Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak | My Sunbreak Top 5 Gunlances 

That intro could be tranformed into a copypasta lmao

I feel like a good “quick-fix” Capcom could do for GL is to give us a decoration that increases shelling level (capped at 8) so that we can actually use more than the 3-4 meta ones. I dont think they appreciated just how much of GL damage output is tied to shelling nowadays since slaplance has always seemed to take over in the past.

Bring back layered weapons, Capcom. Please. It's a war crime to have such cool looking gunlances that hardly anyone will use once they look up builds that help reduce their hunting times because of their shelling limitations.

It is ridiculous that so many Gunlances are held back by shelling level like they'd win any DPS races anyway.

I would add the Lunagaron GL as an honorable mention, It's got high raw and decent shelling along with purple sharpness, and it's one of the coolest weapon designs in the game IMO.

I really hope the title updates will give the Three Lord weapons new upgrades so the Garangolm GL can at least become Lv7. I'd understand Lv6 if it had white sharpness with that sick raw, but as it stands, I can't believe it's complete. That doesn't make sense for a story-important monster's weapon. My favorite is definitely the Garangolm one, for the visuals and then the Canyne one because it's one of the few that's viable AND looks cool.

One of my top gunlances is the Malzeno one before you reach afflicted quests. I think its the first long 7 gunlance you can get and its just so beautiful

I agree, Garangolm GL strongly evokes my favourite HBG (Uragaan's, which is usually awful, so it made me happy that it was a relic skin in 4U). Also Garangolm isn't really brutal or savage normally.

Thanks for the list Ruri! I loved GL in base Rise, excited to try the out!

in terms of designs... I absolutely love the Royal Order GL, as well as the Ore Tree 2 GL... God those look so freakin amazing

I love using khezu's gunlance because 1) it's khezu and 2) it one of the few level seven long shelling with a level 3 rampage deco for the wyrmstake boost lol

I only have the penultimate version of the Gunlance just yet due to being MR 30 and still having the Allmother Narwa urgent quest ahead of me, but I'd really want to use the Espinas Gunlance. I can already tell it's not the best due to having poison and only level 6 wide shelling, but the raw damage has potential. I just like how it looks and even though it won't be meta I will try to make it work once I get to upgrade it and see the final stats.

It's a good list. Mine is pretty similar. But I do like the Great Ortlinde+ as well. Comes with decent poison and good damage with its lvl 8 Normal Shelling, so it has a good damage over time and burst damage potential. WEX3 alone will net you good enough affinity as well so if you tend to only poke/slam at the weak points and shell anywhere else like I do, you can get massive returns out of its raw damage - especially if you build handicraft into it for the purple sharpness. The biggest downside is its lack of slots but I've made it work while keeping all the essentials through armor and 2-slot charms.

Haven't used gun lance that much in sunbreak to be honest. But I did make the knight one and went hunting with the arena old man that gives you the blueprint. I enjoyed that one so far.

Because of you and CaoSlayer I am also now and forever will be part of the Gunlance mains!

Cornpopper erupting cannon spam literally gets me through everything lmao.

Chameleos was my long shelling gunlance before I was able to craft the canyne one, and while it obviously doesn’t have long lv 8, I have a soft spot for the design

I want layered weapons :(

Honestly, I feel that if a weapon can be taken to max level (Rarity 10 in this case), anything else that on it can has a level should be at either max level or one below max (shells, kinsects, etc). It doesn't make sense unless that particular combination of slots and attack power happen to somehow be super overpowered (which will never be the case if Gunlances stay at their current power level).

the fact that there are only a handful of lvl 8 gunlances is killing me, what the hell monster hunter team, I'm gonna play charge blade

The best gunner is a Gunlancer. I also recently got into content creation for monster hunter after watching your videos for years! Looking forward to more of your guides and entertaining videos. Thanks Ruri!

An iron breaker reference in the first 5 minutes of a Monster hunter video? You sir have earned a subscriber.

One that I got my eyes on right now is the espinas gunlance, at least until there's more wide lvl 8's. It's got 20% affinity and purple sharpness BUT it can tear through it pretty fast as well as its white sharpness, so assuming we get decos for grinder S or we can get it through the new augments, it could be a solid poke shell option. Poke shelling is easily my favorite style so having poison procs on top of it can make a pretty fun build with say chameleos blessing for example. The only major setback would be its rampage slot being lvl 1 which is truly a shame, but I think the potential it has in future updates makes up for it.

La Forteresse has become my favorite gunlance. For both design, shelling type, and affinity/sharpness, it just WORKS. I'm a huge fan of wide shelling with guard reload, and the new wyrmstake move feels stellar

oml that was the best intro “resounding ass” 👌🏼

Rurikhan can you explain " wyrmstake boost rampage deco"? does it work on current gunlance or up to which shelling level that it actually works? i folllowed ur video consistently, did i miss when u explained this?

antique machina gl is my favorite gunlance design on the game, maybe on all monhun games

i just love the looks of lunagaron's gunlance

As someone that doesn't main GL, I love Roar. Throwing a couple quick shells out if I am unsure of an opening time (and the longer distance helps with accuracy), getting that BB in when I can and it hitting hard (and rewarding me more once I do see openings)... And it's dog themed!

Love garangolm gl. Such a beast of a piece. Visual wize, it's stunning. But that she'll and sharp.....

Lol that intro had me like macho man rurikhan, so savage

Hmm what about the "Imperial swornlance" comes with: 340 RAW DAMAGE, 10% Affinity, One 3 tier slot and Two 1 tier slots, Wide 7 shot, One 3 tier rampage slot, good white&blue sharpness. I am currently using it and absolutely wreck all sorts of sweet outcomes! Plus I've really mastered wide shot so I think this gunlance has a chance to make it as an honorable mention.👍

I know this vid is 6 months old, but since they updated it with the augments and shelling upgrades with investigations, are these still your top gun lances?

As a french, I really loved how you said "La Forteresse"

Wonder if we'll get monsters who overcome said endgame problem and truly make use of the curious, like old frenzy to apex monsters

As long as Layered weapons are eventually brought back than all of the cool designs on shitty weapons problems will no longer be an issue.

Magma Almudron for a dedicated heavy fire element setup. Good slots, tons of fire to go with the base fire on shelling. Very good into monsters that are crazy weak to fire like Goss Harag and normal Almudron.

You're forgetting something about the Golm glance tho; it's got the best deco slots out of any glance in the game, by far. Also really high raw, the highest in fact, tied with the Diablos one! I use it in my comfy build, full bursting with guard reload, guard 5 and guard up 3 and all the comfort in the world 😎 So much fun, non-stop aggressive gameplay

My personal top 5 are (I do realize that 60% of the stuff in this list is in your list as well but here I go anyway): 1. Torci de Lavater (pyre kadaki) --> agreeable raw, MASSIVE amount of blast (50!), 30% affinity, lv8 normal shelling, and like you said generous amount of slots. You can kill lots of monsters pretty fast with this bad boy. This is my most used weapon ever since i got it. 2. Great Ortlinde+ (rathian) --> great raw, lots of white sharpness (perfect for full burst shots), good amount of poison, neutral affinity, classic design that goes well with most armors 3. Le Forteresse (shagaru magala) --> good amount of dragon, 35% affinity, looks GODLY even though it has mediocre shelling. Between this and the duke's bayonet i actually prefer this one 4. Daora's Brigia+ (kushala daora) --> great ice element (52), good slots (don't forget that daora soul gem), sadly mediocre shelling. Either this or the final form of the lunagaron GL which has better sharpness but lower element (and a stupid name) 5. Roar of the Canyne --> good all-purpose weapon: lvl 8 long shelling, decent purple sharpness, agreeable raw damage, sick design (it's a gun, but a dog!) Honorable mentions: scissor cannon (daimyo hermitaur), etince chariot (rathalos) Stellar video as always Ruri you are an inspiration to us all GL mains

I'm hoping with the new update we can change things on weapons like shelling type and level. That would be nice.

That intro and the twist 😂

The corn popper is a beast and best wide shelling….side note there’s only two options lol

I just use the Gunlance with how it looks. The Gunlance design that I’ve always liked is Rathalos Gunlance. Hope they add Metal Raths because I want that silver!!

Suggestion to have Garangolms gunlance on a list, "top 5 gunlance designs" video.

I thought about getting that Abyssal gunlance, but I felt like it would have been too much work to make it better like you said in the video, so I decided to stick with Lunagaron's gunlance which is the Pleniunio Frostpike. I know it's Long shelling lvl 7, but it feels so good to use with attack boost, defense boost, and guards up. It does some really good damage too and one of my Palicos help boost the damage. I highly recommend the Lunagaron gunlance, but the ones you put on these list would more than likely look good in my gunlance collection, now that I don't have any other weapons. (Sold my sword and shield, lances, and insect glaives.) But I like the Lunagaron gunlance due to it's design, ice element, which is my favorite element, I know it's a level 7, but I like Long shelling a lot.

So due to the exclusion of Rampage weapons I'm really hoping the new qurios crafting system gets expanded to include weapons as well. There are some rarity 10 weapons that are just held back by one big disadvantage, whether it be 1 rampage deco slot or something like shelling level. I hope they let us make ( or try and pull randomly ffs) small edits to these weapons. Maybe -10/-20 raw for a boosted rampage slot? Maybe the same for shelling level? We can only hope, but this would fix a lot of weapon classes that rely on specific things to be on their weapons, (shelling level, kinsect level, etc. ) It would at least make garangolm possible to use lol

I like the normal shots gl for the full burst play style

I hope that in the next game gunlance is able to attack with the same ferocity and aggression as normal Lance. Lance has so many options to just shrug off monsters and keep attacking without stopping but gunlance doesn't have that and guard reload loses too much to justify using over regular quick reload. I like that gunlance has less emphasis on blocking as a whole but it does need a better way to move around and maintain aggression to truly become an offensive beast. Rise and sunbreak is a step in the right direction, allowing for on demand blast dash and guard edge. But it needs a way to cancel into a block like Lance with guard dash or guard tackle. And maybe it's own variation of insta-block.

These are good looking gunlances imo

Your french is MAGNIFIQUE my friend

I've been wanting to get into gunlance, so I figured I'd look at weapons to aim for. I was wondering what was so bad about that first gunlance, like does that shelling level really make that much of a difference? Cuz 360 raw seems pretty decent y'know? But like I said, I'm not really familiar enough to understand the difference

Ive become extremely bored of hammer and wanted to get back into gunlance. Idk why I even quit gunlance, it was always fun. The video helps.

I didn’t play gunlance until sun break love the canine.

"they should remove the Gortr part of the name" took me a few seconds... Behold! My Resounding Ass!

Great prononciation for "La Forteresse". As a french I wish I could speak English with such a decent accent !

The title update may let you reroll gunlance shelling type/level!

I am wondering is Poke Shelling damage wise, is it better than: shellx2->erupt->shell->guardreload->pokex1? The single poke at the end is just to reposition you closer to the monster, if not you can don't even poke. If i am close enough to the monster i would just do 2 rotations of pure shelling then poke at the end if repositioning is needed(included the monster hasn't moved away). The reason for me going pure shelling is because of Erupting Cannon, it is literally more then 2 times the dmg of a normal shell also the normal shell that fires right after erupting cannon is super fast. So the more eurpt cannon you can trigger the more dmg burst u get. And if you eat the dango that increases shell dmg, it will increase your dmg output by alot if u do pure shelling since poke dmg is not affected by the buff. Lastly how much decos slots do you need to use to get your poke dmg up to be on par with shell dmg?

The Golm weapons are all about the crazy slot allocation. They kinda over nerfed the weapons in compensation though. Nothing you can currently slot in there can make up for the poor sharpness and mediocre raw. This might change if/when they make more 4 decos available. But we'll see.

I fricking hate how good the cornpopper is. Usually I don't mind the joke weapons that much but it's so big and dumb and hard to ignore but it's also so good... Still, I have no interest in using it and it remains as ??? in my Smithy list. The Rakna GL was fun to use in Rise and maintain the White with PP so I'm glad the Pyre Rakna GL still has that and looks better!

I really like the Fine Kamura gunlance. It’s only got normal 7, but has tons of slots, decent raw, and purple sharpness. Also, since it’s made in Kamura and i rep my hometown hard lol.

Can we all just appreciate that we (mostly) don't have to worry about slap-on weapon designs anymore?

Nice pronunciation of "La Forteresse" 10/10 ! (approved by a French) :P

Best intro ever

I know the shelling level isn’t the best but furious rejang is not a bad choice. 2x lvl 2 slots,sharpness and nice raw with 0 affinity

My fave gunlance is the royal order GL+ Welp, just really playing it for fun since I'm a GS main but love those explosions. Really want a Greatsword cannon. 😂

n they look like actual guns i love it😍

Been a long time since a new podcast :(

Thanks for awakening me to hell in shell the mighty gunlance

Actually all Garangolm weaps look pretty awesome to me, chunky and rigid.

The lvl 6 shelling of Garangolm was already questionable enough, but wtf is up with that sharpness jeez.

god, long shelling got done dirty in sunbreak

I have been thinking of picking up the Gunlance for sometime, now that I think about it, here in Iowa we produce a lot of corn, I mean A LOT OF CORN, so maybe I should pick up the Gunlance with the Corn popper. Now I just need a set

That intro!!!! That energy!!! YES!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I love your style Ruri. Keep it up

Can't believe my Boy Morb-zeno doesn't get an Honorable mention. His gunlance is majestic AF.

The Golm GL is my MR 1-3 fav. It is good to begining of the game, plus it KO a few monsters for me XD

Where can I get that hat armor?

I used the SnS for the whole duration of Sunbreak along with reaching MR100 but decided to expand my horizon and tried CB and GL. I'm currently rocking a full Bazel set with the Torci along with an Evade Extender 3 talisman and let me tell you that this weapon, by far, gives me the same amount of comfort and freedom as SnS. The versatility and dodging potential of SnS was just replaced with a massive blocking potential from the GL. I also underestimated how far a backward hop from a Gunlance would be with an Evade Extender 3 equipped and my god I'm able to chase monsters in like 3 backward hops. It also helps that after about two hops I'm able to take a breather from the monster to reload and just Blast Dash back to combat in a very cool fashion. . However, I found out why people from previous games were complaining about its damage scaling while on the Gaismagorn hunt. . That being said, now I'm also one of those people disappointed that the cool-looking Gunlances are held back by shelling levels ever since I've noticed the wide gap in damage when the shelling level even drops down by one.

GODS GIVEN GIRTH!!!!

luckely with the new title update you'll be able to upgrade the shelling level

Funny story - another user actually ran the numbers on Crunchy Cornpopper vs Abyssal Rockslide - the latter only outperforms the former by _ONE_ measly point of damage, and _only_ with the right set, even though Rockslide has more raw AND long natural purple! Meanwhile, said final boss Gunlance has no deco slots whatsoever while the "joke weapon" has a godly 3-2-1 decoration set! Why does the final boss Gunlance have so much trouble outperforming the Cornpopper? Probably because of that -25% affinity. Because of those deco slots, the Cornpopper is the superior weapon.

I feel like you can't go wrong with any Royal Order weapon. The damage is good, got soms affinity, you get a defense boost, very nice sharpness and good slots. Oh, and super good looking designs

Layered weapons mod is what /really/ makes gunlance playable!

I miss rampage weapons, g rank rampage weapons would be nice for layered weapons.

I can’t get over how your character is suspended by his cape like a street performer.

Heart shaped shell explosion?

I don't use Wide but my top 5 favorite GLs are: #1- Roar of the Canyne (Long 8) #2- Royal Order's Pledge (Normal 7) #3- Praetorian Guardlance (Normal 8) #4- Crimson Furywing (Long 7) #5- Devil's Destiny (Long 7) They are great and look awesome!

i would play gunlance if it had no shield. damn i hope one day shield will become optional and become more violent in the process

Never played GL before today. Crafted Torci Da Lavater for whatever reason. Glad it's the best one. 🤣

I really miss layered weapons :(

Rurikhan, I think you forgot rampage deco that increase shelling. Maybe it's increase shelling lv by 1 lv (and it maybe cap at 8) like some old gl with that rampage skill.

I don't understand why they put so much effort into modeling sick looking weapons only to make them obsolete by giving them low shell levels. Layered weapons is a necessity.

we love GUNS and Coffee.

I'm in the group of "I use/wear what weapon or armour looks awesome to me"

I still like the pukei lance, not insanely good but not awful either

I could heard rurikhan shit on the gortrass for about 15 more minutes, not all day but like 15 more minutes would be just about right.

The Resounding AssSsSsSs🗣🗣🗣

would have liked to know why i should not craft that first weapon ? cause as a relative new gunlance player its not quite obvious is it the damage ? the affinity shelling type ? lack of elemental damage ? so many different stats i cant quite understand which part makes it bad

We need a Handicraft skill for Shelling Levels.

I really don't understand why so many of the Tier 10 Gunlances have below Shelling Lvl. 8. I could understand Lvl. 7 if that Gunlance were offset by higher DMG for slappin' bitches, but as it is rn, it feels like Lvl. 7 was supposed to be the true max Shelling Lvl. and Lvl. 8 was only for a couple joke weapons and the literal endgame boss. I'm kinda wondering if the upcoming Qurious Crafting is gonna let us increase Shelling Lvl. since it's been seen that we can add slots and skills. Because it's either that or we're just waiting for title updates to get any sort of decent alternatives to Lvl. 8 GLs. At some point, I kinda just gave up. I hate the fucking Cornpopper. It's too goofy but Wide is my favorite Shell. I have Giasmagorm's but aesthetically... It's subpar. I started using Bullet Barrage alot more but I don't want to use the doggo GL so I had to settle for a Lvl. 7 GL that I think actually looks cool which is the Malzeno GL. Speaking of which... Why doesn't the literal poster baby of Sunbreak have Shelling Lvl. 8 GL? Why does the Antique GL not have Shelling Lvl. 8?

I played mostly MHW and have been playing Rise for a month or so. I was wondering is Artillery still very important to a build?