MHW Iceborne | Yian Garuga solo (Switch Axe) - 3'52 (TA rules + clutch claw) 

Couldnt agree more. In general, what they did with all the weapons in MHW and IB is stil so amazing, they nailed every single weapon to perfection.

Now everyone is spamming zero skill discharge instead

@@ssg2274 not only are you incorrect, but you're also a fool

@@weirdkid5 no he is right. Pretty much every speedrun with the SA ever is just Zero Sum Discharge spam in IB.

@@Smeik2901 Yep pretty much every swaxe player i see in multiplayer just spams zsd to the point of annoyance since they keep claw interrupting everyone else, funny how people deny it, it shud be nerfed and not being able to be abused imo

this video should be the instructional video on stagger/flinch counting

Geoffrey Estévez You know what’s the best of all? No Mantles!

dio cavallo super fun w/ hammer

I'm not surprised tbh.

Closest thing I’m ever getting to the original crazy chicken

Yeah, he’s nowhere near as annoying as he was in previous games which is a good thing lol

both

@@CantaPerMe 5head

@@kylegriebling1962 idk man that seemed like a 10head to me

welcome to optimized speedrunning

@@CantaPerMe beautiful

Tell how it is possible in a TA to spam zero sum?

😂😂😂

@@monsterhunterdude5448 On most monsters, Garuga included, it isn't, at least not without a lot of resets for rng. But some like Glav and Velk and Nami have areas that can be exploited. Since Iceborne dropped more people are running SA, but less are going TA, because spamming zsd is sadly easy and often the fastest option.

A year later, almost everybody uses SA and spam ZSD on fatalis lmao

close but actually no, garuga will always eventually somersault when in that radius of range (it has always been this way in the MH series: link to better understand this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6s_Avcc8Bpw.html ). He is sticking at garuga's right feet and circling clockwise to wait for openings while counting staggers/flinches and saves the the actual flinch/stagger/break when the garuga is mid-air for free dps. You're not that much wrong but he wasn't "Baiting or Luring Out" it was more like "Counting and Waiting"

@@yuushouma1263 Actually, he always does the tailflip after certain attacks and depending on your positioning so yeah, it was baiting.

@@CantaPerMe Regardless, pretty awesome :)

@@CantaPerMe i don't get what you are counting, damages ? well i'll never be able to count anything considering how fast the number are getting out on SA haha ..

@@mathieu499 I don't count the damage but the amount of hits/attacks I've done to keep track of when it will stagger

It enrages the monster

@@CantaPerMe ah i see.. thanks for the reply

Yeah, but a lot of times if you arent going speedrun, the Gold Rath axe is still just as good. If you do go speedrun, use element on SwAxe

Lunar Sun yeah! Understood! I use gold rath SA with master's touch meta set. But whana try new and strong non speed run elemental SA builds, just for casual and fun runs

@@RodrigoMAOEE yeah, i use all teostra pieces, garuga legs, silver rath chest, but i only still use silver rath bc i cant find crit jewels to save my life

Gold Rathian SA is best in most cases but there are some matchups where elemental SA is better like this one

CantaPerMe oohhh I see. Can you list the better elemental mashups? Are the 3 stars week elements the ones to look for?

elemental phials inherently charge faster than power phials, that's all

don't like that mechanic, it's not allowed by TA rules either

@@CantaPerMe Then why did u turn him? it adds stagger?

@@BoONeo Turn him around 4 times and he gets enraged. Useful for Agitator builds

@@GeneralKnife Oh yea iv noticed that actually but didnt even think of it lol thx now i know

Get into awakened phial mode by hitting the monster in sword mode and filling the gauge.

@@CantaPerMe I understand that but you start the mounted discharge hit it only a few times, then jump off instead of the whole like 6 seconds of explosions that make you jump off, stab the ground and automatically put you in axe mode, so i was trying to find out how you do that.

@@MatoBRS Just stop mashing the triangle button

@@CantaPerMe I will try that thanks so much Canta, love your stuff!

im on pc, realized i had the same build, but the damage man... i wont upgrade full element on the weapon and keep a regen, but wow 96 during the discharge ... stunned

Just to get another free opening with the enrage animation

Stop mashing triangle to discharge early which results in a shorter recovery animation

@@CantaPerMe Yeah I figured, thanks

1. Most of the time, yeah, I still dunno if you can bait it 100% of the time tho but it's fairly consistent 2. To trigger the enrage animation which is another opening for me. Also enraged Garuga can do the tailflip twice in a row which gives me some leeway if I miscalculate the hits and dont get the aerial dunk on the first hit. 3. Because it does more damage in this case

Yeah, monsters movesets/combos can change based on if they're enraged, for example Gold rathian will shoot 3 fireballs when un-enraged, but when enraged she only does two then does a flip (I'm unsure how garuga changes because I don't fight him much)

It's because monsters take more damage while raged, and when you flinch the monster 3x with clutchclaw you get the tenderize effect so this saves a lot of time having to look for another opening for the second CC attack for tender with light weapons.

OhISay

Jay Rivera it’s because the switchaxe when powered up procs a second hit in sword mode

@@biancad.4440 Man, I don't have Iceborne yet does this work with the OG MHW? Granted, I'm a hammer main so maybe that explains a lot lol

Jay Rivera yeah, it also works in base mh :)

@@biancad.4440 Thank you!! I popped in my MHW game real quick just to test it out. Also realized I didn't have a banger Switch Axe yet so I may go get one when I eventually pick up Iceborne d:

Jay Rivera nice! the lunastra switchaxes are one of the best in base game :)

It becomes 1380 water in sword mode btw

CantaPerMe thats insane

no

It makes the monster enraged, good if you're running agitator or if you're just used to dodging their enraged moves as opposed to un-enraged moves

@@SashIsTrash yes, and I also just discoved it actually helps to soften monster parts. Because a "heavy weapon" attack is 10 pts, a "light weapon" is 5, and a claw attack is 2. And you need 10 pts to soften the part. So 3 claw slaps (3×2) + 1 light weapon attack (5) softens the part

It is depending on the matchup

@@CantaPerMe ok cause in general hunts I like to spam it when the monster is up and sword attack and discharge when the monster is down

tl;dr no cat, no mantle, no traps, no pods (except dung), no environmental traps

We don't use the flinch shot in TA runs. The idea behind the TA ruleset is to make use of your weapon to create and exploit openings so using the flinch shots for easy free hits goes against that idea. If you don't want to play with self imposed limitations tho then yeah, you definitely want to knock it against the wall.

@@CantaPerMe ahh icic sry idrk the rules for TA 😅 i thought you were just trying to get the fastest time possible

nvm

Nope, you need critical status for that

Nope. Para is a status, not an element.

Alright thanks guys :)

normal ps4

@@CantaPerMe Okey! Thank you!

Comes with the armor

tl;dr no cat, no mantle, no traps, flinch shot or other means of "free cc". The idea behind this style of speedrun is to mainly use your weapon to take down the monster instead of every game mechanic at your disposal.

@@CantaPerMe thank you for the explaination