History of Monster Hunter | The Dual Blades 

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me and my friend's cry of despair whenever we're locked in demondance in front of a charging monster.... "I shouldn't be dancing"

How could you say that dual blades are just short long swords X2 when long swords are obviously just tall dual blades who lost their sibling.

"mega dash juice addict tickles Monsters to death"

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Funnily enough this channel is starting to have more lore than the Monster Hunter games themselves lmao

I had no idea Dual Blades had so many attacks. My strategy is usually "Spam Demon Dance, Repeat"

SuperRad: "now knows pretty much every weapon in the game" SuperRad: "will still only play filty LS until the day he dies"

The startup of Feral Demon Mode is also an attack.

Benefits of Tower Vault: 1. Sweet sweet arial I-frames 2. Chasing a flying monster’s weakspots 3. Stupid fast recharge time 4. Yeeting right over monster sweep / charge attacks (x2 suckers!) and generally messing with their attack patterns, then following up with a bayblade spin while they’re trying to figure out where the hell you are

I remember having jokes builds back in 4U where my gameplan was simply : - Equip jaggi Mask and guild DB -Go into a random lobby -Get into arch demon mode -Spam the spin move -????? -Win Good times

I knew it, i knew the dual blades would get a video before the lance ;-;

you should do a history of all the one-off weapons from the non-mainline titles. and medium bowgun lol

My favorite thing about the dual blades has always been the fact that it doesn't matter how small of a window you have to hit the monster, you can still get some damage in. A lot of the clunkier weapons can't really say that.

0:44 “I was considering doing lance next so I could move onto the bowguns” LAAAAAAANCEBROOOOOOOOOOOOS RISE UP

I wonder how long are RU-vid gonna keep your family but so far the plot thickens

It was in this video by watching the reflection in SuperRAD's sunglasses at 2:52 that I realized that we have the exact same desktop wall papers

"running around like naruto during the sasuke retrieval arc" they spent that entire arc flying through the trees actually but go off

Wow, I can't believe that Rad called me poggers. Also can't believe that Rad got Norted. What a time to be alive.

I love this series, you really have found your niche in the mh RU-vid community, keep it up bro! (Also you were so right about Ragna in your tier video, that fight was godly)

GS: No I need to charge my attacks and put the weapon away to walk again. DB: Haha! Short longswords go brrrrr!

Yes my main! I absolutely LOVE the adrenaline that this weapon gives when you know what your doing, no other weapon makes me as hyped as this one when I´m dancing around a monster without getting hits and going super agressive towards my target.

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I love the dual blades because of the high mobility of the weapon. Feral demon mode might be nice for dishing out major damage but I feel like it goes against the playstyle of the dual blades which is to run around freaking fast but it could just be me I prefer speed over attack or defense and the standard demon mode scratch that itch. It's hella fun dodging monster attacks by running away instead of dodge rolling and looking for an opening to cut up the monster and if I get greedy I got my counter to save my ass. To me the dual blades are all about flow and to never stop moving which feels so fucking satisfying.

For all my years of playing monster hunter I have never touched the dual blads. Just never seemed appealing to me. But seeing it explained really makes it sound much more interesting and honestly I might try it for once.

Loving this series. It’s a nice switch up from the usual Monster Hunter Weapon videos.

Thank you for making this type of content and putting in the effort

A few things I'd like to add as a DB main since 4U: -With arcdemon mode, dash juice is no longer mandatory. You can use the arcdemon moves while your stamina is recharging before firing up demon mode again, adding a layer of resource management that makes using the DB's more engaging; in my opinion, at least. -The Piercing Bind is the DB's primary part-breaking utility in Rise. Also, Shrouded Vault functions the same as the Demon/Arcdemon Adept evade from Generations. -Tower Vault is absolutely useless. Not only does it get rid of the aforementioned part-breaking utility, you can also accomplish the same goal by using ZL+X with the weapon sheathed, hit ZR, then the Ackermann Spine Rush.

as a Dual Blades main who's trapped in 3U for now, i am glad to know my weapon of choice isn't just a meme. personally, i chose dual blades because i love dps over tactics. the more damage i can do to an enemy in a video game in 5 seconds the better my day is XD

GREAT HISTORY VID MR SUPERRAD, CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT ONE

Yeeeeeeah two swords are cool but a shield is better. SnS gang

Thanks for doing this ☺️ playing dual blade since my first play in mh freedom 2

If you're going to use Lance, I highly recommend equipping the shield dash switch skill in Rise ASAP. You will stun the monster almost as much the Bonk. My roommate uses Lance, so can confirm the stunning prowess.

You've got the name right! You can say the whole thing or just King works too! So happy to support an awesome content creator!

Imagine not commenting for the algorithm

This video should have been posted twice.

Excited to see my favorite weapon get absolutely shit on (lance)

14:10 Okay that was a solid and clever transition.

I look forward to the next video, I’m glad I kept up with this series, it’s only gotten even better with time. Here’s to the future

Holy crap, we're down to the Lance and Bowguns already?

10:14 That was only in MH4. DB always had a modifier to halve sharpness loss since you it twice as fast as other weapon, but they decided to remove it in 4. It absolutly killed the weapon in the base game so they reversed it in MH4U.

Wasnt there a glitch back in mhfu where you can spam the demon dance button inputs to still do the demon dance even tho ur stamina has been depleted

This was a nice early b-day present, now all six of my weapons have been covered. I knew I wasn't wrong in calling it 'Dual Swords', I knew I remembered them as that. But DB were a weapon that I tried to be better with in the old days. I used them and GS in MHF1 and besides Lao-Shan (I would tear up his belly with Demon Dance) I couldn't do well with my DB in Gen 1 and 2. They really didn't come alive for me until Generations, Aerial was the shot in the arm the weapon really needed (I was legit surprised when you said in the vid Striker was one of the highest used styles, but you did the research not me). Gen I used Fever Frenzy and Wolf's Maw, then GenU I added Sprial Slice to the mix if it was a 'soft' monster. Adding in the fact that attacks in the air had 'Mind's Eye', Aerial could rip through practically everything. DB in Rise is insane, you just lose yourself in it there. I personally don't like Piercing Bind myself, even though with Feral Demon Mode (which moves you closer to the kunai after planting it), I don't stay in one spot on a monster for long (Outside Demon Dance), but that's just me. I actually prefer Towering Vault so I chase things into the air to beyblade along their back (lookin at you two dragons), especially since Demon Flight only launches you into the air if you hit something, meaning if your target is flying you have less chance to hit it unless its tail or something is hanging low. Plus, to do the beyblade on the monster you have to be 'above' it. Anywho, thanks for giving me the history of the Dual Swords/Dual Blades. It really has come a long way from where it was and I hope they add the Glutton Set to Rise (Turns the DB into a Fork and Knife).

Your Gunlance video was amazing so I'm gonna enjoy this very much

The question of why Susan took your family implies that you have some information they don't want us to find out

100%, I think lance, and then ending on bowguns is the play

Despite the fact this weapon encourages you to constantly be in harm's way, this is my safest weapon. Evasion window up with that short dash allows me to dodge so many fainting shots.

i just like that it gives you the option to jump with an attak anytime you want in rise, aerial stile for the win!

You can use the Tower Vault to prolong your aerial combo in Rise which is only really useful for damage against the two new Elder Dragons (I even saw it in Speedruns). So you would do normally A into the Air follow up with X (if the monster is big enough) and end the combo with A for the AoT Attack assuming you are in Demon Mode. You can actually chain one more X attack after the first one when you use Tower vault in between and the damage in the air is very well worth it. I think you could also use it as a evade option in the air. Love your vids, man btw

So, 2 things. 1.the kunai attack when it explodes counts as slashing damage tails will just pop off using it, its great but using the kunai you do a backstep that'll put you a little away from hitting the kunai, which goes into number 2. 2. Fearl demon mode when activated will make you step up just a bit and you'll damage the kunai so from what I've noticed its 'use kunai attack get forced into a backstep, feral demon mode into the kunai and make the monsters tail pay' Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Finally my secondary weapon has been chosen by SuperRadGod. Keep the good content boy; love from mexico.

The main benefit to tower vault for me is that you can jump in the air without having to put your weapon away. this means you can do things like jumping after a rath when its flying and doing a midair attack down its back without having to attack it first like the a button vault

With how crazy important placement is for 2nd gen I never rly latched onto them. I played them more in world and gen cos of how fast paced the games are but it’s always been a novelty weapon for a few hunts then back on the shelf type thing. Aaaallllsoooo they are the oppose of the king of all weapons the OG Longsword the GS.

A friend of mine who plays DB exclusively actually dislikes Rise for its changes to DB. Some notable things that changed from World: World is the only game in the series to my knowledge that retains Demon Mode even when hit by attacks or roars. This was changed back in Rise, along with making the activation animation slightly longer (presumably because it's an attack). Personally, DB is not something I play often. I can get decent results with it now, but because its button presses always result in more than one hit, I found it incredibly hard to learn this weapon - the animation commitment, despite its fast nature, is larger than quite a few of the other weapons. In Rise, I actually like them quite a bit though, but I chalk that up to me just being a tad better at the game now. Making them one of the more aerial focused weapons in the game was an interesting change for sure - in World, I'd only use the spine spinny move when applicable, but Rise enables it... always. Which leads to hilarious results on slower or more stationary targets.

Hell yes! I've been waiting for this!

One thing about the spinning attack in generation 4 is that while in demon mode you can still access the spin outside of combos by using the kick button, which was usually assigned to the minus button on the 3ds/switch. The minus button performed multiple unique actions for all weapons but none as useful as Dual Blades.

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Dual blades were fun to use on giant slow monsters and can't forget the almighty dash juice addiction

20:19 finally a man of quality.

As a dual blade main I can confidently say that Tower Vault is completely overshadowed by looking up pressing ZL and ZR and going into demon mode to just beyblade down the monster

That kingdom hearts reference was hilarious

Honey wake up new SuperRad video

Awesome series. I'd love to see you tackle something like this for other franchises. Also hoping for Lance or Heavy Bowgun video next!

As someone who changes weapons every time they start a new Monster Hunter, because otherwise muscle memory will betray me, I still need to try Dual Blades. I tried them in Freedom 2 as my first ever weapon but quickly changed to Hammer. Dual Blades against Yian Kut Ku was like... suffering... and I never went back. I'll have to give them a try eventually.

I've been playing these games since MHFU, and I never gave them a chance, until world that is. I was feeling fed up with my selection of weapon and felt like a change was needed after beating Barioth, and holy shit they are actually so fun, count me as a DB main now.

May not have been meta but Arial Dual blades were my favorite because of the fact that if done well its basically an adept dodge with mounting damage and it looks so damn c o o l

Was waiting for this one. Neat video, but I feel like you missed the detail about how due to dual blades hitting so often, they're really good with elemental bonuses. I can't speak for any generation but World, but when the game launched element was fairly mediocre across the board and I don't think there was even a single weapon in the game that could use any of the element boost skills to the max level of 6 (most capped at like 3 or 4). For DB specifically, this meant element capped at somewhere around 300 normally. When Iceborne dropped they changed how element cap worked in general and DB could easily get close to triple the amount of element on a weapon with the right equipment setup which led to an absolutely insane damage increase

Tower Vault may seem redundant but it does have its uses. If you fight a flying monster for example, tower vault is incredibly useful for flinging yourself up to its head and then cartwheeling along its body to knock it out of the sky. Also, if you are a fair distance away from a monster and that monster is currently in an attack, you can use it to immediately initiate said cartwheel attack once the monster has finished its attack while staying out of range during it, as initiating the cartwheel midair is not only safer and can be delayed until necessary but launches you quite the distance forward and is a great gap closer as well. So basically, it's used as an alternative for demon flight for when the monster is too high up or you need to wait out and/or dodge a monsters attack first. I always use this switch skill because, frankly, I love the cartwheel too much, smacking flying monsters out of the sky is too much fun and the default skill has such a short duration that it feels lackluster.

My favorite part of dual blades in FU is bouncing at 1 or 2 sharpness levels above any other weapon.

At last my favourite weapon, the short sword (plural)

12:22 "And hunters could bring 3 styles with them on a hunt!"

The vault attack is primarily used to set up an instant buzzsaw down the back if used right

I really miss old mega dash juice. Aside from that it was my secondary weapon in World/Iceborne and now Rise. The new movesets you can do with it, those gnarly aerial attacks, are just so much fun. Absolutely love it and its always been a favorite of mine.

if it weren't for the dual blades I probably wouldn't have gotten into the series! They were the only weapon that was mobile enough back in 3u for my noob self to use without getting smacked around too much.

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Oh no, SuperRAD entered Castle Oblivion!

Thank you for video! Amazing job

I have a really weird relationship with the dual blades. It was my main weapon in World for a long time, but then I got bored of them and started trying different weapons and now every time I see someone using the dual blades I want to use them again but get bored immediatly (Sorry if my phrasing is weird, english isn't my first language)

Feral demon mode isnt always optimal. As you can get speed movemennt up and elemental attack up. Feral demon mode limits mobility. And you would like using evade extender if so. Especially online.

The infinite is there since 4U you just need to keep stringing the beyblade move with the demon dance, if the monster is in a trap, it's dps time baby!

"One man, one sword, one strike _Two hands" From some dudes in L5R I dunno I'm not a real samurai.

I think you meant four more weapons when you said you had three left to cover. The fourth being medium bowgun, never forget

Medium bow gun next please, its what the algorithm has been wanting that maybe you haven't thought of yet.

I just love it when I run out of stamina only to get combod by the monster

Looking forward to the binoculars video

10:13 The doubled sharpness loss was only a thing in base game MH4. MH4U brought back the inherent Razor Sharp mechanic because DB in MH4 was really bad due to how fast it lost sharpness in that game.

You know what is both slow and methodical, but also has the option to rush in to keep up with the monster at all times? The Lance. The one and truly underrated weapon that true hunters wield.

Nice vid gamer!

you forgot to mention aerial db. That carried me in generations.

You already did all my mains mane. What else can I ask for.

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I am greatly looking forward to the lookback on the lance. Please don’t do my weapon dirty paparad :( .

Hell yeah, lance is up next!!! Even if it is basic, it one hell of a weapon when mastered!

Light Bowgun should be next ;)

The biggest crutch I lean on as a Dual Blades main is Demon Dashes - as I recall, World didn't let you keep using them in Archdemon mode so I spent 90% of that game in Demon Mode with every stamina skill I could fit and that habit has continued with the inclusion of Feral Demon Mode in Rise lol And with Sunbreak letting me use both Demon Mode and Feral Demon Mode interchangeably, I can choose moment to moment whether I want to use the speedier default mode or the higher damage but slower one depending on what I need at the time lol

Imagine making a video about dual blades and not actually including any footage of beyblading down the full length of a monster.... smh Great vid overall tho, good job! :3

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Nice berserk wallpaper, always crisp

Also rise changed the arch demon dance a bit and world and rise had the Levi spins on the monster which is amazing! Love the weapons history videos so far!