Great Sword Guide for Beginners | MH Rise 

Reasons to pick Greatsword: 1. The greatsword is a sword but greater. End.

Finally a guide that is actually aimed at beginners. I watched like 5 different ones and they go over all the moves for 30 minutes and don't give concise answers what is actually seeing active use and what not. One thing I would have added, is where to get to the training area but great video overall!

I like the Great Sword precisely because it pretty much forces you to learn to read your opponents in order to truly succeed with it.

Honestly this is the first guide I've found to actually be effective in learning a weapon in Rise. Helped me out a ton as I'm doing my first great sword build (normally sword and shield).

Not a beginner, but always worth brushing up on a guide

This was EXACTLY the primer I needed before starting to experiment with GS in Sunbreak Amazing work!

This is great guide video! Hope everyone that want to play greatsword as their main weapon could see this video.

Thanks for the excellent guide! Looking to finally learn GS for Sunbreak and your videos have been great. Awesome narration too. Cheers.

Thanks a lot, this was exactly what I was looking for. I hope to do better with the GS after watching your video.

As someone trying out GW in Rise now, this was very helpful. Thank you so much

Very good video, im still kinda new to MH but im loving it and I was considering upgrading the girth of my first weapon which was the longsword so this was really helpful

Hey man, just seen your video, used to play GS in world and struggled heavily in mhrise, your guide is exactly what i was looking for, thank you for it 👍

You answered every question I had with "Grasp the Greatsword". Being able to aim swings anywhere was the only thing I was really missing. However, actually knowing the weapon in depth wouldn't hurt either.

Thank you Xanbro for this very nice guide.

Finally a guide I can understand without having a photographic memory in addition to 1000+ hours of game knowledge.

Great video!!! Xan sensei teaching us the way!!!!!

This is an awesome great sword tutorial. I was playing GS like any other weapon, to include the hammer and hunting horn. I now recognize where and how to improve my skills. Thanks!

Xan sensei, I love ur video and I find it really useful 😆

Nice video! I've been struggling with GS on MHRise for a long time, even after watching tutorials it's difficult to put the moves into practice because of different monster scenarios. Here's to putting your tutorial to practice soon! 👍

Good stuff, thank you for the effort 👍

Thanks to Xan I am a GS main now!

Great video, thank you 🫶🏻

The best greatsword guide😊

Do you plan on doing anymore weapon guides? This was easily the best I've seen for Rise!

Great Guide!

I use the guard a lot, idk what you mean. Yes, there are counters with wire bugs, but if you're out of them, blocking is your only real defense if you want to keep being aggressive. Blocking has saved me so much all the way through master rank, and the sharpness loss is miniscule (or positive with a certain decoration)

I needed to set the speed to 0.75 to catch up XD. But its a good guide to start with... Soo mission accomplished... I guess. Good job

Im a Freedom ultimate veteran but its good for the new moves

God bless you for playstation controller tutorial. Anytime I watch one for nintendo buttons got me like that meme with the equations flying around my head.

Very clear and concise, well done!

Very very useful

Thank you

Plot twist: Surge slash combo! The same greatsword, now with less charging needed. 😂

really helpful

sad they didn't make a wire bug skill to emulate slinger burst

Is it easy to learn gs, I’ve got the combo’s down in practice but is it hard in a hunt? Great video btw really helped me out

Hello is crit draw still a good skill for gs? I remember using it back at the old games

Great video guide (I guess) but I am super confused with the button layout on screen being Switch, subtitle button layout on a PS and I am on a Xbox controller

Gotta say, so far I haven't really warmed up to GS in this game, which is odd because I've played GS a fair bit in Tri, 4U and World and always enjoyed it, but in Rise... I really cannot put the finger on it but something about it feels clunky.

Finally learning GS! QQ questions: 1. When I try the Power Sheathe, like at 10:45 , it doesn't always me invul, I get stomped by the training dummy. The only way it seems to work consistently is like if the sword is on the ground from a charged attack. Is the window super narrow? Can it be extended with evade window? 2. 8:46, I do not have the "overhead slash" appear when I press X from neutral position. I get just a "Charge". Is this changed in subreak, was it bad?

Amazingly explained, thank you very much Sir

Can you make some vidio how to use Guard Tackle properly I just love Guard tackle ,but evry one in YT not using it in their vidio

Can you please do a comparison video for combo 1-4 and their dps? Combo 1 was nerfed from World and is very slow is all I know

this video made me wanna try GS. which im going to do rn. cya

lol I remember back when the strong charge was the furthest you could go. I love TCS, but I do miss when it felt like every move in the GS' arsenal was useful.

Am I some weird outlier preferring mouse and keyboard controls?

I use guard tackle cause it doubles for me as a "oh no" button for when I get caught with my pants down trying to do a charge....

I'm picking up the greatsword as my 8th weapon so this guide was very helpful

If we take guard tackle and TCS, can we skip stun resistance as long as we're careful with ACS?

kind of a dumb question, but are you using rampage gs with different skins or are you actually using lagombi, mizu, etc?

Xan Senpai , Teach me GS one to one , i will be a good student 😆 , by the way , Great Video and hope I can translate your video to share with friends

The one thing that I do not like about the Greatsword is that when it's charging up and you do the cartwheel/ double hit I can't see where I'm going

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May someone tell me what is the point of Overhead Slash, Wide Slash, and Rising Slash if all I’m supposed to do is charged attacks?

I wonder how to use power sheath backward after TCS, I've tried moving my camera backward and it's not working. FYI, I'm using M/KB.

Hey man I know it's kinda late but I want to say thank you very much for gs tutorial , I always overcharge that's why I'm so fucking slow hahaha I'm a swaxe main but I want to play the most damaging strongest melee weapon in the game 😆 ✌️

You can change your aim like that? I swear ive missed like a million attacks because im liked up a little to the wrong direction.

My hardest time with gs is aiming the true slash when charging. Like I don't know wheter it is going to hit at the direction I want no indication.

Do you stream on twitch regularly?

It's a littlebit confusing "triangle" and "cirle"

Which monsters specifically should I be using Rage Slash on?

Could you make a progression guide?

Cant wait to put all this in action when it launches on PC.

Man i wanna try GS but im already trapped in LS unga bunga

I got Monster Hunter Rise for PS5 After getting all the Crowns/Trophies for MHW… I haven’t buy a armor and I beat every monster in the 5Stars rank with No Deaths. Funny that you call “Great Sword for Beginners” YOU ARE THE BEGINNER! lol

ya best weapon for meme

I agree with all of this but the freaking bashitkan is awful with this weapon with him constantly moving around its nothing but a pain

Now i know that i always overcharge lol

Wide slash follow up is true charge which gives you an immunity window and can knock enemies over if they are charging you. It's not useless

This game is an Switch exclusive and just recently got added to Steam, so why are you using PS buttons for movement? Even on the video it shows Switch’s buttons. Out of curiosity.

Tysm for playstation buttons

I wish Capcom would rid themselves of the "vestigial" attacks of Greatsword, mainly Wide Slash and the Rising Slash. As mentioned; they're useless. So why are they even still in the game? Why does Capcom insist that these useless relics of MH1 still remain in the game when they have no purpose? It's frustrating. Why not get rid of guarding as well? It'd be interesting to see guard replaced with a sprinting ability that uses A LOT of stamina. To me, either give GS a little bit of DPS with a moveset similar to both Switch Axe's Sword mode or Charge Blade's Axe mode. This would cater to people like me that like Greatsword but is generally uninterested in its charged attacks. Or double down on its charged attacks and use different attacks that align more with what Greatsword is trying to be. Tackle or Slap or the lunging wide swing should all be attacks that you can immediately do.

I am playing the game now anyone want to help me on PS4

how can you have 1700 subs?

now do it on mouse and keyboard.

Jesus Loves all of you guys

Big ol spoilers in this video! You've been warned.

Calling the Greatsword amazing after stating half its moves are useless is quite the claim. So I've played the hell out of freedom unite and MH4 ultimate and main GS in both of them. Came back for Rise and I must say this weapon feels terrible to use next to hammer. I know its mostly b/c the tackle is new to me but the core GS gameplay feels left in the dust in this faster paced monster hunter.

Ok I’ll give the stupid sword another try

I developed tendon pain in my wrist from MHW 🧊. I had to switch to GS in Rise because of the discomfort. This helps a lot. Much appreciated.