Kinsect Breakdown Guide | Which Switch Skills to Pair with! | Monster Hunter Rise 

ONE BIG THING! I forgot to mention this in the video for Assist Kinsect Users. Using the *Foebeetle (rarity 2 - Defense)* is SUPER comfy. Grab White when you start a hunt and recall immediately. *You'll get orange and white before the monster roars which then cancels out the roar because earplugs activates!* Then while the monster roars, you get red from the head since roaring is the easiest time to get red and jump in dmg without wasting time! Throughout the hunt, you can continue this pattern of getting white and orange so you never get roar stunned.

I cant go back from the one that gathers 2 colors. Gets me into my combos faster, so more damage quicker.

As IG main, I am so glad that I find this channel. Insta sub for me. Thx you youtube algorithm!

Finding your channel was a godsend, slowly but surely I’m learning IG and it just makes the game 10x more fun. Can’t wait for the full breakdown

The assist kinsect looks really flashy and if I know anything about the glaive, which I don't, it's that the flashier something is the better it is.

Love the IG, by far my favorite weapon so far. Just so everyone knows. You can use the recall kinsect move at any time even with the insect on your arm to cancel the recovery time of tornado slash and tetraseal.

Just getting started on the insect glaive, this guide was super helpful. Thanks, subbed

Je suis monté! Been playing IG since its release. Loving the options we have this generation. Very informative video, thanks for the timestamps. Subbed!

I'm a bit of a mixed bag with IG, I'll be up in the air most of the time, but I'll also drop onto the ground when the monster is immobilized or when there's an opening. Assist really appeals to me not just because of the fast extract gathering and the active damage, but because while I'm in the air, my kinsect's stamina will be regenerating, and while I'm on the ground, my own stamina is regenerating. There's a bit of a balance to it, and I like that! In MHGU, I mostly used my kinsects to just get the triple up, then never send them out until it wears off. That habit has since transferred over to Rise. The assist kinsects really suits my playstyle well and keeps them active despite them just staying on my arm the majority of the fight, making my damage much better than it would've been otherwise.

Great Video, thank you! I really can't decide which weapon I should main in Rise but IG looks really sweet.

Really needed this thanks!

The Tetraseal allows for some incredibly aggressive hunts. I've got two styles with it, healing support and the "hammer" glaive. The healer might be a support set but it probably makes for more DPS than any other IG. The Tetraseal lets you mark the monster constantly. There's almost always green clouds going up keeping everyone in the action and healed up thanks to it being an area effect, letting your whole team play aggressively, including your Kinsect. Unlike the other powders, the clouds work even if the monster is gone and it doesn't need any buildup to work. A bonus is you can mark targets you want broken to encourage your team to attack it. You can also help your team out even if you don't have the triple up yet. The "hammer" glaive is a real stunner. The blunt assist Kinsect does big damage, has near instant buffs, and with the Tetraseal can hit the head consistently causing a lot of stuns. It's a more simple build but is a lot of fun and doesn't require much thought. As an IG main, I've always wanted to KO monsters.

Something really important comparing the Tetra slash is that you can cancel the Tornado Slash animation with Kinsect Recall (even if you already have it over your arm) and you go back to neutral instantly, allowing you to combo again. I still didn't test the DPS difference since when you have the Tetraseal Slash you deal more damage since your insect is attacking more times, whereas with the Tornado Slash you hit harder and cancelling the animation you start again your combo usually with the X route

Just want to say with the speed kinsect section, in Rise your kinsect doesn’t need to be sent out to recall it. Even with other types of kinsect recalling to animation cancel is really good.

Just as a side note: you can do the recall cancel with any type of kinsect after any attack even if it is resting on your arm, you don't need to send it out first. And it isn't exactly a new mechanic but rather a returning one, for some reason they just decided it was a good idea to remove it in World.

As an insect glaive main and newbie, thank you kind sir this i thought they were all pretty much the same

Ill try and remember all this good info when monster hunter drops on steam in a year and a half

completely changed my mind on the bugs forever.

I've watched to many of these, HOWEVER.... Why does no content creator mention that for their favorite Assist Kinsect that the guaranteed Extract (attack=red, speed=white, defense=orange) only lasts for HALF the duration? Now of course this doesn't matter if you get the Triple Buff, since that lasts a set amount of time as soon as you get all 3 and that is the same for all kinsects, but because of the half duration on the dual extracts, you NEED to stop and collect your triple buff, no longer allowing you to say, just use Red and White and grab just the one as they're about to run out as some did in previous MH games. Of course, Triple Buff should be grabbed regardless as it gives such good earplugs now and is needed for many of the special abilities of the kinsect. It's just that this half duration is something to note. Attack=Red is the popular one as it always opens up the combo, but Red notoriously lasts the shortest. Though I've not checked if it is still the same in Rise, in previous MH games, Red already had the shortest duration, followed by White, then Orange. Most will take Attack=Red since that will allow you to even get red from small monsters that don't offer it, but for large monsters, it may be really easy to always get red with it's head or claws facing you and something like Speed=White or Defense=Orange may be better to take to make your extract gathering easier. Extra note: Leaping Slash is great in its accuracy, however the Advancing Roundslash works as a counter in that once you leap, you cannot take damage. This is something big if you get the timing down as the Insect Glaive does not (never has) any defensive like capabilities before and could only roll out of the way or try to jump over the attack. If used right, the Advancing Roundslash can also vault you into the air for a quick aerial combo. Final extra note: Aerial MV's have been super buffed in this game too. Before Aerial was generally a joke and only used with Elemental (since elemental damage doesn't care about the attack's MV's). In World, the Strong Jumping Advancing Slash 6 hit combo had 6/4/7/4/3/32 for the MV's. As you can see, all the damage was pushed onto just the last hit, with everything else doing nothing without Elemental or Status added to it. However in Rise, the values are at 16/16/15/15/14/20. Not only spreading out the damage, but an overall increase in +71% more MV values than ever before. Still dealing strong Elemental and Status applications too. To add, new to Rise, while in all MH games, you could do 3 of the previous combo's in the air, in Rise, each successive combo in the air has it's MV's further boosted by +10%, making the second combo hit for 18/18/17/17/16/22 and the third combo in the air becomes 20/20/18/18/17/24. That's honestly pretty insane. FURTHERMORE, the more air combo's you do, the stronger the Diving Wyvern silkbind is boosted. If used after the first combo, a +20% boost, after the second, a +30% boost and after the final third combo, a +40% boost! The Diving Wyvern already has an insane 80 MV. This can turn it into a 96/104/112 MV move!!! With the right armor skills and buffs, this can easily hit for over 1k damage now, when without being buffed at all by aerial combo's it only deals 350-500 damage. AERIAL INSECT GLAIVE IS FINALLY NO LONGER A MEME! Je Suis Monte! My IG using friends = ^ . ^ = (added the final extra note before finishing the video, so yay, looks like you at least know about the aerial boosts, but now you have numbers)

I ddnt remember world has the option to charge and gather two kinsects? i used IG in IB for awhile. Thats why im really comfortable in rise bc of that feature which is new to me. Great Vid btw!

Am I correct in understanding that the old nectar upgrade system is gone? I haven't seen any menus for upgrading, nor have I received nectars.

for your assist portion, your bug is hitting different hitzones when you're trying to compare..

Thanks

Does power prolonger and triple up time stack? New to insect glaive but super fun thanks for the vid

Tornado is being used over Tetraseal by speedrunners due to mobility. The end lag with Tetraseal is what lets it down even if you recall Kinsect. I tried Tetraseal out and while I like it I ended up going back to Tornado. Same for Advancing Slash actually I prefer Leaping.

What’s the diving strike you are using with the wire bug. I love insect glaive but I hate the wire bug skills and that is exactly what I need

As IG main since MHW im wanna say thx.

Oooo you forgot to mention that Tetrosil Slash also acts like a counter/guardpoint in that, if you're hit during the combo instead of taking a hit, you will instead be launched into the air to continue from there, it also pairs with the hidden combo counter for Diving Wyvern. For everytime you land your vaulting dance to re-launch yourself your hidden charge/combo counter goes up 1 (for a max of 3 OR a max of 4 if paired with Tetrosil) and it will MASSIVELY increase the damage output of Diving Wyvern.

I've yet to leave the level 1 normal type heal bonus kinsect. Its too OP, I've yet to die once

This is my first Monster Hunter and maybe I don't know the deepest strategies yet, but the Dual Color (Attack) really seems the be The One. I remember all those hunts before I got the rarity 4, struggling to get the red buff. Never again!

Will you be making build videos anytime soon?

Did you explain the vortex powder bonus? I don't understand how to use that attack. It makes all the powders explode at once

Question: how do you do the thing with the paracord where you go straight down to hit the monster?

Can someone tell me how to get the dual color attack kinsect? I'm not seeing it in the store.

Does the triple up time kinsect bonus stack with power prolonged?

What does heal mean on the kinsect? Also, how do you increase the rarity of the kinsects?

What is the move at 0:04? I can't quite understand it

I thought arctheladder mentioned kinsect kancels in the demo?

What would be in the general opinion the best insect glaive in rise

wait blast is blast status not an explosion like in world? that's weird

I'm hoping more kingsects in 3.0

doggotap

When do you get the switch skills

Aren’t some of the kinsects locked behind dlc?

I use severing speed kinsect for stylish tail cutting :)

upbug

Whats your build by the way im curious?

Kind of a bummer that ground is still better than aerial, guess thats the price of being cool

Tetraseal does not finish when theres LS user. Lol

TL; DR: Use Carnage Beetle.

"should be using tetraseal..." Immediate unsub /s