, since you're biggest hitting moves don't have the MOST amount of wind-up; saying this as someone who also plays Great Sword. But, in particular, I love how its done in G/GU since Striker/Alchemy style allows you to, effectively, constantly have Wyvern Fire at the ready due to Dragon's Breath resetting once it's done. Aerial style allows you to just constantly unload your clip into the monster (great with normal shells). But, if you REALLY want to hit that rush of dopamine, full team of gunlance in Iceborne. A neat little feature with gunlance in Iceborne is the Wyrmstake Blast, & nobody seems to talk about it. What it does is make all explosive attacks hit twice. Obviously, with a single gunlance, yeah, it makes the shells more effective, & it passively buffs sticky ammo. But picture this: 4 gunlances, all have used their Wyrmstake Blasts, & all are unloading their clips. Congrats! you've turned the monster into a Michael Bay film. You're not even going to SEE the monster with the amount of explosions going off. I love this weapon. What looks like a very unassuming "shotgun with a blade" weapon is VERY in-depth & synergistic weapon. (Edit for spelling)
When I use the Charge Blade it's weird, I end up primarily using the Axe mode and only go into sword and shield mode if I know I need to block or prep for a super/normal element discharge. I just like the axe mode more.
GU player here: Pre ultimate CB had Energy blade and Limit-breaker. Limit breaker allows you to increase your phial count (up to 10 if you use the 3 variant), and Energy blade is a wide sweep that becomes way stronger and way bigger the more phials you have. See where i'm going with this? 10 phials mixed with giant lightsaber of death has some of the highest MV of any single move. But it's also rather situational and takes forever to charge and set up.
I think the best place to start if you're gonna do a history on all 14 weapons, start with the very first one conceptualized and the last next to CB since you already did that.
Finally someone explaining what a guard point is. And to think that I was always using it and didn't know the name, and dudes on reddit were all sassy like "oooh, you don't know what guardpoint is"
I know this is about a year late, but I wanted to chime in on savage axe. It was the highest consistent damage CB had in iceborne, especially against monsters without many big windows to SAED af6ter a gp. In rise, it's much the same. You can still sidestep after a succesful guard or guard point in rise too! The advancing wirebug move not only sets up for an aed or saed in any direction, but also lets you go straight into Elemental Discharge 2, which is verry strong to reposition to head and have a higher dps combo in spin axe mode. Overall fantastic video though, keep up the good work!
I remember the day I saw mh4 in Japan and I wanted it so badly coming out of three ultimate and we had to wait a while (2 whole ass years) till 4u came out and I saw the insect glaive and I was like damn I wanna main this then I saw charge blade and I immediately creamed my pants never used anything besides long sword in 4u till generations nerfed CB then world and ice borne made it so much better good vid as always SuperRAD (PSA if you master guard points you’ll never put down CB)
When CB was added in 4U, I swapped from LS main to CB main, and continued that through World and Iceborne. I have to say, it's kind of weird to see that the more intricate resource management that I loved about the weapon was actually new for 4U.
Oh btw SuperRAD there is another Axe chop in the moveset idk if anyone knows about it. After the Uppercut if you wait a moment before hitting the chop again it will do a little vertical spin chop down instead. Does a little more damage in World
Valor Style in GU is super broken in axe mode, because you get an infinite combo with the ability to use phials with the A button attack, if the Valor gauge is full, allowing for a ton of damage, as every second hit with the infinite does a triple swing that, with each hit of the attack, does phial damage. You can essentially pump a monster full of phial damage, while never needing to use SAED at all.
The reason Striker Style was used was as follows: -Striker Style removes the shield thrust from the SnS moveset. While to many new players, this might seem like a detriment, keep in mind that the super shortcut does not exist in Gen and GenUlt and using it in guild will just net you a yellow shield no matter how many times you load your shield. You HAVE to charge your shield in Axe mode -the previously stated 20% boost to axe attacks. -striker for all weapons can bring 3 hunter arts and hunter arts charge faster. For most CB players, this just means bringing both absolute arts and Ripper Shield. -at the start of the animation, the advancing slash gets a guard point that allows players to plow through attacks that require guard +1 if they have Red Shield.
What I never knew about the savage axe slash in mhw. I claim to be a veteran smh. I never see anyone using it. Not one charge blade main. Edit: oh its iceborne addition nvm.
One thing ya missed, between 4U and Gen they ramped down the KO damage on CB because it was outshining Hammer and HH. Not only was CB doing more KO damage than the two weapons dedicated to it, but it could also cut off tails, the one thing you lose by using the Hammer/HH. I joked that it wouldn't be long, but both this and my baby IG had a lot of mechanics put onto it. I used CB alot in 4U myself, but couldn't get into it in Gen/GenU, which is why its in my side weapons. I think we should jump into one of the gunner weapons now....and do Gunlance! What, its 'obviously' a gunner weapon, it has 'gun' right in the name =P But seriously though, you should go ahead and head to the gunner weapons. I'd love to see IG, but I want that to be the last one because its so fun, that and it techincally two weapons: The IG itself and your Kinsect (three if you count how you can use the terrain to your advantage in World by jumping off the walls into your aerial combo and in Rise you can stab it into the walls). But yes, jump into the Bow which I feel has come a long way from 2nd Gen.
My first weapon was Switch Axe and wondered if they could make a weapon that could be like that but can Guard too. 4 released and finally got 4U and I am a CB master since then 😂 I like the SnS and heavy weapons too though but Charge Blade is too fun.
I'm surprised you didn't talk about that aerial axe silkbind attack brought up in one of the trailers. All the charge blade mains I know of were really excited about that. Still, good video. Imagining chargle blade without SAED is weird and strange. Can't wait for gunlance and not-gun lance!
i think i'd rather like to see the bowguns vids after the Rise release, so we can see all ammo types anyways, great video as always. as a fifth fleeter, very happy to get some information on previous games
I can't find this in the comments but you could actually both shield and sword charge from the counter Peak performance Edit: for those wondering, to charge shield, press top and right face buttons after the slik bind guard, then right trigger. For condensed element slash, simply push top face bottom after the guard, and if your shield is charged it will charge your sword as well. This method is significantly faster than the standard method.
I joined the series in World and was instantly entranced by the Charge Blade. It's a Sword and Shield that turns into an Axe. I joined around a month before Iceborne got announced. I gotta say this weapon will forever be my main baby 👌 Sorry guys but the Charge Blade is the best weapon in the game don't @ me 💜. Currently still playing it in Rise and recently got into GU just for more Charge Blade action
I'm glad to see the savage axe has kinda come back in rise now. Now the silk bind system forces you to choose between being able to charge up the blade, or doing savage axe mode instead. I think that's cool, hopefully one form doesn't blow the other out of the water so there's reasons to choose each.
Um nice video and all but I feel like the importance of guard points to playing CB was somewhat understated. I understand that this is not a weapon tutorial video but you did not even mention that the sliding slash and savage axe transformation both have the added benefit of a guard point or that a successful guard point can instantly lead into either an AED or a SAED. Guard points are what make the weapon feel unstoppable and are one of the reasons to main CB. I'm not trying to insult you but I noticed that sometimes your information is incomplete. Still I enjoy these videos and I am looking forward to the next one.
Always appreciate having stuff I missed mentioned. believe it or not these scripts go through multiple screening processes with weapon experts before being made into a video, but sometimes there's stuff that just doesn't make it in. I feel like I mentioned every major mechanic however, so I'm happy about that
Oh hey he missed a thing. In 4u there were actually two attacks in sword mode that you did with r+x, one of them had a guard point and is the one it still has today, and the other was a bit faster and didn’t have one. For the one with the guard point, which is almost always the one you’ll want to be using you have to press x slightly before you pressed r, and for the faster one you can do it out of a normal guard by pressing x while guarding, or pressing r before x while standing. In gen they changed the second one to have a guard point that was smaller and in all other games they just removed it. The reason I know this is that the number of times I have been screwed out of a guard point because I pressed r slightly too soon is far too high. I’m pretty the second attack of the 123 sword mode combo also had a guard point that was removed, but I might be misremembering
You missed that in World you can overcharge philes with condensed element to attack faster, letting you deal phial damage very quickly. This became irrelevant in Iceborne due to savage axe being better, but it was very nice in base world. If it still works in Rise I think it might make a comeback with Savage Axe being missing.
ahhh my old 4U main loved how powerful it was in that game i know this might be a weird opinion but the weapon these days in the new games doesn't feel as good as it did in 4U even tho its arguably better in the new games I think the main think for me is the fact the the full SAED cost you your shield charge and it felt more powerful as well
So, I’ve used the charge blade in Rise and Iceborne, the savage axe mode can be extremely broken, big fan of it, in iceborne you basically bully the monster with it to the point that Alatreon can become a joke, and most other monsters kinda get screwed over, although it’s hard to keep the damage up due to how slow it is, but if you stay next to the monster, it’s actually pretty crazy, only using triangle while on PS4 can take down a Rathalos in like 2 minutes, which with how little you do anything shouldn’t really be the case, it’s change in rise turns into a very useful utility for people who like the axe mode more, while also retaining some of that previous power, but not to the extreme of Iceborne
Charge blade players:
“I’ve been looking forward to this”
[insert dookus smile]
SuperRAD: My powers have doubled since last time we met.. Players! ( in Smug Anakin Face)
I remember when I first picked up the weapon. I initially was like "what's this?". Then I accidently went into axe mode. Then I was like "oooooh big axe!". Then I started to learn the mechanics. My impression then became "big axe needs big brain to swing". Never looked back. Became my favourite weapon imidiately and pretty much the only one I use with the occasional change.
Ah yes the weapon with literally the most satisfying move.
Unless you miss 😂
This it becomes the most painful move to experience in the game.
Super Amped Dopamin Discharge
@@Graail SADD :(
@@dantefromdevilmaycry9857 that's the name when you whiff it lmao
4U Charge Blade was my main for the whole game, my FIRST game, and the hole in my heart will never heal. I miss you, 4U charge blade.
Me too, 4u charge blade was incredible and very satisfying
It was incredibly broken in 4U like next level but I'm glad you played one of the best MH games if not the best lol
God me too man it sucks
@@LJAndrews1986 I hate capcom sometimes. Like they made this two fantastic new weapons in that game, made them both ridiculously strong to give them a warm welcome but then kick one in the balls the next game and slowly nerf the other over the next few. Like why not just balance better in the first place
Ah yes Chad Blade. Hopefully Sunbreak will give it a usability boost. Personal favourite was Chernobog's Scythe.
The only weapon with it’s own cutscene.
it does?
@@superheriber27 super discharge is basically a cutscene
one important note about 4U charge blade was that you could go straight from a gp to SAED (or a shield charge) which was absurdly powerful and fun. Generations removed that which made charging the shield harder. also I'm not sure if this changed after 4U but gp also did one phial of damage and you could KO monsters like diablos by repeatedly using a guard point when they attack with the head
Wasn't GP, Sword Upswing (after loading Phials) and Shildbash half a Phial in damage?
In 4U you could counter with an AED/SAED after regular guards too, not only GPs. In Generations blocking with a charged shield gives you a mini phial explosion, while in 4U it was only with both charged shield AND a GP.
@@vinaboy1993 different attacks have different phial damage, the ones you mention are the weakest while the ones from SAED are the strongest
In world its pretty much the same thing
The gp counter nerf is what made me use charge blade a lot less in gen than 4u
Hmm yes, the weapon that I used through all of the base quests of MHW, and *then* figured out how to buff my sword and shield. In my defense, it was my first monster hunter game
LITERALLY SAME
The fact that you managed to go through base quests is genuinely impressive
It's that time of the week again, time to leave my super amped element like on the vid
Enjoy!
12:04 Says "bear with me" while fighting arzuros
Good catch
Please, Father Radical. I don’t even play bow but it’s all I want to see. Surely it will win the next poll
Hello i am here to preach the word of our lord and saviour gunlance
@@haristortera5328 Hi, I’m here to speak of the ancient one, The One True Lance.
a little correction: in generations you can't shield trust to AED or SAED in any style
"I dont know what gen players were doing with this weapon"
I was a CB main in 4U and the way CB felt in Base generations made me drop it for Aerial SNS
Still playing in adept and striker style, but in gen, CB is far beyond it's original power
Striker Charge Blade gang
Charge Blade was a shadow of itself in Generations, but good Charge Blade users didn't use the SAED, and instead use impact phials to exhaust and stun. Striker Style experts use guard frames during attacks to deal devastating counterattacks.
I remember hearing about how strong charge blade was in 4u. To say the least that statement was proven to me when a guy beat the entirety of 4u with charge blade, without ever sharpening. He even beat Gog without sharpening, I feel like that's a testament to 4u charge blade strength.
As someone who loves 4U and was a CB main I can confirm CB was over powered, guard points were amazing in it.
I saw the thumbnail and immediately clicked only to have my hopes and dreams crushed by the premier reminder
18:38
You can actually combo straight into sword charge or a.e.d to shield charge from the silkbind guard, its kinda busted
Yeah, but the motion values of everything were destroyed so now you need to spam the shit out of it. Also the SAED pattern and MVs are shit in rise. It's going to be savage axe meta again.
4u was my first my game, and when I got it I was determined to learn how to play a comparatively complicated weapon, it’s been my main ever since. Love these videos!
You can also charge your sword out of Counter Peak Performance by holding X after if your shield is charged.
In Gen/GU you actually couldn't go into AED from a shield thrust, you could only fill phials into the shield, combo into another sword move or morph.
Aerial CB also could still use aerial AEDs in Gen, which was the optimal way to play it, but you couldn't use AEDs if you had a charged shield, you could only SAED, so people never charged shield with the style. GU's buff to that was making aerial AEDs possible with a charged shield.
Also if you were wondering about the popular choice for the third HA in Gen's striker CB, people usually picked Energy Blade. It's a giant lightsaber made up of your phials that emits from the shield (the blade also had the most awkward hitbox possible somehow) and grew in strength and size depending on how many phials you had loaded into it.
Gen/GU's CB overall emphasized being in Axe mode more to deal damage rather than staying in sword mode and using shortcuts to your strongest moves like other games since those shortcuts were removed. So comparatively it was not as free-flowing, less counter focused, and more committal akin to the Greatsword. I think Gen's CB was actually one of the biggest nerfs a weapon ever received going from one title to another within the whole series.
12:10 wrong. Shield thrust to AED/SAED was removed entirely in generations. It's not just striker lacking a shield thrust.
Striker was popular BECAUSE the shieldthrust lost pretty much all of its utility.
The shield thrust shortcut only serves to refresh shield duration in Gen/GU. Striker was popular because it gets increased damage modifier for axe attacks (like a 1.2x modifier iirc) and it can run both absolute Hunter arts because Ripper shield was the only one worth using in GU.
@@tonyngo1885 Ye, it did give the axe mode a boost but I wasn't sure if I remembered it correctly. And the shield thrust did end up kinda useless so giving it up entirely just wasn't too big of a sacrifice which I would say was part of why striker was popular.
The story of big Tuna sword pls
You forgot to mention how you can attack out of Counter Peak Performance with either a condensed element slash if you hit X, a morph slash with A, and an AED or SAED with XA!
The condensed element slash is pretty useful cause it bypasses the decently lengthy charge time for it!
"It's a freaking swiss army axe"
that's all there is to say. Can't wait to open up a new branch of the Charge Blade Cult.
Such a shame Charge Blade phial damage isn't great in Rise, but at least we got Axe Hopper, which has massive damage on its final axe swing
-Lots of stuff you can do written on paper with viable options at all turns.
Or
-UNGA BOONGA SAED
Charge blade , switch axe , you know all these are well and good . But do you know which weapon was the first ! to mix a weapon with machinery ?? A weapon so mighty it had to be contained , bound by chains ....in the bottom of tier lists... , as its power was so technologically advanced and marvelous ,if more than 3 concurrent players used the weapon the whole of the monster hunter universe , from stories to frontier ,would collapse! The allmighty gunlance!! So my friends dont be fooled . When people claim the weapon is "slow" and "garbage" , they are simply spreading false information, propaganda as to keep the number of people playing gunlance down! I am one of the three that main the weapon . But if more of us start using the cannon buster sword we ll be able to reshape monster hunter reality as we know it !! So please , SuperRad , spread the word of the great gunlance by making the history video on it next and Lead us to a new generation filled to the brim with giant shields and awesome explosions!!! I know you ll do the right thing !
Bro you did a full ass acey
@@goldriguez7077 Its not the first time ... Its the only way for gunlance to make a splash !
I’ve never seen a man so dedicated to gunlance since caoslayer
I love the gunlance but I just suck at it. The gunlance has been even more difficult to become proficient at than the charge blade. It requires patience and positioning and godlike back hops and I still have not been able to get down the flow so my respect goes out to you and the two others of your kind. Also Rise gunlance looks extra spicy. Can't wait to give it a whirl.
I'm so fucking with you
I believe in Boomstick supremacy
People find the weapon slow? Immobile? Clearly they have no idea what it means to play as The Fucking Wall Itself
I can't believe you just completely glossed over the Limit Breaker + Energy Blade combo in MHGU. I never got to end game so maybe it's not useful later, but I loved my giant laser sword.
had to scroll to far for this. i dont care if it was less than optimal it was to godamn fun not to use my giant LAZER SWORD. I even setup an auto chat that would say "imma firin mah laser" whenever i used it.
Energy blade made my inner Xenoblade lover be so happy. I hope rise g rank expansion adds it again
Watching this series made me realize how well rounded the MH series weapon roster is. The only niche that needs to be filled is a fast attack blunt weapon really. Maybe one day they will take the tonfa idea from frontier.
Or Gauntlets. Fist weapons are a ridiculous and interesting weapon idea that I want.
@Rill the problem was old Gen hunting horn was really difficult and dangerous to use in close combat. World hunting horn was much better overall but still required a great amount of skill and timing. But above all it’s one of the least used weapons. These buffs I would argue is necessary. Who finds spamming songs far from the fight any fun.
History of the Sexy Blade
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Hears SA got removed (16:42) sad.. Watches yesterdays Gameplay footage and the new switch skill .. happy
Aw man, i have class tomorrow. Guess i'll watch it later. But i know it will be a banger of a video
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Ngl I cheesed all of 4 Ultimate's endgame by soloing everything with max guard and max defense charge blade. Pop on some knockout maestro, stam drain, life hone, and maybe some attack skills for the added bonus of literally blocking things to death. Molten Tigrex, Crimson Demon Fatalis, and Silver Rathalos especially suffered at the charge of my blade.
The Charge Blade is fascinating to me. I used it a LOT at the beginning of MH4U because it looked like a beefier SnS and I loved that. Thought I did pretty well, until about 10 hours in, I join up with some friends and immediately realize I'd been completely ignorant of one of its mechanics - the shield charge. Watching the video, it now makes much more sense to me as to why. Back then, I thought it felt "tacked on" to a perfectly fine weapon and that makes sense once you know it wasn't originally there.
I never really used it too much after this and fell into the trap of deeming it "too complicated" as seems to be the common say about the CB. Then, when I replayed World recently, I found that no, the weapon isn't really complicated at all. It actually has a very VERY fluid style of attacking that makes it easy to completely ignore any of the charging stuff. Once you actively learn to keep an eye out for the charge, it's pretty simple imo.
That said, I'm still far from considering myself good at the weapon. I have way too much fun using the charged up sword to quickly stun monsters to the point that I'm not sure if the weapon is for me since I really dislike the AED combo. The way I actually enjoy to use the weapon seemed sup-optimal to me and that's a big turn off for me. The fact that Gen and Gen U actually nerfed SAED and AED was a huge surprise to me watching this video considering how I think of the weapon. I think CB, I think AED spam, but apparently that's not true any more, is it?
Love the content just found ya and subbed, I'm a bow main and CB main so this video is like my dirty little slice of heaven. Keep up the good work my G
Glad you enjoy it!
12:00 or so - none of the styles can use the shield thrust into AED or SAED. The reason SAED isn't used is because the motion values were nerfed to be only just as good as the AED at 4-5 phials, while removing your charged shield. Also, the aerial style has a more powerful air AED.
Fun fact: Phials deal pierce/ammo damage, meaning your phials will deal more damage based on where you hit. This also means that Charge Blade can successfully deal all 3 types of damage in one. Slashing for the Sword/Axe basic attacks, and Blunt for the Impact Phials specifically.
I fell in love with the Charge Blade when I played the 4U demo and its been my main ever since
Can we have history of Gunlance, aka the boomstick
Gunlance>Charge Blade>Everything else
So after the history of our hunting tools, could we expect a history of our skills? Since the evolution of our beloved skill charts into single points of a skill, there are some skills that only got to shine in one game before being torn from us! I think that would be an interesting series!
Hmm I never thought about it. Could be something in the future. I think next is some monster history or some lore tho.
Two other things that gen/gu removed from 4u is the ability to SAED out of a gp (guard point) and the ability to SAED after a shield thrust, also the hitboxes of SAED were massively changed
My heart goes out to the Charge Blade mains that got screwed by GU nerfs.
What did they nerf in gu?
@@harvinthran1999 no AED or SAED after guard point is a big one they nerfed
Edit: also no SAED after shield trust
They turned it into a massive piece of literally unplayable shit. I bought GU and every time i start up the game i just close the app because the cb is so shit.
Its like if the spirit combo did almost no damage for LS. Or the GS got its lvl 3 removed. Or the LBG had its rapid shots nerfed to 2 shots and medium wait. Or the glaive not proccing any mount damage.
Ichinose took a broom he'd just snapped in half and shoved it up CBs anus. No lube, nothing. Just right up there. Splinters and all.
Charge blade brothers and sisters, START YOUR ENGINE!!! *buzz saw noises* Condensed Spinning Slash FTW!!!
i think it would be neat to see some videos in this style but for monsters: What gen they came from, how their movesets changed over the gens and their armour sets, also there's so many its a well of content.
luv ya vids
My beloved Insect Glaive soon, please! But please be gentle to my little bug stick, he is very misunderstood.
When will we see a history of MH online? Id love to know more about it
@BunZa thats frontier, mh online was a different chinese MMO
I like the shield parry from adept style, it so satisfying after I successfully block monster move and charge my shield.
That ending reminded me of Chris Chan talking about his house being online, “I want Capcom to retweet my videos, NOw, NOW, NOW, NOW!” Never change lmao
There are more arts that are worth using. The limit breaker + energy blade is a BIG damaging combo, and it's used a lot! Healing fial is used too...Kinda...
As a CB main, the gameplay on this video was almost phisically painful to watch.
I am brand new to the weapon
CHARGERU BLADERUUU!!! In all serious, dualblades should be next
My favorite weapon gets a video from my favorite youtuber! The anticipation was killing me
Superrad is frankly one of the best guys. Makes me envious of how cool he is.
It's my Bi energy
@@SuperRADLemon yep that would do it 🤣
Next weapon I wanna see is Gunlance.
It's such a criminally underrated weapon that gets overlooked due to its slow & clunky nature. It's deceptively supportive because it capitalizes best off of a team since you can keep laying on consistent pressure when the monster is down. Helps that's its shells are flat damage, meaning they'll always hit at the exact amount regardless of where you hit on the monster.
You typically play in sort of hit & run tactics until you can actually get in, since you're biggest hitting moves don't have the MOST amount of wind-up; saying this as someone who also plays Great Sword.
But, in particular, I love how its done in G/GU since Striker/Alchemy style allows you to, effectively, constantly have Wyvern Fire at the ready due to Dragon's Breath resetting once it's done. Aerial style allows you to just constantly unload your clip into the monster (great with normal shells).
But, if you REALLY want to hit that rush of dopamine, full team of gunlance in Iceborne. A neat little feature with gunlance in Iceborne is the Wyrmstake Blast, & nobody seems to talk about it.
What it does is make all explosive attacks hit twice. Obviously, with a single gunlance, yeah, it makes the shells more effective, & it passively buffs sticky ammo. But picture this: 4 gunlances, all have used their Wyrmstake Blasts, & all are unloading their clips. Congrats! you've turned the monster into a Michael Bay film. You're not even going to SEE the monster with the amount of explosions going off.
I love this weapon. What looks like a very unassuming "shotgun with a blade" weapon is VERY in-depth & synergistic weapon.
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I got a heart because I edited & now it's gone.
Sad.
Looking forward to the HBG and LBG history, especially the Tri iteration with interchangeable peices to make some truly bizarre ass looking guns.
When I use the Charge Blade it's weird, I end up primarily using the Axe mode and only go into sword and shield mode if I know I need to block or prep for a super/normal element discharge. I just like the axe mode more.
Thanks to this video I'm gonna start using thr savage axe ability in iceborne. Such a dope move and I didn't know it was added.
I think CB is the reason why LS transitioned from being evasive to being a counter weapon
GU player here: Pre ultimate CB had Energy blade and Limit-breaker. Limit breaker allows you to increase your phial count (up to 10 if you use the 3 variant), and Energy blade is a wide sweep that becomes way stronger and way bigger the more phials you have.
See where i'm going with this?
10 phials mixed with giant lightsaber of death has some of the highest MV of any single move. But it's also rather situational and takes forever to charge and set up.
I think the best place to start if you're gonna do a history on all 14 weapons, start with the very first one conceptualized and the last next to CB since you already did that.
We do get the Condensed Spinning Slash as a Switch Skill in Rise, which I prefer over the upgraded Sword ability.
Can't wait to see the history of the Gunlance tbh. Great vids tho, keep it up!
Coming soon!
Finally someone explaining what a guard point is. And to think that I was always using it and didn't know the name, and dudes on reddit were all sassy like "oooh, you don't know what guardpoint is"
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>premiers in 27 hours
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>set reminder for video
Soon my child
@@SuperRADLemon yes yes father radical
The charge blade gives me the ability to "no U" the enemy, but I just can't use it properly because I try to get on the offensive too much
I know this is about a year late, but I wanted to chime in on savage axe. It was the highest consistent damage CB had in iceborne, especially against monsters without many big windows to SAED af6ter a gp. In rise, it's much the same. You can still sidestep after a succesful guard or guard point in rise too! The advancing wirebug move not only sets up for an aed or saed in any direction, but also lets you go straight into Elemental Discharge 2, which is verry strong to reposition to head and have a higher dps combo in spin axe mode. Overall fantastic video though, keep up the good work!
I remember the day I saw mh4 in Japan and I wanted it so badly coming out of three ultimate and we had to wait a while (2 whole ass years) till 4u came out and I saw the insect glaive and I was like damn I wanna main this then I saw charge blade and I immediately creamed my pants never used anything besides long sword in 4u till generations nerfed CB then world and ice borne made it so much better good vid as always SuperRAD (PSA if you master guard points you’ll never put down CB)
When CB was added in 4U, I swapped from LS main to CB main, and continued that through World and Iceborne. I have to say, it's kind of weird to see that the more intricate resource management that I loved about the weapon was actually new for 4U.
Oh btw SuperRAD there is another Axe chop in the moveset idk if anyone knows about it. After the Uppercut if you wait a moment before hitting the chop again it will do a little vertical spin chop down instead. Does a little more damage in World
Not gonna lie, I’m gonna go nuts for the Lance video. I get it’s one of the least popular weapons but I’m in love with it.
Valor Style in GU is super broken in axe mode, because you get an infinite combo with the ability to use phials with the A button attack, if the Valor gauge is full, allowing for a ton of damage, as every second hit with the infinite does a triple swing that, with each hit of the attack, does phial damage. You can essentially pump a monster full of phial damage, while never needing to use SAED at all.
The reason Striker Style was used was as follows:
-Striker Style removes the shield thrust from the SnS moveset. While to many new players, this might seem like a detriment, keep in mind that the super shortcut does not exist in Gen and GenUlt and using it in guild will just net you a yellow shield no matter how many times you load your shield. You HAVE to charge your shield in Axe mode
-the previously stated 20% boost to axe attacks.
-striker for all weapons can bring 3 hunter arts and hunter arts charge faster. For most CB players, this just means bringing both absolute arts and Ripper Shield.
-at the start of the animation, the advancing slash gets a guard point that allows players to plow through attacks that require guard +1 if they have Red Shield.
Thinking about how new this one and IG are makes me wonder if/when another will come. I digress, another great superrad video
Thanks again!
What I never knew about the savage axe slash in mhw. I claim to be a veteran smh. I never see anyone using it. Not one charge blade main. Edit: oh its iceborne addition nvm.
Excited for this but I think it's time to add some good ol' range into this melee sausage party
me saying dual blades and bow is gonna be the running joke of 2021 ⚔️🏹
im loving these videos tho!!!
One thing ya missed, between 4U and Gen they ramped down the KO damage on CB because it was outshining Hammer and HH. Not only was CB doing more KO damage than the two weapons dedicated to it, but it could also cut off tails, the one thing you lose by using the Hammer/HH.
I joked that it wouldn't be long, but both this and my baby IG had a lot of mechanics put onto it. I used CB alot in 4U myself, but couldn't get into it in Gen/GenU, which is why its in my side weapons.
I think we should jump into one of the gunner weapons now....and do Gunlance! What, its 'obviously' a gunner weapon, it has 'gun' right in the name =P
But seriously though, you should go ahead and head to the gunner weapons. I'd love to see IG, but I want that to be the last one because its so fun, that and it techincally two weapons: The IG itself and your Kinsect (three if you count how you can use the terrain to your advantage in World by jumping off the walls into your aerial combo and in Rise you can stab it into the walls). But yes, jump into the Bow which I feel has come a long way from 2nd Gen.
I think bow may be next!
@@SuperRADLemon Sweet, I look forward to it
CB was a weapon I played mostly in 4U. A super fun weapon.
Still can't hold a candle to my love of the SnS; though.
Ah yes, the only weapon that matters, also known as the weapon that the portable team hates and "the cooler sns"
For some reason, I feel like dual blades might be interesting to see how's it changed since the first game.
I love when he was showcasing the xxx attack, he accidentally guard point a konchu 🤣
Hey, energy blade is great. I once cut off a monster's tail in one blow when combined with increased phial count
My first weapon was Switch Axe and wondered if they could make a weapon that could be like that but can Guard too. 4 released and finally got 4U and I am a CB master since then 😂 I like the SnS and heavy weapons too though but Charge Blade is too fun.
As someone who has used a lot of switch axe before using charge blade, the axe mode not having auto mind's eye bugged me
Well switch axe's axe mode didn't have mind eye too.
I'm surprised you didn't talk about that aerial axe silkbind attack brought up in one of the trailers. All the charge blade mains I know of were really excited about that. Still, good video. Imagining chargle blade without SAED is weird and strange. Can't wait for gunlance and not-gun lance!
I try to only focus on what's available to me when I'm playing. Videos that come out after the release of rise will benefit more from this
i think i'd rather like to see the bowguns vids after the Rise release, so we can see all ammo types
anyways, great video as always. as a fifth fleeter, very happy to get some information on previous games
I can't find this in the comments but you could actually both shield and sword charge from the counter Peak performance
Edit: for those wondering, to charge shield, press top and right face buttons after the slik bind guard, then right trigger. For condensed element slash, simply push top face bottom after the guard, and if your shield is charged it will charge your sword as well. This method is significantly faster than the standard method.
I joined the series in World and was instantly entranced by the Charge Blade. It's a Sword and Shield that turns into an Axe. I joined around a month before Iceborne got announced.
I gotta say this weapon will forever be my main baby 👌 Sorry guys but the Charge Blade is the best weapon in the game don't @ me 💜.
Currently still playing it in Rise and recently got into GU just for more Charge Blade action
I'm glad to see the savage axe has kinda come back in rise now. Now the silk bind system forces you to choose between being able to charge up the blade, or doing savage axe mode instead. I think that's cool, hopefully one form doesn't blow the other out of the water so there's reasons to choose each.
This comment aged poorly.
You didn't talk about the hability to use the discharge right after a guard point in 4u :(
Sorry I do SHOW it but I didn't mention it
Um nice video and all but I feel like the importance of guard points to playing CB was somewhat understated. I understand that this is not a weapon tutorial video but you did not even mention that the sliding slash and savage axe transformation both have the added benefit of a guard point or that a successful guard point can instantly lead into either an AED or a SAED. Guard points are what make the weapon feel unstoppable and are one of the reasons to main CB. I'm not trying to insult you but I noticed that sometimes your information is incomplete. Still I enjoy these videos and I am looking forward to the next one.
Always appreciate having stuff I missed mentioned. believe it or not these scripts go through multiple screening processes with weapon experts before being made into a video, but sometimes there's stuff that just doesn't make it in. I feel like I mentioned every major mechanic however, so I'm happy about that
Oh hey he missed a thing. In 4u there were actually two attacks in sword mode that you did with r+x, one of them had a guard point and is the one it still has today, and the other was a bit faster and didn’t have one. For the one with the guard point, which is almost always the one you’ll want to be using you have to press x slightly before you pressed r, and for the faster one you can do it out of a normal guard by pressing x while guarding, or pressing r before x while standing. In gen they changed the second one to have a guard point that was smaller and in all other games they just removed it. The reason I know this is that the number of times I have been screwed out of a guard point because I pressed r slightly too soon is far too high. I’m pretty the second attack of the 123 sword mode combo also had a guard point that was removed, but I might be misremembering
Thanks for this!
I'll likely use the new silkbind move shown in the rampage trailer, with the flipping up into an saed.
You missed that in World you can overcharge philes with condensed element to attack faster, letting you deal phial damage very quickly. This became irrelevant in Iceborne due to savage axe being better, but it was very nice in base world. If it still works in Rise I think it might make a comeback with Savage Axe being missing.
Interesting. I definitely missed this!
ahhh my old 4U main loved how powerful it was in that game
i know this might be a weird opinion but the weapon these days in the new games doesn't feel as good as it did in 4U even tho its arguably better in the new games I think the main think for me is the fact the the full SAED cost you your shield charge and it felt more powerful as well
I'm charged for this one!
Luckily they included the charged axe as a switch skill in the final release
The demo did not do CB justice. It felt so much slower than World, but with the release it is actually absolutely amazing.
That guard point at 2:26 tho
The dev team coming up with a new weapon in MH4: "I sawed this Switch-Axe in half!"
So, I’ve used the charge blade in Rise and Iceborne, the savage axe mode can be extremely broken, big fan of it, in iceborne you basically bully the monster with it to the point that Alatreon can become a joke, and most other monsters kinda get screwed over, although it’s hard to keep the damage up due to how slow it is, but if you stay next to the monster, it’s actually pretty crazy, only using triangle while on PS4 can take down a Rathalos in like 2 minutes, which with how little you do anything shouldn’t really be the case, it’s change in rise turns into a very useful utility for people who like the axe mode more, while also retaining some of that previous power, but not to the extreme of Iceborne
I'm calling it now Gen 6 will introduce a new weapon!