In this video we check out the Insect Glaive and Kinsect. 00:00 Glaive tutorial 20:15 Kinsect guide **************** Support gaijinhunter: fundrazr.com/gaijinhunter_donate
A few important notes: 1. The mounted attack is done whenever you move on a monster, and doesn't require you to press triangle to activate it. 2. Not unique to Insect Glaive, but possibly more important for it than any other weapon: whenever a monster tries to shake you off while mounting, you don't need to hold R2. Instead you can just move on the monster using the analog stick. This avoids the entirety of it shaking you off, and you can make headway on taking it down in the meantime. Great for Insect Glaive because of the first point I made: now monsters shaking you off are opportunities to deal damage instead of inconveniences. 3. The Jumping Advancing Slash (aerial circle attack) can only be done five times per vault. This means you can "bounce" off the monster four times before having to finish your time in the air. The combo I've been doing is four Jumping Advancing Slashes and then one Jumping Slash (aerial triangle)---unless doing the Jumping Slash would put me into danger, then I jump away. This is the most consistent way to get mounts with Insect Glaive, too.
Two weeks late. But on number 2, some monsters have a "Universal Shake Off" meaning it effects all locations on it's body. All of them seem to be a jump attack of some sorts (Anji's leap for example).
BEHEMOTH thank you for the information, I learn a lot about mounting monsters I always having trouble them shaking me off also knowing you can bounce of a monster 5 times is useful information to know. But so fair I can do 3 bounce on the monster so fair since I’m literally starting out just 4 days playing the game. I love this weapon it’s so fun to fly around annoying the monster like a fly that slowly killing them.
I'd actually recommend people watch this video even if they don't plan on using the IG. At least the dust part. I actually learned what it was from the video, and as a bow user, I'm going to trigger those clouds more often now :)
The dust is really useful. My strategy is to mark a monster and let the bug hit it over and over again. The battlefield is then littered with dust. I personally use the healing because I have a bad habit of getting tripped over but with dust everywhere I can heal myself and my teammates.
Only thing you missed is how your allies can break the dust cloud or that you can trigger them with the ranged mark of the glaive. Awesome video. I’ve been waiting on this one specifically from you and I wasn’t disappointed.
You can also vault into those mushroom walls. Your hunter then hangs onto the wall and you can jump off with a great distance. Thank you for this great guide
Although I've mained Glaive for the last few games I enjoyed watching your video. I think your guide covers all aspects of this fun weapon! Great work :)
This is by far the best IG guide ever. I was looking everywhere on how dust effect works (and what different type does what). Nobody explains it until you put out this video. Thanks!
The Bardock I'd have never known anything about those dust mechanics if this video didn't exist. This is the first MonHun game I've bought, so it's incredibly frustrating that the game only gives you the most basic of tutorials. I know I can transform the switch axe into a blade, the tutorial tells me that much, but then there seems to be a time limit on it, and at the end of that time limit the weapon is stronger or something? Sure, I can just swing it around and it'll do the job, but I'm likely missing out on basic content because Capcom couldn't be bothered to explain. I'm seeing series veterans being surprised about some new weapon feature they only discovered on accident because the game doesn't tell you exists.
Masked Hero Lucky a command pops up when you aim with the IG saying R2: Mark target Plus, you could just try pushing the button to see what it does if you were reallyinterested
DarkHero - Gaming Videos I knew about the marking thing, but I thought it was just a slower, but more accurate way to collect extracts. I never even considered that not recalling my kinsect would cause it to attack the monster on its own.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate all the work you do to share what you know for not only MHW but all the series. When I get frustrated you just help point me in the right direction and I'm off having a blast again. Thank you!
Kyle Loehr the design of Monster Hunter helps too, when you know the gist of combat, delving into weapons like a class can drive you to master all of them
Something to note that I didn’t see mentioned: the dust type determines how often your bugs attack, and each cloud has their own damage. Heal clouds don’t damage and will hit up to 4 times over the course of one R2 mark, paralyze deals 3 damage and hits up to 5 times, poison deals 5 damage and hits up to 6 times, and blast deals 10 damage and also hits up to 6 times. Using a heal bug, while great utility, sacrifices a surprising amount of damage. Edit - these numbers are from low rank, and without accounting for stamina boosting weapons. Your bug could attack more often with a stamina boosting weapon, and at high rank the clouds will deal slightly more damage
The damage by the cloud is actually determined by rank. Your numbers are correct for low rank (and training area), but para and poison will do 1 more damage in high rank and blast does two more (4, 6, and 12 respectively). I think it might be more accurate to say the dust type determines the kinsect auto-attack frequency. EDIT: I remembered Stamina Boost actually raises kinsect stamina recovery.
Wow this is probably the most in-depth tutorial I've seen for IG so far. And it really helps. I'm new to MH and fell in love with the IG but I haven't quite mastered it yet. I think this will really help me as I move further along in the game. Thank you!!
Hey Gaijin, great guide (as always) You were the reason I learned my kinsects from 4U. Since then been streaming this game as much as I can. One thing I've noticed is the slight reduction of damage in the combo hits. Leading me to modify the infinite combo. [Circle Triangle Circle, 8 hits] its my new go to, plus it can be combo'd so well with the newer fight mechanics. I've seen other hunters on reddit doing similar. Thanks again for the guide. Looking forward to the new hunts to come.
ZenTea I think heal stat is not about increasing the kinsect's stamina bar. I've tested this. *All* kinsects have the same amount of stamina. Or more accurately, all of them have *25s worth of stamina* as issuing commands no longer consumes a chunk of kinsect stamina, they just start a sort of countdown timer. From what I have observed, heal gives a significant boost to kinsect stamina regen rate while on standby, which means it's not about the kinsect staying in the fight very long but is about getting it back into the fight much faster instead :)
Thank you so much for this video. Only been playing for a couple weeks, just tried IG, and this guide is outstanding. I can't wait to go and get some practice in.
I remember watching ur first insect glaive tutorial when it first came out in MH4, have been loving ever since and these guides only comes once every one or two years, it feels like watching a movie series cause I gotta set aside time and sit down and enjoy these, I know how to use it, still enjoy watching u explain it :)
Happy you made this. As anew mon hun fan and a insect glaive main i had a little bit of a struggle and almost quit till i realized how important the kinsect is.
I heard about your exotic passion for monster hunter from the 84 play podcast. I’m glad to be sucked into this black hole of endless joy. I tried two of the 3DS monster hunters and liked what I played but the handheld factor and maybe the quality of life changes in World that have happened since, kept me from the gratification of the hunt. I’ve been wielding the switch axe for the 90 hours I’ve played. The Datura Blade I was in my list of weapons I could forge instantly with the materials I already had. I forged and am very much looking forward to learning the insect glaive. Thank you for the tutorial video, I’m excited to understand the depth of this weapon class. Also to delve into your videos now that I’m head over heels for Monster Hunter World....and my Palico, Lolli Beans. When Lolli Beans and his other Palico pals chit chat then rally up for the hunt, well, my heart melts.
Really nice video! I'm new to the series and I've tried out a lot of weapons, the IG and the Bow seem to be my favorites with the IG being my main weapon. Lot of useful information. There's so much to this game I never would've known.
The only thing really missed is a small thing, which is if you do a jump into a parkour wall or even vines, you jam your Glaive in there and can hang or maneouver around while your weapon is still out, or jump off and attack. You move further with white extract, but it's a pretty situational move. I think with white you can probably climb walls faster than with your weapon away, but the only time I'd really use it is if the monster is running and my bug has marked the monster, just to keep my bug out for those few extra hits.
So glad for this video. MHW is my first MH game, and I moved onto the glaive from long sword and have been having a ball with it. Unfortunately, I never understood what the extracts were meant to do, nor did I understand a lot of the stats for the kinsect or the bar that wasn't the stamina bar. Thanks to this guide, I realize why my effectiveness seems to have been dropping off, and am ready to put the things I learned in this guide to good use. Thank you so much for this eye-opening tutorial.
I am totally new to this series and the IG is the only weapon that really clicked for me. Not getting the Infusion mechanic makes me wonder what else I've been missing. Thanks, GH!
Ah, you are my person. I used to use switch axe all the time since MHTri but I got into insect glaive in Generations (I skipped 4u because I thought it was overused) and now I really enjoy using both! My favorite World changes are the buffed kinsects and the big damage mounts/jump explosion attack for SA.
Wow man great work I’m a subscriber for ever dude I’m now main and I can’t believe it took me this long to find your channel great work I’m thankful to have a great content creator like you
RDX Gamer Only thing I wish they would bring back is that you can mark the monster while in midair. It helps getting the orange buff and it shoots a lot faster than in the ground
Right? Feels good. I can't count how many times I've dropped a flying Xeno or Kushala by spamming my kinsect on it. Not to mention it being now separate from the weapon and dealing actual damage
Hey Gaijin!! Thank you so much for this! I was 50 hours into mhw when I was looking into maining the IG, I was scared of learning it since it was nautoriously complicated, but your guide really helped me tackle learning it piece by piece. I am now over 500 hours into the game and loving the IG, I have base infinite purple sharpness safi fully augmented sets for all of the elements and ailements for IG and am getting ready for Fatalis. I also really love all of your Monster Hunter videos and can clearly see all of the passion and care you put onto videos, and I for one really appreciate it! I am loving all of the breakdowns for MH: Rise recently including the translated long sword video and can't wait until March!! Happy Hunting!!!
Thanks! I wanted to use this weapon but didn't want to take another session of learning a new weapon. I fully learned the Hammer, and have since switched to Dual Swords as I want to focus on an affinity based playstyle. This weapon seems to also be good for that, and I love mounting monsters so I can probably do that with more ease with the Glaive. Thanks for the indepth tutorial!
hey gaijin been following you ever since 4u and i still think that your are one of the best guide makers for this game ! learned a lot from your content thank you and keep it up!
I recently picked up the Insect Glaive and absolutely love it (which is weird because bugs freak me out haha). Really happy to see the guide and was just curious on some of your favorite glaives. Im currently using the Odogaron glaive and find it really nice.
I came back after MH Tri (and freedom 2 before that) only to find that IG is my favourite weapon of them all. Even if I have played atleast 30 hours with it (the other 40 or so as CB), you still opened my eyes (mainly with the triangle triangle circle combo). Thank you so much, love these videos and every time I see the new one I rush towards crafting the type of weapon you overview (yeah, even Hunting Horn!). Thank you so much
When I started Monster Hunter, I watched each of your weapon tutorials videos which makes me to become a more "useful" hunter during multIplayer games. Thank you for the hardwork and mh for the west in the past. You are the best! Keep it up with the goodwork. btw, One more extra point for the Kinsect that I hope you can add in if it is not bugged. Which I discovered during a hunt. There was 1 time when the hunting situation become so messy when 3 monsters come into same area, I was like omg ima stay the hell away for a while and nobody cared to dung them, So I just keep marking the monsters from far, then started to spam marking and something happened the dust + kinsect atk become so fast and a lot of blast dusts were left as compared to "kinsect auto mode" Not so useful for solo game, but if you want add a lot paralysis dust all over the place, or heal dust all over... Happy Hunting
My cousin likes using this weapon. I'm trying to help him learn to use it better and this definitely helped me understand how it works. You've answered alot of questions I had.
I loove the insect glaive. Ive been playing with my friend and both of us are new to monster hunter so having those healing clouds around is so helpful
I think you forgot to mention that all of the aerial attacks doesn’t bounce, I know that applies for all weapons but scenes IG is so aerial attack focused you can abuse this mechanic much more heavily than any other weapons
Kopenich so? If you play at endgame tiers it literally doesnt matter. Theres skills to increase sharpness, decrease shredding or disable it entirely. Not a problem for something incredibly useful.
I was so convinced seeing Arekkz guides that I was gonna be going Light Bowgun or Switch Axe but now...welp. Style trumps ALL THINGS. Haha, so grateful to have such quality content creators on a fairly new game already, especially with me being brand new to MH. Thanks for all the hard work! =D
These videos make me want to make every upgrade of every weapon. They all appeal so much! On another note, it should be mentioned that each small monster gives a specific color of extract, which can make that triple up much easier.
Another fantastic guide! I’ve only really used the Pseudocath Kinsect but I’m definitely going to be checking out the others now and I never realised the Odogaron Glaive gave such a big boost your bugs speed! A couple of things I think people should know though that weren’t mentioned: 1. The “Power Prolonger” skill is incredibly useful for Glaive users as it increases your triple buff time by 30% at level 3. The Xeno Jiiva Alpha set comes with this skill maxed out. 2. If you use the Vault on a climbable wall you will stab your Glaive into the wall to hold yourself in place which I thought was pretty cool. It’s very useful when you can’t quite reach the top of a wall with a single vault and allows you to jump the rest of the way without having to sheath your weapon. This also worked on a wall you can use to perform a jump attack off when I tried it.
I haven't played Insect Glaive much in the past games, but I've made one to play with my Low Rank friend and it's been fun! Will definitely try it more.
Somebody already mentioned the ability to shoot your own dust clouds with the ranged mark mechanic, however, You can also use your "shoot mark" or the to trigger world traps such as the falling rocks in ancient forest or the toads. I find this really useful instead of sheathing my weapon and using the sling to accomplish these things.
Gaijin bro, I've been following your guides since M4HU and they're all very helpful to increase my enjoyment with the games. Thanks again and keep going with the vid uploads~ -Fellow IG lover
I was really lost about how to use this weapon, I saw a lot of videos in youtube of people doing the super cool helicopter moves, but I couldn't get my character to do that. Now I know what to do, thank you so much, I'm going to have a blast with this weapon.
31 minutes and I enjoyed all of it I watched arrekz version a while back so remembered most but when I found you I watch this to make sure nothing was missed and of course just a bit was. You go super fuckin in depth 😂
I've been an ig main since I became a hunter in 2016, but it was nice to learn the new quirks that comes with the kinsect this time around! I'm glad your little buggy friend is a lot more interactive in this game, it's a lot of fun. 😁
