I had always alternated between Switch axe/Great Sword/ and the LBG. Oh how blind I was. Then about two months ago while I was preparing for my future Sunbreak adventures by creating the various meta sets for each weapon class...I came across the Insect Glaive....My brothers in Christ how my senses were overwhelmed by the freedom of flight! I lifted off from the accursed dirt and felt the wind whip over my body. Oh my brothers I was in the heavens. I aimed my trusty insect ally and fired! He soon returned with the invigorating essence that sharpened my senses, invigorated my muscles, and dulled out the hateful roars of my prey. Higher and higher I soared, my vorpal blade a blur of spinning death. My form a parade of cascading after-images. Blink and you'll be left wondering if I was ever there. The skies are my home now. The clouds my family. The grit and grime of the dusty mundane ground no longer hold sway over me. I am reborn and the grass will only ever get to touch my brilliance when I'm feeling merciful. - Newly enlightened Insect Glaive enthusiast
"To crawl upon the earth, like worms, like vermin, like Longsword players, completely bereft of intelligence or grace" oof, you didnt have to do us like that. 😂
I have only ever used insect glave for its aerial gameplay. That is what makes insect glave fun and different. Anyone who disagrees is allowed to have their opinion. But they are 1000% wrong.
I'm a GS main, glad you got over your weab phase, my friend started out Longsword but realized how busted it was and transitioned away from it to IG too, so I'll link this to him. I love your content, I love MonHun and I love Soulsborne so I'm here just for support.
If u think that LS is busted try any of the ranged weapons especially the 2 bow guns and u will realize how absurd they r. If u want to remain melee weapon user, do not try bowguns because ones u get to know how good they r, it’s very difficult to go back.
Bro even in world I always hated the fact that ground glaive is considered "optimal", when I could always more consistently hit the monsters without taking damage, and more consistently finish my combos in the air therefore doing more overall damage (especially with the 20 percent aerial damage boost decoration)
Great guide, I especially liked your detailed explanation on the dual colour (defense) kinsect. I really enjoy using the insect glaive with jumping advance slash, but I need to try out kinsect slash now (especially now that I know I need to change the gunner reticle speed lol)
Yes! Preach, my friend, PREACH! 😆 I’m getting back into MH a whole year after Rise endgame didn’t quite capture me- looking forward to the new switch skills after watching this! #TheGroundIsGross
I'm practicing this and so far, once I got a handle on it, it's been incredibly fun and effective too. I always loved to just hop around above monsters and dodging their ground sweep attacks while breaking wings and this will just enhance my favourite playstyle a lot. Thanks for posting this. :D
World was my first MH game. and I choose the IG first because of the ariel moves. I never gave into the meta to begin with, it was just too much fun to avoid the ariel play style. With that said, I am happy with the current state of this weapon. I'm having fun, while at the same time doing good enough damage that I'm not handicapping myself by playing the way I want.
This guide was absolutely amazing ! You did a great job at explaining everythig in a way everyone would understand. I just wish you'd show preffered skills, weapons and armor.
+1 for this, I feel like it's some balance between the obvious skill buffs (Weakness Exploit, Attack Boost, Critical Boost/Eye) and stamina buffs (Constitution, Stamina Surge, Latent Power? Furious?). Depends on how much you go for permabuffers IMO
I've been experimenting with the new kinsects, especially the one that charges (that does a surprising amount of damage and it KOs monsters quite easily) but this playstyle also seems quite fun. Gotta be honest I thought the new moves were pretty mediocre and got disappointed, but looks like I was wrong. Definitely gonna try this out. Thanks for the video!
Full Glaive Party: 1 Ariel Glaive with Assist Kinsect as described in video 1 Speed Kinsect user to focus on severing tails and other targeted attacks 1 Powder with Heal powder 1 Powder with a Status powder
No, even better, 1 big-boom IG w/ Ladytower (heal/para dust w/Powder Vortex) , 3 other dust based IG, at least 1 of which uses Fiddlebrix (pure blast dust Idle Stamina Recovery Up), and any combo of Cancadaman (poison/para dust Auto-attack Freq. Up), Fiddlebrix, or Ladytarge (pure poison dust Stamina Use Slowed). The blast dust brings the bulk of the damage for big boom, poison and para can cause DoT or openings and the Ladytower's heal dust can keep everyone alive.
I had no idea that how the defensive vs attack kinsect type changed what extract you pulled, or that the kinsect slash pulled extract at all!. So much great info in this Video! Thank you for making it,
I started watching your channel when I found your Dark Souls 3 videos. I have never played a second of Monster Hunter but I still enjoy watching these videos hahaha
Thanks for showing me alternative way to play IG, ground IG is still very fun and at some point I will probably settle for mixed playstyle, but at this moment I am having a blast with aerial IG, aiming felt a bit awkward but after listening to your advice about settings and a couple hunts I mostly gotten used to it. Not an IG main, but I played a bit of IG in Rise and world before, just hated coptering in world, felt very unresponsive and wonky (the fact that it didn't deal that much damage in base world didn't even matter, it was just not fun), Rise made aerial IG a lot more fun, especially SB.
How about the best thing about this is that you can finally play the insect glaive without having to spend time gathering essence, you just go straight into combat. This was my initial issue with Insect Glaive. Nothing sucks the fun out of the weapon like stopping your attacks because you need to buff some arbitrary buff. I pray that this becomes a mainstay after this monster hunter, or another nice thing would be if assist kinsects got essences while you attacked, that would also be useful. I might actually play Insect Glaive again, I haven't since MH4.
yes it is a pretty strong twist, they made gathering kinsects instantaneous and they balanced it in a way that reward if you get them in the right order, pretty great.
ty so much for this i have played up till mr 50 so far with ig and i had no idea you could even aim kinset slash, like bruh im so dumb this changes so much LMAO, i already loved the skill so now im gonna extra love it
Probably played IG the most in base rise, but haven’t touched it yet in sunbreak. (Been running through the story solo on lance and having a blast.) But its good to know that the new switch skills can really change things up. Ill be sure to try this out when I get back to running IG.
This was my go to in mhw, just started playing rise and it felt off in mhr, but now I'm seeing its actually pretty good, been using bow because I love moving around fast.
I like how you speak, very eloquent. You're also very funny on top of that. But the biggest W is that you didn't curse at all. I really appreciate that and all the information you stated 15/10 video. If this is how you speak regularly, you're quite the character, a rare one indeed. Thanks again Rata, have a blessed day.
Decided to pick IG back up for Sunbreak and its been a humbling experience feeling like a scrub again. I only used it a bit in 4U and base World so I never truly mastered it. In Sunbreak its honesty like a dream to use. Still a bit clumsy but slowly getting more confident with the flow and moveset.
Been maining glaive for 50h since it just clicked for me unlike the other weapons but never really stayed from the switch skills from base rise but this has made me consider using the others skills after i unlock more switch skills in sunbreak
why was the bombadgy walking up to a giant dragon and man jumping around it with a giant double sword and expecting to not die? maybe it should have though of that
Can't wait for mods to update so I can check my DPS on this - I've been a puny ground glaive plebian all my life and I think this doubles my DPS. It certainly FEELS cooler, and that's reason enough to join our airborne alliance.
I don’t main Insect Glaive for optimal damage, I main Insect Glaive because I want to play Spider-Man for PS5 while I play Monster Hunter on Nintendo Switch. Thanks for helping me stay away from that icky nasty ground even better than before! (jokes aside, it’s nice to know aerial IG isn’t as bad as I thought. I was still gonna play aerial, but at least now I know I’m actually contributing to hunts and not just looking cool)
After playing Glaive hundreds of hours in MH world and Rise, I was reluctant to try kinsect slash, and at first it did feel very awkward. After a day practicing with it, I think this it is _probably_ superior to jumping slash. First off, it seems I'm knocked out of the air way less often, which makes sense given it's animation. It's also much faster than jumping slash, so you don't miss the monster as much, it really allows you to stay on top of it. I was already using the 'blunt dual color defense kinsect because I just think it's the best overall, but he's right, it pairs nicely.
Apologies for the late reply but in the same way as the advancing roundslash, a small portion of the hit and jump from kinsect slash is I-frames to easily dodge attacks and just keep flying around, beating the shit out of the monster; allows you to be waaaay more aggressive in the air than the regular aerial roundslash could ever be... and if you already knew this, perhaps someone else may see it and get some info out of it :P
Okay long comment up ahead I got me MHRise for the switch about a year ago (first MH ever for me, mind you) and at first, I tought it may not be my cup of tea. Well, slowly but surely I got the hang of it, started maining the hammer, but never came to love it, than I watched some guy online going all out with the insect glaive. I was stunned, the guy would rack hit after hit, move in and out of the fight quickly, going all gracefully dancing in the air. I knew it then and there I had to master the insect glaive. Now, about 180 hours later I ONLY play insect glaive, I find it impossible to use other weapons (like for arena challenges). Now with the new expansion, the insect glaive just became more viable, I swear I'm tearing through monsters now. I like what they did with the expansion, and I like what the weapon was before, just because it forced you to become proficient in avoiding damage.
There is an extract priority with the assist kinsects that is hard to put in simple words but white, red, then orange. Example if you hit a part that matches what your kinsects forced extract, the second color will always be white, except when using the white extract kinsect, then you will get red.
I was trying out this build of yours but I was trying some diffrent ways to play with it and blunt speed kinsect seems to be really good since the triple hit procs, at least on the practice dummy I can KO on the 1st hit
Hey! Awesome vid!!! Could you make some video about meta builds for IG??? 👏🏻👏🏻 Haven't found many worth it or by main IG players and you're awesome on it!!! Thank u and keep going mate!
I already kinda played like this in vanilla Rise but it was definitely more optimal to fight on the ground on topples. The rest of the fight it was hitting the monster 3 times on the air, flying to the head of the monster and doing the diving wyvern. This version of IG really needed a Dragoon set.
I'm a fan of glave and urself ~ Awesomely explained ( Stamina Surge recovers faster ) But i do this with Switch axe Continously Discharging like Sword Gun every 20 seconds Monster can't get a break in Switch axe Shift ( Enjoying this and insect glave more than anything ever ) ~ In sunbreak Swax ; Insect glave ; Dual swords ; Bow are epic ~
I’ve been doing aerial since world yet I usually go with status builds Poison Paralysis and etc. Hopefully it is yet enjoy the game the best way you can you know
i'm so fucking happy that Switch Skills is a thing now so that I can go in with a ground and an aerial loadout and switch it up as the situation calls. I'm absolutely loving sunbreak. The thing I like about games like this is experimenting with builds, and they cranked that up to 11
1100 damage? Sweet Jesus, think the highest I've seen on a dive was just over 400. I need to step it up a bit with my positioning. Thanks for the great guide
