"Just in case you are half asleep..." This channel is great to doze off to, it must be said. Also confusing to fall asleep during DS1 Firebombs only and wake up mid DS2
His voice is really calm and he doesnt use loud noises for jokes unlikely many other channels with challenge runs so its great ive also fallen asleep to it. Reminds me of being a kid and napping well listening to my dad play gamecube lol
I love that Capcom gets this, and thats why we get the transmogs. Because the number of times that a whole consistent set has been the correct gear choice for me in World or Rise has been....zero? Yeah, zero.
Sadly that has been tested and while I'm not 100% sure on it, Palicos either become unable to hit after a certain amount of damage, or are just literally not allowed to land the final blow. You can command them all you want to attack but they just... MISS.
5:20 I do want to add that with the extra air move added in iceborne, high power low speed kinsects do have a place, as the kinsect follows your dive, damaging the monster as it passes through, if it follows more slowly this gets to tick for damage more times. So if you can get comfy with a slow kinsect to gather extracts this is a good choice for damage output.
if you do make sure you get iceborne with it, the DLC adds so much content that its practically a new game. hope you have as good as a time as I did when I played
Hope you enjoy it, it is a great game :) Although it is a bit of a slog at the start. I would recommend trying the other games as well, especially Generations Ultimate if you have a switch. Very different, but the game is honestly great. Tons of content as well. Good luck!
When faced with a brick wall in games, you have two options. One, find a way around it through strategy and planning and usually skill. Option 2, smash your head against it until it falls over. This channel is the living embodiment of option two.
I have only heard the first sentence in this video, and already I have the urge to tell you how pleasant your voice and rhetorics are. Your videos are just a treat overall, all attention and praise is well deserved! Keep up the good work!
As someone who loved using the Insect Glaive, I’m glad you made this video. This was really awesome and fun to watch. I managed to kill a few with only my kinsect before but never actually tried to do an entire run with it
Writing the captions for this was a lot of fun! Will probably do another in the future for shits and giggles lol. Keep up the good work, Sirmerged Lemon!
Awesome video and its nice to see the insect glaive getting some use but some tips for if you decide to do iceborne with this set up, slinger capacity can give you more red ammo when its fully upgraded to give you more uptime on the kinsect damage boost and i think the power prolonger skill also works to extend the buff as well. Also its a little strange that you didn't use the kinsect element menu at all since they have a pretty noticeable damage increase if you use the right element and you can swap it out when you need to as well. Finally im a little suprised you never used the flashbang trick with the dust clouds. If you didnt know when you use a flash pod any dust clouds in its effect radius get triggered all at once so you can stack up 4 clouds then set them all off at once for big status build up and the flash pod itself doesnt do damage so theres no risk of failing the challenge if you hit the monster with it. I really loved the video and hope you do more monster hunter challenges even if you decide not to continue this challenge into iceborne Edit: you actually did do the flash trick once at 3:57 with the environmental flash bugs
@@blitztalks8039 yup, played the whole mhw iceborne extention playing this weapon exclusively and after more than 1500 hunts you still discover things, like... this i feel so dumb rn
this build is so strangely interesting to me. im back on MHW learning a weapon i never used just to try bonking things with a buggy. any particular upgrade paths you recommend? what about power-speed and on?
@@grimacetexas9719 thank you. any further tips for this kind of run? I am kind of following in Lemons steps so far, trying to get more info. biggest thing i didn't apply to my kills so far was kinsect charging. that said, my runs not so hardcore, using the palico and clutchclaw combinations too.
Two things. One - your commentary during your videos is always the best. Two - It amazes me how you take some rough games, do a challenge, create a build, that just makes the game easy either in some spots or all the way through. Great job!
This could have been a lot less painful if you used vitality boost and divine protection lol. Defense boost is much weaker than both of those, but the extra suffering does make the video better
@@SpecialJess2 I remember farming that guy a long time ago for fang+ and that piece of crap wouldn’t give it to me even after breaking the face yet my friend got it first try lol
Another beautiful challenge run. Thank you lemon for spending time making stuff like this. Honestly, was having a bad day after work today and seeing this made me feel a lot better
A few tips for anyone trying this: 1) If u dont mind upgrading weapons, do consider crafting 3 of them, one with Sever bonus, one with Element bonus and one with Spirit & Strength bonus (Iceborne only). Sever is fine on non-element, Element is preferred usually if u know the monster's weakness, and SS is best if u know u can't get the monster dropped ammo (pair this with slinger capacity if u can for increased value) 2) "Heal" stat is important, but for the wrong reasons. It governs stamina of the kinsect, so a mix of Power and Heal is best. That said, u inspired me to do this in MHR! Love your content Backlogs!
Iceborn is absolutely possible considering that only a few main monsters are in the quest format. you can fight all the monsters in the exploration format meaning no starting items but also no time or death limitation
As someone who put almost 600 hours into MHW on PS4 alone, I can only say this…. You’re better at this game than I’ll ever be. One of my favorite TH-camrs recently.
Aah, MH World. The game where you can kick a a magical thunder pony to death. Lemon doing challenges for this game is something i never knew i needed until i watched this video. Honestly i was expecting this to not be possible, but you proved me wrong. Please do more challenge runs for this game, this was unreasonably entertaining lmao
As someone who mains Insect Glaive, this kind of stuff actually excites me. I was always kinda sad that the whole bug building process basically boiled down to "speed or bust". Seeing the bug be used (successfully) for damage is neat.
@@justsomejojo If you haven’t heard, Iceborne bug is actually insane for damage and actively rewards having a slower bug surprisingly. The descending thrust is the strongest way to end your air combos, and has your bug follow your flight path through the monster. Slower bugs give more hits so it’s a really cool trade off between damage and extraction.
I have a friend that will love to see this one ^_^ Good work! I had forgotten about blast- that does make this challenge go from "really? how??" to "this is maybe feasible". Pretty solid strategies all around- but I do wonder if Kushala would've been easier with a poison kinsect, i remember him being horribly weak to it in 4u. Minor correction: since Rathalos and Rathian are the males and females of the same species, they're almost certainly supposed to be pronounced similarly. Thanks for the vid!
Lemon. You are a true scholar. I watch this channel partially because your reactions are so similar to my own. In reality I didn't even realize the kinsect could eat slinger ammo. So this was very instructive for me.
God, I love this channel. I tried playing this game with a friend and hated every moment of it. But after watching this video, I tried this game again by myself, and I see why people like this game.
The friend element could have been the problem. While it's fun with friends I feel the game works best when you start on your own and learn what parts of the game appeal to you the most first. Once you're at a point were you actively hunt monsters you've already fought because a specific weapon or armour piece caught your eye you're hooked.
As a insect glaive fan, this makes me appreciate my kinsect as an ally. My online friends have even started calling him tim because of his healing dust saving us when we were still new and getting hilarious surprise kills later like a Glavenus mid air in its jump attack
I remember doing this long long ago on twitch for a charity run. Some advice to anyone who wants to try this: Keep your own speed and armour buffs up for extra survivability, build for evade window and divine protection instead of defense boost for the same reason, any buff is better than no buff, but learn where all the different different crabs with red pods are, there's a lot of them for certain monsters. Another survivability boost comes from having healing dust items, as while they heal less, tossing them out is faster than a potion while you find better openings. Also most monsters drop three pods per hunt, you can gauge the HP accordingly, as it is HP based. In Iceborne, elemental kinsects are worth it for specific monsters, but raw is better in most cases. Base game the elemental grind is absolutely not worth it.
To add, Defense Boost isn't great and Elemental Defense Boost is a trap. Defense Boost doesn't actually add that much damage reduction per point, so you're better off using different armor/deco. Drinking defense buffs and eating defense food is fine, since there's not anything else worth taking. Elemental Defense Boost sucks because monsters don't actually deal that much elemental damage. Even attacks that obviously look like they'd deal elemental damage are majority physical.
@@Darklordiban7 The elemental to physical ratio does increase in IB, but it is a trap no matter what. Elemental mechanics in Monster Hunter are weird, the best reason to look at elemental defense is to make sure it isn't too far into the negative for what you are fighting, and to occasionally get it high enough for blight immunity.
This play through gave me some ideas about the insect glave and I realized during your zoro magdaros fight that I can use my little buddy to hit rock instead of dying trying to hit it. Overall your video wasn’t only super interesting but very informative (this actually helped me out a lot because I main the glave and am still learning so much)
before seeing the outcome, I'm going to say that it is possible, just because of the squad that killed behemoth with just kinsects and since then iceborne added the kinsect buffing which is pretty strong
I knew this was possible from the very start of the video. Some hints here: -There is a channel in TH-cam (MasamuneTV) that killed every single monster of MH4U with the Kinsect (G-Rank included of course). -I have like 1000 hours played and two world records in this game; and more than 3000 hours played in the franchise. -I used the Insect Glaive at the start of the game, but the DPS of the weapon wasn't enough for me (fun weapon to use). Love your content man, greetings from Spain.
Hell yeah, love the bug glaive, it was one of the weapons I used for my playthrough (along with the daggers and a heavy bowgun for when I was doing co-op) Can't wait to see how much I was underutilizing the kinsect lmao
Hey man, just wanna say I really enjoy your content, found you a few weeks ago and your videos are some of the best stuff I've seen lately lol, you do great work, and I hope you find as much joy in making these as we get out of it, thanks man
Craziest thing I have ever witnessed in World was taking on the Bazelgeuse optional hunt and only to then see Bazel, a Deviljho, and an Uragaan duke it out in the same room. Really felt like I was front row seat watching a Kaiju FFA. Also, 25:42 Vore
This is my favorite of your videos. When I need a good set a videos to grind Eldin Ring to its this video, the FireBomb Souls trilogy and the XCOM ones. Keep up the good work and happy Easter :)
You’ll be glad to know, that while I don’t use them the majority of the time, I am using my fire pots quite a bit in Elden ring They do pretty decent damage and my stats aren’t even that high
Dude, playing IG normally and dealing with Nerg's ridiculous range is hard enough. I don't know how many times, even with a bit of evade assist, he would swipe me while I was yards from him. It's horrible. This was fun to watch! I'm not as good as my husband and his bro with MH as a series, and World was my first foray, but I learned a couple details in this video that I want to use. I really new to more technical builds like IG. Keep on making awesome videos!
I main insect glaive in MHW. And I’ve used the kinsect only strat to cower in the corner over every new fight because I’m brand new to the series and had no idea what I was doing at first. Then I found out that it works quite well, and it’s become a fallback for when I have to learn how a monster’s attacks work. Being a pokemon trainer in a world full of monsters has its perks.
i think i learn the kinsect mechanic when i was hunting diablos. kinda sad that every *return* i learn more and way more. kinsect press Y and B feeding it jump hit, hit, and double or normal double jump. now i'm kinda an expert of this weapon
i remember being bow and light gun build and always dealing one damage (i had Rathalos armor from all my failed missions, never made it past the flaming-t-rex) and getting a ton of off-line lag... maybe i'll try this.
Fun fact: Kinsects were arguably even better at bullying monsters in 4U and GenU. Before world they had access to a charge attack that did way more damage and was fantastic at knocking out monsters if you used a blunt kinsect, 4U had a specific type of kinsect that could spam charge attacks like crazy, and GenU replaced the "heal" stat with a weight stat that allowed kinsects to flinch monsters way more often than normal along with the usual power stat.
Nope, stamina is how much it can stay without comming to rest back on you, speed is one of the kinsect stats and is listed directly on the kinsect branch
That poor button must have been burning after this run. Well played, good sir, well played. And now Iceborne +- timegated and oneshot bosses like Fatalis and Alatreon :D
They're just big ol' tamed bugs. In MH4(the game IG debuted in) you actually raised the Kinsects by feeding them various nectars to level them up and evolve them into different forms. They removed it since it was kind of annoying trying to get the bug you wanted more often than not and instead you just buy them directly now.
Truly the best challenge run of all time. This run also sounds a lot more fun in Rise with the diversity of Kinsect types you can get! I wonder if which Kinsect would do the most damage in that type of run, bug majeure, charged, or powder Kinsects? We need to prove to Capcom that the cute bugs are the ULTIMATE WEAPON, that way there will be no way they can deny us the right to pet them in future games!
14:54 Thats a thing? I have played this game for nearly 50 hours and had "beaten" the game now with 3 different characters and yet literally never knew that was a thing.
This looks like one of the dumbest wastes of time I've seen for a Monster Hunter project, and given that I've tried to solo Stygian Zinogre on Asian difficulty back in MH3U that's saying something. Gonna have to try it myself with Lisa the Mauldrone!
As a Robert, I never thought I would get so much satisfaction having a bug with my name be the protagonist of one of these ridiculous runs. Great work!
16:18 Honestly, Air Time is the best thing monsters do that the IG weapons give to you too, having aerial battles against Rathy bois is super satisfying, especially when you down them mid air cuz its just like, Get *DOWN* son!
11:55 sails. They are called sails. :) Don't really exist in modern animals anymore but used to, mostly in reptiles (we think. It's hard to tell die to fossil records not being very conclusive). It's still not quite clear what the purpose of them would have been but among other things heat regulation and mating displays have been proposed.
The timing on this video is kinda funny. I recently just started playing Monster Hunter World as my first MH game, and the Insect Glaive is my favourite weapon.
so... uhh... with some alterations i decided to take this challenge all the way into iceborne as far as i can go. My rules were the Kinsect was my primary weapon. this means i did tenderize with the IG for slinger ammo right off the top, would clutch claw, would wallsmash. I mistakenly took swipes at times with the actual IG, and I also brought the palico. Think of it as a normal playthrough, but treating the bug as the weapon and the glaive as incidental. that said... once you understand the kinsect mechanics, there's only a handful of missions out of all of them in the game you honestly can't do. elementally grow them. cycle them for enemy weaknesses. get an element boost weapon (my pick was the Legiana rarity 6 glaive, HR weapons work through the whole playthrough, and with grinding HR you can augment it with 20% Lifesteal) and you can take on the vast majority of challenges. there's a few fights through my testing you probably to really can't do. but nearly all of them are utterly end game encounters, or games raid equivalent fights. the thing that hurts this build is time. depending on fight mechanics and timers vs hitzone values, you can be walled. my run isn't over yet, my personal finisher is trying to take Fatalis since AT velk seems impossible to me, and it has been done to take Fatalis this way, but it's really amazing how viable this unintended build really is. I went with the bug line that ends in gleambeetle velox for blunt damage, and it's hilarious how often exhaust and KO would come up.
"exposition grandma" reminds me of a gag in a silly old game called "darkened Skye": "she's the obligatory wise-old-knows-everything character." yes, that game "breaks the fourth wall" a LOT. "i keep forgetting, this IS an adventure game!"
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"Just in case you are half asleep..."
This channel is great to doze off to, it must be said. Also confusing to fall asleep during DS1 Firebombs only and wake up mid DS2
i literally use this channel to fall asleep to like every night. not that im saying its boring. i just love the content and his voice is soothing
@@Zfighter218 Im so glad I'm not the only one to do this
@@Zfighter218 bro same
His voice is really calm and he doesnt use loud noises for jokes unlikely many other channels with challenge runs so its great ive also fallen asleep to it. Reminds me of being a kid and napping well listening to my dad play gamecube lol
The amount of times I've fallen asleep while watching his videos is uncanny, just so chill to watch and I just slowly drift off for some reason
17:19
“What the hell are you wearing?”
“This is my asskicking outfit bitch!”
I love that Capcom gets this, and thats why we get the transmogs. Because the number of times that a whole consistent set has been the correct gear choice for me in World or Rise has been....zero? Yeah, zero.
With just a cat is also pretty fun, plus I'm curious how it would work without the meowcano early on.
Sadly that has been tested and while I'm not 100% sure on it, Palicos either become unable to hit after a certain amount of damage, or are just literally not allowed to land the final blow. You can command them all you want to attack but they just... MISS.
...but what if you used a kinsect?
@@TheBacklogs you have proved that with enough patience, and an appreciation for winged arthropods, it is possible.
@@monmusumaster palicoes can’t kill, they’ll leave the monster at 1 hp, same as environmental obstacles
@@boredmagala5701 That's what I thought. Sadly that makes the challenge run impossible right off the bat.
When he dropped the line of "Oh look, it's Big McLarge-Huge", I couldn't stop laughing. That line is so perfect and funny. Well created!
I love that character hates using slingers and throws the ammo himself
you are not real
You _do_ know that's a Mystery Science Theater 3000 line, right?
Ah yes the optimal insect blade strat.
That’s insect glaive to you
Just kidding
@@boredmagala5701 No, you see im talking about the bugs mandables 😉
@@ashenone3883 ah yes I see
Rather see them doing this then all jump attacks with their nerfed mounting buildup lol very optimal
@@SpecialJess2 you sound mad
5:20 I do want to add that with the extra air move added in iceborne, high power low speed kinsects do have a place, as the kinsect follows your dive, damaging the monster as it passes through, if it follows more slowly this gets to tick for damage more times. So if you can get comfy with a slow kinsect to gather extracts this is a good choice for damage output.
hitting for 160 damage 8 times on alatreon makes my brain happy
I've never played monster hunter world, but this has* put it on my list xD
Also to be sassy: "Yes"
yes! (all praise the youtube algorithm demanding comments)
if you do make sure you get iceborne with it, the DLC adds so much content that its practically a new game. hope you have as good as a time as I did when I played
@@verycooldragon4534 awesome thanks :P I have the game, though* won't get the time to start playing until next weekend haha
Hope you enjoy it, it is a great game :) Although it is a bit of a slog at the start.
I would recommend trying the other games as well, especially Generations Ultimate if you have a switch. Very different, but the game is honestly great. Tons of content as well. Good luck!
@@verycooldragon4534 I got monster hunter world after seeing this video and I'm saving to get iceborne
When faced with a brick wall in games, you have two options. One, find a way around it through strategy and planning and usually skill. Option 2, smash your head against it until it falls over. This channel is the living embodiment of option two.
Keep up the fun content. Also congrats to Bobert for beating the base game.
YES.
Also love the videos and glad for the variety! Keep up the awesome work my dude!
This challenge must have really “bugged” you.
The game was full of "bugs"
@@MazeMaker4Life ironically the game with the most “bugs” are in 4th gen.
Nice
I wanted to start this game over anyone with xbox wanna join in with me?
I have only heard the first sentence in this video, and already I have the urge to tell you how pleasant your voice and rhetorics are. Your videos are just a treat overall, all attention and praise is well deserved! Keep up the good work!
As someone who loved using the Insect Glaive, I’m glad you made this video. This was really awesome and fun to watch. I managed to kill a few with only my kinsect before but never actually tried to do an entire run with it
Writing the captions for this was a lot of fun! Will probably do another in the future for shits and giggles lol. Keep up the good work, Sirmerged Lemon!
Awesome video and its nice to see the insect glaive getting some use but some tips for if you decide to do iceborne with this set up, slinger capacity can give you more red ammo when its fully upgraded to give you more uptime on the kinsect damage boost and i think the power prolonger skill also works to extend the buff as well. Also its a little strange that you didn't use the kinsect element menu at all since they have a pretty noticeable damage increase if you use the right element and you can swap it out when you need to as well. Finally im a little suprised you never used the flashbang trick with the dust clouds. If you didnt know when you use a flash pod any dust clouds in its effect radius get triggered all at once so you can stack up 4 clouds then set them all off at once for big status build up and the flash pod itself doesnt do damage so theres no risk of failing the challenge if you hit the monster with it. I really loved the video and hope you do more monster hunter challenges even if you decide not to continue this challenge into iceborne
Edit: you actually did do the flash trick once at 3:57 with the environmental flash bugs
wait, flash pods trigger the dust? i gotta try that shit.
@@blitztalks8039 yup, played the whole mhw iceborne extention playing this weapon exclusively and after more than 1500 hunts you still discover things, like... this i feel so dumb rn
this build is so strangely interesting to me. im back on MHW learning a weapon i never used just to try bonking things with a buggy. any particular upgrade paths you recommend? what about power-speed and on?
@@DarkCT i'd go with speed and power with the maximum amount of speed for regular use, for the kinsect only i'd go with max strengh and speed second
@@grimacetexas9719 thank you. any further tips for this kind of run? I am kind of following in Lemons steps so far, trying to get more info. biggest thing i didn't apply to my kills so far was kinsect charging. that said, my runs not so hardcore, using the palico and clutchclaw combinations too.
Two things. One - your commentary during your videos is always the best. Two - It amazes me how you take some rough games, do a challenge, create a build, that just makes the game easy either in some spots or all the way through. Great job!
This could have been a lot less painful if you used vitality boost and divine protection lol. Defense boost is much weaker than both of those, but the extra suffering does make the video better
Valhazak armor with divine protection and healing bonus
@@SpecialJess2 Hell yeah. nice profile pic btw
@@SpecialJess2 I remember farming that guy a long time ago for fang+ and that piece of crap wouldn’t give it to me even after breaking the face yet my friend got it first try lol
also eating for max health at least before hunts :D
or he coulda eaten food with health boosts lol
Another beautiful challenge run. Thank you lemon for spending time making stuff like this. Honestly, was having a bad day after work today and seeing this made me feel a lot better
This was an absolute treat to watch, I really hope you do more Monster Hunter stuff in the future.
A few tips for anyone trying this:
1) If u dont mind upgrading weapons, do consider crafting 3 of them, one with Sever bonus, one with Element bonus and one with Spirit & Strength bonus (Iceborne only).
Sever is fine on non-element, Element is preferred usually if u know the monster's weakness, and SS is best if u know u can't get the monster dropped ammo (pair this with slinger capacity if u can for increased value)
2) "Heal" stat is important, but for the wrong reasons. It governs stamina of the kinsect, so a mix of Power and Heal is best.
That said, u inspired me to do this in MHR! Love your content Backlogs!
Iceborn is absolutely possible considering that only a few main monsters are in the quest format. you can fight all the monsters in the exploration format meaning no starting items but also no time or death limitation
But he has to slam the shit out of shara’s face, causing huge damage, making the challenge fail, unless he gets someone else to do it for him
@@luckyrice672 You don't have to wall slam Shara, my first slay of him was without any wall slamming
@@debleb166 how did you get her armor off?
@@luckyrice672 You just keep hitting it, it breaks from any damage
@@debleb166 you see your not weren't using a kinsect to kill things
As someone who put almost 600 hours into MHW on PS4 alone, I can only say this…. You’re better at this game than I’ll ever be. One of my favorite TH-camrs recently.
As a Hollow Knight fan, I always new that Bugs were the most powerful beings
Praise the pale wyrm
Wrong the crabs are superior
@Sithis106 crabs are just bugs of the sea. No I don't care I made it up way later on
Knew*
your lack of unlocking buff food makes me so anxious watching, all the more impressive you did this and all that but, ahhh my heart
It's so cool seeing you play a monster hunter game, it's my favorite game franchise
Aah, MH World. The game where you can kick a a magical thunder pony to death. Lemon doing challenges for this game is something i never knew i needed until i watched this video. Honestly i was expecting this to not be possible, but you proved me wrong. Please do more challenge runs for this game, this was unreasonably entertaining lmao
As someone who mains Insect Glaive, this hurts me from the core (fantastic video though)
As someone who mains Insect Glaive, this kind of stuff actually excites me. I was always kinda sad that the whole bug building process basically boiled down to "speed or bust". Seeing the bug be used (successfully) for damage is neat.
Same
As someone who mains I sect Glaive, this excites me from the core (fantastic video btw)
@@justsomejojo If you haven’t heard, Iceborne bug is actually insane for damage and actively rewards having a slower bug surprisingly.
The descending thrust is the strongest way to end your air combos, and has your bug follow your flight path through the monster. Slower bugs give more hits so it’s a really cool trade off between damage and extraction.
Was I entertained? Yes, yes I was.
Do I now want to try? Yes, yes I do.
Will I make it look as easy as you? No, no I won't.
Great content!!!!!
I have a friend that will love to see this one ^_^
Good work! I had forgotten about blast- that does make this challenge go from "really? how??" to "this is maybe feasible". Pretty solid strategies all around- but I do wonder if Kushala would've been easier with a poison kinsect, i remember him being horribly weak to it in 4u.
Minor correction: since Rathalos and Rathian are the males and females of the same species, they're almost certainly supposed to be pronounced similarly.
Thanks for the vid!
Lemon. You are a true scholar. I watch this channel partially because your reactions are so similar to my own. In reality I didn't even realize the kinsect could eat slinger ammo. So this was very instructive for me.
God, I love this channel. I tried playing this game with a friend and hated every moment of it. But after watching this video, I tried this game again by myself, and I see why people like this game.
Best of luck! It's a Monster Hunter tradition to try it, hate it, and come back and love it 🤣
The friend element could have been the problem. While it's fun with friends I feel the game works best when you start on your own and learn what parts of the game appeal to you the most first. Once you're at a point were you actively hunt monsters you've already fought because a specific weapon or armour piece caught your eye you're hooked.
@@Nero24200 I think having a friend who is supportive, but hands off for a bit is really helpful, personally :3
Im very excited to see you worm your way into the mh community. Its a great one.
As a insect glaive fan, this makes me appreciate my kinsect as an ally. My online friends have even started calling him tim because of his healing dust saving us when we were still new and getting hilarious surprise kills later like a Glavenus mid air in its jump attack
Love the content, keep up the good work.
Oh also before I forget....yes.
I remember doing this long long ago on twitch for a charity run. Some advice to anyone who wants to try this:
Keep your own speed and armour buffs up for extra survivability, build for evade window and divine protection instead of defense boost for the same reason, any buff is better than no buff, but learn where all the different different crabs with red pods are, there's a lot of them for certain monsters. Another survivability boost comes from having healing dust items, as while they heal less, tossing them out is faster than a potion while you find better openings.
Also most monsters drop three pods per hunt, you can gauge the HP accordingly, as it is HP based.
In Iceborne, elemental kinsects are worth it for specific monsters, but raw is better in most cases. Base game the elemental grind is absolutely not worth it.
To add, Defense Boost isn't great and Elemental Defense Boost is a trap.
Defense Boost doesn't actually add that much damage reduction per point, so you're better off using different armor/deco. Drinking defense buffs and eating defense food is fine, since there's not anything else worth taking.
Elemental Defense Boost sucks because monsters don't actually deal that much elemental damage. Even attacks that obviously look like they'd deal elemental damage are majority physical.
@@Darklordiban7 The elemental to physical ratio does increase in IB, but it is a trap no matter what. Elemental mechanics in Monster Hunter are weird, the best reason to look at elemental defense is to make sure it isn't too far into the negative for what you are fighting, and to occasionally get it high enough for blight immunity.
Hey, squirrel killers was the name of my very first guild in WoW, back in vanilla. What a throwback
21:52
TH-cam: “What are you wearing?”
The Backlogs: “It’s my ass kicking outfit bitch!”
"Yes and nothing else"
This play through gave me some ideas about the insect glave and I realized during your zoro magdaros fight that I can use my little buddy to hit rock instead of dying trying to hit it. Overall your video wasn’t only super interesting but very informative (this actually helped me out a lot because I main the glave and am still learning so much)
That was great, I'm proud of Bobert, and also that hunter who was vogueing in the foreground the whole time, that was pretty cool 🤭
I was “buzzing” with excitement when I saw this video
I've never played any of these games, but I'm going to mindlessly watch this anyway
Dude the spirit tracks music brought back so many memories, thanks for the nostalgia and great video!
before seeing the outcome, I'm going to say that it is possible, just because of the squad that killed behemoth with just kinsects and since then iceborne added the kinsect buffing which is pretty strong
I knew this was possible from the very start of the video.
Some hints here:
-There is a channel in TH-cam (MasamuneTV) that killed every single monster of MH4U with the Kinsect (G-Rank included of course).
-I have like 1000 hours played and two world records in this game; and more than 3000 hours played in the franchise.
-I used the Insect Glaive at the start of the game, but the DPS of the weapon wasn't enough for me (fun weapon to use).
Love your content man, greetings from Spain.
What does DPS mean I am new to monster hunter
@@thunder45728 Damage Per Second.
Hell yeah, love the bug glaive, it was one of the weapons I used for my playthrough (along with the daggers and a heavy bowgun for when I was doing co-op)
Can't wait to see how much I was underutilizing the kinsect lmao
You actually got me with the “To Be Continued”, I checked for a part 2 vid immediately
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I just realised, I love your music choice. It makes it so much better adding to the awesome commentary and gameplay
the hardest part about these challenge runs is watching the unskipable cutscenes
Hey man, just wanna say I really enjoy your content, found you a few weeks ago and your videos are some of the best stuff I've seen lately lol, you do great work, and I hope you find as much joy in making these as we get out of it, thanks man
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This is one of the funniest Monster Hunter videos I've ever watched! The commentary is hilarious and the gameplay is solid too!
Craziest thing I have ever witnessed in World was taking on the Bazelgeuse optional hunt and only to then see Bazel, a Deviljho, and an Uragaan duke it out in the same room. Really felt like I was front row seat watching a Kaiju FFA. Also, 25:42 Vore
Honestly loved how it went from a shaky beginning that any other weapon does easily to "look how we bully the game"
Cool that people still do mhw challenges
This is my favorite of your videos. When I need a good set a videos to grind Eldin Ring to its this video, the FireBomb Souls trilogy and the XCOM ones. Keep up the good work and happy Easter :)
You’ll be glad to know, that while I don’t use them the majority of the time, I am using my fire pots quite a bit in Elden ring
They do pretty decent damage and my stats aren’t even that high
Dude, playing IG normally and dealing with Nerg's ridiculous range is hard enough. I don't know how many times, even with a bit of evade assist, he would swipe me while I was yards from him. It's horrible.
This was fun to watch! I'm not as good as my husband and his bro with MH as a series, and World was my first foray, but I learned a couple details in this video that I want to use. I really new to more technical builds like IG. Keep on making awesome videos!
Man I miss the old crew I'd do mhw with good to see people still doing em challenges lol
Your channel is criminally underrated. You definitely deserve more subs!
I main insect glaive in MHW. And I’ve used the kinsect only strat to cower in the corner over every new fight because I’m brand new to the series and had no idea what I was doing at first. Then I found out that it works quite well, and it’s become a fallback for when I have to learn how a monster’s attacks work.
Being a pokemon trainer in a world full of monsters has its perks.
i think i learn the kinsect mechanic when i was hunting diablos. kinda sad that every *return* i learn more and way more.
kinsect press Y and B feeding it jump hit, hit, and double or normal double jump. now i'm kinda an expert of this weapon
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"Why can't weeee be friends, why can't we be friends?"
i remember being bow and light gun build and always dealing one damage (i had Rathalos armor from all my failed missions, never made it past the flaming-t-rex) and getting a ton of off-line lag... maybe i'll try this.
keep an eye on the reticle with ranged weapons, if its not orange (within critical range) youll do basically one damage every shot
@@kasuri8164 I was point blank. The problem fixed it self when I got the ice borne dlc. I just had to sink more money to make stuff work.
Fun fact: Kinsects were arguably even better at bullying monsters in 4U and GenU. Before world they had access to a charge attack that did way more damage and was fantastic at knocking out monsters if you used a blunt kinsect, 4U had a specific type of kinsect that could spam charge attacks like crazy, and GenU replaced the "heal" stat with a weight stat that allowed kinsects to flinch monsters way more often than normal along with the usual power stat.
Isn't speed also tied to the Kinsect stamina? I might be wrong since I hadn't played MHW since 2019 and likely forgot a few mechanics.
Nope, stamina is how much it can stay without comming to rest back on you, speed is one of the kinsect stats and is listed directly on the kinsect branch
5:50 wow its just like all the legends alpha battles
That time i reincarnated as a beetle and saved the world
(Record scratch)
“You can’t go bugs to rugs” i love that line
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That poor button must have been burning after this run. Well played, good sir, well played.
And now Iceborne +- timegated and oneshot bosses like Fatalis and Alatreon :D
I always had this serious question: What exactly IS the Kinsect? Is it an actual giant sentient insect? Is it some kind of mechanical robot?
They're just big ol' tamed bugs. In MH4(the game IG debuted in) you actually raised the Kinsects by feeding them various nectars to level them up and evolve them into different forms. They removed it since it was kind of annoying trying to get the bug you wanted more often than not and instead you just buy them directly now.
@@LunarSoul255 Well, that raises the coolness factor.
Truly the best challenge run of all time. This run also sounds a lot more fun in Rise with the diversity of Kinsect types you can get! I wonder if which Kinsect would do the most damage in that type of run, bug majeure, charged, or powder Kinsects? We need to prove to Capcom that the cute bugs are the ULTIMATE WEAPON, that way there will be no way they can deny us the right to pet them in future games!
"Can you beat monster hunter using something that does damage?"
Yes....
14:54 Thats a thing? I have played this game for nearly 50 hours and had "beaten" the game now with 3 different characters and yet literally never knew that was a thing.
This looks like one of the dumbest wastes of time I've seen for a Monster Hunter project, and given that I've tried to solo Stygian Zinogre on Asian difficulty back in MH3U that's saying something. Gonna have to try it myself with Lisa the Mauldrone!
Wait, is there really an "Asian difficulty" setting on that game?
I done know why but this is by far my favorite thumbnail, it makes me giggle far too much every time I see it.
"Really excited that every boss is gonna be a DPS race against the mission timer."
You just described the whole game.
As a Robert, I never thought I would get so much satisfaction having a bug with my name be the protagonist of one of these ridiculous runs. Great work!
I just made it to high rank, and dammit I've been called Bobert plenty of times. Take my like dammit, If only I could do it more than once...
Have you considered a clutch claw ònly run?
Great video, can't wait to see what's next!
I didn’t know you played MH! This is amazing!
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Honestly, Air Time is the best thing monsters do that the IG weapons give to you too, having aerial battles against Rathy bois is super satisfying, especially when you down them mid air cuz its just like, Get *DOWN* son!
11:55 sails. They are called sails. :)
Don't really exist in modern animals anymore but used to, mostly in reptiles (we think. It's hard to tell die to fossil records not being very conclusive). It's still not quite clear what the purpose of them would have been but among other things heat regulation and mating displays have been proposed.
I love the little jokes you make, helps the video. Nice job!
The timing on this video is kinda funny. I recently just started playing Monster Hunter World as my first MH game, and the Insect Glaive is my favourite weapon.
yes *Flips hair over shoulder dramatically*
so... uhh... with some alterations i decided to take this challenge all the way into iceborne as far as i can go.
My rules were the Kinsect was my primary weapon. this means i did tenderize with the IG for slinger ammo right off the top, would clutch claw, would wallsmash. I mistakenly took swipes at times with the actual IG, and I also brought the palico. Think of it as a normal playthrough, but treating the bug as the weapon and the glaive as incidental. that said... once you understand the kinsect mechanics, there's only a handful of missions out of all of them in the game you honestly can't do.
elementally grow them. cycle them for enemy weaknesses. get an element boost weapon (my pick was the Legiana rarity 6 glaive, HR weapons work through the whole playthrough, and with grinding HR you can augment it with 20% Lifesteal) and you can take on the vast majority of challenges. there's a few fights through my testing you probably to really can't do. but nearly all of them are utterly end game encounters, or games raid equivalent fights. the thing that hurts this build is time. depending on fight mechanics and timers vs hitzone values, you can be walled. my run isn't over yet, my personal finisher is trying to take Fatalis since AT velk seems impossible to me, and it has been done to take Fatalis this way, but it's really amazing how viable this unintended build really is.
I went with the bug line that ends in gleambeetle velox for blunt damage, and it's hilarious how often exhaust and KO would come up.
Y'know, i first read that as Kinect and was so confused.
Oh my gosh XD
The Huntsman will forever be called John Darksouls in my heart...
I wouldn't mind seeing more of these. Great job.
I didn't realize I could feed my little bug friend till after I beat the game, so glad you found out a lot sooner.
"exposition grandma" reminds me of a gag in a silly old game called "darkened Skye":
"she's the obligatory wise-old-knows-everything character."
yes, that game "breaks the fourth wall" a LOT.
"i keep forgetting, this IS an adventure game!"
Ngl ive had this run in my head thinking that it didnt really exist for years but ty for introducing me to monster hunter world
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Lmao the Pukei Pukei fight was amazing haha. Great video
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FINALLY! THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!
New to the channel! Loved the vid, and was so much funnier than I expected :D
Top notch videos man binge watched 6 straight
4:01 nice Darkest Dungeon reference.
Definitely subbing after this one!
never thought I'd see someone puppy talking a giant bug. but I loved it