Monster Hunter Rise - Insect Glaive Guide (with Timestamps) 

Something to add about Sever-type Kinsects is that they will gain the base elemental attack stat of the weapon you're using. The base elemental attack stat includes Rampage skills, but doesn't include armor skills. Unfortunately, this doesn't work with status weapons. In addition to needing Kinsect stamina, Assist-type Kinsects also require you to have the Triple Up active before it will attack with you. The attacks it will accompany you on are Leaping Slash, Forward Roundslash, Strong Dodge Slash, Strong Double Slash, Tornado Slash, Tetraseal Slash, and Diving Wyvern.

I SPENT THIS WHOLE TIME THINKING I MISSED IG SKILLS FOR KINSECT. YOU TELLING ME KINSECT ACTUALLY DO DIFFERENT THINGS NOW. YESSSSSSSSSS.

I have a hard time using anything else. I just love the mobility.

The thing with Triple Up Time kinsects is if you partner them with Power Prolonger 3, it basically lets you keep all your buffs per area. You only need to collect the triple buffs once until the monster switches area. So if you want that comfort, it's an option.

I made a hunt with 2 Palicos and the Speed Charge Kinsect and used it as a ranged weapon while my cats went ham :D Fast? No. Humiliating for the monster? Hell yeah

A note on recall kinsect, if you want the heal you don't have to be close to the monster, the kinsect will do it's lifesteal attack wherever it is positioned.

With all the combos you did, you didn't once use or mention the infinite xxaxxa combo that daddy gaijin taught me.

One of these days I'll actually remember that IG (and SA) has a fade slash, I can't break this habit of vaulting

"Oh cool, he finally uploaded an insect glaive guide, i'll skip around to learn what I need, no need to watch nearly an hour long video" *proceeds to sit and watch every second* "What just happened to the clock?"

also ruri you can cancel phermone by sheathing the weapon. it's small but if you want a red buff and you get orange buff instead, it might be that the phermones are on the monster.

1. You can actually press B in the middle of recall kinsect to jump on the air 2. You can cut animation using ZR+B or ZR+A this much faster than using regular evade 3.event kinsect have diffrent rarity the power value is base on your level kinsect on your weapon so choose what you like Nice video as always .

BTW a good addition that I think you did not mentioned is that if you recall your kinsect (ZR+A) at the end of any hit you can totally cut that animation lag this massively increases your DPS!

THANK YOU this is what I need I just started from a bow main and IM LOVING IT SO FAR

Finally! Was waiting for this guide before I tried to pick up the Glaive. Thanks!

Rurikhan guides are the gold standard. Thank you so much for helping me get started in this excellent game!

Worth pointing out, the "infinite combo" is 'x''x''a','x''x''a' repeating. It also keeps you more in place than ending with tornado slash and you can still roll out of it whenever (I don't think you can roll out of tetraseal). Also, it really helps buff uptime if you start by getting red and white, THEN grabbing orange once those two's timer gets close to ending. If you do that you can refresh the timer on your buffs. This works this way because the triple buff has its own special timer. This helps keep the buff up longer while not taking up unnecessary time trying to get all three buffs. The timing isn't nearly as difficult as is sounds since the buff icon starts pulsating/flashing when it's about to run out. I really like the IG switch skills. With the exception of diving wyvern (I seriously don't know why you wouldn't want to use this, I'm not sure the I-frames on recall kinsect are worthwhile on a weapon with this much mobility), the other four seem to be worthwhile choices depending on your playstyle.

Thank you for this! I'm actually thinking of trying this out. THIS IS PERFECT

Hey Ruri, just 2 things: As some others have noted if you ZR+A after Tornado Slash u can animation cancel the endlag of the Tornado Slash animation, and then follow up with a Strong Rising Slash and another Tornado Slash stringing it together into a loop. And secondly, an important note regarding Advancing Roundslash - a big benefit to it is that a successful parry/counter/whatever it is that vaults you into the air also provides you the first aerial damage buff stack, which means you can only follow it up with 2 additional Strong Advancing Jump Slash attacks BUT it also means that Diving Wyvern gets buffed faster.

Dude. I love how genuinely you convey what you know. Keep it up!

Thanks for the guides Rurikhan! Much appreciated!

Yes, one of my faves. SO glad more people get to know about the GOOD switch skills now

Your time stamps just make the videos that much better. Thanks Rui!

hey ruri, love the video, the length of the video is great with your delivery of the information, most people miss out on those details and you're doing a great service to the community, ig will have a hard time competing with gl after blast dash for the arial champion

I mainly use the speed charge attack kinsect. I'll mainly focus on getting my buffs, but once I have them when I notice that the kinsect is charge I'll let it attack the monster. The damage adds up pretty nicely since it doesn't take all that long for it to charge up.

Thank you for posting this video. It helped me a lot!

Something to add to buffs that I saw another person explain very well: Think of the buffs as coming from what the monster uses the bodypart for. For instance, what the monster attacks with (primarily) would provide red-buff. What they use to move would provide white-buff. Basically everything else is orange-buff. Tough hide is a good rule of thumb as well, as stated by Rurikhan. I like this explanation because it helps with monsters like Goss Harag. Their arms are the source of red-buff, where-as most other monsters arms are white-buff.

ive been waiting since release for this video!

When you start using more animation canceling (using send/recall kinsect cancels most animations), the speed bugs like Grancathar become amazing. I think Focus decreases the charge time on the chain attack, and the speed bugs are the absolute best for knockout and tail cut. They go where you point, they go fast, they hit 5 rapid strikes, and you recall it with your next animation cancel or the silkbind recovery. They also hit AOE so if another monster is in the general area, the bug hits everything.

I absolutely love insect glaive. I'm pretty new to Monster Hunter, only got to 3* village quests in MHGU and bought Rise last week but I've always loved IG over any other weapons. It's just such a weird, cool weapon that's unique to Monster Hunter. I'm currently using the kinsect that brings double buffs, so I can get those up faster. I haven't unlocked some of the later kinsects though, looking forward to trying them out. Thanks for this guide! I've mostly just learned from experience, I watched Gaijin Hunter's video on IG in MHGU but it's really different in Rise so this video taught me a lot.

I am a newbie to this game! Your guide is super helpful and easy to understand, thank you!

the insect glaive's advancing counter increases the diving wyvern's charge by 1 too. otherwise, amazing video. happy to see if getting some love.

What I've been waiting for.

Awesome guide!! I was debating on whether or not to switch from GS. This will help my decision!(: thanks Ruri ! Keep it up!

Thanks mate, great vid. I’m subbed. Confusing weapon for five seconds, revelation after that

That glaive with the Cresent moon blade looks so good... Edit after tornado slash vs most monsters itl throw you under them or past the tail w.e use the evade slash itl reposition you,it chains back to the combo start and u can turn that first hit after the evade.

Hey, good timing. Just made the chameleos IG and wanted to figure out how to use it

Thanks for the guide btw! i learned a lot!

This is awesome, thank you!

Thank you sir as always awesome guide and review! Hopefully they listen and give us even better bugs system next time around. love it 👍

Rurikhan makes the best tutorials! SOMEBODY GIVE THIS MAN A OSCAR!!!

Thanks for the guide, can’t believe I sat through all this though but I’m desperate for weapon variety rn

Been only playing IG and SAxe since the start of the game(dabbling in Gunlance rn) Still smashing to view this instantly

Heal works a little differently! It WILL heal you wherever you are! It’s based on your Kinesect! While on your arm, pressing zl and a sends it out, and recalls it. IF it is out already, it will jump forward, then recall. The heal, is IF the bug HITS the monster, during its special attack animation during the few moments after the zl and a press.

Very good video thank you very much 👍🏽💯‼️

One thing about Severing Kinsects that a lot of people don't know, they actually do the elemental damage of your insect glaive as well, so on element builds they can do really well! Blunt kinsects don't do this, and I'm pretty sure Severing doesn't do Ailments, just Elements

There is actually one other way to increase the damage for kinsects than just the level. You have to increase the elemental attack of your weapon through a ramp up skill. Normal elemental increase skills won’t work, but the ramp up skills can affect the kinsect attack as long as the weapon it’s self is an elemental weapon. And yes I have tested this on multiple different kinsect weapons.

I'm so jealous the male version of Wroggi helmet gets a bandana

The FoeBeatle Kinsect is nice, even though its not one of the higher rarity ones, because it always gives you Orange/Defense buff. This is nice because the belly of the monster is usually the hardest part of the monster to hit. Combine that with the fact that it effectively makes the monster now have only two halves to worry about in terms of getting Red buff or White buff, it makes it a nice Kinsect all around, plus its an Assist type so it helps you deal more hits when its with you and you have all three buffs (which again it helps you get more easily)

I need to make that insect glaive. You were proccing like mad! Basically rushed the Narga IG to use on everything and running some attack buffs.

Big note and idk why no one mentions it u can use the silkbind recall kinsect when u send ur kinsect and it isn't in your arm. If it hits with the monster u get a free heal from a safe distance. Also u can go right into aerial combat since u r jumping with the silkbind

!8:05 gotta get that power prolonger. on some monsters it saves a minute across the entire hunt trying for a small part with the last extract you need. (dual color kinsects can also help with this.)

For anyone new with insect glaive, you can reset the 3 air attacks limit while in the air with the silkbind skill vault.

EDIT: putting the edit on top bc its important, but there are a couple things that should be added in. First, you get earplugs when you have both white and orange buff active. This follows to how some highly skilled users run their kit: with dual orange to avoid roar and then gather red during the roar. Also, recall kinesect can be used to cancel an animation, making combo recovery faster. On top of it having great dps, having been a newcomer to the series, it also allows hunters to scout out which body part is a weak point and observing early attack patterns, which was really useful having never seen any of the monsters before. Also, with chameleos I like to shoot pheromones on its face to track it when it goes invisible, so it’s useful for people not used to chameleos

With the forward round slash it also takes away one of your Ariel attacks. I’m assuming this mean you can get to your fully buffed wyverndive sooner.

Funny enough i learned the IG could climb walls for the first time while fighting a monster near that cliff right outside the main camp in the desert. Dodged off the side and tried to attack my way back and ended up stuck right under the lip of the cliff right below the monster. Took me a moment to realize what was happening and then air dodge my way back up and right back into the fight lol. An unconventional way to dodge an attack I'd say.

One tip that I’m not sure if It was mentioned but to get rid of the pheromone/ mark you sheath your weapon to do so

Big thumbs up👍 (sry, this doesn't actually exist, tho). Very informative and in-depth. Also, thanks to the community for the detailed added info on combos etc

I main this weapon in Rise. The kinsect rework really helps this weapon to shine.

Can anyone explain best target lock settings for kinsect glaide? Auto lock or push button to lock on? Also, i noticed u didnt mention turning up camera speed. It will help tons when doing aerial combat

Thanks for explaining the Mechanics of the Kinsects. It was hella confusing after World.

i cant find if you say anywhere in the video but what does the light on the back end of the glaive indicate? it looks like it turns on when you send your bug out but it turns back off when it regains about half of its stamina, but thats only if youre not doing anything else

The assist type Kinsect follows up the diving wyvern ? That's some sweet damage there

A bit late to the party, but you mentioned powder being optimal for aerial focused players, it is also a good choice if you're building for a specific ailment. Combining a poison powder with a poison glaive to maximize your hits that proc poison, for example.

Do you have an HBG video? I couldn't find one!

How much IG did you play in Iceborne Rui? Because oh boy, aerial hitboxes were definitely already a thing back then, less so in base MHW, but Master Rank kicked that up a notch. Also, the Heal stat on the bugs actually affects their stamina regeneration. Not sure if it affects heal clouds as well, but it definitely affects stamina regen.

Weapon Guide: Pointy Pogo-Stick Wish I could walk away from the GS to try this out but I can’t tear myself away from those big boy numbers!

One thing you might not realize is that slashing type kinsects gain element from the weapon so a Charged Chain with High Element glaive could work where you alternate between attacking the monster and using the CCA Unfortunately the damage of CCA is too low to justify building an entire playstyle for it but maybe in G rank we get R10 kinsects that are insane.

Im starting to get tired of longsword, im thinking of playing IG next. Is it good?

I have mixed feelings towards advancing roundslash. Sometimes it feels amazing cause you're like a dragonfly waltzing around the poor monster, other times you forget that your draw attack is a 15 feet dash and barely clip the monster. Definitely interesting to me though. Tetraseal I hate cause there are less damaging infinite combos that allows me to roll out more freely

Any reason you’re not using Kinsect Recall cancels after your tornado/tetraseal slash? I find canceling let’s me land more attacks.

Something i dont think you said in the recall kinsect is the ZL A also got you the white buff. Assuming it would also get orange and red depending on where you hit on the recall

Took me a while to learn where every monster holds my essence colors, but now I'm into combat within 6 seconds or so. Putting together a really good IG highlight reel right now!

I want to start my IG gears but Im still enjoying SnS. Maybe this would motivate me.

One important thing about the Recall Kinsect skill (ZL + A) I think you forgot is that once the kinsect gets back to you, its stamina is completely refilled, instantly. I know Diving Wyvern is unga-bunga and Recall Kinsect seems far less so, but between the I-frames, the healing, and the instant kinsect stamina recharge, Recall Kinsect can be OP in its own way. It's more for the tactical IG user.

I was a glaive main in MHW, didn't play in Icebourne though.. but from what I remember, it seems like the insect glaive isn't nearly as good. The attacks seem a whole lot slower than what I'm use to from when I played MHW. I could manage most monsters easily enough with a number of different glaive builds, yet on MHR I'm having trouble with even basic monsters, or monsters I know well such as Diablos without having a party around, even the village quests I'm having trouble with the glaive. Finding it better to use dual blades, or even a hunting horn. Only rank 5 currently, so still a long ways to go, and my gearset is far from ideal. (Crit 5, Att 4, Con 4, SSharp 3, Ice 2, Recovery 2, Sleep 1, Heroics 1 currently) The increased mobility with the wirebugs is nice, but the damage (attack speed) seems to be way behind what it was in MHW.

Great weapon for lazurite farming apexes because of the earplugs buff.

I'm liking insect glaive. Hard to master but I like it

I like running power prolong and sharp when playing with this weapon and it’s the only weapon I play with in this game and world

The speed of the bugs needs increased badly you can out walk them lol

i wish that you could launch your kinsect while in the air, it would probably make the skill ceiling for the weapon higher but there has been on more than one occasion where i wanted to send out my kinsect while in the air for red buff

The IG if one of the weapons that I use the most because I love the aerial play style even if it’s weaker. My build is the classic high raw one I wonder if would be better change to elements (blast) for my play style. My only concern is that I love the double color attack kinsects they allow you to always have red which is HUGE so idk how much worth would be try the blast kinsect. Any advice on this aspect?

lol i accidentally marked a rhenoplos during a teostra hunt and dont know how to remove it sucked really bad when i need to refresh extracts.

I still think Capcom did dirty to my Glaive in the demo. But now that I'm using all the secondary switch skill, it is definitely fun.

You should not neglect the low rank bugs. They _all_ have properties that none of the high rank bugs have and even have the same stats. For example, Foebeetle and Alucanid both have Dual Color (Defense) which always let them grab orange off a monster which is good if you want quick earplugs. Another example, Rigiprayne is the only powder bug with just paralysis powder and Ladytarge is the only powder bug with just poison powder. In addition, their kinsect bonus allows them to get the most hits on a monster before running out of stamina (5 hits; Cancadaman and Ladypavise gets 4 hits; Fiddlibrix and Arkmaiden gets 3 hits). Also, the heal stat does not affect the healing the kinsect gives you. It only affects the kinsect's stamina regeneration... that's it. I've tested healing from Recall Kinsect with a kinsect with the lowest heal stat and one with the highest heal stat, it's the same. The starting bugs heal more but that's because of their bonus heal not their high heal stat. I've tested the heal powder with a level 1 Arkmaiden and a level 8 Arkmaiden, no difference. I even tested if it affect the kinsect's stagger value or part break value (like it did in Generations), and after abusing some low rank Great Izuchi I can say it does not do that. It only affects how fast they restore their stamina while resting on your arm... and that's it. With all that being said, it's not a useless stat. A higher heal stat means your powder bugs can be sent out more to spread more powders and your assist bugs will have plenty of stamina for assisting (and the Foebeetle/Alucanid have the most heal out of all the assist bugs meaning it's more likely to be available for assisting; another point for the low rank bugs).

Finally Ruri, Finally an IG guide. Messed up how there’s no RARITY 7 IG right now. Not to mention a Teostra or Bazelgeuse design. Wtf...

As a IG main, my Go-to Kinsect is the Dual Color Orange, level 2 kinsect, blunt. Why because the assist type kinsect does a crap ton of blunt damage and makes KO easier. Also Dual Color orange, makes triple buff easy, because a lot of monsters orange is a pain to get.

Can you still use the normal recall kinsect mid combo to cancel animations speed up your attacks?

Nice

The sauce is to use Advancing Roundslash into an attack get the buff, reposition if you need to then Diving Wyvern immediately if its favorable to do so. Leaping Slash just sucks so much by comparison. Its essentially obsolete now as Diving Wyvern does so much more damage its not worth it to run Leaping and Recall. You can even have sleep on your palicos and Sleep Bomb + Diving Wyvern for a huge chunk. Im sad that the glaives themselves lost their Bonus from World/Iceborne

i watched the video but i notice the "buff for the kinsect" is gone? in mhw its where you let the kinsect eat pods

New to monster hunter and immediately gravitated to insect glaive. Just fits me

You're infinite combo is just X+X+A though. Not as strong as the double A finisher, but you can get more hits in faster, so unless you have a crazy raw + 100% affinity, it's better to just do the X+X+A

Insect Glaive / Gunlance army! Glaive is so much stronger in the air now, mobile too.

Fun fact if you jump with b into a wall on any map you’ll cling to the wall and stay there until either you leave or you wire bugs recharge

Does severing type kindest help break off prices of the monster or just the tail?

So is X X A not The Combo anymore like in Gen?

I unpaused the video at 12:15 and I'm so glad i wasnt around anyone because that would have been hard to explain

The powder type kinsects would be a lot better if the powder would stick to the monster. The powder stays behind if the monster moves though making you miss most powder procs...

I was an IG main on ps4 World but I can't manage the switch controls so ima Bonk Boy now

I had to stopped using the glaive because I found it too good. Made every fight seem incredibly easy. I've moved onto gunlance because I'm terrible with it!