MONSTER HUNTER WORLD: Which Weapons Fit Your Playstyle? (All 14 Weapons Explained) 

I subscribed, just because you're so close to 1,000 subs. Also thanks for the video. I know a lot of people who know nothing about Monster Hunter, and have been off put by gameplay. "It looks like a generic hack n' slash." "It looks like a shitty third-person shooter." etc.

Thanks for the incredibly helpful video. I subscribed. I hope you make it to your required quota.

ill give ya one

RuskinKrump Thanks guys, hit that 1k easly! Appreciate it.

glad to hear it. c:

I think that Longsword guy was the most hated in other match

But LS flinches, it doesn't knock you back?

@@kinsan89 I think it was probably a glitch, I've seen the same thing happen in a couple RU-vid videos, it might have something to do with either hitting the right spot on the sword or being in an animation when the sword hits you. Or it could possibly have been patched since this, I haven't played in a while lol

The main things I get flinched by are bowguns…… the sticky ammo is VERY annoying to get flinched by, especially when I’m playing hammer, because BG goes for the head, and so does hammer.

that is an awesome kill, and honestly I love the glaive. Any time I mount a Monster as it tries to flee the current combat zone, I start singing "I'm going on a trip, on my favorite target. I'm going to die."

He never really said it in the video but the light bowgun and heavy bowgun are really different. Light is made for a mostly support role, with its quick shots you can constantly heal/shield/damage boost allies or poison/paralyze/sleep/track the monster. It doesnt do much damage but thats because its mostly a support weapon. Heavy is a high damage weapon, (not only when your wryvern is up!) if you constantly use bullets effective against the monster type you WILL be one of the highest dps in your team, the bullets are slow so you cant prioritize supporting the team and sleep/paralyze bullets are kind of a waste due to your shot speed) but its high damage from range more then makes up for it. Also heavy bowgun in this game can equip a shield apparently so your not just a sitting target...

Pat K Thanks

It should also help to know the game being compared to the weapon in case anyone isn't sure. Sword and Shield (Dark Souls, The Legend of Zelda) Longsword (Dynasty Warriors) Heavy Bowgun (Gears of War) Insect Glaive (Dragon's Dogma) Lance (Tank-role in most MMORPGs) Bow (Doom) Hammer (Overwatch, as Tracer) Switch Axe (Bloodborne) Dual Blades (God of War series) Hunting Horn (Support/Healer role in most MMORPGs) Light Bowgun (Horizon: Zero Dawn) Charge Blade (Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice) Gun Lance (fans of Squall from Final Fantasy VIII, or just gunblades in general) Greatsword (Ni-Oh)

You da real MVP

You are a good person

S U P E R W E A P O N

But it is! You support those inferior hunters by winning the hunt for them. See? Definitely a support weapon!

As someone that doesn’t even use the hunting horn but knows how godlike it can be, I praise them, they’re songs aren’t to heal your booboos, they’re to help themselves why you just happen to be standing nearby

@@PKmaster12 this is very true, we bring horns that *help* us, not you. It just happens to effect you lmao

HH is that one guy that everyone dismisses because it's not as flashy or cool as the other weapons and so they take them for granted, but in actuality the only reason you were able to live through the battle was because of that HH user. Support weapon? Carry weapon more like.

excuse me? in monster hunter generations the horn turned one of the most annoying monsters (dreadqueen rathian) into a joke everybody loves a good hunting horn player

Hunting horn seems like an interesting weapon with how its quality is. A bad or mediocre hunting horn player will likely have a lot of trouble since they won't be able to keep buffs up or get the better buffs off while a good hunting horn player can keep a party or themselves buffed heavily and still manage to destroy the monster

[Laughs in MH Rise]

2021: ALL HAIL THE HUNTING HORN

2021 all hail hunting horn

topo cheeho Hahahaha. Like a bazillion unwarented views on this and never heard anyone mention that one. NICE!

The Great Punching-bag.

Great Jagras feeling not so great.

Great Jagras isn't so bad, there's someone out there who is worse, far worse. Great jagras: Who? It's your cousin Great jagras: **looks at great girros** Great Girros: I HATE EVERYTHING!!! REEEEEEEE!!! **my chemical romance plays in the background**

topo cheeho going to be extinct if Capcom ever adds more weapons in this game for Boomstick to review

Dark souls has casuals? 😂 Reminds me of the time that my room mate laughed because bloodborne has a high plat rate. As in, a lot of players have gotten plat. He assumed that it was because it's an easy plat. NO. it's because soulsbourne players are DEDICATED.

Faith Zebedee interesting observation

Faith Zebedee fuck yeah we are 😤

Should i buy monster hunter? I like ds bloodborne sekiro nioh and most importantly dauntless the only thing is i hate that dauntless doesn’t have a story and that every weapon has the same base stat even when crafting a high level sword.

@@balladin9200 buy it. The story's not much, but the hunt is amazing. I just got it 3 weeks ago, and now truly regret for not buying it sooner

Ohhhh monster hunter 1 and mh4u right?

@@Magma09 all MH series before new world 😂😂

@@GummyNoir I hate cephadrome more.Those are the real mofos

the whole game is a jojo reference

@@GummyNoir Remember MHF1 when monsters would just wall ride you to death, with 0 way out? Tigrex in MHF2 was the king of wall riding. Had to stay in the center of the area at all times.

your first mistake was starting out with the charge blade

@@quantifiedamalgamation casual charge blade main; what's wrong with them?

@@SpaceMissile hardcore charge blade main; its a joke about how people like saying CB is the hardest weapon in the game when we all know it just becomes repeated movements and muscle memory after a while

@@quantifiedamalgamation oh, gotcha. I haven't played in a long time, but I remember being pretty decent with it. (I _did_ have to read up on how the charging works though.)

Insect glaive bro its the best

Waifu Hunter definitely looks the best

Nabeel Khan hammer is the ish love it!

FairyTailLegend Hammer, insect Glaive, and longsword main here. What do you use?

Insect glaive looks awesome, but I also love bows, so. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Have a regular sword n board, but then make a complex, explosive morphing version that has better DPS and better blocking. And guard points/parrying.

S T I C K G O B O N K

literally bloodborne

Sounds like God Eater

Yes and no. I'm a hammer main veteran (been since mh3u) and if I could explain what the hammer's playstyle is, it's like baby's first greatsword. Both require a lot of knowledge of the monster and the ability to read that information to maximize the damage potential, but the hammer is a lot easier and forgiving (in some aspects) for that imo. But being able to read the monster and punishing it with a massive blow to the skull is oh so satisfying. 10/10 would bang again lmao.

Dharc Daniel and then if the area is full of slopes.... *Evil laughter*

@@angrysquirrel8816 You thought you weren't gonna die today...well surprise!

It *IS* a hit and run weapon. You HIT the monster and it RUNS away.

Elder Rusty love the hammer

Sporkinstien I call that baby the jackhammer

Agreed. I witnessed an Anja suffer for it.

Me too

What do you play on?

radical dude what do you play one?

@@westonhall4391 ps4

radical dude rip, I’m on Xbox trying to find people

Fred Mendenhall . As someone who has used all 14 weapons. 12 weapons from freedom series to 3u and 14 from 4u- generations, the info for these weapons are a little first of all bias and second of all the actual conditions for these weapons weren’t even discussed properly.basically the info you got out of this video is what you’ll get out of just watching the trailer and that’s extremely misleading. He talks about the weapons on a scale of which weapon type does more damage and if you played mh before information like that is extremely misleading. Basically if that chart was real every weapon would have the exact line going straight across because every weapon type is balanced out. Because every weapon type has a set motion value due to the size of each weapon some types have higher dps than others so their values may be smaller. If you want to know what type of weapon is good for you don’t look at the stats look at what it can do and find the techniques in them I suggest looking at gaijin hunters videos on the 14 weapons. He has covered actual tutorials on each weapon on different each game release

Actually that's exactly what I was using this video for. I am completely new to the series. I don't understand how the move sets and playstyle works with the weapons and I was curious about some of the way these move sets work and how they might have a similar style gameplay or move-set wise to a game that is outside the MH series that I might have a bit more experience with. Using that information helped me to look at two different weapons that I was thinking I might use in this game. The sword and shield because its the Noob friendly weapon and then I was looking at something maybe for Range...and I settled on the bow. After starting the game last night and trying a number of different weapons...the video was correct in helping me determine that my two play types are going to revolve around these weapons at first. I really enjoined the little bit I got to play last night before going to bed and I am looking forward to having the whole weekend with it after I get off work today.

Fred Mendenhall alright if this video helped you tell me the conditions and perks that the bows have.

Fred Mendenhall from experience this game doesn’t tell you what the perks for each weapon have and what conditions each weapon has and as far as I know this video didn’t go over any of that either

+Javier Rivera bruh if the video helped him it helped him lol how are you going to tell him if it did or didn't

as a bow user, i agree.

when the best dps weapon in the game is said to have "medium dmg"

Well many of the info are inaccurate like the HBG damage

Might be early game damage description.

@@raidevil5497 This video was released before the release of the game, no one even had high end builds just whatever the beta offered.

Something something "blunt to the face"

*Laughs in attack up(L) and self-improvement*

The attack that you perform while playing the song is actually the hunting horn's most damaging attack lol

Hello other horn users are you tired of being told to support instead of just diving in with a full combo and knocking/breaking the monster? Because I am lol

he's missing all kinds of damage potentials on a lot of the weapons tbh

I just recently buy the game and the hh instantly got me i love the weapon and the buffs

gaijin hunter ....

he literally explains every move of every weapon and the motion values of every move ._.

Years? The game just came out

Mack daddy Hank The Monster Hunter series started 14 years ago my dude :)) the original release came out March 11 2004

koiwalo did they re re-release it then for Xbox one PS4 and PC? I've only heard about it until now and have only seen it in the Xbox store until now. I don't know I guess I'm just not in the know but thanks

Kamui Junketsu *joins laughter in glutton*

Lol that's how i felt when he said med damage for duel blades as well 😂

HBG=Medium damage Medium damage MEDIUM DAMAGE *Evil grin while shooting spread 3 with glutton*

DESU VULTU right? It has really solid damage if you know how to use it right.

tatsuffy enters the room

Nice reference lol

Hehehe hjjhiejdjri4rjrjr

Haha

It really does put things into perspective when they're described in such ways

underrated comment

Borgeb they’re all brilliant and have their strengths and weaknesses. I adore how much thought was put into each weapon.

I find myself changing weapon every 5-10 fights. Loving the hammer right now. Super mobile and hits like a truck.

Use only rocks very good weapon for beginners

LGEX as a cb main it’s gonna take u like 10 mins of gameplay and a RU-vid video to figure out how to use it lol the main problem for starting out is that it really requires end game builds to function well

I wonder how that ended

@@slayedice1647 I still suck as much, Just with better and more badass looking swords

Just don't bring that to a Monke party... You will not win ahahha

Greatsword supremacy, oh u have a tail? Now u HAD a tail wuahahahha

@@loverofbread8394 I'm not missing I'm just making it wonder when I am gonna cut it off to stress it, believe me I read the art of war it works

2 years a not a single thanks wow edit: oh thats because someone else already done it

@@Gloomy201 also its already in the description

Yup! Everyone likes certain genres more than others so why not compare weapons to them. Too bad there is no puzzle game weapon...yet

lol veteran hunter

Junior Ahen 😂😂😂 These niqqas take it to seriously.

Fantastic video, very helpful for the indecisive type like me! Seemed you were challenged with the Insect Glaive analogy which makes sense XD. For me, it reminded me most of the more 'jump-centric' characters from the 'Tales of' RPG series. Like Milla, Judith, or Regal. Maybe a niche series but it's still one of my favorites haha. Insect Glaive in-game description seemed super complicated so I avoided it, but you made it look super fun! I think I'll just dive in and see how I enjoy it.

Boomstick Gaming puzzle sword: every strike requires you to hit a certain part of a monster to unlock a puzzle. After you unlock said puzzle, you enter a frenzy and your attack+attack speed go up. What would normally be a puzzle hit would become a much harder hitting blow until the enraged state is over

Rico Rocket Dang thanks! I thought my voice was kinda boring.

Yea I feel like this is the best video on RU-vid for monster hunter

Nah that move is kinda situational. Not bad but during that time you could have used an SAED or chainsaw Y-B for more damage

Except for the gunlance, he didn't talk about it much...

eldorito777 it's SHIT

Yeah totally. "It's for people that like the Lance but wish there was more gunnery" - meh. I thought eff you too 😠

You are shit lol. You sure only use Chad weapons if you dislike the Gunlance 😂

Aaron Csoka get your 4chan lingo back in your fannypack and turn the Dell off.

TardisPilot 2004 I hear ya

U still play?

Same I’ve been playing since mh3 Kinda sad they got rid of hunter style/art from mhgen

@@davidreddinger2770 I bet the next game will have twice as much and bring back the arts. This game was an experiment to capcom. I'm sure it being the best selling capcom game will factor into the budget in the next game.

Anthony Tosh I hope so

cjbotts same... now if only I had the room in my budget to purchase it

Well get out there and hunt some monsters! Happy Hunting!

That's pretty much all you can say to greenhorns as far as the general game goes aside from the all important "Never quit". If you give up, you've wasted money on a game you'll never play, but if you stick with it, you've found yourself a new beloved series and honestly one of the better online communities around.

Meta Nightmare445 yea it’s not a game I could see myself giving up on. Boss fights in the DS series were perfect training to fight the monsters in this. Def loving the game in a huge way.

Good. Glad you went that way.

Useful

PK Master Bc your weak and pathetic

@@curly_chan2002 Laugh in Greatest Jagras

Awesome! Thanks man. This video blew up on the exact same day as my last day of my job of 8 years (store closing), and it's cool to see everyone show there appreciation! I have a advanced tips & tricks video for MHW coming out tomorrow and I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.

@@BoomstickGaming it's late, but I am starting now with mhw on pc and this video helped me a lot! Seeing as the game's weapons are well balanced it is good to know the strength and weaknesses of every weapon, while keeping the video enjoyable. thx :)

Its also inaccurate but we can appreciate the effort.

How has your journey into the series been?

I snorted at the support weapon comment. Granted when looking at it the HH is the most supportive weapon because of the songs. I love playing supports and I love HH but the dmg is not to be underestimated. Its an all around great weapon for teamplay and criminally underplayed, being the least played weapon in the entire game.

So...it is a support weapon.

Okay... I use both Great Sword and Hunting Horn. While playing with the Horn I also feel that this weapon has a reaaaally high potential damage, however I like to play Horn more when in groups than while playing solo. With the GS, however, I only play solo. Because I really love to kill and humiliate the monster. kkkkk

@@iliasa.5298 Nearly, its a support weapon who deals damage.

i dont like it because it looks dumb, like a big bagpipe wtf . I think a big flute or something with a sword or dagger on one end could have looked better and hence the weapon would be picked more.

the OG days of the first monster hunter where literally everything was infuriating 4 lyfe

Rofl, I don't remember having it that tough in the first MH. A buddy of mine would just constantly headlock with a BDS while I just carved away at all of the other stuff with a GS.

+Clonos Freid It got a lot easier when I discovered how op the lance was to make coping with the shitty camera easier. The hitboxes were really wonky and small monsters were excessively obnoxious during most hunts. Combine this with the fact mh 1 was the first mh I've ever played and it was just pure rage every hunt

+TheArnoldification I get that. The monster that used to piss me off the most in MH1 other than the original Uragaan was the Plesioth and it's stupid hip checks. Other than that, you're right about lances and how OP they used to be.

Blackmongoose I get a little bit of the mobility of a warframe though obviously only at times

Michael Josleyn goug

I mained insect glaive all throughout mh4, I'm really happy with the changes they made because insect glaive for anything before highrank was almost unusable because of the kinsect evolve system. The insect glaive is focused all of the kinsect so if your struggling with the IG then try changing up your kinsect and see if you want a faster one, stronger one, longer range one, etc.

SnS isn't too bad for that either. The whole "Up ledges/off ledges" trick is very good in a lot of situations, and the new charging jump attack is consistently useful as well.

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Aye noncasuals play as anorexic deer with low health and questionable-looking daggers

0ptimystic breaking monster parts as in making them unusable?

Mark Rothermel Noooooo. When you're fighting monsters, certain parts of them are breakable. Tails, claws, antennae, scales and so on. You want to break those to get a chance at more rare monster parts for upgrades.

0ptimystic alright thanks. I haven't played this game yet as you can tell.

Mark Rothermel XD totally cool. Not a problem. I hope you enjoy it if you pick it up. The rest of the series has a steep learning curvem this one still does but it's way more accessible. Just know you're gonna have to put some time in before it clicks.

0ptimystic yea that's what I figured. I tried the 3ds version and was lost but I wanna give it another try hah

Mister Duck this is a very informative video about every weapon in the series. If you need any more in-depth information about specific weapons, another content creator, Gaijin Hunter has been making dozens of tutorials for every game in the series. You can also check the subreddit or kiranico. This game is a lot more forthright with information than previous games in the series, but there still may be some things left unsaid.

DeepbloodEclipse bro me too! The memories! Lol

catsui ive been trying to learn the lance just so I can look like an actual knight lmao

*laughs in self improvement and attack up (L)

*riffs on horn shaped like a guitar*

Not really, the information given in many weapons isn't accurate. I would reccomend looking for another review

Lmao😂

LMAO

i didnt think nioh was fast paced at all. Every enemy movement is easily telegraphed, only thing that was "fast paced" is your own combos and movement.

Bouncy Gaming RU-vid is tough man..

I think his subs will rise when the game's out on all platforms

Aaron Black I disagree. The flow of the video made no sense. It hopped around from one weapon to the next without any meaning. For example, he could've presented ranged weapons one after another, higher skill weapons presented at the end, or put support weapons together. Good info in the video, but poor organization.

spewaysealat I see your point, and I agree that those elements of organization could have made this even better. However I feel that these minor tweaks are unworthy of completely overshadowing the positive elements of the information presented in the video.