Palicos are Underrated and here's why
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 มิ.ย. 2024
- Palicos are a cute and comedic partner for hunts in Monster Hunter, but it may seem like they don't contribute that much to the hunt. I think that Palicos are underrated and, if equipped for the hunts you want them to do a lot on, they provide more value for you than you think. Take a watch on my thoughts about Palicos and how you can utilize them in powerful ways to succeed on hunts more often.
In this video I'll show you all the gadgets Palicos can equip and how you can use them properly in hunts. I'll also talk about armor and weapons combinations that make for good hunt tactics that compliment the weapons you're using.
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What's your Palico's name?
Also, thanks for watching!
Asta! After Astatine. I suck at naming so I name everything off elements
Mine is "Chocoreto 1.0" hahaha
@@nuggetsystem1510 Hey it works! I like it ☺️
@@CANB-ki9em Love it haha. When is 2.0 coming? 🤣
disposable meat Shield.🗿
You did miss the boaboa gadget that allows you to call a second palico to aid you till it faints, and it stacks with the normal gadget.
I honestly didn't even know that was a thing! Thanks for the catch :D
@@GiddyFoxGamingit's from two optional beotodus quests, they're both really easy and well worth it.
And on top they will use items you traided them during paw swap: demon poweder, traps, dust of life, bombs
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Ya the tail riders. Level these guys up and they do quite well. Best way to level them is get wide range use potion, end quest and do this til at least lvl 6
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or just call them each hunt and yourself use dust of life instead of potions
Paw swaps also contribute a lot to their lvl
Something else about Palicoes in World is that they get a TON of HP compared to Hunters. At max level, they can get around 500, while you only cap out at 200. This means they can, with full health and rank-appropriate armor, tank stuff that no Hunter can, like Safi'jiva's and Alatreon's ultimate attacks.
Definitely! They're kinda insane lol
The choral orchestra can give you 15% flat damage boost, 15% affinity, which is super duper op and it also can give stun resistance can cure poison, increase health recovery, decrease stamina comsumption which for some of them is game changer. It's by FAR the best one in every single case. Trap one is cool but it's not 15% pure damage boost + ton of cool qol stuff that are litterral full fledged armor skill usually
Agree to disagree :D Against elder dragons, yes. Against everything else, Punchy traps multiple times which causes knockover and stun. Huge chances to add a bunch of damage, sharpen, or heal up. It's pretty great haha
it also gives free paralysis resistance which makes kirin less of a pain and makes vespoids less annoying.
I think that the argument here is that you don't need to stop and heal or buff if the Palico is constantly doing that for you, you can focus on attack attack attack, when I played with someone that had I actually never even came close to carting despite us fighting blackveil hazaak, it's night and day for me as a dual sword main
It can give it to you if your lucky but its not always active...thats the downside. Tbh no buff apart from the atk bonus really helps me.
Coral Orchestra has been my fave, constiantly getting health regen+ stam regen as well as stun res and ear plugs (small) with the 15% atk up and 15% affinity is nuts imo. That and the Coral Sonicboom staggering monsters makes everything else feel a little underwhelming. I always make sure to run it for my AT hunts. Also if you already play HH your song extenders work on the Coral buffs as well. It's like having a mini HH main with you all the time.
As a player who’s Palico got a Xeno’jiiva kill, I approve this message. It’s a strange feeling to be sharpening your weapon, see lil’ buddy fly across the screen, bonk an Elder Dragon on the head, and proc the death animation.
That's just as amazing as my first time playing "The Food Chain Dominator" was funny. Deviljho was on his last leg when he charged me, I dodge and he hit a wall. Water rushed through and carried him over the edge. I rushed to the edge and looked down and the mission success screen popped up. That bastard killed himself.
Giving Palicoes a status weapon that matches your own is especially great, helping you reach build up thresholds quicker. Between you and your palico you can easily get at least 3 procs a hunt depending on your weapon choice (the faster the better).
True that! I do this with Blast and it's great!
@@GiddyFoxGaming I prefer paralysis myself, nothing like the shakes to stop a charging monster so you can wail on it.
@@thenerdbeast7375 also great! I love paralysis for the dual blades, it's great!
I would say that's worse then different statuses since the status threshold rises everytime the status is procced. You probably don't even get an extra status proc but it just happens a little earlier.
Especially when I have a slow ass weapon with no elemental. Hammerbro.
As a MH player i can tell you i have NEVER disrespected my cat. Me and my friend often joke that cats are the true heroes here. They would flinch monsters as we were stunned, they made tail cuts, they would set up traps purrrfectly when and where we needed them and applied effects like sleep to monsters allowing for additional demage. Hell, they are known for being so bad ass that they stand directly under Safi's ultimate dealing demage to it even as they are blasted with pure energy... And thatn stand up, dust off and slap the monster uncouncoius as we fragile hunters cant even withstand a little slap from that damn lizard XD
Palicos are OP
So true, the real heroes!
@@GiddyFoxGaming I love my cat! However, there have been multiple times where he walks directly in front of my wyvernsnipe shots. either I have to move, or he takes the hit. I have gotten mad at him a few times. Also, the stooge has saved me on many hunts, definitely not F tier in my book!
Its awesome seeing someone so passionate about this game still, it makes my day
Thanks, friend, it's a great game! I wish I would've been playing it on release, but I'm still very happy with my time in the game. :D
I will never underestimate a palico, especially my palico casper. Me and my uncle were hunting alatreon and both of us had been knocked back, however casper jumped in and was able to get the last few hits in for the elemental threshold, just before escaton judgement started. We beat alatreon in world finally thanks to my palico and now i never leave him, i even take him with me on all hunts on rise as my primary buddy.
Dang that's a powerful kitty! I love hearing stories like these haha
@@GiddyFoxGaming it’s even better as i had designed and named casper after my old pet casper who passed away a long time ago. It just feels right to be hunting with my old pal.
@@lentgraph8948 Immortalized forever! And more helpful than ever :D
Palicoes by default has a 50% chance of knocking you out of a stun or paralysis. Theres a mod that if you are okay with modding, can be useful in raising the chance to 90%. So the palicoes doesn't stand and stare at you sometimes and has a higher chance of saving you from that chance of carting.
I love when that 50% saves you from being carted. It's awesome haha.
Ah nice! That's a cool mod haha
What is the name of the mod?
@@arcedonkvatch3802 better palico ai iirc
I personally prefer the old palico affinity system where if you max out their heat level to 5, they'll almost always knock you out of stun or sleep and trigger their skills more frequently
it suppose to be 50% ?
my palico always take the chance to hit me
Shieldspire is great for ranged weapons.
If you're speedrunning a monster, it's a great palico gadget since it's stationary. The monster you're hunting is most likely to target it.
Good call, that's definitely a good application for it 😁
Honestly, even for close quarter weapons, the difference it provides is massive. A monster is particularly overwhelming with its attack patterns? No problem give yourself some time to recoup. It’s particularly good for wallbangs when a monster is a little too mobile and I find it a must run against, say, raging brachy. The one downside is that the moves are harder to predict because it’s just selecting moves at random to hit the shieldspire.
I can see it being used on Odogaron and Rajang as well just to make them stop in place for a second
This. I remembered that Anjanath was a very problematic monster for me to hunt but after my Nicole got a Shieldspire, Anjanath was a joke to me haha
_"Meow back to the video"_
I see what you did there
I'm so glad somebody noticed that haha
I love that people are still making content for this game! It’s such a masterpiece ❤
So true! I'm having a blast with it 😁 MH6 has big shoes to fill
One thing that's worth pointing out is that hunting horn players can make coral orchestra INCREDIBLY useful. The horn's "extend all melodies" song applies to those too, so you can have all of their effects active at once after a few minutes of fighting - attack boost, affinity boost, earplugs, defense up, stun resistance, tremor resistance, and whatever else have you.
I have to give my props to the Shieldspire, having it on my Palico while fighting Fatalis. He guarded in front of me, saving me from his Firebreath cone, preventing my death and saving the entire hunt in that single moment as we got the dragonator off and killed him after.
I still remember vividly how I found a wild palico named "A-lister Palico" he kept following me around and he helped me take down 2x Barioth, a Rathian and a Diablos in expedition. That was in 2018.
Dang, that's a powerhouse of a Palico haha
the revive ability is really good, saved me on a lot of hunts!
Definitely!
The Wildspire Stooge is literally the best late game tool in the game. Your palico will almost always open with the max level palico gadget technique, so when you can let the palico put up one stooge automatically, then use the manual whistle to put up another stooge. The stooge takes higher aggro than the hunter by default, and you can go several minutes straight without a monster targeting you. It's especially useful on high mobility monsters that usually move around a lot.
It's pretty decent, but I like the traps better :)
Im finishing my first playthrough of mhw as a bow user and I've used the shieldspire the most for hard fights. Freeshooting and being able to heal safely while the monster is attacking the dummy is very nice. The only thing its kind hard to attack the monsters head, but skill issue. Need to play with the cocktail now, sounds fun!
I play mainly Dual Blades so the Shieldspire hasn't been super helpful. But I'll definitely give it another shot when I get some ranged weapons!
Enjoy the Meowcano, that thing is sick!
I subbed cuz of this video. I love my palico! It's great seeing them get the love they deserve.
Welcome to the Bazelgoon Squad! Glad to have you along for the journey :D
What’s awesome and what I love is the fact people are still doing videos on this game thank you for making this video
Monster Hunter World is gonna be a classic that lives on for a long time. It's such a good game
The gong from the coral Orchestra has saved my life multiple times and for that it’s S for me. Great video tho
Thanks for watching! The Coral Orchestra is definitely awesome 😎 the gong is very helpful haha
I've always found my palico more useful than any player my own level could ever be.
Sure it's a different story if a master rank player joins a low rank mission with their gear but exceptions like those aside, I genuinely prefer my palico. It's such a life saver, literally since I have mine on healing duty.
Bro just hit us with a BOOM HEADSHOT from Pure Pwnage. God I miss that series.
thanks for this! ive been using the vigorwasp for my whole run now so far so ive been looking to mix it up. I still cart a lot though so we'll see lol
Happy to help :D I LOVE the FlashFly Cage, I think that helps me the most with hunts besides Elder Dragons. Good luck and if you ever need a hand, drop in our Discord and we can help you!
Thanks for this vid man appreciate it much
Any time! Glad it helped 😊
finally, some great appreciation for our little felyne fellas here. best bros you can have, they even kick you out of stuns, sleep or paras.
So true! They're amazing and I hope this video will help more people realize it :D
nice video, good luck in your yt journey
Hey thanks! I really appreciate it. And thanks for watching 😁 got a favorite palico gadget?
My palico that kept plunder blade throughout my playthrough got me so many mantles and gems its insane
Sneaky little thief! 💪😁
Fantastic video!
Thank you very much!
The fact that they aggro the monster sometimes giving you some time of is already amazing
Agreed!
4:04 dat charge at rathian is beautiful
Fearless :P
Wow what a good Video! Nice cutting,gameplay and Jokes (liked 7:14 very much). And its very helpful for beginers like me lol i didnt even knew that gadget wäre a Thing. Good job dude
Hey thanks, I appreciate it!
@@GiddyFoxGaming no Problem dude. So nice u make world Videos, my first monster hunter and its so nice im just 12 hours in and when i play (what long didnt happened) the time rushes so
@@xXDARKoASSAULTxX My first, too! It's such a great game. I love it. More to come!
@@GiddyFoxGaming some beginner or General tips were a blessing
@@xXDARKoASSAULTxX It definitely has a steep learning curve haha.
If you'd like some help with anything, join my Discord! We have a bunch of awesome people who answer questions and will join you on hunts ☺️
I just picked mhw up again after not playing for a while. Your vids have been super enjoyable to watch. Love the mhw content!
Hey welcome back! I'm so glad you're enjoying your time on my channel 💪 more on the way!
the bomb gadget lets your cat place a bomb down when you place a mega barrel down. its very cute
So good!
Prefect I'm going to get HMW in the near future and wanted to know if palicos were a thing in this game. Great and helpful guide
Looking forward to having you jump in to the game, it's a really good one!
Thanks so much, that's very kind ☺️
I am genuinely subscribing JUST for this XD
Good choice!
I’m surprised more people don’t run shieldspire.
Having the 100% of the monster’s aggro taken up for 210 seconds every 60sec between the basic and 2⭐️ ability is a game changer. Bonus if your duo runs it on their pelico aswell. You can sharpen, heal, buff, get a trap ready, really anything you want while either ability is up. You can also have them be a mobile hammer with its 1⭐️ while your decoys and drum cool down, which usually gets the KO while active. It’s basically a permanent CC.
Palicos have always been amazing. Played since 4u. you can customize the hell outta them there. they pull aggro, you can slap status on them for extra DAMAGE, usually in every game they are in you can get 2 of them at once when soloing(you can trade your palimute in in rise for a second palico) and theres the entire recruiting system in 4u, and with world the entire questline to befriend the boaboa to unlock the ability to summon a second palico(grimalkyne) whenevs. (or you can go to their place instantly when you have enough levels with the type of cat and grab a specific one when you want) i.e teleporting to the shieldspire palicos(grimalkynes) in wildspire.
Befriending the gajalaka in world unlocks a bunch of warps around elder's recess definitely worth it, also unlocks a chance for them to spawn with explosives which will attack anything and even down elders. Befriending the boaboa also unlocks this but with them spamming spears.
thank you, :D got game on sale on PC. i played it on 3ds. Palicos are best friends! :D
Super awesome! Hope you have a blast! 💪
My first victory against Kirin, if I remember correctly, saw me equipping all Tobi Kadash armor except the head for Lightning Resistance... and the Palico Head Gear to boost my kitty.
It was the only way I could figure out how to do enough damage to beat the hunt, and it did help.
It works! Whatever it takes!
My palico with the bann set is a life saver he puts the monsters to sleep allowing me to get a really good hit on them really useful for stuff like the rathian where the tail is a real problem
Congrats on 10k subs! I just saw the part where u showed u were at 150 when posting this lol
Thanks so much! Yeah it's kinda crazy how fast we've grown :)
Sometimes I do wish Palicoes could have layered armor like Rise though.
Yeah I'd like that too. MH6 maybe!
Tbh shield spire is kind of op the dummy it makes gives you a large time frame to usually heal/buff/sharpen since i swear all the time the monsters will only agro to it, plus it takes a good time to destroy.
Yeah, it's a great gadget :D I just think Flashfly Cage does it better. But this changes greatly against Elder Dragons. Maybe run Flashfly Cage for everything but Elder Dragons, than switch to Shieldspire for the big bois.
Thanks for watching!
@@GiddyFoxGamingI’d say even before.
Many monsters will attack wildly while flashed, so they may suddenly charge in a different direction while you’re fighting.
Stooge has them do the same, but you know exactly where.
Sure, boom and shock are good, but have diminishing returns, and only last a few seconds. I’ve had several stooges last an entire ‘area’, with the monster leaving before the stooge fell. And since you have effectively two stooges, and as the OP said, they’re likely to start with it as well, you can have entire runs even against kushala and the like where they barely target you.
I'd like to see a video like this for Rise!
Love my palico. One more drawback about the flashfly cage though, I've had multiple occasions where I knocked the monster down and the flashfly cage was in the way of my attack, which blinded the monster so it got up immediately and switched to the blinded state instead.
The battlefield can be hectic sometimes haha
you forgot the last one the Tailraider Signal that you get from the Boaboa it calls a random wild cat to help you fight with a friendly small monster
You are correct! I didn't even know it was a gadget until after I made this haha. Good catch!
As a solo player, that item is great.
If you equip the meowlotov cocktail your Palico will also set bombs of his own alongside you when getting ready to wake up a monster
Love when that happens lol
Just commenting to try boost this vid sweet to see new vids of world
That's kind of you! Thanks for watching!
I have to agree, my little furball boxed has saved me more times than i would like to admit. whether it be from stunning the monster at the right time, or coming in with a clutch save with the vigorwasp spray when i am about to die, or even dealing just enough elder seal damage to delay an elders special attack (mostly nergi's dive bomb and teostras nova) long enough for me to heal or get out of the way. ( I use mostly insect glaive, but can also switch between long sword, dual blades, and bow. Been thinking about giving charge blade a try)
Every time they save, it feels amazing. I love it
me needing to sharpen weapon: ok monster should aggro palico next attack, nows my chance to sharpen.
Palico: is that whetstone for me? better stand next to my hunter.
me: this mf.
Bahaha, you know those cats are always pranksters too :P
Thanks really good vidd
Hey thanks! I enjoyed making it :D
I just started playing recently, but I’ve already nearly maxed out my Shieldspire. I like playing lbg, so anything that will give me time to get into critical distance is great. I’ll probably switch to plunderblade whenever I get it though, since in MHGU my prowler had plunderang and I used it constantly.
Palico insurance + insurance meal for both players and you got 4 extra carts
Your genuine enthusiasm is so refreshing to listen too. My favorite gadget has to be the plunder blade, because of the money it gives. Not only that but it has stolen mantles I needed for crafting on multiple occasions.
Hey thanks, that's very kind of you. It's a great game and I can't wait to make more video about it 😁
Oh nice! Getting a mantle from the Plunderblade feels SO good.
i think all of the gadgets would have been really cool when i was doing the story but the grimalkynes are so hard to find
They aren't too bad in Expeditions
nice video, thx !!!!
So glad you enjoyed ☺️ Palicos are the bomb
the meowthat cocktail palico will also put a bomb in the floor alongside you when the monster is sleeping!
That's right, good call!
There are so many times where my lil Jello has straight up rocked a monster when I couldn't get it and had to restore my stamina or health and gave us an opportunity to beat that thing live. Kept me alive after a fatal knock out and helped with that extra boom boom at the end of hunts. My career wouldn't have been anywhere near as successful without him.
What a good kitty you have 😁
Don't forget that you also can command your palico to do things - a friend of mine and I are comboing the meowcano with the shocktrap for instance.
It's the best! Double boombug is my favorite 💪
It's the best! Double boombug is my favorite 💪
I agree with everything except the shield. The amount of time it spends attacking the dummy is huge, and often saves me. I'd argue it fulfills a similar purpose to the healing gadget, but it's more versatile in its uses.
Everyone can have their own opinion 😊
palicos are the actual gods of the monster hunter universe
my palico didnt got to the protection when safijiiva did his ultimate
and after all the blast the palico was just there looking at safi like
😺
🤣 they crazy!
palicos are the best. i soloed the whole game as well. i wouldnt have made it without my precious cat. saved my life all the time. this channel has grown alot in 6 months. nice nice
Palicos are the bomb 💪
Haha thanks friend!
I switched from using melee weapons to instead use bowguns so my attacks wouldn't get in the way of my palico, now the hunts go smooth like butter...
Lol good job to your hunter!
Good vid👍👍
Thanks ☺️
I accidentally solo cleared Alatreon on a plunderblade run because my cat helped break the dps-checks. Furever grateful
Amazing! That's awesome 💪
My Hissa dealt a killing blow with his Nergi hammer tonight (Dodogama) I was...on the ground somewhere. He has the Pukei gear and I'm leveling the shieldspire at the moment.
Awesome haha
Thanks for the video. I'm new to monster hunter (started in january this year meaning 2024 for future reference) And I love it. YES PALICOS ARE AMAZING saved me countless times and made hunting much easier :) Me and my palico Meowchael are a team :)
Meowchel, the bestest companion out there :) I mean, not as good as my cat Punchy, but still good ;)
@@GiddyFoxGaming Thanks and sorry for the typo. It's Meowchael. I'll fix it :)
what gear do you recommend to make your palico let a monster sleep? thanks! great video you earned a sub :)
Hey thanks, welcome to the crew! Glad to have you :D
The sleep status is found on Radobaan (Baan) weapon. I think it's the only one, but that thing works so well. I use it almost every fight.
One thing to note tho, Bowgun builds can have less survivability skills with the shieldspire. The agro prevention that the dummy ay max lvl can be a huge benefit if you run ranged glass cannon builds.
I'll definitely be trying this out when I start playing ranged weapons. Makes sense to me!
bro the amount of times my Palico hit a monster with *THE GONG* and straight up saved me from some big ass attack....they are the real MVP's.
The CC is so nice very often!
"Palicos are underrated!" said no sane person, EVER.
Good video, I'd say all the Gadgets are worth using depending on playstyle but I couldn't really argue with their rankings either
If there's bit of constructive criticism I can offer, the volume on some of the sound effects you used was much louder than the dialog or music, it scared the pants off me and made me think I got the first pop up ad I've gotten in like 20 years
Totally agree. I had a lot to learn about sound effect when I was getting started on TH-cam haha. Thanks friend!
I miss prawlers from MHGU so much, playing with my Palicos with unique Classes, Skills and so was so fun xD Big boomerang and Pierce Boomerang combo was insanely fun, a team of 4 prawlers to hunt monsters was so much funny and crazy, I miss these days TwT
My Palico on World is called Lulu, for a kitty that lived with us for years until get old and passed on
Someday we may get that mode back ☺️
If you're running a ranged build, the Shieldspire Stooge is actually pretty great for a damage spike, since it's a good period of time where you know exactly where the monster will be. It's pretty good against monsters who jump around a lot, or even Elder Dragons, since they're immune to traps. All the tools are useful, you just need to know how to use them, and if you coordinate with other players, you can always have an extra healer, DPS booster, extra damage, and traps.
Agreed!
Palico’s are suspiciously good at getting a stun or tail cut
In Rise I gave mine a sleep weapon with blunt damage and I can’t count on my hands how many times they help with stuns due to the move shock tripper which not only makes enemies take more stun damage but also allows all damage to deal stun
(I really want prowler mode to return)
His tier list is lit upside down.
The shield and music are lit the best gadget.
Haha to each their own 😊 thanks for watching!
BANGER video
Thanks! Palicos are awesome!
I love mounting the monster and as I’m stabbing it’s back I see my Palio on it’s tail stabbing with its plunderblade. Brings a tear to my eye.
Coordinated attacks!
for a solo hunter like me, Palico is a must. Still, for every time that my cat saved my ass, there are twice as many times he ignored me whistling for a vigorwasp lol
Cats ain't perfect :P
There was a thing a few years ago where someone was doing builds entirely around palico DPS. I think he beat Fatalis entirely with Palico/ Tailraider damage. Although look it up yourself cuz im trying to remember something i barely payed attention too 2 years ago.
My Palico beat Tempered Ruiner Nergigante by itself and it was sick. Fatalis is quite the feat!
@@GiddyFoxGamingWere you the person I'm thinking of? Did you post about it on the monster Hunter reddit a while ago?
I'm not sure haha but it's been like 3 months 😅
They are the perfect sidekick that always came in clutch the moment i needed it the most, and in world they tanky asf like safijiva's one shot attack or alatreon's escaton judgment like nothing. In world i find them the best support and in generations ultimate i find them the best offensive side kicks that are there. I highly recommend u playing MHGU cause its the easiest thats accessible from the older gen MH games, and especially if you have a good pc with a emulator to run MH4U and MH3U on it👌
So true! They're great ☺️
I might just do that! I have a lot to finish in World first 😉
Really good video for such a small channel looking forward for your next video !
Thanks so much! I really appreciate it.
Next video goes live in 4 hours! ☺️ It's a doozy too!
Named mine Jax, after my childhood pet cat
Good name!
Shieldspire palico is not just useful for gunners, it also allows long gunlance users to set up WSB and do charge shelling more consistently (it takes a while for charged shelling to pop) while the dummy and the palico pull the monster's aggro. Sure palicoes will take some hit by default, but the shield makes them last longer.
Outside that, I can see why its appeal doesn't fit with other weapons or playstyles.
Putting that in F tier is a tad cruel for its benefits and use-case IMO. If anything I'd put that in D tier. Situational but not that horrendous.
Oh I think Shieldspire is still a great gadget, I just don't think the other gadgets are worse than it. For fringe uses its REALLY good, but overall I don't think it does enough ☺️
I named my palico Gabriella and I never go on a hunt without her
That's a good kitty haha
The best gadgets are shieldspire, plunder blade and meowlotov.
Shieldspire provides the best CC. Plunder blade provides the best loot, meowlotov provides the best damage.
If you struggle, go with shieldspire. If you don't, go with meowlotov to increase the kill speed. If you want loot, go with plunder blade.
Wasp is only really good for learning fights since it gives you some extra tries without taking aggro from you.
The flash fly suffers from several issues. As mentioned the elder dragon problem. But also things like the electric trap having diminishing return (and if you kill it so fast that isn't an issue, you're better off going with Meowlotov anyways). Shieldspire provides equally good CC except it works all the time, and your cat will never run out of HP.
Coral is okay but Meowlotov just does more if you want kill speed. And if you are getting hit you're probably better off with other options. I guess it kinda does a little bit of everything (besides extra loot), though.
Also if you're soloing and level the tribes, you get an item in iceborne that lets you summon an additional cat and a monster to help you out so you essentially got a full party without having to faff around. They're obviously not as good as players, but they still provide a decent amount of value and the monster stays at solo levels of HP.
As for weapons, sleep is the best one unless you got one yourself. Just plop some bombs on it and wake up hit for massive damage. I do not recommend stacking the same statuses like some people say, like blast. Sure it triggers faster, but you got diminishing return so it'll also just stop working faster. Also you can ping to make the cat come to you if you need help to get out of stuns etc. (although this can backfire if the monster is pummeling the monster). If you cover all the CC statuses yourself (e.g. coatings) I'd probably just put whatever element the monster is weak against on it for extra meowlotov damage.
im running through iceborne for the first time rn, and ive been slightly irritated with my palico, but when i first played the game pre iceborne release and even now, he comes in clutch so many times its hard to stay mad about it
Shieldspire deserves to be waay higher, at least B rank. The stooge keeps aggro pretty consistently meaning you have some breathing room to sharpen, heal, buff or go for the tail. Just have to make sure to not get hit by any attacks meant for the stooge.
The flashfly cage is great but its crippled hard late game since it barely effects elder dragons, which takes a full letter grade off imho
Do palicos para also add to the monster shock resistance during the fight?
Could you do maybe a more indepth video tier list about palico weapons? Bewteen Para, Poison, Blast and sleep. I know you said abfdw things.
However im always hearing Poison is usually best for DOT
Sleep for free wall bang
Para for constant DMG
And blast for bang.
Out of these though which one is more viable over time?
I like Para because it stops them, but i already run Shock traps, unless it can stun Elder Dragons too?
I use poison now because it slows them down and easy to KO.
I havent rried sleep yet, but this maybe be the best? As it would do more dmg then poison in ine hit?
Also have never tried blast since LR/HR where it seems to make the biggest difference.
Thanks mate!
Yes, the para status does add to monsters resistance to that status over the fight. You can para Elder Dragons with it though which is pretty awesome.
It kind of all depends on what weapon you're running in my opinion. Poison is great for just higher damage overall in a hunt, but doesn't provide you any breathing room and burst.
Para and sleep are great when you need that few seconds for a heal or sharpen and if you don't need either of those, go to town on that monster :D
Blast is real big spike damage, so it's similar to poison, but if you're running it with a blast weapon of your own, you get way more blast procs overall.
Your Palico won't be your number one damage or anything, but if you use its gear to compliment your own and/or set it up to provide the utility you want in a hunt, they're invaluable.
The vigorwasp gadget on the final level doesnt prevent you from carting just once, it just has an enormous cooldown
because i swear during a very long solo hunt on an arch tempered teostra it saved me twice. once early and once very late
Ah nice!
They distract and give you breathing room, that alone makes them great
For sure! It's nice to have a break here and there
I’m not sure how many people know of or remember this but Palicoes were broken in MH Freedom Unite, and I don’t mean they were really strong or did lore-defying bs, they were *genuinely* broken.
In MHFU you can set your Felyne Comrades (Palicoes) to train certain stats like their Attack and Defense values, increase their “loyalty” which raised the odds of them assisting you, and add certain skills you want. Fun system. A bug exists in MHFU that can result in removing the stat ceilings for your Felyne Comrades entirely, as in they no longer have a limit to how much damage they can deal.
I have no idea how this bug is triggered but it happened to a FC of mine named Chibi, who I had set to just train Attack damage. I didn’t realize how high his damage had become until he 2-shot a Low Rank Tigrex. Let me clarify something; *there isn’t a single end-game weapon available to a hunter that can do that.*
I could genuinely solo the entire game relying on only my Felyne Comrade at that point lol
I swear I miss the palicoes in MHFU. My little Sofie was such a badass with their large barrel bombs, shock trap skills and horn skills.
I like to think that World gotten its palico gadget inspiration from that since many of these gadgets were actually "skills" you buy and teach your palico with points.
The main reason I'm where I am in the story is since I have vigorwasp spray
Man, i got over the dog on Rise, so, so fast.
How the heck you expect me to get rid of my pal... -ico since Freedom Unite? Those little guys came in so clutch in that.
Palicos are nuts, love 'em :)
Tom always put them to sleep when I was about to be carted.
Perfect timing 💪☺️
You said "Meow back to the video" Don't think I didn't catch that.
Good catch indeed!
From 150 subs to 9.5k in half a year 👌
Hey thanks ☺️
Honestly my lil buddy has saved me from carting so many times it’s unreal saved me during my first demo fight down to the last few seconds
They're so good! I love my Punchy 😊