Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak | Elemental Charge Blade is God Tier 

For Gunlance, they could add to erupting cannon the effect it had in Frontier. When it was active, it made your shells do elemental damage, and non-elemental got KO or something like it

Love that they finally did elemental damage some justice. Also, here's a tip for some that may not know: Use the counter morph instead of the normal morph for elemental CB. Hitting a Guard Point with Counter Morph increases the damage of the follow up SAED. Used it on a Rathian earlier with the CG Val charge blade and was doing roughly 500 dmg per phial.

Charge Blade is eating good. Not just because of the elemental phials, which are a blessing in itself, but also because the Savage Axe style is now way more complete due to ready stance and the new Jumping move. Two completely different playstyles on one weapontype, and you want to craft different Charge Blades for those too (Elemental chargeblades with Powervials for Savage Axe). That's a lot of engagement to get out of one weapon, and all of it is not just viable but fucking amazing.

A hunter should always be rewarded for building an armor set and crafting a weapon centered around an element that the monster is weak to. Iam surprised it wasn't that way in base World and Rise. But it's a mistake they fixed in Icebourne and iam glad they made the elemental sets good against different match ups. Nargacuga and Rajang CB meta was absolutely boring. Glad that SunBreak gives so many options. It adds so much depth and ways you can tackle the monsters.

TDS put out a Seregios Speedrun using 4 piece Narwa and final boss Waist. Level 4 Stormsoul gives you the insane 15% thunder and still gives one extra point to all the skills, which makes the Chain Crit from the waist jump up to level 3. And yes, the damage was as nasty as you are thinking. I recommend you watch it just because of two disgustingly awesome aerial dunks they get.

Elemental should have always been better. Raw has the benefit of being universal that should come with the downside of less damage. Elemental meta also means there is far more build diversity.

The Charge Blade types are actually interesting now! Like, you can have a mixed high elemental CB with Impact Phials! You use the Impact phials for KO, and assured damage, but once the monster is down, you Spinning Slash it to oblivion. Of course, running Dereliction, you run Blue Scroll for KO until you get the stun, then switch to Red for Elemental damage adds to your Spinning Slash. Or just charge the Axe and Spinning Slash and Air Dash the head until it goes down. I can see a lot of stylish plays using CBs like the Rathalos and Mizutsune CBs (high elemental impact phial CBs).

Dude, CB is so damn fun in sunbreak! Airdashing and Axe Hopping all over the place, always in action doing crazy damage. I was a CB main in generations and was bummed out in Rise but they brought the fun back. The only skills still missing are the pizza cutter to the face and the Giant lightsaber to slice Wings.

Branching into various elemental CB’s was fun going throughout Sunbreak’s campaign. It’s really solid, and just feels like what I wanted as a CB player in base Rise. Loved this fix, and I hope it stays.

My realization for how strong they made elements has to be with the dual blades I was honestly just kinda messing around testing out raw damage (I forgot which set) vs an Anjanath, it was doing like 30-45 damage on the stronger hits, kinda meh but workable and then I decided "hey let's use these cool almudron sawblades" and I started hitting for like 70-110 damage just like that these elements are CRACKED

I highly recommend load shells 2 so you get max phials with yellow charge

I really am glad that they made Elemental good, and even most of the weapon trees are viable for endgame. The thing is I suspect they probably NEEDED to make them hit as hard as they do to deal with the insane HP values anomaly monsters have, or it could be the other way around.

No matter what they do to this weapon, I will never abandon any iteration of it. 🗡️🛡️⚡

I love that the giant fish is viable for water damage now

I'm feeling so good about elemental in Sunbreak! 👁️👄👁️ I play SwAxe and some of them are so juicy with really high elemental, especially with elemental atk up. I've been wanting to learn CB for a minute and if elemental is good for CB too, that makes me very happy to hear. I gotta get practicing

I hope he knows he can use chainsaw mode with air dash to basically recharge the phial he's going to use at the end, I know when my friend told me I could do that I couldn't stop spamming it because it was so fun to use.

Always thought that gunlances should be personalizables like bowguns are, you make a long barrel, you have max shelling, short barrel, wide and elemental, and so on

I love the elemental meta, it's a lot more fun than just running raw for everything, which is one of the reasons switch axe became my favorite weapon in base Rise. But I have fought way too much almudron and allmother to make all those weapons. Before sunbreak I had fought allmother 3 three times. I think my count is over 30 now.

Can't wait for the build Video. Have done some builds with elemental , but don't get as high numbers as you do. Even with Dereliction

It is a good day for Charge Blade mains, I have literally every rarity 10 charge blade (that matters not every one of them lol) in this game for the dedication. Super happy that elemental CB's are back and the builds/damage are insane.

I heard you wanted non dereliction elemental build. Already posted this but enjoy. From head to toe. Thunder and dragon build- Narwa Ibushi Narwa Archfiend Ibushi Water and ice build- Malzeno Archfiend Kushala Archfield Volvidon Fire build- Astalos Archfiend Astalos Teostra Volvidon

If you bring World's Alatreon in SunBreak, he'll get sent into oblivion with these crazy elemental stuff that's been going on.😅

Air Dash can also be used both offensively and defensively since it has Iframe at the beginning of the move. Plus, instead of discharging phial at the end, you can press the morphing button (R2 on PS controller) to change it back to Sword mode if you wanna continue charging phials.

First, i will say that i don't really watch mixed set guide because i know already how to make good mixed set, I learned that by experience in endgame Iceborne and i've even mastered 6 weapons of the 14 at the end of my playthrough of Iceborne. But, my mixed set are not about full damages like most sets guides on RU-vid but more on survivability. For Sunbreak i decided to just focus on 2 weapons Lance and Charge blades. I just wanted to say that Damage set build are maybe good but never forget survivability too. To give an example here the skills on my Fire/Pois resist Charge blades build : Defense lvl7, Guard lvl5, Power prolonger lvl3, Guard up lvl3, Fire resist lvl3, Pois. resist lvl 3, Stun resist lvl 3, Artillery lvl2, Load shells lv2, Recovery speed lvl 2, Flinch free lvl 2 , maybe not the set who will the most damages, but good enough to go through MR rather well. Finally, i totally agree that they did good for Charge Blades in Rise and even more good in Sunbreak. Oh, and sorry for the long comments to those who hate to read.

Morphing Advance was made for unga bunga charge blade and repositioning + morphing for faster SAEDs lol. Air dash feels better on savage axe and is definitely the more technical of the two. I think Ruri got it backwards on this one.

You ever hear something that just physically hurts? "Bay"zelgoose....please no more "Bah"zelgoose

Glad someone else is speaking the truth here because I was playing Charge Blade all of Sunbreak, reliving the 4U glory days because they gave it some really nice small buffs transitioning out of base Rise, and I was like 'oh yeah I made a Dragon Elemental CB back in basegame, I'm literally just gonna slap some Dragon Attack onto a generic build to fight this Rathian because I know she's atrociously weak to dragon', and I was literally outdamaging my super ridiculously stacked Artillery Attack Up 7 whatever else super impact build from basegame by like double. Shoutouts to Capcom for actually sorta balancing the phial types finally, because the idea has always SUPPOSED to have been 'impact can get KOs and deals fixed damage and scales off attack, Elemental is harder and pickier to build for and can't get free KOs but probably deals more damage', except it never worked out that way because Impact dealt more damage actually and Elemental was just bad. Like there was a period where I was convinced Elemental Phials were literally a balancing measure for individual charge blades, in the same way you scoff at bad sharpness you'd be meant to go 'good raw, good element, high affinity, decent sharpness-- ah, element phials, there's the problem.' Now it actually feels like I'm getting rewarded for building my armor set around the monster, and Impact may be a lot less good but it still has this ridiculous value ceiling in the simplicity of 'it can get KOs', on top of obviously being good for anything that's not especially weak to any one element. So like, hooray, took you two and a half generations and seven public releases between basegames and expansions but these guys finally did it, they finally made both types of phials balanced against each other, it just required them to double the damage Elemental phials did.

I’m glad to see u have open ur eyes to charge blade and it glory

hint. use load shells. it allows you to fully charge phials from yellow

You and I have very similar play styles and like in the games played. I switch back to elemental Charge blades a few weeks ago and I'm in love. In World I didn't care about just raw damage. I loved just building sets and weapons against the monster's weakness or just go for explosions! Your enthusiasm is awesome and pure! Thanks for the video!!! 👍🤓👍

As a cb main this is all I ever wanted, matching the monster element weakness with specific weapons and doing multimonster quests with raw damage as all things should be, and about the topic of element gunlance shelling im all for that too.

Love your Enthusiasm Ruri. You always put a smile on my face

I started in World and those kulve cbs were no joke, i was sold then. Im so glad you praised the cb the way you did in this video. More of this please!

They actually made elemental meta in sunbreak and it’s a good time to be alive

Elemental in Sunbreak is reeeally nice I love seeing weapons that arent Dual Blades or Bow, making use of strong elemental damage It still could use some buffs on some weapons and skills but im loving what im seeing

Charge blade main here. Axe hopper SAED spam is too OP right now. Take your sleeping weapon buddy/kitty, initial slap to the head always 1k - 2k damage, then each phial on top of it; but even without phials, you can just spam axe hopper on the head with your shield charged, 750+ damage constant spam. Firing pin phials help a lot too, keeps your shield charged you never have to recharge it. Edit: yes firing pin does deal more damage provided you hit those pins with axe before they disappear

You can place firing pins with shield thrust if the shield is charged. So the skill does work for CSS but CES benefits from it more. Edit: Also, I like using Ready Stance with CMS since I can have a fast transition between sword and axe mode along with a strong counter (plus, an emergency guard point is nice to have).

For Switch Axe, element was optimal even in base Rise so of course it is optimal now as well. I have 5 different SA builds, it's great. :D

I actually really appreciate your takes on these guides without all the health draining. Cuz I don’t like it either, I tried but I would just end up losing so much health and focus on that instead of fighting. And all other guides seem to only talk about stuff including that in the builds

Oh yes. I've noticed the elemental values on some of those final upgrades were very high so just for fun, I decided to try an elemental CB in Sunbreak to see how good it could be. After messing around with Dereliction and Chain crit I made a very simple, unoptimized set just to test it. When I dropped the SAED and saw 300 damage PER PHIAL my jaw dropped on the floor. That was just those two skills, nothing else. I am currently working on crafting all the elemental decorations and make a set for every weapon, I can only imagine how ridiculous the damage is going to be when everything is going to come together + you use it after the counter morph. Also I'm going to use this with blood rite to counteract the hp loss from Dereliction... It's going to be absolutely disgusting I can already feel it.

Yeah I noticed this too, it's insane. I've always preferred the idea of elemental CB more than Impact too so I'm happy its capable of this ridiculous damage.

Chain Crit + CSS is an absolute nuclear of a combination, that's all I have to say really.

I really don't feel CB in Rise at all, and I mained it in world and iceborne. Base rise it was unplayable and bugged and sunbreak it's still a chunky pos, inputs that for some reason are constantly eaten and don't go through, moves that ruined the gameplay of the weapon with the reliance on silk binds and baffling changes like savage axe mode having to be reset everyone you swap mode. Maybe the elemental playstyle feels better but playing impact made me rage drop the weapon.

I never really played CB because the prospect of remembering all the points in the combos that have guard points was really discouraging. Plus, I tried getting it in GU, where different styles have different guard points sometimes, which was even more confusing. I kind of really want to try it sometime though, because it looks really cool. It also actually handles shells well, contrary to GL, but you know, not salty about that at all.

Going for rise on the switch, 29.99 on discount 👍. Thanks ruri 4 getting me into monster hunter the first place love your content 👍👍

The Narwa Ibushi mixed set is god tier for CB Impact , thunder and dragon and also super comfy

I'm incredibly happy that elemental cb is good again. For thunder I run 3 piece narwa and 1 piece ibushi. The last piece is malzeno mail for 2 lvls of wex and bloodrite. For ice I'm using astalos headpiece for 1 lvl of Chai crit and stunres. To get 10% additional ice damage I use kushala gloves.

highest phiol damage i got so far was 624, you need the valstrax chargeblade with the stormsoul effect that gives 15% more element and of course dragon attack boost and stuff. Its real busted the thunder and dragon builds are the best for sure

Hey Ruri, hope you and your family are staying safe and hydrated in the heat. Take care man 🙂

Did someone say Elemental Switchaxe? I have a benchmark for you. Teostra vs Almudron Swax: Almudron Helm Jyuratodus Mail Kushala Grip, Cocoon, Crus Switcher Rampage Jewel Target skills: - Water Attack 5 - Kushala Blessing 4 - Rapid Morph 3 - Power Prolonger 3 - Evade Extender 1~3 - Flinch Free 1+ Elembane Rampage Jewel is also good against the forelegs but Switcher Rampage Jewel has more utility and works on more hitzones.

Also for water CB you forgot about the valk aka the spear tuna weapons

Dude elemental everything in this game is insane. I'm so happy elemental weapons are finally worth pursuing now!

glad to hear it's great without having to go dereliction - I had only found dereliction builds and don't play CB much so I didn't give it much thought beyond that. Please report back about narwa armor set - farming that fight's a pain but I mean, if it's hitting *really* big numbers...

That's neat. I started using charge blade in world. Maybe I'll eventually try it in rise. And my early sunbreak Lance build landed 800 damage once. The flower Lance that inflicts sleep. Once they knock out, sharpen, aim for head, charged sweep. Hehe, sweep dreams!

Morph advance was my large gap closer trigger or x puts you back to sword it also makes a good reposition when you need to SAED but you're too far under the monster because SAED out of morph advance has 180 turning

Bring Narwa's thunder chargeblade against daimyo hermitaur and your mind will be blown about elemental phial damage

How did I not know about this. Time to go back to my old main weapon🥰

Hitting firing pin points in Axe mode increases the time the Axe is charged up... I think it also does some bonus damage.

My thunder cb build uses 2 stormsoul pieces because they have offensive guard and rapid morph and other useful skills as well as the percentage buffs

Kjarr Ice is back bayby in a serious note, the phial follow up firing pin only affects charged sword mode. Savage axe does not actually get affected by that skill. The best thing about ele CB is that EVERY element can hit as hard as aururosomna's CB. And would you know it, the strongest water CB is the fish tree. Ele CB is eating good in sunbreak

Elemental just seems ridiculously powerful in general in Sunbreak. I'm seeing triple digit damage numbers on Dual Blades and other weapons seem to be similarly powerful. It's nice swapping my equipment around for different monsters

With how much Ruri loves elemental, I'm surprised he never played Db seriously. It's always had so much diversity in builds compared to other melee weapons, I was amazed it took Capcom this long to figure it out for other weapons.

Since base Rise one of the Electric Charge Blades was incredibly good so I am not that surprised, the thing is the elemental damage overall was super low compared to the Raw damage they provided, but it seems to be increased now in better proportion with the Raw for the Sunbreak Charge Blades, I honestly love it but I usually stick to the Impact ones becauseeee... there is nothing more exciting to me than stun with AED or UED a monster right before he attacks you...

Ruri I just wanted to confirm your sns elemental excitement iv been playing around with it a lot First off there is tons of amazing elemental sns and the switch skills like whirlwind got upgraded. Tbh i just straight up prefer it to metsu now. Plus being able to skill swap is godly for sns especially if you still want ko still. Lastly I personally think it gets the most use out of dereliction as a weapon because you can literally have element stuff on one scroll and the classic knockout on the other and they both get boosted.

can confirm some elements are straight up busted on SnS (thunder water and ice specifically have some pretty additions, water specifically to a ridiculous degree) but status effects are where its at. ESPECIALLY blast. Blood Orange Bishaten final form is phenomenal and i still havent unlocked the teostra one but the rarity 9 weapon already has like 40blast so maybe the final form will have even more than BoB's 50blast. theres also the scorned magna SnS i havent unlocked because im not even at MR70 yet but maybe thats good too, idk.

im actually intrested in elemental switch axe builds.. i have seen some insane numbers on those .. but right now im playing with ore 2(MR) S.axe for ez monster knock downs and exhaust status spam. I want to try the elemental switch axe after watching your video and ty for the upload

Cool video but wow thats a huge Diablos showing up at 1:08 jesus

I recently went back to charge blade for fun because I haven't used it since 4u and it was kinda complex at first but after a few hours I'm fairly decent at it. I'm not as proficient as I am with longsword but still not bad.

I already thought a couple of days ago, that you will be very happy with elemental Chargeblade, when I saw the speedruns from Akantorex, the Master of Chargeblade.

Elemental Lance also really really good and Elemental SnS is the way to go

Jea ele SnS slaps too. I couldn´t believe the numbers i saw on a speedrun yesterday.

I haven’t had the chance yet to try elemental charge blade but from the clips I’ve seen it’s looking juicy. I though Astalos’s CB would be elemental like it was in GU but it’s impact now.

Iceborne elemental CB blew impact out of the water too depending on the matchup, plus having 2 choice of playstyles mainly savage or Saed spam. The element is a bit higher in sunbreak but Saed is for now the only viable way to use element mainly because savage in sunbreak is clunky? For me at least

u can detonate firing pins with saed, axe hopper, and every move that use axe, not limited to air dash

Wow, I didn't even think of using Air Dash to swap into axe mode. I really like the morphing advance on my condensed spinning slash scroll, since it's so immobile. I didn't use Air Dash on my first scroll though because I figured it was a waste without spinning axe mode. I have much to test and think about. 🤔

SnS elemental is also finally good again after getting the shaft in World, Iceborne, and base Rise.

Nah they will nerf bullet barrage and increase Strongarm stance by giving us hyper armor in our true charge slash

I wish you good luck if you are trying to go for elemental swax build the are around 10 meta swax that I can think of off the top of my head and I am sure I'm forgetting one or 2

About Bullet Barrage, it is not great deal, you can achieve the same damage with other gameplay modes using GunLance, obviously it is the way to reach the best burst but not really "the way to go" thankfully

bros the narwa cb hitting 536 per phial on every ultra aed feels bonkers

Would love to see you do an elemental swax video

The best Water element phials Charge Blade is the Fish, the design is a joke but not the element damage, and the only monster I find is invulnerable to element explosions, or at least the damage is incredible low, is Valstrax witch is better to use a Impact Phials build

MR 5 and I have crafted all elemental charge blade available at my level. CSS on one scroll, Saed on the other

Dereliction is over-hyped, and only really useful in speedrunning, which requires you know the monster inside and out. Thankfully, no health draining ability can reduce you to 0 health, but remember that small monsters exist. Besides, you're basically making the hunt twice as hard for a 10% damage bonus. Hell, there's a video of Team Darkside triple-carting to a single Bullfango because they were all running Dereliction sets.

Kinda wish I had stuck with charge blade. Lots of build variety with the different elemental builds. Might swap soon anyways!

Elemental charge blade is what Gunlance wishes it was for full bursts.

Love that elemental is a viable option for CB!

Cb is the best it's ever been right now. That being said, compared to the other weapons upgrades it feels Slow and clunky. It's actually slower and less combo friendly that the greats sword.

Dereliction is busted, and it only locks you into having health slowly drain…

I feel like dereliction will be more viable if they add health augments

Elemental is definitely super viable for most weapons, and even meta for some. I love it but I keep running out of zenny crafting all these different sets. (I didn't do enough zenny farming).

I see charge blade, I click instantly.

I ONLY WISH, They Bring Energy Blade Back NOW THAT. OH MY.....is Real Crazy

Dude those cat dragonators are just not landing during the video😆

So, let's build the narwa elemental cb build for the Seething Geuse

Elemental is generally stronger in g rank. 4u, world, and now rise all have substantially better elemental in g rank

I REALLY want to get into Charge Blade, but it just doesn't... click with me, I guess? I loved it in World/Iceborne - wasn't my number one weapon, but it was easily top 5 for me - and even enjoyed it in GU! (where it apparently wasn't too great due to consuming red shield on SAED) I've tried so hard to like it in Rise, and again in Sunbreak, but I don't just feel great using it and I've no idea why...

i was so disappointed in CB in rise after maining it since 4U sunbreak with the switch skills CPP into axe hopper brough the weapon back for me! not to mention getting all element charge blades and watching the dmg go boom

Yes, Swax is elemental as well.

Im a Lance main trying Charge Blade, and its so uncomfortable to use specially with dereliction, too many management.