MHW The Ultimate Weapon Tier List 

i main IG and HUNTING HORN to help player with my mega buff and my BIG BOINK ^^

@@bobolecoco3321 very fun right?, im thinking the same thing as HH user.

just started playing this game with friends, I always though HH required a party since it gives buffs. Just now realized it is still really good in solo! Saves you a ton of potions too! Buffing the team and watching them go ham is a great plus as well.

No one believes me when i Tell them that the hunting horn is the most mobile weapon in the game, the self improvement Songs make you so fast and agile.

@Alveonadra The self-improvement melody is such a great boost to HH mobility. Ever since I mained HH I could never go back to any other weapon because of how slow they felt. Plus its awesome to play the attack xl melody and see your damage go from 1300 to 1900. I always wonder how much extra damage other people get when the buff applies to them, especially GS.

I'm sure that if 4U had a proper PC release you'd see a lot of people playing that too. MHW is just the first entry that's still easily accessible today on a proper, not shit console (switch). But yeah World is way better than Rise. I hope that Wilds' devs take note at these trends and walk back some of the changes made in Rise's combat.

I can't blame them, World is such an amazing game even with some of the flaws it had.

@@TanegiHoneydew yeah like clutch claw

@Kyfow they definitely will. The mainline dev team is pretty loyal to the OG dream

​@@TotallyCreativeNameBtwwhat's wrong with it? I keep hearing that

Couldn’t agree more ❤ Skilled player > powerful weapon

yep. i just wanna hit the monster so hard, and don't wanna think about anything else, that's why i main GS and Hammer

agree, as insect glaive main, i love to help my teammates to mount monsters when they nees to heal or catch a break

how dare he not putting charged blade and switch axe in the same position.. i am expert in them both.. XD

Except lance. Lance sucks

Honest? Same.

As a hunting horn enjoyer despite not gaining the weapon I hope you guys get remembered more

Even tho I expected this... It still hurts deep down 😢

Just joined the hunting horn gang and if had so much fun with the weapon I'm sad it's not higher

very underrated and underestimated. HH is my favourite.

Tried a gunlance only challenge was fun!

​@beasthaven1571 Exactly !!! The fun was non existent...

​@@kronosleblu888I've done 700 hunts with the GL, enjoyed every single one

He sucks at gunlance, that's all

this kinda makes gunlance worse imo. you cannot recommend this weapon to a newer player because they won't learn about hitzones and how important they are and they won't learn positioning either. it IS a fun weapon, no doubt and it's definitely nice to have an "easy" weapon like that, i just wish it would have a dance between shelling and poking to make it synergize with itself

Loser

Are they that fun havent touched charge blade since its release game dancinh with gore magdala and cb felt like art. Hh cb that version did they buff it worlds?

@@beasthaven1571It was pretty op in 4u, not quite as powerful in mhw but it’s still a fantastic weapon. It’s my personal favorite, I just can’t wrap my head around any other weapon, any time I try to play something else I get mad and quit after a couple hunts to go back to the charge blade lol

@@FlynnStriderhammer and gs are easy I had to use the hammer to beat kirin

@@FlynnStrider bro went back to the hardest weapon after trying easier ones gaddamn

This man gets it

Guard pointing is to damn fun, but it can be punishing as hell .

i would be suprised if they didnt bring back switch skills in a way. there are just so many new playstyles and cool shit you can do with them

​​@@zerdodylan If hammer doesn't get to keep it's counter I will be extremely sad...

@@ericraululyeetusdelyeetus5028 i hope everything not wirebug related to stay

@@zerdodylan Not sure how they'd keep stuff like Sacred Sheath...or that they would keep anything the switchaxe got. I do wonder if GS, judging by it's slimmer look, will get to inherit some of the attack combos...

@@ericraululyeetusdelyeetus5028 honestly i forgot about sacred sheath, i was thinking about the LS spirit vertical move and stuff like IG tetraseal or bow’s dodgebolt a lot of moves can probably stay in rise, but i’d love to see more basic move set stuff return like the overhead slash for switch axe edit: courage hammer is a new play style that could also come back

I see you are a man of culture good sir

Thats why you slot in evade extender and evasion. This is nothing new, ever since switch first debut in 3rd portable.

​@@wits_end.nah just be better who needs evade extender when you can figure out the timing for attacking and the spacing for moves, its half the fun with the switch axe.

​@@TheProtoMachine Your invincibility frames wont last through most monsters lingering attack frames (unless they are fodder tier monsters). Evade window and extender arent really a must but should be min maxed depending on matchup

@@TheProtoMachineOR slot them in to increase uptime on the monster because a quick can put you out of the way or right back to where you need to be, with plenty of I-Frames for all of it. Utility skills should never be overlooked

HE USES A NORMAL GUNLANCE TO BLOCK AND SINGLE BLAST. REEEEEEE HE DOESN’T DESERVE TO RATE IT

personally I would love to enjoy GL. But capcom has made it so that the weapon is so slow and not rewarding. I love pulling out a wyrmstake but doing the whole combo with the long ass animations in solo is not worth it, even with shieldspire palico. It's not enjoyable having to sit through lengthy animations all the time you're getting jumped.

@@H1r0x Double blast follows up with a wyrmstake. Or loading it (guard point) and pressing both attack buttons follows up with a wyrmstake. It is so worth it. Ups your damage by a lot and trips the monster so god damn much. I have had solo hunts where the poor monster was longer tripped than fighting.

@@H1r0x wyrmstake is definitely a slow move, it's probably not meant to be used outside of unloading the WSB, using the slinger ammo loading + triangle + circle, or circle circle circle

​@H1r0x GL is not necessarily a slow weapon, you just can't spam the big damage stuff and expect it to land. Same deal with something like sns - perfect rush spam doesn't work if the monster isn't mobilized, but nobody is gonna call sns a slow weapon lol. If you want good dps that is low commitment you can go wide GL and poke-shell combo. You can combo into your big damage moves off of a quick reload so for example if you topple a monster while shelling you can quick reload - slap combo into stake and then wyvern fire. If you're hitting a good hit zone with slap lance this combo will do like 3k+ damage with raging brachy set. A big benefit of GL is its ability to topple. Go for legs because your shells ignore hitzones then slap lance combo on a good hit zone and the outcome is you're probably doing way more damage than most people you'd play with in hunts. Check out caoslayer on yt if you are interested in learning GL. It has more nuance than may be initially apparent. Underrated and fun weapon with good build options

100% shouldn’t rate it if you don’t know how to use it

Yeah maybe its a joke but its a bad one GL its my main and its nowhere near that dull.

Yeah came here to comment. He just didn’t know a thing about it.

He did put it to hmmm since he probably can't rate it

I didn't know hunting horn mains existed 😂

​@@ghostypeiBecause like 5 of us exist

Fr. We're just happy to be here and smack monsters while viking

@@deathfromthedepths and I've met two of them

@@ghostypei I wish my gf become a hunting horn main, she is a long sword user and I almost can't play with her XD

It's the clunky morphing transition that makes it difficult imo, which gets fixed in MH Rise.

They should really bring rapid morph skill to mainline

All you have to do to avoid that animation is roll/sidestep or attack before morphing ​@@addie1294

​@@justamuart definitly, once you try switch axe with rapid morph max lvl you just can't go back.

I actualy didnt like rapid morph maybe it was that i never had enough room to fit it in with everything else but i just dont really use it

Yes you, me and the other two HH mains shall not forget this.

We shall not! Our doots should be treasured!

I accidentally made my friends über lazy playing a wide range HH build in Iceborne so when I switched back to swaxe, which I beat the base game with, they wondered why the monsters were so much more difficult lmao

hmmm

yep, don't prefer CB either.

You can just savage axe instead of Super amped elemental discharge then. Hell you can just go charged sword too, if you want mobility and morph slash for when you need the reach

Here's the trick: CB and GL use basically the same gear. So just learn both and according to the monster. Need to play safe or disregard hitspots? Use GL. Can exploit openings or just generally need to do a bit more damage? Use CB.

Fear not lil bro, Gunlance mains know this is just one man's list. In reality, a good Gunlance hunter is worth twenty Charge Blade suckers who flap around trying to guard counter or land their biggest, flashiest move for a chance at dealing reasonable damage. If it don't go boom, make some room.

If I could rocket boost around like you can in Rise, I would never touch another weapon in World lol

CB is overrated. Im a swaxe main but also play CB and IG but outside of new players CB is one of the most played weapons next to LS. And tbh i dont think that CB gameplay is overly complex or hard to master. You generally play around 1 guard point and can then freely punish many attacks. Obviously theres more to it but people tend to make a big deal out of playing CB. GS is infinitely more difficult to play. I played 1,2k hours in mhwib

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Yeah I 100% agree. Switch axe is a weapon that is super simple in concept and very easy to use at low level, but insanely difficult to use well. Spacing and defense are so difficult on that weapon That's part of what makes it so appealing though. Such a large opportunity for entry and growth

sadly, GL its still considered low tier in rise/sunbreak

Trust me, once you learn the basic concepts on charge blade it will all click and you will see why he talks as he does. I say this as a person who went a long time being incapable of using cb It's got a lot of systems but once you understand them they're not hard to use really. I think it's especially hard just because you have to remember so many buttons the game never teaches you 😂

Thanks bro, same thoughts here, from a Gunlance main

as a CB main too, i approve of this comment

Eh.. SA is easy compared to CB. People get punished while playing SA because they keep spamming Zero Skill Discharge, which isn't even the optimum damage dealer.

My balls hurt

Try Gunlance. CB uses the same gear. As a user of both; you'll find that some fights are easier with GL because it is just so much safer - giving you more openings arguably. GL is very comfortable; but if defense is NOT your concern, then CB does more damage generally.

Hammer is a good weapon to get into the game imo. Pretty easy combos and you will down the monsters a lot (bonk head) which gives you time to practice different mechanics

@@blahblahbleugh-vq6sn thanks :)

I'm a CB main, but SnS is the most fun in my opinion. It just feel very athletic running, rolling, attacking, then back to running, then clutch claw shoryuken, wall bang, heal your allies, grab slinger ammo, attack again, stun the monster with your shield, and on and on. It feels you're doing so many different things non stop through out the fight, it's so fun.

@@rustygear447 That does sound really fun!!